A different middle name meme

Since my Friday is not really playing out like I had planned, here is a meme to pass the time. I swiped this from Swim, ski, and renovating our home. Enjoy!

A different Middle Name meme

The rules:
Use the first letter of your middle name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things…nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person you took this from had the same first initial. You CAN’T use your name for the boy/girl name question.


Middle name letter: R
Famous artist/band/musician: R.E.M. (how'd u like that coffey?)
Four-letter word: rain
U.S. state: Rhode Island
Boy name: Ryan
Girl name: Renee
Animal: Raven
Something in the kitchen: recipe
Reason for being late: road construction
Body part: retina
Drink: Rum
Something you shout: Run!
Something you eat: rolls

Fantastic Fours

Yet another meme. I swiped this one from Idle Eyes and a dormy. And just to save you the comment Shane, yes it does bother me that its about 4 and it has 9 categories...I'm a weirdo.

Four Jobs I Have Had In My Life

1. Waiter
2. Delivery driver
3. Textbook order processor
4. retail clothing store manager

Four Movies I Would Watch/Have Watched Over And Over

1. All Over the Guy
2. Reality Bites
3. Singles
4. Scream

Four Places I Have Lived

1. Kansas City, Missouri
2. Branson, Missouri
3. St.Louis, Missouri
4. Columbia, Missouri

What can I say? I'm a Missouri boy

Four TV Shows That I Watch

1. The Biggest Loser
2. Dirt
3. The New Adventures of Old Christine
4. Lost

Four Places I Have Visited

1. Chicago
2. Orlando
3. New York
4. Dallas

Four People Who E-mail Me Regularly

1. Shane
2. Alyssa
3. Men's Health
4. Dad

Four Favorite Foods

1. Pizza
2. Sesame chicken
3. Coffee
4. Beer....it is it's own food group right?

Four Places I Would Like To Be Right Now

1. London
2. New York
3. Starbucks
4. bed

Four Things I Am Looking Forward To This Year

1. Continued physical improvement
2. Getting my new bike
3. Going to see the Gin Blossoms
4. Actually taking a trip on my vacation

T-shirt Tuesday...err Wednesday

What a hectic day it has been! How could I have forgotten T-shirt Tuesday? This will technically post on Wednesday but since I haven't gone to bed yet we'll still call this T-shirt Tuesday. For this week's t-shirt we're going old school. This is the t-shirt that started it all, and to this day it is one of my favorite sayings.......

In other Tuesday news, one of my favorite bloggers, Cup of Coffey, is celebrating a birthday. Happy Birthday lady!! You should check out her blog. Her mixed tape Fridays are truly a thing to look forward to each week.

Bi Bi Buffy

So as I may have mentioned I love love love Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I was saddened when it ended its tv run, but have been overjoyed at its return, in comic book form. I just finished reading "Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #12 Wolves at the Gate pt.1" (i'm sure that there are comic book types out there who will tell me I didn't name it right so I tried to just include everything...lol).
There were things I liked in this issue and things that I didn't so let me start with the good. First off, I really like Xander and Renee. Don't get me wrong I'm a huge HUGE Anya fan. I always hoped that Anya and Xander would end up together. That seems unlikely since, you know, Anya died and all, but still. I feel like they wrapped up their story on the show so I am happy to see my little Xander find some happiness, or at least the beginnings of happiness. Speaking of Xander, I love that they sent him to Dracula to find out info about the new vamps. Xander around him is hysterical.
Andrew is back!! I assume he's back to help with the whole Dawn-is-a-giant saga. He always brings delightful humor to the Scoobies. The bit of Willow flying him to the castle while he quoted Lois Lane had me rolling with laughter.
The Japanese vampire goth gang really got my attention. What's with the transmogrification abilities? Why did they take the scythe (the scythe scythe as Buffy said)? You know the one that Willow used to cast the spell to turn all of the potentials into actual slayers.
Now for the bad. I really didn't like the whole Buffy hooked up with a lady (Satsu, one of the new slayers). I get it, Buffy's had a run of bad luck with the men in her life (Angel, Spike, Parker, Riley) and its been awhile since she's had a wonderful night (her words). It was supposed to come off as a shock, but for some reason it seemed predictable to me. Although, on the flip side to that, its nice that seeing the main character having a bisexual experience was just merely predictable. There was a time when that would have been unheard of (be it in the comics or on tv). So maybe it wasn't so bad after all, I guess it was just the one storyline that didn't wow me the way so many other Buffy storylines do. Who knows maybe it will turn into a story that I really like? Stranger things have happened
Speaking of a storyline that I think I would really like, in "Buffy the Vampire Season 8 #9 No future for you part 4", they indicated that Faith and Giles (2 of my fav Buffy characters) will be working together away from the rest of the gang. I would love to see that story arc played out in the comic. I could even see that spinning off into its own comic or (hope beyond hope) a tv show. Joss Whedon and Eliza Dushku are set to do a new show together anyway. Maybe they can make it happen for me.
Well I'm off to read the new issue of "Angel: After the Fall." Night Buffy fans...and the rest of you too.

Crazy 8's

Alright several days later and I am finally getting around to the Crazy 8's meme that I swiped from Cup of Coffey. This one was more time consuming than I thought it would be but I really enjoyed it.

8 Things I'm Passionate About

1. Working Out - I know when you look at my profile pic your first thought isn't "hey this guy is super in shape," but you have to look at where I started. Here is a picture from my heaviest weight. I know its blurry, but you get the idea. Now after seeing this, look at my profile pic again. I've lost 70 pounds so far and would like to lose 30-40 more.
2. The Biggest Loser - My fatty picture on the right should be a pretty good indication of why I'm so passionate about this show. I know its just a dumb reality show, but the results those people achieve are really amazing. That show always makes me a little emotional.
3. Cooking - Again my weight loss probably plays into this answer. My mom always believed that her sons needed to know how to cook, so that was something that we did together. I've always enjoyed cooking, but now I'm really into finding ways to make my cooking healthier.
4. Books - I love to read. My parents read to me alot when I was young and it has always stuck with me. I typically read a minimum of one book a week.
5. Music - Wow, isn't music amazing? One song can change your mood completely. I love when you find a song that just perfectly describes how you are feeling.
6. My friends - They are more important to me than I could ever even begin to describe.
7. Road trips - I really believe that its the journey not the destination.
8. Coffee - I can't imagine a day that doesn't start without coffee

8 Things I want to do before I die

1. Write and publish a book
2. Live in London for a year - My mom says that when I talk about London my eyes sort of glaze over and its as if I've found my mothership
3. Skydive - I really want to do this. Here's my problem with the concept. For me to actually do this I would essentially be saying to someone" Hi, I would like to pay you to take me up in a plane. Then instead of safely bringing me back down, I want to have to jump out of said plane with a device ,that may or may not open, strapped to my back as my only method of safe landing.
4. Run a marathon
5. Travel to all 50 states
6. Watch all the Godfather movies in one sitting - I like these movies individually and I don't know why this is on my list. For some reason, I'm intrigued by spending an entire day watching all of these movies back to back.
7. Learn to play guitar well - well being the key word here. Enough said.
8. Get a tattoo - I know I want one and I know where I want it. I'm just so indecisive on what tattoo I want

8 Things I say often

1. I know right
2. Well hello
3. Dag yo!
4. Hey lady face
5. Cool cool
6. Glug glug good times
7. Its a thing...it could be
8. Drunkaroo

8 Books I've Read Recently

1. Love Monkey
2. The Best Life Diet
3. Fight Club
4. The Catcher In the Rye
5. Soon I'll Be Invincible
6. The Scarlett Letter
7. Bitten
8. Stolen

8 Songs I could listen to over and over

1. "Walkin on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves
2. "Hang" by Matchbox20
3. "Crazy" by Patsy Cline
4. "I Will Survive" by Cake
5. "Bother" by Stone Sour
6. "God Bless the Broken Road" by Rascall Flats
7. "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinead OConnor
8. "Hey Jealousy" by Gin Blossoms

8 Things that attract me to my best friends

1. their senses of humor
2. their intelligence
3. their kindness
4. their unwavering devotion
5. their ability to take the smallest moment and turn it into something hysterical
6. the way they know which "i'm ok" means I'm ok and which one doesn't
7. the way they want me to be in a relationship, but don't push me on it...not just yet
8. the way they tease me about Buffy the Vampire Slayer

8 things that drive me crazy

1. People who don't use their turn signal, or use it at the last moment
2. When people leave up posters/flyers/signs for events that have already occured
3. People who lie (particularly dumb stuff)
4. People who ask too many questions during a movie
5. People who travel, but then avoid the experiences of the place they travel to
6. My cell phone
7. Text messages
8. Insomnia

8 People I think should go all Crazy 8s on us (the celebrity edition)

1. Sarah Silverman
2. Tim Gunn
3. Hillary Clinton
4. Joss Whedon
5. Chuck Palahniuk
6. Rob Thomas - the television writer not the singer, although the singer too, either or really
7. Joni Mitchell
8. Anderson Cooper

Tired town...more memes to follow

I realize now that is nearly 2 in the morning so I am just leaving you with the Middle Name Meme for the evening. Tomorrow I will be continuing on with some more memes....Crazy 8s and 6 word memoir.

Middle Name Meme

My posts have been somewhat lacking as of late and I'm really too new at this for this to be the case. Anyway, I'm trying to re-energize myself a bit with some meme's. These all come from the wonderful Cup of Coffey. Hopefully, doing these will get me motivated to post more. I'm gonna skip the part about tagging people, cause I'm still pretty new at the whole blogger world, but enjoy the rest.

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The Rules
1. Post the rules before you give your answers.

2. List one fact about yourself beginning with each letter of your middle name. If you don't have a middle name, use your maiden name or your mother's maiden name.

3. At the end of your blog post, tag one person (or blogger of another species) for each letter of your middle name. Be sure to leave them a comment telling them they've been tagged.
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My middle name is Ray so this should be pretty easy right?

R - Reading is my activity of choice when I can't sleep. I can't sleep alot so I tend to read at least
one book a week. I've done this for the last couple of years.

A - Alchohol. My beer of choice is Rolling Rock. My drink of choice is vodka tonic. I used to not
like wine at all, but this year I've become a fan of Yellowtail Merlot. It is a cheap wine that
my wine snob friends make fun of, but I enjoy it.

Y - Yoga. I have to admit I always thought of yoga as a little too hippy-dippy for my taste, but I
received a gift certificate for a yoga class for Christmas and I really like it. Some of it is a
little corny to me, but I love the way I feel after each class. I try to do it at least once a week.