RIP Marc Surprenant

This morning,the New Seasons Worship Center F.K.A Church Of  The New Testament family lost one of our own in a lengthy battle with cancer. Marc Suprenant was a man of God who loved everyone and when he had something to say,he says it. He had a heart of teaching the Word and also helping the youth. He always has a sense of humor and he was starting to play the guitar in which he was starting to get good at. The Lord has blessed him with a beautiful wife & 2 daughters,he loves them all. He was like a kid at heart on some occasions  but he always works hard also. He loved the brothers & sisters in the church ,he was one of a kind. He always likes to pick on me when I was young and recently did until now. The church & I kept on praying for him and standing and believing but it seems the Lord had other plans for Marc. But we tend to forget how precious life is until one passes away.Marc,you have been a blessing to me and my family and I pray as you enter Heaven's gates,may you be happy in Heaven and forever praise the Lord! RIP Marc,we love you and miss you buddy! :)

Eric Lima : Mr. Back-In-The-Day,King Of The 1980s

Yesterday I just turned 35 years old and to commemorate this,I decided to do another post on my blog about the decade that I ran amok in: the decade of decadence,the 1980s! It was this decade that I started to learn about anything and everything in pop culture. The music was what got me going in the '80s...the first album I got  was Thriller by the late,great King Of  Pop,Michael Jackson. It was from there that I got to listen a lot of songs on my cassette radio at that time. From Cyndi Lauper to the Thompson Twins,I enjoyed either singing or dancing to them. Back then,rap was not my thing, but some rap songs are cool like Whodini's "Friends" and Newcleus' "Jam On It" but for me,it was all about pop music back then. Nowadays,I just like '80s music because I can groove to them. Wrestling was huge in 1985 but back then,I thought they were too scary with facepaint on but I am appreciating the '80s era more now than ever. Video games were HUGE in the '80s,I got a ColecoVision AND a Nintendo Entertainment System,they were both huge back in the day. I enjoyed playing the heck out of both systems! My friends usually come over and have some fun playing video games with me,we always have a blast playing! My friends and I in my old neighborhood always play baseball,no matter what season we are in,if it's a nice day and no snow...baseball time! Also back in the day,I was part of an after-school program known as YMCA Latchkey Program. I have met lots of awesome people there,in fact few of them I have reunited with on Facebook. There was one field trip that I went with the program on and that is an amusement park that once existed in Warwick,Rhode Island and that park was called Rocky Point. I had so much fun there,except going into the House Of  Horrors,I never wanted to go in there again but it will remind me of Rocky Point. Now I had a hobby back in the '80s. Actually,my first hobby was collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards. I always buy them at a variety store in my neighborhood called Frasier's and the packs were ONLY 25 cents! I was happy when my name was on one of the cards! Then as I grew older,baseball cards were my thing and thanks to my counselors at Dennison Memorial,I am a proud member of Red Sox Nation! Then along came Nintendo and the rest is history! There was a place where I love to do some shopping,that place was none other than my current workplace...the Dartmouth Mall but back then it was the NORTH Dartmouth Mall! There were a lot of stores that I loved like Child World,Woolworth's,Captron(World Of Nintendo) and Zayre! Zayre was the place where I bought my first deck of playing cards. Child World was the place where I bought my first He-Man/Masters Of The Universe action figure and it is the lace where I also bought my first Nintendo Entertainment System. K-Mart was once across the street from the Mall itself and I also bought the action figures there! Speaking of He-Man,TV played a role in my pop-culture knowledge in the '80s. He-Man,Ghostbusters,TransFormers,GoBots,Kidd Video were just some of the shows I like to watch back them but thank God for YouTube,I can relive those memories all over again by watching them on there,LOL! Game shows were big for me.....it was all about The Joker's Wild,Tic Tac Dough,Bullseye,Strike It Rich,Finders Keepers,Press Your Luck,and Remote Control! Those game shows were a lot of fun to watch! From mid-'85 to the end of this decade was where my life forever has change when my father & I found the Lord and started a brand-new family with new mom and her little daughter. I thank God I enjoyed the '80s,now I can smile a little bit more now and I WILL NOT STOP SMILING! :)

2011--Another Good Year

Hello. 2011 is about to come to a close and with the help of pictures and my keen memory,I am going to do a quick recap on my life in 2011:

February 7th--Power Rangers Samurai premeired!
February 14th-- The WWE return of The ROCK!
March 6th--Got a brand-new 32" big-screen TV for my birthday!
May 18th --Got new eyeglasses!
June 29th--TransFormers 3 came out in the movies!
July 29th-- The Smurfs came out in the movies as well!

A lot of things have happened over 2011 but the year went by so fast,I haven't been able to keep track of everything this year,lol. I have learned to post pics on Facebook by my new phone that I got in Decmeber last year,plus it snowed in all of January. I finally got an XBOX 360 & I got Marvel Vs Capcom 3. Then a new video game store in my city called Games To Gold has some of the old-school systems like NES,Super NES,PS,PS2,Sega Dreamcast,Sega Saturn,Sega CD,and EVEN A SEGA MASTER SYSTEM!! While there,I bought a Sega Saturn and thanks to my grandparents' Christmas gift of a $50 gift card courtesy of the folks at Amazon.com..I was able to purchase/acquire the one lone game of the DarkStalkers series that I do not have and that is DarkStalkers 2 aka NightWarriors : DarkStalkers' Revenge! I also will have completed my first full calendar year working at the Dartmouth Mall as an exterior housekeeper since I started back in June of last year aka 2010. My old workplace,Ruby Tuesday has undergone changes again but this time the district manager,Derek Butler,who caused everything there to be turned upside-down,has been demoted (probably due to the fact that over 3/4 of the Ruby Tuesday Dartmouth crew that worked for Chris & Toni have quit the place because of the new management's way of thinking--that is my take on that matter.) Plus,Allen Frazier has been fired from there and replaced by a gentleman named Steve,making Steve the 4th RT Dartmouth GM in the last fiscal year for that restaurant.Met the man,however, and he is really nice--Anthony Martone returned for a 3rd time to be the kitchen manager and Eric Tremblay returned there to be the floor manager there. I am hoping that those 3 gentlemen keep the restaurant going or else that restaurant may end up in the same fate as the Ruby Tuesday in the Silver City Galleria....gone. Speaking of other malls,since the start of 2011,I have not been to any other mall until earlier this month when my brother-in-law,my sister,my nephew, and I took a trip to the Emerald Square Mall this year to do a little shopping & browsing and I am going to admit this right now : the Emerald Square Mall looks a LOT better than the Galleria & Swansea Malls.......COMBINED!! My former boss has opened up a new restaurant in Wrentham called the Commonwealth BBQ Company. Some of the former RT Dartmouth employees are currently working there now. I miss my Ruby Tuesday peeps!The Boston Bruins finally won the Stanley Cup this year,making the city of Boston to first city to achieve all 4 major sports championships in 1 decade! But the Red Sox collapsed in September and Terry Francona was fired after 8 years and 2 titles with the team as GM Theo Epstein left as well. Well,the WWE not only saw the Rock come back but Kevin Nash & Booker T returned at the 2011 Royal Rumble and Trish Stratus returned to be a trainer for the returning reality show Tough Enough.But there was a significant return besides The Rock,the return of the old-school version of the Intercontinental Championship,courtesy of Cody Rhodes. There was a few debuts and one of them happened to be one of the former NXT Divas,AJ. Aksana also debuted on SmackDown,Kharma also debuted this year. But there were also departures,but most notably..John Morrison & Melina. Kane returns with the mask once again but also John Laurinaitis debuted on TV as the EVP of Talent Relations,Michael Cole continues to be more of a jerk on TV than usual. TNA has gone wacky to say the least. Christmas was a decent one for me this year,I got a Sony Home Theater System--really cool!! Plus,I bought a webcam AND debuted my new show on YouTube called "The People's Lima" ,check it out...you get to hear my views on a lot of subjects including a weekly segment of the show called "Slapnut Of The Week". Well,I will end this blog by saying this : Make 2012 YOUR year,never give up,keep on going,and keep the faith,my friends! God Bless and let 2012 make you smile!