February 24, 2007

• About a month ago, my friend Olivia picked me to do one of those tell-everyone-about-yourself posts which I never did. But now I shall …  so here goes:
  

  1. I am the youngest of seven children. I have three brothers and three sisters. Interestingly, my sisters each have four brothers and two sisters. I also have two step brothers.
  2. My parents separated when I was 12. They divorced over a decade later. I was married and had a daughter by then.
  3. I became a born again Christian when I was 13 on April 7, 1979. It was the best decision I’ve ever made in my life.
  4. I had a knife accident – a friend accidentally stabbed me in the left arm with a large kitchen knife slicing the ulnar nerve – in May of 1979. Because of the wound and the injury, I can’t put my all my fingers together on my left hand and the sensation in my left hand is a little weird. I took physical therapy for about a year to rehab for this. For a long time the pinky side of my hand was completely numb.
  5. Bev and I married when I was 19. I’ve told her many times that next to Jesus, she is the best thing that ever happened to me!
  6. I have four children plus we have one in heaven from a miscarriage. We wouldn’t have Greg if we had that child. Consequently, our emergency room expenses would probably be much less!
  7. I was a full time youth pastor in Clermont, Florida for seven years. Since then I’ve been a part time and volunteer pastor. I’m currently one of the two men who are the acting pastors in our local church.
  8. I talk too much. I always have. My Mom tells me that the other kids used to say, “Make Brian stop talking.”
  9. I don’t seek conflict and I get worked up a lot when I know I have to have a conflict, but I will debate and argue anything I think is true. My sister-in-law says that all of us kids are like that. She says we all like to argue and we all think we’re always right. I believe that debating for the truth is one of the skills that the Lord has given me. It’s not always a good thing though.
  10. I’ve owned 14 dogs in my life. Eleven of those have been since Bev and I have married (some were short timers). About six of those have been in the past five years! Bev is a dog nut. We currently have four – two very cute Bichons, a blind chihuahua and a Boston terrier.
  11. Speaking of dogs, Bev, all our kids and I are the same in that we’re shocked if a dog doesn’t like us. We try to pet every canine we see. It’s really funny.
  12. I can drive a stick shift.
  13. I like teaching and preaching. I also enjoy hunting (not fishing, Paige ) and I’m getting into playing paintball. I’ve always been easily hooked on video games (Asteroids in the old days; Halo now) and superheroes. I guess the reason for my Xanga name is pretty obvious.
  14. Sara Groves is my favorite musician.
  15. I’m hooked on anything Celtic, and especially Irish. I can’t wait until we can visit Ireland. Apparently I have some famous Irish ancestors. The Irish are awesome.
  16. I’m a published author. I used to write a weekly article for teens in Florida and I’ve had articles published in national magazines. I don’t write as much as I’d like.
  17. I don’t get embarrassed talking about bodily things (although I don’t like potty humor at all). Since I have three teenagers and one of them is a nurse, our dinner conversations contain a lot of things that would scandalize some people. I’ve also worked with teenagers for almost 20 years, so talking about sex, body parts, female reproductive functions, etc. doesn’t faze me.

  Well, I guess that will have to satisfy your thirst to know more about me – maybe much more than you wanted to know. I don’t know who to tag so we’ll do it on the honor system. If you haven’t done a survey like this, tell us 6 things about yourself that we might not know. Then comment and tell me that you did.

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