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Thursday, January 18, 2007
Resolutions...
Well, I'm a little late on this, but it's for a reason...
Bringing in the new year 1989, I made a new year's resolution to stop trying to quit drinking and drugging, which was basically a resolution to give up and die, fortunately I contiunued my failure record on new year's resolutions and didn't keep that one either and in October of that year I wasn't dead and couldn't take it any more and started doing something about my drinking and drugging, since then I've continued to do something about my drinking and drugging, so I haven't drank or done drugs since then...
Considering what the consequences would have been if I had kept that new year's resolution (especially since the doctors had told me that I wouldn't live to see 1991 if I didn't quit drinking and drugging, and yeah, October of 1989 was cutting it pretty close), I've made a point of not making any more new year's resolutions since then...
Then coming up to 2007, coffee was tearing me up and the tax on cigarettes in Texas was going up $1 a pack at the stroke of midnight...
So about a week before new year's eve, I gave up coffee, then mailed my Mikey Cartoon coffee mug to a man I look up to (more on him when I complete his course), have had a few cups since then, but didn't have a 2nd cup (which was the problem) on the few times I had a cup, so that's working out OK so far...
Now regarding cigarettes, since January 2nd I've been asking God to help me quit smoking, still smoking and I continue to pray, it's probably a good thing I didn't try to quit on the 2nd, because Debbie's health problems started back up and she was in another hospital emergency room on the 10th, so I had some Marlboros with me when it happened and didn't have to apologize to the hospital staff this time, and God will help me stop smoking when he decides it's time...
Meanwhile, although we haven't found a doctor that's been able to figure out what's wrong with Debbie (at the end of this month, she will have been going to emergency rooms and different specialist for three years now, even had an optometrist check her out a couple of weeks ago, and he has a relative that's going through the same thing that's happening to Debbie, go figure), the only thing they have all agreed on, other than she is not having seizures, is that stress has something to do with her problems...
So today I took Debbie to a registered massage therapist friend and he worked on her for an hour, he found bunches and bunches and bunches etc... of stress bumps on her and worked on as many of them as he could in that hour, hope to take her back to him on Tuesday (finally getting a cable connection for this computer on Monday to go with the gig of RAM I got for it Saturday) and Friday next week, then schedule her for weekly visits after that...
And on Wednesday I will be signing her up with one of the local gyms (probably Curves) so she can work out her stress that way a few times a week...
In the mean time, after today's massage therapy, she went to bed early and is sleeping like a baby, so after posting this I'm going to go outside for a Marlboro and then join her in bed, hope everyone has a Truly Wonderful Weekend, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Ps: Dream Big, Expect Much, And Laugh While Accomplishing Greatness!
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Views On Life...
Since there are probably some folks who have been looking at iamnotagenious.com and are now checking this blog out to find why I am doing things like sticking out my tongue and dressing up as a really weird clown, here's a repost of what I wrote here on December 21st of last year and February 2nd of this year that should shed a little light on the matter...
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
About The Legend Deal
Since MikeyWear.Com started, I have believed (and still do believe!) that it will become a Pop Culture Phenomenon and a few months back realized that it becoming that big would make me a Pop Culture Icon...
And you know, I just cannot allow that to happen!!!
So since then, I have been putting a lot of time and energy to avoid "Icon" status by doing all I can to becoming a "Legend" instead...
Rest assured, every time I refer to myself as a "Pop Culture Legend In The Making" or a "Great Texas Legend In The Making" or simply a "Legend In The Making," a bunch of giggling is going along with it, and I mean a bunch of giggling...
Meanwhile, to be serious for a short very moment, I have discovered that with MikeyWear.Com I have the opportunity to make a difference and I will be doing my best to take advantage of that opportunity...
Do I have political aspirations? Well, after watching the Circus in the US House when they had their Friday Night non-binding vote on the immediate pullout of the troops in Iraq on CSPAN about a month ago, I don't see how anyone could make a difference in politics (except maybe, Kinky Friedman, really like his proposal for "No Teacher Left Behind" legislation, will carefully study his proposal, as well as the rest of his campaign platform, before the March Primaries), and if I want to clown around, well...
I already am...
So anyway, if anyone actually takes this legend thing seriously, please do not be blaming me, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Ps: Regarding whether I actually become some sort of legend or not, well, now really, WHO CARES??? I sure don't!
Thursday, February 02, 2006
So soon?
It has been brought to my attention that there are already folks saying and writing things about me that are not that nice, so...
If anyone hears or reads stuff about me that is not that nice, there are really only four options that they have...
Option A: Believe what they are told...
Option B: Not believe what they are told...
Option C: Wait and see if I really am going to do what I say I am going to do...
Option D: Not care...
They can pick any of the options, can also change their minds any time they want to, and there is no need for them to tell me which option they choose or change to... If anyone decides to choose Option A and doesnt think they are going to change their minds, I would like to leave one last thought with them...
And with that out of the way, I am going to continue to do what I am doing, take care, God Bless, and have a Terrific Thursday...Mikey
Monday, September 11, 2006
Special Message To Child Predators...
For the benefit of those that are new this blog and/or don't know much about MySpace yet, here's a re-post of what I wrote here on July 14th...
If you are reading this and are not a child predator, this was not written for you so there is no reason to be offended, but if you are a child predator, well...
Attention Child Predators!
MySpace Is Not A Safe Place For You!!!
You may be reading, listening to, or watching news reports about child predators on MySpace, thinking to yourself "duh, I can go to MySpace to find my next target," dont, pay more attention to the news reports, even though the reports more often than not place their focus on MySpace in a negative manner (where they usually say MySpace.Com with a sneer more times than necessary, the same way they say SUV a bunch of times when someone driving a SUV is in a wreck, like the wreck was actually the SUVs fault), they are reporting child predators being caught, taken to jail, and prosecuted...
The fact is, MySpace has helped folks realize how easy it is to catch you...
All over the country, local police task forces are now set up to catch you, the Sugar Land police task force alone has already caught over 80 of you since it began, and if you live in or are visiting Houston or its surrounding area, dont for a minute think you are safe by avoiding Sugar Land, they arent the only local police with a task force set up to catch you, more are being started too, and if you think you are going to find out on this blog who they are, well, you are sadly mistaken, because Im not going to tell you, Nanny Nanny Boo Boo, Stick Your Head In Doo Doo...
Theres others out there looking for you, parents concerned about their kids enough to monitor what they are doing on the internet is rapidly becoming cool the point that internet stalker moms are turning into a new fad, a lot of parents watch over the all of the children in their entire community too, and if they are the ones that find you, they will report you to the police and you will end up in the same place that you would go if its the police that find you...
You could even get 2-3 minutes of shame if its a TV news crew that catches you and turns you over to the police, 6-9 minutes if they show your arrest at 4, 6, & 10 o'clock...
Heres something else to think about: Renegades that take the law into the own hands could be the ones that catch you...
And last, but not least, MySpace is not the only place on the net where these folks are looking for you...
Since you can't get away with it anymore, if you want to have a really Great Week you need to give it up and give it up right now, get yourself some help for your problem, dont wait and do it today.....Mikey
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Deb Update And Roswell (NM) Aliens...
Just spoke with Mom and Deb is doing great, her leg is no longer "achey" and is just stiff, they took off her bandage this morning for her to take a shower and it looks good, swelling is not too bad and it has a healthy color, we want to thank everyone for their prayers...
As mentioned in my profile, I attended Roswell High School in Roswell, New Mexico, so am asked a lot about the Roswell Aliens, have no idea if the claims made by the folks are true, so I just tell those who ask what I know...
When living there, with so much land available in the city (there was more than one trail where a kid could ride a dirt bike, popping off the bike to walk it across the streets, all the way around Roswell) the City of Roswell was constantly trying to get folks to move there, at the time they were trying to make it a retirement haven...
While going to Middle School and High School in Roswell for four years, aliens were mentioned only one time in 7th grade, where some of the local kids told me about how the Bottomless Lakes in Bottomless Lakes State Park (some miles away from where the aliens landed) were craters created by aliens landing in their space ships...
I was a Rock Hound as a kid and spent a lot of time during my Sophomore year in the area near where the aliens landed, after discovering there was a great abundance of Rose Quartz specimens and some geodes there...
Whether you believe in the Roswell Aliens or not, the Roswell Alien Museum (formerly the old Plains Theater) is a fun place to visit, but if you are going to buy souvenirs, the Alien Gift Shops near it are a lot cheaper...
I saw the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey in the Plains Theater, it was a double feature with Joe Cocker's/Leon Russell's Mad Dogs and Englishmen, but liked The Kansas City Bomber and Billy Jack (which I also saw there) better...
The only other thing I know about this is that I am not an alien, or if i am, I don't know it, hope everyone is having a really Great Thusday, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Monday, May 01, 2006
Bug Problems?
Ants and Mosquitos are back in full force around here, so going to write today about a few of the things we do to deal with them...
At our zoo we have a way to treat Ant mounds that works for 2-3 months (about as long as anything at the store lasts around here, we get a bowl of cigarette butts and pour a can or two (depending on the size of the bowl) of cola on the butts and let it sit for about 30 minutes, then strain the liquid into another bowl and sprinkle the solution onto the mounds, the sugar in the cola attracts the Ants to the solution and the combintion of caffeine and nicotine (note: if anyone is about to reply with info about the dangers of smoking, coffee, etc... please first remember that the biggest feature of this blog is it's uniqueness, thanks!) kills the Ants...
Now for Mosquitos, we use a lot of Cedar Mulch, as a part of my relandscaping project, I purposely have places set up in the front and the back yard where we can neatly dump a lot of it, there are times that the Mosqitos are driving the folks here in Angleton totally nuts and I won't even know there are any unless I leave our zoo, but when you buy it, just make sure it's fresh Cedar Mulch, because if it's last year's that the store still has, it doesn't work as well or last as long...
But lets say you still get bit by Ants or Mosquitos, well, we keep enough tubes of Hemmorhoid Cream around so one is always handy when we need one, a little dab of it takes care of our Mosquito bites and the times I've stepped on an ant mound and they are crawling all over a foot and/or leg, I'll brush them off and rub it liberally on the area they bit and 30 minutes later won't be able to tell that I have been bitten...
You can use the Hemorhoid Ointment too, but it's real oily and you can now get the generic version of the cream at all of the chain stores that sell generic versions of these types of products, so we get the cream, and besides getting rid of pimples (I believe the only reason teenagers have pimples is the stigma attached to Hemmorhoid Cream), we use it for athletes foot too and it's worked for the two legged males with that itching that men are known to sometimes have...
And here is something else I discovered, although they are not bugs, cats tend to bug their owners at times, and if you work at home and have cats that bother you while you are working in your office, I bought some toilet seat covers and placed them where they are known to nap in the office and they hardly bother me at all now, hope everyone has a Terrific Week, take care and God Bless....Mikey
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Flavorful Chili Recipe...
With my Dad going out of town before sending another recipe of Grandmother Vera's and the Angleton City Council report probably being posted tomorrow, I'm re-posting this recipe, that I started when trying to make spaghetti sauce one night back in the early 80s and then worked on for a couple of decades until I had a recipe that I could really be proud of...
Mikey's Flavorful Chili
6 lbs Ground Chuck
2 Large Baking Potatoes
4 - 6oz Cans Tomato Paste
1 - 10oz Can Tomato Puree
1 - 15oz Can Ricos Condensed Cheese Sauce
1 - 1.31oz Package Sloppy Joe Seasoning
1 - 1.37oz Package "Thick and Zesty" Spaghetti Sauce Mix
1.5oz Gebhart Chili Powder
1 Tablespoon of Black Pepper
1 Teaspoon Garlic Pepper
4 Cups Water + Water Needed To Rinse Out Cans
Pour 4 Cups Water into pot and heat it on stove at a little higher than simmering temperature, empty Tomato Paste, Tomato Puree, & Cheese Sause, rinsing each can twice with water and spoon and pouring into pot, stir in Sloppy Joe Seasoning, Spaghetti Sauce Mix, Chili Powder, Black Pepper, & Garlic Pepper, stir once every two or three minutes...
Peel Potatoes and run them through a cheese grater, rinse thouroughly and put them in pot, stir once every minute or two...
Brown Ground Chuck until fully cooked (either 1 or 1 1/2lbs at a time), drain grease, and put into pot...
Turn heat down to simmering temperature and place lid on pot, take lid off to stir every four or five minutes for an hour, then enjoy!
Before I forget again, all that can make it are invited Friday morning to come to the Observer Breakfast, it will be at the Flying S on Hwy 35 in Angleton this week from 9-11am CT, you can also (if you dare!) help Erwin with his demonstration for this week's "Franke's Fun Food Facts" Sunday Feature on this blog, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Some Thoughts...
I will be taking Barbedwire Bob up to the Houston Bus Station shortly, where he will be going Greyhound to Casper Wyoming, Debbie, Sissy, Buster, Aris, Zoe, the fish in our aquarium, whatever critters are living in our atic, the birds that hang out in our yard, the neighbor cats who come by to visit ours, and I all wish him well...
Henry (almost forgot about him) wishes Bob well too...
Meanwhile, I was checking out MySpace Profiles and came along one member that really impressed me...
Running for Michigan State Representative
68th District
She wrote this in her MySpace Blog...
Dear MYspace Members:
Let's try an experiment! Get national attention for my campaign by emailing this information to your friends and relatives. Just maybe I'll win and you'll prove that you still have the power and influence to help a candidate win without money. This will prove to the wealthy that a middle class honest person can still win a political office in the USA without having thousands of dollars and that wealthy candidates cannot always buy an office. Please help me beat the two wealthy candidates that are running against me.
For her originality, I just had to mention her campaign here, since her funds are limited, she's really using her brain to go for that State Representative spot, she has an interesting platform too and you can check it out at her Official Web Site...
To finish this post up, some folks have enquired about one of my goals being to try to help make the world a better place, so guess I should address it, and since I had written this in a reply a few days ago, well, I edited it a little and...
I believe those who seek Jesus will find him, because of the drugs I did (been off them a little over 16 years) I have trouble expressing myself verbaly, but since I'm still able to think and take action, my role as a Christian is to get folks to look for him so that others can teach and lead...
So while looking for a job and taking care of Debbie as she was in the first stages her mystery illness (still don't know what it is), I asked God for his guidance and stumbled upon three voids in the infant and toddler clothing market when trying to buy clothes for Seth and Caleb, then where my original plans for MikeyWear were just to get Deb and I retired very comfortably and help Seth, Caleb, and any other future Grandkids to be able to afford to go to college, while continuing to ask God for his guidance, I discovered the potential to combine MikeyWear with my past and present experiences to really set examples, and decided to go for broke...
Now regarding what these examples will be and what I have planned to set these examples, well, I like to surprise folks, so will only say "More Will Be Revealed" for now...
Take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Friday, March 10, 2006
Open Season on MySpace Child Predators!
With all the child predators and/or molesters that are finding their targets on MySpace, it has been getting a lot of bad publicity in the media and most folks that are not already a part of this community know nothing about the good that is being done on this site...
As my friend Colleen mentioned in a bulletin she posted, the local CBS affiliate reported on the news the other night that MySpace.Com is a "Pedophile's Dream" and their reporting is not much different than any of the other media outlets, but to my knowledge, none of them have kept up with the other news about MySpace enough to realize that it is rapidly becoming a "Pedophile's Nightmare!"
Go to any news search engine and type in the keywords "fontana," "prank," and "myspace," you will find stories about 5 teenage boys in Fontana California, who while pulling a prank on a buddy, ended up helping the police arrest a child predator who was searching for his targets on MySpace...
That story opened the floodgates, a lot of folks around the country who are disgusted by these criminals, now see how easy it is to catch them and are saying to their friends "lets go bag us a child molester!," so the scum are not going to be around much longer...
Anyone who tries this should be very, very, very, very, very, etc... careful, and I believe that it should be done with the cooperation of local law enforcement, or at least with the help of an organization that knows the law about how to do stuff like this, because if someone makes arrangements with one of these scum to meet at a park and then calls the police after they get there, well, there are going to be other folks at that park (very important note: including children) and they can get hurt...
And if someone is planning on catching a number of child predators, it wouldn't be easy to use the same park, because there's a good chance that those who were scheduled to be caught later would find out about the busts at the park, but if they are doing it in cooperation with local law enforcement, here's an idea, these scum usually offer to bring food to their targets, so have the decoy ask for something at a specific restaurant that is not part of the regular menu, like a sandwich or burger with a sause that is used on a different sandwich or burger, then when the predator shows up at the restaurant to buy it they can get a positive identifcation of the scum, identify the vehicle they are driving, and have the police pull them over after they have left the restaurant in what appears to be a routine traffic stop, arrest the scum, and take them away to be locked up...
The thing is, although the child predators and/or molesters will avoid MySpace very soon because of this, there are going to be a lot of folks that go after the scum who are not going to be careful, much less work with local law enforcement or responsible organizations to capture these criminals, and innocent folks are going to get hurt, which will sadly result in more negative publicity about MySpace, so please encourage (beg if you have to) anyone you know who plans to "bag a child molester" to do it responsibly, take care, God Bless, and have a Great Weekend.....Mikey
Ps: Getting this info out there is way more important than getting more folks to read and/or subscribe to this blog (blog.myspace.com/mikey59tx), so if anyone wants to copy and paste this post into a bulletin or email and doesn't want to give credit to it, by all means, please go right ahead...
Saturday, March 04, 2006
I'm A Goofy Goober!!!
Warning! Warning! Warning! ~ Rambling Ahead!
As a kid, I always enjoyed things that were just plain silly, then as I grew to be an adult, well, I never grew out of it, or actually you could say that I began to really appreciate great works of silliness...When folks ask for my favorite movies of all time, Howard the Duck is always part of the list, Deb can tell you that when we were first together I would set the alarm on Sunday mornings for 4:30am to watch the Rudy and GoGo Show on TNT and then go back to sleep until time to get ready for church, and although I never made plans to be in front of the TV when the Teletubbies came on, well, when I came upon it while chanel surfing, the TV would stay on PBS till it was over, but I have made watching Courage The Cowardly Dog a part my daily schedule a bunch of times...There is one major exception, though, that I am very proud of: I COULD NEVER STAND BARNEY!Now the Grandkids favorite TV show is Spongebob Squarepants and they watch it all the time, I must admit that when walking by the TV and it is on I will usually stop to watch it with them and get carried away with it's silliness...Then a few weeks ago Kayla got them a copy of the Spongebob Squarepants Movie on DVD, so the TV show is not on much while the movie plays 2-3 times a day, and for some strange reason, I'm always walking by the TV and sitting down to watch when the Cyclops captures Spongebob and his buddy, I've seen the movie from that point to the end 15-20 times so far and still don't know what happened before that, but haven't gotten tired of it...And no matter how hard I try, I just can't get that song "I'm A Goofy Goober!" out of my head...So the following dialog between Caleb and myself occurs regularly here at our zoo...Mikey: Hey Caleb, you know what?Caleb: What?Mikey: You are a Goofy Goober!Caleb: No I'm not!One day he'll figure out that he should be saying "I'm not a Goofy Goober! YOU ARE A GOOFY GOOBER!"Where I have the facts for Sunday's "Franke's Fun Food Facts" ready, water was spilled on the camera at the Observer breakfast, so don't know if there will be photos to go along with it till it dries, but Episode Four (where things get hot) of "Things to do with "THE BOX" other than think outside of it..." is ready to be posted, going to take Deb and the Grandkids to the Charlie Homecoming Celebration Parade and then take her to lunch for her birthday before she goes to work, take care and God Bless.....Mikey
Friday, January 27, 2006
About Stumbling Before Breakfast...
If anyone was listening to Chris Baker’s Show on 740AM KTRH in Houston about 5:15pm CT yesterday, you personally heard the #1 reason why I won’t be running for a political office (when I try to express myself I seriously stumble over words on a very regular basis), it has been a major roadblock to getting MikeyWear kicked off, but the way I figure it, since I started this with no experience in retail clothing sales, it’s given me more time to learn about it…
Now there are a number of “experts” that have said I won’t be able to do this without better vocabulary skills, but a lot of them have also said that I wouldn’t be able to do this without top 10 search engine placement (which was covered in a post a couple of weeks ago), so I‘m going ahead and doing it anyway…
And besides, my actions (after asking God for his guidance, of course!) always say more than any words I stumble over...
Will be on my way to the Observer Breakfast (at EJs on Business 288 this week) in about 30 minutes, then doctor appointment at 11 and Angleton Flea Market this afternoon…
For those of you that haven't had a chance to check out the different links at MikeyWear.Com, I will be posting a summary of them in Sunday's post, take care, God Bless, and have a Fantastic Friday.....Mike
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