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COVID XMAS/ new laptop

mike - 12/25/2020 6:05PM

This has been a weird covid Christmas. We can't be with family so we did a video chat gift opening with my parents, paul, terry and joe this morning. We also did one with Dave's family. After some technical difficulties getting it started up (somehow my parents were able to get the video chat to work before I did) it worked out pretty well. Yesterday we all picked up to go Christmas Eve food from my parents and Dave made Christmas day brunch food (complete with mimosa ingredients) for everyone. It worked out pretty good considering the cirucmstances. The most shocking gift of all, I can't believe e:Paul got me a new laptop for Christmas! I love it! It is blue and has a big screen and is really nice! Maybe I will start posting more on e:strip again. I had been asking him to help me pick out a new laptop and he was not being very helpful and I was kind of annoyed but it turns out it was all worth it because he got one for me! I really can't believe it. Our old laptop we inherited from

I'm the top

mike - 12/22/2019 10:16PM

It's been a long time but I wanted to be the most recent post. I'm the OG of the e.

Yup

mike - 10/06/2018 11:48PM

This is us

2018

mike - 10/06/2018 11:47PM

This is 2018

Getting Rid of Clothes

mike - 10/18/2016 9:44PM

I have a real hard time getting rid of clothes. One I have gained enough weight in the last few years that some are probably never going to fit again so it is time to say goodbye. But also, some things I just never wear and should get rid of. ALl my drawers in both dressers, and a big plastic tote and my closet and the shelves in my closet (and a few things in the back closet) are all full. And I like to buy stuff so I need to get rid of some to make room. Anywho, I have such emotional attachment to clothing (and knick knacks.....and shoes....and cards....and candy....and dust........ok maybe not dust but just about everything else). I remember when I wore a shirt or pair of pants and what I did in them and I just cannot part with them. It is weird, I am not sure why but with t shirts in particular the feelings are very strong. Really what happens is they only things I can end up getting rid of are things I barely ever wore because I didn't really love them inthe first place. Some tsh

90's Movies

mike - 09/24/2016 8:01PM

I'm going to try and get back into 90's movies, I mean e:strip. I am going to try and get back into e:strip. I love 90's movies and they just don't make movies like romcom or not even that but just fun movies with fun musical numbers anymore. Thanks to youtube I can watch all of them from all the movies in a row: My Best Friend's Wedding. This is prob #1. I was hoping it would happen at my rehearsal dinner.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_oFL_b719g First Wive's Club https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-J4xYOxJ9w Hocus Pocus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaC-WDrvmUQ Sister Act https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPpd-6X3tEo

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mike - 02/03/2016 5:10PM

Empty post!

Estrip Radio? and my old macbook

mike - 01/14/2016 11:04PM

I started up my Macbook laptop from 2001 and first of all I was surprised it even started but then I found a bunch of gems. I guess I used to save AIM convos in word documents. Just a few but they were great. One was e:maureen's response after I must have sent her a message after my first gay experience and was questioning if I was gay or not. Another was a convo between two of my friends, one chastising the other for their promiscuity. The best one though was a convo between Chris Garcia and I about this kid I liked at COffee & who I knew I could never have. As most of you know, that kid ended up being e:libertad who I will be marrying this July. In the convo I was very mad becasue e:terry had just broadcast my secret crush on the coffee & boy on estrip radio. Estrip radio? I don't really remember it. It sounds vaguely familiar. E:chris was listening to it whiel I was talking to him and Terry was broadcasting. I am not clear why I was so upset about e:terry's broadcast as I am s

Christmas Ceramics

mike - 11/21/2015 9:09AM

Last night I went with Rachelle, Jill and some of Jill's aunt's and cousins to Crafts Unique in Hamburg to paint ceramics. OMG! I loved it and recommend it. There are so many options of things to paint. Every holiday and thing you can imagine from a bank shaped like an order of french fries, to mardi gras type masks to christmas to halloween and everything in between. I could spend hours just trying to pick something but this time I went in with a mission to paint some type of reindeer. Mind you there were still probably 20 options of reindeer (when I say there are lots of options , I mean it!) What's even crazier is Mary has painted an example of most of them and has painted ones throughout the store. It is so fun to walk around and look at. Each of the things has directions on how to paint it to look like the example. Mind you you can do whatever you want and customize but it does give you really good guidance. I guess I never realized how it gets done. THey all get coated in a bla