1) I have reoccurring dreams about tornados, vampires and biting fish. The tornado and vampire dreams are never scary – they’re exciting. I have an incredible fascination with severe weather. Biting fish, on the other hand, freak me out – completely.
2) I love to delete chain e-mails. Every time you hear about a little girl in Africa on an iron lung that ran out of rice – it’s my fault. I didn’t forward the e-mail to ten of my best friends.
3) Power tools make me giddy. Home Depot is intoxicating. I love to build things.
4) I don’t like milk. No, I don’t want to try soymilk. Creamy textures give me the heebee-jeebees. I don’t even like guacamole for that reason. I run from mayonnaise.
5) I have no sense of direction. None. I need a Tom-Tom to find my way back from the bathroom.
6) I didn’t always know I was gay. Everyone else did, though.
7) I have never bought anything from QVC or an infomercial.
8) I have a goal to never see the movie “Footloose” before I die.
9) Being an uncle, rocks.
10) I am not a phone person and am notorious for taking three months to answer an e-mail. (But I never throw them out until I have responded… seriously.)
11) I love to paint and draw. Don’t ask me to make a ceramic bowl unless you have a forklift handy.
12) As a teenager, I pierced my ear every time I got drunk.
13) Speaking of that – I got drunk a lot. My left earlobe could strain spaghetti due to all of the holes in it.
14) I love to organize things. I could make this list just as fast with a label maker.
15) Timelines are great. I have a journal where I mark significant events in my life. It starts in 1966 and goes to today.
16) I am a lazy cook.
17) I loose lots of weight on years that end in the number eight.
18) One time, I got to get everyone at work a half a day off because I farted. I’ll have to tell you that story in person.
19) I want my ashes to be sprinkled in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee.
20) I think Cedar Point is one of the greatest influences on my life. I have a LOVE to old-school amusement parks and retro rides. I still revert to 7-year-old behavior when I hear the “click-click-click,” roars and screams of a roller coaster.
21) My Uncle Walt was my favorite babysitter as a little kid. I had no idea that he used to make me beg for free cookies at Zindorf’s Bakery so he could spend the cookie money, left by parents, on éclairs all for himself.
22) I can write databases for hours, loosing track of time and forgetting to eat.
23) I HAVE to cut the tags out of my shirts. They drive me crazy if they touch my neck.
24) One of my favorite sounds is an oscillating yard sprinkler on a summer day.
25) I am madly in love with my husband, Christopher. We have been together for over 19 years.
