Let’s Get To Know Each Other

Getting to know each other is fun…for most people. It can also be a pretty scary activity. Below are a list of 50-things I love and 50-things that bug me.

Things I love:

1. New fallen snow and the sound my snowshoes make when I walk through the snow.
2. Summer.
3. Beautiful sunsets.
4. Pat Metheny
5. Kayaking on the Niagara River
6. My wife Nancy
7. My kids Marissa and Stephen
8. My iPhone
9. Maple walnut ice cream
10. The Sunday paper
11. French toast on Sunday morning
12. Finding out how much I have in common with someone I like
13. Being lazy
14. CHOCOLATE
15. Friends who think I’m weird but love me anyway
16. Going to the chiropractor
17. Bookstores
18. Getting new catalogs in the mail
19. Black coffee
20. Snowshoeing
21. Stuffing on Thanksgiving
22. Rain and the way it smells
23. Spending time with my wife
24. Watching my son play football
25. Photographing my son’s football games
26. Traveling to Notre Dame to see my niece and a football game
27. Horseradish sauce (the real stuff)
28. The Broadway Market
29. The Adirondack’s
30. Banana splits
31. Saranac beer (the darker the better)
32. My dog Jack
33. Sitting on the front porch on a summer night
34. Reading around a campfire
35. A good cigar
36. Removing annoying people from my life
37. The Office
38. Saturday mornings
39. Having no work to catch up on
40. My iPod
41. My privacy
42. Quiet, downtime
43. San Diego
44. S’mores
45. Lasagna
46. A good pizza
47. Family
48. Intelligence
49. Springtime
50. COFFEE

Things that bug me:

1. Getting my finger slammed in a door
2. Hot peppers that aren’t hot
3. A restaurant that won’t cook my hamburger as rare as I like it
4. People who run red lights
5. Getting caught in the rain without an umbrella
6. People who are rude
7. Paper cuts
8. Screaming children in public places (not babies)
9. Property taxes
10. Not being able to fast forward through the previews on a DVD
11. When the cable goes out in the middle of  my favorite program
12. Days that are too hot or too cold
13. Not being able to find my favorite shorts
14. Twittering something to everyone when it was supposed to be private
15. When people don’t respond to my calls or texts immediately
16. When I check the mail and there are only bills
17. Waiting in long lines and the person in front of you forgets their money
18. The 11 o’clock news…it’s always bad news
19. The Sunday paper when it’s late
20. Pizza with fake pepperoni
21. Spaghetti with too much sauce
22. Going to the fridge and seeing I’m out of beer
23. Forgetting to do paperwork
24. People who give not serious answers when the situation demands seriousness
25. People with greasy hair
26. Women who wear pants several sizes too small
27. Cashiers who don’t count out my change
28. Cashiers who hand my change back in a crumpled pile of bills and coins
29. Christmas decorations that remain on houses during the Fourth of July
30. People who always expect me to pick up the tab
31. People who cut me off in traffic
32. Pulp in orange juice
33. Cookies with raisins
34. When someone leaves only one cookie in the package
35. Paying bills
36. Politicians who think they know what’s good for me
37. Long lines at the public library
38. Going for a walk alone
39. Warm iced tea
40. When I can’t find my headphones for my iPod
41. When my laptop battery dies in the middle of something important
42. People who call my phone after 9:00 PM
43. People who borrow and don’t return things
44. When a bird dirties my car right after I washed it
45. Late fees on DVD’s
46. Hip Hop music
47. When I miss a concert that I didn’t know about until after it took place
48. Politician’s promises
49. People who lie
50. Running out of coffee