A Walk Through the Real World

A fresh start?

noreply@blogger.com (Big T) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:52:00 +0000

yeah, it's late, and i probably should be asleep by now. This'll serve as my fresh start to the blogging world. I'll try and update as often as i can and to you twitter users who got here from my tweet. welcome. i'll try not to scare you off. no, just kidding. i'm not a freak or anything.

SO, where do i begin. well, i guess i could start off by letting you all know that me and rae have set a wedding date, kinda sorta. it's gonna be next year in may. she's got a job now and i've been working steady but just not able to save anything since we're living solely off of my pay. we're both going to be bringing in money now and tax refunds are coming in soon, so that will make things that much easier. we're trying to get our own place, and that first couple hundred dollars is always the hardest to save. it just always seems that when you have that first hundred or two in the bank that it's a lot easier to save more. Is it just me, or do some of you find it that way too?

I've found twitter to be very addicting. who knows, maybe it'll help me get some readers to this blog. i only have about 10 or so followers and following about 20 people or so. i post pretty frequently, i dunno. maybe it's my content. anybody have some tips? ah, who cares. it's just that i don't know anyone personally that uses twitter besides my fiance and she doesn't even use it. she actually finds it kinda lame. social networking just isn't her thing really...i guess.

oh, one last thing before i head to bed. has anyone ever heard of root zoo? It's a great site to talk sports, earn and wager points, earn money and win prizes, and just have a great time. If you love sports like i do, you should really check this site out. a few links before i go.

Join Rootzoo Here - here's where you can check out the site and register.

"What is a True Fan?" - it's shortened a bit simply because the url is fairly long and no one wants to deal with all of that. this is one of the few articles i've written on rootzoo.

"Superbowl XLIII was Rigged" - yet another article. After the smoke has cleared, is there any of you that still thinks the Arizona Cardinals were cheated by the referees?

also feel free to follow me on twitter @Bigtony423

ciao.

The Daily Dish of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (Big T) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:04:00 +0000

Here are a few tid bits of things that are circulating right now and my opinions with it.

Paris Hilton
so get this, Paris Hilton is on a new reality show on MTV. what else is new huh? anyway, i don't know if it has started already but i know its for real. well, she wants a new bff(aka she just wants any excuse to get more media attention and keep her popularity above par). They have this competition going to see who will become her new best friend. i think this is pretty ridiculous but if you're going to vote for anyone i say vote for Big Jim.

Life for Sale on eBay
This 44 year old man from Australia has just broken up with his girlfriend and wants to start fresh. He feels that his whole house, his friends, and his job, all remind him of her and he wants a fresh start. So in order to do so, starting June 22nd he's putting his life, a one-time meet and greet with his friends and a week or so of paid training at his job.

Now i know how difficult it is to get over a girl once you've had you're heart broken but to sell your life to start fresh. that's a bit ridiculous. I don't think he should be selling everything he owns basically.

What has gotten into this world lately?

10 Weird Things Tag

noreply@blogger.com (Big T) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:46:00 +0000

I was tagged by Angela who runs the blog And then there were four...

This is 10 Weird things you may or may not know about me

1) I must, and this is a must, sleep with my feet outside of the covers. This is especially if i fall asleep with my socks on. I feel that if my feet are under the covers that they're trapped. My feet need to be free in order for the rest of me to be comfortable.

2) on the topic of sleeping. most of the time i have to take my socks off when i'm laying down to go to sleep. it goes along with number one. if my feet are suffocating in socks or shoes the heat from my body cannot escape and i'll sweat at night and not be able to sleep well.

3) i feel the need to please everyone else before myself. explanation: i think this is weird because a lot of people in this world put themselves first and worry about others later. a lot of the people who i end up putting first do this. with this said i still put said person first. i should really concentrate on my own needs from time to time. but, i'm weird like that.

4) maybe it's just that i'm lazy but i find it odd that i almost never capitalize my i's or anything else for that matter. if this bothers you, i'm sorry.

5) i love energy drinks. be it monster, red bull, amp, but not too much of the rockstar or full throttle though. i know, they're really bad for me and i shouldn't drink them, but i just can't help it sometimes.

6) I'm a control freak. if things don't go my way i tend to get a little moody. i'm not like this all the time though i promise.

7) when doing something, i'm not as original as i could be. i sometimes choose things or do things for the sake of other people's approval. i guess i never really got the approval i needed as a child.

8) I love to sing; i was in chorus from 4-12th grade. i never sing in the shower though. maybe it's because i can't bare to hear my own voice.

9) i tend to be optimistic way too often. this ties in with #3. Sometimes i get walked all over because i always see the bright side of things.

10) before listing these 10 things, i never actually thought i was weird. now, i could probably go on for another 5 things. but i'll keep it short.

Runners up: Knowing a little about a variety of things.
being frosty in my elementary school play.
having a cigarette after every meal

So there you have it. i guess i'll be tagging some other people.

Go Speed Racer

noreply@blogger.com (Big T) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:08:00 +0000

i was stumbling around the internet and found a great way to start a new part of my blog.

Video Clip of the week.

This week's Clip is a trailer for Speed Racer to be released May 9th 2008. It stars Emile Hirsch as Speed Racer, you may know him from the movie The Girl Next Door where he played high school student falling in love with the girl next door who turns out to be a porn star. The movie also stars Christina Ricci as his girlfriend Trixie, Susan Sarandon and John Goodman as Mom and Pop Racer.

After watching this trailer, i must say, this movie looks fantastic. A bit like a video game, yes, but none the less, fantastic. It would probably be a movie that would be fun to watch on drugs. Not that i condone drug use or anything, but the preview looks a little trippy. Most of the time i wait until the movie comes out on dvd, but i'll definitely be heading to theaters sometime around may 9th to see this movie.

go check out the clip and let me know what you think.

My Lucky Day I Guess

noreply@blogger.com (Big T) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:09:00 +0000

Today I had my midterm in Western Civ. II. I think i did fairly well, and from what i hear my professor is a lenient grader. Lets hope i did good. After my test was over i sat in the lobby and waited for rae to come get me. While doing so, a random guy walks up to me and asks to swap a dollar of his for one of mine because his wasn't working in the vending machines. I'm a generous guy, so i said yeah. It was an even swap, i had nothing to lose. I took his dollar straightened it out and popped it into the soda machine. First time around, it wouldn't stay in. Second time, it stayed, but registered as a 5 dollar bill. AMAZING! i just gained 4 dollars by being a nice guy and potentially risking a dollar i could've spent in the vending machine had it not stayed in. I figured it was only fair and I gave him 2 dollars out of the 4. I had nothing to lose. I was just gaining 2 dollars instead of 4. He was in such shock that he thanked me a million times and said that he was really thirsty and now he could get something to drink.

Good Deed of the day #1.

After this we went to Rae's moms house. She needed me to help her in picking up chairs from the store for her baby shower tomorrow. I really don't like the woman, but in a year or so, she may be my mother in law, so i agreed to help. But only as a favor to Rae. We took a ride over to the party rental place and picked up the 25 chairs and transported them to her house. It was quick and painless. No harm done.

Good Deed of the day #2

We had time to kill, so we went to Chuck and Tiff's house where my car has been abandoned in the parking lot for almost a year now and took some initiative. We cleaned it out to get it ready for donation. Well, semi-donation. I ended up getting $100 for it and the rest was used for scrap metal. Pretty sweet deal for both parties here. I now had a hundred bucks to go buy some alcohol and celebrate. What was I celebrating, you ask? The departure of my beloved 1998 Lincoln Town Car. You see, coming from Irish heritage, us "Mick's" drink a little alcohol to celebrate all occasions. Birth, Death, and Life as a whole. So, we picked up a bottle of Silver Patron and some Coors Light and headed for Chuck and Tiff's apartment.

Good Deed of the day #3

I think i was in pretty good shape for the day. 3 good deeds in one day. probably a record for the month. although, i'm not really counting the deeds, because they come from the heart. I don't do it for my own self-gratification.

At Chuck and Tiff's house we ordered food, drank, and watched No Country for Old Men. A very good movie, but i didn't like the ending to much. Altogether though, it was a great movie though. It was a comedy, a horror and a suspense film all rolled up into one. You should go rent it. It's definitely worth the viewing.

Speaking of being Irish, i plan on hitting up this bar in Highland Park, NJ. i heard that every year they bring in bag pipes and a full irish style band. it should be fun.

Anyone else doing anything interesting this St. Patrick's Day?

as always, comments are encouraged and appreciated.

well, good night to all, and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

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Now playing: Dubliners - Seven Drunken Nights
via FoxyTunes

Titles Brought to Life Pt. 1

noreply@blogger.com (Big T) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:49:00 +0000

Recently I came up with the idea to start clipping out titles from newspaper articles that i find interesting. Then, i thought to myself, i should write a poem about this and make it my own. So i did. Here is the first installment in Titles Brought To Life.

A Signal in the sky said: Marry Her
Day after day,
exchanging many kisses
we took things further
and furthermore
spending time together
getting to know each other
we learned lots of things
and grew to love another
spending many hours
walking the beach
strolling through the park
picnics by the river
...in the backseat after dark
she knew how to love me
how to take care of me
she knew what i wanted
and tended to my needs
something came over me
like a signal from the sky
Marry her you dope!
don't let this one pass you by.

I'm attending college currently and one of my classes is spanish 121 - introduction to spanish. or spanish 1. while looking through the podcasts on iTunes i found a whole set of spanish podcasts that help you speak spanish. this is going to be great.

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Now playing: SpanishPod101.com - Newbie Lesson #1 - Hi! How are You?
via FoxyTunes

Book Tag

noreply@blogger.com (Big T) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:54:00 +0000

I came across a random blog which had an entry similar to this one here.

i wasn't tagged but i figured i could start this up here. i thought it'd be cool.

So the way you play is:
1. Pick up the nearest book (with at least 123 pgs.)
2. Turn to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next 3 sentences.
5. Tag 5 people.

The nearest book i found was Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

The fifth sentence on page 123:

If there was a girl you liked," I say to him, "if she wanted to have sex just so she could get pregnant, would you?"

wow...what a way to bring you into this book huh?
and the next three sentences are:

Ursula grabs her skirts up and comes stomping through the cow poop in her wooden clogs. She kicks a blind chicken that's in her way. Somebody snaps her picture, kicking.

If that doesn't make you want to read this book, i don't know what else could. :-) just kidding, although it was a really good book. A little twisted, though it is written by chuck Palahniuk, the guy who wrote the book turned movie, Fight Club, which starred Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.

So, there you have it. And now...to pass it on to 5 unsuspecting victims. :smiles:

This Splitzer guy is outta control...

noreply@blogger.com (Big T) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:03:00 +0000

Is There A Meaning?
Would someone please tell me
What life really means?
Is it an answer
Worth looking for?
Why do we search so hard?
To find that the answer
Was always inside us?
Is it because
We always need some validation
A constant need of
Communication
Or could it just be
Nature's way of
Letting us know what's up

just a little something i wrote while bored. i guess i was feeling that way at the time. not anymore, but i was at one point. i guess this is just a recurring theme in my life. What do i really want to do? Where do I really want to be in 5 years? Questions of that sort race through my mind when i'm alone. it's sometimes unbearable.

Does anyone have a clue as to why i feel this way?

noreply@blogger.com (Big T) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:30:00 +0000

Just testin this ish out.

...just give me a six-pack and a couple of bags of Skittles

noreply@blogger.com (Big T) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:16:00 +0000

So while "stumbling" around the internet i came across this really cool quote which made me think...

As explained by Cliff Clavin, of Cheers. One afternoon at Cheers, Cliff Clavin was explaining the Buffalo Theory to his buddy Norm. Here's how it went:

"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and Weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. "In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks The slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the Brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers."

Now, a lot of you people out there may be thinking, "are you serious? is this guy for real?" in all honesty, this is a bit of humor and is meant to be taken that way. if I'm trying to be serious you'll know. trust me. my vocabulary will be altered slightly.

but this theory is kinda cool. and makes a little sense. would be great if it were true though. i'd be going to the store to grab a 6-pack right now if it were. heh. ahh....its been a while since i pounded back a few good cold ones. maybe tomorrow night i'll coax the misses into letting me go out for a few drinks. maybe.....

another cool quote comes from a song i'm listening to from the movie Juno

"Up, down, up, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, start. just because we use cheats doesn't mean we're not smart."- exact song below.

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Now playing: The Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else But You

The truths about caucasion society

noreply@blogger.com (Big T) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:58:00 +0000

clipped from www.jumbojoke.com

10 Truths Black And Hispanic People Know, But White People Won't Admit:

1. Elvis is dead.
2. Jesus was not white.
3. Rap music is here to stay.
4. Kissing your pet is not cute or clean.
5. Skinny does not equal sexy.
6. Thomas Jefferson had black children.
7. A 5-year-child is too big for a stroller.
8. N'Sync will never hold a candle to the Jackson 5.
9. An occasional butt-whooping helps a child stay in line.
10. Having your children curse you out in public is not normal.

The Dressing Room Debacle

noreply@blogger.com (Big T) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:41:00 +0000

So, Erika and I were at Walmart and she was shopping for some clothes. As I was waiting by the dressing room I see an employee do a check to see if there is anyone in these rooms. She yells out "Anyone in there?" as she raps on the door. "Someone's in here," the girl behind the first door, who's probably half-naked, responds. The "role call" or check of the dressing rooms continues and each girl responds the same way.

Now, what I wanna know is why these 4 or 5 people, and lots of other people in the world, respond in 3rd person when someone isn't visible and asking them a question. When they're at home spending time with their significant other and they have to go to the bathroom but they're in the kitchen and the boyfriend/girlfriend is in the other room not visible, say "Honey, Jessica will be right back. She's going to the bathroom." or "Tommy can't answer the phone right now sweety, can you grab it." NO! No one talks in 3rd person on purpose in everyday situations. So don't do it when you're in the bathroom at home and someone knocks to see if someone's in there. If someone asks "Is someone in here?" make your response, "yeah, and I'll be out in a minute" or something to that effect.

In other news. In New Jersey, it has snowed a good amount and they've closed a good portion of schools in the Rutgers/Central Jersey Area. I didn't know this at first. My class starts at 12:30pm and I don't have to leave untill 11:30am just to be safe. So, in turn, I'm usually not up before 10 unless someone or something wakes me up. My fiance called me at about 10:15 and says "Babe you gotta get up, you have school." Right before this my brother walks in and asks if I have school, since Rutgers is closed. Rutgers never closes by the way. There has to be at least 6 inches of snow for them to cancel school. the same with most colleges. Needless to say, it snowed about 6 or so inches. Anyway, I'm on the phone with Erika and she's tellin me that I need to get up and start getting ready for school. I'm like, "are you serious? rutgers doesn't have school. you're not bullshitting me are you?" she says no with the utmost sincerity I've heard from anyone in a long time. So, i'm about to hang up and get dressed when she says "What are you gonna hang up with me for? It's not like you have school or anything." and at that point she tells me my younger brother was in on the whole scheme too. Isn't that lovely. I can't even trust my own fiancee to tell the truth with such trivial information anymore. :sigh:

eh, i'm just kidding. we're off to go sledding or something. I hope i have work still. I need the money.