Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Down and Out with the Stomach Flu
This weekend was spent out on Friday night with Anthony, Lynda, Bruce & Trace (photos to be posted soon) and then Saturday with doing things around the house like taking care of the yard, cleaning up, rebuilding the master bedroom closet that fell in a few weeks back, etc. Sunday Justin and went to Target, the gym and then came home and had dinner.
Just after dinner my stomach started to cramp up and I started to feel pretty shitty. Justin and I started watching some tv, but I decided pretty quickly that I need to go to bed. Needless to say I woke Justin up around 3 AM with the sound of me hurling in the bathroom. I felt like shit, my stomach was cramping, I was dizzy, had diarrhea and just not having a good time at all. At first I thought I had gotten food poisoning or something. I immediately ran thru my head what I had cooked, what could have been bad, but Justin had the exact same food I had eaten, so we were both baffled. For the next 5 hours I spent on and off in the bathroom before Justin headed to work and I was finally able to lay down and get some sleep. The dizziness carried on through yesterday evening and I was finally able to eat some soup last night. I decided to stay home again today, because I'm still a little dizzy and not quite able to fully function yet. Anyway that's my story for the past two days. After talking to my Mother, apparently there is this Stomach Virus going around right now? Yeah for me. Ugh. So in the mean time while I'm sitting here trying to recover I might as well do the MEME I've been tagged with by Persian Guy. I'm appologizing up front, because I tend to be very wordy and have a hard time being concise with these things ...
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If you could be any person in the world, who would you be, and why? Prince William. Wait was this question who you would be or who you would want in bed? LOL. J/K. Can you actually imagine the amazing opportunities that are available to Prince William in this world just because of his family heritage, not to mention the fact that he could get laid by pretty much anyone he wants. Ok ... yeah I know that's so vain and unsophisticated but I know you've all thought it too. Don't lie, you have.
Describe a place you remember from your childhood. The woods behind our house. Growing up in a rural area in Pennsylvania I used to spend many of my summer days just wondering the trails, climbing trees and enjoying the outdoors. Hmmm ... maybe that's also why I enjoy sex outside so much too. ;-)
How did you meet your closest friend? Well we came pretty much attached from birth, but I think we formally met when I was 5 and we were in the bathtub together ... oh wait you don't mean 'that' friend.
Fortunately I have many close friends from different parts of the country, however my closest friend would be Mark. We met on our first day at work for MicroAge. We were a few cubes apart and found out we both just started that day. We started talking only to learn that we were both from Pennsylvania and Mark's childhood friend was actually my little brother in our fraternity at Penn State. We soon became great friends from that day forward.
What is something you do well? Over analyze things. I get that from my Mother. I tend to over-think, over-analyze just about everything. I couldn't tell you how many times Justin has had to tell me to stop worrying about something. I think I'm getting better with that.
What would have happened if you didn't leave the house this morning? Well actually I didn't leave the house this morning because I'm home sick but I have quite a bit of flexibility with my job and I work from home several days per week, so there are many days I don't leave the house. I'm committed enough that I can work from home, and the days I'm not working I like to enjoy doing things around the house and catching up on my Tivo'd programs.
If you could visit anywhere in the world, where would you go? I enjoy traveling and have been through much of the United States, and a few countries in Europe, but the truth is I would love to visit the Middle East. I think there is so much beauty, culture and history in that part of the world that it would just be amazing to see but unless things change that would make it safer for Americans to travel to that region, I will probably never willingly plan a trip there.
What sets you apart from the crowd? My eye and my smile. I don't know. I don't think I'm really that memorable at first glance. I like to laugh, enjoy myself and have fun. I try not to take too many things very seriously, and I don't go out of my way to stand out in a crowd. If anyone would notice me, it would be because they either caught me staring at them, or saw me in a group of friends having a great time.
What do you want to be remembered for? For being a good person and hopefully doing something that made a big difference for someone's life in this world.
What is the nicest thing you have done for someone? I rescued Justin from the slums of his room in Daly City and floor model rice cooker. J/K. I try to do nice things for people all the time. Although if you ask Justin he'd probably say I'm a dick all the time. I really don't think he has a very high opinion of me, but that's just me.
I don't think there is one incident of 'niceness' that really stands out in my mind, other then helping to take care of my father before he passed away and now financially helping my Mother with her needs.
What is the greatest lesson you've learned so far in your life? That you really can pay off credit cards faster by taking advantage of the 0% APR balance transfer offers. Geez, I'm on a roll today.
This is one of those Philosophical questions that I have a million answers too. I've learned so many lessons in life, that I don't know which should be classified as the greatest. I would probably say I'm still learning the greatest lesson in life, and that's to just be myself and be true to myself. Anyone who has grown up gay has learned very early on that it's easier to pretend to be who you aren't then deal with the reality of who you are. I'm only now starting to feel comfortable in always being who I am and not giving a shit about what people think. I really believe that everytime we pretend to be something we aren't, or even attempt to change ourselves to be something someone wants us to be, we sell a small piece of our soul and our overall happiness in life. It's just something I'm not willing to do anymore.
Would you spend a found $20 bill? If it was just a random find, I would consider myself lucky for finding it, hold onto it for a while and then probably spend it. If it was lost by someone or given to me by accident I would return it. I cashed out a coin machine voucher once at the grocery store and the casher wasn't paying attention and actually gave me $100 more then she was supposed too. I started counting it as I walked away, immediately stopped, walked back and gave it all back to her and asked her to recheck it. As easily as it could have been for me to walk out of the store that day with $100 extra in my pocket, I know she would have most likely lost her job and I'm just not that type of person. I believe what comes around goes around and in the end I always try to be a good person.
What is your favorite day of the week? I love Saturday because it's usually the first day of the weekend, Justin and I can sleep in late, and I know that I don't have to go back to work the next day.
How old would you be if you didn't know your real age? Probably mid-20's. Mentally I think I feel and act more like a child now then when I was at University, and physically I feel quite a bit better too. I think real age tends to be irrelevant over the long term.
Name some things you are thankful for. Strong erections is really what comes to mind here first. Actually I'm thankful for my supporting and loving partner Justin, our incredible families and friends, our sweet little Berger, our house, my education, science, medicine, computers and most importantly, every new day I have in this world.
What was your favorite childhood toy? Tough question. I was a [slightly][spoiled] only child so I had a bunch of toys, but honestly nothing really stands out to me as ever being a favorite. I mostly enjoyed my time playing outside and honestly playing with myself outside. I guess you could say that Mr. Winkie was probably my favorite toy since we used to play together all the time back then. :-P
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Well that's about it. I was in a little bit of a comedic / sarcastic mood today, so read and enjoy. I'll be posting some more pics soon.
Oh man I so loved reading that, you went into so much more detail than I did! I don't know where to start except to say I have always also wanted to visit the middle east (Iran especially) and it's sad that this won't happen anytime soon given the current situation.
It's amazing how a meme like this really makes you talk about things you might not have otherwise (on your blog I mean). I learned some really cool stuff about you from this, and one thing I already knew, that you are a really sweet guy with a big heart!
Thanks for doing it :)
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by The Persian @ Tuesday, May 02, 2006 8:02:00 PM
Okay, I see the J, the M and of course the R... but no A? I'm crushed.....
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by pretz @ Tuesday, May 02, 2006 11:10:00 PM
Ok, in my strict Catholic upbringing, the Mr. Winkie play was just not happening.
What is it with guys and their dicks? I was going to say it was a gay guy thing, but then again, straight guys are all about spanking the monkey too.
Cool entry Rich. ;)
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by SilentBob @ Wednesday, May 03, 2006 6:09:00 PM
Hope you're feeling better : )
I think I might just have to do this meme because I got nothing to say lately. Well, that's not completely true but I'm just not in a spilling mood.
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by potusol @ Wednesday, May 03, 2006 11:08:00 PM
Hope your feeling better...I was always told to have a trash can by the toilet so you can throw up in one while you do other involuntary excretions in the other. And the part about the credit cards was wonderful. I should take advantage of that, but I still want my overdraft protection. Sigh.
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by Kalvin @ Thursday, May 04, 2006 3:19:00 PM
That was a really great read, Rich. Like the first commenter said, we've learned a lot about you in this post. And I like the person you are.
I hope you're feeling better, what you have doesn't sound like much fun!
I finally found a way to audio blog.... a video from my digital camera! (Now you get to make fun of MY voice, Haha! But you know I was only teasing you about yours, I think you have a cool voice. So be nice!)
Hope your weekend is excellent and you feel back to normal!
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by Jude @ Thursday, May 04, 2006 10:37:00 PM
