30+ Facts

So every week or so there the meme of describing weird facts about yourself seems to circulate around the blogs I read, so instead of being subject to that, I figured I would compile a list in advance. Call it a preemptive strike.

1. I have bag fetish. Any chance to buy a new, shiny, buckly/strappy bag I jump at it. I’m bummed that I found my new laptop case so quickly.
2. Similarly, I have a coat fetish. I have far too many to effectively use and still want more.
3. The wife and I will go to the local Goodwill Outlet on Friday nights for fun. I imagine it’s what many ER waiting rooms are like.
4. My favorite meal in the world is pizza and beer.
5. Although good Asian food comes in close second.
6. I still listen to and shop for LPs. Yes, those large, shiny black discs.
7. I’ve broken both arms – luckily not at the same time, had several concussions, been hit while cycling and endured more bumps, scrapes and bruises to shake a stick at. Many times, they show up with no inkling how they happened.
8. My wife and I have been together for almost 10 years, living together for 8, and married for 6.
9. I am a video game junkie. While I’m in recovery now, I still have moments where I sit down to play and look up and itsI 4 hours later and I have no recollection of that time.
10. I own an Atari 2600.
11. I still own and use a 35mm film camera.
12. I still shop for and listen to LPs. You know, those big, shiny black discs.
14. I’m superstitious.
15. I sometimes wish I went to Art School after high school to become a professional photographer. Usually though, I don’t.
16. I grew up in Seattle.
17. In high school our school mascot was the “Beaver.”
18. Like Neil Armstrong, Stephen Spielberg and Walter Cronkite, I too am an Eagle Scout.
19. I packaged herring to use as bait for 2 summers in college. For minimum wage. With convicts on work release.
20. I’ve lost 40lbs. since nursing school.
21. I worked as a telemarketer in nursing school. At least they called me not the other way around.
22. I am an Ikea junkie. We usually go to Ikea at least monthly We don’t always buy, but our home is like a big Ikea advertisement.
23. I screen my calls.
24. I love to read. My mother used to take away books from me as a punishment. True fact. Unfortunately nursing school burned that out of me. But it’s returning…slowly.
25. I enjoy a good cigar about once a month or so. I also smoke a pipe at times.
26. I like having a single-malt Scotch to go along with that cigar.
27. I’m a recovering caffeine addict. I’m down to 1 cup a day…
28. I love microbrews. Living in Portland how can you not?
29. I also love PBR. True, it really is blue-collar champange.
30. I earned a BA in “Social Sciences”: (read: Liberal Arts) to end up loading cargo planes.
31. I’m a TV junkie..it’s on nearly non-stop. Mostly just as background noise.
32. I have a hard time figuring out these facts.