No Im not Irish... yes I love to drink... but that is not why I love St. Paddys.  I love it because I have NEVER had a bad one.  I have had shitty birthdays, new years, kwanzas, earth days, feast of st anthony's, etc... But never a bad St Paddys.  At least none that i can remember :)  So this year was no exception.

Here are my tweets from the evening http://twitter.com/happywakko - and I will annotate

per usual on this day I will be disconnecting my tweets from my facebook - if you want to follow the action you know where ill be posting

I do this since i never know exactly what i will tweet after 12 drinks in :)  and that saves people from getting to know more than they need to on Facebook

Off to the black rose!

The black rose is my favorite irish bar in boston (near fanuel hall).  Also one of the only bars in town I have not been kicked out of.  I have been shut off but they let me stay to enjoy the live traditional irish music.  One of the only places that have this all the time.

Free burrito day at bocolo!!!  Can today get any better and we haven't started drinking!  

So how freakin cool is a free burrito on st paddys? I mean, free haggis I get but mexican (but this will be a recurring theme later)

http://twitpic.com/196oes We have arrived. 1st guiness is the best!

Turns out after 2 guiness i was done with that... just not in a beer mood... its not my forte anyway

Ok - sweet caroline - we are in boston. It was bound to happen :)

Yes... and everyone has some clever line to throw in the ba-ba-bum part  "fuck-ing-whore" "fat-n-bald" "

http://twitpic.com/1977vs @jennyhoney good choices?? Wdyt? :)

A friedn who told me i need to make good choices on this night and take pics. nuff said :)

U2 time - really that is expected...

This really chaps my ass... I like U2 but once a band starts is just doesnt stop.  the good news is that there was a band up and down stairs both with traditional drinking music, so that worked out perfect.

http://twitpic.com/197kjk Ooops. They accidnetally brought me two drinks :) yeah. I'm workin it tonight baby!

this was funny too... all night we were getting drinks for free, accidental extras, pay for only one... my friend was really rocking the barstaff :) she is hot!

@JennyHoney great. You can help @rexsan find some caulk from the nail guy!!!!  You so have to be here!!

Too funny... joke is that i tweeted about 500 tweets ago about being at home depot and hearing some guy ask where the caulk was.  I laughed hard enough to pee a little.  that got me thinking.. how the hell do you ask for caulk without sounding hilarious?  "where is your caulk?" "can you show me your caulk" "I need caulk. where can i find it?" "where do you put your caulk".  Then rexsan (the hottie gettin us free drinks) says "cmon, I would just go over to the nail guy and ask...." at which point i nearly spit out my drink along with our other friend.  God that was so funny.

@JennyHoney or panties!!!

hmmmm.... not sure... i do like panties though :)

Lost track of number of drinks. Going to secondary measurements of facial numbness :) lips, tongue, and ear cartillige. So far.

This is typical for me... normally my lips numb first... then my tongue... not sure about the ears though... i must have been pretty F*d up

Wild rover!!!!! No ney never!!!!

Both rexsan and I wanted them to play this tune and said "they havent played no neigh never yet" then taht was the very next song!  we should have wished for money/

http://twitpic.com/1985bk Oh yeah. That is a fucking mariachi band my AZ friends!!!!  LMAO.

continuing where the burrito left off... really... i couldnt believe it.  i went downstairs, saw the mariachi, and went upstairs and told... everyone... really.. strangers, jacked guys that couldnt lower their arms, fishnet stocking wearing 60yr olds.  they would say "a what band" and i wouls say mariachi, you know, and then I would prented to have a trumpet in my hand and do the mexican hat dance song.

Talking with real irish people.....from Ireland and shit,!!!!!

thses two were nuts... crazy... a couple from ireland that was ordering Irish Champagne = Magners.  Its a cider and it didnt stop coming to the table.  so many bottles.  my cup was never empty so I had no clue how much i drank.

It was soon after this that my I noticed my buddy was being escorted out of the bar.  they dont like it when you nap at the table. so i went out iwth him (made sure to get my hand stamped).  then i sat him on a bench outside and started to see if he was oK when i noticed pizza... mmmm i was so hungry.  so i left him on the bench to get pizza.  then returned and propped him up.  rubbed his back while i ate my pizza.  then he threw up - a lot!!! people were looking since it was still pretty early.  i said he was OK and to just walk around.  then i put him in a cab and said good night :)  I still had plenty of drinking to do :)

Irish line dancing now!!!

i just recall girls that looked wayyyyyy to young to be in a bar, dancing and passing a can around to collect money. Im sure i put a 20 in there :)

Irish people are less fucked up than me on st paddys. Wow. I'm really fucked up :)

i dont recall tweeting this at all... and the spelling is right on, so i cant trust it was me

Done for the night :) great time :)

the truth is that at this point we went to the north end for cafe vittoria for some coffee and something.. dont remember what :)  then we returned to my buddies place... the one i sent home in the cab.  good thing he left his front door wide open :)

So another amazing St Paddy's day!  it was just perfect and i wasnt even that fucked up at work the next day :)  I am already looking forward to next year :)

Maybe its the Belvedere and Tonic talking, but I like being happy.  Really.  I find that most people just aren't happy with happy.  I have no idea what makes those people happy or if they would even know happiness if it hit them in the face with a puppy.  The fact is that happiness is hard to come by so when it does you have to recognize it, embrace it, and let it lick your face for a while.

Why don't I blog more?

This really seems like a great outlet for me, and posterious makes it drop dead simple, so why dont I post more?  I spent some time pondering that this week and I have come to a few conclusions:

1.  Im lazy - yup, really lazy.  Not all the time, but enough.

2.  Im scared - yeah scared seems pretty stupid, but in all honestly (well as honest as you believe I will be - probably not "all") I just think that if I was to share what really bothers me it will come back to bite me in the ass like a doberman with sharks teeth.  There are a lot of things that I need to vent about and I thought blogging would be the way to do that, but what if????  If I start complaining about family, friends, martians... who knows who will find out.  Im honest about how I feel... just not to their face.  Especially the martians - martians rock!!!

3.  I have other coping mechanisms - I am very lucky, even blessed if you believe in that kind of stuff, which I really don't. 

<randomness> but yesterday I was at a mexican restaurant and when I went back to the car a homeless guy - well maybe homeless.. I didnt ask him to show me house keys - asked if me or my friends could spare ONE quarter.  My friends are all assholes and said no, but I rock so I said sure.  Then I realized that i didnt have a quarter, so I took out my wallet to give him a buck and all I had were $20s - and I dont rock that much and if I did that Im sure he would assume there would be some sexual favors involved and I don't do that kind of stuff.... for money.... anymore.  I did find 3 quarters in the car and gave them to him and said "god bless you" and I said to my friends I'm sure I could use that.  And he replied (I didnt think her heard me) "so you need to be blessed?... Well, thats really all you need in life.  Blessing from god and a cheese sandwich."  CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?!  A cheese sandwich.  How did he know I love cheese.  I do, its my favorite!  If he said grilled cheese I would have quit my job and followed him around the streets spreading his cheesy word! </randomness>.  

I have a few very close friends that I can vent to and share what really worries me in life.  They are great listeners and know when to let me drift off into space and when to cut my funding so I can't go to space (thanks mr president!).

So does this mean I am done blogging forever? will I find a more secret pseudonym than happywakko and not invite anyone I currently know to play with me?  I am not sure... I think i will continue to use this space as a means of just babbling on about whatever.. just not the serious stuff.  At least the stuff that could get back to me, resulting in an ass-kicking.

Something is very wrong...

Going to sleep is a chore for some reason and I am very irritable.  I am sure the latter is somewhat caused by the former but I know there is something else that is wrong.  This happens every few months where I think some wire is short circuited in my brain that turns out the "happy" light in happywakko.  So in my over analyzing brain (which never shorts out.. sadly) lets do a quick root cause analysis.

Facts

1. irritable
2. no sleep
3. more coffee (well.. that is hard to tell)
4. trouble getting things done
5. struggling for words (that is very unlike me)

you up, and then beats you till you want no more. But that's the silly thing. You can't get rid of them and in fact as time goes by the pain increases exponentially.

To expand on that gem a little.  I have had trouble with family for as long as I have had family.  I never got along with my sister and still don't (volumes could be written on that topic).  My parents are fine when kept at arms length (preferably someone with 1000mi long arms).  I have spent my life figuring out how to keep them from being sources of stress and I have it down to a science now.  Everything was great.... well, not great, but acceptable.... until I got married.

Marriage rocks when you don't have the best family life since you get a whole new one.  Sure they are nuts too, but in a great way.  But in the interest of keeping a net 0 balance in the marriage - the huge positive that I get from my new family is offset by the one my wife has inherited.  The worst part is that there is so little that I can do, since dealing with my family is a job that requires 20 years of experience and there is no way to accelerate that learning.

So, there are lots of conversations that begin with "Can you believe your mom/sister said/did...."  And its always, "Yes, what else would you expect?".  I guess in another 15 years it will all work out just fine :)

and we wonder why our medical system is so fucked up and under complete control of the drug companies.  So, I am on my way back from CVS picking up children's motrin (no, not the generic - since I have been somehow brainwashed that I have to get the "real deal") and I hear this radio ad for a depression drug called ..... something... who the hell knows.  What caught me was that in the first 10 seconds theymade sure to say it was not "habit forming"  the rest of the 30 seconds was spent asking if you felt "sad" sometimes, have trouble sleeping, etc...  Then, they said, get this...  whatever the fuck its called has been found by some doctors to elicit the same feeling as "being in love".  Yes, love....  the non-habit foming feeling that most every creature on this planet craves.  That same feeling that leads to suicide, murder, theft, and of course... more drug use.  Good to know that LOVE is not habit forming. 

Habit Forming = Addictive; likely to cause dependence or recurrence of use

Addiction = being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming

Those terms sound like LOVE to me... so I am not sure how they get away with calling this anti-sadness drug that feels just like falling in love non habit forming but kudos to them and the billions they will make convincing people of that.  I guess they will also be able to ween people off of love by putting them on this non-habit forming drug and then eventually they can come off of that.   That will be great.  Well, i guess since having your heart broken makes you sad and this is anti-sadness that just makes sense then.  Truth in advertising.  Brilliant! 

I'll take two please...

PS - Totally separate thing.  Had a converstaion with a co-worker today about how we can't have anything grape flavor since it reminds us of the flavor of medicine.  Grape used to be the only flavor in medicine, remember Dymatap?  Now you can get any flavor like its a slushy.  The flavor I got for my kid happens to be Grape :)  I have already begun to ruin grape popsicles for her.

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No shit... I have issues - at this point I am just trying to give them a name.

FYI this movie is "Wakko's World"!  Yes, that is the wakko in "happywakko"

"Hi Jonathan"

I've been a tv whore since I was 13 and got a TV in my room.  I would watch pretty much anything.  Favorites included the usual for a teenage boy: A-Team, He Man, Thundercats, MacGuyer, Magnum PI, Dukes of Hazzard, Street Hawk..... and the unusual: Golden Girls, Murder She Wrote, Columbo, Black Adder.  20 years later my tastes have devolved to the down right pathetic: The Hills, Real World, Grey's Anatomy, Bridezilla's, Baldwin brother movies, rosanne reruns, and yes.... still the Golden Girls.

DVRs, hulu, 900 channels, all just contribute to the problem to which there is no escape.  Currently, the biggest probem in my life at this very second is that I have one TV with the ability to record 2 shows at a time.  Tonight, in the same time slot is House (2 hours), Heroes (2 hours), Big bang theory/2.5men/how i met your mother, Greek, Monday Night football.  That is 5 different channels with only 2 that i can watch.  My brain hurts.  So I have to comb hulu, on-demand, suck-ass-network.com, to find out what I can watch somewhere else and what I have to record.   So, I will pass on MNF - which just ended with another Manning vicotry - BOO!  I will have to find an option to watch Heros sicne it is currenlty not on-demand anymore (not sure WTF is going on there).  Greek is on-demand and is good for those sunday marathons to get caught up on.  and I have to watch House and big bang theory.

Thank god the new seasons have started which will effectively fry those brian cells that alcohol has left behind.

.. thank you for being a friend

... down the road and back again

... your heart is true, youre a pal and a confidant.....

3AM UPDATE:

Now that I have caught up on my shows I have found something I wont watch!!!  Absolutely on Purpose - an awful new show with Thea Leoni. Oops, thats Janna Elfman (from Darhma and Greg fame).The premise is that a 30something woman that wants a serious relationship get knocked up by an early 20s boy toy.  dont stress... he wants to stay with her to help... oh and he has 3 stoner buds that he lives with... let the hilarity ensue.  You can sandwich this between the moon landing and a brittney spears/jessica simpson jello wrestling MMA to the death fight and people wont watch it.  I give it 6 episodes max!

Oh... and go fuck yourself Peyton Manning (I didnt see the game,  but I heard you looked like a freakin genius)

Picked up some of these chocolate dipped mints yesterday at the advice of a "friend". I'm not sure if that is the word addicts continue to call the people that introduce them to their mind controlling substances... the ones that eventually make them want to sell body parts to obtain more of the magnificent melados, heavenly half N halfs, or smack-mints as they are called on the street.

I am also in a moral dilemma since I have saved this dime bag for her, but with each passing moment I can hear them calling me, begging me to assist them in ending their cruel existance. How can I not be their Dr Kevorkian? DAMN YOU!!!!!!!!
 
KAHhhhhhhhhhN!

I have shamelessly ripped this photo off myself the last time I went to this lobster place - Roy Moore Lobster Company in Rockport MA.  This time I ripped through my lobster this time in record time leaving little but shells and entrails to photograph.... sadly, I ate those too so there is no evidence - unless you want to smell my burps.  You only have till November 1st to enjoy these succulent crustacians since they close for the winter.

Winter - sucking the happy out of happywakko already.