100 things about me (1 - 50)

I realized that I haven't properly introduced myself to you yet, so here are 100 things about me.
 
   1.  I am 45 years old.
   2.  I have survived two cancers:  Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and  
        Myelodysplasia.                     
   3.  I had a bone marrow transplant in January 2006.
   4.  I had many severe complications after my bone marrow
       transplant which kept me in a hospital bed for almost a year.
   5.  I remember when gas was 18 cents a gallon.
   6.  My favorite color in clothes is brown.
   7.  People keep trying to add color to my wardrobe.  They have
        been a little successful.  Very little.
   8.  My father has finally started buying me neutral colored clothes,
        but always throws in one colorful shirt in an attempt to make me
        wear it.  He is not successful.
   9.  My favorite television program is The O'Reilly Factor.
  10.  I drink three or four cups of coffee a day.
  11.  I don't do mornings.
  12.  In college I majored in astronomy and psychology.  Ipreferred
        astronomy.
  13.  I dance about as well as Al Gore.
  14.  When I was young I wanted to be a pilot.
  15.  I didn't meet the height requirement.
  16.  When I was a boy I liked dinosaurs, Peanuts comic strips, and
        Star Trek.
  17.  As a teenager I loved to go in my room to read and to listen to     
         music.
  18.  I liked classical music and heavy metal.
  19.  My favorite subjects in high school were my science classes.
  20.  My worst subject was Phys Ed.
  21.  When I was young my parents were Captains in the Salvation
        Army, then my Dad switched careers to the United Way.
  22.  I have only watched a few minutes of American Idol.
  23.  When I was six, my Mom raised wild baby rabbits; at first she
         kept them in her bedroom slippers, then in a box.  Later we set
         them free in a field.
  24.  In third grade I had a large pet Australian rabbit named
         Bun-Bun.
  25.  My Mom decided that this would be his name, and that was the
         end of it.  I always hated the name.
  26.  I was raised Protestant and became Catholic at age 40.
  27.  During college I did a lot of sleepwalking, and I would
         rearrange the furniture in my sleep.
  28.  I would wake up wondering how the furniture got moved around.
  29.  Once I put my hand through a windowpane while I was asleep. 
         I don't think my landlady believed that I was asleep when I
         broke the window.
  30.  My wife is diabetic.  I give her two insulin shots a day.
  31.   I once had a job as a janitor in a hospital.
  32.  One of my responsibilities at the hospital was to take
         amputated limbs to the cemetery for burial.  It was a Catholic
         hospital, and they believed that even limbs should be buried.  
  33.  At the Catholic hospital I went to the department picnics.
         They drank beer and listened to polka music.
  34.  I hate polka music.
  35.  Drunk people are annoying to me, especially when they get
         rowdy and destructive.
  36.  Parents who don't discipline their children also annoy me.
  37.  I like 19th century classic British literature.
  38.  I almost drowned in a friend's swimming pool when I was nine
         years old.
  39.  One year for Halloween I went Trick or Treating as a tax
         collector.
  40.  When I was very young my favorite television show was
         Flipper.
  41.  In junior high school I was a Trekkie, but I grew out of it and
        became a Star Trek fan.  
  42.  There are 17 keys on my key ring.  I have no idea what ten of
         them are for.
  43.  My favorite soda is ginger beer -- the English kind, not the
        Jamaican variety.
  44.  I met my wife in a Starbucks coffee shop at a local
         Barnes & Noble.
  45.  I dated Krissy for seven years before we got married.
  46.  On our honeymoon we toured a bat-filled cave, took an exotic
         animal safari, and visited ReptileLand.
  47.  Krissy and I spent our first wedding anniversary in a hospital
        room at Hershey Medical Center.  The nurses threw a little        
        party for us.
  48.  For a long time my favorite breakfast was hot dogs and
         sauerkraut. 
  49.  On Christmas morning when I was 14, I was delighted to receive
         the dictionary I had asked for.
  50.  Brussels sprouts are my favorite vegetable.

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