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Last Thursday I was tagged by Liz over at This Full House, a new blogger friend who I had the pleasure of meeting at the event that shall not be named. The challenge was to reveal my deepest, darkest secrets.
This is the first time I’ve been tagged in something like this, and while my life isn’t all that interesting, I figured I’d give it a go and see if I actually could come up with ten (mostly) completely honest things about myself that I hadn’t already laid bare here on the old bliggity blog.
Here goes nothing:
- I never thought I would ever get married. I also never thought I would have kids or own a minivan. I obviously need to brush up on the definition of ‘never’ and avoid thinking in absolutes.
- I don’t like my food touching. To this day the running joke in my family is that I should have to eat from one of those divided plates you use with toddlers. My wife loves to point out that sheppard’s pie is my biggest culinary nightmare.
- I can’t sleep in the pouring rain, it drives me absolutely bonkers. I usually wind up surfing the internet or writing blog posts.
- Not only do I have a matchy match problem, I also have a very bad even steven issue. I need symmetry and usually acquire otherwise inconsequential items in pairs. For example, I can’t have just one storage container bin on a shelf, there must be two. I also have to eat two of whatever I’m snacking on (goldfish, m&m’s) at a time.
- I only learned to cook to make myself more ‘marketable’, which obviously worked. So, I got that going for me, which is nice.
- I have a fear of heights and get height vertigo very easily. I can’t look over the side of a railing without getting dizzy and lightheaded.
- I once tore my hamstring while changing a light fixture by pivoting the wrong way on a ladder. Needless to say, that was embarrassing to have to explain to the physical trainer.
- I gave up drinking the day after my 30th birthday to see if I could go without alcohol for one year. At the time I was imbibing single malt scotch like it was my occupation. I was generally miserable and had a real fear that if I didn’t control myself that it could have taken over my life.
- I didn’t really give up on my career and become a stay-at-home dad because I was dissatisfied with my career, rather it was because I found a way to become independently wealthy. That’s right, I discovered the secrets to making thousands of dollars a day working at home using Google. (1)
- And if that wasn’t exciting enough, I also have come up with a system for eliminating your debt that uses only the money you currently make. (2)
So, there you have it, ten (mostly) completely honest things about me. If you have any interest in giving this a shot link back to this post so I can check it out.
(1) Yeah, I totally made this one up, because, like I said, I’m really not that interesting. However, if I was independently wealthy I would commission Ferrari to build me a one-off turbo charged minivan from hell in classic red. Granted, it would be a mouthful to change my blog’s domain to “realmendrivecustommadeferrariminivansfromhell.com”, but it would be totally worth it.
(2) This one is for real actually, it’s called “Stop @#$%ing Spending Money You Don’t Have!” and it is a pretty quick read. You’re welcome.
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