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25 Things About MWM

Ok, ya’ll are making me feel guilty for not doing this so… peer power wins again!

1. I’m a twin (have a twin sis)
2. I grew up with four sisters and no brothers
3. I have over 50 jumps (Airborne!)
4. I often forget what I was about to say or write (like now, which made me write this line here)
5. My last name was Morris until I was seven, when my Dad adopted my twin and I.
6. I’ve been to Japan, England, Haiti, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Canada, Germany, and Spain (on a layover) (but I’ve never been to me… hehe, sorry)
7. I once planned on biking (pedal) a zigzag route across the states, but got engaged and that was forgotten.
8. Speaking of engagements, I’ve never been married and my only true regret in life is the way I ended that one.
9. For a slob, I can be pretty anal about keeping certain things in order. The house chores simply aren’t one of them.
10. I quit smoking in April 08 after 23yrs of a half to to 2 packs a day.
11. I’ve been medically retired since 1999, even though the Army and VA barely acknowledge it.
12. I’ve shaved my moustache off a total of three times since 1991, only to grow it back immediately (2 of 3 for a woman)
13. I’ve accidentally started 2 fires that could have been very bad and happened upon 3 fires that I helped keep under control until the professionals arrived; so I’m one ahead there ;)
14. I can remember things that happened when I was 3 to 5 quite vividly, some things from when I was 2 hazily.
15. My aunt, only five years older, and I would sing Terry Jacks’ Seasons in the Sun and make my twin, named Michelle, cry during the final verse.
16. My biological father is called “the sperm donor” and I haven’t seen him in around 20yrs, yet am very close with much of his side of family.
17. The W. stands for Wayne, which is my paternal grandfather’s name, except his actual name is Harold and Wayne is just a name he liked and always went by.
18. I’ve always (until my health woes) learned things rather quickly, by both reading and doing. Being taught, not so much.
19. I now tend to forget what I isn’t right front of me until it is again; then my memory of it usually returns with good detail the more its talked about.
20. I grew up attending Baptist Sunday school and summer church camps until age seven. From then till high school I was a fairly devote Catholic. From 19 to 21 I was very “contemporary Christian” in that non-denominational, Jesus is love sort of way. War, life, reading up on various religions, and self examination turned me into your basic agnostic, more or less.
21. In 1990, I helped save a man from bleeding to death after he shot himself in face just 3 feet away from me. I hope he is glad of that today and doesn’t resent me for it.
22. When I was about six to eight months or so old, I had a fever of 106.7, was so dehydrated I looked like skin and bones literally, and they fear brain damage *waits for the inevitable jokes stop*
23. Upon reading my baby book, I’ve learned that at age six months, I started laughing at and talking to my hands. This apparently went on for months.
24. I had a 3.5 gpa in high school, but coasted through, never putting forth the effort; this lead to my dropping out of college and spending 50hrs a week on my part-time job at the pizza shoppe (pizza shoppe #1) and shooting pool every night until dawn, and finally to joining the army.
25. If I could be anything at all, I’d be a renaissance man (because doing one thing in life is boring).