30 Day Writing Challenge: Day 18 - "30 Possibly Known Facts About Me"

Day 18 - "30 Possibly Known Facts About Me"

When I saw this assignment I thought hooray I get to talk about ME.  But then I realized after reading my sister's blog that I had to tell the truth.  No matter.  It's still all fun.

The Facts...Nothing But The Facts

1. I was born on Valentine's Day during one of the worst blizzards of the first half of the 20th Century in New Jersey.
2. My favorite color is red, sometimes orange, but mostly red.
3. I'm a smidgen under 6 feet, but say I'm 6 feet tall anyway.
4. I'm the oldest of 5 children.
5. I'm a Type 2 diabetic.  (Who isn't?)
6. I love baseball and football.  I don't care much for other sports.
7. I used to play golf...poorly.
8. I was in a bowling league for several years in the 1990s.  My average as of my last game was 188.  My highest score was 275.
9. I was a PIAA football and wrestling official for 8 years.
10. I have been playing guitar for 41 years.  I also can play bass and some keyboards.
11. I self produced and released a solo CD under the name Tom Rosewood (Google it) that can be purchased on iTunes and CD Baby or ask me, I'll give you one for free.
12. The Beatles are still my all time favorite band and the reason why I wanted to play and write music.
13. As a teenager I played trombone and Sousaphone, but not in any marching band. 
14. My college majors were, in order:  Computer Science, Public Administration and finally, Accounting.
15. I have an MBA in Technology & E-Commerce.
16. I'm very bad at naming pets:  Magic (deceased kitty) and Potter (feline alarm clock).
17. Potter wakes me up so early every morning that I have shut off my alarm clock for the last 6 months and probably for good.
18. Magic lived to 15 years and 4 months.  It was the longest relationship I ever had with a non-family female.
19. I have been married and divorced twice.  Both marriages lasted about 3 years a piece.  I lived with each wife for a year before the marriage.  (Which may be partial proof that marriage changes everything.)
20. My second wife was my first real girlfriend in high school and first love.
21. I am currently in a relationship that outlasted both my marriages and is on track to surpass the relationship with my late cat, Magic (13 years, 10 months).
22. I smoked on and off for 15 years until I was 30.  I haven't smoked in over 25 years.  While in college, I smoked a pipe as well as cigarettes.
23. While in high school, I wrote, produced and acted in our high school Television Productions class that aired over the Berks County (PA) cable public access channel from Fall 1975 through Spring 1976.  I also wrote the high school sports blurb for the local shopper weekly paper and for the school newspaper.
24. The longest I lived anywhere is tied with my childhood home in East Brunswick, NJ (1963-1973) and my current Philadelphia residence (2004-2014).
25. My first car was a blue with white faux vinyl top 1972 Chevy Vega.  I purchased it in 1977 for $450.  I drove it until I turned over the odometer.
26. I have owned about 20 cars in my driving lifetime and every color under the sun. 
27. I used to love rollercoasters and water parks especially ones with a lazy river where you can lay in an oversized inner tube and float your cares away.  I no longer can ride the slides or coasters anymore.
28. I have a dislocated disc between my L5 and L6, I think.  It's definitely herniated.  I'm just not sure which little sucker is out of whack.
29. Growing up Catholic I thought I wanted to be a priest when I was an adult.  I was 5 years old.  After discovering girls and that religion was bogus, I changed my mind, fast.
30. After this 30 Day Writing Challenge, I'm going to try to complete one of my work in progress novels.

This was fun.  I probably could have done 50, but I got to leave a little mystery about me.  Don't I?

 

Tomorrow's topic: Day 19 - discuss your first love.  (I don't know how much detail you want.  It could get downright X-rated.)