This is my 150^th blog entry!  What do you write about on your 150^th blog entry? I wanted to do something fun to celebrate this accomplishment and I wanted it to be themed with 150 so, I decide to share 150 things about me with you.  I appreciate all your support and readership and I want to allow you to get to know me a little better. After 150 things, I think you will know more than enough. J  

1. My favorite holiday is Halloween
2. My birthday is October 14^th
3. I am the baby in my family
4. I graduated early from high school
5. My first job was at Pacific Sunwear (I was a mallrat)
6. I am scared of snakes and throwing up.
7. I am working on reducing my fear of flying. I do fly but I am not a fan.
8. When someone makes a good point that I agree with, I say “TRUE!” (That is the written form used in text messages, emails, and IMs) The in person version sounds so much more fun!
9. I stole a DVC Welcome Mat for my friend Nick because he is a HUGE Disney fan.
10. Outside of Florida, I have traveled to Nassau - Bahamas, Bartlesville – Oklahoma, Gatlinburg – Tennessee, Charleston – North Carolina, Hilton Head – South Carolina, and Macon – Georgia, San Jose – California, and Napa Valley – California.
11. My favorite Yankee Candle scent is Sun and Sand.
12. My favorite Disney movie of all time is the Little Mermaid.
13. I have had 3 pets in my life, First dog was Fluffy, (who we gave away because of bad behavior) my second dog was Rusty, (who passed away from old age) and currently I have my first cat, Piper.
14. The first car I drove was a white and sliver Grand Am. The first car I owned was a red Saturn Coupe. I then owned a Grey Jetta and this year, I bought a Red Honda Civic Coupe.
15. I am currently trying to learn how to juggle.
16. I love Cirque du Soleil. I have seen La Nouba, in Orlando, at least 5 times. I own a lot of Cirque merchandise as well.
17. My friend Becky and I purchased a tension rod for her shower and then created a song about it called, “I love my tension rod” which we sang for quite sometime.
18. I have been to two foam parties which were held in Orlando at the Club at Firestone. The first one was the best; the second one was just cold hence why it was the last.
19. I wore clear braces when I was 16.
20. When I go to Starbucks, I order a venti iced green tea or chai tea latte. I love Starbucks.
21. I love playing with stress toys and have them laying around everywhere, even in my car.
22. I am an Apple Addict. I have a Macbook, Ipod and Iphone.
23. A friend once convinced me to go to a “Paint Your Own Pottery” place. Since that one experience I have painted 2 coffee mugs, a candle holder, cat water bowl and a potted plant pot.
24. I was invited to a preview event when IKEA opened in Orlando. The only thing I bought that day was a potted mini palm tree, and white pot for it, which I named, IKEA.
25. I was on the Mickey Mouse Club when it was filmed in Orlando. I was in the audience in the episode when Dee Dee and Chase sing “Tell Me I am Not Dreaming.”
26. My favorite clothing store is American Eagle. I love their clothes and just the feel of the store. Plus their slogan is close to mine, “Live Your Life”.
27. My favorite color is Red.
28. I love horror movies. I am not so much into gore but I love to be scared. I go to Horrorfest which is in November where they show 8 films over a weekend. So much fun.
29. Some of my favorite movies are: Grease 2, Muriel’s Wedding, Heathers, Just Friends, The Sweetest Thing, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Moulin Rouge and Showgirls.
30. My favorite holiday song is, “All I Want for Christmas is You.” by Mariah Carey. When it first came out, I borrowed my friend Stacey’s CD and played it on repeat from December until June. I swear!
31. I love the ocean and fish. I love fish tanks and going to Sea World or Discovery Cove. This exactly why I try to all the interactive experiences we have in Orlando with ocean animals, like EPCOT Divequest in the Living Seas.
32. I still love the Gucci “G” watch my first love gave me. I wanted it so much and it is a great memory of what we had. One of those items I keep near to my heart.
33. I want to grow up and be Tom Ford. I think he is just so handsome, well put together, well spoken and of course FUN!
34. I have 2 sisters and one brother.
35. My parents have been married for over 50 years!
36. My favorite flowers are calla lilies and gardenia
37. I auditioned to be on the Real World but I didn’t get a call back. L
38. I had a twin but my mom lost him or her in the first trimester.
39. I am a story telling. I am always telling a story to make people laugh.
40. I received my undergraduate and graduate degrees both from Rollins College, a liberal arts school in Orlando.
41. I always wanted to work at Jaws at Universal so I got a job there, worked their a few days and quit because it was too complicated for a 16 year old. I just wanted to drive the boat.
42. I wanted to work at Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights and got hired this year but wasn’t able to do it because of other work commitments.
43. On the Myers Briggs Type Indictor, I am an ENFP.
44. I hate exercise. I try everything to make it fun to keep me to a regular schedule.
45. I was teased throughout school for being gay. Of course I didn’t know I was back then but it really was hard on me growing up. That is why I am really big on schools not allowing kids to bully other kids.
46. Sometimes I care too much what others think of me. This is my own insecurity and I have to work on it.
47. I still have two of the stuff animals I had when I was litte. Boo Boo Kitty and Teddy bear.
48. I have a myspace and a facebook Page.
49. I am a huge fan of the television show LOST. I watch it every week it is on and can not miss an episode.
50. I am a big Sex and the City fan and can not wait until the movie comes out and I want to go to NYC to go on the Sex and the City Tour!
51. I am 5’7” and half in height. I always say I am just 5’8” because I figure with shoes I am or I am just hoping. J
52. I am very careless when it comes to eating so I tend to spill something on me. I promise if you invite me to have dinner with you, I won’t embarrass you.
53. When I was young, I use to reenact a scene from Jaws 2 to make my sister laugh. Sh-Sh-Sh-Sh-SHARK!
54. As a kid I had He-Man and She-Ra Action Figures but they didn’t fight. They went to prom and to the beach instead.
55. My friend Robert instigated the first time I ever went skinny dipping and it was in a public pool in Celebration.
56. One of my favorite restaurants in Orlando is Café Tu Tu Tangos. It is this fun place where they serve small portions for you to share with friends. You are surrounded by art, artists, card readers and dancers. So much fun.
57. Lashon, my hair stylist, has cut my hair for over 8 years!
58. I write articles for PlanetOut and Gay.com.
59. My cat Piper talks to me. Of course it is only MEOW but she responds when ever I talk to her and yes I do talk to her.
60. I can not sing at all but I sing in the car all the time.
61. I am a very talkative person and I love to make people laugh.
62. Since I was 16, I have only worn black underwear. I am just starting to branch out now.
63. I worked as a server at Red Lobster and I do not like most seafood.
64. I have never done a single illegal drug in my life.
65. I turn 30 this year!
66. My friend, West, gave me a pedestal for a gift. He said it was to remind me that I should never to let anyone knock me off my pedestal. I still have it.
67. I am a libra.
68. I am not a morning person.
69. I was always laugh when I see the number 69.
70. I will publish my first book this year.
71. I have been known to spend my weekends watching re-runs after re-runs of America’s Next Top model on MTV.
72. When I was a kid, my niece and I would play we lived in apartments. It was called Cypress Creek and I lived in #224. Ironically, I have yet to live in an apartment complex.
73. I have had the exact same cell phone number since I was 20 years old with the same company.
74. I quit drinking soda a few years ago. When I did drink soda, Dr Pepper was my favorite. I miss it.
75. I believe in knocking on wood. Regardless if it is wood or not, I will knock anytime I do not want to get jinxed.
76. My friend Stacey and I went to see the movie “Event Horizon” and we were so scared the whole time, on the way home I drove with the inside car light on and had nightmares. The movie is not that scary but for some reason it really freaked us out.
77. My first concert was Debbie Gibson. I had both of her records, Out of the Blue and Electric Youth. I had two posters in my room and wore the same black hat she had.
78. I have never seen snow.
79. I tend to like one song and play it on repeat for DAYS sometimes, weeks or months!
80. I can not keep a house plant alive. My bamboo even dies on me.
81. Fall is my favorite season
82. I wear a size 9 shoe
83. When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up and be an actor. It was later in life I realized I didn’t want to live with 6 roommates and live on ketchup soup while I tried for my big break.
84. Growing up I watched Jem and Holograms which was my favorite soap opera until 90210 of course. Becky bought me a season of Jem on DVD and I even remembered some of the stories and songs.
85. My niece and I thought it would be fun to prank call 1-800-tampoons when we were young. We called them repeatedly for a whole day with different funny stories. Eventually, we just would call and MOO and hang up. It was so much fun until we got caught. And we both got grounded.
86. When I was 19, my friend Mandy and I bought matching shirts and it was one of my favorite shirts of all time. The shirt just said Porn Star. I can remember how I felt so bold and daring when I wore it. I loved that shirt.
87. I love the Zelda games. I have played almost all of them except the new one on the wii.
88. I love the book, “The Five People You Meet in Heaven.” Such a sweet story about life and your journey through it. Makes me cry every time.
89. I love popcorn but I hate when you get one of those popcorn skins stuck in your throat. It happens to me so often that I do not try to eat popcorn too much.
90. I love going to Barnes and Noble. I can spend hours there just looking around at things I do not need. I always end up buying stuff I didn’t plan on but it always ends up being worth it.
91. I have white hair. Tons of white hair. We go white early in my family. I have even found a white chest hair. I pulled it as fast as I saw it.
92. I have trouble sleeping at night. My mind tends to races so I try my best to find ways to reduce this at bedtime. Always a struggle because I so need my sleep.
93. I like to eat popcorn at the movies when it is real hot and then I put plain M&M’s in it. They melt a little and the salty and sweet taste of popcorn and M&M’s is GREAT!
94. My favorite doughnut is white iced with sprinkles. I love the sprinkles because it makes it a party. Well in my mind. J
95. I never use my home phone but by accident it was published in Yahoo as a number for an UHaul rental moving trucks so I get tons of calls on it asking for Uhaul. Finally, I had enough so I started answering, Thanks for calling Uhaul and I direct them to the store.
96. Once Jehovah Witnesses were ringing my door bell while I was in the shower. They kept ringing and ringing and ringing. Finally, I just got out of the shower and answered the door naked and wet. They just smiled and left. They haven’t come knocking on my door for years now.
97. I have never traveled out of the US (except for the Bahamas) so I would like to see Sydney, London, Paris and Tokyo.
98. I am so addicted to text messaging. I use it all the time to communicate. When my friends call I am almost annoyed because I do not understand why they didn’t just text.
99. I saw the movie, “Seven” with my mom. She had to use the bathroom and was waiting the whole time. Finally she decided to go when the Morgan Freeman was given the box delivered. By the time she got back, the movie was over and she missed the whole twist!
100. I was named after the Life Cereal kid. My mom thought it would be cute to call me, Mikey.
101. I was called Mikey my whole life until I was 10 when I switched to Mike. When I was 18 I went to Michael and stuck there.
102. I like the smell of gasoline.
103. I went camping for the first in my life last year. It was in St Augustine near the beach. It was fun and I think I would go again but I realized I am not a camper. There is no room service or private shower.
104. I believe in reincarnation.
105. I collect Disney pins. I buy one every time I go to the parks. I also buy pins from other places as souvenirs from my experiences.
106. I really want the King Triton Castle Pin. You can buy it on eBay for 20 dollars but I just haven’t decided it was worth that much….yet.
107. I was such a well behaved kid in school. I got detention once because a office assistant said I did something, that I did not do. Even the teacher who held the detention couldn’t believe I was there. I learned that adults didn’t know everything and there are 2 sides to every story.
108. In middle school I signed up to be in chorus. I lip synced the whole entire time.
109. When I was a kid, I had He-Man underwear. I loved them!
110. My blood type is B positive.
111. I am allergic to so many antibiotics it is crazy!! I have to be very careful when I sick. I really can not take anything for it.
112. A secret no one knows is I failed my first driving test. In Florida, we can turn on red and I was trying to clear and didn’t see the light change. The car behind of me honked which means you fail. So I retook it the next day and passed.
113. I am not musically inclined. I do not play a single instrument.
114. I find I use exclamation marks A LOT!!!
115. My middle name is Joseph
116. I love to dance.
117. I do not like to be hot. I would rather be cold.
118. My cell phone ringtone is not music but an old fashion phone ringing. It helps me know it is actually my phone that is ringing.
119. I have never done anything sexually with a woman.
120. The only girl I have ever kissed was my friend Natalia because she wanted to be the only girl I made out with. She is.
121. I want to be cremated when I die and scattered. I do not want my family and friends to waste money on a urn and I do not want to be kept in someone’s house. I want to be somewhere that is fun to go visit when you miss me, like the beach.
122. I have always wanted to go to a nude beach at least once in my life.
123. On my 18^th birthday, I rented porn and bought a lotto ticket to celebrate.
124. I have had the same screen name since I was 19. It came from a nickname friends gave me years ago. It was also has a trick in it to see if people really knew me.
125. The two people my parents loved the most in the world, my dad loved his father so much and my mom loved her grandmother so much, were not alive when I was born so I never got to meet them. Deep down I hope I brought some of that missed love back in their lives.
126. My mom wears her grandmother’s wedding ring and many, many years later when my mom passes away, I will wear the same ring to have them both close to me.
127. I do not know I lived life before I had Tivo.
128. My favorite number is 24.
129. I had a huge crush on this guy when I was in the 4^th grade. I wrote him a note but he never responded.
130. While in school, most of my friends were girls. The girls I hung out with had a crush on this boy named Adam who we played four-square with. He ended up being gay.
131. I do not like sweat shirts. I do not think they look good and I do not own any.
132. My sister Vicky and I lived together and we would eat dinner and watch Romy and Michelle’s High School Reunion. Sometimes twice in one night.
133. When I got MySpace the first person to message me was Justin and he didn’t even live in Florida at the time.
134. When I get scared when I am alone, I talk or sing to myself to calm myself down.
135. On my 17^th birthday, I wanted to see Showgirls because it was rated NC-17. My friend Kim didn’t show up to the movie so I saw it by myself.
136. For fun, I have always wanted to get a job at Denny’s or IHOP and work just one day where I could be a freak, drop trays of food and weird people out.
137. I do not know why but I love peanut butter.
138. I believe in ghosts and I have always wanted to go on a haunted ghost tour.
139. If I could have any super power, I would want to be able to become invisible. I think that would be so much fun.
140. I love hugs and will hug anyone who wants one.
141. I am losing my hair. It was hard for me in the beginning but then I got over it. I realized I was never known for my hair. I am known for my smile.
142. I do not like to use public restrooms because I am pee shy.
143. I bought a snow globe of NYC from Saks Fifth Avenue when it first opened in Orlando because I always wanted to go to NYC. I still have not been.
144. I am self diagnosed lactose intolerant but I love cheese so I just suffer sometimes.
145. I type really fast but only type with 2 fingers.
146. I think faster than I type so I tend to leave words out when I am write in my blog. Sometimes I catch them, sometimes I don’t.
147. I tend to always be late. I am really working on it because it is disrespectful to people’s time. I know I will never be early but at least on time.
148. Mary Poppins freaks me out! It scared me so much as a child and I still do not understand why people like her. I have never watched the movie again.
149. I never balance my check book. I do not even use my checkbooks because I pay all my bills online.
150. I have always hated flossing.

WOW! 150 things about me! I was surprised how hard it was to come up with 150 things. It shows you how much you forget about your life.

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