Ugh, what to say about myself and how to say it without revealing just
how arrogant I am?
I am a proud flag-waving member of the United States Army… though most
days it seems they are trying to drive me to drink. As a soldier I
work everyday to be the best example of a leader to my soldiers.
Dispensing advise, solutions to problems, training, praise, rewards,
and when needed, corrective training or "punishment" to civilans, as
fairly and impartially as possible.
I work my ass off not only in my specific job but in my job as a
leader. Not for myself, not for praise or shiny things to hang off my
uniform, but for the soldiers, to do my best to insure all they have
to worry about is the simple things. To teach, train and guide them to
be better. Hopefully one or two things stick with em. Maybe when they
are NCO's I'll be part of that little voice pushing them higher and
farther for the sake of their soldiers.My personal life..haha welcome to the dark side. My organized and
responsible self waves bye-bye and patiently waits for me until the
next day, when I shed off my uniform. Now I'll be the first to admit
I'm no Molly Homemaker and I can be as lazy and cluttered as the next
guy. Much to the angst of my wife. Yet I realize tomorrow is another day, and I'm still swinging, some
days I am purely in spite of myself. I consider the city I am
stationed in to be the biggest pimple on the devil's ass. The only
redeeming quality of this place is.....uh...wait there is no redeeming
quality. I swear upon all that is holy and right that I shall do my
best not to cross east of the Mississippi and south of the Mason-Dixon
Line. I know thats a pretty big area, but that is how deep my loathing
for my current residence is.
Now that we have gotten that little duality out of the way. I am
fairly tall, moderately easy on the eyes. Athletic and in very good
shape (my two mile run time is in the low 14 minutes) very alpha, and
though I look younger than my real age, I feel much older ("its not
the years honey, its the mileage").
To the rare few that truely get to know me I'm witty in a sarcastic
way, I usually laugh at myself more than others, caring, helpful, and
a good listener. I handle stress like a saint (ask me about when my
father suddenly passed away as proof.) and therefore am the one
everyone expects to keep cool and stay calm when everything goes to
hell in a hand-basket. I have a nasty habit of finding myself in
charge or leading things.
Not in a childish "I'm better than everyone else, therefore I'm the
leader" sort of way. More like I make suggestions, be as helpful as I
can, blink and suddenly find everyone looking at me for direction and
answers. For all the people who have told me I am a natural born
leader, I hope they never realize that half the time I am as uncertain
and scared as everyone else, I guess I just hide it better....or maybe
they already do?
I am a huge computer geek and love to play video games, they are the
second best form of stress relief. Explaining the best form would
require me to give you a lecture on the birds and the bees. I already
have to do that once when my child is old enough, please do not make
me suffer twice in my life time. I enjoy playing sports more than
watching them, and anything outdoorish, bow hunting (using rifles is
too easy), hiking and camping, target shooting with just about
anything that goes "BANG", though sadly to say I cannot grill to save
my life.
I love to read, hell I'll read insurance pamphlets that are laying
around. Military history being my favorite subject, but my library is
large and eclectic. I love to sing and luckily no one has died from it
yet. I miss my days of drama class in school. I always wanted to play
in Taming of the Shrew. I love to laugh, dance, giggle, and make
others laugh (though if my soldiers heard you say that they would all
agree you were on extremely heavy medication and should be under the
care of a professional psychologist.) I am very intelligent, sharp of
wit and observant. Though I try to keep it hidden under a guise of
grunting, snarling, and dull glazed looks. I have perfected the "fly
catcher" look and use it daily on higher ranking NCO's and whenever an
officer is within 10 feet of me. So far its worked, keep your fingers
crossed for me.
I can almost boil water without the use of the microwave or
a telephone. My TV is usually on either the History Channel or the
Cartoon Network, gotta love Samurai Jack and if I open a book and lay
down on the couch, please for the sake of your sanity and my place in
the book, do not expect me to move for several hours, possibly days.For all you non-vanilla types out there I'm a top. (Hahaha slipped
that one in, lets see how many catch it). It it difficult for me to
get to the point of calling someone "friend", but once I do you are my
friend for life and I'll gladly give you the shirt off my back. It
seems that I am a lone wanderer of the old road of chivalry, I open
doors for women, offer them my arm in escort, always take my hat off
indoors, and everything else that seems fewer and fewer men know how
to do these days. Well thats surely enough babbling about me from me.
If I left anything out and have questions just ask, I'm an open book.
Or at least I'll let you think I am.
