Monday, March 24, 2014

A life worth writing about?

Greetings and Salutations.
Before we jump into this thing, let me think aloud for a moment.
I am starting a blog.
Me.
Johnny Matos.
What the heck am I going to write about?
I have never kept a journal. Diaries were as foreign to me as Sri Lanka. I never really even tell anyone about my day. I just never thought I had anything worth while to talk about.
However........ maybe I do have some interesting tales to tell. I mean, when I look back on it, I HAVE led a pretty interesting life.
Born in New York, raised in New Jersey, I moved to Florida to wrestle alligators, which I did for 6 years.
Before that, though, I worked at a funeral home. I picked up/delivered corpses, helped get them ready for the viewings, and helped with the burial. Lots of crazy stories will most likely pour from that particular job. I mean, in what other job is it considered a normal day to drive through the Burger King drive-through window, order your food, get it, and drive away eating your tasty burger while a dead body is strapped to a gurney right behind you?
Yeah, that job should provide me with quite a bit of material for this blog.
Like I said, I wrestled alligators for 6 years. An odd career choice to say the least for this New Yorker. Not just alligators, either. Snakes, lizards, tarantulas, and scorpions were common place at my home. As were the bites and injuries that came along with it. This is yet another time in my life which will likely yield a few gems for your reading pleasure, including meeting and marrying my wife, all while surrounded by alligators.
I even got to sing an Opera Aria, in full tuxedo, at a gala fund raiser, all while wrestling an 8 foot, 180 pound alligator!!
Lolwut!?!?
Love, marriage, and fatherhood (a story still being written) should yield some gems as well. As should my faith and my interests. As the title of this blog states, I am a geek. I am a Catholic. Quite a few seemingly contradictory ideas collide in my brain, but for some reason, they all seem to blend and mix harmoniously.
Perhaps I do indeed have a life worth writing about!!
Perhaps it will be a bit of therapy for me.
Maybe..... HOPEFULLY...... it will be as entertaining or enlightening for you, my dear readers, as it will be therapeutic for me.
And who knows, we might all, together, learn a few things along the way!!
Ok, maybe not, but here's hoping we can at least come out of this in one piece.
So, til next time, I say EXCELSIOR!!!!!!! And God bless.

No comments:

Post a Comment