25 Random Things About Me.

[Paully_44]

1. I have both ears pierced and 1 tatoo. Will have more ink one day.
2. Favorite vacation was Kauai. Spent 10 days on the beach and in the water.
3. I took my 11 year old son to see Journey & Heart last summer. He knew more words to their songs than I did.
4. Favorite class in college was PE/Skiing. Every Tuesday was spent at Bogus Basin, ID getting credit to ski.
5. My wife is half filipino and has the voice of an angel.
6. I ride a Harley Davidson Road King Classic.
7. Christmas vacation in French Gulch, Ca were the best.
8. Blew my knee out in 1993. Worse call I ever made was from the ER to my wife.
9. I am a huge baseball fan.
10. I grew up in a small town. I had no idea of how small it was until I moved away.
11. I weighed 50 pounds more 5 years ago than I do now.
12. I have 2 boys and love being a daddy.
13. I prefer my ceral soggy and leftovers cold.
14. One of the funnest jobs I've had was building custom garage doors. I had access to all the power tools and build some pretty cool things.
15. I once had a summer job picking up litter on the roads. Got paid a whopping $2.85/hr.
16. I am still a momma's boy.
17. I used to sport a heck of a mullet back in the day.
18. I would love to one day ride Route 66.
19. I love to drive fast. Used to drive faster, but I still drive fast enough.
20. I love food. I'll try just about anything once. Sushi is my favorite.
21. I am coming to grips with the changing color of my hair. I would rather go grey than bald.
22. I am a die hard UW Husky fan. Even when the football team goes 0-12, I refuse to jump ship.
23. I once spent the night in a cemetary.
24. The day Mt St Helens blew, I was down at the river fishing. It was creepy/awesome seeing the huge mushroom cloud rising in the sky.
25. I once flew home from Tennessee with a suitcase full of firecrackers & bottle rockets. I would never dream of even thinking about that today.

[Russell Roberts]

Scooter, I liked number 3 and 19 the best. I once had a Colt 45. I think it was an M1991. It was based on the former M1911. I gave it to my preacher with a holster and two clips. The gun was loaded with a full clip in, the other was in a pocket on the holster.

Knowing I had had a trigger job done on it my pastor was going down the road and was curious how that trigger job worked out. So he points it outside the passenger side window and...whatdya know...squeezes off a round.

What did you do in the army?

[Russell Roberts]

Paully, I wish I could have been there with you on #24. Man, that would have been a sight to see...exciting.

[Paully_44]

Paully, I wish I could have been there with you on #24. Man, that would have been a sight to see...exciting.

my dad always told me that fish don't bite on Sundays. Well that day, they sure werent.

[bibleguy]

1. I actually clicked on the Colt 45 scripure reference in Scooter's post. Bible Gateway found no matches..

2. I have the most wonderful wife, Lyudmila, (16 years now). She is Russian beautiful, supportive, loving, & a fantastic cook (Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Indian, she cooks anything)

3. I love to read the encyclopedia.

4. I am fluent in Russian, advanced in Spanish, and can get by in French and Ukrainian. I try to learn at least a few phrases in any languages I run in to. All self-taught. I also love to teach myself how to type non-Latin languages (non-transliterated keyboard layout). Most recently Hebrew and Malayalam.

5. I have two wonderful children. I thought they were really polite, until we moved to Oklahoma. Now I have to teach them to say "Yes sir/no sir" and "Yes ma'am/no ma'am"

6. I have been to most (41 I think) of the contiguous states, as well as Canada, India and Costa Rica.

7. I play the piano, guitar, drums, accordion & trumpet. None great, but I fake it well enough to impress others, I guess.

8. I have worked in the sign industry for 13 years, and I started my own sign service, installation, design company last July. The name: "Signs & Wonders," of course.

9. After I started school, I cried when I first discovered that I was not liked by everybody.

10. I am the grandson of Cecil Cunningham. He served as overseer of several states, and I met Milton Tomlinson at grandpa's funeral. He used to crack me up, and he is the one who taught me "Pretty is as pretty does."

11. I have three brothers who were born in 1957, 1958 & 1960. Being born in 1972 though, I was more like an only child.

12. I am a member of a COG/COGOP offshoot, and have never personally been a member of those churches (while my parents were). However, I feel a deep kindred spirit with the COG/COGOP/TCOG brothers that I don't with those of other denominations. I hold our heritage in the highest regard.

13. I was surprised at how green Oklahoma was.

14. I think that they should bring back the old network television sign-off at midnight. They should play the national anthem and show footage of September 11th, that Americans never forget.

15. My favorite book of the Bible is Acts. I love the declaration of the potential of the Church.

16. I am a functional arachnophobic.

17. I love a good joke, even ethnic humor. I think its good to have a sense of humor. Yet I was extremely embarrassed by some of the "jokes" that were told (and texted) about Obama.

18. I once attended a Palestinian wedding celebration. The clothing, the dancing and the GOLD (all the women were covered in it & the groom gave the bride about 10 lbs of gold jewelry)!! It was incredible!!

19. In my senior year of HS I skipped classes a lot ... so I could spend time with my teachers on their free periods.

20. I love the Lord with all of my being, and try my best to show it in my relationships with those around me.

21. I was raised in a pretty urban area of Massachusetts, and moved to the country in Oklahoma not long ago.

22. I hate when a Christian goes into a Christian business and tries to use his faith to get a better deal. Why should my mechanic have to "bless" me by giving me his services for nothing? Why don't I "bless" him and pay him what he's worth. After all, he is a Christian, too!!

23. I love flags, all flags and flag history... yes of course that includes "our" flags.

24. I was always enamoured by the military... I loved to play soldier and had a great collection of G.I. JOEs. I never served. (No regrets)

25. I keep my tools and truck in perfect order. I know where every thing is. But I am pretty messy around the house, and I always have to ask my wife for the location of EVERYTHING at home. (She tolerates me ... mostly).

[teach]

ok, here she blows...

1. I have recently found out that psychiatric help is awesome.

2. I love Jesus more than anything in this world.

3. I am currently single and for the first time in my life I am ok with that fact.

4. I have lots and lots of great friends who love me dearly.

5. I have a wonderful and amazing family who loves me dearly.

6. I have really weird talents like turning my feet all the way around and walking.

7. I can fit into a normal sized suitcase rather easily.

8. I teach high school and LOVE it!

9. I have a second job doing after school tutoring for a christian group home called Bethel Bible Village.

10. I am currently working on my masters degree in math education and plan to teach jr college one day.

11. I have black hair at the moment, but intend to go back to my natural hair color of brown.

12. I have brown eyes that are very normal.

13. I am not normal.

14. I am seriously insane and love it!

15. I will do almost anything to make people laugh, especially my students.

16. I brought out the weird leg trick on the first date with the last guy and it only lasted a month... That's not why it didn't last though. We just weren't right for each other...

17. I am NOT a morning person. I get dressed in 10 minutes every morning.

18. I live in one of the greatest cities on the planet... CHATTANOOGA!

19. I love hanging out with lots of people!

20. I talk to myself constantly

21. I have a cat named Leia(like princess off of star wars) and she is crazy...

22. I definitely do NOT have a date for valentine's day and I am actually happy about that.

23. I fully believe that life is AMAZING and we should cherish every moment, but also live every moment like it is the most important moment in our lives...

24. Jesus definitely loves me more than any guy ever has.

25. I am 27 years old.

[dolfan]

Okay, here goes. ....ummmmm.....

1. I'm left handed.
2. My half-sister would hold me down as a child when a tooth became slightly loose and wrestle it from my mouth with me kicking and screaming. My mother did nothing. My mother is now dead, and my sister is crazy and dangerous to this day. I have nothing to do with her since my mother's death.
3. I have Tourette's Syndrome, mild. I have trained myself to hide the tics. I do very, very well with it, considering. If you watch me closely, though, you'll see one on occasion.

4. I have awful astigmatism.
5. I'm dead sexy.
6. I picked law as a profession because I decided not to pursue the ministry and I figured I had to do something.
7. I have gout.
8. I worked in rent-to-own for 5 years. Three of them were right before and right when I married my wife. The other 2 were in my last 2 years of college 5 years later.
9. I used to drive an RC Cola truck.
10. I love cleaning carpets. I did it as part of high-school job when I worked at an apartment complex (I mowed, moved, cleaned pools, shampooed carpets, built window screens, and drank a lot of beer.)
11. When I was 18, I got my ear pierced on a dare. This was 1985 before everyone did it and doing that was still kind of 'racy'. I wore it for one day and took it out.
12. I once had the nickname "Black & Decker" for tearing up so many power tools in a month while at the job I mentioned in #10.
13. I am a nightmare on lawnmowers to this day. I have the world's worst fortune with them. Last year, I mowed over my own bagger.
14. My oldest brother was a successful Maytag man, a coin dealer and loved to play paintball.
15. I once walked smack into a sliding glass door thinking it was open. My mother had just cleaned it.
16. My wife and I are da bomb at Pictionary.
17. My wife and I have been married 21 years this April.
18. I was licensed in COGOP in August, 1990.
19. I had an article published in the WWM in 1991.
20. I won the Scholarship with Spirit Award at TC in 1992.
21. I graduated from the University of North Alabama with a degree in Communications in 1994, and from University of Alabama School of Law in 1997.
22. I have never voted for a graduate of Auburn University for governor .... and I won't.
23. My daughter is the funniest person in the world besides my wife.
24. I will have my hands full when my daughter becomes a teenager.
25. I hate the "n" word.

[DeWayneTN]

1. I never went to kindergarten. Maybe I was a child prodigy!

2. I had a major crush on Olivia Newton John after seeing Grease when I was a kid. I'd still love to go to Rydell High.

3. I was an actor at a murder mystery dinner show in Chattanooga for over 5 years, performing twice a weekend to thousands of people in two different shows. I loved it.

4. Oddly enough, in the Redneck Italian wedding show, I was first cast as an Italian.

5. The most memorable spots I've ever visited are Athens (Greece), Helsinki, Seattle, New York City and Paradise Island, Bahamas.

6. I met my wonderful wife LeAnn through Eharmony although we lived in the same time and had some of the same friends.

7. In 2002, my neck was broken in an accident at a lake. I have metal rods, screws and wire holding it all together now, but never lost movement.

8. As a kid, I was all set to be an artist until I switched gears halfway through high school and decided to be a writer. I still dabble in art.

9. My biggest phobia is spiders. Second would be heights.

10. My first creative business venture was me and a couple of friends creating a comic book in 8th grade and selling 20 copies at $1.25 each. We would've sold more but we found out the duplication wasn't cost effective.

11.As a teenager and twentysomething, the highlight of my year was youth camp, either going or working. I have the best memories and look forward to being able to work again when my schedule allows.

12. I worked at White Water in Marietta one summer. Best summer job ever. I made funnel cakes and poured Icees.

13. I played little league baseball for five years. You would never know it.

14. I studied Spanish for four years. You would never know it.

15. love theme parks. I've visited nearly a dozen around the country. Not sure of my favorite park b ut my favorite coaster is the Mindbender at Six Flags Over Georgia and ride is Spider Man at Islands of Adventure.

16. I spent some of one Christmas morning at the wrestler Rick Steiner's house with my brother.

17. I love music, especially contemporary Christian, gospel and pop.

18. I've interviewed hundreds of artists and celebrities, mostly from the Christian music industry (Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Steven Curtis Chapman, Third Day, Switchfoot, CeCe Winans), but some more in mainstream like Sinead O'Connor, Kristen Chenoweth, Wynonna Judd, Randy Travis, Billy Ray Cyrus and Jim Caveizel.

19. Outside of my job, I've shaken hands with Mr. T, Richard Keil (Jaws from James Bond), John McCain, Ray Ramano and Kathie Lee Gifford.

20. My musical tastes are so diverse I've gotten embarrassed when someone wanders through my iPod.

21. My first real concert was Cyndi Lauper and Eddie Money – New Year's Eve 1987. Second one was Madonna.

22. Counting the back of my neck, I have three scars. The others are on my fingers (camping lantern burn) and on my big toe (I stepped barefoot on something as a kid and almost cutit off).

23. I sang in a choir on Third Day's Christmas Offerings CD.

24. I love to swim and have ever since I could remember. I have never been afraid of the water. I've been told I was swimming in the deep end of the pool as a kid.

25. My favorite sport to play is raquetball.

BONUS - I once worked as an answering service operator. We answered calls for doctors, psychiatrists and even a psychic (why did she need a service?).

BONUS 2 - I was and ever shall be a Batman freak. It was my Halloween costume every year as a kid and on my cake every birthday.

BONUS 3 - Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to me.

[Sherry]

Here's mine....

1. I grew up just outside of Chicago. I have lived in Texas for the last 26 years.

2. I lived in the same house for the first 18 years of my life. Shared the same room with my little sister till I was about 15.

3. I hated school. I would cut whenever I thought I could get away with it, and I got away with it a lot.

4. I worked three jobs at once my Senior year, I enjoyed having the money to spend on shoes and clothes. One of my jobs was at a shoe store!

5. I once was lost in an unfamiliar city. My parents were preparing a missing persons report when I was found. It was one of the scariest days I remember.

6. I'm a klutz.

7. I had to have plastic surgery when I was 13 due to shattering my nose playing softball. My nose looks the same as it did before.

8. My sister is my best friend. She and I can really have fun together, even if no one else gets our jokes we really don't care, we know what we are laughing about.....most times.

9. The first day I met my husband I knew he was the man I was going to marry. It was love at first sight.

10. I've been married to the man of my dreams for 25 years now.

11. I use to be very trusting and happy go lucky.

12. With age I've become more guarded, you have to earn my trust now, I've been let down too many times.

13. I have had a blog for over three years now. I started it when we moved to Georgia to keep in touch with family and friends, and it's become an addiction.

14. I have actually met some of my blog friends in person. It has been amazing and the friendships are treasured.

15. I pretty much will try anything once (within reason that is!). It's what makes life interesting!

16. New York City is one of my favorite places that I've visited so far.

17. I am obsessed with Ireland. I think in another life I lived there.

18. My beliefs have changed drastically through the years.

19. I would love to be called a professional photographer one day.

20. I really do not like to cook. I will if I have to, but I make better reservations.

21. I dislike snakes with a passion. No, dislike isn't a strong enough word, I HATE snakes with a passion!!

22. I am a SciFi geek….shhh, don't tell anyone!

23. I'm an avid reader. Give me a good book and I'm in heaven. I love trilogies, series and yes, I am one of those who went gaga over Twilight and Harry Potter.

24. I drive the hottest car ever and I like to drive it fast! And the answer is, yes it does !

25. I have an amazing family and for the record, I feel way too young to have a son who's about to be married!

[Russell Roberts]

This thread has been quite an eye-opener for me. People are surprisingly interesting with a variety of talents, personalities, interests, and experiences. Of all those who have participated thus far, I haven't found one that was boring or didn't have something quite unique about their story.

[scooter]

Scooter, I liked number 3 and 19 the best. I once had a Colt 45. I think it was an M1991. It was based on the former M1911. I gave it to my preacher with a holster and two clips. The gun was loaded with a full clip in, the other was in a pocket on the holster.

Knowing I had had a trigger job done on it my pastor was going down the road and was curious how that trigger job worked out. So he points it outside the passenger side window and...whatdya know...squeezes off a round.

What did you do in the army?

Response: I generated smoke! 54C

My Colt is the Defender. Awesome side arm.

I think the volunteer in me loves guns.

One of my favorite memories is shooting expert on pop up body targets at Ft. Knox. with an M16.

[SBW]

I like this thread. I though I had a boring life until I came up with my 25. It has been great therapy.

1. I am 4th generation COGOP.

2. I met Bishop M. A. Tomlinson twice, and corresonded via letter with him. I also met Bishop Billy Murray.

3. I have been a drummer since age 5, on stage at age 6, and did my first studio work at Prestige Studios in Birmingham, AL at age 8.

4. Was clerk and treasurer at my former local COGOP from age 21 to 33. Worst period of my life. You see the worst in people in that position.

5. Breaking from my self imposed strict adherence to the COGOP "Advice to Members", I attended my first "worldly" concert at age 22. I saw Hank Williams Jr in his prime at the Pyramid in Memphis. The house was rocked that night...awesome....forever in my memory.

6. I have never broken any bones, nor have I ever had surgery.

7. I have three wonderful children, and one due in July! (surprise to those of you who know me and my wife)

8. I enjoy all types of music, from celtic to AC/DC......with the exception of Hip Hop and Rap.

9. Shook hands and spoke with Jesse Jackson in 1989.

10. I love fried catfish.

11. My personal heroes are: A. J. Tomlinson, John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, Elvis, and WSM radio dis jockey Eddie Stubbs.

12. My wife is my soul mate, my everthing.

13. I am diabetic.

14. I played lead guitar once for Country Music Hall of Fame member Charlie Louvin.

15. I have a flock of 29 chickens, and just ordered 25 more...yikes.

16. I have worked in IT (computer programmer) since 1993 and am at the top of my profession.....and I absolutely hate, loath it.

17. In my life I have met and shook hands with: Ralph Emery, Bill Anderson, Marty Stuart, Dr. Ralph Stanley, Dierks Bentley, and George Hamilton IV.

18. I love banana pudding.

19. I wish I had a 1977 "Bandit" Trans Am.

20. I grew up hearing ministers like Harrison Price, Afton Newsom, James Staggs, and Louie Winters. I am very glad I did.

21. I witnessed my grandmother pray over my grandfather and raise him from the dead after his first big stroke.

22. My childhood girlfriend's husband works at COGOP International Offices (won't mention any names).

23. I have been on the air at legendary radio station WSM in Nashville at least three times.

24. My biggest dream is to play music on the Grand Ole Opry...at least once.

25. I love peace and quiet.

[Pastorbps]

1. I once worked as a Border Patrol Agent but I got fired for letting someone into our country with something called a CPMA card.
2. I have gills and lungs but no webbed toes.
3. I once was recruited into a cult by a Carpet Cleaning Service owned by a “Preacher.”
4. I am not single but my wife would be okay with that.
5. We are seriously insane and one of us loves it.
6. I have almost conquered the English language which is more than I can say about any Ukrainians, Russians, French, or Spaniards.
7. I was once scouted to be the body double for “Alf.”
8. I have 21 fake tattoos of people with piercings (But I don’t dance).
9. I am a momma’s boy I just don’t know who she is.
10. I live on one of the greatest planets in the universe (And we’re coming for you guys soon).
11. I wrote all the encyclopedias in the world (Thanks for reading).
12. In the military I held the target for the best sharpshooter in our company.
13. In a related story, I have several bullet scars on my rear end and elsewhere.
14. I ran faster than anyone in my battalion. Unfortunately it was during our first battle and I was running away.
15. My Commanding Officer told me to come back. I replied I couldn’t hear him because I had my earplugs in.
16. My 2 brothers both tried to take my life (I hate you guys!)
17. I once showed up at a girl’s house with a U-Haul trailer. She called the cops.
18. When I was a child I once infected everyone on the Queen Mary with the Mumps.
19. I played the guitar for Mercy Me. Unfortunately, that hadn’t asked me so I was forced to leave.
20. I love Jesus and I have failed to comprehend any reasoning behind the fact He loves me but I sure am glad He does.

[scooter]

1. I once worked as a Border Patrol Agent but I got fired for letting someone into our country with something called a CPMA card.
2. I have gills and lungs but no webbed toes.
3. I once was recruited into a cult by a Carpet Cleaning Service owned by a “Preacher.”
4. I am not single but my wife would be okay with that.
5. We are seriously insane and one of us loves it.
6. I have almost conquered the English language which is more than I can say about any Ukrainians, Russians, French, or Spaniards.
7. I was once scouted to be the body double for “Alf.”
8. I have 21 fake tattoos of people with piercings (But I don’t dance).
9. I am a momma’s boy I just don’t know who she is.
10. I live on one of the greatest planets in the universe (And we’re coming for you guys soon).
11. I wrote all the encyclopedias in the world (Thanks for reading).
12. In the military I held the target for the best sharpshooter in our company.
13. In a related story, I have several bullet scars on my rear end and elsewhere.
14. I ran faster than anyone in my battalion. Unfortunately it was during our first battle and I was running away.
15. My Commanding Officer told me to come back. I replied I couldn’t hear him because I had my earplugs in.
16. My 2 brothers both tried to take my life (I hate you guys!)
17. I once showed up at a girl’s house with a U-Haul trailer. She called the cops.
18. When I was a child I once infected everyone on the Queen Mary with the Mumps.
19. I played the guitar for Mercy Me. Unfortunately, that hadn’t asked me so I was forced to leave.
20. I love Jesus and I have failed to comprehend any reasoning behind the fact He loves me but I sure am glad He does.

Response:

[Russell Roberts]

SBW, if you ever come through Jackson we have some of the best fried catfish in the world. We'll have to go eat a meal together. I had some blackened catfish a few weeks ago. Fried is always better.