Jake's 25 random things

I've been tagged with this like 12 times, and thought that the Facebook Nazis would shut me down if I didn't comply.

Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you, or one of these reminded me of you. Go to your profile page, go to the "Notes" tab (add it if it's not there), and enter in a new note. Copy these instructions and paste them into the beginning of your note.

1) I'm 1/2 Neanderthal...it's true. I have abnormally large hands, and a brow that doesn't let sunlight tough my eyeballs...ever. I've learned to live with the disability, and yes, I can swing a club better than most.
2) I'm passionately competitive about everything. Silly things like getting done with my dinner first, or bouncing a golf ball of the face of my golf club the most times. If I don't win at something, I stew over it for days until I come up with strategies to win.
3) I find bathroom humor to be uncontrollably hilarious. If I'm in a serious social environment, without fail I'll imagine someone in the room rip a huge fart, and it will take everything I have not to laugh out loud. The more serious the situations, the harder I make myself laugh inside.
4) I loved Black Sabbath (Ozzy Osbourn) as a youth until I asked my mom to put in the tape while driving to baseball practice in our minivan and she asked me if the music was satanic...I didn't get to listen to it much after that.
5) I will eat just about anything except for radishes and lazagna.
6) I really wish this thing had a spell check because heaven knows if I spelled lazagna right (there's a silent something in that word I'm sure of it).
7) The thing I'm most scared of is meritocracy.
8) I want to build a neighborhood that is 100% self sustaining. All the homes would produce their own power, provide their own water, and have their own sewer and drainage. And I think it would be cool if the city electrical grid went down for a couple of days, and my neighborhood was the only place unaffected.
9) If I could have any power it would be to be able to manipulate time. Not so much time travel, but be able to speed up, slow down or even stop time. I think about it way more than you can imagine.
10) I'm pretty good at remembering my dreams, and 90% of my dreams are either me in some sort of war setting or me in a setting with all of my high school buddies.
11) I'm a notoriously slow driver. I start thinking about something, and I almost completely remove myself from driving (scary I know). So when I'm on the freeway, I get in the right lane, put the cruise control on, and set the slow pace for the entire freeway....all without even realizing I'm doing it.
12) I wish I had more of a "commander" personality sometimes. Sometimes I think it's good to ruffle feathers and hurt feelings a little bit to get things done. But it's so hard for me to do.
13) Part of the reason why #12 exists is because I'm I really just want people to like me. If I feel that I've offended someone or if someone just doesn't like me, it eats at me and I have to make things right. I relate to Michael Scott in that way.
14) I love sports, but more and more they are starting to hurt. I've pulled a muscle playing the Wii, bowling, playing softball, golfing, playing ping pong and playing air hockey....all of which are very low contact sports/games.
15) I hate going anywhere by myself. I'll go without eating before I go eat by myself. I'll call up a friend and beg him to drive across town to go to the grocery store with me so that I don't have to go by myself.
16) I think my boys are freaking awesome. I know everyone thinks there kids are awesome, but I think my boys are more awesome than yours....seriously :)
17) I've turned into a convenience freak. Growing up, my whole world was inconvenient. I lived way out of town and there was much of a town to be out of. So now I want everything to be simple and stress free.
18) I am the most disoriented person you'll ever meet. I've lived in the Provo/Orem area for 7 years now and still could not give you directions to anything. If I follow you to a place I've never been, chances are, I won't be able to get back out without you.
19) My biggest talent is recognizing the resources around me and using them to get something done. It's really more of a talent of necessity...when you aren't given a ton of resources yourself, you need to piggy back on others, or withers and die. I don't want to wither and die :)
20) I was in an accident when I was 20 that completely changed my life. Without a doubt, I would be in a worse place and in a worse situation if I hadn't been in that accident.
21) One of my most favorite people is my mom. She cracks me up and she has a passion for making memories and keeping family ties strong. There are very few things I look forward to more than seeing my mom.
22) In high school, I was the team captain for my baseball team and thought it would be a good, team building idea, to get everyone to bleach their hair. Everyone agreed accept for my girlfriend. At our first game everyone had bleached blonde hair but me.
23) I've shot one elk in my life. When me and a guy I was with stabbed the elk to start gutting it, it shot blood and guile all over us like a fire hose. I almost threw up then and haven't had much desire to big game hunt since them.
24) Usually nobody notices, but I have half eyebrows. It's true, look at my pictures real close.
25) I have a secret man love for 2 men. Tiger Woods because he never disappoints and Mitt Romney because he's freaking awesome.