I love this quote, it's about being optimistic and enjoying what you have right now in your life.

"We're young, we're alive and we have love." - Megan Beam


On a side note, Kill Bill is a freaking great movie! I can't believe I haven't watched it yet since it has been out! I love it!

Rewwwiind

I met up with some old co-workers of mine that I haven't seen in ages. It was fun to catch up with them and see what's going on in their lives!

Megan and I made some pizza from scratch (minus the dough) and I had a delicious half of a pizza Hawaiian style! Megan's allergic to Pineapple so she didn't have the liberty of tasting the deliciousness that Pineapple is! MMMM.

We thought we found a spectacular house in West Chester that seemed too good to be true. In fact, it was too good to be true. So good to be true that other people like this received such a great deal. It in fact, turned out to be a scam. From the get-go I looked at it with a raised eyebrow, but it makes total sense now that they're located in Nigeria (Nigerian Scam)!

Oh well, off to hunt for more houses!! Woohoo!

I sent about 4 applications off on Sunday. I have one more to fill out, but it's lengthy and lengthy is an understatement. It will seriously take me at least 2 hours to complete! ugh! I will do it Tuesday!

This is how I feel ...

Tonight is the night that I crack the hell down and apply for jobs like a machine. My computer is going to get a workout. I have about 5-10 lined up off the top of my head that I will be applying for. I'll keep you posted.

Failure: The Secret to Success

This cannot be anymore true (do not look at the video on a literal context as Honda).

We all fail at things in our lifetime. From small goals that we try to reach as an adolescent, to larger, harder and more rewarding goals we set for ourselves as we get older. Having failure in your life isn't necessarily a bad thing as it is a positive track that you can follow.

How?

Simple.

You try so hard at something; work your tail off night and day, sleep and dream about becoming something, someone, something greater and realize that all of your efforts, time, frustrations, and mini accomplishments have lead to an undermining failure. This ultimately becomes a damaging time in your life in which may be hard to get out of.

You can, however.

By realizing the efforts, research and dedication you have placed forward to accomplish a milestone in your life; through failure you can realize what, when and where something went wrong along your way. Think of it as kicking out the ladder; you're so used to "climbing" the ladder to a specific and objective goal, that you have a one track mind on how to get there. By looking at other avenues on how to accomplish this feat you can actually reach your dream.Whereas you might have failed otherwise; there are preventative measures to failure (if you know consciously that if you perform "X" and you know "X" is going to give you "Y" result when you want "Z" result, then the failure is held on your part, but when you try "X" to get "Y" and subconsciously you did not know that was not going to work, then you have failed along with the possibility on learning a new avenue on how to get to "Y").

When trying to reach a success, you need to have measure. When creating any goal, you should apply the S.M.A.R.T. method (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timely). This will give you the toolbox to succeed since you can create a specific goal in mind, you can take measures along the way to make sure you're on your way to the goal, make sure it's achievable within the time frame that you wish to accomplish it, and lastly, make sure it's realistic within your KSA's (knowledge, skills and abilities). Take chances in your lifetime; because without risk, comes no reward.

When measuring failure be sure to make note that it is a success as long as you make something positive of it.

If you can't see your future, dream it.

Dream the power to succeed, fail and succeed again.

Dave Blarek mentioned in the video,

"Edison said he never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times, but on that 10,001 time it worked, so were those failures?"

Take a chance. Become something you always wanted to. I've failed, and I will fail, but I will accomplish from those failures and continue on.

We all need some motivation at times....

And when you're gone...

who will miss you?

Make the most of your life, yourself and everything and anything you want to do.

The accomplisments of nothing....

I love my job; the fact that I can hear a pin drop all day excites me. I'm not in a "mood" or anything, but I've never been in a hotel where people are supposed to be hospitable to where they are the exact opposite.

Why is the symbol of hospitality a Pineapple when at my place it should be a piece of raw pork rind.

Thank God for the iPod. It's my closest form of human interaction throughout my day. Sad aint it? It typically would be if this was a normal hotel with normal hospitable people, but this just isn't the case. It's always 5pm somewhere, right?!

On to some Of Montreal to get me in a dancing mood. Barbiri anyone?

Goodday Sir

So this weekend was pretty much fantabulous! Valentine's Day went perfect man! Meg came over and we cooked breakfast at my place, followed by me kicking her out, running around like a chicken with my head cut off and cooking dinner. I made veggie lasagna and red velvet cheesecake! We then went to a theatre and watched, The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare, the show isn't in production anymore as it stopped on Saturday, but you can check it out here.

I hate going to those self-serve car washes where you wash your car yourself (enough you's in that sentence ain't there?). The freaking hose that lead the the nozzle hit my car a couple of times (I'm pretty good at making sure this doesn't happen) and left some marks on Karly. I then had to use some elbow grease to get those stupid marks off. There were about 21398093 of them!! It made my car washing experience that much longer in the cold. I hate winter. Where is Texas? - I know where it is, but can it find ME?

Turtle Update

Olive died ... this happened 2 weeks ago or so ... I'm horrible at updating this.

We got a new turtle, respectively name OJ, in memorandum of Oliver (Oliver Jr.). He's doing well; better than OJ, but still not "great".

Vlad on the other hand, he's a hoss. He freakin eats everything I put into the damn tank. He actually might be overweight as a turtle. Is that possible?

When I get an updated picture I'll show you the first day and month 1 pictures of him.

On a Tuesday ...

I love her!!!! She is my freaking everything! There isn't one day that I can go without seeing her!!

This is my all-time favorite picture of her!

Jealous?



I'd be if I were you!!!

One of the most memorable movie lines...

From Wedding Crashers:

Bratty Kid: I want a bicycle.
Jeremy Grey: Listen, a bicycle is going to take a lot of balloons and frankly, uncle Jeremy is a bit tired. How about I make you something else?
Bratty Kid: I just want a bicycle!
Jeremy Grey: Why... why are you yelling at me?
Bratty Kid: Make me a bicycle, clown!
Jeremy Grey: All right, I'm going to make you a bicycle. But I don't want to make you a bicycle.
Bratty Kid: Shut your mouth, funny guy, and make it.
Jeremy Grey: [later] Take that, you hyena, don't say thank you.

I crack up everytime I watch, read, say and think this.... It's hilarious.

Failure = Success

In order to succeed in something, failure comes along the way with it. I think that in many cases the only way to succeed is to fail. This is not necessarily a bad thing; we need to walk away learning from what, when and where we went wrong.

Honda right now has a great video on this. Let me know your thoughts, it's quite an interesting watch.

Failure = Success?

Yayy!

I got my laptop up and running!!! All* I need was a new hard drive and I decided to upgrade my memory. Stupid best buy and office depot wanted $300 for it. No way. I tackled that biotch myself and fixed it in 2 hours!! Woo hoo!

I had a great weekend as well. I'm starting to feel myself again and the thought of getting out of my house is great! I'm looking forward to these changes that are coming my way. A couple sighs of relief are coming.

Last week I was highly tense; between my turtle passing away, my laptop costing around $300 to fix and being pessimistic about basically everything, I decided to change my mindset and think positive. It has worked well!!

This superbowl ad was by far the funniest of the 2009 commercials!!