My Trip the Morgue! by Matt in The Middle!

Time Warp  - 25/8

Is it Tuesday? I am totally in a time-warp all the time now. I was off work yesterday and slept most of the day to play catch-up but have been up all night again and now I am off today and tomorrow (this is the three-days-off part of my work cycle). It wasn't hard getting used to not sleeping and never seeing people you love but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Cha Cha and Fabio are back but I haven't seen much of them. I was asleep when they got home and then Cha Cha was asleep when I woke up and I just now had to tell Fabio to go to bed (4:30AM) because he is playing catch-up on his video games since he wasn't able to play them for the last three days. Today and tomorrow he has a basketball tournament in Streamwood. I just wanted you to get caught-up with the goings-on in this hiz-ouse!

I imagine most of you went back to work yesterday or did you get an extra day off because Christmas fell on a Sunday? If you got yesterday off I suppose you have to go back today. Cha Cha has today off but has to go back tomorrow. Do you know what I got for Christmas? Really, do you know? I opened zero Christmas presents this year. I was at least hoping for a bag of coal as Christmas Day went on. The two bright spots for Christmas for me were talking to my family on the phone (even my brother called me from Hawaii while I was sleeping and wished me Mele Kalikimaka) and my great friend Brian Didier stopped by to be the guest co-host (Cha Cha For A Day) on Dirty laundry Podcast.

If anyone has Adorexia I would sure like to get with you if it's contagious. I did not misspell Anorexia even though spell-check is trying to tell me that I did. I do not want Anorexia. Adorexia is a condition characterized by a freedom from worry or any other preoccupation. Adorexians (probably a made-up word by me right now) are always in a complete state of calmness and peace. I am much closer to that than I once was and I am continuing my journey but if I could just get some Adorexia germs from someone who has it and speed-up the incubation process that would be awesome. By me worrying that it is taking too long to complete this journey I think I may be taking myself further from the end...ARRRRGHHHHH!!!!! Go ahead - look it up if you don't believe me. I just did a Google search for a photo to put here of "adorexia" and OMG! Most of the photos were topless women - SERIOUSLY! Hence, no adorexia photo. Google you really know what adorexes (probably another made-up word by me) me...you get me!

I DVR'd It's a wonderful Life because now that it's on commercial television it would take about three hours to watch this 90-minute movie. I love that movie. Donna Reed and Jimmy Stewart and Alfalfa - talk about The Dream Team! Commercial to movie ratio 50:50.

Right before Christmas you may have read either on here or by my emails telling you to lose weight or buy Viagra that my email account got spammed. Maybe this is obvious and my Adorexia has calmed me too much to keep up with the rest of you but I was wondering why someone would manufacture and send spams. Ha....Christmas Spam (sorry). Anyway, I started thinking who would have anything to gain by spams? People always say "it's just hackers trying to see if they can do it and prove that they are smarter than everyone else..." I think that is a lie also perpetuated by the people who are manufacturing and launching the spams. I Ellery Queened-it out and figured that it has to be the companies that provide/manufacture/sell the anti-spam software right? Who else has anything to gain by doing this? Like I blogged - maybe I am stating the obvious and everybody else already discussed this but I don't usually get to sit at the grown-ups table and the news of these discussions doesn't get to me right away.

How many of you already went to Goggle and searched adorexia and then clicked on images? All the males at least I'd bet.

Have you noticed that A LOT of actors don't say the word "something" properly? You will now that I planted that little acorn in your noggin. I have noticed it here and there for quite some time and wish I had started a list but the most recent one that I saw that reminded me of it was John Kasinski. I cannot think of the others right off the top of my head but it's usually women that I have noticed (no great surprise me noticing women more I guess). They pronounce it "sunthing." Maybe actors are told that if they make the "M" sound their lips come together and they may stick and ruin make-up or there may be some wetness or spit on the lips? I don't know but I will start making a list. I cannot remember who but there is one actress that I have seen do it over and over and over again but my Adorexia has blocked it which is why I write so many things down all the time.

You don't hear or read this very often in life

I was in a morgue the other day. No, I did not know anybody who died but someone asked me, "hey, do you want to see some brains in Tupperware?" To which I responded...."HELLS YEAH!!!!" So, in the MIDDLE of the night I went to a morgue where nobody else was except for the person who took me there and many, many bodies. Some were wrapped in sheets and some in plastic. One was even wrapped in a black Hefty Bag-looking-thing and I do not want to know what that was all about. It was really cool (I am not only referring to the temperature). I took a few photos, of course, but I am posting my favorite. They are very good words of advise to "live" by I think. FYI - the smell of formaldehyde stays with you for a long time. You can even taste it just by smelling it. All-in-all I would go there again in a heartbeat - no pun intended.

I just remembered who it is who I have heard/seen saying "sunthing" a lot. It is Academy Award winning actress Marisa Tomei. She's not the only one but she is the one I was thinking of.

Okay...that's enough outta me for today. Remember that Cha Cha and I are still looking for our TOP 10 PODCASTING MOMENTS OF 2011. We have a few great nominations already and don't say "when it's over" because I already thought of that one. So now, it's only four days until New Year's Eve. Have a great day and I will be in Streamwood at the high school if you need me. I will be the one all alone (seems to be becoming a trend even though I shower every day) up in the stands reading or writing or playing Angry Birds or watching Netflix and on Facebook if they have wi-fi. However, if Fabio is playing I will be "eyes-out!!!!!!" TTTT....MITM (Out!)