On the injured list..

Halloween night I sliced my thumb up with a kitchen knife while preparing bagels. Having an injured thumb really makes me miss having a not injured thumb.

Here are some of the things that I find difficult to do or cannot do with an injured thumb:

• Hook/Unhook a bra
  
• Pop zits
  
• Cut meat
  
• Operate a belt
  
• Text message my friends
  
• Navigate my iPod
  
• Use a game controller
  
• Put on a band-aid
  
• Channel-surf
  
• Ash my cigarette
  
• Light a lighter (I just thought of this one - but I haven't tried doing it with the injured hand)
  
• Use my hands as a cup when brushing teeth
  
• Screwing/Unscrewing toothpaste caps
  
• Shuffle cards
  
• Rip up things

Thats only the short list, too. There are a lot of things we use our thumbs for as humans, and I certainly am thankful that my thumb is only injured and not severed.

Here is a picture I took of my hamster this morning!

Onstead is hella polished

There is an interview with Chris Onstad of Achewood (achewood.com) fame located here. I haven't read the entire interview yet, but there's a pretty spiffy picture of Chris with Beef and Ray on there.

The reason that I am posting this link is not only because of the interview or what just might be the only known picture of Chris ever taken, but also because of the comments made by the fans of the strip. The fans are hella funny, and you can see how each and every one of them has taken some kind of achewood-ish speak or behavior or attitude out of Chris's strips and into the "real world". The one liners are almost all hilarious, and its apparent how seriously (but comically) fans of the strip take the whole scene.

Dan would probably be a lot better at explaining this to you since he is perpetually connected to the central cortex of the Achewood universe by a series of cable wires that plug into several different kinds of electrical outlets and gas station free air tanks, but word on the street is that he is a flake and generally avoids any and all contact with the world due to his recent accident which led him to only able to communicate through David Byrne (and if you've ever heard THAT guy talk you can only imagine what Byrne's translation of Dan's gibberish sounds like..)

My favorite comment:

Mine.
by Andreabobandrea
You assholes better stop reading my comic.
3:28 PM Mon August 6, 2007

bleed out the flood

Thinking about my progress over the past few years. It hasn't been by much, but since i took the one crucial step of moving to my grandmothers house, things have (and are) slowly teetering over the fulcrum of my mood into the gravitational pull of what some may consider success. i still, to my best ability, am able to remain individual to the point where iam not depressed becasue i feel liek a sellout, but also to meet the outside worlds standards of what is bearable, even as far as how i look these days. i've lost a few pounds in the past few weeks, too. this haircut seems to look great every single day thanks to this homo-erotic surf hair wax that i put in it before i go to work. and i mean, sometimes i am kicking myself in the ass for spending the majority of that social security money, but the things i did get with it, namely a new TV, my subs in my car, and my iPod, have increased the way i feel a degree that is beyond value. knowing i can go home and play any game i want and it will look great is excellent incentive to want to get up in the morning. as does my dvd collection, no more dealing with garbage on TV and having my favorite show son when i cant watch them. it is inconvenient in that i dont get to se anything new that i may like, but it is better because i dont get caught up in the gaiety of the newest prime time drama about hospitals or new yorkers or polygamy. nearing my 22nd birthday, things finally seem appropriate.

if i keep up this trend i might jus tbe exercising regularly. ive decided to quit delivering pizzas and i would like to go into detail as to why. when ig ot the job, it was excellent. i got paid 25$ a night to clean up at teh end of the night and i got tips for delivering. last summer, that was like 90$ a night on average, considering i only worked fri and sat. in recent weeks, he has been trying to get me to pull my own weight. meaning, not sitting aroudn playing DS ll night and getting 25 bucks for it. this means, to me as an employee, that he is getting me to at least double my output for no increase in pay, and this sumemr so far im lucky if i make 65 dollars on any given weekend. p[lus, it is just getting to me, and i want out. i dont want my car to be abused anymore, so the week i go on a road trip to FL i am also leaving tha pizza delivery behind. also, with leaving this "job" i feel that, symbolically, i am bleeding otu all the blood of irresponsibility and teh attitude of having a different person at work and at home. starbucks, iropnically, has found a way to bring out the mikepasun inside that can be honest with his bosses about everythign and anything, mayeb becuase nowadays i am not involved in as much chaos as i was in previous years.

so what with my snazzy well cared for car, my sexy haircut, my boosted friendship stats all around, my excellent new job, and my upcoming road trip, i think that life couldnt be much better right now. there isnt even a single thing i can think of to be embarassed about. woo!

Five Things I Like, Followed by Five Things I Dislike!

Here are five things that I like, and why!

1. Cherries! Cherries are red fruits that grow on trees. Although cherries are not very cheap usually, they are very healthy for you. According to wikipedia.com:

"Cherries have been shown to have several health benefits. Cherries contain anthocyanins, which is the red pigment in berries. Cherry anthocyanins have been shown to reduce pain and inflammation[1]. Anthocyanins are also potent antioxidants. Cherries have also been shown to contain high levels of melatonin[2]. Research has shown that people who have heart attacks have low melatonin levels [3]. Besides being an anti-oxidant, melatonin has also been shown to be important for the function of the immune system. Research also indicates that melatonin suppresses COX-2. There is considerable interest at present in the use of fresh cherries or cherry juice to treat gout - a painful inflammatory joint condition. [4]"

That is why I like cherries so much! They are not only extremely healthy for you, but delicious as well!

2. Nintendo DS! The Nintendo DS has two screens, for double the fun! There are not an incredibly large amount of games that I like to play on this system, but because it plays Game Boy Advantage games also I can pack hours of fun into a day with my Nintendo DS. It also has wireless gaming functions which make for an excellent time when one or more of your friends also brings their DS along with them. Most of the time they don't even have to own the same game to allow for a wonderful experience. Also, new games keep coming out for it all the time, so it never loses its flavor! (Plus I decorated my DS with a smart black, white and pink Hello Kitty skin on the inside so it looks sassy and cute!)

3. Comic Books! Comic books are great because not only do they tell you a story, but they also show it to you in pictures! There are many different varieties of comic books also, so even the pickiest of readers should be able to find a comic book that they can enjoy. Two of my favorite comics are Sonic X and The Watchmen. Sometimes they make comic books into movies, but the movies are usually not that good. Other times they make comic books into cartoon shows, and usually those are pretty good. Amazingly enough, sometimes they make cartoon shows into comic books too!

4. iPod! The iPod really isn’t one of the most reliable items on the market these days, but boy howdy is it one of the most convenient to own! I got a 30gig iPod for Christmas from my Mom and Pop, and even though I sometimes misplace it, I haven’t gone more than 24 hours without listening to it. It lets me have one convenient location for my music, and also allows me to play it in my car with the adapter that I bought. I think it is mostly the best because I can take it to a friends house and let them listen to songs I like, and vice versa! Some people have engravings on the back of their iPods, but I don’t.

5. Japanese Candy! The Japanese have the best candy in the whole world! They have kiwi squishy candies that really taste like kiwi and not some random sugar-flavor that most American candy seems to have. Their chocolates are really good too, and there is even a brand called Apollo that is both strawberry and chocolate flavored! They seem to really be into coffee flavored chocolate as well. At the Japanese grocery store all the snacks are in the same aisle, and there is dried fish next to the candy, but I don’t think that the Japanese consider dried fish candy, but rather a tasty between-meal snack, perhaps? Either way, I don’t think I would like to taste dried squid, or herring, or any dried seafood for that matter.

Here are five things I do not like!

1. The Flavor Purple! Purple flavor usually means grape flavored, but I think that grapes are pretty good tasting. There must be some kind of strange grape that is grown in a country far away for very cheap that they use to flavor all things purple, because it does not taste like any kind of grape that I have ever had. It tastes yucky! Well at least to me, because I know a lot of people who DO like the flavor purple. What a weird bunch! Get it? Bunch? Grape? Ha ha!

2. Working past 2pm! I am a web designer at a company working for people that I get along with very well, so I like my job a lot! However, at about 2:00 every day I become extremely lazy and I find it hard to want to continue working on websites when I am constantly thinking about playing video games, or going to the beach, or hanging out with friends! I do not mind coming in at 9:00 in the morning, it is good to get an early start on your day, but no fun at all to waste most of it in doors staring at a computer! If my day was over at 2:00 pm, I believe I would feel better knowing that I contributed to society, made some money, but also got to go play at an arcade from 3:00 – 6:00 before I got too tired in the evening to go out (like I am after work all the time!)

3. Spiders! I hate spiders! I have no problem co-existing with them in a world where all are Mother Nature’s creatures, but I do have a problem when they sneak up on me in my bed at 2:00 am, or when they hang down from their little spider wires and surprise me in the shower when I can’t see them coming because I am not wearing my glasses! They are so creepy looking and feeling! All those eyes! And some of them are hairy! I am not going to talk about them anymore because I am getting a little bugged out! (That was not a joke! Spiders are arachnids, not bugs!!)

4. Nightmares! Sometimes I have good dreams, and I feel good for the rest of the day. However, the exact opposite happens to me when I have a nightmare! It is a sure fire way to ruin my day before it has even began. Sometimes nightmares are scary with demons and hellfire and flying monsters, but sometimes they are also sad. Watching a friend die or having a loved one cheat on you is an example of a sad nightmare that I have had before. Once in awhile I wake up from nightmares crying, and I call my boyfriend to make me feel better. Sometimes he does, sometimes he is sleeping too! I hope he is not having a nightmare!

5. Untied Shoelaces! I do not tie and untie any of my shoes when I take them off and on except for my Converse All-Stars. This keeps my shoelaces from becoming untied on those other shoes. (A few of my shoes don’t even HAVE shoelaces!) However, my Converse All-Stars often come untied, either because the shoelaces are wonky or I am not good at tying shoes. I’d like to think that I am a good shoe-tier, but I have no evidence to use against my shoelaces to support my argument that they are faulty. I wish I didn’t have to tie and untie them all the time, but they are high tops. I can’t get my feet in them without doing it!

Thanks for listening, I hope this inspires you to go find things you like and don’t like too!

the freedoom of recovery

the music from the radio that igrew up with was all pretty awful. hearing it now and knowing that i enjoyed it once someTImes maKes me cringe. but having music that you dont fully enjoy Makes you appreciate the good taste you have.

I got this huge ipod sothat when I travel, its like my own porsonal MiKepasun Radio. I haue quite a bit of music on it that i dont necessarilly find enjoyable, but that's what helps me to appreciatewhy and how Much i really LOVE My taste in music.

updated using my DS browser, sucKas

Pancake Wars

First of all, happy fathers day to all you dads out there.

I would also like to mention that our hero of this story Danosaur should currently be where I would like to be today - at the free Jonas' Brothers concert in New York. That lucky dogg. Now on to the good stuff.

So there is this town called Mt. Carmel, which is in Coal Mining country PA (about 3 hours away from where I live now). The reason this town is so cool will have to wait for another blog, but their role in this story revolves around a diner in town that serves "Blastin Blueberry Pancakes" for the whopping price of three dollars and fifty cents for a stack.

Before my first visit to this amazing corner of the country my friend Sara (prior to my first visit to the town) had told me about these pancakes, singing their praises like she was a widowed black mother who had lost her son in a gun fight praying to the good lord on sunday morning church in her starkingly large pink hat and matching petticoat. I have to tell you I was so excited for these pancakes that my hairs stood on end. While we were out drinking the night before I had the honor of trying these pancakes all I could think about was these delicious breakfast materials and how good they would taste to me after a long night of drinking 50 cent beers and chugging energy drinks mixed with vodka for five or six hours straight.

I was not let down.

These pancakes, be it because of novelty, price, or the feeling of overwhelming joy you get when you are hungover and food finds its way into your mouth, were the absolute best pancakes I had ever had in my entire life. They were not only cheap, but they were just enough to rid my stomach of that "holy shit I might throw up stomach bile" feeling, and good freakin lord they tasted so god damned delicious. I am telling you that the ratio of pancake to blueberry was absolutley perfect (keep this in mind), and though the pancakes were no different than any other diner food that I had ever tried, the fact that they were, and still were after the second time I indulged on my second trip up there, the best pancakes I had ever tried had resonated in my mind every morning I woke up with an hour to spare for breakfast food.

HOWEVER!

This weekend my friend Holly took Dan and I to breakfast for my birthday. We went to a cozy little place that I had been to once before, a small diner/grocery store on Spring Garden street in Philadelphia. I was struggling with the menu for about five minutes, half hungry for hash browns, half hungry for eggs, when I heard Holly say, "I'm having the banana pancakes". I looked up at her, eyes *trying* to be wide open, and said, "Yes".

These pancakes came to my table completely opposite of what I expected. I was waiting for these thigns to show up just bana flavored, like they had squirt some kind of crazy syrup into the mix to make them banana flavored. No. Completely wrong. These pancakes, and I cannot express in words how suprised I was, showed up SUPER fluffy, bigger in height than any pancake at a diner that I had eaten at. They were super light, but completely cooked, like the chef had some exquisite super power on knowing exactly when they would be awesome. But the best part was that they had banana slices COOKED INTO the pancakes.

I know that sounds like its nothing special. But you have to understand that after a morning of dancing and house music and beer and Wii and expecting just some shitty diner food breakfast, that these pancakes were like getting the red power ring for the first time in the original Zelda game. The ultimate expression of power in pancakes. The. Best. Breakfast. Ever. Now I gotta make this quick cause I have a father's day thing to do....

I immediately thought about the Blastin Blues. How did these pancakes chalk up to that? Well:

1. They were lighter and fluffier
2. They had more flavor to offer: While the blueberries were good, they were way sweet. These bananas weren't overpowering in sweetness, they were just enough to lighten up the taste.
3. I used mad syrup with the blastin blues. These banana pancakes only needed the slightest touch of that. They were already juicy from the banana mush being inbedded in them.
4. They were a dollar more expensive. In my eyes, that was totally worth it.
5. Blastin blues are 3 hours away. Banana-cakes are only 1.

So, in lieu of that, I hereby declare the banana pancakes the new King of Pancakes.

Invention Corner - Gigglecandy

I wanted my first post to be really good. I was like, "man, I should start this blog with my friends and then we could pretty much just post whatever, that would be so rad!" I was gonna do it around one this afternoon, but I had to go to the front desk and be receptionist, so I didn't start til' half past two. So I got everything all ready, just all geared up, just happy to have such cool friends who'd be interested in just talking about shit for no reason, and then I just sat there. I just sat there, and couldn't think of one fuckin' thing to write about. I still can't either. I made some soup, and watched some television, and played Lumines, and I've been grinding my gears for a good idea to write about, and still, nothing comes up. All day, since like twelve.

One good thing, though? Gian got some Halo Farm juices. Halo Farm is a local microdairy, and you can just get milk and juices and some grain products there, all cheap, all good, just so delicious, it's nuts. Juice makes me happy; my favorite is grape, but at Halo they don't have grape juice, they have grape drink. I always giggle when I see it, cause what if one time, it turned out to be wine? You know, grape drink? I just think of some little kid coming in and reaching past the Sunny D, and grabbing some grape drink, and being a polite kid, he takes a cup out to his friends, everyone gets to quench their thirst. Then, shit kicks in, just kids drinking wine, not even knowing, being belligerent, breaking toys.

My grandpa pulled that trick on me when I was a kid, man. He'd drink a glass of wine some nights, and one time I asked him for one, and he just gave it to me. You never saw such a cocky little bastard. I even did that weird kid thing, too; my grandpa gave it to me, but I knew it was an Adult thing, so I felt the need to go into the other room and savor it away from watching eyes. I drank it, and it tasted like millions of hells coursing through my body. I spit it out into the trash can, and I came out and gave him the dirtiest look I could fathom, and oh, how he laughed. "I'm glad you drink it yourself, it tastes like crap!" I ran out of the house, like that was some kind of punishment to him. Yeah, I'm totally sure it sucked that the little brat ran out.

Anyway, this all actually does equate to something. I made a cocktail. I poured some grape drink into a half glass of wine, and it's so good. I have a good name for it, too: Gigglecandy. That's what it is, I'm not even kidding. It takes the mild bite of wine away, replacing it with the sweet delicious taste of grape drink, yet the alcohol still takes effect. I had two glasses and I'm already being very very silly, and I've again got that childlike naughtiness going on. You should see how proud I am, walking around, stirring my drink for no reason, chuckling at my own genius, just being a total lame-o. Keep this in mind, boys and girls. If you concentrate very hard, and put your mind to something constructive all day, maybe you can completely bypass your goal and come up with a stupid idea and bless it with a somehow even stupider name. I wrote a blog, didn't I? Thanks internet, thanks Gigglecandy, thanks Halo Farms, thanks Aaron and Chinese food, and thanks Jimi Hendrix, for playing right now and basically being a stone cold ice machine.