"Mazel Tov" written by Mike on estrip.org

06/19/07 07:08 - 71ºF - ID#39735

Mazel Tov

I went to my first ever like orthodoxish Jewish Wedding on Sunday. it was fun and interesting for many reasons..but oh so incredibly long. Like it started at 4:30 and at 12:30 when we left it was still like going in and like there were still ceremony parts left, like they had just cut the cake. it was crazy> no wonder we haven't seen Yosepha in like a year cuz she has been planning. If planning a normal wedding is so much work, this one must have been insane. There were seriuosly like 85-92 different cermenonies within the cermony and it included liek 12 different rooms/ballrooms of the hotel. It was quite crazy. I will possibly write about it, cuz there is much to write about like her spicy grandma from israel dancing with the henna and the throne that Yosepha sits on at the beginning. Those are stories for another time and place....

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06/16/07 11:35 - 73ºF - ID#39690

Frank The Tank

I love my car , Frank, which was my uncle who I got it from's name but it was named more for Frank Sinatra because it tried to seduce (e:jill) the first time she got in it by the seat just falling back and landing her in a laying down position right away. It got the tank name because everytime I have been hit/hit something my car is like barely damaged and everything else is a wreck. Like when I once ripped of the sideview mirror and part of a person's car, Frank just had one little spot of black paint on the side mirror, otherwise you would never know it happened. I feel very secure in my tank. The other day a man in the car next to me in a parking lot just repeatedly bascially slammed his car door into mine. Any damage? Nope!

Anywho this post is not about who Frank was but who Frank is becoming. He is about to die I think. He has been heating up a lot, I think he is leaking oil, and now the check engine light is on. I don't relaly want to spend any more money getting him repaired because he has a ot of issues so I am better off at this point getting a newer car. I am so afraid of that though, I have always gotten my cars for like 500 dolars from old ladies we know who don't drive anymore or like someone getting a new car. I never actually had to like sit down and think about what I wanted and go and look for it. It is very terrifying and I have been postponing it as much as possible. I can't wait any longer I guess. .....I don't want Frank to go...

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06/13/07 02:53 - 84ºF - ID#39641

Blls, Bills, Bills

It's funny becasuse sometimes I complain that my parents don't really give me anything or pay for stuff for me. LIke I have to do it all myself. I realize this is kinda ludicrous because like I live at home for free and people like (e:pmt) point out to me that really so they pay for a lot. I was thinking about it, and it really depends on perspective I guess. To people who have always had to be out on their own and fend for themself it seems like my parents give me too much.

But...I am coming from a world where my three best firends have had everything paid for in their life by their parents basically. One's parents has paid for their schooling, cars, car insurance and even pumps their gas for them but she pays for her own cell phone bill. Another had to pay for most of her own schooling I believe but her parents always have paid for her car insurance and cell phone and insurance. And another her parents have paid for everything from schooling to car insurance to cell phone bill. Sooo i have had about $450 more in bills each month for the last few years than any of them and I guess I never really noticed. I always kinda lumped myslef in with us who are parents take care of everything but really my parents don't. If i wasn't already paying that much for the last few years, maybe I oculd get an apartment and feel more secure in my finances. I'm not relaly complaining that my parents don't give me enough, i'm just saying this is where I come from and it annoys me a little lately. Not that it is anyone's fault that their parents pay for stuff like I would totlaly let my parents if they offered , it just annoys me lately.

jason writes at 09:53:18 06/14/07 - Comment #19655: I read an article on the web yesterday that touched on the topic of girls being coddled by their parents, delaying the "growing up" process. Parents don't want anything bad to ever happen to their precious progeny!

Anyway, the way the author put it was pretty funny - someday the umbilical cord has to be cut. I can understand the pull to help your daughter out, but when it goes too far I would think you're really doing her a disservice.

leetee writes at 07:00:32 06/13/07 - Comment #19638: Josh has some good points there, Mike. Besides, it's never good to think about what others have... why compare yourself to anyone?

lilho writes at 05:15:56 06/13/07 - Comment #19625: umm, now im doing the opposite ive been doing for the last three years. going back home after supporting myself for so long. do i feel bad?? noooo. should i??? maybe. anyway, my mother has no intention of paying for anything for me, and what she does, i always have to pay her back. what a peach!

fellyconnelly writes at 03:57:52 06/13/07 - Comment #19620: josh says it best i think...

mk writes at 03:32:04 06/13/07 - Comment #19610: ok ok i'm a spoiled brat...when you write it out like that i feel like such a jerk. well, a lucky spoiled jerk. at least i have to pay for rent and cable and internet now. my parents aren't helping me out for that at all. I KNOW, CRY ME A RIVER!!!!!!!!!!!

just think, after all your years of getting through pharmacy school, you will have lots of money. you'll probably make more in your first year of work than i will in my first 5!

joshua writes at 03:29:39 06/13/07 - Comment #19608: Your parents friends aren't doing their kids any favors, Mike. They are raising a generation who ultimately are stuttering their capability of taking care of themselves and are perpetuating a lifestyle that they will struggle to maintain when they are on their own, thus implanting unreasonable expectations. Anybody over 25 that isn't out of the house yet and have their parents coddle them are FAR less able to cope with the stresses and rigors of adult life. Besides not having a curfew, being legally able to drink and having jumped that amazing puberty hurdle, a coddled 25-year old is no different than a coddled 15-year old.

Don't be upset - you're doing fine and believe me, you are better off. When the other kids get cut loose you'll see what I mean - I promise!

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06/12/07 05:55 - 87ºF - ID#39630

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

HAPPY 27th BIRTHDAY (e:Libertad)!!!!! From me and one of my favorite ladies!

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06/10/07 02:24 - 74ºF - ID#39596

Pop, Lock and Drop

So an interesting night last night spent with (e:lilho) on her last weekend in the B-lo. Me, (e:lilho), (e:jll) and (e:beast) headed out and started with a martini and shots at Fugazi, where we began a starburst unwrapping ocntest. We were seeing who could unwrap a starburst in their mouth the fastest. (e:lilho) for her first time (yes me and (e:jill) have done it numerous times before) was very talented. We then headed on down to allen street hardware and the attack of the taint ticklers was resurrected. Oh (e:lilho) and (e:jill) and their tickles... I actually forget how everything else went down exactly but I do know, the starburst contest later included strangers which lead to bets and higher stakes which lead to (e:lilho) and an allentown art festival tent. Then of course a pop, lock and drop contest between (e:lilho) and (e:jill) commenced and the fun just went on from there. We got lots of randoms to do the pop, lock and drop but noone could master it like (e:jill) could...then it got a little sketchy when the police in te golf cart were coming twoard us....so that was our cue to go home....so long sarah, it won't be the same wihtout you!

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06/04/07 03:49 - 73ºF - ID#39524

Interesting Weekend

An interesting weekend indeed....lots of changes...lots of going back to old things...lots of interesting public displays....lots of broken hookahs (sp?), and most of all lots of fun...and now on to the next week of fun June events!!!

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Location: Kenmore, NY

06/03/07 10:59 - 78ºF - ID#39510

So I Did It

So I did it! I'm not thrilled with how it went. I don't feel better about anything at all ...prolly worse ...but for the better or worse I did it! I don't like to let people down, especially people who have always given me everything I wanted in life! Time for day 4 of drinking which will conclude next sunday I believe with a possible reprieve tomorow. June is so full of parties and events.

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06/02/07 02:17 - 70ºF - ID#39498

what i soiuld do!

I khow what pim supposed to do but i ca'nt! ok! i can't! I taesied to but i justa can't! I thoaght this wekend would be a perfect teime but I just can't! I dn't have it in me! I nkow its ridcils and i watn to but i can't!! I'm surea it wo'nt be as bad as ithink iat will be but i'
m so scared of letting pepole down. : (

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06/01/07 06:56 - 82ºF - ID#39496

Everyone Listen Up

Everyone better be at the Linwood Mansion (24 Linwood) TONIGHT FOR THE (e:lilho) going away party!! I am making jello shots as we speak (hopefully they congeal)! I don' tremember how to mix them so we'll see how they com eout (i replaced all the ocld water with vodka, that sounds like it must be right?) SE YO UALL THERE FOR THE PARTY OF THE CENTURY!!!

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05/30/07 11:28 - 73ºF - ID#39470

Weird Studies

So me and (e:terry) have our first summer bio class test tomorow. Our teacher goes pretty slow and repetively in class so I'm thinking it won't be that hard but then going over the review sheet I think wowser. There is stuff from chapters we haven't even gotten to yet and like all these speicific periods and dates to remember. I don't know if he will actually ask those on the test anyway. Anywho this was really about how I have weird study habits. Like I am super good at tests. Like just I could take most tests on anything and do ok. I also am good at remembering what I have written down. Like have of my knowledge is from remember like the pictures I was doodling near the notes that the question is on. But this post was really suppoed to be about memory tools, like you know those saying meant to help you remember different things in order. Mine are always so complicated but work good for me but it almost seems like it would be just as easty to remember the names, my latest is

Quite The Concert John, The Purple Pennsylvanians Missed Dancing Slowly Over Cake

This is to remember the different periods in earth history namely:
Quarternary, Tertiary, Cretaceous, Jurassic, Triassic, Permian, Pennsylvanian, Missisiippian, Devonian, Silurian, Ordovician and Cambrian...

P.S. I think i am feeling a major life moment/change coming up soon...we'll see

P.P.S SO EXCITED ABOUT THE SQUARE TOMORROW!! ME and (e:amanda) will be there and hopefully lots of other peeps, we are going to be staring out this summer Klassy as always!