Tag: Disneyland

• Birthdays at Home – Thoughts from July 1 and 6, 2024

  

  July 1, 2024 July is here, and the hot summer bugs are singing their songs. To me, the songs mostly sound like Happy Birthday because tomorrow is my birthday! I don’t know if I’ve ever talked about what it’s like to have a summer birthday, so here I go. If you have a summer birthday,…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 27, 2025

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  2024, 54 years old, alcoholic drinks, annoying birthday aftermath, Beatrix, being held back a year, Ben and Jerry’s dairy free ice cream, Blue Milk, cats hanging out with me, celebrate on my birthday, chili dog from Wienerschnitzel, chocolate chip cookie dough, choice of beverages, dairy, dairy-free ice cream, Disneyland, eating as you drink alcohol, eating in a restaurant, fireworks, food is better at home, Fourth of July, girl cats, Happy Birthday, hearing problems, holiday near your birthday, home body, hot summer bugs, lactose intolerance, leftovers, Luna, no school birthdays, Patti, sample cocktails, Scout, senior citizen, singing bugs, sliver of bed space, Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge, staying at home, summer birthdays, sushi on my birthday, the cats, thoughts, Willow

• Ignoring Facts, Wearing Glasses, and Movie Cliches – Thoughts from September 9 to 16, 2023

  

  September 9, 2023 I figured out what my greatest skill is. I can listen to someone spewing facts at me and ignore them all. Facts don’t stay in my brain, so I ignore most of them. When I hear the other person express an opinion based on the facts, that’s when I listen. People who…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 27, 2024

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  2023, absurdly humorous cameos, acknowledging people, birthday, cliche villain, cliches in movies, Competition ruins everything, cotton candy, Disneyland, exaggerations, glasses, hard contacts, I wait for people, ignoring facts, kindness, Marie from The Aristocats, nerd, Nightmare Before Christmas, opinions based on facts, other possibilities, overeating, overly polite, Patti, pink eye, politeness, popcorn holder, questionable facts, questionable opinions, responsible kid, Roku, rude as a group, soft contacts, spewing facts, thoughts, understanding possibilities, unworthy of my niceness, Velma on Scooby-Doo, walking through crowds, wearing glasses, Weird Al Yankovic movie, where facts come from, You’re not my husband

• Ubernerds and Time Math – Thoughts from July 26 and 30, 2023

  

  July 26, 2023 I tried to type QWERTY on my swipe keyboard and it typed “Way”. I guess people don’t type QWERTY much. This Thoughts paper is being interrupted to bring you a special news bulletin. Patti just told me Sinead O’Connor just died. She was only 56. 53-year-old me thinks that’s way too young…

  Brian Kirwan

  July 18, 2024

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  2023, 401k, being a nerd, being a rock star, collecting facts, communicating, Competition ruins everything, confusion, considering feelings, died at 56, Disneyland, emotionless people, emotions, Excel worksheet, facts, facts are boring, focus, heed my own words, interpreting facts, learn from my failure, lifetime pass, my retirement, nerd-friendly, never became a rock star, never consider myself retired, new employee, Patti, QWERTY, retirement, screwed up youth, showing off nerdiness, Sinead O’Connor, social security, swipe keyboard, ten based, thoughts, Thoughts paper, time math, too young to die, ubernerd, vacation hours, virtual coins, wasting time, Wordscapes tournament, working for a living, writing

• Sexist Old Men and Unpleasant Pets – Thoughts from April 30 and May 06, 2023

  

  April 30, 2023 Last day of the month, here we are. I want to start this Thoughts paper with a thought from yesterday. I was in a van of older gentlemen and they started talking about comedians. One of them said he doesn’t like female comedians that speak vulgarly. As part of that, he mentioned…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 16, 2024

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  1970s, 2022, 2023, Amy Schumer, animals, attitudes about women, Bill Cosby, blogging, cats, childhood, comedians, diary entry dribble, Disneyland, dogs, educate yourself, farms, female comedians, female lead, female led comedies, fish, Fritz, fury raging inside me, good behavior, growing up on a farm, hamsters, humor, listening to women, male comedians, male executives, male-centric forms of entertainment, memoirs, minds in the past, old man lead, older gentlemen, period humor, periods, pets, pure breed, questioning things, roosters, sexist men, sports, stored-up thoughts, thoughts, Thoughts paper, ugly, unwritten, vulgar comedians, vulgarity, women are better than men, writing

• Out on a Live Stage – Thoughts from August 10 and 14, 2022

  

  August 10, 2022 I’m almost glad that the nervousness of performing live was too much for me. If I could do it easily, I would not be as happy and healthy as I am. I don’t like watching live performances so I don’t know why I thought I would ever want to perform live. Whether…

  Brian Kirwan

  December 7, 2023

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  2004, 2022, accepting you are gay, acting, admitting you are gay, anti-gay stance, applying, being honest with yourself, believe in yourself, believing in religion, concert, daily workings, dementia, Disneyland, drunk A-holes, exclusion, family reaction, fast forward, fear, gay, happy, healthy, illogical, ingoring your surroundings, live events, live performances, live shows, living a lie, misconceptions, my body is just a meat sack, nervousness, not pleasurable, performing live, rejected, religion, short thought, singing, South Park, supernatural being, telling jokes, thoughts, Thoughts from Life blog, Thoughts papers, tour of nowhere, understandable but sad, valuing religion over people, voice performance, volume, work, writing

• Waiting for Disney – Thoughts from January 6 and March 23, 2010

  

  Future note: The following entry was from an “incident” that happened in November 2009. It was nighttime. A plumber was walking backstage, and I was driving to pick up some people. When I got close to him, I could see him slowing down and looking at me. As I passed him, he screamed, “Five miles…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 15, 2023

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  2009, 2010, a talker, anger management, appeal, awaiting his fate, bruise, Disney, Disneyland, driving, fired, first incident, headlights, incident, incident report, judge, lawyer, leads, let go, meeting, other employee, Patti, plumber, punch, stenographer, suit, thoughts, waiting, Waiting for Disney, yelling

• Drunk and Missing the Cat Sister – Thoughts from May 16, 2008

  

  Know that I’m drunk right now, so what I say is from the mind of a drunken person. Have I mentioned that I’m drunk right now? I’m working at Disney these days. I’m a lead. On Friday and Saturday, I’m the lead most of the time. We have several people who started with me as…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 8, 2023

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  2008, 2009, 21 year old cat, animation, cat, cats, computer, crying, Disneyland, drunk, end her suffering, Goodbye to My Soul, hesitation, kittens, lead, music, my songs, NAS, nerd, Nerd Mouse, pain, Patti, reminders of missed, sick, Sister, suffering, thoughts, throw up, thyroid problem, Truck, vet

• Headed to Disneyland – Thoughts from November 10, 2004

  

  All the songs on my MP3 player are sad songs. I need to change that. I need high-energy songs now. This whole “new chapter in my life” thing is happening, and I need to get excited and energized about it. I’m starting my training at Disneyland at 10:00 AM this Saturday. Brad, who I talked…

  Brian Kirwan

  June 6, 2023

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  2004, animation, apart inside, bills, birthday, Brian's Brain, Cameron, computer, creative endeavors, depressed, Disney look, Disneyland, drama, drawing, drunk, Flash animation, hidden drama, job, job fair, jobless, laptop, MP3 player, nephew, new chapter in my life, part-time, Patti, sad songs, selfish, soundtrack, spontaneous decision, storyboards, television, thoughts, Thoughts paper, To Do List, tragedy, training, unhappy, vague, writing

• Eye Twitching Holidays – Thoughts from November 17 to December 18, 2003

  

  November 17, 2003 My system had a minor crash again. I had worked on a song (a sad song), and it suddenly wouldn’t let me logon to Windows. After much ado, it’s back, but I’ve been saving all my songs in multiple locations – which I should have done before, but at least I’m doing…

  Brian Kirwan

  May 18, 2023

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  2003, alcoholism, always driving, animation, assisted living, back up, bad eating, being driven, California Adventure, Cameron, cause of death, Christmas, computer, dad, death certificate, Disneyland, driving, eye twitching, Grand Californian, Grand Canyon, holidays, mom, my songs, nephews, nerd, Nightmare Before Christmas, Paradise Pier Hotel, Patti, shy, shyness, Sister, smoking, soundtrack, stress, stress free, stressing out, system crash, Thanksgiving, the boys, thoughts, twins, Twisted Land of Oz

• Bad Neighbors – Thoughts from February 27 and March 18, 2003

  

  February 27, 2003 I’m almost done with my Storyboarding class. It wasn’t exactly like I thought it was going to be. It hasn’t been bad; it just hasn’t been as creative as I had hoped. We’re doing two scenes from Kim Possible, a show John, the instructor, works on. One is a talking heads scene…

  Brian Kirwan

  April 20, 2023

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  2003, animation industry, bad neighbors, computer, creating, creativity, Disney, Disney television, Disneyland, drawing, Fat Albert, hate the work, house robbed, Intuos, jobs, laptop, neighborhood, no class, Patti, public, questions, robbed, storyboarding, The Animation Academy, thoughts, valuables, video camera, Wacom