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

ouch

i bit my lip...
 
damn lip.

9 days and counting...

till i'm off to san diego!!!  i'm freakin' busy right now working on a project here at work, but it all ends around the time i leave for so-cal... so i'm totally stoked!!!
 
good weekend - filled with wonderful times w/ friends, fags, alcohol, singin', and cigs.  what a perfect weekend!
 
oh, and i went to the new ikea store.  i said i wouldn't go for a few months to aviod the craziness... but this silly fag only made it a mere five days.  i'm too gay for my own good sometimes.  but GOY is is fabu!  so much traffic that the offramp was jammed, cranky suburbanite cops directing traffic, and all these people who'd never been to an ikea before going ape shit over it.  PUH-leeze... where do these people come from?  i've been a cult follower of ikea for years and have travelled the continent to simply touch as many stores as i could.  but i admit i squeeled when i stepped in the store, i felt like mecca had come to me, one less pillar to fulfill  =) 
 
but the tourists, traffic, suburbanites, and moa crap was too much to handle.  my friends and i practically ran back to our car to get out of suburbia as fast as fuckin' possible before it started turning us into androids... ahhh, thank GOD for urban centers.

...

and now i have the jitters... i guess there is such a thing as too much of said thing..... nah  = )
 
thank god i have my quiet sign up... i could only imagine what i'd be like to talk to right now.

Here I goooooooooo

i'm on my 3rd coffee of the day, i have my "quiet time" sign up at my desk, i have my headphones on pumping mahler into my poor quivering ear drums, and i'm ready to work...
 
watch out world... tom's on the loose!!!

Go figure!

so last night i get home, watch some tv, eat some food, then go to the gym.  i go to bed earlier than normal and don't drink a drop of alcohol or even have a cig before going to bed. 
 
what happens?
 
i wake up this morning feeling like SHIT!  getting out of bed was harder than ever, i had a headache, and i desired coffee at a level i haven't experienced since college.
 
what have i learned from this experience? 
 
god intended for me to get fat, booze it up, and smoke my way to oblivian.
 
discuss...

ok Ok OK!

people are griping... "you're not blogging enough... boo hoo... whine whine..."

well excuuuuuuuuuuuuse me! maybe some people aren't working hard enough... huh!?!?

so anyway... there's not much to talk about. work is a bitch, my sister leaves for china tomorrow morning for 5 weeks, mom and dad are coming down tonight to take her to the airport and say good bye, and i'm looking at buying a house. so there... my life.

and now i've blogged, you may put away your kleenex.

*yawn*

what a weekend! i can confidently say that this weekend was the most relaxing weekend i've had in MONTHS! what did i do you ask???

friday - show and then a trashy drink at a trashy tgi fridays in a trashy suburb (ich, never again will i do a friday in a burb, *shiver*)

saturday - breaksfast w/ queens, rode the ltr from dt to fs, r -n- r on my couch, thy gym, then off to do another show - much drinking followed at the king and i thai

sunday - church (and thank GOD i went... i was acolyting!), arby's, more couch time, then a wonderful beer bust at the eagle resulting in fabulous fireworks over nicolett island... then the 19... exhaustion settled in early that night

monday - woke up, drank coffee, did a clean job on my apartemnt that may only be rivaled by an enema... in 3 rooms alone i spent 4 hours cleaning and throwing away 4 garbage bags full of unnecessary crap! yay... i'm on my way to a cleaner, simpler life!

monday afternoon was perfect, overcast, cool, breezy, and so i went to target then the coffee shop. i sat outside for a few hours reading and reading and reading, it was so nice. i gave a bum a cig and a couple the table i was using, i was like a freaking new agey guy giving so much away!

ok... more to come, must go to a meeting w/ the boss!

Voting time!!!

ok friends and foes... i'm dying to get a piercing, i know what you're thinking 'don't you have enough' and the answer is 'NO'. god didn't put enought holes in my body, thus i must step in, along w/ st. sabrina = ) i know you're also thinking 'does he have enough money... he's always bitching about money' and the answer is a resounding 'NO'. but god didn't put enough holes in my body, thus i must step in, no matter the cost or price of pain.

some people claim god gave them the wrong sex, all i'm saying is i'm not holy enough.

voting time!!! [updated voting results are in brackets]

1) prince albert
2) barbell through the upper ear
3) surface piercing on my nape (back of neck) or right wrist
[4) tongue piercing]
[5) no piercing, needles don't belong down there... get another tatoo or dye your hair again]

Vote my friends... vote!!!

The Grandest Apologies...

yeah, so i get all my friends to be nosy on my life by reading my blog on a semi-daily basis and then i neglect to put in entries... i'll be lucky if i ever have a following again = )

excuse #1 - i'm fuckin' crazy at work. i teach and teach and teach all freakin' day long and then when i DO get back to my desk, i'm explaining to people how to do stuff that i just taught them (i'm sick of people surfing and checkin' email instead of listening in my classes) dammit!

excuse #2 - i don't have an internet connection at home... screw aol and any other isp out there, i'm not paying you ANYthing.

excuse #3 - there's no way in HELL i'm coming back into work post 5pm simply to put blog postings out there to please my friends... i'll buy you a drink at 5-8 instead *grin*

ok... now that i got that off my chest i can go back to work... i promise more blogs in the future!!!

*smooches*