GROWING OLD TOGETHER

Could not sleep again last night and woke up at 4 in the morning. lots of my mind these days. This phrase came into my head "She sits by his side looking out the window. Sounds of machines playing god." and i had to get up walk to my pc in my office and explore why.

this is the poem / story i came up with.

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GROWING OLD TOGETHER

She sits by his side looking out the window. Sounds of machines playing god. She runs her hands through his gray hair. She wonders why he has to leave with out her. She can not see herself with out his soul snug next to hers on those cold dark and rainy nights. It’s been a long life together, a good life. How many can say they died in bed while holding the hand of the love of their life.

She met him in her 20's. It was love at first site. While all of her friends moved from person to person searching for their soul mate, their lobster, she knew she had found him when he greeted her with that smug smile on that first date. "How could one be so lucky" she thought?

While the night is filled with sadness it is also filled with happiness for the joy he has brought her over those many years. She squeezes his hand. He squeezes hers. His eyes open just enough to get a last look at his love. He can not talk but she knows what he is thinking. He is saying thank you my dear. Thank you for being there for me all of these years. Like a World War II love poem she can see it in his eyes. The machines start to yell. They are not happy. But she smiles as she knows he is no longer in pain.

"The pain is gone now my dear. I will never forget you and I will join you some day soon"

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after sending this to my mom she wrote me back. I thought this was very cute.

"You made me cry before breakfast! This is very beautiful…

I love you very much,

Mommi"

Also decide to put all of my poems in one blog now since they get kind of lost in this one.
http://mikeypoems.blogspot.com/

Rita Moreno in Concert

Last night I saw Rita Moreno in concert. I must admit going to it I did not thing i would be that into it. I got free tickets because my brother invited me. he always gets the free hook up to anything and everything artys. If not for my bro i would not have seen near as much artys things over the past year. Anyways back to the point she was very very good. I mean funny , witty told amazing storys about lots of mover and shakers in the movie industry ect. I enjoyed it allot. Thanks bro for the tix.

About

Rita Moreno is the only female performer to have won all four of the most prestigious show business awards: the Oscar, the Emmy, the Tony and the Grammy. She has, in fact been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for this achievement. She earned the Oscar for her performance as Anita in the 1962 motion picture, West Side Story, the two Emmys for her 1977 appearance on The Muppet Show, and for a dramatic guest appearance on The Rockford Files in 1978. She won the Tony for her 1975 triumph on Broadway as Googie Gomez in The Ritz, the Grammy for her 1972 performance on The Electric Company Album for children, which was based on the long running television show of the same name.

Along the way she received dozens of other show business awards, most notably, The Golden Globe Award, The Golden Apple Award, and the Joseph Jefferson Award as best actress in Chicago's theatrical season In 1968 for her brilliant performance as Serafina in The Rose Tattoo. In 1985 she repeated her Chicago triumph and was awarded the prestigious Sarah Siddons Award for her portrayal of Olive Madison in the female version of The Odd Couple. In 1995 Ms. Moreno received a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Ok This is too FUNNY!!

Ok with all of my friends having kids some how i came across this You tube video and let me just say OMG. This is the funnest thing i have ever seen. Then again if you have a new born maybe he needs to view this cartoon so he to can become a "Paints Man"

San Francisco Happy Hour

So had a sweet old happy hour at Tunnel top in sf this weekend with all of my west cost buddies. Was so fun catching up with peeps. Saw two friends i have not seen in over 18 years i think.Crazy how time flys.

my bro and John O and Dianna who i have not seen in over 18 years. me and john used to be partners in crime back in the day. So glad to see this guy now when i go back to the city.

So glad to hang with my girl Rachel. This girl is so fun and full if life. So glad she was able to make it out to hang with us. We had a blast.

This is the view of Tunnel top. I really love this place. great lounge area. I always seem to go back here ever time i visit the city.

Yes we are all drinking, but i mean it is a bar.

The dc crew all seem to be in sf hahah. Joel was visiting from SD but my boy Genesh lives in sf now and my good friend Mina was visited for work. Seems like there is no sortege in supply of people i met in dc moving back to sf.

My Little Bros Boy

So I found out today my little bro Jack and his girl Tina just gave birth to a baby boy named Brandon. I am soooo siked about this I can not even explain. Out of the 4 of us he is the first one to have a kid and we are getting old. it is making me thing about how I really need to get going if i want to have kids some day. Yes I do want kids. I am not entirely ready yet but thinking about it more and more now.

I can only guess how happy my dad and mom are. They now have grandchildren and no longer will have to guilt trip us into having kids. Well who knows maybe i will still get it so there is an east cost kid since jacks is west cost hehe. But i could see the pride in my dads face when he talked about it this weekend and the joy in my mom voice over the phone. I think grand parents love being grand parents because they get the joy of the kids but do not have to go through the bad stuff. I am sure my mom and dad are like thinking "hmm now they will now what we went through raising you" hehe

Either way I am so excited to see little b-dog as I call him. I will have to get a flight to sf some time for sure. maybe a few month after he settles into his new home. Welcome Brandon we are so happy to have you here little buddy :-) and yes when you come visit i will play with you more then your old daddy will as my whole fam.ly knows how much energy i have to play with kids lol I am naturally still a kid hehe

PS: me and my bro when we were kids argued over who would have a kid first as who ever did would beat up the other kid hehe. So jack you beat me but my boy Willi already offered up his boy to my kids posse ( east cost baby ) so you best be ready son :-)

PSS: I love you bro can not wait to see you and Tina thanks for going through all of that well you know. I have seen at least 3 kids born and well let just say I am happy I do not have to do that :-)

Road Trip to Ohio

So with jamies wedding coming up my boy dave came up with this idea to go on a road trip. The planning was really funny took for ever for us to figure out what we wanted to do and things changed allot. I got worried the car would be to small ect. But man it was so worth it. A) when you go on a road trip you really get to bond closer with the people you do it with. I felt like this was the case for sure. Plus it was just a much needed catching up with some really good friends. I have known George and Dave for like 7 years or so and do not get to see allot of them these days. Also really great to have J-lo and Kev dog along the trip as they came up with many memorable things that were fun and funny.

The crazyiest thing was ending up at a frat party in west Virgina. Still no idea how that all happen so fast but yes mom i finally got to go to my first college frat party. it was like watching tv or something. Just way to funny.


The video shows it all :-)


Morgan Town Yall - yes we are tourist hehe

Eating at a nice Italian restaurant - yummy food

Chilin with the Frat boys - and off to the party we go

The last breakfast

hi-jinks on the road. J-lo writing a joke to put in the window for our road trip peeps to see in the next car over

The oh so pretty land of Ohio

Guys Night Out

Last night i got to do a guys night out for my boy Mike who is off to Yale. Not only is he off to school but also he is now engaged to a very good friend of mine Christine. I am so siked for them as they are both such dear friends of mine. I am really sad to see them move. Mike now maybe Christine later on. Christine is like my partner in crime for dance nights. Cry Cry :-( I hope we can still get our dance on but it will not be the same with out her :-( sucks living in dc and losing all of your good friends all of the time. Really sucks

Flowbots @ 930 Club

Got to see flow bots tonight. The guys that sing that song Handle bars. Very good song. The concert was really good but wish they had more songs that were as good as the handle bars song. One hit wonder? Maybe not but they need more hit songs. Either way i saw them for $15 at the 930 club so you can not beat it. Up and close for only $15 Fun times.

Flowbots at 930


my own little try at singing Match Box 20 Push

Assateague Island Camping

Camping this year on Assateague was truly amazing. I was so looking forward to this year but had no idea how much i would love it. I finally decide to do a smaller trip with some friends instead of the huge trips that meetin does with 70 people plus over the years. I must say small is cool. For one thing there is no fight for a camping fire seat. Also you really get to talk to people more and just really get to know people. I think both trips hve there place. The big ones are great for meeting people and making new friends kind of what meetin does. But once you make some friends the smaller ones are really good to build your friendships. This trip was extra good because allot of the people who went are just insane crazy fun. We get wild and crazy. I love wild and crazy people. Fun to just get crazy dancing around a camp fire to an i-pod player or do a midnight swim in the ocean looking at the stars in the air. This year i got like 20 out of 23 people to swim the mid night swim. Last year 70 people went and only 7 would do it. There is something to say about small numbers you can really get more crazy and fun.

PS: yes the video does not lie. You camp on a beach with wild horse all around you. Its an amazing thing to do and i suggest doing it. If everyone gets there own food then the camping cost for 25 people on a site is like $7 each with fire wood. You can not beat the cost for how much fun it is. Do if some time if you get the chance.

swimming in the water

hangin with my home girl Christine soon to be married

wave surfing with the peeps

cool artys photo i took of my friend Elena


VIDEO

Summer Re-Cap 2008

Started to play with some new video software. I really like this stuff. Anyways came up with this summer re-cap. I know the summer is not over but just was looking for some test subject to edit :-)

Embassy of Castalia - House Party

I went to this Embassy of Castalia party and let me just say I was very impressed with the turn out. I went to this same party 3 years ago and this year was such a blast. The street fill up so much that at one point thought it was a street party. lol. But it was so cool that iI ran into so many friends and people i knew. No doubt DC is one small city and once you start going to so many thing you just start running into people all of the time.

Great party thanks Paul. Hope you had enough ice for you lol that was allot of ice you bought.
me and my boy jay and dan

my good friends Elena and Maria

more friends

over 300 people easily at this party

me and Diana and other Diana and Judy


A little fun video i made with video i took at the party

Water War III - This time its personal

The sun was hot and it made for a perfect day to shoot each other with water. Thanks for the extra water and really great fun spirits. I must say the dancing through the water firing squad in the video just makes me crack up every time. This was great fun but eating ice cream afterwards was also fun.