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7 Things You Might Wish You Didn’t Know About Me

No only does Lyell Petersen (aka @93Octane) go gaga over hashtags, it's an addiction really, he apparantly enjoys inflicting pain on people like me who don't particularly enjoy writing. But, since Lyell's my buddy and I love goofy stuff like this I figure I'll let it rip and pass it forward.

If I deemed you worthy enough to pass this glorious honor on to you, and put its continued existence in your very hands (you! have! the! power!), please follow these care and feeding guidelines:

* Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
* Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
* Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
* Let them know they’ve been tagged

Let's get ripping shall we:

  1. I have never been to New York City. I know! I live in Boston you'd think I would've just zipped down for a weekend or something. One time I even had Letterman tickets but due to a work conflict (my wife's work conflict) I had to overnight the tickets to my friend Ryan who had moved to NYC. Oh and you KNOW he was on TV that night when Dave went into the audience to play "Know Your Cuts of Meat."
  2. I once did the Body for Life Challenge. No, I didn't get oiled up in a Speedo but I did get my body fat down to 7 percent. I was pretty lean and mean. I gained a tremendous sense of confidence with that challenge. I think I might do it again sometime soon. What do you say? You game?
  3. I am almost OCD in my coffee ritual at Starbucks. I always take two napkins with my coffee. Not one, not three but TWO. One might not be enough in case the coffee spills a little or burps in the cup holder in the car. Three? Well, that's just a waste.
  4. I grew an Andre Agassi style mullet during my senior year of high school. Yup! If you can get your hands on a Brockton High School class of 1990 yearbook you'll see me dangling earing and all. You know what? I'm glad I did too because now I'm all face. If my son wants to do whacky crap with his hair someday I'll tell him to go for it.
  5. I have a dream of sailing accross the Atlantic. (Hey Lyell, you down?) Ideally I'd like to do the Pilgrim voyage and the Columbus voyage. How cool would that be? You know, minus the disentary and such. That and I'd be on a kick ass blue water sailer with satellite hookup.
  6. I'm an artist. I love to draw and paint. I don't seem to make the time for it like I should but my future involves lots of time in a studio. I painted the mural in the baby's nursery and I find myself brainstorming ways to take the walls with us when we move some day in the future.
  7. This is all you need to know about my sense of humor. Yeah, I'm still a 12 year old inside. Life is supposed to be fun.

Are you done laughing yet? Okay, now for the list of seven Tweeters (in no particular order) who will be sharing their seven next:

  1. @JeffCutler
  2. @Eric_Guerin
  3. @Chad_Northrup
  4. @Loreen72
  5. @LaniAR
  6. @RobertCollins
  7. @amentele

If you wouldn't mind, please tweet a link to your post in the 7ThingsAboutMe group on Tweetworks. You know because, it's Tweetworks.

Comments (4)

Dec 20, 2008
Jeff Cutler said...
OK. I've already done this with my GF on our couples blog. That's over at gretchenandjeff.com, but I'm gonna copy and paste some of it here.

Here they are...16 things about me. Most of which will probably be lies just to get a reaction from readers. But some will be true.

16. My license says that I'm six-feet tall. OK. It doesn't say that anymore because I had pangs of conscience and changed it. But at one time I was officially six-feet tall. You see, while standing at the counter at the Registry of Motor Vehicles I overheard the enormous guy next to me say he was five-feet-ten-inches tall. I knew that I was actually 5'10" and I was easily half a foot shorter than him. So I decided - as I'm wont to do - to test the intelligence of the Registry folks. REGISTRY INTELLIGENCE FAIL. When I said I was six-feet, the woman didn't blink. She typed it in and I immediately got taller. Better than Bobby Brady, huh?

15. I believe that someday I'll be called to Hollywood to star in a movie. Don't know how. Don't know why. Just know it.

14. In a guise developed to snag chicks, I had business cards made up that had on them my name, the words The Corporation, and my dorm-room phone number. These were purchased during the Citibank Years - a time when I used plastic to buy everything from sneakers to snacks. They were also used a grand total of once. The cards worked miracles and my roommate and I ended up walking home from a local bar with two hotties. I don't know what he ended up doing, but again the conscience thing got in the way and I told her goodnight.

13. I'm paranoid that I might be autistic and have ADD...and that I'll be misdiagnosed as being just a normal teenager. Please shuffle these parts as you see fit. They work every which way.

12. My feet have gotten larger as I've gotten older. This might not be surprising, but they're supposed to slow down. In the last ten years I've gained a whole size. That's either the real deal OR shoe manufacturers have changed their sizing methods.

11. I cry during West Wing and Scrubs and even during some other television entertainment.

10. Remembering how long I should cook soft-boiled eggs still escapes me. Luckily I don't mind snacking on hard-boiled eggs and the incidence of raw eggs has dropped with practice.

9. Moving to a warmer climate is definitely in my thoughts when it remains 12 degrees out - like it is right now!

8. I once had my finger bitten off by a turtle. It grew back.

7. Wherever I travel, I adopt the local accent. It makes me feel closer to the natives. It's especially difficult in South Boston, Scotland and Jersey.

6. I get really annoyed at shows like CSI and NCIS that are based on real science but really rush results. Conversely, I allow Numb3rs to fly fast and loose with math and science. My prerogative, I guess.

5. My proudest moment was when I saved a Right Whale from swimming into the Cape Cod Canal.

4. My main goals for 2009 are to ride a century and to find an agent for my novel.

3. I'm a little worried that I'm losing my hearing.

2. I'm convinced that I'll either win the lottery or not win it. That way there's no disappointment.

1. I know that I'll push for a MUCH shorter list the next time we get Facebooked into doing something like this.

Dec 20, 2008
Jeff Cutler said...
What? I have to tag people and put this up somewhere else? C'mon! It's 1:30AM and I just finished 8th in an online poker tournament. I need a nap. Maybe I'll redo this tomorrow.

NITE!

Dec 23, 2008
Aaron Strout said...
Dude - love knowing that you had a mullet at one point in time. Regarding body for life, you and I may need to do that one together. Let's start right after the New Year!
Dec 29, 2008
Eric Guerin said...
Mike - I'm only doing this because you are cool. My 7 Thing Post: http://www.smartmarketmovie.com/eric/7-didnt-know-about-me/

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