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So I have not posted on my blog in months... it's hard man. I can't log in and they just keep ignoring my calls for help. So I'm stuck. I copied all my blogs to my hard drive and I'm just sitting waiting for the drive to start a new site somewhere else. Boo to the internet. Boo to Blogger being taken over by Google (even though I don't have anything against Google). The worst part is I don't get to write about nonsense, and trust me, there is a lot of nonsense to write about in my life. I mean I am working for Hertz (woohoo! but seriously it gets me some bucks and it will get me where I want to be by next summer), living in Chicago, the Bears are rocking, the Bulls have high hopes, and I am probably gonna start an internet show (more on that later, way later [as in months later]). Last but not least: Down with Detroit. I am a Cubs fan so I hate the Cards but they are National League so if the Cubs are out They will do. Toots.

Stop talking about Talladega Nights!! I can't take this anymore. Everybody knows that ESPN will shill anything on their network to make a buck; see Budweiser Hot Seat, Netzero inbox, Kia NBA shootaround, etc. seriously this list never ends). But they have found a new way to ruin their network for me. The not-so-subtle "product" placement. Talladega Nights has been out for like a week and a half now and every single show mentioned its release. Are you gonna go see it? doesn't it look funny? Will Ferral is a can't miss? ALL WEEK LONG!!! Considering I am unemployed I havea lot of time to kill waiting for a couple companies I've interviewed with to call me back and I spend a good deal of that time on ESPN. So I saw all of these salesmen selling Mr. Ferral. Only one person on the whole network didn't sound excited to see the show and he sounded so unexcited that he sounded disgusted to be talking abuot it. Come Monday after the release, his tune had completely

That was a Saturday. Lunch at an Algerian Creperie, Hit the Lincoln Park Zoo (so much cooler than I remember), checked out the Bicycle Film Festival (pretty damn cool), and finally hit a trendy pizza place back up by the zoo called "Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Company." Shall I break down each? No? Well too bad, it's my blog and you will read every damn word I have to say! (thank you adam sandler). So Algerian's know how to make crepes. Considering Marieta and I had mapped out the Zoo and Film Fest as our day plan we had yet to decide on what to do for yums. We found a few buzzed restaurants: The Crepe and Coffee Palace and The Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Company, both in Lincoln Park. So lunch was the Crepe shop: Crepe and Coffee Palace Yeah so if those pictures don't tell you much know that this place was very unique. The atmosphere was a hole in the wall decorated with Algerian maps and ornamental lamps and art. Very cool. You never think

So guess what? I'm back in the music writing game. It's not exactly rock n roll. It's more like Electronica but there is live bass and keys so... I'm gonna call it Rocktronica. Yeah I like that. That way I can still laugh at ravers and keep my love for rock n roll. Oh you want to check it out you say? No problem. Dissident I am pretty excited about it. There are three songs on there. Came up with them all in under a week. Thank you very much! Well "Figure it Out" isn't exactly finished and I still want to add a few accent parts to them but, generally, they are good to go. And I don't mean like Taco Bell. I hate Taco Bell. Later tators.

Prologue Before I begin this story let me qualify a few things: A) This story is about a Vacation company (selling condo vacation packages) that Marieta won a couple gifts from. B) Marieta and I are not vacationing in Condos people. C) We don't have any money to spend on future vacations right now. Okay now you're prepared to read the most ridiculous story ever told. The Most Ridiculous Story Ever Told!! About a month ago Marieta and I attended The "Taste Of Randolph" one of the billion festivals in Chicagoland. There was free food, raffle drawings to enter, all sorts of craziness, and chefs showing off their skills. One of the raffles we entered was through a travel agency called "Sundance Vacations." There was the possibility to win an Infinity among other prizes. No obligation, why wouldn't we enter the raffle? Last week, having forgotten completely about that car and raffle, Marieta got a voicemail from Sundance saying roughly "Hi Marieta, this

So remember when I said I was gonna start a recording studio with Charlie? Well you can scratch that. The story goes as the money situation shifted from HERE!!! to here. we started seeing things differently. I was gonna run the videography aspect and he was gonna be the audio man with some cross over. Well as we started doing our friendship rolled along and our business plan started to develop things just started turning into something I didn't enjoy. I won't bore you with details let's just say we aren't very similar people personally, we can't afford the risk the other wants us to take, and we don't see eye to eye professionally. Just thought you would like to know what is up with me in that department because I haven't said a peep about it in a while. Okay there are pictures and a bunch of other mess from Matt and Bethany's visit but it's too late for all of that so I'll leave it for tomorrow. Okay? Love you. Later. PS Sunny Bono wrote "

Seriously, two weeks without me updating this thing? What am I employed? I WISH! Soooooooo, what's up? Well I'll tell you. I went to that Sox game with Hannah and Marty on a Sunday way back in the day (3 weeks ago), a week after that Marieta and I went to the closer of the Cross Town Classic at Wrigley Field. The Cubs walloped the Sox (it took fifteen runs and a scary top 9th, but at least they won). And this past Sunday I went to the longest game of the season. BoSox vs. ChiSox. I would have stayed the entire time but good lord it was the hottest day of the summer in my opinion so we hit the road after sweating out 8 innings. It was unbearable in the sun. It's funny because we could have seen 2.1 games worth of ball if we had stuck around. Of course another thing to say is that I am not a Sox fan so it wasn't as fun as a Cubs game... But it was still a good time. What else? The Taste of Chicago, my parents visiting, and still working on the Studio. The Taste was AH-SUM

Seriously, two weeks without me updating this thing? What am I employed? I WISH! Soooooooo, what's up? Well I'll tell you. I went to that Sox game with Hannah and Marty on a Sunday way back in the day (3 weeks ago), a week after that Marieta and I went to the closer of the Cross Town Classic at Wrigley Field. The Cubs walloped the Sox (it took fifteen runs and a scary top 9th, but at least they won). And this past Sunday I went to the longest game of the season. BoSox vs. ChiSox. I would have stayed the entire time but good lord it was the hottest day of the summer in my opinion so we hit the road after sweating out 8 innings. It was unbearable in the sun. It's funny because we could have seen 2.1 games worth of ball if we had stuck around. Of course another thing to say is that I am not a Sox fan so it wasn't as fun as a Cubs game... But it was still a good time. What else? The Taste of Chicago, my parents visiting, and still working on the Studio. The Taste was AH-SUM

Turn on your tube and check me out. I'm going to the closer of the cubs-sox series. wanna see what I'm seeing? Well than go here and check it out. . Hopefully Carlos can hurl us a win.

BECAUSE I'M GOING TO THE CUBS-SOX CROSS CITY CLASSIC SERIES FINALE!!! Yesterday the Cubs and Sox battled and the Sox barely made it out with a win. Well today it is horse vs. horse. Zambrano vs. Buerhle. I am so excited. Wanna see where we are sitting? So that red dot represents where we are sitting and this picture here is what we see. Actually it is better than that because we are in front of the poll. So yeah I'm excited. Look for me on Tv. If you are watching the game. I will be the guy where the cubs hat and jersey. Love you guys. Later. Ps. Don't see Superman Returns. They make Superman out to be this gullible fool who wouldn't guard his fortress or check in on Lex Luther after being gone for five years. Come on people, he's smarter than that. HE'S SUPERMAN!

For some reason I feel this show go here. 5 o'clock I am meeting up with Hannah to trek down to the show side to watch the sox sweep the Astros. I told her I wouldn't wear a cubs shirt but I just can't do that. So to make her feel better I am gonna wear my jacket with the cubshirt underneath. I mean a true sports fan can't give in because of pressure. Right? Well that's how I see it. I don't want to ruin her evening by getting jeered all evening so I'll keep it under wraps. I don't hate the sox I am just a cubs fan. I would wear a Joe Crede jersey (I lvoe that guy) but alas I don't own one. I would get a Jacque Jones (cubs) jersey but I don't think he is gonna be around long enough to warrant owning it. Allright well that's the story with that. . I like this set up prehappenings I can blog here but to get the taste of the goings on you gotta hit up blogspot. Nice. Well I'll tell show you pics and what not later. Love you homies.

This will make your weekend And in other news the Studio is incorporated and today I go to get the Tax ID. Hooray for Friday.

Okay I love Dwayne Wade. I have mentioned that here before so there is no need to get into that nonsense. Now I just read the ESPN.com breakdown of is it a Wade World? Why did the Mavs lose? Should Shaq and Riles call it a day? Woudl the Heat win if they started the series over? The answers were pretty boring except for the last question. Everyone was saying the Heat would win without a doubt. Most of the comments were saying a Heat Sweep. The final comment said "Heat in four. Who would ever doubt these guys?" I like that comment and it got me to thinking. What finals winners could beat the heat. I mean they have two amazing pieces. A unstoppable Dwayne Wade (clutch as hell and can drive and dish like a monster). So who could beat them. I am only go on the modern NBA so we'll say From Magic Johnson on. I think there are only a few teams I see beating the heat. Probably the 80 Lakers, 86 Celtics, 96 Bulls, and possibly the 99 Spurs and 00 Lakers. These teams are match up

Yeah... Marieta and I nailed a deer last night on our way back to Oak Park. We were just outside of Davneport and a deer came out of thick tail green grass on the side of highway. Out of nowhere! WAM! Thank God it was only a small doe other wise we would be dead on side of the highway. We didn't get to Oak Park until 1145. The car is currently in moline at a toyota body shop to get an estimate. Thank goodness for AAA and Enterprise otherwise we wouldn't have gotten home. By the way if you're looking for a cheap car that rides real comfortable, spacious, and quiet than consider the Chevy Cobalt (our rent-a-car). In other news... I think my silver sleigh might have seen it's last drive through the streets of the windy city. Hey, atleast the weekend was a lot of fun otherwise.

All right dudes. Last night Marieta and I went down to the Chicago Blues Fest. We were supposed to go with my bud Charlie and his wife but they decided the train ride and dinner would be too much coin for them to handle so we swung it by ourselves. It was a pretty fun deal. Marieta and I got chicago dogs, we watched a group on the main stage, and walked around to take it all in. I would say more but I don't really feel like it. If you want to see pics check out this link. Chicago Bluesfest Well that's it buddies, now if you excuse me the world cup is on TV, I have yet to take a shower today, and I'm leaving for Iowa in a couple hours. PEACE!

So you want to know a secret? Okay, but don't tell anyone. I am starting a Recording/Videography studio. That's right. My new buddy Charlie and I are going into business together. We both started at Sam Ash at the same time and quit at roughly the same time. What pushed us over the edge? The idea of going into business together in this idea. Here's the skinny. I want to open a recording studio with Videography as a big part of it (you know music videos, studio videos, and all sorts of video production for customers), but I am learning quite a bit about recording. Charlie just moved here from Milwaukee with his wife and wants to reopen his studio down here. So we talked it all over and decided that we should get a space and go into business together. Well maybe you think we just met and we shouldn't go into business together. I mean maybe he's a con man or doesn't know anything about recording. Well, no that's not the case. I met his wife, been to his house,

You need to seeThe Break Up. As far as I am concerned Vince Vaughn is leaving quite a comic legacy. His career may have started with Swingers but his real climb to the comic mountain top started with Old School, than Wedding Crashers, and he is close to the summit with The Break Up. I loved this movie. It had big laughs, great plot points, great side characters, and a great ending that you don't see coming. Awesome. Check it out. Now maybe you're a punk who reads reviews from so called professionals and to you people I say don't listen to them. The complaints being heard are the main characters (Vaughn and Anniston) don't have good chemistry and don't appear to be people truly in love. That is funny because the chemistry is gone in their characters relationship and they may still love each other but Gary (Vaughn) has completely lost sight of Brook (Anniston) as someone to cherish and value, while Brook is tired pulling the weight in the relationship. The problem wit

Grey's Anatomy is awful. I used to like it but I can't get over it's repetition and clickéé. First off ABC loves the voice over crap. They love to tell us these little morals and riddles that make the episode just a little cuter. Stab me in the eye with a shoe horn. Come on every show in the world is using voice over now and Grey's Anatomy was not the first. Desperate Housewives and Scrubs (and Grey's Anatomy steals a lot from Scrubs). Another issue I have is their musical interlude. 90% of the episodes have this heartfelt song play at about 40 minutes into the broadcast and it ties all the characters emotions together under onemelancholyy song. Horrible. It happens all the time. I can't take it. AND THE CRAP THEY DO IN THE HOSPITAL! People screwing all over the place. All the relationship talk/friends drama being talked about in front of patients, and cutting peoples cords so they get sick. Never in the world would she do that and if she did they would kick he

Before I go on let me warn you, I give some spoilers to X Men the last stand in this entry so if you want to read this monkey maybe you should wait till after you check out X Men: The Last Stand. All right, with that said... X Men: The Last Stand was great, but also infuriating. The following people die: Professor X, Cyclops, Jean Grey, and supposedly Rogue, Magneto, and Mystique lose their powers (albeit not permenantly.) These are all things that the comic nerd in me hates. Magneto is too power and cool a character to ruin him... but than again Prof X did brain wash him in Ultimate Xmen so it's not too far off. Luckily we see at the last second of the film that Magneto still has some power in him (so he'll probably recoup it all) and Xavier magically appeared in Moira McTaggert's patient. So I have developed a theory. Just like how comics taken several writers version of comic universes to make a million different comics I think these movies are someone's interpretat

Okay so we went to Beer on the Pier: Beer Fest 2 yesterday. It was awesome. It was advertized as having more than 150 beers to sample and boy oh boy there were definitely 150+ beers. Without further ado here is the 11 point scale ranking: 10=Oh my God amazing 5= I am completely indifferent to this 0= Get out of my way I am about to vomit !!The Beers!! Pete's Rally Cap Ale- P7 M8 Wicked Strawberry Blonde- P6 M5 Moosehead - P2 M5 Pete's Wicked Ale- P5 M6 Shiner Bock- P5 M4 Sapparo P0 M0 Berghoff Red Ale- P6 M5 Summer Solstice Wheat- P3 M0 Lager - P2 M0 Podkovan Dark-

Just bopping by to show this (which I nabbed from ESPN.com): About how great Oscar Robertson was: "We hear about "The Big O" averaging a triple-double for one season (1961-62), but he actually averaged a triple-double over the first five seasons of his career (1960-65) when the games are strung together. In those 384 games, he averaged an astounding 30.3 points, 10.6 assists and 10.4 rebounds. " Holy frigging crap, a triple double over three seasons? That is amazing. He was ahead of his time. Truly underappreciated. Two bad he was a jackass in the locker room. About how great Magic Johnson was: "Given his age (a rookie at age 20), the stakes (NBA Finals), the opponent (Dr. J and the 76ers) and the fact that he moved to center to replace injured legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic's 42-point, 15-rebound, 7-assist, 3-steal effort in the title-clinching Game 6 of the 1980 NBA Finals was probably the best individual performance of all time. It could be argued tha

I would be watching the Heat destroy the Nets right now but I can only take in so much destruction and considering the Heat opened the second half with an Alley Oop I think there isn't gonna be a lot of change in the game for a while. Have you watched any of the playoffs? Good stuff this year. Really compelling. I love sweep series and everything but these series are drama filled. Too bad the Bulls couldn't pull it out... I wonder if they would have given the Nets a series as well. Probably, I mean their defense is pretty blinding. Dude, as the game returned from commercial TNT was playing the Blink 182 cover of Dancing With MySelf by David Bowie. Don't get me wrong I love that song and Blink will always hold a special place in my heart (espcially their early stuff), but that song did not fit and sounded like horse crap. This can only mean that the guy running the sound in the TNT prod truck is cool and I should be his friend. Today I found out I will be a Sam Ash Live Sou

So I finally got everything I own out of Iowa... I think. Alex has a couple of my drum things but otherwise I have it all. My apartment in Ames is empty. Kind of nuts. All done with ISU and Ames. The weekend otherwise? Great. Stayed at Jordan's, watched the Clips beat the Wiz (damn you Gilbert Arenas), played some video games, golfed, watched the Lakers get raped by the Suns, cooked out. It was great. Jordan had to work all Saturday so Marieta hung with Bethany while I got my junk out of Ames. We got back together Saturday evening and went to this new Des Moines bar called EL Bait Shop . Really cool place. It had like 80 taps of crazy beers. Here are the taps and the beers I tried: !!!THE TAPS!!! (two pics poorly put together) Now I don't know what you think but this wall is pretty impressive. Marieta and Bethany told stories about places they've been where the wall was as big or bigger. Seems pretty crazy. Only dissapointing part here were a lot of the beers I had heard of

Hey boys and babes, I am rollin in Iowa this weekend. Seeing Jordan and getting the left overs from my apartment (my bikes, amp, a couple other pieces of crap). I would be out doing something right now but I am waiting for Marieta and Bethany to get their act together. You know ladies, gotta make sure they look all lovely and what not. Watched Mr. Mom this morning. That movie rocks. I love Michael Keaton. He is one of my top 5 favorite actors of all time. Couple Days ago Batman Returns was on TV, Today Mr. Mom. You know what movie is great but they never show because it is kind of depressing? My Life. I love that film. In other news I am writing this on JOrdan's laptop. I hacked into it... I'm that sweet. Actually I just remembered all of his passwords from when we lived together. Anyways I changed his background from Darth Vader to this: Admit it, that is funny. In other hamster related news I want to go to Second City comedy school in chicago. check it out http://www.secondci

How can I resist... God Poison hits the spot at 5.25am. That's right, I am up way too early, I am shattering far too many Unemployed stereotypes right now. NO! I didn't stay up all I night. I woke up and couldn't get back to sleep. Just thought I would post SOMETHING here because I haven't since the superbowl. I really wanted the seahawks to win but knew they wouldn't, oh well, it's only a game. I have to say I read a lot of bullshit on myspace. People pontificating about utter crap. I mean I may pontificate but at least it's about quasi meaningless crap like movies, music, and sports. Get off your pony. Hail Satan.

The clock currently reads 5.08 and I am up. I woke up at 3 and couldn't fall back asleep. Got out of bed at 4 and I have been dancing around strangetalk since. I have been re-reading my old posts. Is it good to be nostalgic (sp?) at 5am. I mean it just makes it worse. You are up way too early, you are way too sentimental, and have no one to talk to. That really sucks. I used to post a lot about Eight Miles Out. I miss my band. Reading those posts I can just see a dumb kid who loves his band and pretty much loves rocking out. God I wish I was in a band. Maybe I should try and start one here... Oh by the way, I haven't found a "career" job yet but I am most likely going to be working at Sam Ash (2nd biggest guitar store chain) on Monday. I should make some good money off that. It also seems almost criminal to be working in a guitar store and not be in a band. Illinois, Illinois... I wish someone would give me a job. As far as I can tell the most powerful people on the p

I now live in Oak Park, 9 miles from downtown chicago, 10 feet from the city limit, and all is well with the world. Well I guess I am still unemployed and our apartment is kind of a mess but damn it all can still be well. Right? So Marieta has been sick the entire time we've been here and we haven't gone to the city yet but the world is still well and all. Who cares that we haven't found our doughnut shop or pizza place yet but it's still kosher up in this mug. I promise to have some pictures of our place up in this mother before too long. I just need to get my crap straightened out and find my digicam. Keep it crazy, P@.

.I can't help but think that last night was one of the best basketball games I have ever seen. The Wizards owned the game most of the way but the fourth quarter who showed up? Ben Gordon. If you don't know who Ben Gordon is just know he is the Bulls fourth quarter assassin. The man was 9 for 9 with three pointers last night. He had 32 points. That means only 5 of his points were not three pointers. It was amazing. Gilbert Arenas (the cocky bitch who practically is the Wizards) was destroying the court up until the fourth quarter where he didn't even take a shot. Just beautiful. The Bulls won it on Gordon three with a minute left and Nocioni taking a charge. Those two guys are indespensible. The only downside of the game? Bill Walton was the color commentary guy. I hate that fool. Not only does he bring up UCLA at the drop of a hat but comments like "Scott Skiles must be seriously worried, his team needs a time out," with the game only two minutes in and the wizar

I need this poster and I need to go to this. I am freaking out man! Today I am pretty much all packed up minus my computer and clothes. So what do I have to do besides look for cool things to do in Chicago and man have I found some. I have found several websites that are rocking with cool things to do. Besides concerts, cuisine and cubs games there are a billion things going on. Check this site out: Chicago Latin Film Festival. Is that one of the coolest things ever? I am a sucker film festivals. Hell! I'm a sucker for festivals of any sort. All right, I have only really started to look for cool crap to do but the choices are endless. I love chicago. I only wish I could go to the final regular season game of the bulls. Oh well, I'll go to the home opener next year! Everything is rocking, changed my addresses on bills and what not, set up utilities, eating the steaks we got for free from valentines day. Everything is rokken like dokken. WALOOO!

So most, if not everyone knows; I am moving to Chicago. Come April 20th I will officially be a Illinois resident. Well I guess it's not official till I get my drivers license but... it is pretty exciting. God you have got to see are new apartment. I only have a couple pictures. I didn't take pictures of the inside only videos. Here is the building from the street (the street that is the Chicago City Limit): It's a Vintage Building. I love vintage buildings/apartments. Marieta does not but the apartment was a perfect mix of vintage and modern. The modern part is the kitchen. The landlord, Don, recently redid the kitchens of each place and they are awesome. Here are some pictures put together in a collage. We borrowed this collage thing from this place that set us up with the apartment: Okay so this picture thing shows that the apartment is kind of nice but it doesn't show you how big it is. Here is a floorplan that I made the other night. It isn't exact but it is ext

For all you people who say the first round is great because of all the upsets, you must not watch any basketball all year. What teams went down in the first round that were "locks" to advance. I mean Kansas was young, Syracuse underachieved all years, Iowa is a perrenial up and downer, and Oklahoma was luckily hobbled their way through 4 straight one point wins at the end of their regular season. So NO!!! The first round is where we learn that some of the big schools are pretenders and teams like Bradley and George Mason aren't given their credit. College basketball regular season is solid across the board. Teams are scouted and destroyed all year long. If Bradley played Duke year in and out they would have a competitive record with them no matter what blue chips duke gets. All right, so why is the third round the best? Because in the third round we get to see monster combat. LSU was rollin, Duke was hitting every bump in the road, WVU was rolling, Texas was rolling fast

For all you people who say the first round is great because of all the upsets, you must not watch any basketball all year. What teams went down in the first round that were "locks" to advance. I mean Kansas was young, Syracuse underachieved all years, Iowa is a perrenial up and downer, and Oklahoma was luckily hobbled their way through 4 straight one point wins at the end of their regular season. So NO!!! The first round is where we learn that some of the big schools are pretenders and teams like Bradley and George Mason aren't given their credit. College basketball regular season is solid across the board. Teams are scouted and destroyed all year long. If Bradley played Duke year in and out they would have a competitive record with them no matter what blue chips duke gets. All right, so why is the third round the best? Because in the third round we get to see monster combat. If you saw West Virginia vs. Texas last night you know what that game was all about. A three poi

First off: I ran 10 miles on Monday. To me that's a pretty big deal. Before a couple weeks ago 4 miles was my ceiling now I'm close to my June goal of the dam to dam 20k race. I'm running it man. Think I'm crazy, all right I might be but I'm doing it. I am only 2.4 miles away from the distance of the Dam to Dam. I am gonna run another 10 tonight, so eat it. Second: my computer has been in the tank for a little while and the repair guys came out, tried their best but could get it to work. Today they said my computer must have been retarded or something. Well I was drinking the Kool Aid for a while but I refused to give up on this puppy who has been my best friend for the last 5 years. So I DLed the windows service pack 2 and a couple of other goodies. Voila! My computer is up and running. I am a genius. I can go the distance and I can repair a computer left for dead by gurus. Third: I have applied for 4 jobs this week. I am awesome! Now if only I had a job this would

Dude, I ran 7.5 miles tonight. I think I could have done another time through my course and worked it up to 10 solid miles... that is my next goal. 10 Miles! That is more than a 15k. A year ago I was so proud when I ran a 5k for the first time. Hells yeah. I am goin to get this marathon bidness down. I averaged 8.5 minutes per mile tonight. Good lord... I am freaking toast right now. I would go to sleep but I don't want to sleep until something crazy like 4am and wake up for good. This weekend I am a loner. With Marieta gone to Minneapolis to vist her friend Sarah and nobody in town hang with I have nothing going down all weekend. I would be going to the Mini Apple as well but Corey was busy with shit all weekend so we're gonna hold off on our reunion for a while. Maybe the Frozen Four or the Final Four. Okay... This kids gotta collapse on the couch. Love you monkies

Do you know me? What is my favorite food? (Chicken Fingers) Who is my favorite Restraunt? (Cheddars, primarially for their mind blowing chicken fingers). Well if you ever go out to eat with me chances are I am ordering chicken fingers unless I am at a formal restraunt or somewhere known for a certain dish. NOW! tonight is interesting. I was gonna just eat a turkey sandwich but then I remembered that I had some chicken just chilling out in the fridge needing to be cooked tonight. I wasn't very into it (mainly because I was worried I was going to spend a lot of time for not a lot of tastiness). I couldn't have been more wrong. I took my chicken fingers and dregged in flower, egg, a secret mix of spices, wrapped each in square of mozzarella cheese, toothpicked em shut, and shoved them in the oven. In 12 minutes the kitchen smelled like heaven. Holy jibblets, I'm not sure if it was the mozzarella, the secret spice mix, the buffalo dipping sauce, or the hunger induced from runni

So you may be asking yourself: what is with this big green chair and a half? Well I'll tell you. This past Tuesday (2/28), Marieta and I were bored so we got something to eat and than we went to Pier 1 for some fun. The store was wicker crazy so we left and than I just decided: hey we're out, we're not spending money but we are having fun faux shopping so let's keep this gravy train rolling. NOTE! I AM NOT BUYING ANYTHIGN BECAUSEE I DONT HAVE ANY MONEY!!! THIS IS JUST FOR FUN! Which brings us to Homemakers. Marieta and I just decided let's pick out our favorite in each area (i.e. which we want to buy for our place). Well here it is Chair and a half/Ottoman are the coolest thing on the planet. Marieta and I can sit in this chair and not touch each other. It is huge, deep, comfy. Everything I need in a piece of furniture I love. This is the first buy we make when we move in together and need some furniture. Here is the couch that goes along with the Chair and a half.

I ran five miles today for the first time. hooray for me! No but seriously that was the first time ever. I have devised a perfect track that is a giant circle with two big hills and each circle is 2.5 miles. Tomorrow I am trying for 7.5 miles. I have a new goal and it is to run the Des Moines Marathon this coming fall. That's 26 miles. I will run it in under four hours. That allows for just around 9 minutes per mile. Hell yes. I am excited.

I don't know what is more exciting a new professional Lacrosse team moving to chicago in 2007 or the fact that Samuel L. Jackson just signed to play on a movie with out reading the script. Wait till you hear the movies title: From IMDB.com: Pulp Fiction star Samuel L. Jackson was so amused by the title of new movie Snakes On A Plane , he signed up without reading the script. The movie features an assassin who intends to kill a passenger on a flight by releasing a batch of deadly snakes. Jackson explains, "I didn't even read the script - I just saw the title, 'Snakes on a Plane' and said 'Ok, good. I'm there.' You have got to love that. That's exactly what it is - 500 poisonous snakes released on a flight from Hawaii to Los Angeles. They are (set free) on a time release half-way there, so we can't go back, we've got to keep going. It's fun!" Now that's pretty funny if you ask me. I mean no longer is there a question about my Sa

So this is funny. Not only does it make fun of the stupidest sport out there (fishing). Don't get me wrong I love fishing while camping or actually eating the fish but not that throwing it back crap. That's cruel and unusual punishment. That would be like doing a walk by stabbing in a crowded club. Also, I don't know if you kids are watching the food network these days but sometimes on Iron Chef America they have live sea creatures as the secret ingredient. Now if you're any sort of normal person you squirm and cring when you see the chefs bash the hell out of live crabs or that a giant clever to the chest of a crawfish. It's just gross (and disgustly fun). Now this brings up another question. Can a vegetarian eat fish? I am changing my vote to no. I pretended to be a vegetarian for a year but after changing this vote I realize that I was trying my hardest but the fish negated the effort. I mean come on it's an animal and chef's around the world call the par

So somebody won the biggest Powerball Jackpot ever last night. The jackpot was set at 350 some million dollars. If you haven't guessed... it wasn't me. But heck if I didn't dream about what I would do with half of that (half because taxes drag you over the coals and leave you with half of your winnings). But 175 million is nice, nice nice. So Marieta and I were having lunch and my old dream of having my own abandoned factory came back to me. Okay so you've seen Wayne's World II right? Well for those of you who have yet to see it (shame on you), Wayne and Garth move into an abandoned Acme Doll factory. It is freaking cool; four or five floors, brick walls, wood floors, several kick ass rooms, and of course a bat pole. This is my dream house (after a few adjustments). So I was telling Marieta all about my dream house and added some of my other dreams to list since I am a multimillionaire in this powerball jackpot dream. So you want to know my adjustments? No prob. But