25 Random Things

The new "Facebook Fever" is to post 25 random things about yourself. I thought I would also post it here for those who don't necessarily subscribe to Facebook. You are supposed to publish 25 random things about yourself and then ask 25 other people to do the same thing. Here is my compilation...

1. I hate mushrooms!
2. I love fish, but I hate fish soups.
3. I have a ridiculous fear of spiders. One night I was sitting in a chair and one crawled across the carpet towards me and I jumped from the chair onto the couch and through a cutout in my wall into the other room.
4. I spent the first 8.5 years of my professional life working as a full-time frat boy at my college fraternity.
5. If I get the hiccups, I have to leave the room because they are so loud.
6. I’ve always wanted to star in a Broadway Show!
7. I will always have season football tickets to WVU Mountaineer football games, even if I live in a foreign country.
8. I want to live in Australia for a year.
9. One day I want to open a little Italian restaurant.
10. In high school I was driving a date home in my parent's car and we were doing something we shouldn't have been doing while I was driving and I ran the car into a ditch. There was mud all over the passenger side and under the car and I told my rents that I got stuck in a driveway.
11. Rocco and Gianna are my heart and quite possibly the closest children to my own that I will ever have.
12. Blood is not thicker than water. Many of my friends are closer to me than some of my own family.
13. I always cry when I hear “Ave Maria” or “On Eagles Wings.” Always.
14. I have very eclectic taste in music and it defines who I am.
15. I could run for hours and completely lose myself in nature. And sometimes I do!
16. Some friends and I decided it was a good idea to have a party in my parent’s backyard one night while they were out of town. Somehow we all ended up skinny dipping in the neighbor’s pool and someone peed in the sink.
17. I’ll admit it…I drool when I sleep. And I talk in my sleep too!
18. I have a huge man-crush on Barack Obama. There, I said it! Are you happy, Dash? :)
19. When I was little, I used to carry around a stuffed elephant, and while I would suck my thumb, I would scratch my nose with my index finger. I still scratch my nose with my index finger. And when I was cleaning out my mom’s purse after she died, I found the tail of the elephant with a St Christopher medal on a safety pin in her change purse. It lives in a drawer next to my bed now.
20. In high school, our football team was so bad that people would come to the game to watch the band perform at halftime and then leave. I am glad I was in the band.
21. I like Vegemite. And I like Vegemite and lettuce sammiches.
22. College was the best four years of my life.
23. In 5th grade, all of the boys pooled our money together to buy Playboys and keep them in the coat room. That lasted five minutes until our religion teacher found them. Detention for a week. Ironic now, isn’t it?!?
24. My brother is my best friend. I talk to him every day.
25. I didn't try sushi until 2 years ago and now I love it!