From February 28-March 7th I was in Tampa, Florida with amazing people. Me and Tom drove down Saturday morning, got there around midnight. It was a long drive, but 100% worth it. We had a lot of fun on the way down, and started about 10 new inside jokes, so it was cool. We also stopped at a place called "Jasper's Porch" to eat in South Carolina, and it was delicious. The best southern fried chicken I've ever had.
Once we got down there, we saw everyone that was currently staying in Jessi's apartment. These include: Jessi, Rosie, Julie, Anna, Adon, Sammi, and Dean. It was a packed house the first couple nights but was so fun. The first night we drank a bit and just hung out the apartment. The view from the balcony was beautiful, and everything about Florida was absolutely amazing. I woke up Sunday morning and most of us went to breakfast at "The Village Inn". It's basically like a Florida ripoff of Denny's, except with better food. So we ate and then went shopping at the international mall, which was really expensive stuff. I bought some sunglasses since I was lacking in that department, and we went back to Jessi's for a bit. We had dinner (Chicken Alfredo and Beef Stew), and a few beers while watching the Cavs game and waiting for Jessi to get off work. When she returned, we all had shots, and headed over to Applebee's. Me, Tom, Julie, Jessi, and Rosie went to Applebee's and had some delicious beverages. Then we returned home and I kept drinking while Jessi went to bed and Tom passed out on the couch. I killed the bottle of Jack Daniel's that had just been opened the night before, and even started mixing it with water when I ran out of Coke. That was probably a bad decision, and it tasted gross. It was still fun though.
Monday morning I woke up feeling like garbage, and didn't feel totally ok again until we started driving to John's Pass. It was 75 and sunny and I was quite pleased, and the fresh air blowing in the windows really kicked me back into feel good mode. Me, Jessi, Rosie, Tom, Anna, and Adon went to John's Pass and did some shopping, then went to Bubba Gump's to eat lunch, where I was made to feel like an idiot because it was a Forrest Gump themed restaurant and I never saw that movie. Good shrimp and clam chowder though. After John's Pass we went back to Jessi's and needed to buy the steaks for the cookout, so Me, Tom, and Jessi went across to Wal-Mart and Me and Tom treated everyone to some New York Strip Steaks. By the time we got back across the street, several of the people for the cookout were already there. I remember 2 dudes named Adam, and Tiffani, and didn't really pay attention to anyone else's names. Sorry to those who I forgot. Anyway, we hung around the apartment for a bit listening to music and then decided to go down to the grilling area and cook. Me and Tom got the coals going and started the steaks while everyone relaxed and had some margaritas. I also lit up a big Gurkha cigar and enjoyed it like you wouldn't believe. After the first round of steaks were done (the ones that actually got cooked right), everyone went back in except for Me, Tom, Jessi, and Tiffani. We stayed out there and braved the "cold" (65 degrees). It was literally the most delicious steak I've ever had in my life. Tiffani also claimed that hers was, but I'm skeptical considering it was barely cooked at all. We took a picture and it was still like half red. Anyway, we finished up cooking the steaks and went back inside. Everyone was watching "Across the Universe" and the two Adams had left (apparently because of me? whatever. I'm on vacation and don't give a fuck). Me, Tiffani, and Rosie went into her room to listen to Sublime and relax, because we didn't want to watch that movie. I personally didn't want to watch any movie because I was in Florida and I can watch movies anytime, anywhere. Adon came in several times to get us to come watch the movie, and Anna came once to get us too. Tiffani decided she was going to leave, so I gentlemanly walked her to her car. I then, being buzzed, went back upstairs and cleaned the entire kitchen. Wiping down countertops and everything.
Tuesday morning I woke up feeling fine, but unfortunately it was Julie, Anna, and Adon's last day. We went down and laid by the pool for awhile, and I jumped in even though the water was cold because I wanted to swim at least once while I was in Florida. Then me, Tom, Julie, Anna, Adon, and Rosie went to the mall and ate at Johnny Rocket's, then Rosie took them to the airport. Me and Tom went back to Jessi's and waited til she got off work, just relaxing. We decided we wanted to do something since we were in Florida, and went to the driving range, where my hand got bloody and Tom's back started hurting. When Jessi got back, Me, her, Tom, and Rosie went up to Applebee's and I met Ashley, who is the coolest waitress alive. Me, Tom, and Rosie got pretty buzzed and all four of us belted out songs on the way home, which include, but aren't limited to, "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" and "Take On Me". It was a great time, and I took a video of the singing of Bonnie Tyler, which I will watch time and time again and laugh.
Wednesday I woke up, still feeling good (hangovers are nonexistent when you drink every night). Everyone was at work when Me and Tom woke up, so we went and got lunch at the mall. Then Tiffani texted me and said we should come up to Ruby Tuesday (where her, Jessi, and Rosie work), so we headed up there for a bit. Me and Tiffani took a drive around the neighborhood while Tom sat in the restaurant and drank 4 mango teas. Tiffani left to make a purchase and I went in and drank some strawberry lemonade that Rosie claimed "tasted like dirt", but I thought was delicious. Me and Tom went back to the apartment after that and Jessi took off to go to her other work (Victoria's Secret). Me and Tom relaxed for a bit, and then went down to the gazebo overlooking the lake and had a cigar. After the cigar we came back and talked to Dean for a bit, then I started watching the Chelsea game on Fox Soccer Channel. I then got a call from Tiffani telling me and Tom to meet her and Rosie up at Applebee's. We were ready to go, so we headed up there and had a great time. It was karaoke night, and Me and Tom sang "What's My Age Again?", "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go", "My Way", and helped out the girls on "Ice Ice Baby" to close out the night. Tiffani and Rosie took off and Me, Jessi, and Tom stayed for awhile hanging out with Ashley. Then we went home and went to bed.
Thursday Me, Tom, Jessi, and Rosie headed over to Tijuana Flats for some good, cheap Mexican food. Tom tried some really really hot sauce and got a stomachache. Then Jessi went to work and Rosie cleaned the fridge (?) while Me and Tom went down to Clearwater beach. It was the most beautiful place I've ever been in my life, and we had a good time. There was a black guy playing a sax, a white guy playing an acoustic version of "White Wedding", and this alien looking guy that I don't know what the fuck he was doing, and that was just walking on the boardwalk. We got some sun, bought some shirts, and headed back home. We hung out with Dean for awhile discovering new bands and then headed back to Applebee's again. It was open mic night, but we didn't sing anything. Me, Jessi, and Tom still had fun though, while Rosie and Tiffani went to the Sublime cover band concert. We came back and hit the sack, depressed because tomorrow was our last full day there.
Friday, our last day, was a pretty good one. Me and Tom went to the mall to meet Jessi, and then met Ashley up at Tijuana Flats for lunch which was fun. Ashley went off to work, and Me Tom and Jessi got some Starbucks and relaxed outside for a bit. We went back to Jessi's and watched "The Other Boleyn Girl", which was a pretty decent movie, although fucked up. Then Me Tom and Jessi went to Clearwater to finish souvenir shopping, and then took a night walk along the beach and saw at least 2 couples having sex. We left Clearwater, and we headed up to Applebee's to see our pal Ashley again. We split some Nachos and had some drinks, and then were going to go to Tiffani's party but couldn't get ahold of her to get the address. I finally got ahold of her and decided I would just go with Rosie when she got out of work, because Rosie knew where she lived. Jessi fell asleep when we got back and Tom was in no condition to drive, but me and him made up some really funny songs using Sammi's guitar. I waited up for Rosie, only to find out she decided not to go to Tiffani's party, and I was stuck without a ride. I was disappointed, but more pissed that I had to leave in about 7 hours. I then took a walk and sat under a tree looking at the lake and thinking about what an amazing week I had and how badly I didn't want to leave. Then I went back upstairs and fell asleep on the couch while watching "Premonition", which was a decent movie that I wish I could've stayed awake to finish.
Saturday morning Me and Tom woke up at around 6:30 and got all our shit together, said goodbye to Jessi, and headed home. It was depressing to say the least, and neither one of us was in a great mood on the way home. 17 hours driving away from where you want to be most in the world is not the most pleasant experience. Surprisingly enough though, we didn't get at each other's throats throughout the whole trip, even the car rides, which was awesome. We got home at 1 in the morning and were welcomed by pouring rain and a temperature 30 degrees cooler than it was in Florida. Depression set in.
Bottom line is, my week in Tampa was the best week of my life, and I honestly don't care what anyone says, or what negative comments people say about the bugs or the heat or the hurricanes. I would rather deal with those than snow, cold, ice, and wind for 5 months out of the year. I'm moving to Tampa when I graduate, and anyone who says otherwise, fucking watch me.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Friends, Stolen Cars, And Police
This was an interesting weekend. Friday I worked from 4 til around 8:30, waiting on old people and making somewhat decent money. Then me, Tom, and Matt went to Jen's 21st birthday party. It was quite a good time, and I'm really glad I went. It was fun, and nice to do something different than the usual bullshit we seem to always be stuck with choosing. You know the type. Me and Tom also had a deep discussion while driving around after we left, which was, as always, interesting and good. Much like a blowjob from a midget through a glory hole. Is glory hole one word or two? I'm not sure. Fuck it, this is a blog, not a textbook.
Saturday I woke up at around 11:30, and was immediately bombarded with great movies to watch. "The Harder They Fall", Humphrey Bogart's last movie ever, was on when I woke up, so I watched that with my dad. When that ended, I realized that both "Goodfellas" and "V For Vendetta", two of my favorites, were on concurrently, so I switched between them for awhile. When they were over, Braveheart started, and I ate an early dinner with my family before work. Then I worked from 4-10, bussing tables and dancing. Not like a stripper dancing, like I'm bored at work and Whitney Houston is on the radio dancing. Anyway, then Tom met me at my house and we went to Starbucks. Following our Starbucks trip (free chai, thanks Damon!), Me and Tom met up with Johnny and pretty much drove around the entire city of Parma for a few hours and talked a lot. It was cool, and I rarely get to see Johnny during the school year so that was a good thing. The best part of the evening was when I got pulled over for not having my lights on (having forgotten to turn them back on after parking in the Burger King parking lot so we could eat our drive-thru food at 2 in the morning), and a cop basically thought I was high and was going to have a drug dog inspect my car. However, before the inspection could occur, "someone stole a car or some shit" (Actual quote from the cop), and I was let free. It deprived me of the satisfaction of showing them I didn't have drugs in the car, but got the 3 of us a pretty good laugh. Needless to say, I dropped off all the smack back at Johnny's house right after.
Today I went to breakfast and had some delicious concoction called "The Feller" (I'm assuming it's named after Bob), worked from 11-7:30, met Tom and Theresa at the Fox and Hound to watch some of the superbowl, then picked my dad up from the Knights of Columbus hall so he could get me back here to school. Now I'm sitting in my room listening to Kenny Chesney and wishing I could fast forward through February to get to March 1st. I've never looked forward to anything more than I'm looking forward to a week in Florida with friends. Well, I'm going to get to bed, because I only got about 4.5 hours of sleep last night, and I have to be up around 9:15 tomorrow.
Don't worry, I'll write tomorrow night and I promise it will be more interesting than my weekend was.
Even if it's not, you better fucking read it anyway. I'm pouring time and effort into these entries, and all of you better appreciate it.
Til tomorrow
Saturday I woke up at around 11:30, and was immediately bombarded with great movies to watch. "The Harder They Fall", Humphrey Bogart's last movie ever, was on when I woke up, so I watched that with my dad. When that ended, I realized that both "Goodfellas" and "V For Vendetta", two of my favorites, were on concurrently, so I switched between them for awhile. When they were over, Braveheart started, and I ate an early dinner with my family before work. Then I worked from 4-10, bussing tables and dancing. Not like a stripper dancing, like I'm bored at work and Whitney Houston is on the radio dancing. Anyway, then Tom met me at my house and we went to Starbucks. Following our Starbucks trip (free chai, thanks Damon!), Me and Tom met up with Johnny and pretty much drove around the entire city of Parma for a few hours and talked a lot. It was cool, and I rarely get to see Johnny during the school year so that was a good thing. The best part of the evening was when I got pulled over for not having my lights on (having forgotten to turn them back on after parking in the Burger King parking lot so we could eat our drive-thru food at 2 in the morning), and a cop basically thought I was high and was going to have a drug dog inspect my car. However, before the inspection could occur, "someone stole a car or some shit" (Actual quote from the cop), and I was let free. It deprived me of the satisfaction of showing them I didn't have drugs in the car, but got the 3 of us a pretty good laugh. Needless to say, I dropped off all the smack back at Johnny's house right after.
Today I went to breakfast and had some delicious concoction called "The Feller" (I'm assuming it's named after Bob), worked from 11-7:30, met Tom and Theresa at the Fox and Hound to watch some of the superbowl, then picked my dad up from the Knights of Columbus hall so he could get me back here to school. Now I'm sitting in my room listening to Kenny Chesney and wishing I could fast forward through February to get to March 1st. I've never looked forward to anything more than I'm looking forward to a week in Florida with friends. Well, I'm going to get to bed, because I only got about 4.5 hours of sleep last night, and I have to be up around 9:15 tomorrow.
Don't worry, I'll write tomorrow night and I promise it will be more interesting than my weekend was.
Even if it's not, you better fucking read it anyway. I'm pouring time and effort into these entries, and all of you better appreciate it.
Til tomorrow
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
I make lists like Angelina adopts 3rd world kids
I'm sitting here at 6:15 listening to The Lawrence Arms. I've barely been out of my room all day other than to go to my classes (JCU didn't cancel classes until afternoon classes, and all mine were in the morning) and to dinner for 1/2 an hour, and I'm fucking bored to tears. So I figured I would write in here, and give you the list of 10 ways to beat the Cleveland winter blues that I promised last night.
10 Ways To Beat The Cleveland Winter Blues (In no particular order):
1. Call someone you haven't talked to in a long time-
One of three things will happen when you do this. Either
A) you will have a great conversation with that person catching up on all the things you've each been doing in your lives (saving the environment, starting a new relationship, catching chlamydia from someone at a frat party you went to last Friday, etc.) or
B) That person will not remember you and you will get into an argument trying to convince her that you met at that one party that a mutual friend had the first weekend of September, and you thought you had a connection, but never really got around to calling her or
C) That person will wonder why you called them, considering you had sex with their girlfriend at a mutual friend's party the first weekend of September, and then never even got around to calling her afterwards, and he will remember how much he hates you and hang up after threatening to kick your ass
I do realize there are other options than these, but these are the three most plausible. Plus, any of these would be a great story to tell the next time you're hanging out with your friends.
2. Learn to swing dance
Let's face it, anyone who can swing dance is probably a fucking cool person. Either that, or a condescending prick who thinks he's better than you simply because he can swing dance. Either way, as long as you're not a condescending prick, you can definitely get some ladies if you go somewhere where dancing is included and you can literally sweep all the women off their feet. They will be putty in your hands after you show them how well you dance. At least, that's what the movies tell me.
3. Master Photoshop
This is something I have been working on during these long boring winter months. While it may not come into play too often in everyday life, or in a job setting (unless you're a tabloid photographer, in which case you're probably a douche), it's still a cool skill to have. It's always nice to know you have the power to take the photo of your ex-girlfriend and her new guy and make it look as though he has a big black dildo in his hand instead of that can of Natural Light. Also, it's a great time killer.
4. Research The Benefits Of Quitting Smoking
It will really make you realize wow, I should quit! However, when you try and realize that you can't do it, this could be kind of a downer. But if you can do it, more power to you, you're a better man than I. Actually, no you're not. Just because you're all of a sudden a nonsmoker and I still smoke you think you're better than me? Fuck off man!
5. Make A Lot Of New Ringtones For Your Phone
Another great timekiller, this has been my way of spending probably around 5 hours worth of time since I came back to school. It helps because you can put on songs that remind you of summer and kind of drift away into a summery haze staring at your computer screen and listening to "What A Day For A Daydream", or whatever other songs may remind you of summer. Be warned, however, that this way of getting rid of the blues only works until you unplug your headphones and look out the window, where you're shamelessly shocked back into January reality.
6. Start Writing A Blog
Hey, it's working for me so far.
7. Read A Trashy Novel About A Romance That Happens At The Beach
I haven't actually done this one, but I'm sure it can help your mind wander to a warm place full of sex, dongs, vaginas, and adultery. Plus they're cheap and probably take a long time to read because you have to force your way through...like trying to have sex with Miley Cyrus.
8. Have A Winter "Fling"
This is how a lot of people apparently pass the time in the summer, but why has the fling always been confined to only the summer? Why can't you have a winter fling? I say everyone go out there and have a winter fling. Report back to me how it goes, and I will shape my opinion on this more as each report comes pouring into my inbox as I'm sure they will. What's wrong with a little unprotected sex in some guy's basement with someone who, as soon as the weather gets nice, will be out of your life forever? At the very least, you can have one more story to tell your psychiatrist.
9. Immerse yourself in work/school/both
This is kind of what I have done a lot of the time. All of a sudden I decided to care about my grades, and have been working a lot more hours than usual, which is fine with me. It really does help to pass the time, and both of these activities are indoors, so you can concentrate hard enough where you don't even remember that it's shitty outside until you go back out 8 hours later. It's really a great feeling to be inside for so long that you forget it's 6 degrees.
10. Drink a lot of alcohol
You didn't really think I would leave this one off the list, did you? This is the best way to get rid of the Cleveland winter blues, and probably the one chosen most often. There's simply nothing that compares to "drinking your coat", so that you don't even have to wear a shirt when it's 20 degrees because you're so plastered you're sweating. Plus, you can literally forget what the weather is like because you forgot everything else from that night too. Let's be honest, this is the best option out of all ten.
Well there you have it, 10 simple ways for you to beat the Cleveland winter blues. I'm spent for tonight, but I'll be back tomorrow for another episode of what's going through my mind.
10 Ways To Beat The Cleveland Winter Blues (In no particular order):
1. Call someone you haven't talked to in a long time-
One of three things will happen when you do this. Either
A) you will have a great conversation with that person catching up on all the things you've each been doing in your lives (saving the environment, starting a new relationship, catching chlamydia from someone at a frat party you went to last Friday, etc.) or
B) That person will not remember you and you will get into an argument trying to convince her that you met at that one party that a mutual friend had the first weekend of September, and you thought you had a connection, but never really got around to calling her or
C) That person will wonder why you called them, considering you had sex with their girlfriend at a mutual friend's party the first weekend of September, and then never even got around to calling her afterwards, and he will remember how much he hates you and hang up after threatening to kick your ass
I do realize there are other options than these, but these are the three most plausible. Plus, any of these would be a great story to tell the next time you're hanging out with your friends.
2. Learn to swing dance
Let's face it, anyone who can swing dance is probably a fucking cool person. Either that, or a condescending prick who thinks he's better than you simply because he can swing dance. Either way, as long as you're not a condescending prick, you can definitely get some ladies if you go somewhere where dancing is included and you can literally sweep all the women off their feet. They will be putty in your hands after you show them how well you dance. At least, that's what the movies tell me.
3. Master Photoshop
This is something I have been working on during these long boring winter months. While it may not come into play too often in everyday life, or in a job setting (unless you're a tabloid photographer, in which case you're probably a douche), it's still a cool skill to have. It's always nice to know you have the power to take the photo of your ex-girlfriend and her new guy and make it look as though he has a big black dildo in his hand instead of that can of Natural Light. Also, it's a great time killer.
4. Research The Benefits Of Quitting Smoking
It will really make you realize wow, I should quit! However, when you try and realize that you can't do it, this could be kind of a downer. But if you can do it, more power to you, you're a better man than I. Actually, no you're not. Just because you're all of a sudden a nonsmoker and I still smoke you think you're better than me? Fuck off man!
5. Make A Lot Of New Ringtones For Your Phone
Another great timekiller, this has been my way of spending probably around 5 hours worth of time since I came back to school. It helps because you can put on songs that remind you of summer and kind of drift away into a summery haze staring at your computer screen and listening to "What A Day For A Daydream", or whatever other songs may remind you of summer. Be warned, however, that this way of getting rid of the blues only works until you unplug your headphones and look out the window, where you're shamelessly shocked back into January reality.
6. Start Writing A Blog
Hey, it's working for me so far.
7. Read A Trashy Novel About A Romance That Happens At The Beach
I haven't actually done this one, but I'm sure it can help your mind wander to a warm place full of sex, dongs, vaginas, and adultery. Plus they're cheap and probably take a long time to read because you have to force your way through...like trying to have sex with Miley Cyrus.
8. Have A Winter "Fling"
This is how a lot of people apparently pass the time in the summer, but why has the fling always been confined to only the summer? Why can't you have a winter fling? I say everyone go out there and have a winter fling. Report back to me how it goes, and I will shape my opinion on this more as each report comes pouring into my inbox as I'm sure they will. What's wrong with a little unprotected sex in some guy's basement with someone who, as soon as the weather gets nice, will be out of your life forever? At the very least, you can have one more story to tell your psychiatrist.
9. Immerse yourself in work/school/both
This is kind of what I have done a lot of the time. All of a sudden I decided to care about my grades, and have been working a lot more hours than usual, which is fine with me. It really does help to pass the time, and both of these activities are indoors, so you can concentrate hard enough where you don't even remember that it's shitty outside until you go back out 8 hours later. It's really a great feeling to be inside for so long that you forget it's 6 degrees.
10. Drink a lot of alcohol
You didn't really think I would leave this one off the list, did you? This is the best way to get rid of the Cleveland winter blues, and probably the one chosen most often. There's simply nothing that compares to "drinking your coat", so that you don't even have to wear a shirt when it's 20 degrees because you're so plastered you're sweating. Plus, you can literally forget what the weather is like because you forgot everything else from that night too. Let's be honest, this is the best option out of all ten.
Well there you have it, 10 simple ways for you to beat the Cleveland winter blues. I'm spent for tonight, but I'll be back tomorrow for another episode of what's going through my mind.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
One Way To Cure The Winter Blues That Only Works If You're Me
Looking at this blank screen is always the hardest part of writing anything, actually starting it. I have the same troubles with writing papers, songs, blogs, whatever. I never have the motivation to actually start doing it, but once I do, I'm glad I did. Well let's see, what's a great topic for my first (real) blog on this site...
How about midgets? Cleveland weather? Ugg boots? Good music? Threesomes with two cheap, middle-aged prostitutes?
I think we'll go with Cleveland weather, although I do promise that there will be blogs about all of those previously mentioned things, with the possible exception of the last one.
Cleveland weather sucks. That's the best way to start it. I know there are many other places where they get a lot more snow, it gets much colder, and some places where the don't even really get a summer like most of us know it. However, I don't live in those places, and therefore don't give a fuck. I live in Cleveland, and it sucks during the winter. The worst part is the teasing. For a perfect example, take the 2 day span last year where it literally went from 75 degrees one day during the winter to snowing and in the 30s the next day. I thought for sure that was against the laws of physics (I never got around to looking it up, so if any of you do, let me know). But I digress...that's a perfect example of Cleveland's fucked-up way of teasing everyone with the weather. We'll have shitty winter for 3 weeks straight, and then get 1 or 2 days of tolerable warmth, which at that point feels like we're in the Bahamas, followed by a return to the hell-like freezing temperatures of those previous weeks. It's as though the weather says "hey, let's fuck with 'em for a day or two".
Even without the teasing days (where I almost always wear shorts), Cleveland weather would still suck. I hate the cold, the wind (which seems to be blowing in my face while walking to classes at school, regardless of which direction I'm facing), and the snow and ice. Everything about winter pisses me off. Everyone makes a big deal about having a white Christmas and whatnot, but really, why? Why is that necessary? For one day a year to be enjoyable, it has to be shitty outside? Why not have a Christmas where it's 75 degrees and sunny? I personally don't think anyone would not enjoy Christmas just because it's warm outside. And if that's the case, you're missing the entire point of the day.
Anyway, onto the next topic. I'm sitting in my room, looking out the window at the possible 8-11 inches of snow that are supposed to fall within the next 24 hours or so, and can't help but dream of the first week of March. For those of you that don't know me, that week is the week me and Tom are going to Tampa, Florida to visit my friend Jessi for a week. I checked the temperature in Tampa this afternoon. It was 24 here in Cleveland, and 81 there. If that simple fact doesn't make you want to be there, I don't know what would. Maybe the many attractive scantily clad women, the week of absolute freedom from school, work, or whatever may be the bane of your existence these days, or the fun to be had will do it for you. Either way, these next 32 days are surely going to go by like molasses, but it will be totally worth it. An 18 hour road trip followed by a week of sun, fun, and friends sounds like the perfect cure for the Cleveland winter blues.
Well I'm going to go write a song, or at least attempt to, because I'm already writing so I might as well try to get something done. By the way, for anyone who reads this, I'm looking to start a punk band. I play bass and could sing if necessary. Leave me a comment if you're interested.
Be sure to check in with me tomorrow night for a Top 10 ways to have a good time even though the weather sucks list, David Letterman-esque.
How about midgets? Cleveland weather? Ugg boots? Good music? Threesomes with two cheap, middle-aged prostitutes?
I think we'll go with Cleveland weather, although I do promise that there will be blogs about all of those previously mentioned things, with the possible exception of the last one.
Cleveland weather sucks. That's the best way to start it. I know there are many other places where they get a lot more snow, it gets much colder, and some places where the don't even really get a summer like most of us know it. However, I don't live in those places, and therefore don't give a fuck. I live in Cleveland, and it sucks during the winter. The worst part is the teasing. For a perfect example, take the 2 day span last year where it literally went from 75 degrees one day during the winter to snowing and in the 30s the next day. I thought for sure that was against the laws of physics (I never got around to looking it up, so if any of you do, let me know). But I digress...that's a perfect example of Cleveland's fucked-up way of teasing everyone with the weather. We'll have shitty winter for 3 weeks straight, and then get 1 or 2 days of tolerable warmth, which at that point feels like we're in the Bahamas, followed by a return to the hell-like freezing temperatures of those previous weeks. It's as though the weather says "hey, let's fuck with 'em for a day or two".
Even without the teasing days (where I almost always wear shorts), Cleveland weather would still suck. I hate the cold, the wind (which seems to be blowing in my face while walking to classes at school, regardless of which direction I'm facing), and the snow and ice. Everything about winter pisses me off. Everyone makes a big deal about having a white Christmas and whatnot, but really, why? Why is that necessary? For one day a year to be enjoyable, it has to be shitty outside? Why not have a Christmas where it's 75 degrees and sunny? I personally don't think anyone would not enjoy Christmas just because it's warm outside. And if that's the case, you're missing the entire point of the day.
Anyway, onto the next topic. I'm sitting in my room, looking out the window at the possible 8-11 inches of snow that are supposed to fall within the next 24 hours or so, and can't help but dream of the first week of March. For those of you that don't know me, that week is the week me and Tom are going to Tampa, Florida to visit my friend Jessi for a week. I checked the temperature in Tampa this afternoon. It was 24 here in Cleveland, and 81 there. If that simple fact doesn't make you want to be there, I don't know what would. Maybe the many attractive scantily clad women, the week of absolute freedom from school, work, or whatever may be the bane of your existence these days, or the fun to be had will do it for you. Either way, these next 32 days are surely going to go by like molasses, but it will be totally worth it. An 18 hour road trip followed by a week of sun, fun, and friends sounds like the perfect cure for the Cleveland winter blues.
Well I'm going to go write a song, or at least attempt to, because I'm already writing so I might as well try to get something done. By the way, for anyone who reads this, I'm looking to start a punk band. I play bass and could sing if necessary. Leave me a comment if you're interested.
Be sure to check in with me tomorrow night for a Top 10 ways to have a good time even though the weather sucks list, David Letterman-esque.
A New Hope
Hello all. My name is Mike and this is Tales Of A Regular Guy. I decided that I need to write more often, because you can only write so many crappy songs at 3 in the morning (that you'll probably never even do anything with) before you decide another outlet is necessary. This is that other outlet. My first post is going to be nothing special, because I am currently doing my DJing and don't have too much time to spend on this right now. However, don't worry, I will write later on tonight after all my classes, and it will be totally worth it. Check back later for brilliance in the form of a free blog.
Until tonight
-Mike
Until tonight
-Mike
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