50 Things You Wanted To Know About Me...And 50 Whacked Out Answers

      Everybody's doing it.  I'm doing it.  You can do it, too.  It's another one of 'those things' going around...as bad as a cold in a classroom.  It's catching and there's only one way to make it go away...join the crowd and fill it out.  Then you become immune...until another one comes around.  Of course, this is my take on it all as only I can do.  What you get is 50 questions.  What I give is 50 answers.  Some of what you're about to read; many of you already know.  There are new members who don't have a clue as to how whacked out I am...and there are bits and pieces of information being shared for the first time.  Kick back and take a look.  Not only will you find out exactly what a human oddity I am, but you also might get a chuckle or two.  Ready...set...here's a little craziness for all to enjoy......

1.  What is your favorite object in the room you're in?  I have a couple things that are important to me...my little 'photo gallery'...pictures of my best friend, Scott, and me together. One was at a Halloween party at Alfred University several years ago, one was when the two of us used to hang out all the time on his balcony when he lived at 'Buckingham Palace' just down the street from where I reside now, one was on my front veranda where I used to live before I relocated to Rochester.  We've shared many special times together in the past...and have many more to come, as we intend to be best friends forever. 

2.  Have you ever smoked heroin?  I've never done this intentionally, but who knows what's in some of that wacky tobacky I've puffed on in the past.  (I know there's been opium in some; not so sure about heroin.)  I'm not a big fan of needles, so I can confidently say I've never shot ip any heroin, either.

3.  Do you own guns?  Does a 'Super Soaker' count? I've only shot a real gun once.  A friend brought one over to show me...and while I was handling it, it went off by accident. Nobody was hit, but it left a nice bullet hole in the living room wall...and the hall wall...and the hall ceiling...and the upstairs bedroom floor.  We never did find that bullet.

4.  What flavor do you add to your drink at Sonic?  I've never been to a Sonic.  I don't even know what a Sonic is.  If I did have a drink at a Sonic, I'd want it full-strength...unless I could have it diluted with some vodka.  Party!

5.  Do you get nervous before doctor appointments? I never get nervous when going to see the doctor.  He's the one who gets nervous when he finds out I'm his next patient.  Not THAT guy again!!!

6.  What do you think of hot dogs?  I love me a nice weiner...and a hot dog, too!  Hot dogs are one of my staples for dinner.  I especially love white hots charred black with Guldens spicy brown mustard and chopped onions on top wrapped in a regular bun or a New England style roll. Many people wonder why hot dog buns are sold in eight packs while lots of hot dogs come ten to a package.  Zweigles white hots come in a package of six...and so do New England style rolls.  Problem solved!

7. What is your favorite song?  For years, it's been the slow, love ballad released in 1995, 'Stay With Me' by the British synth pop duo, Erasure - Andy Bell and Vince Clarke featuring the London Community Gospel Choir.  Now, all I need in one special guy to make this song 'ours'.  'Weep for me and I will set your wheels in motion...Keep with me and like a roller on the ocean...Stand by me and I will fill you with devotion...Walk with me the inner reaches of emotion.'

8.  What do you prefer to drink in the morning? I have to have my coffee...black, no cream or sugar. I like it like I like my guys...hot and strong!

9.  Can you do push ups?  I sure can...and even more of them now that I've built up my upper body strength.  I learned how to do push ups after I learned how to do 'push aways'...push away from the table...you don't need any more to eat.

10.  Can you do a chin up?  I always keep my chin up...and my head held high.  Ain't no one or nothing gonna bring me down, baby!

11.  What is your favorite piece of jewelry?  That would be my gold and ruby family ring.  It was hand-crafted in Germany in 1823 and I'm the seventh generation to wear it now as the family patriarch. My father presented it to me when I turned 21 and it has never once left my finger since he placed it there.  I was offered $1,000 for it several years ago, so I know it's value now is anywhere between $5,000 and $10,000.  The only way it comes off is when I pass it on to the next generation...or someone steals it...and they'll have to kill me and pry it off my hand if that's the case.

12.  Do you like bleu cheese?  I'm not really fond of eating spoiled food.  If it's got mold growing on it; it gets tossed in the garbage.  I can afford to go to the supermarket and buy fresh cheese without chunks of fungus in it. 

13.  Have you ever been in a car wreck?  I've been in a couple; nothing major.  My first was when a deer jumped from the shoulder of a highway and crashed into the driver's side of a new Pontiac Sunfire I had purchased just two days prior.  The second was avoiding a tractor trailer heading at me.  I left the highway, jumped the curb and ended up in a parking lot.  It bent the rim of the passenger's side front tire on my Cadillac Cimarron.  The last 'crash' I was in was when an old man backed into me in a mall parking lot and dented the front passenger's side quarter panel of my Lincoln Towne Car. 

14.  What's one trait that you hate about yourself?  It has to be my trusting nature.  I always give people the benefit of a doubt.  I guess that's my small town nature coming out.  I've been bitten in the butt before, but I still give people a chance.  Once a person loses my trust, though, they never regain it again...no second chances.  Fool me once; shame on you.  Fool me twice; shame on me.

15.  What is your middle name?  I dislike my middle name and tell no one.  I go by the initial 'C'.  It's the same as my father's, whom I was named after, and I'm not telling you his, either.  (Not to mention, I don't want my stalker troll, Bomber/Kevin/David to know, so I wouldn't reveal it here so he can find out when he slithers onto Gather to 'steal' more information about me.)

16.  Name three thoughts going through your head at this moment...  1)  I wonder what the weather is going to be like today so I can get out for a walk.  2)  Which cafe will I stop at while out on my walk today?  3)  I wonder what my best friend, Scott, will be up to later so he and his 'Pooper Dog' might join me on my walk and stop for coffee with me.  (He's buying this time.  I bought the last time.)

17.  Name three things you bought yesterday...  1) The Sunday Democrat and Chronicle newspaper  2)  A bottle of Diet Mountain Dew  3)  A $1 instant scratch off lottery ticket...I won $5! 

18.  Name three drinks you drink regularly...  1)  Black coffee  2) Diet Mountain Dew  3)  Beer - LaBatt Blue...or vodka

19.  Name three foods you eat regularly... 1)  Zweigles White Hots  2)  Russers Potato Salad  3)  COOKIES!!!  (I'd eat them even more if more Gather members would bake and send them to me!  *Hint...Hint...Beg...Beg*)

20.  What is your current worry?  As Alfred E. Neuman would say, 'What?  Me worry?'  I don't really have many worries...except I hope I get the next package of cookies sent to me and one of my neighbors doesn't take it when it's delivered. 

21.  What is your current hate right now?  I dislike a few things, but I really don't hate...except for hating my stalker troll, Bomber/Kevin/David.  I almost wish murder were legal.  I'd love to wrap my hands around his throat and watch his eyes bug out as he takes his last breath.  Ahhh, to dream! 

22.  Do you spend Christmas with your extended family?  Seeing how my best friend, Scott, is like my brother; he's my 'family' and I like to spend it with him...and now, his 'husband' and little dog, too. 

23.  How did you bring in the New Year?  Seeing how New Year's Eve is one of several 'amateur nights' when it comes to partying and drinking (and I don't care for a lot of the childishness that surrounds these occasions); I stayed at home, watched the ball drop on television, popped open a bottle of champagne and drank a toast to the New Year and to my best friend, Scott.  On New Year Day, I watched the parades on TV and quietly reflected.

24.  Where would you like to be right now?  It doesn't matter to me where I'd go...as long as my best friend, Scott, was there with me.  We always have fun together and wherever we go is always an adventure. 

25.  Name three people who will complete this...  Only three?  With well over 1,200 friends in my network, I'm sure there will be more than three who take my lead and share their answers.  There have already been more than three I'm connected to who have taken the time to fill this out.  That's where I got this from in the first place.

26.  Since there was no question here on the copy I recieved, I'm making one up and adding it.  What is one tradition in your home you HAVE to carry out every year?  It wouldn't be Christmas if I didn't bake goodies.  I used to go on a two day baking spree staying up around the clock preparing a couple dozen cheesecakes and over 100 dozen of my grammy's old fashioned cookies to give as gifts.  I've cut way back, but I still do my holiday baking...just before Christmas.  (They have to be fresh when I hand them out.)  I still bake my own recipe cheesecakes.  I made fudge for the first time last year, too.  Then there's grammy's cookies...Molasses, Pineapple Drop, Coconut Macaroons and others.  I still go overboard.  Last year, I gave Scott a cheesecake, a couple pounds of fudge and about 15 dozen cookies.  (Of course, I made enough to keep some for myself, too.)

27.  What shirt are you wearing?  Don't look now, but I'm topless!  Not even pasties!  It's warm in my apartment, so I have the air conditioner going and letting my 'manly chest' get a little exposure...those muscles and all twelve hairs. 

28.  Do you like sleeping on satin sheets?  I prefer to sleep in nothing.  Oh, that was on; not in.  I've never slept on satin sheets, though I did have a couple satin pillowcases once.  They were nice and cool during the summer, but too cold for the winter.  I switched over to flannel pillowcases then.  It doesn't matter what I sleep on as long as I'm laying down.  I mean, I'm asleep, so I don't really notice.  (Isn't it more difficult to get stains out of satin anyway?) 

29.  Can you whistle?  Blowing out and sucking in...but I'd rather hum.  A happy tune...Yah, that's what I meant.

30.  Which hand to you use to write?  I use my right hand.  Isn't that why it's calling 'writing'?  Otherwise, wouldn't it be called 'lefting'?

31.  Would you be a pirate? Yo, ho...and a bottle of rum.  It's time to walk the plank...and I'm not talking about a wooden slat sticking out from the ship.  I have no desire to be a pirate, though 'rape and pillage' does sound like it might be fun.  I'm available if anyone wants to try that on me.  If I were to become a pirate, I'd be one step up on it.  After all, I already have a 'peg leg'.  Slap an eye patch on me, pop a parrot on my shoulder and call me a swashbuckler. 

32.  What songs do you sing in the shower?  I'm busy doing other things in there and don't have time to remember lyrics.  (I'm washing...get your minds out of the bottom of the tub.)  Not to mention my neighbors always complain.  With my singing voice, they think someone is in serious trouble being murdered. 

33.  What is your favorite girl's name?  Is that what my favorite girl is called...or my favorite name a girl has?  My favorite girl is named Rebecca...and not from Sunnybrook Farm.  Scott always calls me Mary Louise.  I call him Tina Marie. 

34.  What is your favorite boy's name?  Again with the confusion.  My favorite boy is named Scott; my best friend, of course.  I'm kind of partial to my oldest nephew's name, too.  I changed the spelling when he was born.  I call him Mykkl. 

35.  What's in your pocket?  What if I don't have a pocket?  I already told you I'm not wearing a shirt.  No, I'm not nekked.  I have on socks and a smile...and a pair of gym shorts, too.  In the last pair of jeans I wore, I have a pen, one dollar in change, paper money, my driver's license, a couple shopper's club cards for Wegmans supermarket and CVS drug store, my keys and a black bandana handkerchief. 

36.  Who is the last person that made you laugh?  That was my best friend, Scott, when we spoke the last time.  We always come up with something to make one another almost pee our pants.  I'm pretty sure it was something about his 'Pooper Dog'.

37.  What were your best bed sheets as a child?  I always had plain, white cotton sheets.  Don't ask me about the thread count.  They were probably the cheapest ones my mother could buy.  (No, I didn't wet the bed.  She was a firm believer in not spending a lot on them since they were only to sleep on.)

38.  What is the worst injury you've ever had? Though it wasn't really an 'injury', having my right leg amputated earlier this year was quite the experience...one I never want to go through again...mainly because I can't with it already being chopped off.  Prior to that, it would have had to have been having cracked ribs.  It wasn't too severe, but they sure hurt like hell for a couple of weeks...even worse than having a broken arm.

39.  Do you love where you live?  I'm absolutely thrilled with the city I've moved to and never want to go back to a small town again.  In addition to it being a great city, I love the part of the city I live in even more..Park Avenue.  Almost everything I need is located right here on the 'Cafe Strip' right outside my door within a couple of blocks...restaurants, coffee shops, a bank, drug stores, laundromat, bars, convenience store, candy shop, boutiques and more...not to mention all the life and tons of people.  My apartment may be a bit on the small side, but I've got a great balcony I can look out over the strip from and take everything in.  I feel like 'The Poobah of Park Ave.'

40.  How many TVs do you have in your house?  I had 6 in the house where I used to live...one for every room; even the bathroom.  Now, I have two; a new one I bought when I moved here and a small portable as a spare I keep in one of my closets. 

41.  Who is your loudest friend?  That would probably be an old friend, Jeff.  He's not loud vocally.  He's a drummer and can make quite the racket pounding away on his kit.  No one has me beat in volume.  I'm not saying I have a big mouth (alright, so maybe I do), but I know how to project.  I can be heard over the top of the music thumping away in bars and nightclubs.  I never have any problem being heard. 

42.  How many dogs do you have? I may have been called a dog a time or two, but I don't have any pets.  The closest I come is Scott's 'Pooper Dog', Dakota; part Black Lab, part Daschund.  He's the cutest little guy and I love to 'babysit' him.

43.  Does someone have a crush on you?  There are a couple of guys who I wish had a crush on me.  The only one who actually has a crush on me is my stalker troll, who doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of ever having me!  The way he acts and is always after me...can you say, 'Obsessed'?  He's more cracked than a peanut shell. 

44.  Since there was no question here, either, on the copy I received, I'm making another one up and adding it.  If you could make love to anyone in the world, past or present (I didn't want to say dead or alive...who would want to make love to a dead person?), who would it be?  Oh, so many men...so few opportunities!  My list is long...VERY long! Out of people I know, it would have to be an old friend, Darin, whom I grew up with.  He's such a hot looking Italian-Irish guy.  Too bad he lives in Boston and I don't have the chance to seduce him. From other guys I know of, it would be NASCAR driver, Jeff Gordon.  I don't know what it is about him, but I've had the hots for him for years.  I've heard 'rumors' and I'd love to have the opportunity to find out if they're legitimate. 

45.  Did you notice there is no number 44?  Duh!  I know how to count.  Of course I noticed that one...and question 26...were missing.  That's why I made my own up and added them. 

46.  What is your favorite candy?  I love all kinds of candy...almost as much as I love cookies...and cake...and pie...and cupcakes...and donuts...and pastries. I do enjoy Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.  I could eat them anytime.  (Hey, peanut butter is 'healthy' for you.)  I also like O'Henry bars...a memory from childhood Halloweens.  I can't find them around here at any time of the year other than Halloween...and even then, they're only bite sized bars that come in a large 'grab bag' of candy with other selections.  I end up having to pay $6.99 and there's only about 10 O'Henrys inside.  I also like a good Zagnut...or Kit Kat...or Mounds bar...or M & Ms...or...or...or......

47.  What is your favorite sports team?  I get into the Hendricks Motorsports team.  In addition to having Jeff Gordon as one of their drivers (Pant...Pant), there's also Jimmie Johnson, Casey Mears and Junior...Dale Earnhardt, Jr.  I get into NASCAR auto racing, especially the crashes...just as long as Jeffie isn't in any of them.

48.  Where is the next place you want to travel to?  Even though I've been there before (with Scott), I'd love to go back to Midtown Manhattan in New York City.  We stayed at the Hilton on the Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue) at 53rd and 54th Streets, just a couple blocks away from Central Park and a block from all the shopping on 5th Avenue.  It's someplace I never thought I'd go to in my life and now that I've visited The Big Apple, I want to go again and again.  I wouldn't even mind living right there.  There's so much I'd still like to see.

49.  What were you doing at 12AM last night?  I was laying in bed watching a rerun of 'Monk' on television.  He's a strange guy and I don't know if I care for the program.  It just happened to be what was on that channel when I turned the television on and I didn't feel like getting up to grab the remote. 

50.  What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up?  I gotta pee!  First things first.  I made a pot of coffee after that, lit a cigarette and sat down at the computer to check my overnight publication notifications from Gather. 

      There you go...as long-winded as I am...my answers to all 50 questions!  Feel free to help yourself and try your own hand at this.  Go ahead and copy the questions and fill in your own answers...so the rest of us on Gather get to find out a little more about you, too.