The Mike Stories, Pt. 36

Roughly 6 months after I met Mike, he confessed to me that he had made up his own holiday. He even named it after himself. He named it Mikukkah. If you're thinking that sounds a lot like Hanukkah, that's because Mike stole the menorah from Hanukkah, and put it to use in his own fake holiday.

He says he made up Mikukkah when he was dirt poor in college, as a way of making time to spend with friends. the dirt poor part is accommodated by the convenient Mikukkah tradition of giving extremely inexpensive gifts to those you celebrate with. Mike lights the stolen menorah (all of the candles), and says that you hang out with friends until the candles burn themselves out.

So every year since then, we've gotten some friend to humor Mike and come hang out for the fake holiday. This year, we invited our new Iraqi friends, Moog & Marwa, to come over and celebrate Mikukkah with us. We made dinner and hung out with them for a while - of course we had to explain Mike's fake holiday across a language barrier. (it's a good thing Moog's English is soooooo good!)

As we were getting ready for dinner, Mike turns to me and tells me I should look up online to see if we're missing any Mikukkah traditions. That's right - Mike actually asked me to Google his fake holiday and see if we were forgetting anything. when I pointed this fact out to him, he claimed that his fake holiday could easily be spreading and evolving, and i better check Wikipedia in case something new had evolved and become part of the holiday that he wasn't aware of.

Later that night I asked him what he was doing - then asked if he was Googling Mikukkah. He wasn't, but that immediately reminded him that he hadn't done it yet, and so (of course) he set out to Google his own fake holiday. Of course he didn't find any hidden secret sect of people planning out special new Mikukkah traditions. But he DID find some guy on Facebook named Mikaka (or something like that). He said he was going to try to friend the guy and tell him all about Mikukkah.

The Mike Stories, Pt. 35

just now...

Chrissy: What are you doing?
Mike: I was going out to the garage.
Chrissy: Why?
Mike: I was going out there to do more organizing.
Chrissy: What?!! That's obviously a lie. I know how you "organize" - you're like the anti-organizer. you're probably going out there to make a mess!
Mike: yeah!
Chrissy: I knew it!