September 25, 2011
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My Own Personal Hell.............
........'s Kitchen, that is. Just what the fuck am I talking about you ask? Well allow me to explain what was one of the better and interesting weeks of my life and quite possibly the best week of the year.
The week started on Monday with me continuing to try to buy a car. Nothing crazy on Monday...........at least not until I found out about it on Tuesday. Somebody at work came up to me and said they saw me on Monday's first episode of the awful FOX show "Hell's Kitchen." And by me, I don't mean somebody who looked a lot like me, I mean actually me, in the flesh. Like me, you are probably wondering how the fuck I was on the horrible "Hell's Kitchen" and just how I can be on a t.v. show and not know it. Well you might remember that earlier this year I won a contest to see the Chicago Cubs play the Los Angeles Dodgers in L.A. As part of the contest, my friends and I got to go on the field before the game. It just so happened that the miserable "Hell's Kitchen" was filming part of an episode on the field and as they were talking to one of the contestants, my friends and I walked behind them. But, that ain't even the funny part. What is really fucking funny is that the contestant said that he was so excited to be on the field at Dodger Stadium where so many legendary people had walked and as if to contradict what he just said, the next person you see walking on the field is me! Now if you wisely skipped the stupid fucking "Hell's Kitchen" because you had better things to do, like ram your head into a brick wall, you can catch it OnDemand, on Hulu, or wait until Tuesday and watch it on the FOX website. The scene in question is from the first episode that aired on Monday called "4 Chefs Compete" episode and it is roughly 23 or 24 minutes into the episode and you can skip ahead so that you don't have to suffer through the show itself. You have to look quick for me and my gang to go walking behind them.
So how could the week get any better then that you ask? Well, this week at work was our annual United Way raffle in which you buy raffle tickets for a chance to win prizes. Many of you might remember that last year I won an IPOD touch. Well, Wednesday I bought some tickets and also won 10 free tickets from playing plinko. We also had a health fair that same day at work and on that same lunch, I also got my cholesterol checked and found out that it had dropped 48 points from my last test in April. They also had free three minute massages as well which I got. Oh, and did I mention I also bought a brand new car while on lunch?
Thursday was new car day. I was so excited because right after work I was planning on picking up my brand new Ford Fiesta. Of course, by buying a Ford Fiesta I will be saying good bye to what's left of my masculinity, but hey, it gets great gas mileage. Now I fully didn't expect to get upstaged on my big news of buying a car, but my brother nearly managed to top me.
First a little background. My older brother lives with me and he has been unemployed since the ending of February. He has been looking very hard for a job but just hasn't been able to find one. Well Thursday afternoon I got a text from him saying that he got a fucking job! Combine that with my new car and it was truly a great fucking day for us!
Friday was the big drawing for the prizes for our United Way contest. There were a lot of prizes and I had spent $30 on 103 tickets so my chances of winning were good. And to make things more ironic, this was the exact same amount of tickets and money I had spent last year when I won my IPOD. Well, once again, it paid off. I won something called an IHOME which is a clock alarm radio that allows you to play your IPOD or IPAD. No word yet on if the prize will include a brief spot on FOX's terrible "The X Factor".
So that was my week. How was yours?
Comments (4)
You are seriously going to laugh at me, but i actually watch Hell's Kitchen. I did watch that episode last week, but here's the thing....i always skip past the reward part of the show. Like where they get sent off for massages or baseball games...LOL. So i saw the episode, but i missed that part! Damnit! So anyway, i'll watch it again and i'll just skip to that part. That's pretty effing cool
What color car did you get?
I had an interview and was notified that I will be getting a second interview, which made my week have a pretty good ending,....but I can't top yours!!! I haven't won hardly anything, ever. In about 1998 or so I won a radio contest where if they call you, you must say the "phrase that pays" and I won $1000, which I used to buy my first real camera (A Canon Rebel G).... and then the first night of Monday Night Football I won $20 at the bar on a penalty...but that's about it. :
Congrats to your brother on finally landing a job!!!! YAY!!!! And yay on the car!
haha...........its okay, somebody has to watch that show!
reality tv just has never been my thing.
I got my favorite color: blue. It's a pretty blue too, kinda like a Cubbie blue.
Thanks! I don't think most of my winning is luck; it's all about improving odds. When I won my trip to L.A, I bought the maximum number of tickets I could buy which was three and they were only selling 500 tickets. As for the United Way raffle, I bought a ton of tickets to increase my odds.