What happened on March 30th?

What a massive relief. I made yearly quota, I made monthly quota, but missed quarterly and new product quota. I won't get all my bonuses but I will get at least some. In just a week week I did 100K. What a relief, I've been pacing the floor and hounding a few outstanding sales today. It feels good to succeed .. now we just have to see what's up for next year.

Haven't been able to do any of the memes I enjoy, still have that outstanding one that Paul did, it just been work, kids activities and TaiKwonDo. So by early evening I just to tired to do anything online. I still have to read the first Chapter of Joe's Novel.. will try to do that tonight.

Tomorrow morning Middle plays in the championship game. She had a fantastic game last week, beating the first place team. Going from a 0-3 deficit to winning the game 4-3. Wife said Middle just about stood on her head during the game. She faced down 3 single man rushes and a penalty shot. I'm a we bit proud of her. She is talking about moving up out of house league to more competitive girls hockey.

Presently listening to:


Sugar Magnolia Greatful Dead

Sugar magnolia, blossoms blooming,
heads all empty and I don't care,
Saw my baby down by the river,
knew she'd have to come up soon for air.

Sweet blossom come on, under the willow,
we can have high times if you'll abide
We can discover the wonders of nature,
rolling in the rushes down by the riverside.

She's got everything delightful,
she's got everything I need,
Takes the wheel when I'm seeing double,
pays my ticket when I speed

She comes skimmin' through rays of violet,
she can wade in a drop of dew,
She don't come and I don't follow,
waits backstage while I sing to you.

Well, she can dance a Cajun rhythm,
jump like a willys in four wheel drive.
She's a summer love for spring, fall and winter.
She can make happy any man alive.

Sugar magnolia, ringing that bluebell,
caught up in sunlight, come on out singing
I'll walk you in the sunshine, come on honey,
come along with me.

She's got everything delightful,
she's got everything I need,
A breeze in the pines and the sun and bright moonlight,
lazing in the sunshine yes indeed.

Sometimes when the cuckoo's crying,
when the moon is half way down,
Sometimes when the night is dying,
I take me out and I wander around, I wander 'round.

Sunshine, daydream, walking in the tall trees,
going where the wind goes
Blooming like a red rose, breathing more freely,
Ride our singin', I'll walk you in the morning sunshine
Sunshine, daydream. Sunshine, daydream.
Walking in the sunshine.

What happened on March 23rd?

I guess I should post more but it's the end of the year and I'm only at 68% of quota with only one week to go. I'll try to get a meme I grabbed off of Paul up tonight.

Eldest turns 15 tomorrow. Wow! He just keeps growing. He is totally into skate boarding, Bam Margera and Finnish Death Metal .. lord help me.

You Are Elmo

Sweet and innocent, you expect everyone to adore you. And they usually do! You are usually feeling: Talkative. You've got tons of stories to tell. And when you aren't talking, you're laughing. You are famous for: Being popular, though no one knows why. Middle aged women especially like you. How you life your life: With an open heart. "Elmo loves you!"

The Sesame Street Personality Quiz

Listening to:

Baby Stick Around, Look Sharp, Joe Jackson
Come on you people get your dancing shoes on
Reds and yellow and pinks and blues on
Too late, too late
To stay home and sit around

Purple leopard skin and see-through plastic
Whatever you want, but just make it drastic
Too late, too late To stay home and sit around

What you wanna bet
We ain't started yet
Baby stick around
Baby stick around

Pushin' and shovin' and sweat wet leather
Up and down we go chained together
Too late, too late
To stay home and sit around

Somebody tellin' me the latest scandals
Somebody steppin' on my plastic sandals
Too late, too late
To stay home and sit around

What you wanna bet
We ain't started yet
Baby stick around
Baby stick around

Too late, too late
To stay home and sit around

What you wanna bet
We ain't started yet
Baby stick around
Baby stick around

What happened on March 9th?

On such a sunny day I had to share the storm we had last week.



Movie meme

1. Name a movie that you have seen more than 10 times. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a) one of my favourite movies b) Youngest loves this movie, when she was 4 years old we watched it together at least once a week.

2. Name a movie that you've seen multiple times in the theatre. Apocalypse Now, once as a make out date, the rest of the times stoned out of my head on LSD.

3. Name an actor that would make you more inclined to see a movie. Robin Williams - Since, "The World According to Garp" I have seen everything he has ever done.

4. Name an actor that would make you less likely to see a movie. Can't think of one.

5. Name a movie that you can and do quote from. "Ni Ni Ni"

6. Name a movie musical that you know all of the lyrics to all of the songs. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Sound of Music

7. Name a movie that you have been known to sing along with. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Sound of Music

8. Name a movie that you would recommend everyone see. I agree with Paul "Memento". If you haven't seen it yet, watch it twice and you will love it.

9. Name a movie that you own. The Great Escape

10. Name an actor that launched his/her entertainment career in another medium but who has surprised you with his/her acting chops. Elvis Presley .. I'm not joking you have to see Kid Creole.

11. Have you ever seen a movie in a drive-in? If so, what? Tons of times .. the first movie I remember was Disney's "The Aristocats", The last one I saw was David Cronenberg's "Scanners"

12. Ever made out in a movie? Yea. At the drive in for Scanners, who said that station wagons were not make out cars.

13. Name a movie that you keep meaning to see but just haven’t yet gotten around to it. What About Bob with Bill Murray

14. Ever walked out of a movie? Bunch of times, started when I was a kid. I took some kids to the movies on my 6th birthday to see "The Time Machine", I got so scared that I walked out and wandered the streets for about twenty minutes. "Jaws", I went to see it with my sister, I left the theatre after the head fell out of the bottom of the boat. There have been multiple times because I am a big scardy cat. The only time I have walked out of a movie because it was bad was the "Talented Mr Ripley" - I walked around the theatre until it was finished, wife sat through the whole thing, I don't understand how she could.

15. Name a movie that made you cry in the theatre. Can't remember one, but I don't go to movies that have sob stories. I'm to much of a wuss!

16. Popcorn? Yea, whole large bag just for me, what you mean I'm supposed to share.. no way!

17. How often do you go to the movies (as opposed to renting them or watching them at home)? Once every couple of years, hey you take a family of five to the movies and have them agree on a movie they want to see together. Its easier to stay at home.

18. What’s the last movie you saw in the theatre? Chronicles of Narnia

19. What’s your favourite/preferred genre of movie? Sci-Fi / Fantasy or Comedies

20. What’s the first movie you remember seeing in the theatre? The first movie I remember seeing (or really not seeing in full) was "The Time Machine"

21. What movie do you wish you had never seen? "The Talented Mr. Ripley" - damn I hate when I waste time with a movie like that

22. What is the weirdest movie you enjoyed? Plan 9 From Outer Space

23. What is the scariest movie you've seen? The Aliens series, I still have not seen all of the first movie.

24. What is the funniest movie you've seen? Good Morning Vietnam

via: Aurora Walking Vacation and Byzantium's Shores

Listening to
The Band Life is a Carnival

You can walk on the water, drown in the sand
You can fly off a mountaintop if anybody can
Run away, run away--it's the restless age
Look away, look away--you can turn the page

Hey, buddy, would you like to buy a watch real cheap
Here on the street
I got six on each arm and two more round my feet
Life is a carnival--believe it or not
Life is a carnival--two bits a shot

Saw a man with the jinx in the third degree
From trying to deal with people--people you can't see
Take away, take away, this house of mirrors
Give away, give away, all the souvenirs
We're all in the same boat ready to float off the edge of the world
The flat old world
The street is a sideshow from the peddler to the corner girl
Life is a carnival--it's in the book
Life is a carnival--take another look

Hey, buddy, would you like to buy a watch real cheap
Here on the street
I got six on each arm and two more round my feet
Life is a carnival--believe it or not
Life is a carnival--two bits a shot

Meme - Music Of My Life

* Put your iTunes/Winamp/WMP on shuffle.
* Use the song title as the answer to the question.
* NO CHEATING

1. How does the world see me? Behind Blue Eyes .. The Who
2. Will I have a happy life? Saturday ... Go Betty Go
3. What do my friends really think of me? I am a Child ... Buffalo Springfield
4. Do people secretly lust after me? Slim's Blues .. John Lee Hooker
5. How can I make myself happy? Back Door Man .. Willie Dixon
6. What should I do with my life? Ain't To Proud to Beg ... The Temptations
7. Will I ever have children? Cat's in the Cradle .. Harry Chapin
8. What is some good advice for me? Experiment IV .. Kate Bush
9. How will I be remembered? You're So Fine ... Little Walter
10. What is my signature dancing song? Mailman ... Soundgarden
11. What do I think my current theme song is? Blister in the Sun .. Violent Femmes
12. What does everyone else think my current theme song is? War Pigs ... Black Sabbath
13. What song will play at my funeral? Kalifornia ... Fat Boy Slim
14. What type of women/men do I like? Copperhead Road ... Steve Earle
15. What is my day going to be like? Let it Rock ... The Animals
16. Will I ever have love again? Hold on to your money ... Howlin' Wolf
17. What type of sex life do I have? Rarefied ... Sam Roberts
18. What song would be the title of my own porno movie? Iron Lion Zion ... Bob Marley & the Wailers.

Book Meme swiped from a long time ago from librarygrrrl.net

One book that changed your life? The Hobbit
One book you have read more than once? The Lord of the Rings - 13 times
One book you would want on a desert island? Book or Series .. Book -> Lord of the Rings, Series -> "A Song of Ice and Fire" George RR Martin
One book that made you laugh? The World According to Garp...John Irving
One book that made you cry? World According to Garp
One book you wish had never been written? Mein Kampf...Adolf Hitler (I'm not going to link to this crap!
One book you are currently reading? The First Man Of Rome...Colleen McCullough
One book you have been meaning to read? Absolute Honour...C.C. Humphreys

What happened on March 6th?

I wasn't going to post today, only things I have to talk are last nights Heroes .. excellent as always, am really pissed of though, I have to wait till April for the next installment.

I got my blue belt on Thursday (boy did I screw up when I was doing my patterns. We did them facing in the opposite direction then we normally do them and I made a bunch of mistakes, got pissed at myself and said f**K out loud - 44 year old loser anyone).

Youngest got her orange belt on Friday, Eldest is back to his old tricks with school, he threw out a test he was supposed to bring home for us to sing, third time since xmas that he has done this, has been caught each time (he must think we are stupid), Middle won't draw anymore (at one time all she wanted to do was go to the High School for the Arts, now she won't even pick up a pencil).

Finally, this story caught my attention. What do you think, is this going to save lives or is it going to make us cannibals?

Listening to:
Everyday I have the Blues, B.B. King

Everyday, everyday I have the blues
Ooh everyday, everyday I have the blues
When you see me worryin' baby, yeah it's you I hate to lose

Whoa nobody loves me, nobody seems to care
Whoa nobody loves me, nobody seems to care
Well worries and trouble darling, babe you know I've had my share

-- solo --

Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday
Everyday, everyday I have the blues
When you see me worryin' baby, yeah it's you I hate to lose

Whoa nobody loves me, nobody seems to care
Whoa nobody loves me, nobody seems to care
Well worries and trouble darling, babe you know I've had my share