The Angry Bear

Fall Update

2006-10-16T10:48:00.000-06:00

I just want to thank Dave for reminding me to update this site. I tend to forget that this is out there.

Here is a quick recap:
First off, I am still dating a wonderful girl (Annika) and things are going really well with her. Nothing like having a cute girl that can dance =).

I am now teaching swing dance lessons in LeSueur and actually getting paid for it. I love it =). Nothing like getting paid for doing something that I love!!!

I am back in school again and I am taking 2 classes.

I will write more later.
Sam

Summer Update

2006-07-21T12:00:00.000-06:00

Well, since the summer is half over I will let people know what I have been up to. So far this summer I have yet to travel too far but I have done some fun stuff. Things I have accomplished are spending a weekend up in Duluth for Memorial weekend, going camping this weekend in Spicer, got asked to teach swing lessons in LeSueur for the community center, swinging at least once a week, learned a lot more about myself and what I want to do with my life (looks like I might be hanging around the area for quite a bit longer), found a girl that makes me extremely happy (one of the best parts is that she actually swing dances also, thank you Annika!!!), and I have been riding my new motorcycle as much as possible.
Now the one crappy thing I am dealing with is my old motorcycle got stolen and I am tring to get the local cops to do something about it instead of sitting on their butts. Now this would not be a problem but the cops will not give the insuarace company teh report because it is being "investigating" yet I am sure the guy hasn't looked at it in the past month! Darn them!!!!!

Well, I am done with my lunch break so I will cut this short also. I hope people enjoy my rambling!

Sam

Relationships

2006-07-11T09:04:00.000-06:00

Well, like most things that I do I tend to just jump in them and for some reason they never come out the way I want to. From here on out I am going to know a little more about the girl that I date before going out with her. For some reason someone that believes in sex outside marriage, divorse if you no longer love the person of you find someone else, gay marriage, and pretty much anything else that would would be the oposite of me. I tried making it work but for some reason the longer I tried the more I realized that it wasn't gonna happen. At least I now have mt weekends free =)=)=)=)=).

Now, what else am I am to you may be asking...well here it is. I am pretty much in a big rut with my weeks. On Monday I go to big dogs, tuesday I usually take the night off but I am helping start up dancing on tuesday nights so tonight will be the first night of that. On wend. I play softball and then head up to mexican village for the Margarittas =). Yummy... Thursdays it's dancing again up in the cities, so if you are in the cities you should come dancing with us =). The weekend I am always doing something different from camping to sitting around tring to touch my nose with my tongue. Fun stuff if you ask me =).

Well, back to work I go.

Peace out!
Sam I Am

Ha, another update

2006-06-08T10:53:00.000-06:00

Well, since I am pretty sure Dave is the only one that looks at this site, I will let him be the first to know that I am actually seriously dating someone. If you want to see more about her she is the first girl on my friends list on my myspace page www.myspace.com\swinginsam (i think that is it). If you keep the comments coming I'll keep the blog coming =).

Sam

Here's your update Dave

2006-06-05T15:31:00.000-06:00

Well, here it is. There was 2 girls that I was interested in and seemed interested in me and I really had no clue which on to persue. Well, since that situation I persued both of the girls, one I realized pretty quick it wasn't going to work so I ended it and the second girl we've been kinda on and off since then. I think we pretty much are content with being good friends so that is where we will stay for now and hopefully more will come of it since I am a huge fan of her's.

Sam

It's been a while

2006-05-11T08:21:00.000-06:00

Wow, I am sure no one looks at this site anymore but here is a pointless post just to say that I posted. I pretty much had a pretty crappy night last night and wanted to vent somewhere so here it is =)....Ok maybe the venting is still in my head but it might come out later =). I think I like leading people on to think that they are going to get all this great stuff and then bam, nothing.

Sam

Girls!?!?!?!?!

2006-03-06T17:23:00.000-07:00

Wow, after this weekend again I realized that I still know nothing about the female race, which is a blessing and a curse in one! I won't really go into the good details and the not so good details, I just felt like I needed to write something down!

Now, on a happy note =), I did go swing dancing with 11 people from Mankato that headed up to the cities to dance the night away at the first Saturday of the Month Dance. I sure hope if I'm around that I go to this!!! It was absolutly wonderful. Well, my ride is here for basketball so wish me luck, even thought it will be over before anyone see's it =).

***Update on the basketball game! After throwing my back out and scoring for the other team, we got our third win of the year =). Go our squad! Now its on to teaching swing. I'm not too sure how much that is going to work with a bad back but I guess we'll see =0.

OH and by far my favorite song right now is Tonight I Want to Cry by Keith Urban. For some odd reason I feel like I can relate to it even though I have never experienced anything like it! I sure hope it's not an indication of things yet to come!

Take care a have a great week!
Sam I Am

I'm BACK!!!!

2006-02-15T07:59:00.000-07:00

Well, like Dave stated, its been quite an adventure tring to get that computer to go. Well, after having to go to Winnepeg, Manitoba this weekend I finally got it going and I am free to actually write on the blog again. I just had to clear my head out by dancing until 5:00 in the morning friday and saturday night. Pretty rough if you ask me.

Well, there was a Lindy Exchange up there that I figured I'd try and I must say that I was a little over whelmed right away. Nothing like having about 80 of some of the best dancer in the midwest/canada area in one location. I must say I think I need to practice a LOT more =). It's incredable to see the difference between the Mankato scene, the GAC scene and the cities scene. It's kinda nice to see that if we can keep it going in Mankato that we too could be as good as the people in the cities (or at least pretty darn close). I will post a link to the main exchange site where there are pictures of the event. I believe that I am in a picture or 2. You might also recognize Brandon, Jessica and the Red Squirrel, or Bill to some =). Ha, the best part about it was that if I went last night, I would have gone swing dancing 7 days in a row. Quite an accomplishment if you ask me, but allas I am a slacker and I ended up not really doing much.

Oh, and if anyone wants any cheep medication from Mexico I could hook them up. I've gotten about 35 messages on that in the last week =(!!!! Down with Spammers!!!

Sincerly,
The Angry Bear

Colorado

2006-01-10T17:04:00.000-07:00

Wow, just got back from a week in the hills and I must say I pretty much had the time of my life. I did get a little pissed off at some people, mostly because of lack of sleep, but besides that all of the people that went where pretty amazing!!!! I guess the main reason why I got so upset at the people is I never really slowed down to absorb all of the beauty in the Mountains. I must say that sitting up there the last day was one of my most relaxing times I've had in a LONG time! I so wish I could save up some money and just move out there. Hanging out with Zak and Sara and Molly made me want to say screw it here and just move. Well, I have to help Nate fix a computer so I will write more when I get back.

Wonderful

2005-12-28T09:07:00.000-07:00

Man, after listening to the song, I am a huge fan. I know I've heard it before, but I think I am such a fan because I always thing everything is always wonderful, even when it may not be! Plus looking at the positive in ever situation is huge. People ask me why I am so happy, well that is a huge reason!

Well, I am strapped for time so I will update this later!
Sam

What a Sunday

2005-12-18T12:13:00.000-07:00

Well, it's Sunday again and there are a bunch of people over at my brothers house watching the Vikings. We already got screwed on one play but we'll have to wait to see how it going. Also, I will be posting what a friend of mine wrote about the war that I feel that most people should read. It is pretty impressive.

I am also bummed about last night/this morning. Last night I fell asleep during the movie The Polar Epress when tring as hard as I could to keep up. But I didn't feel to bad when everyone that was there fell asleep. Grace even got sick when she got up. The biggest dissapointment was not getting up when Jenni Brown called this mroning at 6 when I told her that she had to before getting on the plane. What a slacker I am. Well, I am distracted so I will write more later.

Ok back, nothing like someone wanting to talk computers while the game is on. How irrating that was. well, I am kinda too pissed to write anymore today so I will write more later in the week.

New goals in Life

2005-12-17T16:06:00.000-07:00

Well, I went and did it again. I changed one of my life long goals. Actually I should say I added another one. This time I now want to go to as many Lindy Exchanges as I possible can. For those that don't know what that is, well, it is where people from all over the world get together for the weekend and go dancing and hanging out for the weekend! To me it seems like the perfect way to meet people outside of minnesota and not over the internet. Not saying that meeting people over the internet is a bad think, I just like it! (Probably because I sit behind a desk 8 hours a day). Oh, for those that also don't know I am going back to School in Sept. to get a degree in elementry ed! I'm pretty pummed about that. Nothing like having the responisbility to mold the minds of kids. I'm just hoping that I can actually follow through on this goal. I have a tendency to avoid anything I want to do, like moving to Colorado.

I did talk to someone from Minnesota that moved to Denver for 3 years and he definently motivated me again. Who knows. Maybe I'm just all talk! Well, I'm starting to Ramble so I'm going to head out to Mt Kato and try my luck at snowboarding!!!! It will be my second time boarding so I hope all goes well =).

(I'll try and post a picture when I get back.)
The Angry Bear

Let it Snow Let it Snow Let it Snow

2005-12-14T07:34:00.000-07:00

Wow, nothing like waking up to a couple fresh inches of snow. At this rate we might actually get a white christmas here!!! I'm pretty pumped about that! It also means more skiing and sledding. Wow, almost an end to another year. I'll have to give a recap of all the fun and not so fun events that have happened from traveling to all parts of the US to an awesome motorcycle trip up to the Duluth to losing more then 30 lbs (with only 20-30 more to go). All fun and exciting stuff. I also have my might set to go back to school this Aug. either at MSU or moving to Colorado and testing my luck out there.

Well, ta ta for now.
Sam Mikkalson

Sam is a ferret

2005-11-22T21:06:00.000-07:00

This is not Sam.
This is still not Sam.
Again, this is not Sam.
This is the Hulk's new friend.
Hulk is talking on the phone, wearing a fantastic scarf, a Nworbrefinnej design, of the Belgian descent.
Last minute flights to Italy do not exist.
Hokay, soh, I stink --- and I'm cold from sweat.
Hulk learned to rumba (however you spell that) last night.
Hulk rules at swing dancing.
Apparently, we have to stick batteries in Mr. Evil's eye sockets --- a million times worse than wet willies (thanks, Sam and Grace). Mr. Evil is at 247. But you'll have to decode that (Hint: use a phone).
I'm leaving now... because Sam is reading my post. And Sam takes a second.
And Hulk is going to pee her pants laughing.
SAM (fresh out of the orphaned clam) RULES.

Running!!!!!!!!!

2005-11-22T20:58:00.000-07:00

Wow, nothing like running for over an hour with quality people. Well, Stef, Jenni and I ran for an hour around the area for a pretty awesome time. It was a tab bit cold right away but got pretty nice after about 30 seconds!!! Pretty much the only reason I am writing this is because Stef wanted to be mentioned in the Blog!!! She is a pretty quality individual if you ask me. For those interested she will be going along snowboarding in January, along with a bunch of other quality people. Fun times by all if you ask me! Nothing like 4 days of snowboarding in the wonderful state of Colorado!!!! I really need to get off my butt and move there! Hopfully come July/August I will test the waters and move my behind out there for a bit!!! Hang out with all the crazy adventures people out and kill myself within the month! I would then become ferret food and live happily ever after!

The Ferret Food Bear!!!

Change in my life

2005-11-21T18:42:00.000-07:00

Well, starting tonight I am going to make a change in my life...instead of wrecking lives by being sarcastic, I am going to just wreck my life every time I wreck lives. Now, that sentence may not make sense, but I did have a quality one but lost what I had because I tried to run the spell checker and it reset my page. Over-rated if you ask me. =). Now, I am also not going to smile as much anymore because that too is over-rated!!! Now, as for laughing, that is still good just as long as there is no smiling to go along with it! Ok, well, since this is a unhappy blog I will leave it at this! Please let me know, should I go back to my old self as a wrecker of lives or a wrecker of my life. (This will also depend on the outcome of the vikings game. If they win then I am back to my old self =). If the lose then sieve them =).

Well, time to get some gas and remember, it's better to be pissed off then to be pissed on =).
The Angry Bear
PS, I think I am going to write more and it will mostly be on how I'm feeling for the day. I might create a new site for that though so I don't fill this one up =).

Well I guess I have to add this now =). Looks like smiling is back in!!!!! Nothing like getting owned by the vikings!!!!!!! Thats what happens when you bet on the Packers =).

Sieve Me and the Vikings

2005-10-30T21:02:00.000-07:00

Well, its been almost a month since my last post and I can honestly say I have no reason to update this more often. I do say that I do thank a quality girl (JENNI) for getting me to write again! She is good at what she does. Thus, I need to be massivly sieved and a BIG THANKS need to go out to Jenni! Since I have yet to take a crazy trip in the last 2 weeks I guess you can say it's been kind of slow. I did get the opertunity to milk a cow on Monday. Wow, nothing like having a foot of a cow meet up with your stomach. I must say ownage for the cow! I did feel a little better when Grace, the girls who's parents own the farm, tried to milk it and it kicked her also. (I did feel bad about her getting kicked though, as it seems that it hit her in a spot that hurt a heck of a lot more then the stomach).

*RANT ON*
Ok, on to the second part of my blog! Man the Vikings suck massivly. Actually, all minnesota teams have been sucking it up, minus the Wild, and I would say that they are not doing too bad just because they have an awesome name! I mean, how can a team go from owing everyone to not being able to even score more the 1 touchdown in games! Pretty embarassing if you ask me! I almost want to strap on a jersey and get out there and do a better job then the current players are doing. Just pay me some money and I'll get in the best shape ever and kick some butt!
*RANT OFF*

Well, I was also thinking about my next partial road trip. It's only 1 state away so it's not too major but I get to hang out with Jenni, Stef, Aaron and his sisters! Should be a pretty fun trip. I am just wondering what crazy stuff we should do. If anyone has any great ideas let me know!

Well, off to bed I go so I can make it to the Y at 6:30!

Top 10 People

2005-09-26T18:16:00.000-06:00

Well, here are the current ratings!

Rank Name (Prv Week) High
1 Jenni Brown (2) 2
2 Rasheed Tara (UR) 1
3 Jen Wallin (1) 1
4 Brandon G. (5) 5
5 Aaron Wishart (3) 2
6 Avya Brand (4) 1
6 Matalyn (4) 1
8 Dead guy (UR) UR
9 David P. (6) 4
9 Steven Baty (6) 4
11 Scott E (99) 10 He's more then 6 states away, go my squad.

Ohio, wow

2005-09-26T08:01:00.000-06:00

Well, I went to Ohio again this week and all I can say is it was pretty exciting with everything from roller bladding by dead body's (bgnews.com), baby giraffe's =), Swing dancing in parking lots, having knives thrown at Jenni, freaky waitresses, and many more. More to come!

Plus No Doz = very bad if taking too many at a time!

Sam I Am

A Weekend On a Coaster!

2005-09-18T12:13:00.000-06:00

What do normal people do in Minnesota when nothing is going on? Well, I for one have to go out and find quality people to hang out with. Even if they are not even in the over-rated state of Minnesota!

Well, me and Brandon decided to go to a state for the weekend to hang out with quality individual in the state of ????. I'm kinda embarrassed by where I went so I'll leave it out. That's what I love about blogs, just keep out the embarrassing parts. Well, by 6:00PM on Friday me and Brandon left Minnesota. When we got to the I94/I90 split Brandon wanted me to see the house that he grew up in so we made a quick detour and we checked out the house. I drove into the driveway and the owner of the house come out and we talked to him for quite a bit. Brandon definintly enjoyed talk and we got to talk about his youth a little for the next hour or so. Well, we got to Chicago with no problems so I figured I'd hand out the driving to Brandon who was more then willing to take over!

Well, I tried to get some sleep and about 20 min after Brandon took over I heard a big clunk noise like hitting a pothole going at a pretty fast pace. Well, I look up and realize that Brandon is driving way above the speed limit so I inquire our speed and I find out that my car handles pretty good at 130 mph. I guess that is a good think to know if I ever want to go that fast. Well, I tell Brandon to slow it down a bit and we have no more troubles until Indiana, when Brandon meet up with a statie. Well, since Brandon only got caught going 92 in a 70 the cop was nice and decided to only give him a coupon for 10 over. Not too bad if you ask me. Well, after this we had no incidents with the local authority and Brandon made it to a rest stop just south of BG so we could call Jenni and get directions. After getting the directions from Jenni I head south thinking that we had yet hit BG and since Brandon stated that we hadn't got there and after traveling about 15 miles I have Brandon get the map out because we had not seen and signs with BG on it and I find out that Brandon had missed the turn when he was driving so I turn around and we get there with little problems!

Well, at this time it was about 7:30 so we get in and crash for about an hour. Boy, I never knew how much 1 hour of sleep could do to rejuvenate us.

More to come later.

(OK sieve me for doing stupid things. Not related to the post but is revelent to me right now. Having people take embarrassing pictures of you is not a good think to do because it will come back and haunt you!!!)

Oh, and if you have a different tire size then most normal people, getting a flat on a Sunday afternoon is definintly not a good think!

Wow

2005-09-12T16:28:00.000-06:00

Nothing like having to go into a house where you think someone went completly nuts and killed everyone in the basement! Exciting except for the fact that it happened before noon!

It all happened at work around 9:30 when I get a call from a man I will call George. Well, I answer the phone and I hear nothing on the other end so I tell him I'll call him back and that's what I do. Well, when I call him back, he does not respone again, so I respond, "Do you need anything". And again, nothing but something clinking in the background. Well, not thinking anything off it I tell him to call me back if it is important. Well, 4 more calls like the previous ones later I get kinda worried because I know that George has Bipolar and sametimes goes off the wall, so I call him roommate to check up on him.

Well, his roommate goes next door and calls me back saying that George had cut himself and there was blood everywhere so that he was going to take him to the hospital. WOW, was I feeling pretty upset since I had blown off George just 10 hours ago. Nothing like having that guilty feeling!

Well, an hour later, my phone rings again and it's George again. Thinking that it was his roommate I answer the phone and again I hear nothing! At this point I tell him to call me back again hoping that it was just my phone that was not working. Well, he calls me back and I can hear this thumping noise in the background and some grunts so I start to get kinda scared here. Nothing like the worse think coming to my mind. I figured I should just call his roommate and find out what was going on so I call him about 3 times with no answer! At this point I am thinking that George lost it and killed everyone in the house and I was going to find them! Not something I was looking foward too. Well, I decide to take my lunch break pretty early so I head over to George's house and I see George outside with half his body in his roommates truck almost looking like he was tring to jump it! What the hell was this guy doing. Well, not wanting to park next to him or to draw attention to myself, I park away from him and sneak into the house. Once in the house, I realize that another of his roommates was upstairs just getting up so I tell him what happened and he just looked like he could care less.

Well, I go down stairs and I don't see any blood so I try to open the other door where his roommates live. It was locked! It's never locked so again I started to freak out and then I look upstairs and I see someone just starring at me!!!! I almost pissed my pants until I realized it was the roommate that just got up.

Well, I then proceed to bang on their door as hard as I could and after about a minute I hear one of them saying what I wanted. I told them to unlock the door but they refused to do it. Wow, it is true that George lost it!!!! Right after I thought that the door opened and he told me it was just a joke becuase I had taken his seat out of his car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really wouldn't have cared if I did it, but I had no friken clue what he was talking about! Well, he told me that George blamed me for doing it, so now he will not believe me no matter what I say. Nothing like getting blammed for something that I didn't do. Even now, 10 hours later, I don't know what I can say for him to believe me. WOW again. He sucks. His wife believes me but not him! Nothing like getting freaked out for no reason!

Well, nothing like a typical Monday in the life of an Angry Bear!!!! I did leave some details out because it was dragging on too long, so if you want to know more about it just give me a shout or leave a comment!

A Swinging Saturday

2005-07-10T02:29:00.000-06:00

Wow, what a bum I am. I can't even wake up by 11 on a Saturday! It would be understandable if I actually did a lot on Friday night, but playing carpet ball doesn't really take a lot out of ya. It's probably one of the less strenuous events to play. I must say that not being strenuous is all to bad as I am still rated number 1 even after losing to IBM in the biggest upset of the year!

Well, after taking about 10 minutes to get ready, me, Aaron, and Tim took Jenni, Kris, and Breana up to the cites to take private swing lessons! It was pretty awesome. I didn't learn as many moves as I wanted, but I did get the basic down pretty well and I can't wait to go again and show off all of my moves. It looks like I will have to wait at least 3 weeks before I can go again as that is when softball gets down and I can't really foresee our team winning and playoff games. I must say that I would never have thought that I would ever choose dancing over a sport, but it's pretty addicting. Plus, the whole female aspect helps!

Well, after swing dancing we drove all over the cities. I must say we went to a couple cool places . The first place was an Italian restaurant in downtown St. Paul (I forgot the name of it), the first lock and dam on the Mississippi and and the state capital building at night when it was all lit up. A pretty awesome site! We got this guy from N. Dakota who was there to take a picture of us with his pricey camera that he is going to email us so I will add that when I get it and you can decide how awesome or over rated the view was (the only sucky part was walking by a TV with the Twins game on and we where losing 14-6). After the state building, we decided to find Anna and Joey's place, but after driving around for about 2 more hours we gave up and headed back home.

All in all a good trip and a pretty eventful day. It looks like I should get some sleep though as tomorrow I am heading to some horse racing to see if I can't get some money!

A normal Saturday afternoon

2005-07-03T20:27:00.000-06:00

Well, me, Tim and Aaron decided to head up to the cities so I could look at some new motorcycles and to just go for a ride. Joel would have come with but none of us are really morning people and we could not get up in time. That and the fact that Tim drove limo last night and rolled in around 4 in the morning (his first time driving).

Besides leaving a little later then we wanted, it was a perfect day! I was kinda worried right away as it looked like rain was on the way, but after getting past Jordon the sun was out in force with barely a cloud in site.

Wow, you would think since I was the one that wanted to go that I would know where it was at, but no, the whole time I was thinking that the Hitching Post was off highway 13 when in reality it was off of highway 7 in Hopkins. Totally opposite directions! It's a good think that Tim was just up there or else we would have went to the wrong place and the trip would have been a complete failure. Well, actually it wouldn't have but it's all good.

In all honesty, the best part of the trip was stopping at Subway on the way home. After Tim got off on higway 101, I thought there was no way in hell that we would find a subway before Belle Plain, but he sat me down and found one 2 blocks off of the higway. I'm still not sure how he spotted it, but I must say that he's good at what he does.

Well, in subway, the lady behind the counter was pissed off because the shop next to hers complained to her boss because of her boyfriend so her boss kept calling her and we stated that we would talk to her boss but she wasn't too down with that. After that we also said we would have a talk to the guy next door and she also wasn't down with that. A very undown person is not ussually a fun person to talk to, but she redemed herself when Tim asked if we should take their tires and roll them all out of the store and she was down with that. Even though it might sound over-rated, it was pretty fun. We also had a good discussion about politics and China.

I'll finish up the post after work!

First post

2005-06-29T13:38:00.000-06:00

Well, not going to say too much since I am still at work, so I'll write all the good stuff later today. Well, this is my first attempt at blogging so I'll see how well I can keep up.

Peace out!

The Angry Bear
"are you serious"