It’s been a long, long time since I updated my journal. To be honest I’m not quite sure where to begin. So I’ll start from recent thoughts.

I still work for the same company, but I work now in Battle Creek. The drive is not the best, but it’s manageable. My car doesn’t like the drive. She only seems to break down when I’m heading home.

I’ve been feeling alone lately for at least the last week. For the first 3 months in Battle Creek I didn’t have any time to think about life or what I wanted to do with myself. I worked so much. Like really it was bad. I would go about two weeks straight without a day off. This was because I did not have a third key in my store.

Now life has caught up to me and I do not like the feeling of being alone at night. Not like a wrist slasher or anything like that. I miss having someone to love and to fill my life with happiness. My friends are good, but at the end of night I walk into a dark apartment with lifeless furniture.

Yesterday, no wait, Sunday I started a battle plan. It was mainly telling myself that I just need to go out and talk to people. To start over and focus on gaining new woman friends and go on from there. But then I thought well my personality is a good friend, but the problem is that it’s hard to break the dreaded friend zone. So then I think, hey quit over analyzing everything dummy. If something happens, it happens. You can only plan your life so far and the exterior variables will fall into place as time goes on.

Enough of the sappy stuff.

Im taking some vacation soon, very soon. Some of which is next week and maybe if I’m lucky I might be able to go to Chicago in May. I need a con to goto. I want to just emerse myself in a pool of anime and to forget about my work life for awhile. Or maybe if I can’t afford Acen just check into a hotel in Chicago and just walk around for a couple of days. Maybe visit Bronson. Do some street magic or something. Just to get out of Michigan sounds like a fantastic idea.

I hope to own a digital camera soon so I can start doing. Better videos on YouTube. I also need my stupid hard drive back from Dave so I can reinstall my video editing software. Im going to have an anime review channel and today I figured out how I’m going to write it. Today I did a review that I didn’t post. Mainly because it wasnt edited and some if my thoughts where jumping around. Then I thought what if video tape myself saying what I wanted to say and then write it down, film it, and edit it nicely. I’m exteremly excited.

I was suppose to goto Cierra’s house today. I wasnt feeling very good and I worked open to close so I instead I went home and tried to sleep. Now at 2am now I still can’t sleep and I have another open to close tomorrow. I should fine.

Apparently I missed more days than I thought.  So here’s the scoop until now.  Last week was my first week at my new store.  It was interesting to say the least, because of the traffic .  Periods of slow and periods of intensity. 

I will admit I hate the drive and the less hours of sleep I get now. I burned about 100 dollars in gas so far. I also find the drive home more boring than the drive too.  It might not be the smartest idea but I check facebook on the way home to help kill part of the 45 minute drive from.

I worked about 62 hours last week, which would explain why I haven’t cleaned my apartment in awhile and I can’t remember the last meal I had here.  The apartment is not really bad, just a lot of magic cards spread out on the floor currently from when I was building a new deck.  Last week I worked everyday and the day off I did have I slept 24 hours off and on.

Today was Sunday, another marketing day.  I would have had the day off, however, they decided to rotate a couple of sections and add a new one.  So my assistant and spent the evening doing just that.  I ended up going in around 1 and staying until around 1030p.  The work day was ok, even though I was not suppose to work.

Tomorrow will be a 15 hour day since we have another midnight launch partnered with the mall store.  Should be fun.

As for the relationship side, Whitney and I haven’t really been talking as of late.  When we do it is brief.  I believe she’s done with me.  I don’t really blame her with my work schedule.  I’m not torn up about it or anything.  We didn’t really have anything in common.  Time to cast my line in the sea again.

I have great doubts about online dating.  They seem to think I have a thing for overweight women.  It’s funny and depressing at the same time.

Well time to go get 5 hours of sleep.

I know it’s been awhile since I updated my blog. Life has been weird lately. I’ve been a little emotional. I miss my friends and the thought of leaving Jackson sucks. My gas consumption has been really high over the last couple of days and my car has been running rough, I can make it about twenty miles or so before I have to pull over and restart the car because of a dumb sensor, it’s a sensor that tells the car what gear it should be in. When the sensor slips I lose cruise control and she starts to slow down and drop down a gear. It becomes interesting when passing a car. Early Tuesday morning she didn’t want to start for the first time since I took her over when leaving my new store.

The transition to the new store has been good. I feel like I can get things done and that all of my efforts are not invain. There are a few things I have to correct in my staff on selling techniques. They sometimes give up on a sale right from the beginning or they pitch the price of an item before telling customers the benefits of the item. Causing the customer to tune out everything we say before we get done with the pitch.

Monday I was up for twenty hours. I worked from 9am to 1am Tuesday morning. I slept for twelve hours. I brought some trades to the Jackson store Tuesday afternoon so I can eventually get my playstation vita. I was a little poopie because ive seen the changes Curtis did to the store. The store looked nice. I think that’s probably why I was down. It not that I wanted to see the store fail, I just felt like I failed the store and my staff. I know it’s not the case though.

There was a power struggle with Steve and I when I was working in Jackson. We had many different views between how the store should be ran and how we felt about the staff. He was very quick to wanting to instantly fire people for tiny things without hearing the person out. He was also combative and would find reasons for not doing a task when asked before even starting it. I felt like the only person that I could count on was Meg.

I hung out with Meg for a little bit after she got out of work. It was was nice to see her. I’m going to see what her and Ryan are doing this Sunday. I hope to hang out with them.

Well after I got home I time travelled twelve hours into the future. This now brought me unto 24 hours of sleep in a 48 hour period. Meaning I lost a day somewhere. In about an hour my Wednesday starts. Today I will be working with Derek. After work It’s over to Becca’s for magic. Speaking of magic I found an interesting new app from wizards for idevices. I have yet to use it because it’s for iPad and not droid. But it has life counters, deck builders, and I think tournament thing a ma dos.

Woke up at 630 to get my money out of the metal box.  Happy Payday.  Got my bi weekly supplies and breakfast.  Prior to all this helped Meg’s boyfriend Ryan scrap his car off.  He doesn’t have heat due to wiring so the inside was frozen over.  I wish it was something that I could fix.  

Got to work at 8 about an hour early and got all the morning stuff done.  Shipment was alright, however traffic was steady and trades where big.  I worked with Steve and Meg today.

I got out a little after 5 and was going to get sushi for my best friend, but there was so much snow it took me an hour to get out of the Mall’s Parking Lot and to the AKA Sushi.  But I got a menu.

I also received a lot of phone calls.  From Whitney, Curtis, Becca, my Mom, Becca again, and My mom again.  I sat in the parking lot of AKA for about an hour before I was done talking on the phone.  I eventually ordered a pizza for me from Jets and got home.

I talked to Whitney for a little bit.  I got a text from both CJ and Andrea that CJ was having a get together at Apple Bee’s because CJ was leaving the State.  So I went out again.  

I was suppose to play apples to apples with Becca this evening but I had to push it back an hour or so.

At Apple Bee’s I hung out with Mama Bessey (Andrea’s Mom) and her brother Billie.  There were also Jackson Sprint employees there too.  Mama Bessey kept buying me girl shot drinks and at one point she slipped some news out on accident. ANDREA IS MOVING BACK TO JACKSON.  I apparently was not suppose to know this information yet.  So my lips are sealed.  But its good to know that she is moving back.

I eventually played Apples to Apples with Curtis, Becca, and bunch of their friends on Xbox Live.  It was a lot of fun.  I went to bed at 1.

Woke up at 6 this morning.  I decided that I should start waking up earlier to get ready for the new store.  I hung out with Whitney in the AM until she had to go to work.  It fun we laughed a lot.

Work was ok.  Jake purchased Battlefield 3.  He is a die hard Call of Duty fan, so with him purchasing this meant he was changing his life style.  I made a video as proof.

Ever have a moment when someone that is very close in your life thinks of you.  You have that feeling too and you want to know what they are doing.  I texted Meg when I went out on a little break.  Immediately she called me prior to receiving it.  I’ll admit I’ve never had that experience but it was heart warming to me.

The rest of work was ok.  It was slow and we able to get things done.

I was suppose to play Battlefield 3 with Jake and Jerome, but they didn’t get on until 11 and I will admit I was very tired since I woke up at 6am.  So I went to bed instead.

It was a good day off.  I did nothing.  I went to Battle Creek and hung out with Curtis and Derek at my new store.  Becca eventually came over with her son Brayden. 

Got home around 6 or so and grab my blue tooth headset and traded in for some cash to get a pizza.  I talked to Meg who was working.

Nothing fancy today.

I think taking a shower before bed at night, for those just in case moments in the mornings, is paying off.  What I mean is that if I get my general stuff done at night I don’t have to worry about rushing or waking up as late in the morning.  However my hair is always really poofy in the morning and takes awhile for it to settle down.

So work was ok.  I knew in my heart that I was going to be distracted from the beginning.  How do I know?  Because traffic was extremely slow.  Although I love my friends sometimes they can be distracting when they stop on by and plus a new Microsoft Rep came in.

Her name was Cindy.  She was in the store for over an hour.  During most of her visit I attempted to let her know that I was leaving. So the get to know me phase wasn’t going to work.  But I let her do her thing.

Barry Jonas stopped in prior to this and hung out.  He had some deaths in the family recently.  I felt sad for him, but I know what he’s going through.  I also added to his “Why 2012 is the worst year ever” list that I was leaving.  He said he would be shopping at my new store in Battle Creek.  We shall see.

Besides my friends and employees, I will also miss the regular customers that were nice and kind to me.  I’ve developed a lot of friends through customers, Barry being one of them.  I will also miss Gene Stop.  Maybe if Gene gets sick of Curtis he would drive to Battle Creek.

I haven’t made my transfer public knowledge on Facebook yet because Curtis did not announce it on his page yet.  I know that he will be having a meeting this Sunday to let everyone know what is going on.  At that time I will let the whole world know what is happening.

I am still nervous about the transition. I don’t know quite what I am getting myself into, but I’m sure Curtis is feeling the same thing.  I’ve never worked in a strip.  If the alarm goes off, do I have to run to Battle Creek from Jackson in the middle of the night?  And then there’s questions that I don’t even know.    I know I will do great things in 6709.  I just have to get there first.

As for my store 280 I have a wonderful memo planned for my departure.  As well as drawings of me in various areas in the backroom.

Whitney visited today.  We talked for a bit about just random stuff.  She kind of going through a lot with her roommates and friends.  I told her about my transfer.  I believe she’s ok with (not that she has a say in it lol).  

I worked with Meg mainly today.  I had a 3 hour split that I took between 5 to 8.  We goofed around today.  Had a packing material fight and had some mini cupcakes. They were yummy.

On my break I ended up falling asleep on the love seat.  Damn that sweet spot.  I woke up about 10 minute until I had to be back at work.  

Closed out the registers.  Had my regular sit down with Meg in her truck.  I know I will talk to her after I leave 280 in some form on a daily basis .  For one she is my best friend, Two she’s my neighbor.  and three I will see her at my old store.  

It will be such a weird feeling though.  Going from seeing someone that you care about four days a week to hopefully once a week.  Her boyfriend Ryan and I have been getting along.  Even if it’s going and hanging out with both of them together I will be extremely happy.  Maybe I can convince them to go to Apple Bee’s and watch a Red Wing Game. Or if I get some chairs at my place, they could come over.  Or maybe buy some tickets and take them to a game.  

The board game thing seems to be doing well at Meg and Ryan’s.  I use to own over 20 different board games.  I hope to someday either reclaim or purchase them back.  That would be fun.  Payday anyone?

Friends to me is what keeps life going.  I’ve lost some friends due to life circumstances and I hope to keep Meg close.  She has been a wonderful friend to me.  We’ve helped each other out when life throws problems at us.

Sylwia that works security was trying to set me up with one of the girls that work over at Bath and Body Works.  She was really passionate about the setup that I couldn’t get any words out for five minutes.  I eventually told her that I wasn’t staying too much long at 280.  She gave me several hugs.  I assured her that I will still be around in Jackson somewhere.

I returned some bottle and with the luck was able to get enough for money for food and smokes.  I made some dinner.  Nothing fancy and learned a great new Magic Trick to bore people with.

Tomorrow is my day off.  I plan on going to Battle Creek to look around my new store and hang out with Curtis and Becca.

Well at 2am I received a text from Whitney asking me if she could call me.  Of course I said yes.  We talked for about 2 hours.  I confessed my love for my bed again.  We just did some random talk, but that was fun too.  I also told her that if i’m texting to much to let me know.  She assured me that I can never text her too much.  She apologized that there has been gaps or generic response.  At the end of it I promised I would call her later.

I then tried to sleep until at least to 7am but I couldn’t sleep anymore.

I downloaded a sweet app for my ipad.  It’s a world clock that has the earth that shows the current world sky and where the sun is.  So since it is dark now it show pretty close to where the sunlight is hitting the earth.  It also has an alarm and weather forcast.  Pretty Neat.

So I did end up waking up early and got to work on time.  Today was the day that I was going to tell my close friends at work that I will be leaving 280 and transferring 6709.  Almost the entire district is rotating managers.  So Curtis and I are switching stores.  What is funny is I use to joke with him when his store first open that I would be running this store someday.

I’m kind of nervous because its been a long time since I’ve taken over a new store.  Transition periods vary in the past however, I believe this one should be relatively smooth.

Also Jon Mann is taking over the mall store in Battle Creek.  This should be fun because we get along very well and between the two of us we could do great things.  Jon asked me if I would like to be his roommate. I’m not sure I would like to move out of Jackson.  The closest would be Albion.  This would be a smart move because well I would miss my close friends Meg and Dave. I also figured that if Whitney and I work out then she lives in Springport and works in Albion.

Steve, Dave, and Meg were shocked with the news.  I think Meg will miss me the most.  But she can always call me to rant about whatever crazy antics that Curtis does or just life stuff.  She has been my rock and has kept me focus when I go scatterbrain.  I believe that staying in Jackson will be good because I can always visit and when the option is present they could visit me.

Well other than that it was steady at work.  Lately I felt I haven’t been able to do shipment.  I don’t want anyone to think that I’m just pushing the work load on them.  I’ve been doing better at not starting multiple tasks.  Which is why I did not touch any boxes.  I had things that I started and had to complete them prior to starting the next.  This is also my resolve in 2012.

The conference call in two weeks will be interesting.  I wonder how many managers will forget their new number.  I’ve been 280 for now my 6 year.  I’m use to going first, but now i’m towards the bottom in attendance.

I left work about an hour late because a new employee truck broke down.  Meg and I had alittle post work sit down. 

I then went home and made dinner, called and talked to Whitney, and watched the Red Wings get their 15 straight win at home in a shut out against the Buffalo Sabers.  5-0 wow.  It was an amazing game to watch.  I did find a comfortable position on the couch and passed out for 20 minutes but I didn’t miss very much.

I can’t stop coughing.  I wish I had cough syrup.  I don’t feel sick other than that.  No fever or running nose.  Just a nasty cough that makes it hard to sleep and function at night.

Well here’s to tomorrow.  I work 9-2 and then back to do 5-close.  I plan on possibly sneaking out between 2 and 5 to go to my new store to look around.  Curtis and I have a great plan to help each other out on our days off at our new stores.

Well seriously that’s it for now.

My name goes back when I was 17.  I was a Junior  in high school.  The year was 1996.  I went to Lumen Christi High School, a catholic school.  

At this time in my life the only thing that bugged me the most was I hated to be called Mikey.  Life cereal ruined me with the catch phrase “Hey Mikey, He Likes it.”  Youtube it sometime.  But anyways I didn’t like to be called Mikey.

My Freshmen year I met a kid named Chris Hobbit.  He used to called me Mikey and didn’t reference the cereal.  We became friends. 

Now in my Junior year in biology our teacher didn’t mind if you goofed around.  However he did not like us sleeping in class.  So the teacher left for awhile and I fell asleep.  Chris heard the teacher walking back and tried to wake me.  He said “Yo, Mikey” repeatedly so fast that it came out Mikey-Yo.  And thus a king was born.

However, the name did not stick in high school.  Chris was the only one that called me that.  It wasn’t until I met Dave in Kevin’s basement playing a table top RPG called Rifts.  My character was named Mikeyo.  

Now everyone calls me Mikeyo.  It’s even cooler when little kids call me Mikeyo.  My boss calls me Mikeyo too and as of last month referred me to his boss the same.

I’ve always debated about changing my name, but I wouldn’t do while my mother is still alive.  She named me Michael after St. Michael the Archangel.  I would feel that it was be a great disrespect towards her since she was the one that brought me into the world. 

Well it was a good day off.  I was woken up at around 11ish by Whitney.  She texted me and asked me how my morning was going.  I revealed my love for my bed.  She laughed and wish she was in her bed.  I wish she was in my bed.  Anyways we chatted it up back and forth until around 3.  The last text was what were my plans for next weekend.  I told her that I didn’t have any plans and that was the last text I got from her.

Granted she was doing a bridal show in Ann Arbor today so some of the text did have a time gap.  Hopefully tomorrow she’ll want to go out again with me next weekend.  Today was also her Birthday

I updated my blog for awhile and didn’t give any time to my other writings or video games.  I was really hungry at 5p and my mom asked if I wanted to have dinner at her place.  So I did and also did some minor choirs.

We talked about some future events that maybe unfolding tomorrow.  I did some magic and then off to Steve’s house.

Hung out at Steve’s house with Kelly (Steve’s Girlfriend), Race, Emi (Race’s Girlfriend), Dave, and Jerome.  We played Apples to Apples and past the controller around to play the new Mortal Kombat game.  It was a lot of fun and at one point Kelly beat Jerome, Dave, and I in a row.  Go Girl Power!  Bronson was suppose to stop on by since he was visiting from Chicago, but the jerk face didn’t show up.

An all around good night.  However I’m still coughing pretty bad.  I wish I was better in the night time.

5 Days until payday.