Michelle says, Life is good when youre maniacal.

About Me

"She was so anal rententive that she couldn't sit down for fear of sucking up the furniture."
I am:
sarcastic, almost to a fault
a mother and a wife
still my own person despite both of these
going back to school after 14 years
crazy in love with my kids
best friends with my little brother
slightly obsessed with Harry Potter
perceived sometimes as cold
married to a man as close to perfect as they come...he is my everything
trying to be the best mom i can be
incredibly moved by the song OUTSIDE OF THIS...i have been that broken.
not who you think I am based on appearances
not broken anymore
I hate:
crying
intolerance
lack of manners
noisy eaters
butterflies and grasshoppers
I love:
my family
hanging with Big Dan
mad libs
The Office and Dwight Schrute
my chucks
my penguin vans
fountain soda
blistex lip infusion
writing down memorable things my kids say
Absolutely Fabulous
my tattoos
blue lobsters
I'm afraid of:
escalators
hummingbirds

My Interests

My boys
Music
Shows
Greeley Estates
STLXcore Crew
Crashing weddings
Reading books...you know, lots of pages put together, each page having words on them to make sentences.
Making shirts

I'd like to meet:

Kevin

This is a list of people who wish they were as cool as me:
I have a lot of mustachioed friends.

Randy is Zipperman's life partner...with a 'stache.

Amy knows how to use blinds...with a 'stache.

Big Dan loves the OK Turnpike...with a 'stache.

Jill is a cop magnet...with a 'stache.

Greeley Estates isn't as cool as Ratt...with 'staches.

Dafan is obviously gay...with a 'stache.

BChamp wishes he was as cool as Bryce...with a 'stache.

Alex has never seen a lightning bug...with a 'stache.

Bobbi likes your mom...with a 'stache.

Casey likes your dad...with a 'stache.

Kevin says "ohwtback"...with a 'stache.

Franklin is a lame-o...with a 'stache.

Jeffrey likes perms...with a 'stache.

Maegan wants to do your hair...with a 'stache.

Ian plays bass, the guitar not the fish...with a 'stache.

Camille, way to be around all day...with a 'stache.

Amanda likes cheese, monkeys and naps all at the same time...with a 'stache.

Kyle tried to kill my elbow...with a 'stache.

Darilyn gets her sexy on...with a 'stache.

Josh is an applecracka...with a 'stache.

Bunni IS her real name...with a 'stache.

DavID doesn't like pale midwesterners...with a 'stache.

Larry is so 90's here...with a 'stache.

The Vanity Affair...with 'staches.

Behind the Blindfold...with 'staches.

fairwell...with 'staches.

Alesana...with 'staches.

Hotspur...with 'staches.

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Music:

Greeley Estates
Behind the Blindfold
The Vanity Affair
Paramore
Covette
blessthefall
Norma Jean
Adair
fairwell
HOTSPUR
Valient Thorr
The SmashUp
The Ads
Kill Hannah
Dresden Dolls
Mika
UnderOATH
The Bled
Thursday
Atreyu
As I Lay Dying
Bullet For My Valentine
Yellow, The Vertical
Greenwheel
Novella
James Blunt
Handcrafted
Mute Math
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Arctic Monkeys
The Raconteurs
Saosin
Taking Back Sunday
Lucky Boys Confusion
Dropping Daylight
Ava, Wait
The Used
System of a Down
Panic! at the Disco
Avenged Sevenfold
My Chemical Romance
Acceptance
The Working Title
June
Number One Fan
AFI
Melee
Eyes Catch Fire
Mudvayne
Funeral for a Friend
Story of the Year
White Stripes
Chevelle
Dropkick Murphys
Madonna
Finch
Rage Against the Machine
Von Bondies
Reggie & the Full Effect
Blondie
Soft Cell
The Clash
Depeche Mode
The Cure
Led Zepplin
Metallica
Just to name a few.

Movies:

Little Miss Sunshine
Boondock Saints
Volver
Napolean Dynamite
Zoolander
Crash
American History X
Fight Club
Kill Bill Vols. 1 & 2
Love Actually
About A Boy
The Full Monty

Television:

The Office
Arrested Development
Lost
Grey's Anatomy

Books:

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Harry Potter

Heroes:

My son for giving me a reason to live when all I wanted to do was die.

My Blog

Nobody puts Bryce in a corner.

Bryce's favorite color is pink. Oh how he loves pink. He recently got new Chucks...a black pair and a pink pair. He did the choosing. The dilemma:Should he wear his beloved pi...
Posted by Michelle says, Life is good when youre maniacal. on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:38:00 PST

Why I like loose leaf paper: a blog by Michelle McClain

I like loose leaf paper.I do not enjoy spiral notebooks.I don't enjoy "spiral" anything.I hate that the right edge of the paper on the back makes the writing look wonky due to the spiral of metal gett...
Posted by Michelle says, Life is good when youre maniacal. on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:15:00 PST

Why hello, Cranky McCrankerson!

I am cranky.I have been cranky for days.I have no idea why or what is causing it.I only know I'm in a bad funk that I'm having trouble climbing out of. Things people say that I normally let slide off ...
Posted by Michelle says, Life is good when youre maniacal. on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:47:00 PST

Gallery of my best work.

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Posted by Michelle says, Life is good when youre maniacal. on Sun, 27 May 2007 12:19:00 PST

I'm sad, numb...and I don't know what to do with it.

I had an emotional moment during the Greeley show Friday...it only matters what it was to me and the very few people that know. I was emotional on the way home (thanks D-bo...haha!) bu...
Posted by Michelle says, Life is good when youre maniacal. on Tue, 22 May 2007 07:41:00 PST

Shin kicks, giant muffins, & chalk outlines...all part of a Greeley show.

Yesterday we went to Joplin, MO to see Greeley Estates with Halifax. The drive down was uneventful. That was the ONLY uneventful part of the day. As soon as we got there, we lost a c...
Posted by Michelle says, Life is good when youre maniacal. on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:41:00 PST

Arizona = Bryce with a camera, two accidents, and saying goodbye to a friend.

We went to Phoenix for a long overdue vacation since it was Josh's, Greeley's now former bass player, last show. Bryce loves Josh immensely...he thinks they are best friends, so we wanted to tak...
Posted by Michelle says, Life is good when youre maniacal. on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:31:00 PST

Hovering torsos, fire attacks on blessthefall, and other carnage.

Friday we started out for Kansas City, MO. The car trip was a success, which is a big deal when you are traveling with kids. We stayed at the Hyatt Regency Crown Hotel, which was extremely...
Posted by Michelle says, Life is good when youre maniacal. on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:29:00 PST

We are officially dumb asses.

Last night at 2:15 a.m. Randy shut our bedroom door for some privacy (pronounced with a short "i" sound). Fifteen minutes later (way to go Randy) I opened the door. OR did I? It was ...
Posted by Michelle says, Life is good when youre maniacal. on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 07:35:00 PST

Roadtrip...two Greeley shows.

We left Sunday morning to head to Kansas City. We arrived at the venue at 2:30. We scoped the area out, walked around a bit, then decided to stake our place in line. It was about 20 ...
Posted by Michelle says, Life is good when youre maniacal. on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:46:00 PST