Friday, November 15, 2002
Hooray for Harry Potter! The movie was great... I liked it better than the first. Though, I was kinda cheesed that they cut a few scenes... especially the Death Day Party... So, that's two movies now that don't feature Peeves the Poltergeist... grr... upsetting. But, overall it was a good movie.
Oop... that was sad. One of my co-workers just passed by and told me goodnight.. She said, "Good night, Mikey!" Well, one of the guest sports writers is named Mike, and he thought she was talking to him. So he said good night to her too. She was nice enough to go with it and said bye to him. But, I saw him flush. Poor guy. Same thing happened to me on Monday night, I think. I was finished with my work at the same time the rest of the sports desk was. I asked the editor if that was all he had for me to work on, and he said yeah. As I started for the door, he called out from his desk "Done?" And I was like "Yeah, good night!" He said good night too, but then I noticed that the guy from production had come into the newsroom to tell the editor that all the pages had come thru.... Doink, so the editor was actually asking the production guy if everything was done!
Ehh... it wasn't that embarressing and I didn't go bright red like I usually do. But this guy here... he went totally pink in the ears. Aww. Anyway...
I feel a lot better today. Well, I'm actually pretty sleepy and something I ate isn't totally agreeing with me, but I feel tons better than yesterday. Maybe, just maybe, I beat an impending cold... Though somehow I doubt it... I'll end up getting it full force. I know it. My dad did. He was on the couch all day wrapped in my mom's floral comforter... She was kinda peeved that he was getting germs all over her clean comforter.
Tonight, when I get home, I'm gonna try to upload the pics I took of Lily. In case you missed who she is, check out the currant webcam... She's my baby. While I still consider Pippa to be the best cat in the world, Lily is just too damm cute. She explodes at everything. And if you so much as look in her direction she starts batting her paws around. She also dances with alarm clocks. :)
Tonight at dinner, Vanessa and I discussed the upcoming wedding of two former classmates. The week of the wedding, which is also the week of Thanksgiving, will mark Stephen's annual visit home. His mom is invited to the wedding (She was the groom's art teacher), and she wants to go. Vanessa's aunt is invited (She's the bride's church choir director). So we figure that between the three of us, we can somehow get ahold of an invite to get into the wedding legitimately.... However, we still fully intend to crash it.
See, our classmate Hinelda (the bride) is just... uhh... Well, she isn't the greatest person in the world. And while I mostly pity her for the way she is, I also despise her. In high school, she sorta wormed her way into our lunch crowd, festered there and scared away some of our other friends. Then she got this boyfriend... we called him The Helmet... and you've never seen such a mullet... I'm sure of that. Anyway, the guy was real top quality. He liked to talk shit to anyone and everyone. Then he tried to start shit with me. He was talking some f*ckin hilarious stuff about karate kicking me in the head or something... It was totally stupid.... I mostly laughed my ass off because it was... well, let's just say that Joe Dirt reminded me of this guy. Anyway, Vanessa and Stephen spoke up and Vanessa told Hinelda to stop coming around at lunch... She wasn't welcome.
From then on, we would make fun of her. One guy who didn't really know Hinelda thought her name was Grimelda.. So we'd usually call her Grimmy (not to her face of course) ... She had nasty teeth and we cruelly made fun of that, and likened her to a bag of Cheeto's. Then there was the Grimmy Dance... Which was a special coreographed dance based on her idea rhythm. We were very cruel... and don't get me wrong, I feel really bad about it. I've even had dreams where I go up to her and apologize, hug her and start crying. Yeah... it's weird. Maybe it's because she used to give me random hugs in high school. But she didn't the last time I saw her... So screw her huh?
But still, Vanessa's kept up with her since high school because they are both in the choir, and she is just as rude, crude and annoying as ever. She even dumped the guy she's marrying once after he was hurt really bad in a motorcycle accident. That's just mean... She couldn't deal with what he looked like in the hospital and so she dumped him... right then and there. Awful huh? Well, anyway, they are gonna tie the knot afterall, and we just want to be there to make fun of them... or her rather... ;)
I'm a bastard... I know it.
Mikey was being stupid at 11:35 PM ::
According to the Spark's Lazy Test, I am 50% lazy... how odd is that... Well, I guess that's me. Right in the middle, never choosing which side of the fence to hop into. Oh well. It's a fun test... check it out if you can.
Mikey was being stupid at 1:23 AM ::
So, I don't think that my headaches today have been the after effects of last night's festivities... My sister has been sick for the past few days and hanging out with her a lot means that I prolly got it too. I've been flushed all day, sneezing and coughing and my throat has been getting tired very easily. I'm the type of person that when I get sick, the first thing to go is my voice... How wonderful considering I'm an ex-singer.
Speaking of which, last night as we were discussing the band, my sister asked me if I was still interested in singing. I told her I'd like to sing in a band, but no way it could be hardcore punk rock or whatever. I find Depeche Mode (::makes like mr. tweedy from chicken run:: "ooo my favorite") is very easy for me to sing. My vocal range is comfortably up there with Martin Gore, but can easily slide into the baritone of Dave Gahan. Good luck finding an audience for that kind of music down here though.
For some reason Hooverphonic is also very easy for me to sing... considering most of the songs are sung by a woman. Again, there's no room for that type of music down here. No one appreciates good music in this town ... But give em Tejano or Country and bam, they love it. Whatever... Oh, I gave that Norah Jones CD a scan at FYE the other day and it seems pretty cool. I think I'm gonna buy it. She's got a very beautiful voice... sounds like something from another era. On the other hand, I've also been on this Ween kick lately. I've been listening to The Mollusk all week, and really... it scares me. I mean, I love Ween.. I really do... But, some of the songs just creep me out. And that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Mutilated lips give a kiss on the wrist of the wormlike tips of tentacles expanding in my mind.
I'm fine accepting only fresh brine.
You can get another drop of this -- yeah, you wish!
Ha! Anyway, music isn't really the reason why I've picked Stupid Ideals back up... See several things in my life have been going on... Some not so good, some good, and some great.... Bad news first? Okay, first off my debts are piling up fast. Last month's phone bill, thanks to an idiotic oversight on my part, came out to nearly $400!! I cleaned out my savings to pay it because I knew I had nothing in the bank... I'd just gotten a nice BOUNCED check!! I really don't understand it. When I lived at the apartment, I was paying $475 more a month than I am now... and I always had money in the bank, and some left over for movies or music or toys or whatever... But I haven't paid my parents' the rent I owe them since I started living in their other house, and yet somehow my credit card bills are sky high and I always owe payment on something. See, I moved there because they figured it'd ease up on my money situation and plus those apartments sucked ass. At the house, the rent is less than 400 bucks, and it's nice not having upstairs neighbors. But, somehow, I have more debt now than I did when I was paying rent. Ugh. I wish I could win the lotto... Damm that'd work wonders. So, that's the bad...
The good... Umm... geeze I really don't know. Oh, I got tons of overtime this last check, so I was able to deposit a lot more in the bank. Wow, some good news huh...??
The great news.... Yes, this is something to feel really happy about. Everyday my friendship with Dave is stronger. He's like the brother I never had. He lives in Colorado, but I speak to him on the phone more often than I speak to my closest friends. The guy's had a tough life, and things aren't the greatest for him right now either. But I'm here for him, and he knows that... I help him to get through those unbearable days, where hopelessness is just around the corner. We're gonna work to get his site off of the crappiest webserver on earth (homestead) and onto a subdomain on my site. He is one of the most talented people I know, and it'd be a real shame if his legacy was lost due to crappy webhosting. Dave really deserves the best, and I wish I could give him better than what I have now. But for now, this will work. So, yeah. I count Dave as a great thing to happen to me. Love ya, man!
Speaking of which, last night as we were discussing the band, my sister asked me if I was still interested in singing. I told her I'd like to sing in a band, but no way it could be hardcore punk rock or whatever. I find Depeche Mode (::makes like mr. tweedy from chicken run:: "ooo my favorite") is very easy for me to sing. My vocal range is comfortably up there with Martin Gore, but can easily slide into the baritone of Dave Gahan. Good luck finding an audience for that kind of music down here though.
For some reason Hooverphonic is also very easy for me to sing... considering most of the songs are sung by a woman. Again, there's no room for that type of music down here. No one appreciates good music in this town ... But give em Tejano or Country and bam, they love it. Whatever... Oh, I gave that Norah Jones CD a scan at FYE the other day and it seems pretty cool. I think I'm gonna buy it. She's got a very beautiful voice... sounds like something from another era. On the other hand, I've also been on this Ween kick lately. I've been listening to The Mollusk all week, and really... it scares me. I mean, I love Ween.. I really do... But, some of the songs just creep me out. And that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Mutilated lips give a kiss on the wrist of the wormlike tips of tentacles expanding in my mind.
I'm fine accepting only fresh brine.
You can get another drop of this -- yeah, you wish!
Ha! Anyway, music isn't really the reason why I've picked Stupid Ideals back up... See several things in my life have been going on... Some not so good, some good, and some great.... Bad news first? Okay, first off my debts are piling up fast. Last month's phone bill, thanks to an idiotic oversight on my part, came out to nearly $400!! I cleaned out my savings to pay it because I knew I had nothing in the bank... I'd just gotten a nice BOUNCED check!! I really don't understand it. When I lived at the apartment, I was paying $475 more a month than I am now... and I always had money in the bank, and some left over for movies or music or toys or whatever... But I haven't paid my parents' the rent I owe them since I started living in their other house, and yet somehow my credit card bills are sky high and I always owe payment on something. See, I moved there because they figured it'd ease up on my money situation and plus those apartments sucked ass. At the house, the rent is less than 400 bucks, and it's nice not having upstairs neighbors. But, somehow, I have more debt now than I did when I was paying rent. Ugh. I wish I could win the lotto... Damm that'd work wonders. So, that's the bad...
The good... Umm... geeze I really don't know. Oh, I got tons of overtime this last check, so I was able to deposit a lot more in the bank. Wow, some good news huh...??
The great news.... Yes, this is something to feel really happy about. Everyday my friendship with Dave is stronger. He's like the brother I never had. He lives in Colorado, but I speak to him on the phone more often than I speak to my closest friends. The guy's had a tough life, and things aren't the greatest for him right now either. But I'm here for him, and he knows that... I help him to get through those unbearable days, where hopelessness is just around the corner. We're gonna work to get his site off of the crappiest webserver on earth (homestead) and onto a subdomain on my site. He is one of the most talented people I know, and it'd be a real shame if his legacy was lost due to crappy webhosting. Dave really deserves the best, and I wish I could give him better than what I have now. But for now, this will work. So, yeah. I count Dave as a great thing to happen to me. Love ya, man!
Mikey was being stupid at 1:02 AM ::
Thursday, November 14, 2002
Been a long time, eh?
Last night, my sister's fiancee was playing at a club downtown, so she called me and my other sister up to listen to the band. We got there at midnight, and they'd already finished playing!! Bah! So, we stayed anyway to shoot some pool and drink some beer and listen to the next band. Well, since I'm no good at pool and frankly, I could NOT understand one single lyric of the band's songs, I decided I might as well booze it up. So I did. Well, we had three pitchers split three ways and I drank the majority. I had a good time and had a good buzz going. My sister offered me a cigarette and despite the fact that I hate those things with a passion, I gave in and ended up smoking a couple. Bleh, I'm regretting it now because I can still feel it in my sinuses. >_<
We came home at 2 and I fell asleep a short time later... Yes, drinking makes me sleepy... uh yeah. So I went to sleep pretty early -- for me anyway. I'd gone to bed at 7 am the ni... err, that morning. All I really wanted to do was sleep this morning, but Lily (that's my new kitten) was running all over the place jumping on things... She pounced on my answering machine, and since I'd left all the messages on there for the past two weeks, my sleep was interrupted by 32 old messages.
So I spent the day working on this site's main page... You'll notice that there's a new picture on the left there... I took that one last night before I went out. I also changed some things around, the navigation is at the top and the tag board is on the left... The other pages haven't been updated yet, but they will be soon. Now I need to go eat something. I may post again tonight from work. I have lots of rants to get outta me. And sitting here with Lily scratching my bellybutton isn't going to make it any easier.
P.S. Tomorrow's Harry Potter!!
Last night, my sister's fiancee was playing at a club downtown, so she called me and my other sister up to listen to the band. We got there at midnight, and they'd already finished playing!! Bah! So, we stayed anyway to shoot some pool and drink some beer and listen to the next band. Well, since I'm no good at pool and frankly, I could NOT understand one single lyric of the band's songs, I decided I might as well booze it up. So I did. Well, we had three pitchers split three ways and I drank the majority. I had a good time and had a good buzz going. My sister offered me a cigarette and despite the fact that I hate those things with a passion, I gave in and ended up smoking a couple. Bleh, I'm regretting it now because I can still feel it in my sinuses. >_<
We came home at 2 and I fell asleep a short time later... Yes, drinking makes me sleepy... uh yeah. So I went to sleep pretty early -- for me anyway. I'd gone to bed at 7 am the ni... err, that morning. All I really wanted to do was sleep this morning, but Lily (that's my new kitten) was running all over the place jumping on things... She pounced on my answering machine, and since I'd left all the messages on there for the past two weeks, my sleep was interrupted by 32 old messages.
So I spent the day working on this site's main page... You'll notice that there's a new picture on the left there... I took that one last night before I went out. I also changed some things around, the navigation is at the top and the tag board is on the left... The other pages haven't been updated yet, but they will be soon. Now I need to go eat something. I may post again tonight from work. I have lots of rants to get outta me. And sitting here with Lily scratching my bellybutton isn't going to make it any easier.
P.S. Tomorrow's Harry Potter!!
Mikey was being stupid at 2:10 PM ::