In response to the challenge thrown down by Gary Simpson (http://motivationselfesteem.com/talk/) in the Alex Jeffreys Coaching Forum and because I was tagged by the good man Mr Marcus Passey (http://www.marcuspassey.com) whose list is a lot better than mine by the way) I felt obliged, nay pressured into revealing more.

Also Marcus will be becoming used to me stealing things from him so I have decided to write it in the third person as then I can laugh at that sad sod in the list as well. You may notice me clutching at straws by the end.

Here goes:

1.Andy is 5’8″, medium build, weighs 11 1/2 stone so just into overweight territory.

2. Andy loves ice cream and sweeties hence the creep into overweight territory.

3. Andy is 32 years old and not a kick off the arse of 33. But still gets on the bus for a half! Maybe, If I tried??

4. Andy is not in the job he though he would be in when he was 16. Is anyone?

5. Andy is Ginger, Red-Headed, Carrot-Topped, etc but Andy’s not bitter about it. Well, not now. Much.

6. Andy got away with getting married for 9 years but is about to reach his 1 year anniversary realising that its not that bad after all. Don’t know what the wife thinks about that.

7. Andy is 3 months away from becoming a father for the first time and is pooping himself at the prospect.

8. Andy lives in the country, hiding his anti-social tendencies amongst the sheep.

9. Andy works in the retail industry which is the cause of most of his anti-social tendencies!

10. Andy loves the footie (soccer to the yanks), Well, Andy did but the excess money, cheating, diving, mollycoddling of over-paid namby-pambys and general destruction of the common man’s game is putting him off somewhat.

11. Andy has the tendency to launch into rants regarding the lack of common sense in the world on a regular basis.

12. Andy is interested in the financial news and thinks that anyone who says they couldn’t see this crisis coming is either deluded, blinkered or lying. (Andy’s been boring his family and friends with this for 8 years). And if we think that the answer to overspending and debt is MORE overspending and debt then God help us all!

13. Andy is a mass of contradictions. He’s selfish but generous, laid back yet uptight, demanding yet easy-going, funny but serious. For some reason that reminds me of a line from a Chris Rock show where he says that we can’t always be a conservative or a liberal thinker. As in “On crime, I’m conservative, On prostitution, I’m Liberal!” Just a joke folks!

14. Andy likes to laugh – a lot. Andy misses being younger when he seemed to laugh from morning till night till he couldn’t breath. Where does the laughter go when you’re older? We’re all so serious now.

15. Andy goes red at the drop of a hat, Ends up looking like a giant Swan Vesta. At least 10 times a day. Andy’s still not used to it.

16. Andy is a  keen reader, Of financial stuff as mentioned before but particularly historical fiction.  If its got fighting, blood, guts, death and glory in it then I usually love it. Favourite authors include Conn Igguldenn, Steven Pressfield, David Gemmell and Giles Kristian.

17. When Andy was slightly younger and dumber he broke his collar bone jumping off a car. This is still the most painful thing he has ever experienced. Andy told his parents and the doctors he did it jumping over a wall. They said they believed him.

18. Andy has done a 10,000ft tandem parachute jump despite being a teensy weensy little bit scared of high things. I can’t go up high things without wanting to sit on the ground. Despite this I have jumped off a few things pretty high up.

19. Andy detests programs like Big Brother, The X Factor or The Apprentice (1st series was good but after that..). Basically if it makes you want to scratch the inside of your head then I’m in the other room.

20. Andy likes lots of American drama’s like The Wire, Dexter, Generation Kill, The Mentalist, House. And the good reality programs like Deadliest Catch, Oil Riggers, American Chopper and Axe Men. Oh, and he loves Emmerdale and isn’t afraid to show it.

21. Musically Andy can listen to many kinds of music and doesn’t discount country, classical, blues etc but really likes a bit of indie and rock. He likes loads of folk from The Enemy and Paulo Nutini to The Proclaimers and Credence Clearwater Revival.  And when Andy wants to think of nothing but the music he sticks on The Who and just revels in the beauty of it all.

22. Andy has had a DVD player for 5 years and watched 3 DVD’s on it in all that time. Andy wonders why you can’t fast forward all the intro bits on a DVD like you could a video! Maybe thats just me.

23. Andy has realised because of writing this list that he has done very little in his life worth writing about, and he’s not very interesting.

24. Andy tries to live his life trying not to do to others those things that p*** him off. Like not merging in turn in traffic, or talking over someone else,  or saying “I pay your wages” to store staff, or not saying “excuse me” or “sorry”, or whistling in public, or a thousand other things. Andy is never, ever late and see’s being late as a sign that your time is more important than someone elses.

25. Andy is determined to follow this path through to the end and will succeed in making some sort of regular income online.  Andy feels a lot more confident this time.

Bloomin Nora, That was a lot tougher than I thought.

Now I’ve to go and tag some other folks in this big 25 things game.

Andy