My friend Huddson Lee from Dean Holland’s, Starting With Marketing Academy tagged me to come up with the following list. I have to admit that it was tougher than I thought to come up with 25 things, but I finally did it. Thank you Huddson for picking me as one of the people to do this, sorry it took me so long, but here it goes.

#1.  I was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 12th, 1968.  Lincoln’s Birthday; that explains my brilliance and modesty.

#2.  Like Dean Holland, I’m an only child.  Always wanted siblings, but never happened.  It’s funny, but usually people with brothers and sisters wish they were the only child.  For Dean and I it’s the other way around.  We wanted siblings.  Go figure.

#3.  I cannot stand rude people!  My mom always taught me to say, “Please and Thank You”.  My momma raised me right.  Thanks mom.  See, I “thanked” her.

My mom enjoying Thanksgiving

#4.  I worked retail security for several years and have arrested several violent shoplifters.  One of them stabbed me twice in the arm, bit me 4 times and slashed my hands when I tried to arrest him.  He got 15 years in prison because it was his third strike.  I considered him rude.

Way rude!

#5.  My wife’s name is Flo, and we have been married for ten years.  She is the nicest person that you’de ever want to meet, that’s why I love her.  Oh, and she’s not rude.

My Flo!

#6.  I love baseball.  Go Angels!  I love watching it, going to games, playing it, but one of my biggest joys in life is coaching it.  I coach 13 and 14 year olds, and love every minute of it.  I especially enjoy working with pitchers.

GO ANGELS!!!

#7.  My son is 19 years old and his name is Edward.  He is an awesome young man.  No, not just because he’s a baseball player, but because he really is a great guy.  I love him too.

That's my boy!

That's my boy... as a boy!

#8.  We have the best dog in the world.  Her name is Keysha and we rescued her from the animal shelter.  She’s a Dachshund mix.

Those eyes!

Yup. It's a rain coat.

#9.  My favorite movies are Star Wars (all six, but mostly the first 3), and Braveheart.  I so want to visit Scotland.

Darth EdHeart

#10.  While we’re on the subject of movies, I cry at them.  Especially the movie, “The Notebook”.  Gets me everytime.  Oh yeah, I also cry at movies (chick flicks) that I don’t want to see, but my wife makes me watch.  Stupid love stories.  I don’t care what you think.  I’m secure enough to admit that. 

The Cry Baby!

#11.  My favorite television show is Scrubs.  My wife bought me the first season for my “half birthday” (yes we do), and I was hooked.  We now own all the seasons.  I like the “bromance” between Turk and J.D.  Did I just say that?  Incidentally, Turk, or Donald Faison in real life, is a huge Star Wars fan, and can recite the movie like I can.

SCRUBS!!!

#12.  My wife and I read out loud to one another.  We take turns picking books and read them on road trips, or when we have time.

#13.  Speaking of road trips.  I have absolutely no sense of direction.  I get lost all the time and if you ask me which way North is, I’ll be sure to get you lost too.  I have to call Flo to get me back on track to my destination.  She’s the one with the sense of direction.

#14.  My best friend is Paul Wanamaker, and we have been friends since we were in Boy Scouts together.

#15.  I sleep with a body pillow.  In fact, if I don’t have one, I don’t sleep well at all.  My wife made me throw that one in.

#16.  I once bought my wife a jar of Nads, which is a hair removal product that you put on a cloth, then smooth the gel covered cloth it out on the part of the body that you want to remove the hair from and… RIP!  Uh, yeah.  Flo wanted to try it on me first to see how it worked, so I said what the heck.  She applied it, and then RIPPED it off.  I squatted down into a crouch faster than anyone ever has, and screamed, “F#@%!”.  My wife could not stop laughing.  Upon closer observation little droplets of blood appeared where she ripped off the Nads.  OK, it’s funny in hindsight.

Nooooooooooooooooo...

#17.   When I was a kid I found a purse in a shopping cart.  My mom and I found identification inside and took it to the owners house and gave it back.  She was so grateful that she gave me a cash reward.  I took that money and took a cake decorating class with my mom.  Uh… don’t ask me why.   I still don’t know.  Since then I’ve made several cakes including three wedding cakes, including one for Paul, my best friend.

#18.  I took dance in high school and also enrolled in a dance school where I learned ballet, tap and jazz.

#19.  I took a martial art called Hwa Rang Do for several years to defend myself from the guys that wanted to kick my butt for wearing leg warmers and tights.  Hehe.   Just kidding.  I took it because I enjoyed it.

What was I thinking?

#20.  I sell on eBay and I am an Education Specialist trained by eBay.  My favorite thing to do in relation to eBay is teaching the classes.  I love helping others.

#21.  Here’s a list of my bodily injuries:

• Fractured skull
• Three knee surgeries
• Two shoulder surgeries
• Right shoulder dislocation from pitching
• Surgery to remove and infected Lymph node gland from my right arm pit
• And stabbed twice by a rude fellow

Been there, done that.

#22.  Apparently, I really like steak.  My wife pointed that out recently.  Hey, I only buy it when it’s on sale dear.  She made me put that one in too.

Mmmmm... steak!

#23.  My two front, top teeth are caps.  On was knocked loose by a shoplifter that I was arresting, and the other one got knocked loose in high school by a guy that said, “let me see that”, referring to my Rubik’s Cube.  He reached for it, but I grabbed it before he could put his hands on it and said, “Don’t you know how to say please?”  About a minute later when I was looking down at my cube he sucker punched me.  I thought he was rude.

#24.  I don’t like being called, “Edward”, I prefer Ed.  When I was in trouble as a kid my mom used to call me by my full first name since I don’t have a middle name .  Needless to say, she called me Edward a lot.

Mister Ed, a classic!

#25.  I was an extra in 3 movies;  Dead women in lingerie (the title has since been changed),  Scissors (starring Sharon Stone), and Death Warrant (starring Jean Claud VanDamme).  Take that Marcus Passey! 

My fifteen minutes.

I’m sure a lot of that was TMI (Too Much Information), but there you go.  Thanks again Huddson.  Please leave a comment and let me know what you think.

And now comes the sweet part.  I am tagging the following people:

Dean Holland

Ralph Altman

Mark Terrell

Rob Brooks

Heather Reh