Okay I finally gave in. Although I don't feel like tagging anybody else because it is this vicious cycle that keeps coming back to me. Hope you enjoy it.
1. I’ve eaten dog poop…when I was 3 years old. I thought it was a hot dog…it didn’t taste like one and yes, it was gross.
2. I’ve also eaten my own poop and made wonderful art with it…when I was two years old. At least according to my dad who told all of my high school friends.
3. I was obsessed with poop before the age of five. Are you surprised?
4. I love cats. I love them so much that I whirled them around like a helicopter, hammer-throwing them against the wall…when I was 3 and 4.
5. I also used a cat for a research project in 7th grade. I disproved the commonly assumed hypothesis that cats always land on their feet. I took my cat Buddy, leaned over the railing of our stairs, and threw him down to the 1st floor. He always rolled down the stairs and never landed on his feet. I did this three times like my teacher said to prove it was true
6. I really do love cats. I have two of them, Mattie and Stan, and I don’t abuse them…seriously…except I spank Mattie…but she likes it.
7. I’m really not as messed up as I sound so far…just almost.
8. I have three official birth certificates on three different days, and my first legal name was Michal…which I thought was really cool until I found out it was King David’s first wife whose name meant “barren.” I don’t know what my mom and dad were thinking there. Maybe it had to do with cats and poop.
9. I loved jump roping on the playground in elementary school. I think I was the only boy who did. I was made fun of a lot…but the girls like me better, and that helped when I got into 6th grade.
10. I looked like someone who literally had skin on bones when I was growing up…I remember one of my old high school classmates 10 years later not even recognize me because I had gained 100 pounds since he last saw me at graduation.
11. I wish I exercised more, I want to be in between the fat me now and the skinny me then.
12. I have always wished I could be in a band. I always think about who in the world I can team up with. I already have a band name, Standing With Eve.
13. Sometimes I wish I picked a career field that paid a lot better than what I’m doing now.
14. Before becoming a pastor, I was dead set on being a chiropractor. I still would love to do it, but I would have to go to school for a lot longer time.
15. I have a huge problem in trying to feel validated. This has gotten much better over the years, but my current dart hobby has brought this back up again.
16. My dart team’s name is “Holy Scriptures.” I am also known as “Preacher,” and love hanging out in the bar every week with hardcore bar people. I have had so many incredible conversations.
17. I believe all ministers should have a hobby that connects them outside their Christian subculture. It keeps the edge on.
18. I really should write more, poetic and prosetic (is that a word?).
19. I feel like the last 12 years has hindered my wife of her dreams.
20. I’m also afraid I’ll get in the way of daughter’s dreams as well.
21. Teaching feels like the only thing I’m really good at, and even then I’m not sure, which leads to a lot of depression sometimes.
22. I’m 33 years old and I feel like I have to start over, which makes me feel like I’ve failed the last 32 years of my life.
23. The church I currently attend is the first place where I have overwhelmingly been embraced and encouraged in my gifts.
24. I wish I would’ve known about how to relate to adults when I was training to become a youth pastor. Adults really can be jerks.
25. I feel like I am unworthy to be with my wife. She is most intelligent, talented, and passionate person I know. I feel like I bring her down many times. I consider myself one of the most fortunate people around because of this fact.
good list. 7 was hilarious. i think that was some of the most self-disclosure i've ever seen from you.
Posted by: chris o | February 17, 2009 at 05:17 PM
Mike, you are the king of oversharing. But, "Long live the King!"
Posted by: Heath | February 17, 2009 at 11:32 PM
Mike I really liked your list. You should write more, man!
I totally relate to #22, just subtract 5 years.
Posted by: Victor | February 23, 2009 at 08:09 AM