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Happy Day After Christmas! Let’s do a holiday recap, no? What’s that? Whatevs, I’m doing one anyway.

1. My birthday, as I’ve already covered, was a mixed bag. I wasn’t handling the aging thing well and generally speaking, just wasn’t in a very good mood.  In fact, the last thing I wanted to do after a day of fighting traffic and other nuisances (like the reality of my mortality) was to do a show. Well, I’m glad I did. I sometimes forget since we’re always working together, that my co-workers are some of my closest friends on the planet. Anyhoo, they really cheered this son of a bitch up and made me feel like a real ace!  It was a really nice. After the show in what’s becoming a bit of a tradition, we did an Armando Diaz  where I, because I was the birthday boy, did all the monologues. All of this was followed up by some Bulldog NE.  It was great fun.

2. Xmas Eve was something of a let down. I was supposed to head down to Chicago on that day, but a winter advisory kept me off the road and in my house. In a way this was good. The extra time allowed me to wrap presents and watch like ten episodes of Top Chef Chicago.  How did Lisa (was that her name? I can’t remember) make it into the final group? Wow. What a nasty little person she was on that show. Lisa, did however allow me to forget if only for a moment that I had let the Lil’ Chicago Warrior (also named Lisa! Crazy!) down. Oh man, she claims she was mad at the weather and not at me, which would only be true if instead of a person, I were a storm front. I’m not sure what I wrote made sense. She was mad at me.

3. Christmas found me on the road.  At one point my car wouldn’t go over 60mph and shook like it was going to explode.  So I did the only thing I could think of. I pulled into a gas station, filled up the car, and then re-started it. From there it worked like aces. Nice. I should be a mechanic.

Spent the rest of Christmas with the relatives. LCW came with and what can I say? The girl knows how to work a crowd. By the end of the night she was holding babies, making small talk about the erosion of our civil liberties and sitting at the adults table.

4. Finally, if you get a chance, scroll down my sidebar (growl!) and join my blog network. It’s a thing for Facebook. It might give me more exposure. Thanks!

Hope your holidays were well.

Mike

Happy Me Day!

1. I have no idea why 32 has been hard for me to take. I truly have never had an “age issue”. Well until now, I guess.

2. My Mother called this morning to wish me a happy birthday. It was very sweet. At first I thought that something might be wrong. Why just the other day, I was screaming at her from inside a Target, while she sat in her lair, nitpicking me and openly wondering why I wasn’t able (willing) to split myself in half and be in two places at once on Christmas Eve.  But here she was, being nice and claiming she was happy that I was born. But then, before the world imploded, she reverted to form and made me feel guilty for living in another state. Thanks Mom! Glad to know everything’s okay! According to her, I’m letting everyone down this year. EVERYONE.  Not just her. Everyone.

3. On the plus side, the Bears managed to win a game they should have lost last night. YAY!

Mike