2009- A Year of Hope

Hello all and happy new year! You were probably thinking that 2009 was going to be a great year for numerous reasons, and now I drop this blog bomb on you. Boo Ya! Consider this your own personal Red Rider BB Gun that your dad just pointed out after you thought you had already opened all your gifts on Christmas morning. Except in this case the gift isn't a gun, its my personal insight and hilarity. And, instead of being hid behind the family's piano (like in A Christmas Story), this blog will be hidden behind the windows of porn you have on your Mozilla Firefox browser. Oh yes my blogosphere friends, 2009 just got a whole lot better than earlier imagined.

Obviously, everyone is optimistic about 2009 for various reasons. Reason #1- 2008 sucked horrendously for a lot of people in a lot of places, especially if you're over 70. The worldwide economic meltdown knew no boundaries and has affected everyone in some way shape for form. For this reason everyone is thinking...hey, 2009 can't be any worse (not a great reason for optimism, but we're clutching at straws here)...right? I'm not so sure about that but I'll pretend to be hopeful so you keep on reading and don't judge me as being a very negative person.

Reason #2 for optimism- Bush is out of office on Jan. 20. Why do I know this? Because the street vendors near my office in the semi-ghetto have the commemorative t-shirts to prove it. I think it's fairly safe to say that GWB has set for record for longest period of being a lame duck president. Most outgoing Heads-of-State have an accepted period after the prez elect is nominated where they kind of check out mentally and worry mostly about stealing anything that isn't nailed down in their publicly paid for house. Unfortunately Bush has just been doing this for about 6 years (I'm sure you thought I was going to type 8 years right there, but I cut him some slack, he didn't ask for 9-11-01 to happen...or did he?).

Reason #3- LOST starts airing new episodes again on Jan. 21. So let me get this straight...an African-American is going to be sworn in as President of the United States of America on the 20th...then new LOST episodes the next day? I might have sensory overload and my head might fucking explode! Until this last election my voting record was 0-2, at least now I'm at 1-2 (if that was my batting average the Yankee's would sign me for $30 million a year), so I was glad to get off the schnide (sp?), and I can't wait to get loaded during his inauguration and scream at Republicans at the bar like I was watching OSU pound Michigan and rub it in. That being said, for these two life changing events to happen on back-to-back days might be too much for me to handle. I hope I can make it through the whole first episode without this happening (if you don't click any other links I suggest you hit up this one, hilarious!).

Reason #4- My birthday is on February 10. Obviously my birthday takes place every year, regardless of the state of the world...but I just wanted to remind everyone of that so I could be lavished with gifts. And if I'm not lavished with gifts that means the terrorists have already won, and we don't want that now do we?

So there are 4 great reasons for why 2009 should/could be better than 2008. I have to admit though, another reason for my pessimism is that on New Years Eve I had pizza at the best pizza place in the world, yes, Myles Pizza in Bowling Green, Ohio, which also gets me excited (sorry, it is applicable). That event also brought about the closest instance of me punching a woman square in the face...but I didn't! I'll tell that story in another post (In no way, shape, or form does anyone associated with Third and Forever, LLC. support violence against women for any reason, even if they lose your pizza. Management suggests showing your displeasure by not tipping, not by throwing left jabs). That means '08 went out on an incredibly high note and set up '09 for extreme failure. BUT...BUT...BUT...we had leftovers which I brought home and warmed up in the oven the next day...which was Jan. 1, 2009! Everyone knows my motto: the best pizza is Myles Pizza, the second best is oven warmed Myles leftovers!

You're probably saying, "Hoops, isn't this a sports blog? You didn't bring up sports once." Partially true my friends, but as you'll find out this blog is more about this crazy thing we call life. Be sure to become a subscriber so you don't miss anything from this point forward, cause if you do...again, that means the terrorists have won. And none of us want that on our conscious.