"From Main Place Mall to Bingo and Back" written by Mike on estrip.org

05/04/08 03:37 - 50ºF - ID#44231

From Main Place Mall to Bingo and Back

So yesterday was a day of new thing for me and (e:jill). First we went to check out Allentown Athletix. It was smaller than i had imagined but definetly had everything I would need and the guy said there isn't usually a wait. I actually prolly prefer that it is smaller. A little weird that there is a jacuzzi in the men's locker room but I digress. I guess what it comes down to is is $300 worht it. Will i only work out like 5 times like i did with the BAC and then really 300 is not a good deal. Like it is a good deal if i am gonna use it, but am i? when do we need to agree by? The guy asked if (e:jill) was my g/f and I said not not right now, as if she ever was or will be it was werid but i just said it and then thought it was weirder to add like um well no never she won't be.

Anywho, after that shenanigans we went to Quaker Bonnet Eatery for the first time and I had a veggie sandwich which was relaly good. I relaly wanted soup but the kinds did not sound to my liking. The veggie sandwich was super tasty, i always love cukes on things. They are just so good! Everyone else there was definetley in th 70+ crowd which was odd but fun and adorable. So from there we saw an ad for the White Elephant Sale at trinity church...

....we went , it wasn't all it was cracked up to be but maybe cuz it was already like the end of the second day. I mean they kinda had a lot of stuff but nothing I was really interetsed in though they had like fancy Prada shoes and Manolos for like 90 dollars, like they were used but still.So after perusing the good for a while we are in the car deicding what to do and i deicde we should go to the main place mall....

...i have always had a strange fondness for the Main Place Mall, maybe cuz I have a fondness for any mall and it just seems so sad there, so after much protesting on Jill's part we pull into the amply empty main place mall parking ramp. We go in and it is even more empty thatn last summer when I would meet MK there for lunch when she worked downtown and way more emptier than back farther from when I kinda remember it. ALl it had was a Dollar store, where by the way I GOT AN AWESOME ELEPHANT CLOCK, for ONE DOLLAR! DO you believe the deals in there, it was insane. And then it has this really odd sort of Odds and Ends type store that has a lot of playboy clocks and blankets, greeting cards that are dusty and circa 1970, like used looking paper back books and some housewares , totally random and i love it, so i got some stickers and some cards.

Oh there was also a footlocker but that's about it for that mall. ALl in all a good time I would say....so what do you do after a hard day of rummage sales and main place mall...

...YOU GO TO BINGO! I have been wanting to go to Bingo and the odd's and ends type store had bingo dabbers which reminded me how much i wanted to go so we deicded to go to Cardinal O'Hara bingo at 8pm.

OF course like always we run in late, thye were shutting down the stand wher eyou get the boards but he let us get them and then said to get the speiccals from the people walking around. THERE WAS NO SEATS< this place was packed, like the gym and the cafeteria were packed...and they say bingo isn't popular anymore! No way jos4e! It is the rage and a half. So then we sit with this hardcore player with the bingo bag and 100 dabbers and i was afraid he would hate us cuz sometimes bingo people are easily perturbed and don't like to be bothered but he was supr nice and talked to us and helped us since we had no idea what we were doing or what boards to use. Oh yeah and we didn't have dabbers when we got there b/c we didn't buy them at the aforementioned store and so i had to run to the otehr room where they were selling them and the worker like ran ahead to get them and was like "make way this man has to get dabbers' cuz the first game had already started. Needless to say we never won or even got close, i bet we would have won that first game had we gotten there on time to play it.....

so what do you do after bingo...

BOONDOGGLE!!!! We went to (e:jill)'s apt where jim was having a poker party and we busted out the 100000 pounds of boondoggle jlil bought last year whne she thought she was really going to get into boondoggle again and we started boondoggling our little hearts out. I stuck with the standard square for my first boondoggle in years but jill had high hopes of the infamous chinese staircase. Fortunaley jim's cousin Kristen remembered how to do it and after a little fight with the cat who attacked the boondoggle she was well on her way to a faboulous chinese staircase. Jill also thought she was doing a chinese staircase but i look over and was like um yours looks nothing like hers......it was a little off so jill's style is calling the handicap ramp , i think it will be all the keychain rage...you just wait!

tinypliny writes at 07:03:42 05/06/08 - Comment #34769: Um Yeah. That's sorta the plan. I am supposed to be your creepy *and unhinged* STALKER, remember?!

(**cue even more ominous music here***)

mike writes at 06:32:58 05/06/08 - Comment #34767: wowser tinypliny. That coment is more like ten more posts. Yeah boondoggle is like tis plastic thread you braid into keychains and stuff. to (e:jason) he used itin like do you and your g/f play raquetball and then he was like oh is she your g/f? jill's hot , he prolly wanted her. and to you (e:amanda), yes it was os ridiculous that you would not call bingo haha!!!

amanda writes at 04:15:01 05/05/08 - Comment #34733: Do you remember when we went to bingo with katrina and her family and i won the big jackpot but was too scared to yell bingo so you threw your hangs in the air with my board yelling bingo. haha okay that post just reminded me of that.

joshua writes at 02:08:30 05/05/08 - Comment #34726: Thanks (e:paul) - I was going to ask what that was.

(e:mike) - you should have held out and lied about (e:jill) being your GF. Maybe you could have gotten a discount! Or maybe he wanted (e:jill) and was being a flat out prick about it. I'm not sure what kind of question that is to be asking anyway... seems weird.

Quaker Bonnet Eatery - where the clientÃ¨le are old enough to remember how to make the furniture they sit on.

paul writes at 09:11:09 05/04/08 - Comment #34707: We used the term boondoggle in boy scouts
boonÂ·dogÂ·gle (bndÃ´gl, -dgl) Informal
n.
1. An unnecessary or wasteful project or activity.
2.
a. A braided leather cord worn as a decoration especially by Boy Scouts.
b. A cord of braided leather, fabric, or plastic strips made by a child as a project to keep busy.

[Coined by Robert H. Link (died 1957), American scoutmaster.] :::link:::

tinypliny writes at 08:10:06 05/04/08 - Comment #34705: Wow. You wouldn't think the day was a mere 24 hours after reading your journal.

I don't know. Gym memberships don't ever work for me because I positively know that I am not going to work out more than twice. Lower than your decent five times. And I know what you mean by the follow-up comment thingy. You say something and then you wonder whether you should add this qualification to what you said but then the person whom you said it to is someone unrelated and random, so an explanatory comment might not be warranted. So you are all like um, whatever, why the hell did I say the first thing.

COOL that you checked out the Quaker Bonnet Eatery! I was just wondering about it on Friday and (e:zobar) commented on my journal that he used to go there all the time. Now I know where my next sandwich is coming from!! :) Hey, did you happen to ask if they sell their bread? What bread did you have your veggie sandwich on? Yeah, the average age there seems to dodder over the 70s. Maybe its the word Quaker Bonnet. Maybe the young and the hip are subconsciously saying, "I wouldn't be caught dead in a quaker bonnet."?

What is a white elephant sale? Do they have an elephant standing there with a banner proclaiming the sale at the venue? They do that at home. So you hire an elephant for an hour or so, make it walk all over the neighbourhood while you or some crony of yours sits atop it and blows a horn. A huge cloth advertisement (or paper if you can't afford all the cloth and painting. But maybe if you could afford the elephant, you could afford the painted cloth as well...) is strung over its sides. So people come out to see the elephant. Contrary to popular belief, elephants don't walk the streets in Delhi. Wait. May be the belief was cows walk the streets. Well, they certainly do. Stray ones. Not elephants, however. Stray elephants are not cool. Getting back to the point, the elephants are a good adverstisement for your yard sale or whatever and then if the targeted neighbourhood is too small and you misapproximated the time to cover it, you have some extra elephant time and you can make it stand in your yard sale or whatever. Its an added bonus. Wow. If they were selling 90$ shoes, they could have afforded a jet that could have advertised the sale by spewing a cloud of white smoke in the sky saying "SALE HERE!!"or something!

Main Place Mall apparently has this exclusive pizza place called Gino and Joe's (or something close). I always want to check it our because it seems they have out-of-this-planet tasty pizzas. But every time I get there, its closed! They close at 5:00 sharp. No exceptions. I think thats harsh for a pizza place. I mean, come one! You are selling pizzas! Not some crazy complicated french cuisine! OOOOOOOhhh, you can add the elephant clock to the Jumikeipliny worshiping sect! That way all those elephant devotees could be timed and charged for their worship hours. Hehehe. On a related not, last year, I met some lady on the bus who told me that the dollar store in main place mall was the best dollar store in the entire city. They do have the best sales. I think its a kind of marketing logic. Its in a deserted mall, so they have got to offer something extra to be able to attract the paying customers. This particular lady lived in Tonawanda and told me that she traveled all the way to downtown to check out this dollar store's deals every Friday.

What is Bingo?? Do people below 70 play it?? I always thought it had geriatric written all over the word. But apparently not, from your description of the high stress levels at one single game. But it would be unwise to label 0ver-70ers as fragile. Some of them can take a lot of stress and fight - more than the below-30ers of today.

And yeah, what the HELL is a boondoggle?? I got these from wikipedia:
oondoggle or boon doggle may refer to:

* Boondoggle (project), slang term for a scheme that wastes time and money
* Scoubidou, a knotting and plaiting craft known in the U.S. as "boondoggle"
o Gimp, a type of thread used in making boondoggles and lanyards
* Woggle, a scout's scarf fixing known alternatively as a "boon doggle"

But from your description, it sounds like a bunch of lego bricks. I am puzzled.
And its not nice to puzzle a stalker *cue sinister organ music here*

libertad writes at 03:50:04 05/04/08 - Comment #34703: Might I add that I asked mike what boondoggling was and when he explained it I knew what he was talking about but never heard anyone call it that. It sounds very hick to me sort of like calling soda "pop". I don't remember what I called it when I was younger but it definitely was not boondoggling.

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04/25/08 03:30 - 71ºF - ID#44139

Buffalocartboys.com

Rachel the pharmacist at works brother started this company called buffalocartboys.com . I know (e:paul) was thinking of this at one point and I think it is really a great thing. I just thought (e:paul) might be interested in seeing it cuz I know he had discussed doing this at one point. It is like a one stop shopping place for you to order groceries and stuff and they deliver it to your house. It was just featured on the news. Right now they only deliver to like clarence, west seneca, williamsville area I believe so prolly not many people on here, but it seems like a good idea so I thought I would give them a little shout out on here.

The link is

www.buffalocartboys.com

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04/25/08 02:20 - 67ºF - ID#44136

I Love Lunch and Soap Operas

I love going out to lunch. Don't get me wrong I love going out to dinner and breakfast and snacks too and dessert (well not dessert as much honestly) but there is something so great about going out to lunch. It is just so leisurely and relaxing and wonderful! I love it! It is such a nice treat in the day. And then to come home and cathc the end of Days Of Our Lives...blissful. Pure blisfullness!

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04/24/08 07:15 - 66ºF - ID#44129

American Idol-Ugh

So I have never watched American Idol but I watched it the other night at (e:paul)'s and I must say HOW COULD THAT GIRL WHO LOOKS JUST LIKE TIMIKA ((e:ladycroft)) get voted off when that one guys sang A HORRIBLE MEMORIES and that other girl forgot the words, restarted and then crappily mumbled through the song from Evita. That show has no cred in my mind...but Paula..she is fabulous.

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04/23/08 05:24 - 67ºF - ID#44116

Wowser this is crazy

So the bartender the other day is telling me, (e:libertad), (e:james) and (e:jim) this story. The bar black had went into the basement where the empty bottles and new bottles and refrigerator are and there is a man down there which is creepy. So she runs up gets the bartender and they go back down and the man is COMPLETELY NAKED AND PLEASURING HIMSELF on a bottle of some sort. and let me tell you , the bottle did not have a long thin neck by any stretch of the imagination. Who does that? By the by you can now get speical shots , of course you pay a premium for the bottles previous pleasure..j/k.

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04/19/08 08:15 - 72ºF - ID#44058

For My Brother Paul

Hope this makes you feel better...

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04/12/08 06:23 - 44ºF - ID#43991

Ecclectic Music Mix

I have prolly written many times about my really random and large taste in music (and lots of times bad music). Here is my latest mixed cd I made for my car, I think it is a good example of the randomness in my music taste.

1. I, Don Quixote (from Man of La Mancha)
2. If by Janet Jackson (prolly one of my favorite songs of all time)
3.Pictures of You by the Last Goodnight
4. El Cantante by Marc Anthony
5. Beautiful by Moby
6. Retour A Vega by The Stills
7. Seasons of Love Dance Remix
8. Lechon, Lechon Lechon by Victor Manuelle
9. I'mma Shine by YoungBloodz
10. Remind Me by Royksopp
11. Kiss Me by Robbie Williams
12. Buttons by the Pussycat Dolls
13. Sixteen by Los Super Elegantes
14. Sailed On by Landon Pigg
15. We All Want the Same Thing by Kevin MIachael
16. In the Morning by Junior Boys
17. Best Days by Graham Colton
18. Sewn by The Feeling
19. Once In A Lifetime by Anthony Newley from Stop the world i wanna get off

it is seriously a great mix of m;usic that makes traveling in the car amazing. It has a little of everything. I recommend this exact mix for anyone who has a long ride ahead of them.

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04/08/08 06:41 - 68ºF - ID#43954

Is This Who I am?

I think the answer is "yeah pretty much" I got my facebook social report and it says

Here is what your friends think about you...

your strengths...

person who can drink the most
most entertaining
merriest

your weaknesses...

most likely to succeed
kindest

so i'm fun and drunk but a mean failure. I think i will take it!

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04/06/08 02:55 - 60ºF - ID#43921

My Elephants Worship Mary

So after cleaning my room i decided to rearrange all the figurines on my dresser which from past journals you have seen is quite an amount of figurines. Well this started as an accident with the placement of of one gigantic orange and gold elephant placed next to a statue of Mary and from there soon all of its elephant brethren had come in to worship also. She must be some woman!

The first believers arrive...

Then some of their friends get curious and stop by....

Soon the whole herd is there in admiration......

This isn't sacrilegious right? its not like its a Simpsons manger scene or something right?

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04/04/08 05:14 - 43ºF - ID#43903

NKOTB (New Kids for those who don't know

It's Official! The New Kids on the Block are releasing a new album and going on tour 20 years after their hit album "hangin tough" I am most definely going, i don't care where I have to travel to see them. And I am going to bring my towel and trading cards and oversized pins and what nots!!! They make their debut May 16 on the Today show with old hits and new hits! I can't wait!!!