Ok, so I don't know who started the ball rolling on this game of Blog-tag, I think many scholars agree that no one knows for sure where it originates from (you'll have to excuse the bad joke, I'm at the office and it's very early, apparently I make very lame jokes at this time of day).

I've been tagged by Rick, who was tagged by Steve, who was tagged by Steve Garfield, etc - the rules are pretty basic: I have to come up with 5 things about myself that not too many people know. Here we go:

1) My favorite food (ever!) is a Macaweenie from the International Hotdog House in the "Birthplace of the Republican Party", aka Jackson, Michigan (Ironically the city was named after the Democratic President Andrew Jackson). What's a "Macaweenie"? It's an awesome hotdog covered with some awesome mac & cheese. It's strange because I don't generally like or eat hotdogs, perhaps it's my favorite food because of good childhood memories that are subconsciously tied into it. The building has since been remodeled, but it used to be in the shape of a giant dog.

2) When I was younger - during a snow day, I took my younger brother, Nick, over to my friend's house to go snowboarding all day. A few hours later I tried to do a 360 jump, key-word being "tried", and came down all crazy. The funny thing was I didn't have a snow suit then, I had just piled on, literally, 7 or 8 layers of thick sweat-shirts, pants and socks. So when I landed and felt an unbelievably strange and painful snap / pop in my arm - I couldn't tell if I had dislocated it, or broke it (because ever time I attempted getting my snow-soaked cloths off, I freaked). It took a few hours to get me to the hospital (firstly because my Mom was out shopping with my aunt Bonnie and there was no cell-phones at the time, and secondly because the closest hospital was in Jackson, 40 minutes away on a day when the roads weren't covered in slush). Long story short'ish: after looking at the X-Rays it turned out I did indeed dislocate my shoulder out of its ball-socket... and I also, three inches below that, managed to snap my humerus bone in half. I still have metal in my arm from that and huge scar to boot.

3) Both my Mom and my Dad have identical twins. And on-top of that: after my parents divorced, my Mom remarried James, who has a paternal twin.

4) A year after I graduated from High School my best friend, Tim and I rode our bicycles from Onsted, Michigan to Florence, Oregon to San Francisco, California - it took us 55 days. We never slept in a hotel and we never hitched a ride. I really don't like bringing it up, but Amanda said I "had too!" post it because "let's face it, it's the coolest thing about you"... which is kinda' sad.

5) One of my all-time favorite films is Baz Luhrmann's 'Moulin Rouge' (actually I first saw Moulin Rouge in Portland on my bike trip in an empty theatre... I had no idea what the movie was about when Tim & I bought the tickets, we just really wanted to see a movie and it was the only one that was starting soon).


Now it's my turn to tag people! Amanda, Ryanne, Justin, my Mom &... Amanda Congdon - you're it!