It actually really sucks because I know a bunch of you are going to miss it (me too), but it’s just that time.

Over the last few weeks you guys have made me consider how I’d stay in touch with you, at least for the near future, while the blog was gone. I came up with a few ideas. Want to hear them? Well here they are:

First: Ah ha! I bought www.OmarJoseph.com like 4 years ago and never did anything with it. Go there now—it’s just my logo–how lame. Yes, it’s lame, but I really never had the inspiration to do anything with it.

Side note: Brian, I just realized I picked up that URL after/because I thought you were so cool when you picked up BrianMdotnet.

Anyway, I guess I have to call up my boy in India and have him put that site together.  No seriously—I actually have a web guy in India. They’ll be some misc. bio stuff on there, but most importantly, a blog! So I’ll blog it out when I feel like it and figure out a nice, neat distribution mechanism.

Second: Yep, twit A dee ditter. “You can find me on twitter, bottle full ‘o bub!” Yep www.twitter.com/mromarj Pretty much, I’m on there every day so if you want to talk to me or find out my movements that’s the spot.  

Ok, what’s next? For number three how about we go old school? You can always call me? My number’s been the same since college, but if you don’t have it, it’s (732) 684-2996. For you social misfits who only like to text, text me. I’m always up for a conversation or a random trip OT—out of town, so call me!

Finally, number four is a simple one: Shot me an e-mail. My e-mail has been the same since college too— doamtk@yahoo.com. If you want to be cute e-mail me at OmarJ@omarjoseph.com.

Yep, pretty much that’s it. The blog will stay up for the foreseeable future so if you missed something or want some classic laughs do some browsing anytime at www.MyHappyFriday.net. For those of you who still don’t know I’m married or even got engaged, you can find out how that happened at www.IFinallyDidIt.com.

Thanks to everyone for their support, good times and memories.

Wrap it up Jeeves, I’m done.  

A special hello to Rosa, the inventor of Happy Friday, Happy Monday (only a few more days until Friday) and oh my god, Happy Thursday (tomorrow is Friday!).  

This week I’ll do what I do best; find ways to get people mad at me. This week the blog is all about awards. I’ve searched high and low through the blog and I came up with a bunch of awards for you—the readers. Some are self explanatory, some have descriptions and for some you’ll need to go back through the blog to research. It all sounds like great fun.

You can feel free to COMMENT or COMPLAIN if you like. Now without further adieu, the awards:  

The best gift I got because of the blog award:

Kelly R. (tickets to the Police!)

The I’m amazed you actually read this award:

Darren N.

The biggest political argument award:

Debbie D. (you are really passionate)

The saddest moment award:

The day I sold my bike

Most contributions award:

Cleo H.

Honorary Mention: Kurt M.

The most annoying reader award:

Kurt M. (thanks for the spell checking)

Best plea to keep the blog award:

Cleo H.

Honorary Mention: Kelly S.

Best offline conversation award:

Lynne P.

Honorary Mention: Cleo H.

Best friendship enhanced by the blog award:

Jessica R.

Best moment discovered because of the blog award:

Tintu M.’s pregnancy (I was like the first to know)

Honorary Mention: J. Rock’s pregnancy

Honorary Mention: Kelly S.’s engagement

Funniest posted conversation award:

Jane W.

Best family supporter award:

My Mother

Honorary Mention: Ayana J.

Best blog announcement:

Our engagement and the blog IFinallyDidIt.com

Most consumed by Rachel’s pregnancy:

Elaine S.

Honorary Mention: Paula T

Best on site comments award:

Shelly L.

Best friend I never met award:

Meghan G.

Huepa award (you are always so happy! I love it):

Rosa S.

Best advice (food or alcohol related) award:

Lynne P.

Greatest traveler award:

Mitzi A.

Psychic award:

Jessica R. (how did you know we were getting married?)

Biggest Yankee hater award:

Jane W.

Honorary Mention: Kurt M.

Where you been award:

Tim G.

Quietest supporter award (we don’t chat it up all the time, but you love the blog):

Kelly S.

Honorary Mention: Meghan G.

Biggest attention seeker (only interested in skimming the blog for your name):

Kurt M.

Honorary Mention: Kya J.

Best reader blog award:

Baby Ari

Honorary Mention: Jessica R.

Most mentioned award:

Kurt M.

Honorary mention: Rachel J.

Most influential award (the biggest reason I kept this thing going):

Rosa S.

Honorary Mention: Rachel J.

A special hello to Rosa, the inventor of Happy Friday, Happy Monday (only a few more days until Friday) and oh my god, Happy Thursday (tomorrow is Friday!).  

As you know, we’re wrapping this thing up in two more posts so get your fix now before it’s gone.

I got a note from Adrian and he couldn’t believe I would do such a thing. I think he convinced me to go on a sabbatical. Let’s see if it’s that or if we make it permanent.

Cleo told me she was “hurt” and J. Rock put in a formal protest. I told her that when she gets 9,999 more signatures I’ll bring the blog back. J

It turns out that Maribel has the delusion that Paterson, spelled with one t, isn’t that bad. Apparently, I have the wrong perception. Thanks for the heads up!

I do have to apologize for forgetting to mention the #1 Jets fan, Ira G., last week. I guess that’s as bad as me forgetting to mention that the Cowboys lost. Thanks for the reminder, Rosa. Mail Box Etc. Rosa, not Tyco Rosa.

After Ro reminded me about the game I had a quick conversation with Tony about politics and went on my way. It turns out that while I was in the bank I saw my old friend, Changa! We go wayyyyyyy back!

I ended up talking to Kia on Monday and she told me she was about to go get her masters. That’s a big time move! I love it.

While chatting with one of my top two mentors, Charlie, he told me that I never mentioned him in my blog. I said wow, I’ll mention you this week. Then I went back through every post and I realized I mentioned him more than most people! Comm’on, Charlie! You have to read every week!

On Thursday, Kurt left me speechless. Seriously, I was stuttering. Rachel I forgot to tell you this, but Kurt was rapping, “Get it right, Get it right, Get it tight.” That is a moment that I will never, ever forget.

For you dog lovers out there, check out this link Christie sent me. He’ll do whatever you want.

And how about kids; they do the craziest things. Some of them fight, like Jeremy points out and some of them get stuck behind couches as Bob points out.

Before I get into what I’m about to get into, I have two super bowl pools. If anyone is interested send me an e-mail at omarj@myhappyfriday.net.

So to end this thing right I spent some time putting together the best of Happy Friday. Check it out below! Be sure to check out next week’s post for more Happy Friday goodness!

Honorable Mentions

The Twitter Issue: Mostly written using posts from Twitter.

http://myhappyfriday.net/?p=347

The Quote Edition: Mostly written with quotes from you!

http://myhappyfriday.net/?p=321

10. Holly crap! I predicted the Yankee’s World Series Win!

http://myhappyfriday.net/?p=264

9. A rabbit? J. Rock gets a rabbit for Easter!

http://myhappyfriday.net/?p=92

8. We closed! We’re now homeowners.

http://myhappyfriday.net/?p=377

7. Rachel’s Pregnant! Eh not really.

http://myhappyfriday.net/?p=374

6. The birthday: My ’09 birthday was crazy!

http://myhappyfriday.net/?p=324

5. The typo issue: I’ve made some bad ones, but this was pretty funny!

http://myhappyfriday.net/?p=296

4. I Overslept: Did you really come in at 1 p.m.?

http://myhappyfriday.net/?p=11

3. (A Tie!) We got married

http://myhappyfriday.net/?p=235

We got engaged

http://myhappyfriday.net/?p=57

2. Is he crazy? Yes I wrote this is the third person

http://myhappyfriday.net/?p=37

1. Come on! The best post has to be the first one!

http://myhappyfriday.net/?p=17

A special hello to Rosa, the inventor of Happy Friday, Happy Monday (only a few more days until Friday) and oh my god, Happy Thursday (tomorrow is Friday!).

So I spent the day with one of my Godsons on Saturday and this guy scammed me into watching the Youth in Revolt. I saw the preview and it looked funny, but I didn’t realized until I got in the movie that it was rated R. Needless to say my preteen friend wasn’t supposed to be in there, but we had a good time so it was ok. I’ll keep my eyes on the ratings next time!

Sunday, we had everybody over for a random, impromptu gathering. My uncle was over finishing some work on the house, then my sister, Asia, stopped by with Marcus. Later on Amber came by with Steve and Tiffany. They brought over food for Rachel and the group from the new Sonic’s! Needless to say, everyone was happy.

We finished up the day playing PS3 and Wii. They brought over DJ Hero and I am now addicted. I must have that game ASAP! Can someone buy that for me? I’m broke! J

And I didn’t see it, but while we were playing the Jets won a game. Congrats to my boy Bob on the win.

I had to pick up an item for a client on Monday and the location was in Patterson. Wow, I guess I forgot how bad Patterson was because that place was scarier than I remember. Now that I know the part number all purchases will be made over the phone.

I got word from an old friend, Lauren N., over the weekend. Do you remember her from Plastics (TPA)? She let me know that she just got a new job with ADT, which is perfect because they’re hot right now. It was definitely really cool to hear from her, and hopefully she’ll send me a message on Twitter.

Tuesday, I wore some shirt and a brown and blue tie. Kurt promptly let me know that it was a good choice because blue and brown were the “IT” colors right now. And he knew this because these types of “things” are his bag. Thanks for clueing me in, Sir! I’ll definitely keep that in mind moving forward.

Speaking of dress code, I decided to wear a three piece suit on Wednesday that I thought was pretty cool. First I got, “Are you here to film a video?” then “Are you going to a funeral?” and then “what time is the wedding?” Jerry asked me if I was driving limos on the side. I love it!

Thursday we rounded out the week with lunch at Maggianos or something like that. It was a really nice Italian restaurant in Bridgewater. Me and 13 of my closest colleagues!

Anyway, that’s it for the week and almost it for the blog. Three more posts and I’m out of here. It’s been 130 posts and I think it’s about that time! I’m going to finish up with a few cool posts and then I’m done. See you next week!

A special hello to Rosa, the inventor of Happy Friday, Happy Monday (only a few more days until Friday) and oh my god, Happy Thursday (tomorrow is Friday!).

Saturday I had the funniest experience at Lowes. Let’s take a page from Twitter.
I just picked up some gear from Lowes. I was joking with the cashier and she told me she was pregnant. Came outta nowhere. Is that weird? 2:36 PM Jan 9th from Twitterrific

Then Brandon says
@brandon @MrOmarJ all you have to do is talk to a girl to get her pregs?

Then Jeremy says

@jerms9500 Remind me to keep you away from Melissa. RT @brandon @MrOmarJ all you have to do is talk to a girl to get her pregs?

Short story, but fairly funny no?

Anyway, for those of you familiar with the UFC, I spent Saturday arguing with Dana White—the owner, on Twitter. It was kind of hilarious, if you ask me. Check out the page if you want to read it.

For good measure I finished the day with a nice Cowboys victory and went to sleep.

Sunday was spent watching an amazing day of football. I don’t think we could have asked for a better night game.

We spent some time on Monday clearing out our carriage house at work to ready it for renovation. It turns out Jerry is building out the space so I can have my own office and fireplace. I can’t wait until it’s done.

A few of us went to Joe’s for lunch on Tuesday and when we got back Kurt thought it was a great idea to walk on our frozen lake. I know it was wrong for me to support it, but I had to take a picture because it was just so funny.

It also happened to be Sara Jane Z.’s wedding anniversary so that was pretty cool too.

If you’ve ever lost your luggage or had anything stolen while you’re flying, you may want to travel with a gun or at least a starter pistol. It’ll keep your stuff safe.

I spent Thursday night kicking Rachel’s butt in Wii. How much fun was that?

And that’s that!

A special hello to Rosa, the inventor of Happy Friday, Happy Monday (only a few more days until Friday) and oh my god, Happy Thursday (tomorrow is Friday!).

Rachel and I spent New Year’s the same way we always do, with some loud music and spirits. Thanks to my special work friend, we were able to enjoy a bottle of our favorite bubbly juice, White Star! Thank you.

So we get back from holiday break and my boy, Bob, comes to work with a sweet new ride. The guy’s got an Altima and since we all went to lunch and guess who drove it. This guy! I love it.

Tuesday Kurt and I meet up with our favorite Eagles fan, D. Lo. We had lunch at Famous Dave’s, I predicted the Cowboy’s would win the playoff game on Saturday—end of story. I finished up the day at Road Runner Sports. I picked up the cold weather gear I was looking for, but I left the NipGuards at the counter. Looks like I’ll be running in the cold! Brian, you want to run?

And apparently, another one you are pregnant. And ummmmmm, it’s not Rachel. I love to say that. Well congrats to my buddy, J. Rock. Or I guess J. Harvey now. Feel free to name the baby after me.

On Wednesday I gained a whole new respect for my colleague, Lisa. I had to stop by her house to pick up something and I realized how faaaaaaaaaaaaaar she lived. God bless your heart for making that trip every day.

Jerry and I had the pleasure of enjoying an after the holidays lunch with our friend Sue O. Great food, laughs and platinum trophies; I think that sums it up.

That pretty much catches us up! It’s Friday and I’m ready for the weekend! ‘Till next week.

A special hello to Rosa, the inventor of Happy Friday, Happy Monday (only a few more days until Friday) and oh my god, Happy Thursday (tomorrow is Friday!).

As usual, there is a bunch of stuff going on so let’s see what we can get to.

I think I’ll give my first mention to Rachel. Congrats on our 1-year anniversary. That was quick, huh? Second mention has to go to Jeremy for buying Real Soccer 2010 as an anniversary gift. We’ve both wanted that game forever and know you and I have it! Thanks! The next mention has to go to my boy Kyle for spending 50 hours working with me over the weekend.

That really doesn’t seem possible, but we did and I broke a record that I’ve never come close to ever. That’s 63 work hours in four days. That reminds me of my old sleepless record from college—62.5 hours up with 30 minutes of sleep. Both of those records are never to be broken again!

I have to congratulate my favorite lawyer, Brian, for filing his first injunction the other week. I have to say that I’m proud of you man! Keep me updated on that one!

Apparently, the JK_Design twitter is kind of a big deal—with something like 300 followers—we’re kind of cool. And my account isn’t too shabby either with something like 125 followers—yes!

For those of you ladies out there that like Legos, this purse might be for you.

Recently, Miss Tintu had her tax credit. That’s a beautiful tax credit if I don’t say so myself.

And speaking of money, Andrea gave me like 30 coupons for every store you can imagine. You can download the zip here.

And that’s it for complete sentences for me. Cool links to follow.

Funny Twitter Wedding Story (Via Rachel)

Colbert Does Jay Z 

The Stair Experiment (Via Cleo)

Ukulele Boy

Rutgers Career Fair

A special hello to Rosa, the inventor of Happy Friday, Happy Monday (only a few more days until Friday) and oh my god, Happy Thursday (tomorrow is Friday!).

It’s too bad I haven’t been around because I had some funny stories to share. One of my favorites happened this week. I was talking to someone at work about this video we’re working on and Darren asks me who do you think my new favorite artist is? I say Miley Cyrus. He says how did you know? I said I just knew. I proceeded to tell him, and by default those around me, that I just downloaded the album. I’ve spent the rest of the week defending that download. Shelly would you please stick up for me?

A few weeks back, Elaine sent me one of the best Halloween costumes ever. What do you think?

Here’s another funny story. Someone sent me a check for a football pool I’m running and the bank sent it back to me. Why? Because they postdated it. Who does that? I guess somebody does.

Wait, wait. I have another funny story. So, if you’re on IM and you want to talk about another person who is also on IM you probably should make sure that you don’t send that IM to the person you’re talking about. That’s just an idea. LOL.

The other day we had a bowling event for work and that was pretty funny. I wanted to have a cool, relaxed time, but they (everyone) insisted on trying to beat me. In the end, I still had the highest combined score, but who’s counting?

I also stopped by Novo Nordisk the other day for their World Diabetes Day and I saw the craziest thing. There were 200 or so people in there playing Simon Says. Here is one picture, but check out the JK Design twitter page for more. Speaking of our twitter page, we posted a few job openings for those who might be interested.

Other than Thanksgiving, that’s all she wrote folks.

Enjoy your time off!

He looks at me and nonchalantly says I have to rip out the wall and fix the leak. I say ok and he leaves. Lucky for me that I won’t be paying for that one.

That, I believe, happened on Saturday, which happened to be my mother’s birthday. She was too cool to go to the movies with me and I have an outside suspicion that she may have “big timed” me.

On Monday I spent the entire day outside the office. We had a crazy installation at Novo Nordisk that I wish I had pictures of. We created these life-size graphics of their employees and placed them throughout the building.

 After that I hit the road and made my way out to Atlantic City to meet my favorite Vice President, Andrea, for a trade show.

When I made my way into my room I realized that the people before me didn’t check out yet. I found a laptop, some dirty socks, “underwear,” mardi gras beads and beer. With a little help from Andrea, we got me another room.

Funny thing about that room was there were no garbage cans and no remote. I woke up in the morning and I couldn’t get any hot water out of the shower. That Taj Mahal was a major disaster. Outside of a terrible room I did have a great time with Andrea, as usual.

Before I left the hotel, I went to pick up my car from the valet and I ended up getting the service for free. The woman waived the 15 bucks because she saw my Dallas Cowboys hat. I guess we have fans everywhere!

On the way back home I had to endure the second rate Philly stations and their knock off Phillies songs. There and back was a tough four hours of driving.

I decided that I would wear my Yankees hat to work on Wednesday to annoy Kurt. It worked and by lunch he went home and picked up that fire engine red Phillies jacket and hat. It actually turned out that his wife scored some tickets to game 1 of the series so he ended up there that night.

Thursday was another Yankee hat day and I after I saw Jay Z perform during the pregame I told Kurt the game was over and I was right.

Today, it’s my Virginia Tech shirt and Virginia Tech Yankees hat. It’s only right!

I hope you have a great weekend!

Go Yankees!

I’d like to thank Andrea for my Friday morning amusement last week. She seems to think that Rachel “… IS preggo[.] See, [I remember] all those stomach bugs a few months back. LIAR!!!” And I respond “Yep. Good job, Sherlock. You guessed it. Be sure to reserve your spot at the baby shower. ;)”

I was surprised by how many people, including Kurt, thought that I should actually make that Jesus signature my sign off. I’ll take a pass on that one.

Sunday was Rachel’s birthday and we spent some time at the house with her mother and then they went out.

If you happen to be looking for a job Ray hooked me up with this document. That’s two weeks of job looking for heaven! Please pass that along.

On Tuesday we closed on the house. I found it amusing that they tried to tell us that we didn’t have enough money to close two hours before the closing. The smart bank people figured it out and we closed seven minutes before 5 p.m. It took my Babe Ruth Yankee hat and high school t-shirt to get it done. Since I don’t believe in luck, I find it amusing what a terrible transaction could drive me to.

Luckily it’s over and we popped a nice bottle of our favorite white star Moët. Bob, that’s some “good drink” man!

Wednesday we had to eat out so I stopped at this place called Moe’s. I walked in and the guy says, “we’re closed.” I said, “You’re closed?” He said, “No. Welcome to Moe’s.” If you’re looking for some good Mexican food, that’s the place!

Thursday was the renowned Yankee/A Rod hater’s birthday, Jeremy. You’re cool with me bro. This exploding handshake is to you.

Other than that, I’m gone! For those of you who can “stomach” the very funny Tracy Morgan, check out this clip. As Jeremy says, “somebody gonna get pregnant!”

A special hello to Rosa, the inventor of Happy Friday, Happy Monday (only a few more days until Friday) and oh my god, Happy Thursday (tomorrow is Friday!).