Okay so since I’ve got a lot of incoming links to the blog because of the soap site stuff, I figured I’d use this post to talk about myself. It will let people who might be new to the blog get to know a little about the guy who ran that page, but they may not have really known aside from his name and that he watched soaps.

First off, let’s just talk about the elephant in the room shall we? I am a 32 year old man who for 14-some years ran a website dedicated to soap operas. In case you never figured it out, yes I’m gay. It wasn’t something never outright addressed by me on the soap page, but if someone really wanted to know the answer they could have easily found out with some exploring. I tried to, but a few times failed, to keep anything political in nature off the page and keep it a neutral place, with only soaps being the issue.

So yes, I’m gay. Now contrary to what some might believe, I’m not here to molest your kids, statistically your straight relatives are more likely to do that. I’m not here to ruin your holy sanctity of marriage, statistically you along with Britney Spears are doing a damn good job of that on your own. I was not molested, I was not abused, I did not chose to be this way anymore than you chose to be straight. If you want to argue whether or not it’s a choice, please go down to your local zoo and argue with the animals there, as some of them seem to make the choices too.

If your still with me, I’ve been in a monogamous relationship with my boyfriend for over 6 years now. We live in New Jersey and in our very own haunted house! Yup, I’ve made several postings about it, you can read about it on the blog in the paranormal section. I’ve seen, heard, felt and yes been touched by the ghosts. I’ve always loved ghosts and the learning about views of and beliefs in the afterlife. I never expected to actually end up living in my very own haunted house. Growing up I always wanted to be either a parapsychologist or an archaeologist, because I also enjoyed learning about how different people buried their dead, which by the way IS what I’m studying now. Seeing a theme here?

We share our house with two dogs and five, yes five cats. I know, it’s a virtual zoo here. The dogs are my terriers Princess Bumbles and Nikko. Princess is a westie and I got the Bumbles part from “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.” Nikko is a cairn and is named after the captain of the flying monkeys from “The Wizard of Oz.” The cats are Lance(alot), Galahad, Moo Kitty (real name Gawain), Percy (Percival, also called Orange Kitty) and Grim (short for Pilgrim, finally breaking away from frickin Arthurian names!).

Many people might who might have read my pages always noticed I went on my vacations in January. Yes an odd month to go. That is because it’s when my boyfriend was off work. He works on a farm, yes a farm. It’s a family business, so they are closed in the winter months and it’s his only chance to get away. So for the past six years we had our vacations then, which were always cruises. Oh and yes, I kept running the page as much as I could while I was on a cruise ship. Talk about obsession!

Seriously though, I made some amazing friends through the page, people I know I’ll be friends for with life. One of my oldest internet friends Ive probably known for ten plus years and we till try to see each other at least once a year when her job brings her anywhere nearby. Other friends are a few years old, but they are whom I would take weekends to see in New Orleans or what not the past few years. Two also just came to stay with me, they are who I went to New York back in February with. We all talk almost every night online.

img_4332.jpg A little other fun facts about me. I love horror films, I have since I was a kid and rented out the local video store’s selection the summer between 4th and 5th grade. I’m more into the old school slashers and anything supernatural. The new horror flicks I find to either be really bad remakes of 80s stuff, Japanese movies or basically just a guts and gore fest that is too much for me to take. Growing old, and advances in film make-up, has made me a bit squeamish.

mastersystem.jpg I also love videogames and have since a little kid. The first videogame system I ever had was the Intellivsion, followed by various Sega systems. Once upon a time I used to run a fairly popular Sega fan page, but gave it up a long time ago. I still love videogames and have pretty much every system out there. I’m just now finding the extra time to start playing games again regularly. I have been trying to stay away from on-line gaming until school is done, that’s just another distraction for me!

I also love Broadway shows, something I really didn’t get into until more recently and thanks to various friends. The odd thing is, growing up I was in the band and orchestra and we always, I mean always, did an Andrew Lloyd Weber show at least once a year. Well we played a medley of the music from one show. So I don’t know why I didn’t get into them earlier. I’ve seen Mamma Mia, Phantom, Hairspray, Xanadu, Wicked, Evita, Scrooge, La Cage, Aida and . . . umm . . . I think that may be it? I am sure I’m missing some.

I guess that is enough for now. I was going to try and link to various posts in the blog that I’ve done over the years, but I never got around to searching and choosing the ones I liked. I guess if any fun fact here sparked your interest you can peruse the various categories on the side bar or the linked ones in this post for more info.

-Dustin

11 Replies to “Getting To Know You, Getting To Know All About You”

  1. Thanks for recap! I have reading your blog and the soap pages for a long time, so most of that I knew, but it was nice to get it all at once, kinda puts it in a most personal light.

  2. Dustin, you’re gay! WTF?!?! … Oh, I’m kidding! 🙂 I love that you are gay! Well, you if you would like to know, had you had quiz about how well your readers know you based on this post, I would have gotten pretty close to 100%. I am not sure if that makes me a huge fan, a friend or a stalker. But it was a cool recap.

  3. I learned something new. I didn’t know you had 5 cats, I seen percy with the freaky long tail, grim, and one other. I read your Days page for many years before I looked at your blog. Very nice recap.

  4. Thank you for such an honest post to educate us all a bit more. I highly appreciate your views on choice and nature in regards to being gay. While I am not, my best friend is, my cousin is, my CAT is, and many people-including students in high school-that I work with are. I don’t see how any sensible minded person can even begin to think that it is a “choice” when nature is obvious. Thank you for treating us like the friend that I believe we all see you as to us!

  5. thank you for sharing Dustin. it was really interesting to read a bit more about you! I think i gathered a lot of that stuff already from reading ur blog but it was cool to see it all in one place!

  6. I started reading your soaps page when I finished college and went to work full time. Happened upon your blog trying to see who actually did the soap pages. I love your blog by the way. It makes me laugh at times. And you seem to always have something interesting to say. anyways, since I probably won’t enjoy the soap site as much, I’m sure I’ll be checking this out.

  7. Ok, so you are a cat lady and you believe in ghosts?

    YOu need to describe said paranormal activity…

  8. Megan thanks 🙂

    I inherited 2 of the cats, they came with the house. When I arrived there were only 3 cats. 1 died, we got 3 more. 1 was a stray that was taken in out of guilt cause I didn’t want to see it dead in the road, which is what I knew would happen. 4 was supposed to be the limit 🙂

    You can read about the ghost encounters in the paranormal category

  9. Hi there Dustin!

    It sure have been a long time. But I’ve been reading your blog for a while.

    I find it funny you’re mentioning your Sega fan site again. I was thinking of recently and decided to look up the URL (eclipsegaming.com) and found out it’s registered by someone again. It has a “Coming back soon…” notice on it together with a picture of Robotnik. Anything you’re aware of? 🙂

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