So Spring

-I thought spring was here but yet I am mistaken. Where are the beautiful days where you can wear shorts and a hoodie and be just fine. Is Chicago going to bless us with winter (O, fuck its cold I think my face is going to fall off). Then bless us with a summer where we fill like clothing should not be mandatory in anyway shape or form. I feel that I should always be clothed except during the fucking summers. Why can we not have that nice breeze from the lake but have that nice southern dry heat. O the days I lived in the south I miss it. I'm tired of the fucking cold and snow.
KLJ

The old lady-

So there is this old lady that comes in almost every fucking day and gets a small coffee and sleeps forever. Now I know the chairs are cosi but seriously. She is super bad shit crazy. I wonder what she does all day, does she work does she go to other places and do this. It would be super awesome if she just bounced all over Chicago just getting small coffees and sleeping, I kind of wish I could do that. She seems like she really is perfectly okay with everyone seeing her sleep with her mouth wide open. Its really great except she kind of scares customers. So anyone that comes in needs not to be scared she is just gettin some ZZZZZZZ!
klj

What I fucking need to do!

Okay so here is the plan:
No drinking coffee
No drinking beer
No drinking soda
Okay so pretty much drinking water and herbal tea
No eating fast food
No eating greasy food
No eating bread
Okay well just eating rice and sea weed
Walking
Running
Riding
NO SMOKING!
Okay thats really going to happen!
O, dear lord I'm going to end up killing myself!

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What do you say when there really is nothing to say.
I miss Jeremy to much.
I can not wait for Beau to be home.
I am so very tired.
Thats all I really have. this blog is super fucking lame.
Maybe I'll something better to say later.

Keiko

BLARGH!!!!

alright...


- MIKE!!!!!

My Car is a sentient being...

I had to take it in for an emmitions check on Friday. Problem is my "Check Engine" light has been on since 1998. So I take it in to get repaired, tell the guy my "Check Engine" light is on, he looks in on the dash and says "no it's not". I look, and it's off. For the first time in 10 years, it's off. So I take it to the "Clean Air" test facility, they plug their computer into my car computer ( I didn't even know my car had a computer ) and I pass the test. No problems, pass the check. Drive away from the testing place, the engine light goes back on. SPOOOOOOOOKY!!!!!!

Why teachers drink and international escape artists.

It is Laura again. Mike was bugging me about my long blogging absence. So here is a little addition...

Why do kids think begging laced with blatant lies will actually work? Wow! How stupid do they think I am? I think "my dog ate my homework" would be better than the stupid excuses I heard this week. Grades were due today and I have many desperate seniors. Its funny...they weren't desperate when I was hounding them to turn in their damn work! This is why teachers drink!

The thought of running gleefully for the first plane leaving O'hare International keeps skipping through my mind. Of course, with my luck, I would end up on the Yemen airways flight to Mosul where my bus would get pulled over by insurgents who see me as a photogenic hostage who could provide a lovely screaming voice for their next "get the fuck out of my country" video. I suppose I should be somewhat selective as to which plane is best suited for escape. Lets see...

Lot Polish Airlines 002 5:30P 3 Warsaw AT 6:30PM (its running late)
A little too soon. With rush hour traffic, I would never make it. Besides, I don't know Polish - except for some swear words, which may not go over well. Still, it wouldn't be bad. Its cheap. I hear it is pretty. There is a ton of WWII history to lose myself in. Hmmmm

American Airlines 86 5:15P K19 London Heathrow AT 7:00P (another plane running late!)
Now we are talking. No language barrier. I have lived there before so I wouldn't get lost. I could visit some of my other friends who live in England. If the Blue line is on time I just might be able to make it. Good choice!

THEN AGAIN, I would have to get through traffic and security. SOOOO Maybe the first flight I could catch would be around 8:30PM. Let us see where that would take me....

Quantas 3311 8:25P Toronto on time
I LOVE Toronto. If you haven't been, its a great town. I used to drive up there from Cleveland on weekends. Stayed in a neighborhood they called Little Portugal. Wonderful markets. Nice people.

Hey, Quantas is an Australian Airline...maybe I could hide in the bathroom and stow away to Australia and visit Jeremy! I would love to see Sydney again...I even have friends there. Not a bad plan....except for stowing away in the bathroom may look suspicious. I might get arrested for being a suspected terrorist and subject to extraordinary rendition where I would be interrogated in some foreign country where torture is legal and my family and lawyer type friends can't find me until ten years later when my civil rights lawyer friend Jen finally gets the case of Hartel v. Bush to the United States Supreme court where she claim my 14th Amendment right to due process was violated.

At least there wasn't a flight to Mosul - my fears were all unfounded.

-Laura

Yes, I have likewise butchered the standard grammar of the English language. One needs a little Joycean stream of consciousness moment in their rants now and then.

Carol Wilder

I remember chasing daddy long legs around there porch in Dallas. Thats all I can really remember right now. So I'm sitting here at work and decided to google Larry Enge and Carol Wilder. Larry was my dads partner in the restoration business they had in Dallas. They were artist that I have always looked up to. Just wanted to see what they have been working on as of late.
Carol was the first white women to be inducted into the African-American Art Gallery in Dallas, she was an amazing artist. She did collaborations with her husband Larry. I remember it was an crazy thing for them because of there B/W marriage. In Texas its not very common.
Well in my finding I ran across this great website of her memory. She died in a car accident (I didn't know that). Anyone who reads this look her up her art was amazing and she was the first person besides my dad to introduce me to art. Every time I got to go in her art tree house it opened my eyes to a world as a child just looked cool but as an adult is a gate way to another world. She was an amazing woman and amazing artist.
KLJ

So MIKE! was back

for a minute. I do want to tell of someone else who is comes back Beau. I'm so excited he will be back from Iraq in a month. Not going to see him a lot but he will be back in the states and thats all I really care about. Now if only Jeremy would come back! I miss him, but I think the longer he is gone the better his head might be. Its amazing how much you love someone, somewhere, or something the longer you are apart. It is the little things you find you can not live without. Well thats all I got for now maybe more later.
Keiko

O, And MIKE! you need to blog, we all miss you!

I'm Back Motherfuckers!!!!

- The dishes have been done bitches! Well, so to speak. Anyway, here's what's been going on lately:

We got Fixx Mocha at the Fixx Coffee Bar and I drank the shit out of it and now I'm fucking wired and Kiiko!!! I mean, Keiko is boy crazy!!!!!! She has a phantom boner for some guy who will go unnamed. Ironically enough (or maybe not, I'm not Woody Allen) I was going through a phantom pregnancy about 6 months ago, but after a couple months the symptoms stopped and I no longer craved Rocky Road Ice Cream Potatoes. I think I misscarried. Very Sad. But don't cry for me (&) Argentina! (No, not the country, the name of my phantom baby).

Also!: Spring Training has begun! Go Giants!! We know they don't have a chance in the regular season so maybe they can dominate the Cactus League. Also also: I saw Juno last night and it was cute. I was very moved. Now I want to make lots of babies and hand them out to people without babies. Baby Maker Minnick 2000.

Comics have been going well. I have stayed on top of my reading. I never waver when it comes to reading comics. I never waver when I't comes to taking baths either. Or waving now that I think about it, because there is no one to wave to. It's only me and my bath tub, and I guess the sink, but waving to either object would just be pathetic, because they are inanimate.

It's worth noting that when I'm at the urination station I try not to look at my junk when I pee because it's kinda weird looking. not weird looking for a penis. Just weird looking because it is a penis.

(parentheses are cool.)

- Mike!!!!!