"Shine" by Mikeman

I don't get how anyone can be with someone that dims their shine.
I couldn't be with someone that comprises what's mine.
She's the star in the relationship and its clear to see.
With a future and personality so bright,
her dude must of caught her with a bunch of artificial neon lights.
Boyfriend mean muggs while the girl lights up the room with a smile
that'll light up the night sky for miles.
I'm not speaking as another dude trynna get at her.
I'm speaking as the one who reminds her.
She'll never be that that star she was destined to be
not hangin' wit that B.
You shine 'cause you're a star
I just need you to know who you are.

by Mikeman

Last Weekend [4/24/2010]

This photo pretty much sums up my weekend.
-King's Cup
-folks got drunk
-homie threw up
-the lone homegirl
-wrestling
-"Never Have I..."
great times & a camera that caught it all

Drunk people are quite entertaining.

"Rape"
top to bottom
Johnny Ray, Jesse, Jandro, Jojo, Nando, Luis, Mikeman [me]
photo [taken] by Will.


Anyways, so I layedd down 'cause I was tired and it like like 2 in the morning. All of a sudden, Luis got on me to wrestle 'cause I always get him. [Dudes rough house as our parents say.. what'd you expect]
But then automatically Nando got on top of him and the next thing I know I got everyone on my back and I'm at the bottom of a dog pile!
Backbreaking & hard to breath to say the least haha
I'm guessing I had close to 1000 lbs on me!?!?
Yet all I could hear was Luis on top of me saying, "I cant breath! I cant breath!" and by the looks of this photo....
I'd say Jojo [the girl] couldn't breath.
She told me her ribs hurt BAD haha

Night well spent,
Mikeman

First Friday [6 Feb 2010]

Every first Friday...
Downtown Phoenix, AZ hosts an event; FIRST FRIDAY.

First Friday is organized by Artlink, a nonprofit organization "...dedicated to bringing together artists, the public, and businesses for a greater understanding, appreciation, and promotion of the arts and the development of a strong and vital downtown Phoenix arts community."

It's a like a great big block party of the arts; one big cultural event where you tour & check out downtown PHX, valley artists can show their artwork for sale, musicians can preform, crafts, clothes, food is sold, all types of music is played...

quick mugshot snapshot of who I went with


We got split up so many times walking downtown
[Thank God for cellphones]
So many vendors selling goods of all sorts of thangs.
its was like a swapmeet of arts & talent.
Definitely great to witness and be a part of something like this.

There were plenty of music playing
whether it be a band preforming or just a DJ in the mix

DJ was playing some old school hip-hop & mixing it wit electro
kid did his thang in this hip-hop circle


mini rave over here



NOW with as many types and forms of artwork there was this was my favorite.

best piece of art


Well that was my first lil taste of First Fridays
First Friday for more infomation
best eye opening experience I've had in the while
so if your Phoenix,
Check it out some first Friday

Mikeman

Lolo's Chicken & Waffles

Lo-Lo's
Chicken & Waffles
Hell Yeah!
SO one of my & my bestfriend Veronica's goal in life was to go to a Chicken & Waffles joint for breakfast but had no idea WHERE one was at in AZ... until Twitter haha
So Wednesday:
Me, Veronica (the bestfriend) & Dtay (the homie) checked it out!


Lo-Lo's Chicken & Waffles
is "the best soul food restaurant in the Valley."
10 W Yuma St.
Phoenix, AZ 85003
(located on just a block South of Buckeye & Central)

I ordered #9 - Tre-Tre's

2 legs & 1 waffle
I got a side of cornbread & Sierra Mist


Overall, it was definitely a great experience eating Chicken & Waffles w/ my peoples and a great place to have breakfast or lunch if you in AZ!
We so going back!

Mikeman

"Our friends need new friends"

Sup!
the bestfriend (Jessica) & I have been thinkin' after doing a lot of hanging out over this Winter Break w/ our friends, friends' friends and our own friend.
"Our friends need new friends."

OD [overdose] // stalkers // threats // drunk fights // hospitalizations //

shit talking on an epic scale // drinking & driving //

domestic abuse on a pregnant woman

This is just the kind of drama and friends' fake friends I've been around lately intermingled with real friends. I'm there for my friends 100,020,000% there's no doubt about that. And I've been there for my friends every step of the way thru thick & think and thru bullsh*t and drama but when "your circle of friends start to endanger my circle of life" we have a problem. "Our friends need new friends."

Basically watch not only your but your friend's circle of friends also ...because when they start negitively affecting you and yours CHANGE must be made.
[which I am in the process of doing]

-Mikeman

Bowling [Sept 11, 2009]

First & Foremost
God Bless all of those who were affected as a result of 9/11.

Anyways,
So after work at 8pm
I went to my high school's Homecoming and let's just say its not the same since my class left. I had a freshman really try to step up to me, I said "really kidd?" and the child fell back. These lil freshman need a reality check or at least an attitude adjustment to say the least with they yey tall [SHORT ASSES] selves.

I met up with some friends & teachers had a good time recapping. Then the game was over - my high school lost their Homecoming game (no surprise there) and I and my friend didn't want to go home yet so we went bowling!

Burnswick Bowling
[67th Ave & Indian School Rd, Phx, AZ]


me bowling

I honestly suck at bowling. I'm no pro but I still love the sport! We 6 had a great time bowling, but how could you not especially with good friends on a Friday Night.


Mikeman x Marlin
[clearly I was sanging on the right haha]


Marlin x Frankie


the homies from high school

Veronica x Franklin x Mikeman
[@veroooo, frankenstein_23, @MikemanxMiguel]

My bestfriends

the Mexicasian VERO & my El Salvadorian amigo FRANKLIN
[She's really not Asian, she's just a lil chinita haha and Frankie is half Mexicano. Marlin although class of 09 she's still cool... I mean I went to France & Spain with her! We (Frankie & Vero) have been homies since high school and all though we graduated in '08 we still thick as theives & thigh like spandex haha always causing chaos on Twitter and if I go MIA one evening I'm probably talking to these kids haha. Although its a change from going from seeing them everyday in class in high school, I get to get kick it with them on the weekends]

Well Round 1 of bowling I got 3rd.
Round 2 - I WON! @veroooo U lose, [@frankenstein_23 U lose
And a good time was spent by all.

the winner,
Mikeman
@MikemanxMiguel

CONSCIENCE talking.

I'm not easily influenced
I makes my own moves, do my own thang
eff it if im not in the "in-crowd"
[although I am haha]
cuz I can honestly care less about what other ppl are doing
So for the most part I am a pretty good guy
I got a pretty good CONSCIENCE on my shoulder
BUT I wonder about the society'
more specifically some of my friends I see do wrong, getting caught up in things they ought not.

KEEP IN MIND your "real" friends are your circle of influence.
NO ONE is perfect so they as well as we all have our flaws, vices, sins, habits, fixes, addictions etc... if you catch my drift


HELLO PPL
that battle between good and bad/right & wrong is your CONSCIENCE talking to you. Listen to it! Its a shame how most ppl ignore it or flatout dont have one. I mean dont get me wrong, we all sometimes give into temptation although the idea is to fight it because its bad for you but some ppl just lavish in the id [or live & love to do bad] and it really puzzles me how corrupt, evil and self-destructive ppl can be.

AT the slightest idea of maybe its okay, just this once comes into play
this thought does too

"WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF EVERYONE DID IT TOO?"

its something I got from my Sunday school class. Its put the whole saying on a global perspective so I you can picture the world if everyone sinned as such. It puts that old saying "if Jimmy jumps off the bridge are you gonna jump off the bridge with him?" concept to shame because it tell you WHY NOT to follow/copy what Jimmy aka others are doing.

And that tiny grain of "what if" is SQUASHED like the Devil who planted it.

I guess I'm just tired of seeing ppl act like they have no CONSCIENCE.
Me & CONSCIENCE are pretty cool, we do everything together so no worries here...

just letting you know he had something to say!
-Mikeman's CONSCIENCE

KIX: Kid Tested, Mothers Approved MY A$$

LAST Sunday, July 12, 2009 at around noon
I had an ANAPHYLAXTIC reaction

WHAT'S THAT?

"Anaphylaxis is the term for a severe allergic reaction. I may begin within minutes (which it did), up to an hour after exposure to the substance you are allergic to ("allergen"). Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or stomach cramps, itchy rash (hives), swelling of the eyes, lips, face or tongue, wheezing, difficulty breathing and swallowing, throat tightness, chest pain or fainting

This kind of reaction can be life threatening."

According Banner Estrella Hospital (the hospital I was admitted to).


The Story
'Round 12 o'clock noon, I poured some KIX cereal into a cup and started eating some KIX business as usually. Normally I would of been at church on Sunday, but I had a paper to write and got hungry. And in about 5 mins of a couple handfuls of damn KIX cereal... I felt funny. I've never felt this way before in my life: my face was itchy so I was scratching it, my throat felt unusual and scratchy and I started wheezing [the symptoms of Anaphylaxis if you weren't paying attn] and after washing my mouth out for about 3 mins in the bathroom & looking in the mirror at my hive stuck face, I told my dad "I think I'm having an allergic reaction to Kix." I wasn't in a pretty good state.

So we immediately rushed to the hospital which was about a 15 min drive. All the while my symptoms are getting worse: just like the definition, my eyes, lips, face and tongue were swelling and swollen to the MAX! I looked grotesque... Lips bigger than Jigga man! (so not funny at the time tho) and my throat was tightening to the point where after 5 mins after leaving the house I couldn't talk or breath from my mouth (only my nose).

We get to the hospital, I'm taken immediately to ER where they gave me an oxygen mask because the Anaphylaxis was cutting off my air supply & without any air > I die. Even there they were surprised at how badly swollen my face & lips were. They shot me up with IVs in both arms, took my blood, got my vitals all that hospital stuff. I was given Benadryl (antihistamine to fight the allergy), Epinephrine to open my airways, raise my heart rate & other excitatory functions because technically my body was dying due to the lack of oxygen because of the Anaphylaxis. FYI Epinephrine is pure adrenaline & I was given Pepcid cuz all these drugs were gonna FUCK with my stomach and they didn't want me in gastric pain on top of dying.

Due to the adrenaline (Epinephrine) my heart was beating so hard & fast I honestly just wanted it out of my body. And due to the Benadryl, I was in and out of consciousness (Benadryl> causes drowsiness). After I stabilized a bit I text'd a few ppl (friends & fam) about how I was [didnt twitter a soul]. I had 2 visitors: my bestfriends Vero & Katelynn (KK). I remember talking to Veronica but honestly only remembering saying "hi" and "bye" with KK (so sorry it was the drugs haha). But I still had mad Twitter luv & shoutouts from the bestfriends @GL0, @veroooo, @frankenstein_23 and the homegirl @menaababyy22 & calls and texts I really could respond to being either drowzy (asleep knock'd up on meds) or couldnt speak.

Anyways long story short, I spent the night in ICU, was constantly being checked upon, always sleeping & watching the "ER" marathon oh the irony.

In and out of consciousness, I was unaware of the fact that I honestly could of had DIED! which my parents kept reiterating because they were so glad I was alive and well after being discharged Monday, July 13 2009 @ 1:30PM Mountain Time (I live in Phx).

Throughout the whole Anaphylaxtic episode I wasn't really scared or thought I was gonna die. No ply major plea bargains with God expect help me. I just wanted this to be fixed NOW and wanted to go home NOW! instead of spending the night there for monitoring.

Having this near death experience truly makes me appreciate life a whole lot more... more than even this blog can express.

-Mikeman





PS
I'm good now but I AIN'T NEVER EATING KIX AGAIN IN MY LIFE
They can KICK ROCKS for all I care

club MYST

So last thursday
5/14/09
(after finals)
Me, Frankie, Veronica& Bryttenni
(@MikemanxMiguel), (@frankenstein_23), (@veroooo), (@birdee_purdee)
went to club Myst in Snottsdale I mean Scottsdale, AZ.

It was BOMB!
good looking ppl
hot music
clubbin with friends
we got down

SO HERE'S A FEW PIX OF THE NIGHT


club MYST


Brytt trynna make her way thru the club


Frankie getting his dance on


club MYST


this chick was checking me ot the WHOLE TIME I was there
haha


walking ot the car
BAREFOOTED cuz them heels were HuRT!N'
huh Vero


Myspace!
haha featuring VERO


Mikeman got that late night look
like the look you get from partying late "look"


Brytt's MAD driving skills
she ran a RED LIGHT

we had a mad good time clubbing wit my ppl

Hole in the Wall...literally

(Let's just cut to the chase.)
Who: Luis (a friend) & I
What: put a HOLE in the wall
When: Tuesday, 11/24/2008
Where: @ home
How: wrestling...for no reason.
See I had lifted him from the ground (he weights about 160lbs) and drove him into the wall like nothing. My bro Jr was there and started yelling "O My God! O My God!" I was like "WHAT?" Then I dropped Luis and realized that I had piledrived his a** in to the wall creating a HUGE HOLE in the WALL.


See I'm not kidding when I say HUGE HOLE.


[& the culprit, LUIS]


So I had vaccumed the dry wall up and called my mom to let her know. She took it ok cuz we have the mentality "you cant cry over spilled milk" but was mad it happening so close to Thanksgiving. So to get it fixed I had gone over to my neighbor's to see if her husband can fix it? [after I explained the situation to her] Basically she got there and laughed. Hysterically! I felt horribe cuz this is not a laughing matter. This was serious even tho how it happened wasnt. I mean my dad was gonna kill me when he hears this. [Good thing he didnt because my mom talked to him beforehand so i wasnt as brutal]

Anyways her husband was came over later that night and said he'd be able to fix it and on Wednesday he did.



Whole gone...like NEW


Shoulda listened to that old saying
"NO ROUGHHOUSEING"

Mikeman