Working For The Weekend...

Had a long and rough week last week... but I just started thinking about my gal pal and our time together. Whenever I get down... I go see the gal pal... she brings me up like no one else... I am blessed... that's it in a nutshell... my girl is something else... and I'm grateful. Hope y'all are having a good week. Me, it's getting better and between her and listening to the co-workers talk about Dancing With The Stars... I guess life can't be all bad...lol... But I do change the channel when Chloris Leachmen comes on... ugh... I'm pulling for Warren Sapp... He's a big guy like me and he's light on his feet. Plus he's just lots of fun. Can't go wrong with that...

Who Am I??

Thanks to my friend Riccie for this little get to know... me...

1. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? Everyone and their brother wanted me to be named after one of the Beatles. I'm glad my folks didn't. I think I was named after St. Michael the Arch Angel... either way, I'm glad I wasn't named after Ringo...
2. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED? I can't remember...
3. Do you like your handwriting? NO
4. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? Chicken, Turkey and Corned Beef...
5. DO YOU HAVE KIDS? none that I'm aware of...lol
6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? I dunno, it depends on when I would meet me...
7. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? ME?? Nooooo... NOT ME.... lol
8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Yes I do....
9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? Oh heck no...
10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Well, I'm lame... Cheerios!
11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? No Way!!!
12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? Not really... just trying to make a go of life... that's about it.
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Butter Pecan or Strawberry. I can't have ice cream anymore but when I did... mmmmm...
14. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE? APPEARANCE (SLOVENLY VS CLEAN) I'm an eye man...
15. RED OR PINK? why be greedy... BOTH!!
16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? AGAIN, PHYSICALLY OR PERSONALITY???? Too many to list here...
17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? My dad... he was something else
18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? Not necessarily, but it's okay...
19. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? Midnight Blue and Black...
20. WHAT WAS THE LAST THING YOU ATE? Watermelon
21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? The radio
22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU Be? Aqua
23. FAVORITE SMELLS? My gal pal with her favorite perfume, Fresh baked bread.
24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? My radio partner...
25. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS? Absolutely
26. FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH? Hockey... Hockey... oh yeah, football too...
27. HAIR COLOR? Black with a few grays tossed in for fun...lol...
28. EYE COLOR? two black olive pits jammed into my skull...lol...
29. Do you wear contacts? nope
30 FAVORITE FOODS? ALL OF IT.... I flat out, LOVE food... lol
31. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS? Happy Endings
32. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? Still Crazy (Billy Connolly, Stephen Rea) came out in 1998
33. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? Blue
35. HUGS OR KISSES? I am greedy.... BOTH
37. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? Don't know
38. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? Don't know
39. What book are you reading now? 90 Minutes In Heaven
40. WHAT IS ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? Logo of the Saskatchewan Roughrider football team...
41. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON T.V.. Fox News Channel
42. FAVORITE SOUND? Music and sports radio...
43. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? Neither one...
44. WHAT IS THE FARTHEST YOU HAVE BEEN FROM HOME? Hawaii
45. Any new news in your life? Not yet... subject to change though...
46. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? In a cave, during the days when dinosaurs walked the earth...
47. WHOSE ANSWERS ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING BACK? Didn't I answer this earlier? oops sarcasm...lol
48. WHAT TIME IS IT NOW? It's now... and it's NOW (plus 7 seconds)... and it's still... NOW.... aiiiiiiiigh!

Extreme Makeover: my hometown edition...

So, it's been a while since I've been on here writing. Sorry about that. I have been insanely busy and have not been doing much except for working and more working... My fair hometown of Toledo just had a visit from the folks at ABC's “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”... Some couple from a neighborhood in the west end got a new house. It was filmed this past week. They and their 11 kids (mostly adopted) went on vacay and the house was built. They came home this past Sunday and I think most of the city of Toledo came out to see it. I didn't bother because I had a hockey game to broadcast online but I knew many people that were there and worked on the project. It was a great experience for all of them and I'm glad for the family as they were very deserving. The news media here were just fawning all over the cast... they had a lineup of Pauly, Rachel, Rib, and Ty...
Now from the “what do you mean there's no Santa Claus?” department:
Apparently, since they're at a build for 7 days, around the clock, the stars have a little freedom to just relax. From a couple of guys that were putting some of the flooring in the house, “Pauly just sat there and smoked cigarettes most of the time we were working...” And from a couple of others: “Rachel spent most of her time in her trailer. For one of her shoots, she came out and they sprayed her with some sawdust to make her look like she was working it and they cleared the area of the volunteers so that they could film her “working”.... Now normally, I would say something really crass and mean because I know of a couple of folks that worked at the build and they said the same thing. The designers don't do much in the way of the physical labor... It's okay, I choose to acknowledge that it's the 100's volunteers that do all of the work and get very little of the credit. They're the ones who make it special. And for that, I am very proud of my hometown. I still am very much a fan of the show... The airing of this show will be sometime in November. So that'll be cool. Oh and by the way... there's no easter bunny either... have a nice day... ;)

Calm Before The...

Yippeeeee....
Well, I've been able to shake the thoughts of Chloris Leachman out of my head and am able to face the world again. Things are calm at the moment and sometimes that really scares me. It's been so long since I've had an uneventful week, that I don't know how to handle it sometimes. I'm just so used to pressure filled crisis of some sort or another that it seems odd that I'm sitting here feeling peaceful and almost waiting for the next big issue to come along. I don't want to think or feel like that. I want to be peaceful. I want to relax and find a way to enjoy life. To feel good about going about my life and be able to enjoy it. In other words... I want to be my old, whack-job self that is such a goof. Drives me crazy sometimes... I want to relax. Diving head first into broadcasting sports has been a big help for me. I try to keep prayerful and I gotta say, I've been a lot more peaceful and calm since I started getting in the Word every morning. I'll be honest, I didn't start out that way... Reading the Bible was about as interesting as going to a yawning festival. Till I actually tried to find out what the stuff in that book meant. When I started yearning to learn more in it, I began to grasp some of what is in there. It took a while for me to learn that I'll never completely get the meaning of everything in it... But it took longer for me to realize that it's OK for me not to understand it all... That's why I continue to read it. To find new things in there to help enlighten me as I try to do life with those around me... Hope this finds you in a good way and with a smile on your face... If not, do what I do... when I need to perk up, I look in the mirror, and just say "you're such a dork"... and I usually feel better. You can even do what a friend of mine did... My friend was feeling out of sorts, kinda blah... well, he told me that he went into the bathroom feeling that way and then he looked into the mirror and as loud and proud as he could, he said: "Mik is such a dork!"... He said he was feeling like a million bucks all day... in fact when he changed the ending of that statement to include other names, he said he got out of his mood and was whistling by the latter part of the day. So, if you're feeling down at all, feel free to look in the mirror and say, "Mik is such a dork" and maybe you too, will feel better... Have a great weekend... :)