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the ABCs of me: honest version

Fine, I’ll do it. Buckle up, kids. Here we go.

 

A - Age: thirty-fucking-two

B - Bed Size: Queen. That’s right. Queen. Of course I want a King, but we have a brand new Queen size bed set that my grandmother-in-law bought us. Why she couldn’t buy us a king size mattress is beyond me.

C - Chore You Hate: Grocery shopping. Hell-to-the-no. I get lost in there and can never find the goddamn olives. You’d think they’d be near the pickles. But NOOOOO. Lines are ridiculously long and the cashiers act like they’d rather be sexting their boyfriends than ringing me up. Newsflash, Tanisha, I’d rather be sexting your boyfriend than grocery shopping. So let’s at least pretend to smile at each other while you scan the olives it took me a half-hour to find.

D - Don’t Eat: My sister-in-law is Japanese. Like, REALLY Japanese, as in never-set-foot-in-America-until-January-of-this-year Japanese. She eats these dried fish thingies like they’re potato chips. And they smell like boiled hobo vagina. She’s got some sort of dried squid jerky or something, too. She loves it. I gag if I’m around it. It stinks up the whole house. Love her. Hate her snacks.

E - Essential Start of the Day Item: Toilet. Otherwise, I’m peeing on the floor.

F - Favorite Board Game: Trivial Pursuit. I am a wealth of useless pop culture factoids.

G - Gold or Silver: Are you serious? I refuse to answer on the grounds that this is a stupid question.

H - Height: 5’6”. I’m not ashamed. I’ll still look down on your 6ft ass.

I - Instruments You Play: I play a little guitar, a little bass and a lot of air drums.

J - Job Title: All purpose lackey

K - Kids: Working on it. But I hear they’re delicious.

L - Love or Lust: A nice balance of the two is essential. Love alone can become boring. Lust alone is dangerous. Keep love a little dangerous and put a little extra passion into love.

M - Mom’s Name: Sandra

N - Nicknames: None that ever stuck past the 1990s.

O - Overnight Hospital Stays Other ThAn Birth: Third grade. Pneumonia. I was a bubble boy for a few weeks. It was more serious than I realized at the time.

P - Pants or Pantyhose: *sigh* Really? You couldn’t think of a different question for P? How about Pneumonia? Because, if you were paying attention, yes, I had that in 3rd grade.

 Q - Famous Movie Quote: Fuck you. Pay me.

R - Right or Left Handed: Right

S - Sibling(s): Three. Two brothers, one sister. I’m the oldest.

T - Time You Usually Wake Up: Whenever the cat says it’s time. Or whenever the wife leaves and slams the door and the dog starts barking like he’s never going to see her again. So usually around 7.

U - Underwear: Under where? There? Under there? 

V -Vegetable Favorite: Tomato. “Hey, jackass, a tomato is a fruit!” Go fuck yourself.

W - Ways You Run Late: Not caring about where I’m supposed to be. If I care, I’ll be there on time. If I don’t, you’re lucky if I show up at all.

X - X-Rays You’ve Had: Many. Foot, ankle, wrist, teeth, chest, collarbone. Okay, not my collarbone. But If I had an x-ray machine, I’d be x-raying the shit outta my bones just to see what’s going on in there or if I need some Boniva like Sally Field..

Y - Yummy Food You Make: Let the record show that I think no grown ass adult person should every say “yummy.” You’re not six, nor are you trying to convince a six year old to eat their carrots. But I make a killer chicken marsala. I make delicious pasta dishes. Runs in the Italian side of the family, I guess.

Z - Zoo Favorite: I like ‘em all. Especially the ones that are illegal to own. Big ass cats like lions and tigers are pretty darn cool. Gorillas and other primates are interesting to me, too. I think polar bears are majestic creatures. I don’t like hippos. They’re dumb. Stupid hippos. Hippopotamus. I mean, who thought of that name? How ‘bout something a little more less douchey. Like Bladow. “Yo! Did you see the bladows at the zoo? One of them yawned and his mouth was HUUUGGEEE! I was like, BLADOW! That bladow has a big pie hole!”

Sep 30, 201020 notes
ABCs of Me

Sit down girl! I think I love ya.

No! get up girl. Show me what you can do.

Sep 30, 2010
#easy as 1 2 3 #simple as do re mi
Level 3

is some serious bidnizz.

Good lord.

Medic!

Sep 30, 20104 notes
#shred
So the president is in town

Got stuck in motorcade traffic. Saw lots of police and secret service and unmarked government cars and stuff. I did not see the president. The event is an invite-only town hall style meeting. I was not invited. I donated to his campaign. I signed his latest birthday card. Yet, I received no invite. I would’ve been happy to go. I like the president. Bummer, dude. Sigh. 

Sep 29, 2010
Sep 29, 2010
#gpoyw
Just spent the past 15 minutes "researching" something on the internet until I realized that I had forgotten what it was that I was supposed to be researching.

A.D.D. in the digital age.

Sep 28, 2010
On twitter

Gosh, I’m really starting to despise it. Or maybe it’s *some* of the people I follow, but I honestly don’t care enough to go through the throngs of people I follow in order to weed out the ones who disinterest me the most. As the days go on, I’m caring less and less about the twitter. And that’s okay.

I usually have nothing to say. It’s to the point where each update or joke I post is forced. And that’s not good. So if you follow my @mattjh2 account or the other semi-secret account, be prepared for long periods of silence followed by an awkwardly unfunny joke that is sure to make you hover your mouse over the unfollow button.

And as a point of interest for those of you who give a rip, my personal account is @mattjh2. It is not @mattonfire. That guy is not me. He likes basketball and talks a lot about sports statistics. Which is cool, I mean… hey, maybe he wants to be a sportscaster. I don’t know, right? I like sports, too. But my stream is only peppered with the occasional sports reference. I follow a lot of Buffalo friends and we like to bitch about our crappy teams. So, sorry if you don’t like the occasional “What a save by Miller!” post. What I’m trying to say is that I don’t tweet about sports all the time (maybe less than 2% of all updates are sports related), unlike this dude who is not me but has my name. He had the name when I joined twitter and I didn’t feel like fighting him for it, although I’m fairly certain I could beat him. I considered doing the @matt_on_fire thing, but that’s just too long and I have an unnatural hatred towards excessive underscores, probably because I’m a Mac guy.

Another side-note: I have 6 (count ‘em - SIX) business-related accounts that I update multiple times throughout the day. Those are different. Those don’t require much original thought or creativity. Just research and time and the occasional “LOL!” 

Long story short: Twitter - I’m over it.

Sep 28, 201023 notes
#twitter
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Sep 24, 201035 notes
Dammit, Friday!

This Friday needs a little more Friday and a lot less asshole. Yeah, I’m talking to you, Friday. Cut it out with the work-related emails and let’s start talking about where I’ll be drinking tonight and with whom I’ll be drinking and not so much the what I’ll be drinking because, at this point, it really doesn’t matter.

Also, the food. Let’s get a pizza or something.

Sep 24, 201014 notes
Sep 24, 2010
Either I like it or I don't.

While I’ve had the latest Arcade Fire album in the ol’ iTunes for a while now, I purposely haven’t sat down and listened to it in its entirety until yesterday. The reason I haven’t listened to it - and I mean REALLY listened to it from start to finish - is because I didn’t want my opinion of the album to be swayed by all the hype. Sure, it’s been on my “MobileMatt” playlist and some songs have come up in the shuffle, but I haven’t deliberately played the album for the sake of listening to it and analyzing it. Honestly, I never truly analyze music. Either I like it or I don’t. That’s pretty much the extent of it. Would I listen to it again? Would I put this on my road trip playlist? Do I tap my toes and bob my head when the beat hits? Does it sound like the band (or artist) truly loves what they are doing, takes pride in their craft, has given their all and completely poured their heart into the music-making process? That’s when it connects with me on an emotional level. I really like Funeral, you know. “ Wake Up” is one of my all time favorites. But that’s neither here nor there, I guess.

So yesterday I decided that the hype had died down enough for me to listen to The Suburbs without expecting too much or too little. I had skimmed over some reviews that said the album was like Jesus diddling your ears with a feather and others that proclaimed the album is a hearty slice of pretentious shitcake. After a few spins of the record, I’m leaning toward the Jesus-feather-diddling. Okay, I didn’t literally “spin the record” because I don’t have this album on vinyl. Yet. But “spin the record” sounds better than “press the play button on my digital music player.”

But the album. It’s good. I like it. And that’s all that matters, I think. 

Sep 24, 201010 notes
#arcade fire #the suburbs #rambling about nothing
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#yeah i put bacon on it #what?
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