25 Random Things About Me
Rules:
Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.
(To do this, go to "notes" under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your 25 random things, tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.)
1. I was struck by lighting, twice. Interestingly, both times I was with fraternity brothers. Could God be trying to tell me something?
2. When I was in 4th grade, I made everyone call me “Paul,” after my hero, Paul Warfield (a wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins).
3. I eat about 20 pounds of German gummi bears a year.
4. Twenty seven years later, I still have not completely gotten over my high school girlfriend. She has no idea (we have not talked in 24 years).
5. Grace Kelly in Hitchcock’s “To Catch a Thief” is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. She actually takes my breath away.
6. My daughter and I got braces together this year. Yes, I look 14. The good news is that I am going to look sooooo hot in September when they come off.
7. I LOVE Broadway Musicals and I am not gay.
8. I have been going to the same cigar shop (1 to 2 times per week) in Lexington for the last 10 years. Martin’s Cigar Shop has about 30 “regulars” that sit around on discarded living-room furniture, smoke cigars, watch UK sports, drink bourbon, and gossip. They have become my best friends.
9. I dream of moving to Key West and never wearing anything but shorts and flip-flops again.
10. I miss my Sigma Pi brothers from Brandywine (1982-1984) more than they will ever know.
11. My feminist academic friends would disown me if they ever found out that I was interviewed by Playboy Magazine about my book, and loved it! Sadly, I was not invited to the mansion.
12. I love making lists.
13. My BB Gun was the best toy my mom and dad ever got me. I recently got my kids their own Red Ryder BB Gun (no, they won’t shoot their eyes out).
14. My son (James 9) and I love eating corned beef and watching all 12 hours of “Lord of the Rings” together. We have done it over 10 times, so far.
15. My daughter (Abigail 12) and I have watched every episode of “So You Think You Can Dance” together. We even went to the touring show where, according to Abby, “Dad yelled like a little girl.”
16. The single accomplishment that gave me the greatest sense of pride and achievement was building a play fort for my kids from scratch.
17. I get Tastykakes (a cupcake made in Philadelphia) delivered to my home in Lexington by the case and freeze them. To me, it is the taste of South Jersey.
18. I only started liking Bruce Springsteen after I left South Jersey.
19. My favorite smell in the world is Coppertone Suncare lotion.
20. The recent death of my 81-year-old friend, Bill Keightley, has saddened me more than I expected. I think of him every day.
21. I am more insecure about more things than many of you might suspect.
22. I have owned 4 Yellow Labradors in my adult life. They are the perfect dog/friend.
23. I still love listening to Michael Jackson’s “Off the Wall” album.
24. I collect pocket knives and Zippo lighters.
25. I have 29,000 songs on my iTunes.
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27. Math was my weakest subject in school.
28. Speling wes my secind weekest subjecked.