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About Me

Fun, wacky, goofy, weird, friendly.... I'm actually nothing like the original description of New York on "What American City" I am. Actually the stupid thing said that I am Austin, which is ridiculous because I think Austin is pretentious and full of itself, and I'm not. In fact the description for Austin is " A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll. You're totally weird and very proud of it. Artistic and freaky, you still seem to fit in... in your own strange way.", which is pretty much a perfect description of Austin, but WAY off as a description for me (for starters, I LOATHE country music).Since the survey thing didn't know what it was talking about, I considered scrapping the whole "What American City" thing, but instead decided to make it say that I am New York, because that's my favorite city, and then I edited out all of the stuff it said that wasn't like me. So THERE!
You Are 16 Years Old
13-19: You are a teenager at heart.
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You Are New York
You appreciate a good amount of grit - and very little shocks you.
Famous people from New York: Who cares?
What American City Are You?
Cheese Pizza
Traditional and comforting.
You focus on living a quality life.
You're not easily impressed with novelty.
Yet, you easily impress others. What's Your Pizza Personality?
Name: Rob
Birthdate: July 18, 1970
Birthplace: Endicott, NY
Current Location: Hutto, TX
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5' 8"
Weight: More than I want it to be
Piercings: Left ear
Tatoos: Nope
Overused Phraze: I say "Nice" too much.
FAVORITES
Food: Pizza
Candy: Atomic Fireballs
Number: 13
Color: Royal Blue
Animal: Not really an animal lover but I have a dog
Drink: Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi
Alcohol Drink: Don't really drink alcohol, but I've had some really good grape flavored ones.
Bagel: Garlic
Letter: X
Body Part on Opposite sex: Watch "Simon Birch" and go with what he says during the Christmas play.
This or That
Pepsi or Coke: Pepsi
McDonalds or BurgerKing: Either or neither. Don't care.
Strawberry or Watermelon: If those are my only two choices, definitely Strawberry
Hot tea or Ice tea: Tea is disgusting
Chocolate or Vanilla Vanilla
Hot Chocolate or Coffee: Hot Chocolate
Kiss or Hug: Hug
Dog or Cat: Either
Rap or Punk: Punk
Summer or Winter: Winter, and not these stupid TX winters, either -- NORTHERN winter!
Scary Movies or Funny Movies: Scary
Love or Money: Love (and money)
YOUR...
Bedtime: Sometime before I have to get up again
Most Missed Memory: Spending winter days in NY sled riding and playing in snow.
Best physical feature: My abs. Unfortunately they're covered by a few inches of flab so you can't really tell.
First Thought Waking Up: Isn't it Saturday yet?
Goal for this year: Financial Security (though the whole world seems to be working against me on this)
Best Friends: Tylene
Weakness: I have a hard time refusing to go out to eat.
Fears:
Heritage: Heritage fear? I'm afraid I might find out I'm a descendent of Vlad the Impaler
HAVE YOU...
Ever Drank: Yes
Ever Smoked: No
Pot: No
Ever been Drunk: No. Had a buzz once and hated it.
Ever been beaten up: A bully punched me in the stomach once in grade school, does that count?
Ever beaten someone up: No.
Ever Skinny Dipped: No.
IN A GUY/GIRL
Favorite Eye Color: I'm not
Favorite Hair Color: answering
Short or Long: these
Height: questions
Style: because
Looks or Personality: I'm married
Hot or Cute and I don't
Drugs and Alcohol: have to worry
Muscular or Really Skinny: about that any more
RANDOMS
Number of Regrets in the Past: I don't have regrets - I have "learning experiences"
What country do you want to Visit: Any country with lots of roller coasters
How do you want to Die: In my sleep
Been to the Mall Lately: Today
Do you like Thunderstorms: Used to, but now they scare me
Get along with your Parents: Yes
Health Freak: No
Do you think your Attractive: Mildly, but I need to lose weight
Believe in Yourself: Pretty much
Want to go to College: No
Do you Smoke: No
Do you Drink: About one or two alcoholic drinks per year
Shower Daily: Yep
Been in Love: Still am
Do you Sing: Only when I'm alone in the car with the music blasting so that not even I can hear how bad I am
Want to get Married: Am already married, but if anything happened to us I'd die single
Do you want Children: Have three
Have your future kids names planned out: Wait, is this survey only for single people?!?!
Hate anyone: No. But I have several I dislike with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns
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My Interests

Mostly amusement parks, and in particular roller coasters. I'm a fanatic! I've been to quite a few amusement parks around the country and have been on nearly 100 roller coasters. Favorite park: Holiday World, Santa Claus, IN. That's home to my two favorite wooden coasters: The Legend and The Raven. I'm hoping and praying I'll get back there soon to ride The Voyage, which looks like it's going to be absolutely phenomenal.Bravo to Kemah Boardwalk outside of Houston for building a new wooden roller coaster this year! Finally, Texas gets some new wood after a 15 year dry spell! I got to ride it on Labor day and it was absolutely phenomenal!Other interests include computers, PC games, horror movies, haunted houses (both real and fake), urban legends, and scaring the crap out of people in the haunted house I (used to) run during Halloween. Gotta get that going again. :)

I'd like to meet:

I'm really into people who are fun to be around, who know how to have a good time, like to laugh, and can take a joke. If you're a really serious person, I'd probably drive you crazy.

Music:

Christian rock and metal. I'm currently obsessed The Lost, The Sick & The Sacred by Inhale Exhale. Favorites include Disciple, Thousand Foot Krutch, Pillar, Day of Fire, Petra, Demon Hunter, Falling Up, Manic Drive, This Fire's Embrace Staple, Fighting Instinct, Red, Gretchen and War of Ages.Favorite Austin band? Peyton Gin, no question about it! If you live in Austin and you like hard, fast metal, you owe it to yourself to get to one of their shows!Past favorites include Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera, Suicidal Tendencies, Pro-Pain, Fight, GWAR, Disturbed, Unloco, and many more. I still listen to these on rare occasion, but since discovering Christian Rock and Metal a few years ago, I'm much more likely to listen to them as there's a lot less negativity in the lyrics.Weird Al is a GENIUS!!! His latest album, Straight Outta Lynwood is a freaking masterpiece! Shame on James Blunt's record label (Atlantic Records, I think?) for not allowing the parody of You're Beautiful (You're Pitiful) to be in the song lineup! It's one of the funniest parodies he's done, in my opinion.

Movies:

Horror, Comedy, anything that looks interesting. Or gory. Really gory. A few favorites include: The Descent, The Lost Boys, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dead Alive (aka Braindead), Ju-On, Southpark: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Blazing Saddles. Shaolin Soccer and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby are tied for the funniest movie I've seen in the past year. Movies I would never watch again without a huge financial incentive: Mona Lisa Smile, Irreversible, Lost Souls, Thomas the Train & the Magic Railroad.

Television:

Don't watch that much TV, but when I do I like CSI, The Daily Show, Southpark, and I'm a sucker for all those home design shows on HGTV and TLC. I love My Name Is Earl and The Office, but I hardly ever catch them when they're on. And no, I do NOT watch Family Guy. It got canceled on me twice so I quit trying. Now everybody but me watches it.

Books:

I recently started taking the bus to work to try and save money on gas (and save my sanity from Austin's terrible traffic) so I've been reading a lot more than usual. I just finished reading Prophet and The Visitation by Frank Peretti and I'm now a Frank Peretti fan. I also just finished Thr3e by Ted Dekker, and it was INTENSE! I'd recommend it to anyone who likes thrillers. I've been a Stephen King fan forever. Love Dean Koontz, John Saul, Bentley Little, Richard Laymon. I got totally addicted to the Left Behind series and read the whole bunch of 'em in just a couple of months. I love comic strip books like Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side. I'm currently reading the complete and uncut version of Stephen King's The Stand. I've tried three times to read this book in its original form and have not succeeded in completing it, so we'll just have to see how it goes. :)

Heroes:

My wife, Tylene, for rescuing me from a lifetime of loneliness. Jesus, for rescuing me from an eternity of suffering.

My Blog

If I have to hear...

..."have you seen that one Family Guy where..." one more time I think I'm going to scream. I hear this at least a couple of times a day.You know what? No. I have not "seen that...
Posted by Rob on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:42:00 PST

'Nother new song...

Well, Staple is playing their official last show tonight, which is depressing. However, one good thing has come out of this! They are playing with a band called This Fire's Embrace, and af...
Posted by Rob on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 08:36:00 PST

New song in my profile

I added a new song to my profile today: Dictatorship vs. Democracy by Staple. I just found out today that Staple has decided to call it quits after 6 years making music together. Although ...
Posted by Rob on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:08:00 PST

Ho Hum

I don't really like to write blogs, but I just feel like blowing off a little steam. Today has been a thoroughly disappointing day. It started off OK, but I slept too many hours last night...
Posted by Rob on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:03:00 PST

sigh

Know what really ticks me off? When you find out stuff about people that you don't want to know. Would have been better off not knowing. Would have been happier not knowing.
Posted by Rob on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 07:02:00 PST

First Blog Entry Ever!

OK, everybody, This is the first time I have ever posted a blog. I actually swore I would never do such a thing, primarily because I think "blog" is a very annoying word. But at least it's...
Posted by Rob on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 11:06:00 PST