facts about me

1. I have lived in nine different houses/apartments/dorms in my life. (Averaging 2.6 years in between moves)
2. I own every Led Zeppelin album on CD
3. I own seven of the nine Led Zeppelin albums on LP
4. I once stayed up for twenty five hours working on a paper and going to class (freshman year of college)
5. I met Jack Hanna in the Cincinnati airport
6. I have been to twenty-nine states
7. but only two countries (the U.S. and Canada)
8. I once took a two week road trip covering ten states
9. I barely remember anything that happened the one time I drank everclear
10. I drove twenty four hours straight with Adam going from Kansas to Michigan
11. I worked seven days a week without scheduled day off for seven months
12. I have been with the same person for nine years (in May)
13. and we're getting married in four months
14. I met Lynyrd Skynyrd
15. My music catalog ranges from Mozart and Glenn Miller to Rage Against the Machine and Metallica to Garth Brooks and George Strait
16. I can play the bodhran (not that it takes a lot of talent)
17. and the harmonica
18. and the trombone
19. I barely had any facial hair starting my college years
20. I fell in love with an Island
21. I have had the same best friend since junior high (so eleven years)
22. I have never been in a fist fight (not even with my brother)
23. I still, at the age of twenty four, love legos
24. I would love to run a museum
25. I have twice jumped into a snow bank without a shirt on on new years eve
26. My favorite song is The Rain Song by Led Zeppelin
27. I feel that stout beer should be a food group
28. and whiskey
29. When I'm bored, I write
30. I had two bar tabs both over one hundred dollars in a two week time span
31. and I wasn't sick after either of them
32. I'm going to be an uncle again in February
33. I'm going to a Red Wings game on the 23rd of February
34. I have a baseball signed by Wayne Gretzky
35. The first ever pot of coffee I made for myself was over an open fire
36. I miss water
37. I miss winter
38. I just set up a 401(k)
39. I have been working for Target for just under a year (anniversary is Feb. 3rd)
40. I'm a dork
41. I love history
42. I want to know the meaning of life
43. I am insecure at times
44. The worst movie I have ever seen was Time Bandits
45. I obsess with counting stairs as I climb them
46. The most zen moment I have had was sitting at Cemetery Ridge at the Gettysburg battlefield at six o'clock in the morning in 2004.
47. Euchre and I go together like whiskey and stout
48. I get along extremely well with my siblings
49. I give up alcohol for Lent
50. I repeat stories