Tuesday

25 Random Things That Make Me Holler

Plenty of things make me wanna holler --- both good and bad. Rather than put down 25 random things on my Facebook page so it can come back to haunt me during an interview, I decided I'd be different (like every other blogger out there) and put a spin on things by listing the 25 random things that Make Me Wanna Holler:

1. My kids throw my throw pillows all over the house --- mostly on the floor.

2. Circuit City, Wal-Mart & White Castle.

3. Shopping on a Saturday afternoon with the rest of the human race.

4. My wife's cat.

5. My daughter saying,"I love you too, Daddy," when I tell her I love her.

6. Taking my daughter's bite sized clothing out of the dryer.

7. Seeing the skid marks in my son's boxer briefs when I'm putting them into the washing machine.

8. My wife on a bad day (her's or mine).

9. My wife on a good day.

10. A word or gesture of heartfelt kindness.

11. Gino's East Pizza, Vienna Hot Dogs, Top Notch Beefburgers, oily, but crispy fries, thick milkshakes, arroz con pollo, ropa vieja, jerk chicken, Cheffette, pigs in a blanket, tapas, maduros, Halal meat, gyros, Empress Chicken, Spicy Thai Fried Rice, Chopsticks, Ollie's, Amy Ruth's, Jackson Hole, Peter Luger's, Leon's Barbecue, Harold's Chicken, Charles Southern Style Kitchen, Room Service, Mango Mojitos, Caparihnas, Mount Gay Old Style Rum (straight), IHop, moonshine, Everclear, Twizzlers and Zingers (and everything else I can't remember right now).

12. The inside of my truck looking like who-did-it-and-ran every time after my wife uses it to run errands.

13. Spider-Man 1, The Matrix, Batman Begins & The Dark Knight, Transformers, Superman, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, James Bond, Layer Cake, Snatch, All About My Mother, Le Samurai, Patriot Games, The Bourne Supremacy, Volver, American Pimp, Kramer Vs. Kramer, Traffic, Lord of the Rings (all of them), Deep Cover, Batman (the Adam West one), The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Heavy Metal, Iron Man, Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct...to name a few.

14. Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Daniel Craig, Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Dame Judi Dench, Michael Douglas, Sean Connery, Heath Ledger, crazy Christian Bale, George Clooney, Jeffery Wright, Don Cheadle, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close and the whole cast of Slumdog Millionaire

15. Charles Tyrwhitt shirts, Hermes ties, a well-tailored suit, aviator shades, a nice, occasion-appropriate pair of shoes.

16. President Barack Obama

17. The Single Life

18. Married Life

19. Audi TT, A5 & RS8, Mercedes Benz SLR and the classic gull-wing Benz, AMG, BMW 5 Series, Shelby Mustangs, Porsche 911, Ferrari, Aston Martin Vanquish & DB9 and the 60's classic DB9

20. Anything with nuts in it (very bad).

21. No longer going to church on Sundays (more on this in a later post).

22. Chicago, New York, Rio De Janiero, New Orleans, Copacabana, Ipanema, Aruba, Puerto Rico, Barbados and the Crane Resort.

23. My extended family

24. John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Jermey Pelt, Lenny Kravitz, The Roots, Andre 3000, Outkast, Jill Scott, Joshua Redman, Erykah Badu, Biggie, Nas, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, Dave Brubeck, Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone.

25. No matter how many football, baseball and basketball games I go to (all of them), no matter how much I pick up the kids (all the time), no matter whether I take off work to stay home with babygirl when she's sick, no matter how understanding or how tough I am with each of my offspring, no matter how much I bust my you-know-what to be the you-know-what to my kids, the first question these two monsters ask me is always the same question: "Where's Mommy?"

Tag --- all of you are "It".

1. My kids throw my throw pillows all over the house --- mostly on the floor.

2. Circuit City, Wal-Mart & White Castle.

3. Shopping on a Saturday afternoon with the rest of the human race.

4. My wife's cat.

5. My daughter saying,"I love you too, Daddy," when I tell her I love her.

6. Taking my daughter's bite sized clothing out of the dryer.

7. Seeing the skid marks in my son's boxer briefs when I'm putting them into the washing machine.

8. My wife on a bad day (her's or mine).

9. My wife on a good day.

10. A word or gesture of heartfelt kindness.

11. Gino's East Pizza, Vienna Hot Dogs, Top Notch Beefburgers, oily, but crispy fries, thick milkshakes, arroz con pollo, ropa vieja, jerk chicken, Cheffette, pigs in a blanket, tapas, maduros, Halal meat, gyros, Empress Chicken, Spicy Thai Fried Rice, Chopsticks, Ollie's, Amy Ruth's, Jackson Hole, Peter Luger's, Leon's Barbecue, Harold's Chicken, Charles Southern Style Kitchen, Room Service, Mango Mojitos, Caparihnas, Mount Gay Old Style Rum (straight), IHop, moonshine, Everclear, Twizzlers and Zingers (and everything else I can't remember right now).

12. The inside of my truck looking like who-did-it-and-ran every time after my wife uses it to run errands.

13. Spider-Man 1, The Matrix, Batman Begins & The Dark Knight, Transformers, Superman, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, James Bond, Layer Cake, Snatch, All About My Mother, Le Samurai, Patriot Games, The Bourne Supremacy, Volver, American Pimp, Kramer Vs. Kramer, Traffic, Lord of the Rings (all of them), Deep Cover, Batman (the Adam West one), The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Heavy Metal, Iron Man, Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct...to name a few.

14. Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Daniel Craig, Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Dame Judi Dench, Michael Douglas, Sean Connery, Heath Ledger, crazy Christian Bale, George Clooney, Jeffery Wright, Don Cheadle, Brad Pitt, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close and the whole cast of Slumdog Millionaire

15. Charles Tyrwhitt shirts, Hermes ties, a well-tailored suit, aviator shades, a nice, occasion-appropriate pair of shoes.

16. President Barack Obama

17. The Single Life

18. Married Life

19. Audi TT, A5 & RS8, Mercedes Benz SLR and the classic gull-wing Benz, AMG, BMW 5 Series, Shelby Mustangs, Porsche 911, Ferrari, Aston Martin Vanquish & DB9 and the 60's classic DB9

20. Anything with nuts in it (very bad).

21. No longer going to church on Sundays (more on this in a later post).

22. Chicago, New York, Rio De Janiero, New Orleans, Copacabana, Ipanema, Aruba, Puerto Rico, Barbados and the Crane Resort.

23. My extended family

24. John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Jermey Pelt, Lenny Kravitz, The Roots, Andre 3000, Outkast, Jill Scott, Joshua Redman, Erykah Badu, Biggie, Nas, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, Dave Brubeck, Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone.

25. No matter how many football, baseball and basketball games I go to (all of them), no matter how much I pick up the kids (all the time), no matter whether I take off work to stay home with babygirl when she's sick, no matter how understanding or how tough I am with each of my offspring, no matter how much I bust my you-know-what to be the you-know-what to my kids, the first question these two monsters ask me is always the same question: "Where's Mommy?"