Breast Awareness Blog!

Last night I wrote a blog and said that people on our busybodies and after sleeping on it I regretted saying that because it is 95% untrue. There are a few people on there that seem to be nosy and busybodies but most are not. I am guilty of focusing on the negative and I apologize. Also, I said that we are not going to put the white lights on the parkway tree. Again I was wrong....we are going to be putting up the lights. I must have thought I was gonna win Powerball and I was trying to cut ties with everyone before I won the big cash. I now know why Donald Trump is such an a-hole. Cash changes people and, in my case, just the hopes of cash turned me into a Trump. I hope I never win the lottery but I will probably still play so when you win there's more money in there.

Another reason for the parkway light flip-flop was that Cha Cha really wants to do it and she was going to do the lights herself and my buddy Brian Didier said that he thought that the lights would look nice. He is right but I still think the black lights would be funny. Incidentally, Cha Cha was never crabby about it as I may have made her sound. She doesn't read the blog so she would never know that I made her sound crabby but she is very seldom crabby and when she is I usually deserve it. So, as the powerful people would spin it... I have consulted with a couple of my top advisers (Cha Cha and Brian) and we have decided  that the lights would look nice.

I was getting tired of all of the pink in sports for Breast Awareness Month or quarter or half-year or however long it was and am happy that it is over. Actually I think it was Breast Cancer Awareness Month - I am always aware of breasts. I also love the color pink. It is very nice but to see people go out and beat the crap out of each other while being concerned about breast cancer seemed weird. If they were such caring people why do they beat the crap out of each other? Seems ironic to me. I will support breast cancer awareness while I collapse your lungs and spear you in the spleen.

I am very aware!!!!

It all makes sense now...it is the end of the month and my Mattstruation is always at the end of the month. I should really consider taking the ends of the months off from blogging. I do go stretches when I don't blog so maybe I should schedule these "periods" at the ends of the months.

I just gone done cleaning the kitchen and now it's time to start some laundry...I will keep the pinks separate and not use hot water on them. I will probably blog tomorrow because I will reread this and find out how I misquoted myself. I cannot help but think of the potato soup I made last night and think I may  head over to the kitchen and ladle me a bowl of that too. If you haven't already checked out this week's load of Dirty Laundry Podcast to find out why Lindsey Lohan was arrested at 4 AM this morning. She thought she was fighting with Cha Cha methinks.

TTTT...MITM (in) TA!

Has Christmas Been Banned?

Hello! I am finally getting to the blog. I have spent a great deal of the day editing Dirty Laundry Podcast and getting it uploaded to iTunes. It takes about three-and-a-half times longer to edit the show than it does to record it. It makes me wonder why talent gets paid s much and the behind the scenes people generally get paid far less in the entertainment world.
     A Charlie Brown Christmas is on right now. I have always liked this one. It won't be the same not seeing Dolly Madison commercials during the show. Thanks a lot for wrecking the holidays for me Hostess! Do you suppose Pig Pen's real name is Pig Pen? If your last name was Pen or Penn would you name your son Pig? Maybe it's a nickname but it's still pretty mean if that is the case. That reminds me - we got a flyer attached to our mailbox today requesting that everyone put white lights on their parkway trees. I told Fabio that I thought I would put black lights on our tree instead. Our neighborhood Facebook page has turned me pretty sour on the neighborhood. It's a bunch of gossips and busybodies. Not only that but have you ever tried to shovel the sidewalk with an extension cord crossing it? Count me out! Cha Cha says she wants to do it... You're a mean one Mr. Agitator! I guess we're going to do it. I am the Charlie Brown of this house for sure. When Lucy says we're doing it I just step in line. I am such a blockhead.

This is probably the last blog that I will write because I am winning a half-a-billion dollars+ on Powerball tonight and then I will have somebody write it for me. I will dictate it, when I have time while being filthy rich, but does that mean I write it? Boy, the podcast would get a lot better with that kind of money. We'd probably get some really big guests too. Rich people always have powerful and famous friends.

Lucy Van Pelt really is a mean bitch! Hey, Charlie Brown went 36 minutes and they are piggy-backing some show called Prep and Landing onto the back of Charlie Brown; sneaky, sneaky. See what happens when Dolly Madison isn't involved?

I just read where Pope Benedict has written a book and now people were thinking that Christmas was going to be cancelled? In his book The Infancy Narratives - Jesus of Nazareth the Pope wrote that in the scriptures there was not mention of animals in a stable rather Jesus was probably born in a cave. This is causing people to think that the Pope was going to cancel Christmas? I find a lot of people gullible but do these people really believe that talking animals and a little boy playing a drum were hanging out with baby Jesus? The official Catholic social network, XT3, even came out and said "The Pope has not banned Christmas." I didn't know that the Catholic church had their own social network. I bet they don't have porn on there.

Fabio just asked me what I want for Christmas. I have no idea what I want. I don't really want anything. Now I have to come up with some things I want; I really, really don't want anything. A gas station gift certificate? Cheese? iTunes gift card would be nice I guess.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you sleep well tonight. I think I will. I will probably blog again tomorrow but earlier than today. Have a great morning and I will blog you again sometime tomorrow. TTTThen...MITM (stuffed-up) TA!

Just Another Cyber Monday (oh, it's Tuesday)

I have not done much on the computer for a week. I haven't blogged since last Wednesday. I don't think I have been on Facebook for about three days. I cannot believe I haven't died from electronic media withdrawal (EMW) - patent/trademark/copyrights pending. I even missed Cyber Monday. I feel like life is passing me by. If the Mayans were wrong I will be a half-a-century old this next year and I think that is almost about enough for me. I have had and lost a lot of great friends. I have a family and some friends that I don't really deserve. I am not depressed and I haven't really thought these thoughts but they are just flowing from my fingertips onto this keyboard. I have lots more that I need to do and lots more that I want to do but if the Mayans were correct I can go to the happy hunting grounds feeling that I made a contribution. I hope this doesn't sound like a bummer because that is not how I feel. I have just accepted how things are and know I was capable of much more and I just squandered many opportunities and talents but that's the way life goes; which of us cannot say that we could have and/or should have done more with our talents and opportunities?

Tonight we will record Dirty Laundry Podcast. That is one of my highlights of the week. It is kind of a lot of work and time each week but I really enjoy doing the show. I have no idea what we are going to talk about on the show this week but we always seem to talk about too much by the time we are through. I take notes all week long and then pick and choose from the chaos that has spewed from my mind.

Apparently there have been rumors that Dolly Parton is gay. Firstly, I have never heard these rumors. Secondly, I don't really care if she likes chicks... I actually wouldn't blame her if she did. Guys smell and are selfish and self-centered and are too competitive.... I guess that pretty much shows that I am not gay; guys are idiots. Dolly, maybe you should reconsider not being gay. Anyway, she had come out (bad choice of words) and said she is not gay. She has had a friend named Judy Ogle "since like third or fourth grade" and she "loves her as much as anyone in the whole wide world" but they "are not romantically involved." Dolly has been married to the same guy for 40 years. I guess with this criteria Cha Cha might be gay too. She has been married to the same dude for 25 years. She has been friends with Nature Girl and MADYM forever. And they all three just spent the weekend in Iowa and we all know what Iowa is famous for! Actually, what is Iowa famous for? Field of Dreams? Out of context that makes a lot of sense.

I want to segue into talking about Elmo so I will. No, I wont. It might be pod-worthy though.

I have to get some stuff done. That's code for I don't know what else to write but don't tell anyone.  Have a great night and I will probably have more to blog about tomorrow. Thanks for dropping by. TTTT...MITM (audi)

Thanksgiving Eve Already? Really?

Wow, I am in a great mood. I know I don't say that too often but am happy when I do. Today is my only full day off. I never really thought about it until right now but on my other day off I actually work six -hours in that day. I better stop blogging about that because it's gonna be a blog-kill. I got a full night of sleep last night with the help of the good people at the McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division of McNeil-PPC, Inc. (the makers of Benadryl) and only four hours of sleep the previous night.

Cha Cha and I did not record the podcast last night; we are recording tonight instead. We decided to wait until tonight because we thought we would watch a movie to review on the show. She only works half-a-day today so we get to a see a MATTinee. Movies we want to see are: Skyfall, Flight and Lincoln. Hitchcock might come out today too or that may be Friday. I never really noticed until I types all of those movies that it appears that Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) has made it's way to the film industry. All of these films are one word titles. Maybe I could make a movie called Hitchcock Flight, Lincoln Skyfall. I am fairly certain that we are going to see Skyfall because that is the one that Cha Cha wants to see most. Maybe we we'll do a movie a week for awhile; it appears that the Black Friday / Christmas season has begun. I will probably repeat that ADD bit on the show tonight. I will still do my best to get the Dirty Laundry Podcast up by early tomorrow (Thanksgiving) morning so you can listen while you're mashing the potatoes and cranning the berries and whatever you are doing.

I still cannot believe I didn't know Thanksgiving was this week until two days ago. Could someone please let me know when Christmas is a week away? I will probably remember that one because it falls on a Tuesday (my Saturday) so I get Christmas and New Years Day night off. I work New Years Eve but we never go out that night anyway though we have gone to Brookfield Zoo a few times for New Years Eve, If you have young children I highly recommend the zoo on that night. I don't merely recommend it I HIGHLY recommend it. The Disney Prize Patrol is usually there and they do the countdown like at 8 or 9.
I am flipping back and forth between The American President and The Man Who Knew Too Little (both before the ADD crisis in America) on Encore East (ENCe) and Encore West (ENCw) even though I am recording them both in the Middlewest. I like both of these films a great deal. We have free Starz and Encore this weekend it appears. I check every weekend, mainly on holiday weekends, to see if any of the movie channels are free and more times than not there is one of the channels free on holiday weekends. I posted it on Facebook so my friends could check in their areas and I found out from my buddy Brian, that is him holding the sign promoting this blog at the Wisconsin State Capital in the MITM Facebook page, that is is not available in his part of the cheese state. I don't know if it's only DirecTV or only in my area or only at my house or what. Maybe they know that I blog and podcast and figured out a way to get some moron to plug their wares for free. Nicely played whoever played me. nicely played. But I love SWAG and this is pretty swaggy! In case you don't know SWAG is "stuff we all get" usually used for freebies. Apparently this isn't SWAG because Brian doesn't receive the free weekend.

It's funny how many people in The American President later would be on the television show The West Wing. Martin Sheen even went from Chief of Staff to becoming The President...nice! And Micheal J. Fox who worked on that political show on television where he was a Chief of Staff. Fox just said Fudge in the movie. Only he didn't say "fudge." He said THE word, the big one, the queen-mother of dirty words. The F-dash-dash-dash word!

I need a haircut. I just ran my fingers through my hair sensually and found it to be too long (TWSS).

I have to get some stuff done around here before show time (movie and podcast) so I need to blog this a wrap. Thanks a lot for coming on by. I will probably blog again in the morning. Have a great Thanksgiving Eve. TTTT...MITM (gobbling out). TA!

Waste of Blog Space Today - But Quick and Painless

It was only a month or so ago and Jackie Chan was dead and now he's making a new film; reportedly his last action movie before he retires. I always knew he was amazing but movies from the other side? Wow! Anold Shortsweater and John Clod Vandamn got nothing on him (yes, I know they are spelled wrong but sometimes I just don't care).

I only slept for about three hours because I didn't take Benadryl. Even though I was extremely tired I didn't sleep long without aid. Is this called addiction? Insomnia? Guilt from deeds in a past life?

Today after school Fabio starts his workouts with his personal trainer. He's excited about it; let's see how he feels about it once he's done with today's training. I hope he sticks with it; I guess it's my job to make sure he does through encouragement and bribes and threats. How am I going to sponge off of him later if he doesn't get into the NBA or MLB or NFL or something?

Big Street year!

Tonight we record the podcast. I am not going to link Dirty Laundry Podcast today because you should know how to find it by now if you're so inclined. I hope I can stay awake for it. Have I mentioned that this laptop drives me crazy lately? Consider it mentioned.

I cannot believe I have been writing this with the television on as background noise and didn't realize Little House on the Prairie was on. It's half over but I am fairly sure I can surmise what has happened to this point. Oh, there's a conflict? And sadness? I love LHotP!

Who knew that Sesame Street would be so relevant in the last couple of months? Bid Bird helped to end Mitt Romney's Presidential aspirations and Elmo allegedly had inappropriate relationship with an underage boy/man (the actor who had his hand up Elmo's backside anyway).

I am not very creative in the writing department so far today. I had better end and save what little I have for the podcast. The blog happens everyday (or somewhere there abouts) but the podcast happens but once a week. Thanks a lot for your patience today. I will try to do better tomorrow. Have a great time until we meet again. TTTT...MITM (gone)

Fourscore and Seven Blogs Ago

Against zombies and in podcasting

I got my hands on one of the last boxes of Wonka's Scrumdilliumptions Bars Hostess Twinkies. I think I may wait and auction them off for charity. It's either that or hold onto them for the Zombpocolypse because when Woody Harrelson comes to town I want to get him on Dirty Laundry Podcast and we all know he will be looking for Twinkies.

Thanksgiving is almost here. Most people in America get Thursday and Friday off this week, Thursday for Thanksgiving and Friday for one of the most publicized new "holidays" of the year Black Friday. Do these people who take part in Black Friday not have the internet? I would tell them here that you can get better deals ordering stuff online than you can get at these sales without the chance of being trampled or pepper sprayed but they don't have the internet. If that's the part you like I could probably provide that service at a small cost so you can still feel like you are in the fight while ordering your items online and you can still save some money to do something like, say, pay your bills?

I work Thursday and Friday and I also get holiday pay for both of those days. I think this year, and every year hereafter if my schedule stays the same, I will call the day after Thanksgiving Green Friday (ka-ching). We also should have the new Dirty Laundry Podcast up by Thursday morning, probably even by Wednesday night, so you can listen while you're making the turkey... You can also share the show with the people from over the river and through the woods that you either go to see or that come to see you. I have a story about our Thanksgiving (the upcoming one) that I can share; aren't all of the holidays about stories really? Screwed-up family stories mostly. I will be right back - the washer and dryer are both playing my songs. The washer and dryer both play a little musical ditty when they are done; they both sound like the British marching into battle during the Revolutionary War. I am back - the dryer wasn't done so the wash has to sit and wait until their buddies get their acts into gear.

I am tweaking my diet because I am having a hard time with food again. I have a thousand excuses why and I am going to try to eat fowl again. I am still going to stay off of the pork and beef for now but with my options being so limited I am finding it too easy to turn to cookies and the crap that is killing me slowly. It is merely a coincidence that I am adding fowl on the week of Thanksgiving - I didn't think about that until right now.

Today is the day that one of the most famous of speeches in American history was given. When I wrote that I started to think about Martin Luther King, Jr. and John F. Kennedy and Neil Armstrong  (not a speech exactly)... The one that happened on this date was in 1863. It was Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. I know it by heart; I think we had to learn it in eight grade or something and I just remember it. It was easy because I heard it live; I was in eighth grade when the speech was delivered. I wish I lived in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania so I would have a Gettysburg address. I wonder if I can get a p.o. box there for the podcast? I wish I was off work tonight so I could go see Lincoln; it looks really good.

I don't think I will ever see a movie on opening weekend again. I am sure you heard about that guy who was planning to shoot up a theater with opening of one of those Twilight movie. I can wait for movies rather than have to dodge a lead rainstorm. Another reason to stay away from Black Friday - stay away from highly publicized crowds with high body-count potential. A lead storm might make Lincoln seem like a 3-D movie (bad joke, sorry).

Have a great night (or day if you're reading this in the day somewhere) and thanks for stopping on on. I will blog again tomorrow because it's my Saturday and I am always in a good mood and less tired on my Saturday. TTTT...MITM (baking potatoes) TA!

What is Santa without Ho Ho's?

I said I would blog today so I blog. I guess it is your Friday huh? Lucky! I suppose it's everybody's Friday but it some peoples' Friday more than others'. Sorry if I am salty but it's only my Tuesday and I only had a one day weekend; it was by my choice so I could get twelve hours of overtime but salt runs in my veins. Supposedly about 57% of our body weight is water (unless you're an infant then it's like 75% - if you're an infant congratulations on being able to read and do you need an agent?). I think my water is salt water.
I am getting pretty of tired working nights (pun sort of intended). I really like my job but I am missing out on a lot of life. Cha Cha is very patient but I know it is getting old for her to be alone and having to go to events and family gatherings and such alone. She doesn't say anything about it because she is not a complainer but it is tough on her. Maybe I am going to die soon and this is fate's way of easing her into being without me before it makes it poimanent (say that last word in your best Burgess Meredith / Mickey Goldmill voice). Maybe it is making us appreciate us even more than we already do. I know how lucky I am to have her and I think about it every day. She doesn't read the blog (maybe nobody does?) so don't tell her I said that if you read this.

I am not really sure what is going on in the news and I don't really care. I am tired about worrying about everybody else so I decided to take a day off of the news. Why do you suppose the news was invented? Because we're nosy by nature? I know we learn by other people and we are inspired by other people but the news has become only what is wrong with everything and everyone. Maybe that's a little of why I write the blog; to remind you and me that not everything is doom and gloom. Even if it is it is okay to make fun of things even when they are sensitive to some.

I am watching The Express while I write this, not to be confused with Pineapple Express. It is kinda weird that I mentioned Rocky (sort of) and now I mention a movie about Ernie Davis. Davis was a remarkable man; it's too bad that his life was cut short. I would say that my favorite kinds of films are the ones about underdogs and injustice and the overcoming of prejudice and injustices of all kinds at any cost. Good thing for me there is no shortage of those kinds of films. When I finally get my book/screenplay written I am certain that it will fall into this genre. Maybe it should be about a guy writing and book/screenplay and getting it produced. That sounds an awful like an "against all odds story."

Hostess in the MIDDLEwest here has called their union employees' bluff and decided to shut the doors and liquidate the company. Hostess includes Dolly Madison and Drakes. So, we may lose: Wonder bread, Twinkies, Sno-Balls, Ding Dongs, Suzy Q's, Ho Ho's, Zingers, CupCakes, Home Pride, Beechnut, Beefsteak, Donettes... How am I going to make my Twinkie/Zinger stuffing for Thanksgiving? Most of those things have probably helped to make obesity in America grow. Someone asked me, "why do you think the country is not gonna help 'bail-out' Hostess like they did with the automobile industry?" Since a big part of President and Michelle Obama's plan is to have healthy kids in our country I don't see that happening. We can do without snack cakes no matter how delicious they are. Maybe we can make our own? Duncan Hines stock will probably rise. I even guarantee that many of these cakes and goodies will go on. Those brand names listed up there are sponge cake gold and some company will buy those names and recipes and they will go on. It is sad that many, many people lost their jobs but they lost their jobs, partially, due to greed. I don't know the specifics but from what I have heard they were holding-out for more money and the company wasn't willing to pay. That's business. I imagine they were making a really nice union wage but it wasn't enough; they wanted more and now they have less. It really makes me want to play poker.


Now I have to go make dinner. Even though I have snack cakes on my mind I am probably going to make fish and rice instead though I guarantee Fabio would prefer snack cakes. I am not sure if I will blog tomorrow - it usually depends if I have something on my mind or I want to vent or I have made you a promise. I am not going to promise because I am not sure but if I do I will let you know. If you haven't listened to the new Dirty Laundry Podcast please listen - it's a good show and I am not biased at all (okay, maybe I am a little fond of Cha Cha on the show).

Have a great however long it is until I blog again. Thank you for stopping in - I really appreciate you. TTT (whenev)...MITM (out)