don't make resolutions, continue revolutions

every year people around the world make so-called "resolutions" for the next year of their life. they start their year off totally wrong by reflecting back upon all the stuff they did or didn't do in the previous year and then "resolve" to make sure things change in the future.

i'm sick of beginning my year by trying to figure out what's wrong in my life... dammit... i'm starting my own new years tradition.

invariably, each of us has had something that has gone miserably wrong in the past year... but each of us has probably also seen major changes in our lives because of that event. mindsets change and we find the good out of an evil situation... this drastic change in thinking is a revolution in your life. a revolution is defined as "a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving."

this year, instead of focusing on the resolutions to "fix" your life, pinpoint the revolutions that occured in your life in the last year, celebrate them, and vow to continue that revolution into next year.

now, for my first 2004 revolution:
in 2004 i ended a physically and emotionally abusive relationship. unfortunately it ended with me needing to get a restraining order and needing to go to court to argue my case. this situation is quite possibly one of the most trying and emotionally fucked-up times of my life.

in 2004 i had a revolution in my life. i realized that i didn't have to take shit from anyone. i realized that friends are one of god's greatest gifts to a person, and i realized that true friends will do anything for you. i realized how wonderful strangers can be in a person's life. i realized that i am a stronger man than i ever thought i could be.

in 2005 i vow to continue this revolution in my life so that i may become even stronger as a gay man... even better of a friend... and even more of a humanitarian to strangers.

i pass this new tradition on to you, my friends. please start your own years off with these blessings, please find your own revolutions, please continue to change your lives.

i love you all = ) happy new year.

shit...

116,000???

jesus man...

i think life in the pink has put into words my exact feelings on this situation...

"
December 30, 2004
Tidal Wave of Denial
I haven't mentioned the tsunami here because I've decided to deal with it by going into deep denial. I have enough things to be neurotic and upset about: the last election, how I'm totally not going to get into grad school, whether or not my pores are too big, the war in Iraq, gay people being defined as second class citizens, my job, etc. If I have to really comprehend this latest tragedy, I'm pretty sure that I will never sleep again.
"

*huge sigh*

the few, the proud, the gmailers...

i am totally PSYCHED to announce that i now have an ever-so-coveted gmail account!!!

i can now be reached at tnechodomu@gmail.com.

(thanx brain!)

*** UPDATE ***
thanx for the question bruce... for the rest of you, he asked what was so great about gmail anyway.

GMAIL, is a new, currently in pilot-mode, email host provided by google. gmail gives you 1 whole gig of storage (1,000 mb) and also a slew of other features, including email searching, intuitive and killer organization functionality, as well as showing whole conversation strings when you bring up an email. and quite possibly the coolest thing about gmail... you can only join if you're invited by an existing member. *grin*

now for a question to my friends around the world... do i officially ditch my yahoo email account for my new gmail account??? hmmmm...

ho ho ho!

i'm in good ol' nebraska right now, and having a very nice time w/ my family. the trip down was freakin' awesome with my new mercury grand marquis from enterprise car rental place-ish thingy = ) what a smooth ride!

and now i'm helping mom with last minute baking and such.

church tonight and then let the holiday goodness begin, hell, the holiday goodness has already begun.

merry christmas everyone!!!

tom's "be sure to" list

when you're an old man driving north on cretin avenue in saint paul at 7:50 in the morning in -20 degree weather be sure to look before pulling out of your lane in front of a 2002 mazda 626.

when the officer arrives at the scene of your newly formed accident be sure to flirt. yes, even if he's a man, he'll enjoy it.

when you work with a lot of people be sure to know their work phone extensions so you can call them in the case of an unplanned morning prediciment

when you're about to miss the bus be sure to drive a tad bit faster. if you don't, you'll most certainly miss it.

if you miss the bus be sure to bundle up.

when you are going to teach a class about the mainframe be sure to check the computers in the room first to see if they even have the mainframe on them.

when you schedule an important meeting in lotus notes be sure to look for a meeting acceptance, if there isn't one, chances are there is no meeting on their calendar.

when ordering chicken fingers at the minnesota life cafeteria be sure to check them before you eat them, they may be raw still.

when you get raw chicken fingers from the minnesota life cafeteria be sure to bring them back, they give you WAY more food than you can eat because they feel so bad that they almost killed you.

and the most important one:

when you're day is going shitty and nothing seems to be going right be sure to remember that it can get worse. keep smiling.

i've learned a very important lesson today, when you feel like breaking out in tears, try smiling and thinking of the good stuff. like i'm going home tomorrow to spend a week with my family. christmas is in 3 days. i have all my christmas shopping done. and amazingly so, this year i was able to keep my final christmas costs significantly lower than in previous years. and quite possibly the most important: only my car is bruised... i'm fine... and i still have the most important things to me; my friends, my family, and yes, my health.

merry christmas everyone! may the spirits bring you a most blessed holiday this year.

happy friday!

well my friends, it's friday. and a hell of one too. what a week... what a week.

good news though, not only did i get a new pic of myself on here (it's actually my headshot) but i also just finished two MAJOR projects at work as well as put another major one into review status which means it's out of my hands until monday afternoon!

unfortunately i won't have a very relaxing weekend, but it'll be a very fun one regardless = ) it includes a concert, several brunches, shopping (hopefully to complete the xmas list), a party, church, decorating the church, and a callback for a play (see the sidebar). so you can see the most relaxation i'll get is on sunday after the callback in which i'll prolly be so wired i won't be able to sleep.

184 hours till christmas!!!

trot down memory lane...

this posting will prolly bring warm fuzzies to amber and jen... for the rest of you - enjoy it anyway!

so anyway, i came across some pics today from my college years, so's i thought i'd give you all a glimpse to my past so you can, well, see some pics from my college years! hold on, here we go!!!

this pic was at the end of my freshmen year. in the picture is the new and fresh faces of the ambassadors, grace university's premier traveling and singing group. we rocked! (pssst! the one on the far right is amber).

and this pic was the NEXT year's ambassadors (yes, i was in it two years... yay for me!!!). we were making a CD that we totally ROCKED on! and note again, amber made it two years also! as a matter of fact, we're all buddy-buddy in this pic. we're so FREAKIN' CUTE!!! and notice erin looking at us like we're freaks... *giggle*

the FINAL pic is of my friend joe and i. we were the bestest of friends first semester of our freshmen year. it was not long after that that i realized i was actually pretty much in love with him. and why not!?! look at him, he's fucking GORGEOUS! plus, we look pretty hot together... don't-cha think? *huge sigh* even now, i'm still in love with that concept of him and i together. he was my first love you know. truly! after looking back in my life i realized i first fell in love when i met joseph. hey, joe... if-n you're out there, come back to me (foks, there's a much larger story to this, yes, he was in love with me too as i found out years later... trust me, it gets even more complicated, no need for it now).

so THAT'S some of my past! hope you enjoyed it!!!

*sentimental hugs* to jen and amber

la La LA it's CHRISTMAS TIME!!!

tommy is really happy today = )

CAUSE IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME!!!!

AND because his picture hosting is back... so here we go w/ some christmas time pics brought to you by nakachunkoff's personal universe!!!

this is [part of] my apartment at christmas time... notice the warm glow that i've created in the rooms in an attempt to usher in the beauty of a homey atmosphere. if you were there you would have heard soft carols in the background...

this is my christmas tree up close. i add to it every year. yes, it's all gay-ish and such, but isn't it still FABU!?!?!?!

this is my cat gus looking all artsy-fartsy and stuff (he's being lit by the christmas tree you know). yeah, he likes doing these art photo shoots - all bohemian-ish and such. what a cutie

and this is my other cat alma trying to look like she's all cool with the whole christmas thing (all teen-ish and all) although i have a feelin' that deep down inside all that hair is a little gingerbread cookie that is shitting gumdrops in excitement for christmas morning.

so, that's my apartment and my family at christmas. hope you enjoyed this presentation... yes, i'm a christmas freak... but how many times a year do you get to decorate your home so extravagantly and truly be festively all happy-ish!!!

enjoy your weekend everyone!!!

ahhhh

i feel so much better now that i have my picture hosting back again. and because you asked amber, i'll have a comparison pic up soon so you can see me before and after the "makeover!"

oh for fun!

my friends/co-workers can be so cute sometimes.

background: last night i gave myself a "makover." i got a haircut, dyed it dark brown, and shaved off the beard that's been 2 months in the making. then this morning i actually dressed up for work so i look like a stunning not-quite-the-swan presentation of the new tom.

now back to where i was.

my friends/co-workers can be so cute sometimes. with the exception of the two people i told i was going to do this... everyone else looks at me and can't figure out what i did. some say, "you look nice today - you dressed up!" others say, "you cut your hair." yet others say, "did you shave?" and my favorite, "something's different... but what?"

i just have to laugh... do one change and everyone notices. do four changes and for the life of themselves people can't even pick out one! = )

jews on the mind

today my unkymood is zen-like because it's the only religious one i could find. you see, tonight at sundown begins one of my favorite holidays... chanukah. yes my friends, i celebrate chanukah. why?

WHELL...

the way i figure it... w/out the jews there wouldn't be any christians. without the jews there wouldn't be any muslims. and without the jews we wouldn't have those FABULOUS menorahs = ) so celebrating chanukah is like celebrating an ancient festival that has been lost and forgotten by so many people who take christianity for granted to the point that they've pretty much convinved themselves that christianity was created by god on the eighth day (hell-OOO people!!! remember abraham, the exodus, the diaspora???). sheesh.

so to bring this blog back to where it began. i chose "zen-like" as my mood because there wasn't one out there called "jewish".

barukh atah Adonai...

never the needy

so the girl who sits next to me at work won $100k on the powerball game this weekend. yeah, you read that right, one hundred THOUSAND dollars.

when asked if they got their picture taken and such for the papers she responded with "no, they don't take pictures for the smaller amounts, i mean, it's not a million dollars or anything."

yeah... i guess 100k really isn't that much when you look at it. come to think of it, i'm glad i didn't win it myself... it's really not enough to do anything significant with.

what a waste of perfectly good lottery cash.

fuck.

one day more

that's what i keep telling myself...

"self," i say "just one more day... one day more... 8 more hours of this crazy thing we call work."

then i remind myself that dad is coming up this weekend.

"hey," i say to myself "your dad is coming up tomorrow and you're going to have a hell of a time with him on your first annual father-son weekend."

then i usually sing a song.

"i've got a love-e-ly bunch of coconuts (doo doo doo doo) there there are a-standing in a row (bum-bum-bum)"

it's usually around this time i remember i'm supposed to be working.

"fuck," i say "i'm at work, i better get some work done so i can say i did SOMETHING at my update next week."

and then i almost invariablly end up singing another song.

"merry christmas darling, happy new year too..."

to which the response is kind-a repetetive.

"fuck," i say again "work goddammit!"

and then it comes full circle.

"just one more day... one day more... 8 more hours of this crazy thing we call work."

and now you know what it's like to be in my head.

"sometimes you wanna go, where everybody knows your naa-aaaa-aaame (bum-bum-bum-bum) and they're always glad you caa-aaa-aame (bum-bum-bum) you wanna go where people know... troubles are all the same... you wanna go where everybody knows your name (ba-da ba-da bum bum... boom-boom... ba-da ba-da bum bum... boom boom)"

a super-cool linus quote

"we have not succeeded in answering all of our problems. indeed, we often feel we have not completely answered any of them. for the answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. and in some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a much higher level, and about much more important things."

me likey egg foo young

the title says it all = )

what a to-be busy week! i'm in a training class all day today, all day tomorrow, wednesday morning, thursday morning, and friday morning. giving me a total of only about 1 1/2 days of actual time to work... which may not be any different than normal, it's just that for the other 3 1/2 days i'll be doing something other than surfing the internet and blogging.

just kidding, yes, i work.

anyway - good weekend, good thanksgiving, good church services, good liquor, good shows, good sex. yes, i lost my virginity this weekend. and no... not to a woman... awe hell... who am i kidding, i'm no virgin = )

anyway, i must go, class starts in about 15 minutes or so and i need to jot some things down before moving on...

many thanks

as i'm getting more and more excited to go home tonight and decorate my tree i've made myself stop and think about what tomorrow is... thanksgiving... not christmas. = )

anyway - i wanted to take this moment to send a great big hug to all my friends, tangible and non-tangible. i've learned a lot in the last few years and one of the biggest things is the importance of family. i've also learned the importance of creating a family of your own outside of the nuclear family.

and that is who you all are.

without you i wouldn't have a place to laugh, be silly, cry, bitch, moan, share my crazy stories, and get my ever-so-needed support in tough times. without you i'd go crazier than i already am, and without you i'd probably still be in ruts that i formed years ago and were lovingly lifted out of by some of you. you truly are my support and my confidence when times are shitty, and you seriously bring me hope and honest-to-goodness love of life with every interraction i have with you, whether it's in person, by phone, over email, or even a short comment on my blog from an unknown person i may never hear from again.

so in this season, ever so sappy as it is, i say thank you for being my friends.

now go get laid.

welcome to quaziland, population 5

over luch today i was talking politics w/ friends and got fed up. "lets start our own country," i found myself saying. "see, that way, instead of politicians, we can all be gods!!!"

thats when all went to a very childish-hell in an easter basket.

i now introduce the fruits of our labor... quaziland.

hunky dorey

the fam is gone and i have my apartment back to myself again. *sigh*

the weekend was absolutly fantastic. just a rollercoaster of fun and stress, but always fulfilling at the end. the time w/ the sista's was great, the dinner on saturday was yummy, the show on saturday nite turned out great, and the shopping on sunday was non-bank-breaking!!!

now it's christmas for me and my household!!! i can't wait to begin decorating tonight, how fun!!! yay!!!

i'll have a holy spirit on the rocks with a twist of jesus

as i type i'm in the student lounge at north central university, and not the good north central that you're thinking of. currently i'm at my sister's college patiently waiting for my three sisters to get their asses down from my sister's dorm room.

actually it's not that bad, there's a really fucking hot guy standing next to me... he's wearing jeans a HOT long-sleeved teeshirt and a hat, he's actually really really cute in that i'm-a-conservative-christian-college-student type of way = )

maybe waiting for my sisters to come down from my sister's gals-only dorm room isn't that bad...

*evil grin*

those conservative-christian-college-guys are actually pretty easy to sack... these places are a haven for fags... hell, it's in bible college that i first had sex with a man... and then another, and another, and another... man... those were the days.

*sigh*

i complain so much lately about not getting any... maybe i should go back to bible college.

now i know how my mom feels

i think i finally know what my mother goes through every year in preparation for thanksgiving dinner an festivities.

i have food to buy, food to prep, an apartment to clean, supplies to buy, towels to wash, pillows to fluff, a table to set and prep, a meal blessing to put together, two cats to deal with, and lots of wine to drink.

she's an amazing woman and i plan on being the same way this weekend... a FABULOUS woman who organizes a FABULOUS thanksgiving dinner!!!

i'm being used.

my sister calls me today and says that i need to meet someone.

the someone is her new manager at work (also my other sister's manager at work... yeah, they both work at the same place). anyway, her new manager is supposedly an ass hole to them, oh, and gay too. they want me to meet him because, in my sister's words, "you're really cute, i mean, everyone thinks so... all the girls... all the guys... so, we were hoping you'd meet him (manager-fag) and that he'd like you cause, well, you're cute. you see, then if he saw what we (sister-bitches) had a cute, gay brother, well, then... he'd like us!"

oh, how nice = ) i'm being used for my queen-dom = )

ah yes...

did you all hear the sigh of relief? yes, i went to verizon last night. i walked right up to their kiosk at the mall and told them they were fucking losers and reamed them and ripped them a new asshole... well, actually, i whined until they gave me a new phone for super cheap = )

so folks, i got my SCH-a670 back and am happier than ever. for a moment there i thought i was going to lose it forever and have to deal with a cheap-o for another 2 years, but no... they happily replaced my "water damaged" phone with a new one at an amazingly low price - i wish i could say it was cause the guy had the hots for me, but i think it really was because i put on my puppydog face and pouted my way to cell-phonian-bliss = )

*huge sigh*

and the java keeps rollin' in...

fuck verizon

yeah, fuck verizon wireless those bastards. turns out that my phone has "water damage"... it was piss too you silly shits! so anyway, water damage is an insurance thing... did i get offered insurance on my phone??? well, i don't think i did... but of course, i could also be so worked up right now that i may be just thinking that i didn't... awe fuckidy-fuck-fuck-fuck.

so now i have to get a new phone, with no special discounts, and no special anything. i'm fucking furious. looks like it'll be a nice CHEAP phone... goddammit.

fuck those fucking fuckers.

may your shit jump out of the toiletbowl and eat you whole from the ass up...

ouch

i'm sore. and not in the good way. in the bad way.

the show went absolutly amazing this weekend. we had a super-cool opening night with tons of people there. the rehearsals all day were exhausting, my calves hurt, i have bruised knees, and lost about 20 lbs in sweat... but how fun for a super cool opening night!!!

oh, and i met a boy *blush* his name is ross and he's really really cute. and really really nice. we talked a bit on saturday and then i went over to his place for movies last night. we'll see where it goes, but it's cool none the less = )

oh, and i dropped my fucking cell phone in the toilet last night. i was in mid conversation too. how fucking irritating. *slumph* looks like i'll be heading out to the store after work to reap on the blessings of a warranty = )

the ten commandments, minnesota style

ya shure... ya know, i couldn't resist = )

1. der's only one god, ya know.
2. don't make dat fish on yur mantle an idol.
3. cussing ain't minnesota nice.
4. go to church even when yur up 'nort.
5. honor yur folks.
6. don't kill. catch and release, folks.
7. der is only one lena fur every ole. no cheatin'.
8. if it ain't your lutefisk, don't take it.
9. don't be braggin' about how much snow ya shoveled.
10. keep yur mind off your neighbor's hot dish, ya know.

GO BLB!!!

yay!!!

the cheap and tawdry sideshow is on the bryant lake bowl website!!!

check us out and come see our show, dammit!!!

huh...

i really don't have anything to talk about today. huh, doesn't happen often.

lets see, work is still busy, i'm still getting ready for my show, and tonight is my only night free until next monday. hey! thats something to talk about! nah. not really.

frustration though... one of my favorite blogs is down right now... how am i ever to know how things are going for the fags in utah!?!?! *sigh* in need a break.

oh god...

i'm a slut. take the test yourself by clicking on the pic... then be sure to let me know your personal score = )

1096 and counting...

yes folks, it's that season again. the season of giving, the season of singing, the season of shopping, the season of eating, and the season of telling tom that he needs to settle down for a second and turn down that fucking christmas music!!!

yay - 1,096 hours till christmas!!! 45 days for those of you who are less hard-core. 1 month for you boring people.

lets see... i've begun my shopping/creating, i think i'm doing alright w/ the gift thing. the thanksgiving holiday has been figured out and christmas never needs figuring out... you always go home for the holidays. lessee, got the silver polished and the decorations are being planned and modified in my head. the parties are being set and dates are almost solidified... hmmm, am i missing anything? oh yeah, the tree... need to figure out how i'm doing that with two cats this year, we'll see - i'm sure that'll be a few blogs along = )

any suggestions people?

butt plugg

last night was my friend bob's annual birthday party at christos. it's always a fun time with a neverending flow of wine and gay jokes. my only problem is that greek food just doesn't agree with me.

i've been going to this annual b-day party for four years now... and every time i get home from one i'm wishing i had eaten lighter or differently - yes, my butt just doesn't like me.

koto sto phyllo is what i had last night. an AMAZING mixture of chicken, spinich, feta, all wrapped, yes, in phyllo. it was so yummy i just loved it, but by the time the meal was over i had the... well... oopah's coming out of my shish-ke-bob if you know what i mean. oi.

do i care though? obviously not, i go back year after year and yell and scream and say i can't WAIT for next year... some things are just worth the pain = )

wisdom from within

my new security blanket is the blue moon coffee shop just over the river and a few blocks from my place. i go there to relax, to smoke out on their patio, to read on the grungy couches, i went there to hide on election night, and i went there last night to mourn. i guess mourning wasn't the only thing i was doing, i was escaping... again. escaping the drudgery of the democrats - escaping the fear and loathing - escaping the doomsday-ers - and escaping the negativity.

"is this any way to move on" i asked myself. "sure, i'm mourning myself, but i can't mourn forever... i mean, bush is going to mobilize and get going beginning tomorrow, why shouldn't i???"

and then i decided i needed a change... but what?

i consulted my oracle cards. say what you may, they've give me ass-loads of wisdom in the last few months.

i announced my request: "what do i do now?" and said my blessing: "green man, lord of nature, protector of the trees. give me the gift of your wisdom and the strength of your presence... guide my hands as i turn the leaves of your sacred oracle." and then i layed out three cards.

card 1 - scotts pine - as the pine tree stands above the rest, be so yourself. climb that tree and get a look at the whole picture of your situation. weigh the pros and cons, understand the full scope of what's going on around you.

card 2 - birch - the birch tree is the first to bloom in the spring and that's where you are right now: at a new beginning. for new beginnings rooted in the positive result in endings that are the same.

card 3 - gorse - gorse spreads like wild fire through the fields during all seasons. use your imagination and that firey drive to move forward in your endevours and never stop.

say what you may, but i was deeply moved by the message in the cards. my conclusion is as follows:

we are in a dark time, people hate people and divisions are deeper than ever before. there's a light at the end of the tunnel though, two terms are the limit. though we're technically continuing a cycle, we're logically coming down the hill... we're 1/2 way there. take this new beginning, as dark as it seems, and embrace it with love and excitement for even more drastic change in the future. remember, a good beginning results in a good end. karma is more real than ever. and now let our driving force be our love for our country, our love for our fellow man, and our love for democracy and truth... let THESE drive us, rather than fear and hatred, and we'll find ourselves more victorious than any other party, candidate, or law could ever hope to be.

move on america... change is on the way... don't give up hope.

*namaste*

solemn reflections

this, my friends, is not a man of god.

1) a man of god is not arrogant in his spirituality, standing in the streets loudly proclaiming to the world 'god is on my side' and 'god speaks through me'. a man of god humbly prays in the darkness for forgivness and favor to be shown on him and that he'd have the strength to do the same to his fellow man.

2) a man of god does not destroy his planet. he does not encourage others to waste natural (and naturally dwindling) resources. he does not destroy god's beautiful forests, plains, waters, and animals. a man of god does everything he can to preserve god's beautiful green creation.

3) a man of god does not try to exault himself over others by diminishing the rights of his fellow man. a man of god respects all kinds of people respecting that god created every one of them for a reason.

4) a man of god does not kill others relentlessly. a man of god loves and lives for life.

folks... if you truly believe that this man stands for what is true and holy in your god... then your god is not very true nor holy.

from the mouths of babes

on sunday i was out w/ my wonderful friend, andy. being an 11 year old, andy has a way with his words. sometimes gut-wrenchingly funny and sometimes eerily true but always interesting. case in point, check out his most memorable quote of the day on sunday.

"you know... neither [presidential] candidate is that good. i mean, if george bush gets elected, we'll all die. if john kerry gets elected, we'll all die too, just with better healthcare."

from the mouths of babes people... from the mouths of babes.

VOTE TODAY GODDAMMIT!!!

weekend update

well, what a crazy weekend!!!

it started with a horror flick night w/ my friend jess. on saturday i went out to the humane society and got me another cat! alma is a GORGEOUS lynx-pointragdoll and has the most wonderful temperment and personality. and gus seems to be getting along with her really well too!!!

saturday nite was a crazy time. my first halloween party in years, and thanx to gary to for putting it all together. booze and costumes and a dj that was not only amazing but WAY cute and new friends - how perfect of an evening. oh, and w/ a time change in the middle, it was a party-rrrrrrs dream come true.

sunday i did church, a rehearsal, and then off to trick-or-treat w/ andy my ex-neighbor boy. i hadn't done that in years and ended up having a super time.

what a wonderful weekend!!!

quaziland

welcome to quaziland... a place where bliss reigns eternal, where politicians are non-existant, where everyone is a god over their own declared dominion, and where the god of all gods, qeus (pronounced keew-s), gets to wear a feather boa and wings (weeee!).

below you'll find a listing of our gods. quaziland is always growing and invites you to be a god in quaziland! just send a comment to ques (aka, tom). be sure to send your god's dominion and if you can, a short announcement to the citizens of quaziland about what they can expect of your godliness. ques will choose your official god-name.

quaziland diety

ques - god of all gods - tom

anamaliahnos - goddess of the animals - katie

shivamegalos - goddess over all of india's gods - nicole

widestreetsahma - goddess over suburbia - jessie (not confirmed yet)

duhlia - goddess over the idiots - mort (not confirmed yet)

keep watching as the population of quaziland grows!!!

*humph*

i'm poli-ticked-off.

i'm sick of the election, i'm sick of tv adds, i'm sick of talking to narrow-minded co-workers, and i'm sick of living in a swing state.

just let me vote for kerry, let him win, fix this fucking country, take it back from the jesus-freaks, and let me get back to my normal life before election '04.

thank you.

inhale - exhale

i have a bronchial infection... basically, the cold taxed my bronchial tubes and the results is an asthma-like reaction. so what do i get? antibiotics and an inhaler to help me breathe... yay!

and after several days of drugs... i'm feeling much better - thank you drugs!!!

FINALLY!

i'm going to the doctor today to FINALLY get rid of this fucking bronchitis. please say a quick prayer to your personal god/goddess/universe/spirits that the bronchitis hasn't turned into pneumonia or something else more deadly.

whoa is me...

an open page

dear mary,

its been one year since i saw you last. it was a crisp fall day when some friends and i took a long lunch hour and wandered over to say hi to you. it was the first time i saw you in the hospital, and the last. everyone left, oddly enough, and left the two us alone - i sat on your bed and held your hand and just stared into your eyes. i so wanted to lay down next to you and just hold you, but i didn't, i horribly regret that now.

it was a few days later, the day after i first saw times square, that i received the voicemail that you had left us. i was relieved to hear you moved on in a peaceful manner, but i was also sobered knowing that your celebration was planned on the day before i was to see times square for the last time - i haven't been there since. i stayed knowing that you'd want it that way.

i still see you though. its amazing how i run into you at the grocery store, or at the gym, or randomly on the street. the cycle is always the same... "hey! its mary!" "oh wait, that can't be mary" and then the inevitable tears that well up. they're never expected, they just come. and the cycle always ends with me silently wandering to a quiet corner of wherever i am to spend a few moments colleting myself before living again.

then there are the times i remember you without realizing it. like today. someone was talking about how phone numbers at work are oddly synched up with friends, e.g., one number is 2345 while a friends number is 5432. i was about to pipe up about a good friend who's numer was opposite of mine... 1314 -vs- 1413. then i realized that number was yours. begin cycle.

your official date is on saturday. i'll be there - most likely running into several others.

i'll try to celebrate, but i can't promise anything.

awe... poop.

before leaving this morning, i indulged myself in my most recent a.m. ritual of pocketing a vitamin c and a daily multi-vitamin to take when i make it to my first cup of coffee, soda, or drink of water. i've been doing this for about a week now in attempts to aleviate my self-diagnosed-bronchitis.

imagine my surprise when i realized that the vitamin c i've been taking for this last week has actually been a fiber laxative.

"hmmmm...." i think to myself as i leave, "i wonder how that's affected my life this last week."

and strangely enough, for the first time i didn't have an answer for myself.

signed, sealed, delivered

by the simple advertising coax of air america radio online i have joined the democratic singles network dating website.

sooooooo... if you have some hidden infatuation with me, my personality, or my body, i suggest checking me out and dating me. yes folks, i may be datable again (is that how you spell datable... dateable... date-able... is that even a word?)

good luck, and may the best man win.

fall reflection

as i walk out of my building this morning i am greeted by the wind whispering to me that fall is here and that my winter dreams are well on their way.

the crisp breeze and chilly misty rain has coaxed an abundance of leaves to escape their prisons in the sky and cover the sidewalks in a collage of oranges, reds, and yellows, pasted down by a light coating of a paste-like rain.

the sky is a fallish shade of dim grey, a depressing color to some, but an invigorating color to those of us in the northland that get shivers at seeing that color, not as a result of the coolness in the air that it brings, but because it's a sign that the much anticipated turn of seasons is in progress.

jackets, sweaters, sweatshirts, and coffee adorn many a corporate-american this morning on their way into work - one more sign that the fall has officially taken it's hold on the lives of those around me.

many people say it is the perfect day to be at work, but i for one think the opposite - i'd much rather be encompassed by mother-nature on a day like this than in the middle of the summer when the sun is bright and the men are tossing around a football half-naked.

i stop walking and take a deep breath through my nose and mouth at the same time - the world momentarily stops around me and i'm surrounded by a chilly peace.

this is my energy.

this is my salvation.

ooh...

tom takes a mystical twist in his blog... see the new moon phase tracker at the bottom of my sidebar... thanx to eye of horus for that one = )

bask in the splendour of the universe...

lateness

yeah, i'm still at work. how shitty huh?

so my rehearsal got cancelled tonight (for the cheap & tawdry show) so what do i do? work, dammit, work! i could be at home, lounging in a bath, eating icecream and reading a book... or i could be a coffee shoppe relaxing over a warm cup o' coffee and a good magazine... OR i could just be SITTING ON MY COUCH WATCHING TV! but NOOOOOO, i'm at work.

lousy work.

anybody know a cute and rich old fag who can still get it up?

was it a dream?

chicago came and went - a euphoric 12 hours that buzzed by so fast it seems as if it never happened.

we had an amazing time flying down (w/ mimosas) then taking the train down to the loop to check out millennium park, the corner bakery, and the art institute, and then heading up to boystown for drinks at roscoe's and dinner at the twisted spoke. a short train ride back to the car, evening vespers at st. johns lutheran church on montrose and then back in the plane for gin and whiskey.

on the way home, the pilot got permission to fly us around downtown, over navy pier, and down to soldier field... how beautiful to be cruising over lake michigan and checking out one of my favorite cities at night. *sigh*

sunday was composed of church, rehearsal, movie, book shopping, and extreme makeover: home edition - and, yes, it made me cry... again = )

hope your weekends were as wonderful as mine - catch you all later!

yay for me!!!

wanna hear my saturday plans??? tough, you're going to hear them anyway.

so... i'll be getting up nice and early and going to a regional airport w/ some friends of mine to take a private plane to chicago for the day!!! we'll fly down at 8am, go to the art institute and the newly opened millennium park, go to a hymn festival in the evening, and fly home that night!!!

i'm so excited i could just wizzzz in my khakis!!!

crazy people

actual phone conversation at 3:30pm today...

dana - "hey, can you call me later"
tom - "why, are you really busy right now?"
d - "yeah, really busy, can you call me later?"
t - "um, no, i'm teaching right now."
d - "geeze, you're ALWAYS teaching"
t - "um, yeah... cause i'm a teacher"

i swear, my friends are blonder than myself sometimes...

lab time

well, i'm about 5.5 hours into my training session today. surprisingly enough, i haven't even gotten close to rasping my voice either! how nice - sigh.

ahhhh! HORRIBLY sad... joyce jillson died today. *sniff* *sniff* i'm seriously terrified, where AM i going to get my daily horoscope from? as she dies a part of me dies with her...

yeah, whatever. it's sad, but not worth bustin' a nut over *wink*

btw - thanx for the really sweet comment, blues mama! how nice to hear from someone i don't know! my hugs go out to you = )

happy masturbation everyone!

good morning!

hello everyone!

the timestamp doesn't lie... yes people, i'm at work at 6:50am! you see, i'm teaching a full 8 hour class today and felt the necessity to be in extra early.

damn, the sun wasn't even BEGINNING to rise when i left for work, the parking lot only had 3 of the usual 30 cars in it, and i actually made it to work and was able to go to coffee w/ jess = ) i felt so blessed to be able to begin my day with her be-FORE nicole got to - eat THAT sucker!!! ha ha ha ha ha ha

yeah, mornings do weird shit to a person. i'd avoid them at all costs people, really, it's just not worth it.

happy day people! happy day = ) this may be a multi-blogging day because of the abundance of breaks we're going to have during the session, oh and all the exercises. my hugs to all!

don't talk to me

tom is fucking tired.

tom is bitchy.

tom has worked WAY too hard today.

tom wants to go home.

goddammit, tom IS going to go home.

you should to.

the end

!!!

i made apple cider this weekend!!!

i hadn't done that since i was a kid and my mom and dad made us help gather all the apples from the tree in the backyard and haul them to the cider mill to process the crap (or juice) out of them. this weekend my friend brian and i did it ourselves with his medievil-torture-device-like-looking press. mmmm, mmmm, good shit! thanx for the super time brian - and for the killer meatloaf, jen!

the rest of the weekend included dinner/movie w/ a friend, another tip to bead monkey for christmas gift supplies, the coffee shope, and a really fun/fucked-up happy hour that was pretty much a 4 hour conversation about sex and orgies, i'm REALLY surprised we didn't end up in one... everyone was so hot and bothered after all that talk. whew - i'm getting hot now just thinkin' about it... i gotta go for a second...

*pitter patter to the bathroom*

ahhhh

i took the air conditioner out of my bedroom window last night. what a great feeling to remove such a huge piece of shit reminder of unbearably hot days and shove it back in the closet (no pun intended). of course, the lack of the ac made my sleeping last night some of the best since i put it in! the temp dropped ungodly low and i had flannel sheets on my bed... what a perfect setup for a night of comfort and contentment all by myself = )

the next big step in moving towards and celebrating winter is to put on the storm windows... but i'll leave that step for a few months from now, i like having the windows cracked open too much. as a matter of fact i've had the same windows open the same amount for about 8 months now... how facinating = )

ok, i'm boring today, i know. i'm off to work some this afternoon (and most likey have a few too many smoke breaks). maybe i'll have a little more excitement to announce when i get back from bead monkey tonight!!!

shit

got into work early today, staying till the usual time. i'm off to get sushi w/ a friend and then hopefully home to hang out w/ the pussy cat. i might stop by target and barnes -n- noble on the way home too.

no reason for the title of this blog - just like that word so much i thought i'd put it right on top!

oh, i had the first rehearsal for cheap & tawdry last night - oh how fun is this going to be... monkeys, pissing, vaginas, death, flying knives, virgins, hymen, smoking, drinking, s/m, spaking, and vomiting. i bet you just can't WAIT to see this show!

twill be a good one folks - i promise on my monkey's ass = )

birthday results

well, my birthday weekend was a success!!!

i made it to theatre de la jeaune lune, a house warming party, the men's warehouse, all of the galleria and especially len druskin, the minnesota orchestra, margaret cho and ani difranco, southdale mall, big bowl, the kitty cat klub, boom!, the gay 90's, the imperial room, jetset... and i think that's all!

i got to bed at 1 on thursday, 4 on friday, and 6 on saturday (which i guess really counts as sunday).

the drinking was kept to a surprising minimum with a culmination of beverages on saturday resulting in only a small headache on sunday morning (or afternoon if you consider that i woke up at 1:30pm).

what a fun time!!!

things i learned from my 26th birthday weekend:

mixing friends can be fun - but is exhausting physically and mentally

free food is good

free drinks are even better

the 90's sucks sometimes

first avenue is fucking SCARY at bar close... don't do it if you absolutly can help it

take a moroccan with you whenever you go out downtown minneapolis - not only is he cute, but he knows everyone

sleep is overrated

and my final moment of pride from this weekend - i spent a total of $4.50 over 3 days. $3 for a parking garage and $1.50 for motrin on sunday morning.

yay for birthdays!!! i think i need a year to recover...

ah hell... who's next!?!?!?!

blonde moment

so i'm driving into work this morning and a utility truck in front of me had an orange construction cone hanging upsidedown through a ladder.

on the cone was writing... all i caught was "peders", the ladder wrungs were covering the other letters.

i think to myself "huh, a pedestrian cone" then realize that pedestrian was spelled wrong. so, the next i try is to pronounce it some other way... i come up with "pay-day-ray-zhone" with emphasis on the second syllable. "huh" i think to myself, "it's a spanish pedestrian sign" not even thinking that pay-day-ray-zhone actually sounds more latin than spanish.

it's then that i look at the rest of the truck and realize its a pederson construction truck.

woo hoo!!!

i made it onto the city pages babelogue listing! how fun is THAT!

i'm movin' on up (movin' on up)...
to the blog-side (to the blog-side)...
to a de-luxe listing in the city pages (woo, woo, woo)
YEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! i'm movin' on up (movin' on up)...
in the blog world (in the blog world)...
finally got a piece of that...
***eew, pie? um... i don't want a piece o' pie, yuck. howz about***
finally got a piece of that tu-hu-hu-huuuube steeeeaaaaak!

***attention all!!! birthday plans***

***attention everyone!!!***

all are invited to my birthday "party"/gathering on saturday night! here are the deets...

where - boom! and the 90's
when - 10:30pm meet at boom! we'll take it from there as the spirit leads
why - duh, for my birthday silly
whom - everyone!!! especially you guys in iran, manhattan kansas, australia, and portugal
what to bring - $$$ to buy me drinks (no gifts allowed) i also accept cigarettes (parliament lights) as i assume i'll be running low by that evening.

***and now back to our regularly scheduled blog rantings***

sponge-suey square-chop

today was the food day at work for my birthday. note, my birthday isn't for two more days, but everyone on my team is here on thursday and not on friday, i.e., i get more treats = )

although i was mortified when i turned the corner and saw obnoxious blue streamers and balloons announcing my increase in age, i was comforted when i saw the beautiful spongebob squarepants 'happy birthday' sign stretched along my cube wall = ) how thoughtful of them to decorate with my favorite cartoon character of all time... honestly... i have prolly 10 hours of sb/sp dvds at home.

oh the love - thanx to my team = )

ooh, next blog: my birthday weekend plans!!!

vitamin c

i've eaten over 2000 mg of vitamin c today... i think i'm going to be shitting oranges tonight.

i haven't drank my daily water amount yet, only about 18 oz, which means the oranges are going to be shrivled.

i've actually been working quite hard today... those poor oranges are going to be so tough.

i have messed up men in my life - one wants to marry me but doesn't wanna have anything to do with me, another wants to marry me and takes every opportunity to jump the gun with it, another is really super cute but i'm thinking he may only be a friend, one is actually out there that i want to marry... but he's straight, oh yeah, and then there's all of the ones that fell in love with me that i never called back - i'm still waiting for them to somehow find each other on some "we hate tom" website and come to my place in the middle of the night, pour lube all over my bed, let my cat in the room so his hair gets all over the lube, and then make me lay in it while drinking tequila and listening to billy gilman *shiver* those oranges sure as hell better have vaginas.

i gotta pay bills - damn expensive oranges.

and all because i ate too much vitamin c. oh wait, this has nothing to do with vitamin c... what the fuck am i talking about...

cool sign

my wonderful friend amy just ordered this great kerry/edwards sign. you should too!

BUSY days around here, forgive me if i don't blog as much as i should.

oh, and the bday is on saturday... everyone ready???

hola

good morning my dear friends, i'm teaching the "relational database design and admin basics" class this morning. right now the class is doing some small-group research on database cardinality, how fun is that!

i just thought i should stop by and say hi.

what did i do last night you ask? well... i worked till about 6:30, got home at 7, drank two beers, ordered chinese delivery, had a smoke, ate one of those awesome blueberry pies from sa, and went to bed. yes, you heard it right... i went to bed around 10pm last night. i thought i deserved it after working almost 11 hours yesterday = )

oops, time to teach about cardinality and referential integrity!!!

*smooch*

love won out

this weekend i took a stand against the right-wing christian ideal that glbt folks, like myself, can (and should) escape this horrible life of sin and turn back to the straight godhead.

myself, and my friend nick, took our signs to arden hills, minnesota to protest the love won out conference. i donned my sign that read in big bold letters "i am a gay christian." among the 30 or so people at our peaceful protest, we were the oldest, at a mere 23 and 26. a majority of the kids came from highland park high school in saint paul... my blessings on all of you guys 10-fold.

this was a new step for me. and a scary one. i didn't know what to expect, yet i went anyway, the conviction to go woke me up that morning and i would have just died all weekend had i not stood up for my rights and beliefs.

i was touched by the support we had from random kids telling us stories of how the news of the protest went through every class on friday and that earlier in the day they had at least 2x as many protesters. i was also horrified at the amount of people who drove by and chose to flip the bird or swear obscenities out their windows at peaceful youth, bearing signs reading "i am a gay christian", "agape", and "celebrate diversity." what is it about these oh so peaceful and loving comments that scare and intimidate people to the point of being obscene.

people, it's a fucked-up world we live in if we can't even gather peacefully to celebrate our differences without being attacked.

as a gay human being it's not just my responsibility to perpetuate love in this situation... it's yours too.

stand up against hatred.

i am a gay christian

the results of my weekend todo list

drink gin - only a little

go to coffee w/ vicki - did it and had a great time!

let nick use my piano - yep, and we had a blast!

grocery shop - oops, nope, didn't get to that

smoke - finished off a pack and a half over 3 days...

pay bills - eek... must do today

drink more gin - see above

do laundry - three loads!

do dishes - two times!

drink beer - nope

clean my apartment - CONSTANTLY

meditate - a tad bit, yes

work out... nah, just go sit in the steamroom - lol, me... work out?

drink water - not really, just lots of 7up

bitch about bush - when don't i do that?

go to church - skipped it

make out w/ a hot man - yeah, right...

drink vodka at moscow on the hill - nope, but went to fhimas and nyes

sleep in - oh yeah baby = )

farmers market - nope

cure world hunger - i spread my arms and declared it over

among other things i painted my bathroom, put up these really cool new shoe racks from ikea, and ate food. how fun and relaxing of a weekend! yay!!!

my weekend todo list

drink gin

go to coffee w/ vicki

let nick use my piano

grocery shop

smoke

pay bills

drink more gin

do laundry

do dishes

drink beer

clean my apartment

meditate

work out... nah, just go sit in the steamroom

drink water

bitch about bush

go to church

make out w/ a hot man

drink vodka at moscow on the hill

sleep in

farmers market

cure world hunger

it's not too long... just a few things for me to do. come monday you'll get a full update on the sucess of my endevors = )

happy weekend everyone!

boredom

well, i'm not REALLY bored, i was just in a bored phone-meeting. so boring i ended up drawing all over my left thumbnail with a red marker. such a cool design too: it was three lines made of little dots that intersected my nail with the meeting point being in the upper right-hand corner, thus creating six unequal 'pie' pieces. i then filled every other pie piece with tiny little dots. the end result looked like a really nicely done 'bomb shelter' sign. i'm so talented = )

oh, and when i was waiting for the bus this morning i found a button stuck into the bark of a tree. 'huh, a button in a tree, how unusual' i thought to myself. when i read the button i immediately ripped it off the tree, stuffed it in pocket before anyone could see me, and the proudly attached it to my man bag... what did it say? "well, today was a total waste of makeup"

*uncontrolable gay giggling*

quote

so my friend kate just came by my desk... she was listening to al franken's radio show. some lady called in and said a great quote (of course, referringto THOSE republicans).

"ya know... if you tell a lie enough times, stupid people will believe it."

how true...

whoa

last night i went to 'recent tragic events' at the jungle theater in minneapolis. this show approaches post-9/11-ism in a way i have yet to see on stage.

opening the show we're reminded that life twists and turns on us, many times leaving us with multiple potential outcomes, i.e. "what could have happened" in a very powerful and fun way we're reminded of this constantly throughout the first act.

moving on, the show takes you on a journey through that 'day after.' you remember it, 'america under attack' is playing on the tv constantly, you're sick of it but can't bring yourself to turn it off - this theme alone is so accurately portrayed in the simplicity of a tv on stage, constantly on, and a constant soundtrack playing the events over and over throughout the entire play. it's a strange flashback that i, myself, had almost entirely blocked.

it's a show not as much about love as they may have you believe, but it's a show about people in the midwest coming together, as happenstance as it may be, on the day after a terrible awakening.

i totally recommend everyone to see it, if not to relive these events in a non-political way, but to have your eyes opened to something you already knew about yourself... but maybe hadn't yet put into words.

recent tragic events @ the jungle theater (lake & lyndale), playing september 17 - november 6

FINALLY!!!

i finished the beethovens!!!

symphony #4

symphony #6

symphony #5

to find out what the hell i'm talking about, click here

a few minutes to waste...

well, i guess it's not really wasting my minutes if i'm blogging because it's like saying i'm wasting my minutes talking to a friend. i would never consider talking to a friend a waste of my minutes, that is unless that said friend wasn't much of a friend and i didn't want to talk to them, i guess that would be a waste of my minutes. but even if i didn't want to talk to them i would still have control over how i spent my minutes and if i didn't want to talk to them that badly then i wouldn't have, so my minutes used on the not-really-a-friend wouldn't be wasted at all.

so lunch is done and i had a few minutes to spare before going back to the grindstone... i chose to spend them on you, my blog buddies. you should all feel special = )

*communal sigh*

1003!!!

my counter has officially hit 1000!!!

thank you to all of you wonderful people who have checked out my blog on an obsessive-enough basis to bring my counter over 1000 in such short time. i love you all!

ooh FUN!

i just found this kick ass site! typingtest.com allows you to take a typing test (yeah, like the ones in high school) and get immediate results on your typing. for instance, my wpm is around 80, my accuracy is around 96%.

check it out for yourself, how much fun is typing!?!?!

weeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tettegouche and my private thoughs...

what a kick ass time! not only did our campsite have quite possibly the most gorgeous view of lake superior, the company made the time absolutly perfect!

check out jessie's pics online. all 133 of mine are on a cd and since i don't have snapshot or anything like that you'll have to email me and i'll send them to you myself!

i just have to say one more thing. my final thought:

throughout the centuries life has continued to become more and more hectic, bogged down, stressful, prepackaged, and unbearable - putting each and every one of us in a place that seems confined and endless. should it be a surprise that leaving the world as we know it, not worrying about showering, doing the hair, putting on makeup, smelling pretty, or being private about all-too-human things like going to the bathroom makes us feel more relaxed and content than we've felt in years? i camp not necessarily because it's fun (though it IS a blast), but i camp because it's when i'm camping that i'm faced with endless opportunities to focus back on the most important things in my life: myself, my higher-power, the nature that brings us together, and the friends that experience it with me. i camp because it reminds me that there are more important things in life than my debt, my car, my job, my apartment, my movies, or my music. i camp because it brings me to a place where, without a doubt, i'm going to be healed. i always leave feeling refreshed and ready for life, and ready for the next time i can be revived.

good morning!

just a quick note to say hi! i've been at work now for 1.5 hours... note that i'm usually pulling in around now on a NORMAL day = )

last night proved to be quite sucessful as i completed everything i was intending on doing... and a little bit more *wink*

as i head off to tettegouche for camping, i want all of you to have a super weekend... think of me up on the north shore, around a campfire, drinking huge amounts of beer and gin, smoking way too much, and freezing my ass off. don't forget the smores! and if you think of it, ask your higher power to remove some of the lung butter from my chest, i'm getting sick of having to spit everytime i cough. sorry if i grossed any of you out = )

toodle-ooo!

can you believe it!?!?

i have worked almost a complete 8 hour day without ANY distractions taking me away from my desk! i think its quite amazing, if i may say so myself, that a self-proclaimed adult with adult a.d.d. can do this.

of course, here i am, blogging. but i though, heck, i'm only here for another 13 minutes... i can't go and ENTIRE day without slacking = )

off to camp tomorrow... tonight i need to pick up the supplies, get my oil changed, buy tons of beer, get snacks, oh yeah... cigs, do laundry, and pack. can he do it folks? yeah... i have enough time, but do i have enough money... eh?

if i don't get time to post tomorrow... everyone have a FUCKIN' SUPER weekend!!!

i'm alright... i'm allllllllright

for those of you who were getting your thongs in a bunch... i'm doing ok. the gas is gone.

*huge grin*

but my cold has officially moved into my chest, i coughed myself into a headache last night and could only go to bed to make it better. i hate coughing and i hate headaches. and i HATE lung butter... nuff said.

it's finally getting cooler outside and i'm estatically packing for my camping trip this weekend to tettegouche state park on the north shore. twill be a chilly one but will be a refreshing change from the normal city life... i can't WAIT for smores and gin and smokes and pooping in the woods!!!

fyi - no blogging from friday - sunday this week cause of the camping. i AM working till 11 on friday so i'll try my hardest to get a blog in before i go = )

*children in carpool alert*

don't eat the minnesota life cafeteria's chicken tortilla soup - sounds good... but there's only two words to describe it "gassy mess"

so i'm on the elevator after a meeting. i'm alone, so i take the opportunity to let a huge gassy fart rip through the oversized and echoey space... i impressed myself actually = )

but then the elevator stops on my floor and i get off... but my boss gets in. poor woman.

i sure as hell hope it stank like dead rats = )

whooo doggies

what a weekend... had i done any less, my ass would have combined with the couch and we would have become one being. where were all my friend you ask?

jessie - managa

nicole - chicago

joe - phoenix

bill - doing a wedding

brian - duluth

mark - duluth

dana - not calling me

so as you can see, my friday and saturday nights blew. any plans i had planned on planning got smacked in the face. my two evenings consisted of sitting on my ass at home watching movies, tv, and adult videos, drinking 7up and gin -n- juice, and smoking here and there and everywhere.

then sunday came! i called jess and mark and said "dudes, we're going out... we're gonna drink too much, dance too hard, sweat too much, and get home too late." and it was so... nye's and the 90's what a mix.

oh, and how queer is it to go to a bar w/ friends and be able to say "i slept w/ him... and him... and him... and him... and dated him... and slept w/ his ex..." how embarassingly fun!!!

and i'm FINALLY getting a haircut tonight... say good bye to the alley cat... say hello to the fox = )

*grrrrrrrrrowl*

chinky-chonk

last night was a SUPERBLAST when my bestest girlfriend, jess and i went to uptown. until last night she was a chino latino virgin... yeah, we "broke" her of that *giggle*

a blackberry mohito, passion colatta, and pot stickers later and she was hooked... although i think i hooked her the moment her drink was delivered with the biggest-ass drink umbrella ever - almost big enough to protect j-lo's ass from the rain. nah, i don't think they make umbrella's that big.

love ya kiddo = )

i think i'm going to do my b-day party there... all are invited! even you guys in portugal and india and kansas and colorado and texas and...

i'm honored

statcounter.com has provided me with the wonderful counter in my sidebar. little did i know, though, that this tiny bundle of joy would give me SO much info about my readership!!! here are a few very interesting tidbits of information that i've found out through digging in my personalized section of statcounter.com.

*** disclaimer ***
although i've got all this ROCKIN' information now, NONE of it actually shows me WHO my viewers actually are. i guess if i was a REAL nerd i could dig and find out who each and one of you are and hunt you down to give you a big ol' sloppy kiss and hug, but i digress = )

although 95% of my readership comes from the us i'm happy to announce that 2% is coming from portugal, 2% is coming from india, and 1% is undisclosed! (whoever the FUCK is reading me in india and portugal - you guys get an extra sloppy kiss!!! i'm international!!! YAY!!!)

within the states, i have readership from minnesota, kansas, colorado, nevada, texas, georgia, maryland, and new york!

50% are accessing via windows xp, 49% on windows 2000, and 1% on windows 98.

how fun is THAT!

i must say a HUGE thanks to everyone who reads my blog... whether i force you to or if you found it and decided to make it one of your new quirky homes. tell your friends i'm a crazy fag in the frozen north that says whatever's on his mind. oh! and write me! use that freakin' comment thingy... i LOVE hearing from you!!!

i'm signin' off now, but check back often!

*hugs*

i smell coffee beans...

yeah... mainly because i just spilled an entire cup of coffee all over my keyboard, mousepad, mouse, ipod, sticky notes, cords, passwords hidden under my keyboard, monitor... you name it, it has coffee on it.

that reminds me... for you grace-ites... remember dr. rushing's bible verse on the 'forbidden bean'??? something like 'thou shalt not drink of the forbidden bean.' what a heretic, the 'bean' as he calls it is one of god's most sacred creations, it brings life to all those who partake of it.

speaking of which, where the hell did that old guy go? i went to grace's website and he wasn't listed anywhere... did he leave?

talk to me!

hair

aahhhhhh!!!!! what to do about my crazy hair!?!?!?!?! i love it getting longer, and i love the way it eventually looks... but the TIME i spend trying to get it to look remotely good SUCKS! grrr... i need a haircut, i've got wings bigger than a heavy-flow maxipad.

factoid:

y'all know i'm very irritated by politics and especially this specific political race... but i also don't want my blog to become bogged down w/ politics... except for this great quote i recently put together. one part i heard from someone and the other i added myself - enjoy!

"liberals claim victory when they have caused someone to think, conservatives claim victory when they have caused someone to agree with them."

discuss...

discombobulation

the planets are discombobulated... can you feel it?

i know, myself, i feel them all messed up up there. you can feel it in your job, your personal life, your sleep, your emotions, your relationships, your everything... everything is just a smidgen off track. and i'm not the only one who feels it. just yesterday i talked to two other people who knew exactly what i was talking about before i even had the chance to explain myself.

so's i keep wondering when they'll get themselves back in line... one hour, one day, one week, oh god... i hope not another month.

anyone have any tips hints on aligning your planets? can you align your own planets and stars? i'm open to anything...

beethoven

i just started my 6TH beethoven symphony for the day! ode to joy *wink*

tom's beethoven order so far for today:

symphony #1

symphony #9

symphony #2

symphony #8

symphony #3

symphony #7 - currently listening to...

if i make it any farther i'll be sure to update this entry - stay tuned!!!

good morning...

good morning my dear, dear friends around the... well, i guess world? i wonder if i have a readership that out-spans the us. huh

so it's friday morning. friday, friday, friday. the last day of the work week, the eve of a weekend, a day for slowly coming down from the week's wonderful work mountain, the opportunity to bitch about how your week was worse than everyone elses.

i guess i can't really bitch though. my week was just another week. nothing to really boast about nor complain about, just another week.

so it's friday, i'm writing a performance appraisal today, how fun is that! i've already listened to beethoven's 1st symphony, i just started the 9th, i think i'll do the 2nd next... see how many of his works i can get through in one day!

it's a total ramble day though. nothing to say, nothing to be funny about, nothing to do. ooh! let's do a list of everything tom wants to do this weekend!

sleep

eat

go to the farmer's market

workout?

drink w/ friends

church

play with kitty

ooh! watch scarface!

wasn't that fun!? oh yeah... one more to add to the list:

finish blogging that damn vacation i took almost a month ago

sorry guys, it'll be out soon! i know you're all on the edge of your seats, but just hold on... it'll be out there soon... till then remember "everyone is someone else's weirdo" and i'm sure i'm most of yours *wink*

damn...

am I hungry! i've been eating all morning because of a food day here at work, and i ate a reasonable lunch, now the munching is on for the remains of the food day, and i'm STILL STARVING!

what's wrong with me?

i think i have worms...

last night...

oh fer fun! last night some of my girls and i went to alary's for some happy hour drinkage.

it started being just some beer and pizzas, then morphed into more beer and darts, then totally shifted into even more beers and semi-drunken golden tee.

oh fer fun when we walked in at 5 and didn't leave till after 10!!! and even better was when jess' parking garage wouldn't let us out, nic got out of the car and in a drunken' "i think i'm funny" type of way decided to force it up... cha right, keep trying. we eventually jumped the curb and snuck out where i'm sure cars are not intended to go...

and it's no wonder jess calls on her way home and says "dude... my car smells like burning... what should i do!?!?!"

wednesday morning: no hangover, not even that tired, but still wondering how i downed 7 beers, two pizzas, 1/2 a kit-kat, 1 1/2 twix, and almost a full pack o' cigs. gawd i need to go to the gym...

good morning!!!

what a fabulous morning! i went to bed early, woke up at a decent time, got my morning coffee, am working my ass off, and am actually feeling good about work and life in general today! how super cool is that???

oh, and some VERY important info from my village voice horoscope for this week:

Libra: You may think you need a teacher or genie or rescuer, but I say you don't. I say that what you need most is to realize that right now you are your own best teacher and genie and rescuer. In my astrological opinion, you should drop any fantasies you have that there's someone out there who will save you or give you what you lack or reveal the secrets that will fix everything. For the foreseeable future, you won't get what you need until you're prepared to provide it entirely by yourself.

catster

oh my GOD i'm a dork... my cat is now a member of catster...

check out gus' profile! oh and send him a message, or get your own cats on catster so they can become friends!!!

boredom

have you ever been so bored that you counted 1-100 in hex? i just did in our staff meeting.

i never thought i'd be that big of a nerd... but hindsight is always 20/20 and i realized today that being a nerd can be a ton of fun sometimes!

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161718191a1b1c1d1e1f20212223
2425262728292a2b2c2d2e2f30
3132333435363738393a3b3c3d
3e3f404142434445464748494a
4b4c4d4e4f5051525354555657
58595a5b5c5d5e5f6061626364
65666768696a6b6c6d6e6f7071
72737475767778797a7b7c7d7e7f
808182838485868788898a8b8c
8d8e8f90919293949596979899
9a9b9c9d9e9fa1a2a3a4a5a6a7a
8a9aaabacadaeafb1b2b3b4b5b
6b7b8b9babbbcbdbebfc1c2c3c
4c5c6c7c8c9cacbcccdcecfd1d2d
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eeeff1f2f3f4f5f6f7f8f9fafbfcfdfeff
100!

revelation

there are a lot of really crabby people in this world...

and crabby people suck.

case in point:
a gorgeous man gets in a fight w/ a loved one;
he complains to his friends and family and even figures out that it's not that bad of a situation;
he decides it's more fun to be crabby about it than to move on with life;
he's driving to work and his crabbiness jumps into high-gear when an 80/yr old lady realizes she needs to exit in 1/2 mile and accidentally cuts him off;
he's already crabby so he honks and gets all irritated about her and dramatically swerves into the next lane (though it's totally unnecessary, she was an entire carlengh in front of him);
in his drama-filled lane change he has an accident with an undercover cop;
the irate, gorgeous, crabby man gets verbally out of controll with the undercover cop so he arrests him for road rage;
the gorgeous man goes to jail;
he shares a cell with big-jeb, who proceeds to rape gorgeous, crabby man untill his liver is falling out of his ass;
the parametics come and as they're carting the man down the hallway his still connected liver falls off his chest on to the ground and the wheels of the guerny roll over it causing him excruciating pain and bleeding that causes him to leak every last ounce of his precious blood all over the pristine jail hallway;
he dies.

moral of the story... if you're crabby you're going to die.

don't be crabby, it's just not worth it.

canning!

so i came up with a new quote today when a friend emailed to say he hated his life:

"nothing is worth hating life for... except for maybe not having sex... but then i'd die, so i wouldn't have time to hate my life anyway."

goes hand-in-hand with my life phrase that i found written on the wall next to a urinal in a thai restaurant in minneapolis:

"the unpromiscuous life is not worth living."

*sigh*

what a weekend = )

fringe settled with nothing less than a bang - we sold an impressive 70 seats on friday afternoon and and an even more impressive 125 on sunday evening. and even more impressive, and sad, was that we had to turn away about 30-40 people on sunday evening too... to bad you can't do an extension.

as for the rest of the weekend - paradise. i went to bed no later than 10:30 on both friday and saturday. the rest of those days included the farmers market, my coffee shop multiple times, target an innumerable amount of times, lots of the olympics, 8 loads of laundry, a complete reorganization of my closet (yay!), and lots of good quality time relaxing and settling down after a crazy week.

amazingly so, the way this week is looking i'm afraid i may not get to bed any earlier than 10:30 all week and as for personal stuff at night... one word: cha! you know the planets are playing a trick on you when your weekends turn in to your only opportunity to go to bed early = )


Miss Biracial Upper Midwest final results!

saturday, 8/7 - 68

monday, 8/9 - 110

*sold out*

thursday, 8/12 - 85

friday, 8/13 - 70

sunday, 8/15 - 125

***WAY sold out!!!***

final total = 458

tom's trip part 1: the overview

for a description of tom's trip: the series click here

la la la... i sing my music too loud, i drive my car too fast, and i eat too many gummi bears. i'm on my way to omaha. and for one of the first times in a long time i'm excited for the trip - i'm going to san diego dammit!

steve is a bitch

lunch w/ my parents on thursday was fun - but i was ready to fly out of town. after getting done w/ that, steve was tired so he napped, i headed downtown for a little walk down memory lane (actually, i went to the adult bookstore, but that's a whole nother story). in my absence i guess drama broke out between steve and his ex... he called me and (yes) asked me if he could go on vacation alone. alls i could think of to say was "um... ok... but what the FUCK am i suppossed to do now!?!?!" he just said i don't know. he bought my plane ticket... he could eat it i decided.

family ties

so's i call my parents and give them the great news! i'll be seeing them again REAL soon! like in 20 minutes! dad asks what i want for dinner, comfort food you know. beer and brats - and stat! no more than 1 hour later mom and dad walk in the door, dad pops a beer open and thrusts it at me, i do the next logical thing... i go to the front porch and smoke. still bitching about steve.
i stayed w/ my parents for a few days. i was liberated! i had freedom! and i was no longer upset w/ steve... hell, he gave me a gift... an unexpected vacation that i was going to have a killer time on!

god i love hotwire

my mom is an online freak. i mean, a real freak. she almost instantly got a crazed look in her eyes when she realized i had almost an entire week to go out on vacation, she jumps on line and finds me trips to everywhere from nyc to florida to toronto to vegas. i love my mom, but by this time i had already decided that my destination would be chicago/steamworks (which i tactfully chose not to tell her) and so the searching went from looking for destinations to looking for flights and hotels. cause of my financial situation i wanted to only spend the money in my pocket - driving seemed the best bet. a stay in the burbs on saturday night and then a couple nights downtown turned out to be a really good deal! the hotels were booked, i went out w/ my sister to the bars and oogled over her gorgeous boytoys, and i went to bed toasty warm ready to leave for my next big adventure!

on the road again

saturday morning, say good bye to the parents, saturday afternoon, say hello to chicago, illinois! there i was, a mere 3 days after driving to omaha, back on the road again. it was hellish thinking of a 7 hour trip ahead of me, but then i realized that this was the beginning of something exciting and new (communial sigh). i was off to see the wizard, or at least find the wizard in me. i was going to go on vacation, forget about the snags that started the trip, and live like i've never lived before: without apology, without accountability, without anyone to answer to, and without care... the world was mine, the road was mine, and chicago... well, that was going to be mine when i got done with it = )

...

fringe update

whoo hoo for the theatre mojo fringers! and congrats on a sold out house!!!

last night's show was amazing. smooth running, tight dancing, and an audience that made all the difference in the world - this show could seriously go down as one of the top fringe shows for this year.

see the show! go to the website and review it! tell all your friends!

come see me do fog!

on a cig and a prayer...

all my friends, please forgive me in advance for my distance for the next week or so.

fringe is taking a TON of my evenings for the next 10 days.

work is crazy as i'm covering for 1/2 the team who are out on vacation or teaching for a week at at a time.

karma is nippin' me in the arse for leaving all these poor folks for a week while i went on vacation.

my only salvation is cig -n- coffee breaks and the almost constant prayers for my sanity (please god... just let me keep my sanity for just a few more days).

Miss Biracial upper Midwest

destined to be the 2004 fringe festival favorite, miss biracial upper midwest is a fantastic show about a beauty pagent in superior, wi, and all the wonderful cattiness and bitchiness that ensues. guaranteed to make you laugh at you and your own nationality, this is a MUST SEE!

not to mention that i'm crewing and know first-hand that this show kicks ass!

remaining shows:

monday, august 9th - 8:30pm

thursday, august 12th - 5:30pm

friday, august 13th - 4pm

sunday, august 15th - 7pm

all shows are at the red eye theatre, 15 west 14th street, minneapolis.

"ask me about miss biracial at the red eye!"

super yay!

sweet mary mother of jesus christ my super-duper friend, i just finished a huge project here at work!

i'm proud to say that the new "db2 advanced topics: visual explain" training will be available for all is associates to take as of this monday, august 9th!

freakin' yeah!

tom's trip: the series

in an attempt to blog my trip, i've decided to break it into four sections. this will not only categorize my trip for you, but will also allow me to continue my daily blog-rantings and randomly send out the trip posts throughout the next week = ) the series is as follows:

part 1: the overview - an overview the overall drama that made this the best vacation tom's ever taken

part 1 hilites: "steve is a bitch"; "family ties"; "god i love hotwire"; and "on the road again"

part 2: the shopping and food - a hilite of the shops and foodplaces i indulged in

part 2 hilites: "boystown"; "the magnificent mile"; "food, glorious food"; and "beatnix"

part 3: the moments i'll never forget (precious moments version) - a very hallmark, feel-good, make you sigh in contentment listing of the moments that really stick out in this trip as making it very special to me.

part 3 hilites: "the sun and moon and stars at night"; "stadiums of corn"; "fireworks across the skies"; and "ahhhhh"

part 4: the moments i'll never forget (the skank-a-dank-dank-dank version) - a no-holds-barred, skanky, slimy, oozey, goozey, melee of my most dark moments on the trip, guaranteed to bring blush to even the most perverted of my friends *evil grin*

part 4 hilites: it's all a surprise...

so there you go! let the adventures begin!!!

guess who's home!!!

yeah my friends, i'm home!

i had, quite possibly, the most fantastic vacation ever, who knew that it could have turned out so well.

but i'm at work, i have about 200 emails to go through, i have meetings all day long, and a project to wrap up. unfortunately i am not able to write much at all about the trip at this moment.

i promise to write a cubic ass-load of stuff when i get the first opportunity (maybe tonight?).

my hugs to everyone - it's good to be home. = )

Tom's doing well!

yes my friends, i'm doing well.

contrary to popular belief, i'm doing VERY well. i'm excited to spend some surprise time w/ my family, and i'll be on my way to chicago tomorrow at this time (sorry amber and jen... flights to denver are WAY too much right now, believe me, you were my first choice of destinations.)

speaking of destinations... here were my choices... and reasons for not going:

denver - jen and amber are there, but flights were too much and driving there would mean driving all the back to the cities on the way back... thats about an 15-18 hr trip just to go home... too much for me.

vegas - awe-jeah baby, but i've never been there, and a few days in vegas would be too overwhelming.

toronto - love that city, but didn't want to pay $500 for a trip deal there, too fun to go back there though!

nyc - i almost shit my pants when i thought of going back there, but alas, too much money and not nearly enough time to cover what i'd want to do.

seattle - randy and craig, but again, too late in the game.

sydney - pshaw! after the flight i'd have enough time to get a coffee in the airport and head back home again... plus, my passport is expired

chicago - it's close, i know the city better than any other city besides the cities and omaha, i can get a hotel there for $41/night, i've wanted to go there for a while alone, i love the night life, and for my "family" friends... two words: boystown and steamworks. *snicker*

so by the process of elimination (and financial introspection) chicago won. now... how long i'll be there or what i'll do there is totally up in the air... i'm a man w/ cash and vacation time... don't get in my way = )

till the next time! keep checkin in on me!

*hugs*

MAJOR change of plans my friends...

yeah... so in that ever so tom fashion, my life now has climaxed in drama.

this morning drama and crisis broke out in my friends house (the one i was going to sd w/)... long story short, through all the drama he decided he needed to go do sd alone.  quick disclaimer: steve and i are ok... the drama was with his ex.

so anyway, it's 7:33, the plane left an hour ago from omaha, steve should be landing in MY hometown any minute now... the bitch. 

so what do i do now you say???

well, i don't have to be to work till thursday of next week... i have $800 cash in my pocket... and i'm dying for a vacation. 

tonight i've decided to stay at my parent's place, right now we're making brats and drinkin' beer (i love my parents).  tomorrow they're trying to convince me to stay another night... i might, i guess i have no reason not to!  the ultimate goal is to head over to chicago now.  get a cheap hotel in the burbs, take the train in every morning, and just checkout chicago as i never have before.  sounds fun doesn't it?

i'm very disappointed that i won't be in sd this weekend, i've been estatic for this since may 7th when we got the tickets... but since i didn't bjy the ticket i'm not fretting too much - i've always wanted to be more spontaneous in my vacation plans... here's the chance for tom to have the ultimate experience in freedom - look out world... there's a possibility tom may have even more stories to tell when he gets back from THIS adventure  *evil grin*

as always... i promise i'll be safe, but i can't promise i'll be good.

i gots my celly w/ me... call me!!!

*hugs to all*

3 hours and counting...

till i head out for omaha!!!

well, the morning is over, so is the i.s. summer picnic (in which i was in the i.s. band).  now all i have to do is deal w/ this place for a few more hours and then bow out officially.

my plan is to blog from san diego a bit if i can get access to the internet from where we're staying.

until then... i PROMISE to be safe... but i won't promise i'll be good  *evil grin*

adios!

EEK!!!

tomorrow i'm going to san diego!!!!!

i can't freakin' wait - stuff has gotten so out of hand at work and in my personal life that this vacation gets more and more anticipated by the very second.

GOD i gotta leave.

side note - i hate what coffee does to my system... not pretty, but so difficult to give up.  but that's another whole blog.

Whell peoples,

3 days till i'm basking in the so-cal sun... ahhh, how did i get so lucky!?!

this weekend was fun.  the basics:

thursday - fun night w/ the straights

friday - second to last show, and an 'encounter' w/ the pianist

saturday - what the hell did i do on saturday?  oh yeah... i woke up at the pianist's house then ran off to breakfast w/ him, then went home to do lots of prep work for my vacation, then did our final show (yay!) and drank w/ my girlfriends  = )

sunday - the perfect day.  coffee at my coffee shop for a couple hours in the beautiful fall-like morning, went to work for a couple hours, finished some laundry, did some shoppin', ate w/ jess and two of her sisters, then home to do more cleaning and watching of extreme makeover: home edition (bawled like a baby too... it was the one where the kid's parents died).

so as you can see, busy, but relaxing and fun weekend.  so fulfilling and so great.

3 days!!!  god i can't wait...

***mark this date***

july 22nd, 2004... amy praught of saint paul, minnesota told me that she noticed kerry and edwards look like bert and ernie!

this is (hopefully) the first cyber-entry of it's kind on this subject - now we see how long it takes for people to pass this on and realize they look like our first favorite gay puppet couple!

kudos to amy for this great ephiphany!

p double-o p

that's what i feel like this morning...

last night was the bday party for a new friend/co-worker of mine at fahrenheit night club in minneapolis.  and what a hot time  = )  first of all, it was ladies night.  so all the gals in the group were drinking these overly phu-phu highly acidic appletinis... actually they were really good, i'm just jealous that i wasn't able to drink them for free... stupid penis.  but the plus side was guys got $3 bacardi cocktails, ooh girlfriend - yipee!

we opened the place up and had a wonderful time - then the bday gal's freakin' HOT husband bought us into the vip suite in the dance bar... a bottle of nice bubbly and shots all around later and tom had decided he was having a fun time!  oh, and a very nice (partially expensive) cigar.  i had really never partied at a 'straights' club before and i must say this was an amazing first-time experience.  hmmm, you straight people aren't so bad afterall... huh.

when it become obvious to myself that i was the only person left in the group that had to work the next morning i decided to go home (circa 1:30am).  i grabbed the two most important women in my life, amy and jess, and walked through the nice, cool, minnesota summer evening back to my car and we drove to my place.

somehow in the course of the next 45 minutes an amazing thing happened - somehow i went to the bathroom and ended up on the picnic table in the front of my building eating ketchup-only quarter pounders and a big mac w/out the mac... now note that it's 2:30am.  what a great time!  amy, jess, and i just couldn't hold our bladders, nor our hunger, so we went to my place to leak then turned right around to go to the 24hr mc-d's.  god bless 24hr mc-d's... and to think they both thought i was kidding when i said it was 24hr - *grin*

so my evening left me w/ 4 1/2 hours of sleep before waking up... it also left me with a freakin' HUGE headache... but of the $50 i went into the night with, i only spent $34.  totally those straights can really party!  and i love the rockin' moroccan!

The stunning conclusion...

what happened you ask?  well, let's just say sa has the best ham salad sandwiches around and i love starbucks doubleshots  = )

yeah... i got tired, decided it was kinder to my body and soul just to go home and go to bed... sometimes going out and partying and being a crazy boy just isn't the funnest thing to do - sometimes my pillow is much more inviting than a beer next to a cute boy.

well folks, it's a terrible day to be at work... i must leave you once again and join the craziness of mn life!

smooches to all!!!

(ooh, and 6 days till san diego!!!)

yes...

the posting time is correct... it's officially 11:21 PM central standard time.

phantom of the opera was kick-ass amazing... even for the 5th time.  but it wasn't amazing enough cause i'm back at work.

now don't think i'm doing this for sympathy though... i'm doing this to let you all in on my major dilemma... you see, i haven't eaten since lunch and i'm starved.  i'm also dry as a whistle and want a beer really bad.  there's an sa down the street and also a gay bar (trikkx). 

now do you see my dilemma?  you don't?  well let me spell it out for you in plain ol' english:

I'M HUNGRY, HORNY, AND PARCHED... THERE'S WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE... BUT IT'S ALMOST TOMORROW AND I WAS GOING TO COME IN EARLY ANYWAY.

sorry... caps lock was on  *sheepish grin*

anyway... what's a gay man to do?  i've got loyalty to my job... but i also have loyalty to my throat and stomach... oh... why me!?!?!?!?! 

ooh!  i wonder if they'd deliver a couple miller lites and a burger to 400 robert street north...

hmmm.....

Overtime... again.

yeah folks, tom's working overtime again tonight.  i guess that's what i get for getting myself into a job that requires so much of my being... but damn, overtime on an exempt salary?

exempt, for those of you who are unfamiliar w/ the term, means that i don't get paid for overtime.  supposedly the 'big bucks' they're already paying me somehow figures in that i'll be working my ass off past 40 a week occasionally during the year  *shrug*

wanna hear something funny?

well, i don't have anything funny to say... so if you're really that desperate for a funny... well... go look in the mirror.

HA!  i just made a funny!!!

301536 minutes and counting...

TILL CHRISTMAS!!!

i got totally freaked this morning when i realized that x-mas is around the corner... all morning i've been listening to my slew of christmas music on my ipod... go jesus!

My blog

lately i've gotten complaints from friends that my blog is, well, simply put - boring.  one of my favorite movies in the entire world has one of my all time favorite quotes in it... and i quote:

FUCK OFF!

he he... so funny  = ) 

but seriuosly folks, i follow quite a few blogs on a daily basis, most of them are political in nature - people venting their everyday frustrations and somehow trying to make a difference in cyberspace.  other blogs are regurgitation of a person's daily events.  others are an attempt at making people constantly laugh at the goings-on in their lives.  and yet others create blogs simply to be sure that everyone in the world has the opportunity to hear their bitching - the more the merrier i guess.

MY blog... well, i don't know what category it fits into.  MY blog is for mere purposes.  he he, mere purposes.  i crack myself up.  really though, it's one and only purpose is to combine all those things from above together!  i'm here to make myself laugh and make myself cry, and make myself proud of what i've done... MY blog is to bring you all into the personal universe i live in.

i've had many a person try to figure out what's going on in my mind, have i come up with a way to describe this universe?  HELL NO!  but i figured the best way to get you to all understand me is to simply write what's going on in my universe as it happens.

i apologize if the blog gets back-logged (he he... B-logged)... but sometimes that's what happens in my personal universe, i just get too busy or too crazy to care what's going on around me - my life then revolves around my work, my music, my cigs, my gym, and my porn... oh, and gin  = )

please don't hate me because my brain doesn't work like yours... but celebrate in my differences!

here's to many more blogs... some multiple times a day, others a couple a week... but i promise that it will ALWAYS give you wonderful (and sometimes not so wonderful) insights into my personal universe.

amen