Tagged!

Kim tagged me with a meme about 7-10 things you didn't know about me. Alright thenm here goes.

1. I dressed as Darth Vader for 3 Halloweens in a row as a kid and would have made it four had my parent's not stepped in and convinced me to go as Zorro one year.

2. Best Christmas present I got as a kid was my first computer, a Commodore Vic 20.

3. My parent's home in Greenbush, Ontario, where I lived from age 5-6 to 20 had a large in-ground kidney shaped pool and tennis court in the back yard. All my friends thought we were rich but truth we never had much money growing up. Family vacations were usually short road trips (excepting one year we drove to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina for March break) and eating out was rare and always a huge treat.

4. My first kiss since hitting puberty was just before I turned 20.

5. I played hockey as a kid but quit because my lower back hurt when I skated and I didn't enjoy it as a result. Plus I was not a very competitive child for a long time.

6. In my last year of high school I went from 210 lbs to 160 lbs over four months.

7. I worked at a Shell gas station for 2 years while in high school. It was full service including diesel and propane filling and some of the busiest days of the year I ran my feet off. As bad as the heat in summer was, winter with its icy freezing winds was far worse.

8. I was one of the smartest kids in my High School. One report card I had a 97%, 98% and a 99%. The courses that semester was Physics, Algebra, and Computer Science.

9. My favourite movie growing up was Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Great, now I have the urge to watch it again and I'll have to convince Kim to let me use the TV.

10. Sometimes I dream about being in gunfights. Last night for example I dreamt I was being pursued by government agents because I was part of a secret group of heros with special powers. My power was mind reading, not useful in a fight so I was shooting agents with two handguns. I got caught and taken to a cottage on an island in a bus full of people. Almost at the island a lady on a dock got struck by lightning and fell over, her head exploded. I wanted to help yet was afraid to since I was, you know, a prisoner. Then the lights went out in the cottage and all over the island. I woke up.