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01/20/2012 07:59 #55939

Snowman Wegmans Walk
So yesterday at work I took my lunch at around 4 and it had snowed earlier but was clear and now snowing and not too bad so I decided to walk to WEgmans which is only like half a mile away. I figured it would be faster and easier than brushing off my car and trying to drive down the 1 road while there was lots of traffic leaving the bulidings. WEll I got there in no time not problem. I get my sub and this bean salad thing, was making good time, walk outside and WHOA it turned into a whiteout blizzard hurricane storm of death. Ok I didn't have a hat or scarf on but really when I left my building 15 minutes earlier they were not needed. WELL THEY WERE NOW. I seriously couldn't see like 2 inches in front of me, walked into trees and stakes in the ground and curbs and thought I was going to die. It literally is usually like a 7 minute walk and it felt like it took me 2 hours (it didn't but it felt like it) It was so intense, the wind was so hard and cold in my face and the snow was beating me down. I was trying to block my face with my gloved hand but it was either my face or ears , it was such a hard decision and plus my glove had a missing finger top so it made it all the worse. I seriously wanted to give up like halfway back and just lay down and die in the snow. It was insane. I tried to run but that just made it feel even worse. I really was thinking I wasn't going to make it back but I did. AND OMG when I looked in the mirror , I had like a thick layer of snow on my head and everywhere else and my face was like sunburned/windburned red and i had a heacache and an everything ache. It was so bad. It was so crazy though, literally it is only a half a mile and I walk it all the time but this storm was something crazy. It was sooo intense and windy and snowy and ice shooting at my face. I felt like crap all night. Moral of the story: just drive the car (that may be anti green and anti environment but I don't care, it would so horrible) . Granted my coworker who left a little after me to go home said it took like a half hour to get to the light outside wegmans from our building by car so maybe that would have taken forever but it would have been better than being frozen alive.
metalpeter - 01/20/12 17:02
Some How I missed it......
lilho - 01/20/12 13:33
I read the entry title and thought, "how cute, wegman's has a snowman walk?!" then I began reading and realized how terrible what you were really talking about was...

Sorry you had to go through that boo. I believe I experienced the same sort of thing in hs once... When I got into the office, the secretaries gave me towels or something to attempt to dry off. I was wear a skirt that day too, bad choice.
matthew - 01/20/12 09:20
Yeah, it was insane. I was walking home from work during the whiteout. It usually takes me 30 mins to get home but it took at least 90 mins yesterday. It was the first time I ever experienced the snow blinding me. It was whipping into my eyes, making them sting so much I had to keep shutting them. I was walking down Delaware ave with my eyes closed, seriously thinking I might get hit by a car and die and id never see it coming. Oh winter!

01/18/2012 23:45 #55937

Getting Up Early
I am not an early rise unless i have to be but everyone once in a while I get this idea of like you know what I'm going to get up early and get so much done. And like once every 7.8 years that works. Generally I end up getting up like 15 minutes early and expecting to get 100 things done but really it is just 15 minutes. It's so funny how like in morning time , I just feel like I should be able to get a million things done since I got up early, even if it is only 10 minutes earlier than usual. And then I try and get some stuff done but really have no time and end up getting nothing done and being late for work.
mk - 01/21/12 10:08
I usually just end up taking more time to do the same things I always do in the morning, and then ultimately end up leaving at least 3-5 minutes later than I would have if I had slept in.
lilho - 01/19/12 19:50
i now have to be up between 5 and 6 depending in the day, and it's a miracle i don't look like a crazy mismatched person all the time.... i hate mornings.
flacidness - 01/19/12 09:56
Damn that snooze button!!!

01/11/2012 23:44 #55890

Ellen's Birthday
I just entered a contest to win a trip to Ellen for her birthday. I couldn't find the directions anywhere about they wanted and it just said Tell Your Story (and limited you to only so many words) so this is what I wrote basically. I forgot to save it to it is from memory, the real one was a little better i think:

I am not really sure what you want here (were there directions somewhere because I couldn't find them?) So I guess I will just write about me and Ellen. I would love to come for your birthday. I have always wanted to go to LA and see celebrities and of course you are celebrity #1 and being on your show and meeting you would be amazing. I hate flying but I would do it for you. Haha I just read that and it makes me sound as if I am doing you a favor by coming, well maybe I am. I am pretty fun. Maybe then you could come to Buffalo in August for my birthday but you would have to provide your own transportation but I'd pick you up at the airport.

I have loved your show and your stand-up forever. I was just watching your old stand-up the other night. I love your joke about gogurt and yogurt mobiility. I always try to tell people it but I don't have the "Sorry Tom, I can't tonight I just opened a yogurt" voice that you have. I just love that joke.

I would love to be on your show but actually I would be really nervous because then I would have to be fun and crazy and witty. And i would have to dance. I am not really a dancer. LIke if the mood strikes but not a run of the mill daily dancer. Pick Me! Please! Pretty Pretty Please!

I used up every last character I was allowed (even had to delete a few spaces to make it work) and then for the picture I sent one of me and my puppet unicorn

Wish me luck!
lilho - 01/13/12 08:35
i want you to win so badly.
paul - 01/13/12 01:00
I remember before she was even on TV mom had her book at home. I thought she was so hillarious.
tinypliny - 01/12/12 18:48
Hope they pick you!!! We will all be celebrity-shoulder-brushers then!!!! How exciting!
metalpeter - 01/12/12 17:45
That Would be pretty cool......
flacidness - 01/12/12 15:21
Good luck mike, that would be so awesome!!!!

12/31/2011 10:54 #55822

New Years Eve Y'All
Hope to see you all tonight at the PMT's New Years Eve Party. I need to find something sparkly to wear. I just feel the need for a sparkly new years eve ensemble! We'll see.
metalpeter - 12/31/11 17:22
I'll be there with Camera and Alcohol........ Guessing Jeans and T-shirt and something soft and warm on over it......
heidi - 12/31/11 12:46
Yes! Sparkly!

12/14/2011 00:00 #55731

Frustrating Day turns to Christmas
Today was such a frustrating day for no like specific reason just overall I felt annoyed at tons of stuff all day long, I was in a real bad mood by the time I left work but then I came home to a delicious dinner and Christmas tree decorating and who isn't happy after decorating a Christmas tree? I love it! Though we need way more ornaments, though I prolly have more than the average person it seems like not enough compared to what I'm used to at my parents house.
tinypliny - 12/14/11 07:48
Did you sell the ornament deficit then at your historic garage sale?