I was born in the summer of 73 in the trendy city of . My mother and I moved to when I was around 4. We bounced around from house to house each yearuntil I entered second grade at a great grade school, .
My mom and I stayed in Aurora until the middle ofmy senior year, and then moved quite a distance away to a small town. Needlessto say, I wasn't happy having to go to another school for half a year. What was she thinking? Thank the lord for senior's choice rules. I decidedto live with some relatives in Aurora until I graduated from . It wasn't always easy, but they helped metons by letting me stay there.
After high school, I joined the . Maybe to get away, maybe to be all I can be...who knows. I was in andthey weren't letting me out. (More fun details about this exciting experience onthe Career page).
When I got out of Basic Training and ,I was sent to and I'm not complaining. I had enlisted to go there and was very much looking forward to it. After my two years in Deutschland were up, I was sent to , home of the 82nd Airborne and all that "hoah, hoah" Army stuff. I knew I personally wasn't headed for 82nd land, but I was sureit was going to fun none the less.
While onleave between Germany to Fort Bragg my life changed dramatically. It all started when I waseating a chewy candy. That tasty morselof candy ended up breaking my tooth and causing me to go the dentist to have thetooth removed. Some minor complications caused me to stay in the big city thatnight incase I needed to return to the dentist. While in the city, some friends and I went tosee the movie . At the theater, I ended up meeting who was to be my futurebride, Kelly Weber. She was the manager on duty and I think I was trying toscore some free tickets. Just kidding of course, we hit it off great andhave been together ever since.
Kellyand I were married almost two years later, were we moved to where I worked for the as a campus policeofficer. While as police officer for the college, I was yearning for morelaw enforcement duties. The college isn't exactly the best place for a hardcharging, young police officer. So I left Methodist to become a police officer.
I thoroughlyenjoyed working in Hope Mills. The citizens, employees, officers...they were allgreat! There's such a big community feeling in Hope Mills, something I don't seein a lot of cities. Our youth sport leagues are huge, everyone visits for our4th of July celebration, and large crowds at every South View football game.People are involved and that's why Kelly and I chose to live there, we wanted tobe apart of that.
About a year into my jobwith the Hope Mills Police Department, I left to work for as their webmaster. I handled the Internet andintranet websites. It was a great job with great schools, equipment, people towork with, benefits, hours, salary and more!
I left the health system after three years to work in Myrtle Beach, SC for a golf/hotel resort doing the same webmaster thing. The big added bonus was getting free golf!!!
While I wasworking at Methodist College, Kelly began working as a front desk clerk for the at the Cross Creek Mall in Fayetteville. That same year she became one ofthe "Employees of the Year" for her company. In two years time shebecame the Assistant General Manager and was able to boost her hotel in the top50 of all Hampton-Inns world wide. Quite an impressive feet, but if you haveever met Kelly you know why she's so successful.
Afterbeing at the hotel for over three years, Kelly departed for the Health Systemlike I did. We worked in the same department for the same manager, but we didn't interact all that much. Kelly was a Financial Systems Coordinator for theHealth System in charge of Lawson. She would make sure that the system and software work smoothly and seamlesslytogether for the users among other things. Soon after I left the health system Kelly moved down to Myrtle Beach and started managing another Hampton Inn. (More on that later)
Wellas long as that seems, there's more. But we'll see if we can spread that out onother pages. Wow, there is so much I didn't say...hmm...no wonder everyone saysI talk a lot.
