Mike Gets "Paid"

OMG, was NE1 watching Sunday Morning Milborough this morning? They had this totally lame segment on "Hometown Boy Makes Good", featuring my bro Michael. Bunny Bedenheimer, their correspondent, was, like, totally gushing abt "Michael Patterson, the illustrious Editor of Portrait magazine and possibly Canada's most versatile writer". But the story wasn't abt Mike's writing, it was abt how he did a repair on the porch of the building where he rents an apt. His downstairz neighbour was all pointing out that he doesn't need 2 do repairs on a rental. Then he told Mike that he cd deduct fr. his rent the cost of the materials he bought 2 do the repair. Finally, he commented that Mike must B getting sumthing outta his doing the repair, an' Mike was all, "Oh, I'll get sumthing." And when Mike showed Lovey the repair, she gave him a big hug, after which Mike told Mr. Kelpfroth, "Paid in full."

The correspondent for the show made a big deal abt how Mike xpected no "payment" other than his landlady's gratitude. And he's a credit 2 his Milborough upbringing and a big "gain" 2 the Toronto neighbourhood, neither Rosedale nor the Beaches, where he lives. Mike held up a copy of Portrait mag and plugged the play he working on abt his childhood. Soundz like he got sum major free advertising fr. all this, eh?

Well, happy birthday, Dunc! I'm sorry we don't get 2 celebr8 2day, but we'll have fun when we get 2gether @ Horny T's 2morrow evening. It's gonna B Dunc, Zandra, Ger, Becky, Luis, Eva, Jeremy, Vicks, Gordie, an' me, an' mayB sum other peeps, 2. Also, a buncha g'ups fr. my mom's creative non-fiction class R meeting there, but they'll sit separate fr. us, thankgodfully!

Oh, so sum1 called Xiamaze "tagged" me in the comments yesterday, which meanz I'm supposta tell U like six "weird factors" abt myself. Here goez:

1. I have this bad hairdo, and it's cursed. Whenever I try 2 change it 2 a cute hairdo, it springz back in2 the bad propellor bun. Unless I do a ponytail or one braid down the back. Or unless I'm going 2 bed or showering, then I can have it down 4 a lil while.
2. I play the guitar, both electric and acoustic, but I hafta keep the electric guitar @ my friend Dunc's house cuz my mom gave it 2 him after she ended this v. brief "good mom" thing that's 2 complicated 2 xplain here.
3. I cda made sum pretty cube summer planz, but instead, I'm gonna keep working in my lame bookstore job (Lilliput's). @ least Mom doesn't work there NEmore.
4. My mom luvs nothing more than pastriez.
   
5. My dad luvs nothing more than model trainz.
6. I was an "oops" kid. My brother is thirty, my sister will B 25 this summer, an' my parents occasionally 4get I xist!
   

I'm also supposta "tag" six other blogs, but being the polite Canadian that I am, I feel bad abt doing that. If NE bloggerz reading here wanna volunteer an' post six "weird factors" abt themselvez on their blogz, pls let us know (an' give a link 2 yr blog) in the comments!