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March 31, 2006

Je me voyais deja

I love Charles Aznavour. I used to work with this very dool Persian woman, Nadia, who turned me on to him. I had complete forgotten about his sound until recently and am now all about french jazzy folk music. It is amazing fun to sing along to music which I do not understand and am trying to sing in a hooked on phonics kind of way.

I have noticed, as my diet has change, that caffiene has a much greater effect on me. I have had a french press and am currently working on a 2 shot iced espresso and I AM FLYING! Sometime around 11 I will need a nap, but for now the race is on!

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March 30, 2006

wedding, what's a wedding

My friends Lindsay and Peter were engaged last night. I am very happy for them. They make a terribly cute couple and are very good to each other.

It is raining here, and looks like it will be again tomorrow. Rain is good in early spring, it will wash away all the ugly snow and bits of trash, give the ground a wake up. It should be green here in a short time. I am looking forward to spring.

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March 29, 2006

Dan, it's your birthday!

I almost forgot Dan's birthday! Not bad for 37.

Happy Birthday Baby

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children fit in the snow

Well it is the third day and I am still enjoying the firmfit, although this is the first day that I was woken by my alarm clock. We have to hand in our daily food diary everyday, with percentage breakdowns of fat, carbs and protiens, zones, calorie counts and times of day. Fabian recieved a "good job", while I recieved a "good job" AND a smiley face! I guess we know what that means!

I went to a different meeting last night, a big book study. I have been to this meeting before and have always liked it. My home group is tuesday, but I needed to take a little break from it to clear my head of some nonsense(see the past weeks of posts for more info), by the way things are looking much better on that level. Anyhow back to the meeting, just to help me learn( thank you God) there was an old boyfriend of mine there. One with whom I got into ALOT of , shall we say trouble with. I was glad to see him at a meeting and said some extra prayers

By the way, LoneStarSteve, your comment yesterday was dead on.

I think my theme song today will be the Milkshake song by Kelis. My milkshake brings the boys to the yard That's right, now it is stuck in your head too. haha

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March 28, 2006

it's been a long hard lonely winter

There is a scene in the movie The Safety of Objects that grabbed me by the throat and yelled "LISTEN TO THIS" to me when I first saw it a few years back. Glenn Close is standing over the comatose body of her son, Joshua Jackson, who was seriously hurt in some type of accident. She is talking to the former girlfriend of her son and there is a flashback to the hospital shortly following the accident when Glenn is praying to God to keep her son alive. Back in the present, standing over the lifeless, but still living body of her son(whom she is shortly to sufficate) she cautions the young woman with her to be very careful what you pray for, God gives you exactly what you ask for. Kind of a Monkey's Paw moment, but it rings true.

Be careful what you pray for... thats my motto.

Second day of the firmfit, the novelty of getting up at 5:30 has already worn off a bit, but there is a growing fellowship in the group that will no doubt help keep me motivated.

Prison Break was on last night. It is wonderful, having my mondays with Wentworth back. I am not sure if you could tell, but it seems obvious to me that he missed me too.

One note on the above picture. Who put white laces on Steve Maddens? And does anyone wear them anymore?

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March 27, 2006

There were never such devoted sisters

Fabian and I started the Firmfit this morning, which means that at 8:30, as I sit at work I have now been up for 3 hours. When he called me this morning at 5:45, I answered the phone" You weren't really serious about this, were you?" I am strangely enough looking forward to this.

I am limited to just under 2000 calories a day. A DAY!

Keep me in your prayers. And you should probably pray for those around me too.

Dan, who has been watching me go through what I have been going through for the past few weeks, has a nice post about relationships. It is worth checking out.

Yea, there are three guys posted today because I needed a little more than usual.

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March 26, 2006

On a beautiful Sunday

I was watching the show Grey's Anatomy tonight, it is a good show, worth the watch. There was a running theme throughout the show about living in the dark, pros and cons, and ended with the line "living in the dark there is fear, but there is also hope". I can understand this thought, sometimes would even find myself in agreement with it, but usually only agree when I am not in the dark. I have been living in the dark, perhaps choosing to live in the dark, but there anyway, concerning a situation in my life . This is what I have been talking about lately when I have written how I did not feel safe writing about certain things. If this only would affect me I would write about it with no qualms, but there are others involved and that I don't have a right to broadcast their business. Let's just say that I don't pretend to understand how affairs of the heart work and I hold even less claim to understanding today.

I chose living in the light though, even if it does hurt at least you can see your way around.

Tomorrow morning I start the FirmFit, wish me well.

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March 24, 2006

No one has ever loved you as deeply as I.

The weekend is here! I am going to shovel as much pasta and crap as I can it my face this weekend, firmfit starts on monday!

Right now I am planning on seeing the new Jodie Foster movie tonight, and taking it very easy this weekend. I am going to a new AA meeting on Sunday night with my friend Colin. I love hitting new meetings.

I have noticed a bunch of blogs that I used to read ending lately, people who I started reading before I started blogging, inspirations if you will. Perhaps because of this I have been once again playing with the idea of putting One Gay At A Time to bed. I mentioned the other day that I didn't feel the freedom to write about things today that I did when I began blogging, too many of the people I love read this today. There are days where I really resent that I am editting myself. From the beginning I have used this as a platform to just put stuff about me out there, never wanted to have a political or entertainment blog, others do that better.

There are changes coming in my life, this should be interesting

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March 23, 2006

wearing lipstick and heels

So, I had my initial assesment for the FirmFIt last night. Nothing for the ego better then standing shirtless in front of a huge mirror as a buff personal trainer type measures your back fat...really I recommend this for everyone, especially on days when you are feeling insecure, unattractive and/or unlovable. It does wonders. I did learn some very interesting things already about posture and am trying to make some adjustments right off the bat. Apparently I have been walking incorrectly all my life which has made my hamstrings tighter then my glutes, which would explain my dating history.

Most alarming was how much weight I have managed to put on, I am simply enormous. Not quite ready for my Girth and Mirth membership, but I think that is merely a Little Debbie away. Anywho, as my friend Bryan loves to say, it is time for some changes and that is almost always a good thing. 40 is less than 2 months away and things are going to be different.

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March 22, 2006

You don't have a clue

I have to go and have a physical assestment for the Firm Fit program that I am doing at the gym. I am not really looking forward to hearing facts about how out of shape I am. I am playing with the idea of posting my progress here, as an additional means of being accountable, but have not decided if I want to subject myself to such public humiliation.

On a somewhat different topic, when I started this blog it was very anonymous, I felt that I could write about anything and sometimes did. Hell no one was reading it anyway. Now though things have changed a bit, they changed around the time I was dating Tom for all you long term readers. There are things I am battling that I don't consider alright to put out in this forum today, that kind of bums me out, but what can I do?

Well, hopefully I will find an outlet, or go crazy. Either way I am sure that I will be ok.

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March 21, 2006

How could I forget this!

Prison Break was back on last night! My Monday night dates with Wentworth Miller are back!

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Baby, it's cold outside

I had a great time on vacation, but am glad to be home. I did somethings that I have never done before, went to a major league baseball training camp game, went to a jai alai match, things that were fun but not that I would have normally put on my calender. I never made it to the Round-Up, which was a bit of a bummer, but did hit a bunch of meetings at the sobe club and met alot of really amazing people.

Seeing snow on the ground and feeling the Minnesota cold sucked a bit, and not in the good way. But, it was nice to see the cats.

I am starting a program at the gym called Firm Fit on monday. It is 8 weeks of being at the gym at 6 am, monitored diet, mix of cardio and weights. I am doing this with my buddy Fabian so we are going to help motivate each other.

Wish me luck!

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March 16, 2006

an amazing meal

I had what was probably the best meal of my life tonight, and I have eaten many, many meals. The two and one half hours we spent eating was an amazing investment of time.Here is the menu:

1. Shrimp and whitefish spring roll with caviar and spicy tomato romulade served in a martini glass.

2. 4 separate things

Monk fish liver pate
Uni rap atop a lime aspic
Peanut encrusted whitefish
Jalapeno kapamachi

3.Irish Salmon Sashimi salad with okra

4.Octopus with soba noodles

5.Foie gras with Japanese eggplant

6.Sushi

Live Fresh water eel
Toro-fatty tuna
Sea urchin w-scallop and sea clam
Live scallop

7.Soup

8.Dessert

Coffee froth
Blackberry Ice Shavings
Lime Cheesecake

mmm, I need a snack

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we only have tonight

My friend Mike, with whom I am staying with in South Beach picked the title for todays blog entry, unfortunately he continues to sing. Mike spotted a hot men's suit on the beach tuesdays( I will forward this entry by asserting Mike's constant claims to his own hetrosexuality, constant and a little pathetic). Back to the bathing suit, there was a man walking down the beach wearing a "bathing suit" that barely, just barely maintained his modesty. Mikes description of the suit was that it reminded him of a small velvet sack with a string closure, something you would store precious jewels in. It was a very small sack, apparently the man's sack was even smaller. I am very sorry to have missed this.

My trip down here was a bit of a nightmare, snowstorm in minneapolis, lost luggage, etc. But now things are great. We have been hanging out at the Delano Beach, where Mike's Dad keeps a room. I had a great dinner with my friend Frank, looked at a bunch of condo's with Mike yesterday, have hit a bunch of meetings...having a fantastic time. I saw Pat Fields and Chloe Dao on Franklin the other day and apparently saw the hip hop producer Pherrell at the Delano, so it has been a star studded trip too.

For a little variety in my life I went to a Boston Red Sox/ Baltimore Orioles Spring Training game in Ft Lauderdale yesterday. We were right behind the dugout, which was great because we, or at least I, got to spend a sunny afternoon looking at young baseball players as the scratched, spat and stretched. I love baseball.

Dinner tonight at Nobu, should be quite the experience. Round up over the weekend...good times

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March 13, 2006

leaving on a jet plane

Minneapolis is getting 4 to 8 inches of snow today, so far there are no flight delays at the airport, and God knows I will become cranky if I miss my flight to Miami. I have a transfer in Detroit, with less than an hour between flight. Kepp your fingers crossed, I really need this vacation. It is nice that the weather turned shitty though. I would have been miffed had it become 80 and sunny for the week I was gone, I want to go to nicer weather.

I will rry and post while I am away, but my be too busy hanging out on the beach or buy the pool.

Life is difficult!

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March 10, 2006

only in miami is cuba so far away

My vacation begins at 5 pm today, and it can't come sooner. Tamara Petsonn says, " The day before and after vacation are super days for sick days!", I think I feel a low grade fever coming on.

I have absolutely nothing prepared for my trip. I have to dig out summer clothes and wash them, see if I need to buy anything, pack, straighten up the house( I have a friend staying to care for the kitties while I am gone) and of course my weekend is already filled with activities. Something is going to have to be cut.

Last night the 80's made for tv movie "The Day After" was on FX. I was recently having a conversation about this movie with a group of friends, most of whom had never heard of it. Whenever I hear of Lawerence, Kansas I think of this movie. What I had forgotten was that a boyhood crush, Steve Guttenberg, had a large part in the movie.(Insert tastless joke about Steve's large part being in other things here, I don't have the energy). It is about a nuclear attack on the United States. I remember being very disturbed by this movie when I was a kid, I was still disturbed but more by the low quality of the production then then content.

I have not decided about blogging while on vacation, so check back next week.

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March 09, 2006

someone to hurt you too deep

So last night was the finale for Project Runway and Chloe won. It was an obvious choice between Chloe and Daniel, Santino just dropped the ball on fit, but I thought that Daniel had the more impressive collection. I got the idea that Chloe won because of her business background, which in this contest is not exactly a bad thing. I really did not think too highly of her collection, thought the dresses looked a little "cache", so I guess that it was good for her that I was not the celebrity judge.

Billy, who I watched the episode with as we watched almost all the episodes, liked Chloe's collection a little more than I did but I think he was really silently hoping that Daniel would win, even though Billy hated Daniel's purse collection.

I spoke with my dear friend Frank yesterday in Miami, where I am going on vacation next week!, we have not seen each other in quite a long time, so I am really looking forward to spending sometime with him. He got sober a few months before I did and he is going to take me around to some great homo South Beach meetings.

Less then 1 full work day until my vacation!

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March 08, 2006

and there was music

I was having a conversation last night with some friends about character defects and humility came up as one of mine. I have to say that I used to struggle with humility, but I would say that today I am very humble. As a matter of fact I would have to say that when it comes to humility I am probably better at it than anyone I know. Yes, now that I really think about it I am most definately the best person at being humble that I have ever met. I think I would be hard pressed to find someone, anyone would is humblier than I am. Even if they thought they were more humble it would only be there grandiosity speaking, or ignorance at not having met me and having had the opprotunity to see real humility in action.

Yup, I have this humility thing nailed.

It is as Tamara Petsonn says, "When you do something well you should really let everyone know that you do it well as often as you can, so that they realize what a good person you are"

On a serious note, well kind of, did anyone else see the resiliant cheerleader on the Today Show this morning. This girl was dropped on her head and continued to cheer as she was taken off the court on a backboard. Well in a brace, with a fractured spine, concusion and bruised lung(what the hell is a bruised lung?) she was cheering away for Katie, Matt and Al today.

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March 07, 2006

the owner of an icebox

4 days until my vacation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not that I am looking forward to it or anything. It will be very difficult to leave the beauty of Minnesota and it's 38 degree highs and spend a week uncomfortably warm on the golden sands of South Beach. But I will find a way to manage.

Dan and I kicked Ryan and Billys collective asses last night in cribbage, then let them win a couple of games so that they would not be terribly shamed. It was a surprise tournamet of sorts, and a welcome surprise at that.

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March 06, 2006

I'd like to thank the Sara Siddons Society

The Oscars were on last night. I was not too impressed by the production, but it was a good night. I have a little group that I have watched the show with for the past few years and we were almost all together last night. Bobo and Dan were missed, but Billy was a welcome addition. As usual, Dubin made wonderful food and Bahaa made an amazing desert. It really was a wonderful time.

My friend Scott B stopped by my house yesterday morning and we spent the day watching the Law and Order SVU marathon. That Chris Mahonney really is fine.

I went to see Firewalll on Friday with Billy and Ryan. Good company, horrible movie. So bad it was unintentionally funny. A movie that I think would have be made better by earning a R-Rating rather then it's PG-13. Oh well, not every trip to the movies can be a winner.

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March 03, 2006

Hold on to your dreams

Tamara Petsonn says that we should all have musical scores to our lives. Thinking of our lives as films and always striving to observe ourselves as others would see us makes us careful about making deisions that make us look good. The background music for the montage of this day is Journeys "Don't Stop Believing". What is your choice?

I have been looking forward to Friday since I woke up on Tuesday morning and it is finally here! On my morning call to Dan we were talking about our plans this weekend and I realized that I have made plans with four different people for the same time on Saturday. Hmmm, if my life actually were a movie there would be a montage during which I cloned myself(background music Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me with Science") followed by wacky hi-jinks. But sadly it is not and now I have to shuffle my schedule.

I guess there are greater problems in the world, but honestly I can't think of any.

Besides, as Tamara Petsonn says, "Cancelling plans makes you look popular"

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March 02, 2006

this is worth a look

Brokeback Parodies

Very funny

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the mayoress, yes

Crazy day yesterday, didn't have a chnace to post sorry Melissa and anyone else who stops by. I am still fighting this stupid flu and had to concentrate on work. Tamara Petsonn says" Save your sick days for sunny days"

Just a couple of weeks until my vacation and I am staying focussed on that today, helps me to ingore my sickness.

Project Runway was kind of boring last night, filler to keep you watching until next week. I have no strong feelings about who is going to win. Billy was trying to get me worked up about some new show, but I may be taking a tv break. I am still confused about what happened to Prison Break and why Wentworth Miller refuses to accept my calls.

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