The only time holly has liked my facial hair. I shaved it to a mustache the very next day but she yelled at me and threaten to not leave the house with me if I didn't shave. I wish I had evidence of that bodacious stache!

So I've been sleeping on the couch while I've been here and needless to say that I've missed my bed but not because its big and comfortable but because I don't have to be covered in a sleeping bag and a down comforter! Its all good, you do what you have to do to be with the people that make you go! I have found a new love, reading! Well at least books that deal with sports or big personalities so lets not go giving each other a pat on the back and please hold back on the book club invitations. Its amazing that if i close my eyes and just listen all I can hear is the rain dropping the rooftop and the occasional car whiz past King st ave. This is truly a nice place to live, its something that I can only remember. The itch to be close to the city is too big for me especially with a metro as interesting as the GTA!!! Anyways I was listening to J.Mayer and I couldn't get this lyrics out of my mind..

.......No I'm not colorblind

I know the world is black and white

Try to keep an open mind

But I just can't sleep on this tonight

Stop this train

I wanna get off

And go home again

I can't take the speed it's moving in

I know I can't

But honestly, won't someone stop this train?

Don't know how else to say it......

OH yeah, pictures.. I can't find holly's camera to upload any up yet. So I'll leave with this one of HAT.

What do you mean its delayed?

So on my recent trip to Toronto was plagued with delays. I left my house around 1230 ish and didn't leave Orlando till 4:30. I was scheduled to leave at 2:55. I got to Chicago to meet yet another delay. I was there for over 5 hours....Needless to say that i arrived 5 1/2 hours later than I was suppose to...but then my girl picked me up and I forgot how long I had sat on an airplane.
Though I did have a good experience with my single serving friend from Chicago to Toronto. A delightful women with years of experience in life. She reminded me of my mother with her positive energy and warm eyes. We talked about her life and her love interests, well her two previous marriages that ended with divorce due to involvement of alcohol in the marriage, even with such devastating life crutches she still had the optimism of a women with hope. She talked to me in detail about her daughters and cousins. She was a proud lady, I appreciated her encouragement as I talked to her about my future plans. Eleanor, thanks for the talk.

Oh, one more thing, apparently in Canada there are flying squirrells that attack bird feeders. I'll try to get some video of this before I leave.
Well bye for now..

Yeah..I know she loves...

So my trek to the great white north begins is 48hours or so..I'm excited to leave florida for a little bit and see how the poloar bears live (i.e everyone else that wears coats). I especially looking forward to the little games that we play at the thorne's house about who gets to do what. Its usually holly because she's the not married one ( don't worry baby I'm really working on that) and then me because i'm the sidekick of the equation. I don't mind but she gets all huffy and puffy, its sorta of cute until she starts to yell, then i just want to hide. I wonder if I'll get to sit with someone interesting. Its come to my realization that I have no problem to talking to complete strangers about anything. Most recently I struck a conversation with a older man smoking a cig outside of starbucks ( i bought a hybrid juice drink if you're wondering what kind of coffee drinker I am- I'm not!) and he overheard craig and I's conversation about baseball. He asked me if I was a player and i said no ( I think he assumed I was since I'm am Latino and one thing we do know how to do is play shortstop or steal..oh sorry about that last one!?) So goes about asking me where I'm from and if I went to college. I tell him I'm from Michigan and I went to Andrews University, you know what this guy says?

Berrien Springs right? I was like how did you know that? I didn't have to go into the whole spiel about how its 30 min north of Norte Dame! So I tell him I'm struggling with the idea of going back to Grad School because of the money issue, I tell him I'm thinking about taking out ugh more loans. He says to me, don't do it, go to the library and find this book____ and send out 20 request, I'll get at least 3 scholarships if I do that. He goes on to tell me that I can get into Dartmouth, Princeton, NYU, or Chicago ( school of economics) if I can write a good essay. He was very hospitable but then he started talking to me about how he was 3 wives and 600 hundred children. Apparently he's a millionaire. I asked for his name and all he gave me is Hamilton. Which could be a another way of saying My name is tom. You see if you re arrange the letters you get "I am Thon." That's just me being crazy. I gave him my number to see if we could talk to me some more. The 2 most important things I got out the conversation are, Keep the sabbath day and I will leave this world once a week, also stopping talking to crazy people!

Oh hol, I'll see you in like 46hours! Holla!

You wear such cool hats!

I get that statement, comment, remark alot. I sorta of chuckle because people must think that I love wearing hat when that's really not the case. I would love nothing more to just let me hair grow out and be shaggy but ooops mother nature didn't allow me to do that any longer so I have become a fan of accessories, Hat's in particular. To adorn one's dome is Divine, well that's what the BOsely's Hair Institute said but I think they'll say anything to make men feel good about themselves when they're losing their hair. I guess I accepted that process because there was no other alternative. What, take the pill, no thanks I wasn't keen about having my DNA change. What about rogaine, well that's fine and dandy if one remembers to apply it everyday and frankly I forget to brush my teeth some times what made me think that I could remember to do that. I know gross...
SO when it came down to it, I was just too scared and lazy to do anything about it. I sometimes look at the way i use to look and I get a little sad...but that is life.

OK Its really really really late and I'm awake?! But more crazy than that, craig was just up with me!!!!
I swear I'll see a flying pig at any moment......

let the madness begin..

Tomorrow is the beginning of a beautiful thing...no its not Friday, and no I don't get presents. Its march madness, where college basketball takes over day time soaps, and grown men hover over little scores and endless amounts of paper is literally wasted on useless brackets. Yeah, its great.

In other news, I think I've over stayed my stay at a certain place. The co workers are beginning to think that I'm one of them, you know they're asking questions that take our superficial friendships to an unknown area that I'm not really comfortable with. They want to hang out...I don't really like hanging out with people i work with..because I don't like the two worlds colliding. I just started accepting the fact that I have to talk to my neighbors. Anyways I think I have to grow up and get my ass back in the game...the game of life....i'm tragically being left in the dust.....damn..

I know that alot of you don't watch family guy be it that you can't get over that its a really funny show with improbable satire fitting of real live actors that somehow have found itself in a cartoon...well get over it, I don't watch it because I think the cartoons are really well drawn...



anyways...

Stay out of the sun...though I know being tan is a choice its a very dangerous one. Just accept that I wake up with this complexion...and no...its not great...its marvelous

I can they say its 12:19am when my body says its still 11:19am!

I've been avoiding the news like a visit to the dentist, ( sorry Justin, there isn't anything more annoying then visiting someone to look into your mouth and then have some small talk while they dig and clean your teeth), the reasoning: There's just sad crap on the news. I use to think that world news would be better but its impossible for me because I live in Florida, something bad always happens in Florida!! I went to CNN.com tonight and these where some of the Headline's

• Comedian commits suicide
• 101 yr old woman mugged
• wild fires threaten multi million dollar homes ( I know my west coast friends don't have multi millions homes but I hope you're safe!)
• Bush orders more troops to Iraq (apparently the gas prices are too high so we've got steal more oil!- that comment will probably cost me a job at the CIA, FBI, or DIA!!
• Beserk house cat sends owner to the hospital. (seriously that was the headline! WTF!)

Yeah, news that makes it in the "news" is usually bad..

ok, thats all..

The headline read:

Man found alone wearing pj's from valentine's day 2001. Apparent cause of lack of sleep, the inability to conjure up a real thought. The real sense of change is a welcomed thought but the action is, the action is what really is lacking. I'm the kind of person that thinks of re-meeting people that i already know because the thought of me not choosing to befriend them excites me. I re watch movies to the point that i can recite the lines without a second thought. At least I'm not timid when it comes to confrontation, though i do let people walk over me because I'm afraid of saying what really is on my mind, wait does that mean I'm not good when it comes to confrontations? Hmm, yet another thing to worry about tonight. I think i was born a decade to early. I remember thinking the 90's where so...wishy washy. First I was grunge, in the middle i was hip hop and by the end of the decade I was full blown preppy. I couldn't make up mind how i wanted to be seen...that problem went away. I find it funny that this gay guy at work feels the need to tell me what I should wear! I know that for better than not, Gay men have a sense of style but I don't think pressed jeans and ironed shirts constitute you being a fashionista. I'm watching Eternal Sunshine of a spotless mind, if that were possible, to clear your mind of things that brought you pain, embarrassment, discomfort...would you do it?

anyways its late and i should be asleep...

Is there anything worse..

I don't know about you but i find extremely annoying when someone tells me I'm angry when I'm really not angry just annoyed or frustrated. Its like having a fight with a little kid, you can never really win. Anyways March is here and people are getting all stir crazy from the north. They can feel the sand under their feet and feel the warmth of the sun's bright rays on their skin...that's right spring break is here! Soon this town will be over ran by out of staters(I don't know if that is a real word) flocking to the beach and filling the popular hang out spots that I don't frequent. They're trying to come in and I'm trying to get out! Yeah, I think this is time of year is worse than summer when its unbearably hot and not a cool breeze in sight. Ah, I really wouldn't mind a ski trip about right now..but I leave in the south and snow is not part of anyone's vocabulary. I'm hoping for cooler weather in a month when I fly up to Toronto to see Holly but Last time i was up there it was humid and hot....Cananda's crazy the last time I was up there I saw a moose begging for some money, the extent that they will go to is insane...


Yeah its crazy times up there, one could say its crazier than going to the ghetto or seeing Chester Cheetah after his gigs with cheetos!

Ok,ok,ok...sorry..cheap tricks but wouldn't everything be better if you have a flash back like that time I posed for a wacky science book...="350">

It just made me ponder and go a little nuts..

Girl You know we've been together....

How does it feel?

(This is my 1st birthday)

Gosh, Its that time of year. You know when people act all happy that you're a day older. I don't think I relish in it as much as others do. I feel odd about people wishing me a happy b-day or perhaps not so much who does as much as who doesn't wish me happy birthday. I guess I always assume that no one will remember or even care to mention it, though by writing this I'm making those that don't know and read this to remember..hmmm..yeah..Don't get me wrong I love getting little emails and cards with little notes. I think thats awesome but I just get a little bit sad because I'm getting older and I'm just getting use to being as old as I am. I didn't want to say bye 21 but I did....off topic I find it funny that clothes for little kids are sized according to their age, why dont they do that for us. Like I'm looking for a size of 27 and thats all I would have to say. ...ok back to my point. So to answer my own question, it feels bittersweet to have a birthday, I'm enjoying another year but I'm having to leave thing behind that I'm use to..I don't think I can get away with wearing torn up jeans that much longer without being those guys that can't let go of his youth!

( This is me thinking that the world was full of promise and perhaps a real shot at stardom)-->

Yes there were times of greatness like that time i was part of the boy band, the now defunct ed "Tres Amigos"

That's me in the middle, I was the lead singer. We wore red bow ties to be differentiated from the rest of the bands. We liked to line up according to height as if we were a musical scale! you're probably wondering why the band broke up. Well we had a difference of opinions Noah and I were gun ho about coming out in Osk Kosh outfits but the Mike wasn't too sure it would enhance our image. We weren't the Tres amigo's after that. After that my life just regressed as you can see here I just got out of Betty Ford for my apple juice addiction. After that, the rest of the years were a blur. I was able to land some tv show cameo's on Telemundo and later on Univision's equivalent to eight is enough but it was only 5 kids and it dealt with the life's of 4 smiling girls and a depressed kid. It was called el nino y las 4 chica's (4 chics and a kid) here was the promo shot.The show was short lived but i did gain praise from critics and did a after school special about, that's right, apple juice. Here's the cast picture for that show.
I had to lose some weight and find a way to hide my age.Anyways next time I'll tell you about my adolescences. Till then.

So tell me Les...

" how long have you been doing the triangles?"
"hmm, a long time", "i was one of the first."

What is art? I don't think I know what art is? I know what i like but for time sake lets just say its the same old crap you find in any art book at your local barnes & noble. I have a copy of a Van Gogh's midnight sky or whatever its officially called. I stare at it everyday before i go to sleep and its the first thing i see when I wake up. I think that I figured it out....art isn't so much what is being created as much as its who's creating it. The Mona Lisa, Picasso's blue era, Van Gogh's self-portrait wouldn't be so well received if it hadn't been for the fact that artist themselves were art!

Anyways I leave with you this lyric from Gilbert & Sullivan

The sun, whose rays
Are all ablaze
With ever-living glory,
Does not deny
His majesty
He scorns to tell a story!
He don't exclaim,
"I blush for shame,So kindly be indulgent."
But, fierce and bold,
In fiery gold,
He glories all effulgent!
I mean to rule the earth,
As he the sky
We really know our worth,
The sun and I!
I mean to rule the earth,
As he the sky
We really know our worth,
The sun and I!
Observe his flame,
That placid dame,
The moon's Celestial Highness;
There's not a trace
Upon her face
Of diffidence or shyness:
She borrows light
That, through the night,
Mankind may all acclaim her!
And, truth to tell,
She lights up well,
So I, for one, don't blame her!
Ah, pray make no mistake,
We are not shy;
We're very wide awake,
The moon and I!
Ah, pray make no mistake,
We are not shy;
We're very wide awake,
The moon and I!

Nicolas Cage

I'm not one to rant and rave but I have to say that hollywood would be more believable if actors like Nick Cage weren't acting. I just saw perhaps the worst horror movie-wicker man. It wasn't that the movie didn't make any damn sense,which it didn't, but having to see Nicolas Cage act as a poor man's Colombo was unbearable. He was a police officer from California waving his badge in Washington? On top of this he drop kicks leelee sobieski and punches this lady to take her gorilla suit???? what???!!!

Anyways stay away from "The Wicker Man" and Nicolas Cage!
If you want mindless entertainment watch the Hills or yet another road rules/real world challenge..

You know i need you..

(I should of posted this like two weeks ago but i kept on forgetting! )

I think there's an song that goes like that
" like the desert needs the rain you know i need you..." ok i don't know if thats actually a lyric in that song but i think i like it.

So what's the deal with global warming? I've been really interested in CO2 emission lately and how the US is planning to cut down on them. I find it funny that I've lived in places where there isn't any clean air mandates. Perhaps its because i leave in states with a large number of rednecks! I mean theres nothing wrong with being a redneck but there is some kind of mentality that give the environment the proverbial finger!

In other news that I find quite interesting, Steve Jobs and Apple have found a way to impregnate a Cellphone with an Ipod? Yet another Apple product to spend $500 dollars on! I would wait a year so you can get the new colors and the new Ipod phone with 8G, don't make the mistake I did by buying an Ipod NANO which by the time it got to me was old news since they had the new colors and more space. I'm bitter, very bitter.

The word of the day: NO!

Sexually harassed

Ok so i guess the title of this post is perhaps misleading in that I really wasn't offended by the experience but yet it was a bit interesting that a gay man can tell me what he would like to do to me and have it be comical, its a double standard really! I won't get into to it but he was quite animate in what he would want to do to me if I stopped seeing my lady!? Yeah, odd?? So anyways whats been going on people, like what's the 411 people...i feel so disconnected from all you bloggers, and myspacer's. I know that everyone loves getting emails or comments, I'm no different but I wish I could do it without having to write any of those emails or comments.I'm a lazy blogger!! Yeah i said it, its the constant pressure of writing witty, meaningful, or entertaining material. Well at least the pursuit of such excellence but I fall short of any of those things, instead you get misspelled words, missing letters, or incoherent sentences which sometimes might be entertaining to you perfectionist!

" I want to taaaallllk to you, though you might not waaant me too, i still want to taaalk to you"...OK sorry I'm having a barry gibbs withdrawal.

SO yeah..now that all of you have clicked away, i hope to get back to this little thing called life, i mean love, no that's not it..oh yeah blogging. Cuz you know what they say "if you're not blogging you're not living" or is it if you're not living you're not blogging? hmmm

Christmas shopping, hopping, hoping, and coping!

I've been busy lately, a good busy-i've been working two jobs during the holiday season and its been kicking my ass yo! 7:30 hrs in the morning and then another 5 at night..I don't even have time to eat because i'm so tired during lunch that i just take a nap instead...i know..thats bad. Ok, not really but I have been losing some lbs so i can't be all that mad. So yeah, i hate holiday shopping because it freakin suck and stressful but I was watching SNL the other day and they gave me a great idea for a gift. Its free ,its personal, and no one else will be getting this exact gift so you don't have to worry about orginality!Its a gift in a box! Yeah, I know guys, genius! So anyways I've been doing that and entertaining family for the past couple of days, which is always fun...not really I think at the end i was wanting to hide. What else, 3 days till christmas and I'm gonna be alone this weekend, cb is home in GR, Ellis is never home but he's going back Lansing, JD is off today to Columbus, colon is being all homey right now, I guess RHB is around but i have to work all weekend! I have to get to dollar bills ya and all that good stuff.
I'm so glad that i don't have to go in to my morning job today because i didn't get a wink of sleep lastnight, i mean i even put those little cover up over my eyes to get some sleepy time but i was still up so i starting my clothes on because i was afraid that they wouldn't fit?? WTF, who does that? Seriously, who does that.

I got a email from someone today that i don't know, helen, she sent me a season greetings email

Just checking in folks to wish all of you a Very Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year. As always we will miss you. We had a lot of wonderful times together .

Enjoy and love you lots.

apparently we had shared some good times!? Thanks Helen.
For those that i know that they know that we've had good times- I wish you a merry christmas, and happy new year. I hope you get what you asked for even if you don't deserve it...I love you all and miss most of you, haha..i kid..i don't miss you...aw snap!

Not so random shout out-

Erin B- whats up girl, when are you coming back? I'd like to see how comfortable you are around jess..how's the freelance life?
Mandy- Its was great that you ran into me at the GAP as i worked under a alias, you've seen me at my retail best!
Kendra _? I don't remember your new last name- how's married life, its amazing you'll be sharing your first christmas this year with your new hubby..you were one of the prime single gals that i couldn't understand why no one had plucked you away and sealed the deal, I guess i can't say that anymore, Damn!
Ticalmucker- Whatta up playa? I hope you have a great holiday season chillin with the fam. I'm looking forward to perhaps a great story. Our boy finally got some cojones and made his feelings know!
JColon- I love you and i will always love you..i hope that made you incredibly uncomfortable.
Mellie and Dave- Good luck in MIchigan...i hear it sucks up there right now..haha
CB-bring me back something good from MI
Hol-I love you girl..come and see me!
Les- stop writing these dang shout outs!

had a great post but f-ing firefox unexpectedly shut down! PIECE of crap! That's some bullcrap!

I'm so mad I can't even write anymore..

so anyways that would of been great but oh well firefox..thanks for ruining my comedic geniuses with your crappy service..

Awkward

So I started my little part time job last week but I didn't really experience the full blown holiday season till this past Friday aka black friday aka why did I wake up so early to save 15% on these jeans? So there I was just folding clothes and then this gal started asking me if I spoke Spanish, I eagerly said yes I was thinking that perhaps she wanted to just talk while we folded the jeans into little folds! Nope, apparently this girl,who will remain nameless, loves telling her sexual encounters to strangers. That day she violated all sexual harassment policies, I mean every single one. When she wasn't talking about how much she loved having sex she was walking into the dressing rooms without knocking and staring at the guys packages to see...Well you know! I listened to her for 7 hrs, just going on and on about the dumbest things you can imagine. Who knew retail could be uncompromising? Oh well, I guess I could report her but then she'd know it was me!

I hope this holiday season goes by fast, because honestly I hate this time of year..I get nothing but stress from it.

hope everyone ate a lot and gained a couple of pounds.
Till next time..

My new hobby

As of late I've had too much damn time on my hands, I'm really working on resolving that situation, so I've been re-watching movies that made me laugh in a foreign title. This past Saturday night I watched The 40-yr old Virgin in French/Spanish. I can't tell you how hard I laughed when they were talking about dirty things in French...I guess it just sounded more dirty in French. I wonder if other things would be funnier in a different light. For instance would a gay lester be funnier or more enjoyable than a straight lester? Hmmm...probably not because I would just make inappropriate comments and make people more uncomfortable than I already do. So lets just squash that idea all together....

SO anyways today I thinking that I wonder how much I could get for everything in my room..and I mean everything. I would call it "I'm getting the F out here sale", or "I'm soo broke that I have to sell my clothes to strangers sale" ok I think I like the first sale. Anyways, I forgot to say happy birthday to KK. So happy birthday.

oh one more thing..suziqbea...doing a 100 things about me defeats the purpose of saying that only a few people know me...thanks for undermining a 7yr friendship...that just happened.

It came to my attention

I was watching Grey's Anatomy recently, perhaps it was the episode that aired 3 weeks ago and there was this song on one of these segway's where Meredith is talking about how life is this or love is like this...Anyways the song is Fidelty by Regina Spektor. I really enjoy that song however I don't enjoy her. I saw her (R.Spektor) live last year, she opened for Keane at Hard Rock Live and I wanted to punch her and I don't support hitting women! I guess it really grinds my gears that the song is pleasant that I have to support her. In other news I guess K-fed's lottery ticket has ran out of cash, well at least he'll have to find another way to support his "I don't do a damn thing" lifestyle! Too bad K-fed, I was happy for ya but I guess everything has to run out, eventually! Stedman you better watch it dawg you might be next!

Well my weekend of Solitude is now officially over, the roomies are back and the silence has stopped. Till next time, I'm Les....And this is a bit of my mind.