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1. I was 14 years old at the time and it was the beginning of me having anxiety attacks. The feeling of the anxiety attack when it would occur was the feeling of being in a dream, kind of like a 3rd person experience so it would totally freak me out. Well, I had a basketball game one night and as the game started I began to have that same kind of feeling I had "the feeling of being in a dream" so I began to freak out and I ran off the court and yelled at my mom to tell her "LET'S GO, I NEED TO LEAVE". Remember this is in the middle of a game. My mom basically starts yelling at me "GREGG DON'T TALK TO ME LIKE THAT". I'm like whatever so I just run off the court and outside. My mom follows and we leave. I felt like such a douche bag, not only because I had an anxiety attack and those are demoralizing, but also because I left the game the way I did and my mom began yelling at me. I can laugh at it now but back then I felt like such a dweeb. I wish anxiety had a face because I'd piss all over it!

2. When I was 13 I twisted my testicle and I took 1 week off from school. By the time I had return to school word got out that I had twisted my left testicle. The kids at school started saying "What's up lefty" and "Hey how are you one ball". Fucking little Junior High Bastards I hope you all go screw yourselves! Ha ha again now I can laugh at it but back then twisting your testicle and having people find out before you want them to makes you feel like "less of a man". Imagine if I had a blog back when I was in Junior High? Shit I wouldn't have written about masturbating 3 times a day and how many points I scored in the basketball game.

3. When I was 19 years old I used to work at Putnam Investments. This was also during the time of my well kept grooming stage. I used to get my eyebrows waxed and stuff like that. No, the eyebrow waxing isn't the embarrassing part. The embarrassing part is I used Nair one night to get my uni brow off. You know how after you use Nair you're supposed to clean it off really really good? Well I thought I had, but the next morning when I woke up I had this big red patch across where a uni brow would go. The good news was I didn't have a uni brow made of hair but I did now have a uni brow made of a red burn mark. I looked so freaking ridiculous. I felt like such a stupid biotch. I wanted to call in the next day but I braved the humility and the red patch was gone 5 days later.

Come on guys you must have some embarrassing moments in your lives that you're dying to share with the class today!

gso

Labels: Embarrassing, Funny, List, Me

This is really in no particular order. Enjoy it :)

1. When you die you won't be let down by not seeing God or getting into Heaven.

2. Your chances of being molested by a priest go down drastically.

3. You get to have intercourse with as many people as possible without the guilt trip of thinking the big guy upstairs wouldn't want you doing this!

4. You get 5 minutes freed up every night before you go to bed. Woohoo to 5 extra minutes of sleep!

5. Masturbate every single morning, noon & night. Right now "God" says masturbation is bad! bad! bad! so get your hands out of your pants!!!

6. You get to finally worship Satan and wear black every day!

7. No more stale pieces of bread and cranberry juice!

8. You can start dating your best friend Mike without feeling guilty, even if he has the same genitalia as you!

9. You can finally believe in evolution. Now you can freely and confidently say that we derived from apes at one time or another.

10. No more believing that Ole Mighty God is the one responsible for all the massive natural disasters and that the world is going to end soon because we are all fighting with one another. We know that WE are the ones that can and will end our world not some supernatural force!

Did I miss anything?

gso

Labels: List, Religion

1. I like to make fun of myself. There's nothing more gratifying to me, than taking "sexy photos" of myself just to get you kids get a little chuckle or a "that's nasty".

2. It's an artistic outlet for me. I get to be anything I want on this blog. I can be serious, dumb, musical, videoical, photocal (I made the last 2 words up I Think) & sexy. No one can stop me from being anything, except my own conscience. I am beautiful in every single way, no words can't bring me down! oh no no no no!

3. If I get pissed off at someone or something I can write about it. I like nothing more than having "Blog Wars" with other bloggers. It's good for the soul! Plus it makes you look really tough fighting with girls.

4. I get to virtually meet a lot of cool people from all over the internet. If I didn't have a blog I would've never gotten to know DirtyLaundry, RockStarMommy, Punky, PinkbeltRAGE, Dan, Julianne B, Q of D & More! I'm trying to arrange a meeting with RSM, that would be the highlight of my blogging career!

5. I love getting comments! When I get one it makes me feel like a 14 year old girl getting Myspace messages from a 34 year old guy in another state. It makes me feel special! The big pay off is when it's someone that found my site randomly or heard from a friend about it. That's like actually getting to sleep with the 34 year old guy from another state. Not getting comments is like the 34 year old guy getting charged with statutory rape after he slept with me :(

6. Getting paid by having Google Adsense on my blog. OK, so I have had the ads up for a year and I've only accumulated $27, but with every click it brings me closer to their $100 pay out!

7. Getting voicemails left on my comment line (619) 377-0593. It's not a big deal if I haven't had a new voicemail in two months. I still love checking it everyday in hopes that some kid with nothing better to do will leave me a message so I can post it on my website! God bless you Alexander Graham Bell!

8. I love tracking my blogs traffic. I get to see how many hits I got for the day, where my visitors live, how they found my site & more. You may think you're only watching me but little do you know I'm really watching you too! mu ha ha ha ha! cough cough...

9. It's a challenge for me to write in my blog 5 times a week. I don't really challenge myself anywhere in my life except for my blog. It's actually pretty difficult coming up with things to write about day in and day out. I know sometimes I write about stupid shit and my vocabulary & grammar are like a kid from Somalia trying to learn English, but I have a good time writing!

10. And the last reason I have a blog is I'm trying to be famous. Being a rockstar hasn't paned out yet so I'm hoping be a famous blogger. I figure right now I'm only a C-list Bloglebrity
but I'm going to keep on writing, recording videos & taking raunchy photos all in a bid to take over the blogging world and become an A-list Bloglebrity!

Thanks for you time,
gso.

Labels: Blogs, List, Love, Pissed Off

The bathroom has no electrical plugs.

The drains are constantly clogged.

We have to water these hideous looking plants in the front part of our yard. If they die our landlord calls us and yells at us. They've died 3x!

90% of our electrical sockets are two prongs. Almost everything that isn't a lamp is 3 prongs! We need to buy 3 prong adapters in order to use them!

The rugs are dirtier than a priest!

All the windows are sliding windows making for it to be impossible to put a regular air conditioner in the windows!

The walls are thinly insulated. It's shivering cold in the winter and sweaty hot in the summer.

We have no closets for things like vacuums, brooms, towels, etc.

The ceiling in the living room leaks if it rains too hard.

The kitchen is tiny like a closet that we don't have for vacuums, brooms, towels, etc...

Our neighbors on one side party like college kids. On the other side the father and son smoke weed and scream at each other at the top of their lungs "DID YOU TAKE ALL MY WEED?!?!?!"

What sucks about the place you live in?

gso

Labels: Home, List, Pissed Off

I know most of you don't live in San Diego, but you never know when you may have to move to San Diego to evade a warrant or a stalking spouse or maybe you will just vacation here. Here are a list of 5 spots that are really really good that a lot of people may not know about and that I recommend!




Poma's Italian Deli
1846 Bacon St
San Diego, CA
(619) 223-3027
This place is capital A-W-E-S-O-M-E! OK so it doesn't really have the best decor or alcoholic beverages that you can actually drink in the restaurant, but the food tastes like your grandmother from Italy slaved over it all day in the kitchen. The lasagna, the sauce, the meatballs, the garlic bread & the subs are really good! You're Italian grandmother definitely doesn't work here either but her grandsons do! It's all guys but they are super nice and very friendly! As a bonus they do have a TV that seems to always be showing talk shows like Oprah!

Gaglione Bros.
3944 W Point Loma Blvd
San Diego, CA 92110
(619) 758-0646
Wowawee! This sub shop is hands down the best steak and cheese sub place (aka Cheese Steak) I have ever had! It's the kind of steak that you barely have to chew. It goes down like water but tastes like steak and cheese. The bread is always soft and bakery fresh! Their fries are no slouch either, crispy, salty and yummy!

Bar-B-Que House
5025 Newport Ave.
San Diego, CA 92107
(619) 222-4311
Awesome BBQ sandwiches that are mega cheap! Sweet, medium or spicy BBQ sauce to go on top of your pork, beef or my favorite white meat chicken sandwich. They smoke the meat, then carve your sandwich meat from big hunks of pork, beef or chicken, then they smother it in BBQ sauce. Add the crispy, salty fresh fries and you've got yourself a meal any athlete would love to share with his teammates!

Old Venice Italian Restaurant
2910 Canon St
San Diego, CA 92106
(619) 222-5888
Elegant yet lively in a heavenly atmosphere. This by far is the nicest place to eat on the list and one of the nicest places to eat in San Diego period. It's an up class restaurant without the hoity toity people that generally inhabit these kinds of places. You have people that will dress up but then you'll also have a cute little blogger boy eating dinner with his girlfriend wearing sweatpants & a burrito stained sweatshirt. The food here is amazing, and fresh warm garlic bread is given all meal long for FREE. The ravioli's, lasagne, meatballs & spaghetti are my favorites. They also have this bar that's attached to the restaurant that is really cool. They play thumping ambient electronic music in a setting that rivals heaven itself. White table cloths, bottles and bottles of wine & waiters that look like they just got off the boat from Italy or Brazil.

Bronx Pizza
111 Washington St
San Diego, CA 92103
(619) 291-3341
I'm from Massachusetts as most of you know and there are a lot of places there that have great pizza. When I got to San Diego I asked people who had good pizza and they'd say Papa John's. Freaking crazy right? Well I put a post in my blog in 2005 complaining that San Diego had the worst pizza, well someone responded and said to try a place on Washington Street called Bronx Pizza. So one day I go to Bronx Pizza and order up a pie. WOW! Amazing, New York Style pizza. It's really one of the best pizza places I have ever been to. The service kind of sucks only because the dudes that work there especially the big fat guy that does the register is an asshole. They act like they are in New York still so they give you that New York cliche attitude. I forgive them though because the pizza is top notch and makes my little heart stop a little with every bite! My favorite pie toppings are "Meatball & Pepperoni" "Plain Cheese" & "Pepperoni & Ricotta".

Get out there and explore the many fine hidden restaurants that your city has. I tend to find that the smaller mom and pop restaurants are better tasting and more enjoyable than the big chain places. Down with corporate restaurants!!!

Bon Appétit!
gso

Labels: List, Love, Restaurants, San Diego

My list is in no particular order except for maybe backwards alphabetically, so here is my top albums for the year of 2006! Every year I do my top albums my former drummer and still friend Dave analyzes my list and sends me an email or comment "GREGG THAT ALBUM BLAH BLAH WAS RELEASED LAST YEAR!!! YOU CAN'T PUT THAT IN YOUR TOP ALBUMS OF THE YEAR!!!" Ha ha so Dave please look over my list and please inform me of what isn't correct and which album I have on here that sucks or that you like! Hell that goes for everyone of you peeps!

DAH DAH DAH DAH DAHHHHHHHHHHHH



MY TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2006!

The Streets - The Hardest Way to Make a Living
Mat Kearney - Nothing Left to Lose
The Long Winters - Putting The Days To Bed
The Lemonheads - The Lemonheads
Josh Rouse - Subtitulo
Hotel Lights - Hotel Lights
Hot Chip - The Warning
Greg Laswell - Through Toledo
Ben Kweller - Ben Kweller
Angels & Airwaves - We Don't Need To Whisper

Honorable Mentions
The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
BT - This Binary Universe
Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That

What are your top albums of 2006?

gso

Labels: 2006, Albums, List