25 random things about me

1) I was born with a premature bladder. Therefore I peed the bed until about 17 years of age on and off. I even had a surgery to enlarge my bladder and it still didn't help. I spent my 10th birthday on a couch with a catheter...

2) I was home schooled until the end of my 8th grade year, i went to an inner city public school from 9th-12th and could not be more grateful for the effort and time my mother took in schooling me.

3) When Andrew Thorp and I were in 9th grade Sean Sears had 15 people stand in the crowd at a camp of about 300. He said within a group of this size we represent the 15% of Christians that will still have held the faith by the time we were 21. Andrew Thorp and I never let ourselves become that 85%...

4) I have an appreciation for Macintosh (Apple) Technology that rivals the way most people feel about their life long spouse...

5) My job is titled, "Manny". I make quite a bit of money to basically have as much fun as I can with two AWESOME boys, ages 9 and 12. I get to set a good moral example, and even share my faith with them. The mother and father could not be any more welcoming and friendly, and they have the most awesome dog named LuLu (short for Louise, my grandmother's name)

6) I would do just about anything to find every single box set of DVD's of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and own them. I am just not motivated enough to buy each one separately. Because like The Game says, "who didn't wanna be the Fresh Prince, flat top, gold chain, and some fresh kicks..."

7) I think about people constantly, and I pray for them. It's a shame that i am the worst at keeping in touch with people...

8) A dream of mine since I have been in 7th grade has been to work with LIFT Student Ministries, and the Lord has been gracious enough to provide the opportunities to work with them since I was 16 till present.

9) If, or when I graduate with my 4 year degree, I will have been the first or maybe second in my family to ever graduate from college. No biggie....*sighs*

10) My roommate Derick, and I drove from Boston to Gettysburg in his 1988 Mercedes Benz packed to the top with all our clothes, to take a U.S. History, Civil War summer course. Then drove from Gettysburg to Boise, Idaho in 2 days. While in Wyoming we ran out of gas at 3am, got stranded in a dirt road town (Medicine Bow Wyoming), his cell phone died, my iPhone died, but I had enough battery in my computer to keep my phone charged to call AAA. We fell asleep waiting for the guy to come, only to wake up to him driving away...we were screaming and flashing the lights and honking the horn but he left. He came back 15 minutes later and said he was told to look for a blue Acura. We told AAA we were in a green Mercedes. He gave us enough gas to get down the road 20 miles to the nearest gas station and took off for Boise. A wind storm came through, and we thought deer were sprinting across the road, we were so tired we confused tumble weed for deer....it was a long trip haha

11) When I was 14 I saw Dashboard Confessional, A New Found Glory, The Stryder, Hot Rod Circuit, and Alkaline Trio (all bands who have been on MTV at one point) for $6 in College Park, MD with my brother...

12) I have been in 80% of the Nation, and in 7 different countries. I travel over 4,000 miles every summer, and meet almost 5,000 teenagers every summer. I get to speak in front of and play games with hundreds if not thousands of teenagers every year, and could for the rest of my life as long as it is glorifying THE Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

13) When I play FIFA on XBOX 360, it is as though I am dispersing my passion for European football through my hand-eye coordination. It really is not a video game to me, I make an honest effort to replicate the highlights of premier league football...and I would more than likely postpone any plans I make to play FIFA

14) There is not a day that goes by that I don't think about wishing I had the opportunity to live the life I live around my family.

15) I have never experienced oral or physical sex, nor have I ever tasted alcohol, or smoked a cigarette or done any type of illegal drug. I haven't even abused a legal drug. Some call that a boring life, but I call it a life given back to whom it belonged to long before I was created.

16) Before I met Amber, I was an over-exaggerating, emotional, justifying, complaining, insecure baby, and she helped to develop me into a man. I enjoy you Amber Rose.

17) When I was in like 7th or 8th grade I was woken up by my dad screaming for my mom from the bottom of the steps. The night before was the Super Bowl and I can remember a random commercial coming on that told you certain things not to do if you think youre going into cardiac arrest, and one of the things was, do not go up stairs. My dad remembered that, and sure enough he was going into cardiac arrest. I can remember sitting at the top of my steps crying listening to my mother tell my dad that I was at the top of the steps and wanted to come down, and my dad said, no he didnt want me to see him with tubes in him when the ambulance got there. I honestly thought he was dying...I peeked out my parents window as he was being put in the ambulance and saw him with the tubes, and I still sometimes reminisce on that, and cry...I love my father and I am so grateful for the people skills, and sense of humor he has taught me. I remember seeing him when he got out of his surgery and his neck was yellow and purple from the medicine, and he came home from the hospital and i watched them take the staples out of his leg and chest. He became the greatest father from that point of my life till the day I die. he taught me how to cook, and make salads, and we wrestled and played together while he was home recouping.

18) I own both, the Blue Planet and the Planet Earth dvd sets, and I watch them at least twice a month.

19) have never met any of my grandparents, save my grandmother Louise Corbin. I get my middle name "Vee" from her husband, my grandfather, whos first name was "Vee". I wish to meet him in heaven one day, along with my dad's father Estel who apparently I would have loved, because he was goofy and liked to prank a lot.

20) I have used a loofa for 5 years +

21) I have owned guitar hero for almost 2 months and just started admitting it to people.

22) Chipotle is the absolute #1 best place I have ever eaten in my entire 22 years on this planet. My ex-girlfriend Erin introduced me to this in Fredericksburg VA almost 7 years ago, and life has not been the same since. At one point I was driving 35-40 minutes 2 times a week before they built one closer to me. I HATE when people pronounce it Chipol-tay...SO MUCH...

23) When I want to emphasize something, whether a text message, or typing online I tend to capitalize the emphasis. Even when I speak, I either repeat or enhance my voice in order to display that if I were writing this conversation out, those enhanced words would be capitalized.

24) I like to be in front of people, leading them. Not for attention, I have always tried to honor responsibility for other people.

25) I LOVE movies like Step Up and Step Up 2 and Stomp The Yard, and Drumline...so lame i know..but I do, soooo much.