My First Attempt At Car Repair

I'm thinking I was around 19 years old. I had a 67 mustang and someone told me the spark plugs and wires should be changed. Well I looked under the hood and decided it couldn't be that hard, so I went and got the stuff. The next thing I done was pull all the wires off and tossed them aside and proceeded to screw out all the plugs. So far so good. I got all the new plugs in with no problem and then put all the wires back on. I noticed the looked kinda funny and twisted up, but I thought I'd go ahead and start it up. The car started but was running really bad. I thought, hmm maybe those wires go on a certain way and I had no idea which way they went, but I kept my cool, (I used to smoke a lot of pot) and decided to try and put them on where they looked right. The shortest one went the shortest distance and so forth. Believe it or not I finally got the car running right. I didn't have a clue about firing order back then, but now I know how to put an engine in time on the gears, replace timing belt, chain, set the distributor, (back in the day when they had them) plug wires, timing light, whatever, and for the most part it was all self taught, If that's not enough, I'm female! I even timed an engine once that had the timing marks wrong on the crank pulley. It was right, I had a mechanic check it.