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Random Questions

Category : Fun

Here’s what you’re supposed to do… and please don’t spoil the fun… copy and paste, delete my answers, type in your answers and send it to a bunch of people (tag) -including me…

1. What time did you get up this morning? 7:30a (eyes opened to alarm) 8:00a (physically got out of bed)

2. How do you like your steak? medium rare

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Night at the Museum 2

4. What is your favorite TV show? The Biggest Loser

5. What did you have for breakfast? scrambled eggs, toast & hash browns

6. What is your middle name? Douglas

7. What is your favorite cuisine? Thai, Chinese and Mexican

8. What foods do you dislike? mushrooms and beets

10. Favorite dressing? bleu cheese

11. What kind of vehicle do you drive? Honda Accord or Toyota Camry

12. What are your favorite clothes? shorts, tank top and flip flops

13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation? Hawaii or Australia

14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full? full

15. Where would you want to retire? FL, TX, AZ or CA

16. Favorite time of day? Evening

17. Where were you born? Warren, MI

18. What is your favorite sport to watch? University of Michigan (anything) and Detroit Red Wings

19. Who do you think will not tag you back? no clue

20. Person you expect to tag you back first? no idea

21. Pepsi or Coke? Pepsi Throwback

22. Bird watcher? sometimes, but I prefer people watching

23. Are you a morning person or a night person? night

24. Do you have any pets? yes, a dog and a bird

25. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share? nothing at the moment

26. Who did you want to be when you were little? Mack truck driver

27. What is your best childhood memory? going to Manistee, MI every year for the 4th of July Forest Festival

28. Are you a cat person or a dog person? dog (cat’s are the spawn of Satan)

29. Beer or Margarita? both :)

30. Always wear your seat belt? yep

31. Been in a car accident? yes

32. Favorite Restaurant? Taco Loco, Pizza Rustica, and Bangkok Cuisine

33. Favorite Pizza Toppings? the stuff on the Rustica at Pizza Rustica

34. Favorite Flower? lilac & hyacinth

35. Favorite ice cream? bubble gum at House of Flavors

36. Favorite fast food restaurant? Subway

37. How many times did you fail your driver’s test? never

38. From whom did you get your last email? a church in Texas telling me that I did not make their first cut

39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card? Apple

40. Bedtime? 11:30p to midnight

41. Who are you most curious about their responses to this? everyone’s

42. Broccoli? No

43. What was your favorite vacation? Fort Walton Beach, FL with my wife and kids, and aboard the Pacific Catalyst around the San Juan Islands with my wife and some friends

44. Last person you went out to dinner with? Kimmy and Caleb

45. What are you listening to right now? NASCAR

46. What is your favorite color? blue

47. How many tattoos do you have? 2

48. How many are you tagging for this quiz? no idea, but more than one

49. What time did you finish this quiz? 5:02p

50. Coffee drinker? yes, but usually decaf lately (Caribou Coffee)

Random Thoughts About Me and My Spouse

Category : Fun

This is kind of like the 25 things on Facebook – except there are pre-decided questions and it’s about you and your spouse or significant other, not just you. Come on, play along – inquiring minds want to know! ;-) Just copy this post into your own Facebook notes or blog and change the answers!

- What are your middle names? Douglas and Ann

- How long have you been together? We dated for a little over a year and were engaged for about 5 months. We have now been married for over 13 years.

- How long did you know each other before you started dating? We have known each other pretty much Kimmy’s whole life, because we grew up in church together.

- Who asked who out? I asked her out.

- How old are each of you? I am 35 and she is 33

- Whose siblings do/ did you see the most? We see mine the most.

- Do you have any children together? Yes, we have two kids. Hannah (11) and Caleb (9).

- What about pets? A dog, Zoey, who is a Silkchon. (That is actually her picture on that site.) We have a yellow parakeet named, Maizey. A hamster named, Shadow (I think!), and a fish.

- Which situation is the hardest on you as a couple? Job issues. I am unemployed right now and have been looking for a ministry position for almost 15 years, which has led to several “rejections”.

- Did you go to the same school? Nope.

- Are you from the same home town? No, I’m from Warren, MI and she is from Clinton Township, MI.

- Who is the smartest? When it comes to the kitchen, she rules; as far as computers go, I rule.

- Who is the most sensitive? She is but we are pretty close.

- Where do you eat out most as a couple? No where specific. We like to go to different places.

- Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple? Friday Harbor, WA to take a boat tour of the San Juan Islands aboard the Pacific Catalyst.

- Who has the worst temper? Me.

- Who does the cooking? Kimmy.

- Who is more social? Me, by far! I love being with people.

- Who is the neat freak? Neither one of us, but she does more tidying up than I do.

- Who is the more stubborn? Me.

- Who hogs the bed? Kimmy.

- Who wakes up earlier? When I was employed, me. Now, we wake up at the same time to get the kids off to school.

- Where was your first date? We went out to eat at the Apple Orchard Inn in Romeo, Mi and then went out to a movie.

- Who has the bigger family? I do, I have 3 siblings and she only has 1.

- Do you get flowers often? Nope. And I haven’t gotten her many lately.

- How do you spend the holidays? We alternate a lot of them, but make sure we do Christmas with both families.

- Who is more jealous? Neither one of us really is.

- How long did it take to get serious? About 18 years, which is her age when I asked her out. :)

- Who eats more? I am the man, so me.

- Who does the laundry? Kimmy.

- Who’s better with the computer? Me, by far. I am a computer geek.

- Who drives when you are together? Me, about 99% of the time.

Bloggin’ Through 2007

Category : Random

It is that time again to recap the past year, so I went back and looked at the first post of every month and provided a link to them below with a little commentary.

JanuaryWe Interrupt This Day Of College Football…. was all about how the Detroit Lions were so disappointing once again. And the fact that there are stupid people out there still thinking it is all Matt Millen’s fault when the reality is that the Lions have sucked since William Clay Ford, Sr. bought the team. This past season ended 50 years of Lions sucking since their last championship.

FebruaryPhil Rocks!!!, which is the annual Groundhog Day report. And Jesus Camp & The Illusionist, which were reviews I did on those two movies.

March – I asked the questions of “Should Churches Be Green?” What do you think?

AprilSoul Cravings, which is a book by Erwin McManus that I read and reviewed.

MayQuestion…..

JuneBanging My Head….. because if the stupidity of my state’s government.

JulyA Generous Orthodoxy (Book Review) by Brian McLaren.

AugustServe God, Save the Planet (Book Review) by J. Matthew Sleeth. I have been reading a lot more this year than before, so I had a lot of book reviews this past year.

SeptemberWhat A Start To College Football! No need for further commentary. It is one of the lowlights in the history of Michigan football.

October – A lot happened in the month of October, but the first post was all about Amish Grace. The rest of the month was mainly about our trip aboard the Pacific Catalyst.

November – This month’s blogging was dominated by the NYWC, but it started off with a 10-20-30 Tag from my friend Adam.

DecemberiGoogle, which was my discovering of one of the coolest pages on the web. And then I shared my NYWC Pictures with my blog friends.

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