2/15/08 08:26 pm
Hello, it's been a while
I forgot how to post behind a cut so I apologize for the length of this post
First, a funny story
I am at my job and coming inside the main building to enter the elevator to go up to the 9th floor where my office is. I am in deep thought as I push the up button and wait. The door opens and I step inside and see a man heading towards the elevator and I ask him if he is coming up. He says no, he will catch the next one. So, the door shuts and I am standing there, still in deep thought. I stand there for about 30 seconds and the door opens. Huh, odd, there is the man I saw at the base floor. Oops, I realize that after I stepped in to the elevator, all I did was stand there, never pushing any button, like the floor I wanted to go up to. So, now that I know what is going on I explain to the man that I forgot to push my floor button. he gets in and pushes his button, I push mine and up we go. Now upon reflecting on this situation I feel like quite the idiot and start to giggle at my silliness. uhoh, now my giggles grab me by my gut and tighten their grip and I start to do the HARD giggle all the while trying to stop this giggle fest. Well, those of you that have been visited by this relentless monster know that what the giggle monster wants, the giggle monster gets and in just a few seconds I am making the weirdest noises while my hands are over my face to prevent this man from seeing me and my meltdown. Tears are running down my face. Finally the elevator stops and the man gets off, never saying a word. The door shuts and now I feel like I am going to pee my pants and I am ROARING. The elevator goes up to my floor and I cannot stop laughing. The door opens and there is the receptionist and I just walk out all the while laughing and I quickly go to my office where I laugh for at least another minute. Finally the giggle monster releases me and things go back to normal. UGH, my guts hurts.
Now, every time I get back in the elevator I start to laugh.
OK, now I shall share my last 3 and a half months.
Those of you that know me know that I am the rose colored glasses guy. The glass half full, the laughter and lollipops guy. the reason is I would rather be happy than mad or sad. I honestly believe that life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you choose to deal with it. So, 99% of the time I am Mr. Positive, or at least I think I am. Well, sometimes keeping your spirits up can be draining. On November 1st I was fired by my assmonkey of a GM. I was an Internet and BDC manager for a Nissan dealership. Although it was a job that was 50 miles from my home and it made being a good father difficult due to me being away 12 hours a day, it was a good job with good people and I was making good money. Enough to pay my bills and have extra. This was really nice because the previous 3 years I was living paycheck to paycheck or living with not enough money to even pay my bills, let alone do anything extra. Thanks to a GREAT friend I was able to provide for my children one Christmas even though I had no money. Not having enough money to buy you child a new pair of shoes when they need a new pair is hard and it can be really frustrating when Christmas comes around and you cannot even buy a candycane.
Anyway, I sacrificed my time with my child so that I could once again be the financial provider that I really needed to be after 3 years of hard times. I really liked this job and was good at it. Then in comes a new General Manager. I had increased the departments sales from 15 a month to over 50 a month in 3 months and it was all good. The bad thing about being in the car business is sometimes a new manager will come in and clean house, regardless of performance. So, it didn't matter to him that I was doing a great job. I think part of it was that he wanted to bring in his own crew, like so many General Managers do, but the other part is I am not very good at kissing ass and I always speak my mind. Never swearing or being insubordinate, just speaking my mind when I disagreed. Oh well, like I said, on November 1st I was fired, no warning, just a "I think we want to go in a different direction" speech.
Well, November and December are not the best times to find a new job. So, Thanksgiving, no Turkey or stuffing or anything. it was a Ramen noodles feast at my house. Christmas, no presents, no tree, no stockings.
I really sunk in to what I would have to call a depression. I felt like crap. Like a bad parent. I isolated myself from everyone. I was home with nothing to do but the thought of coming on here and sharing my misfortune was not an option. When my Mother called on Christmas to wish me a Merry Christmas I didn't answer the phone.
UGH, who would want to anyway. I could already see how the call would go. " Hey, how is it going"? It could only be depressing should I chose to answer that question honestly. So, I chose not to answer the question. I didn't want to lie and say "Oh, it is great" I would have ended up saying " Well, I am broke, worried that I am going to get evicted, cannot pay my electric bill and have been eating Ramen for 2 months now." Who wants to hear that? So I withdrew. Felt like crap and suffered alone.
Ho hum, thats the way I roll although I rarely get like that. Most of the time, regardless of the crap I am in and how smelly it is I stay optimistic. I think that is another reason why I shut everyone out. I hated the way I was dealing with my situation, feeling depressed and weak. Thinking "why would I subject my lousy attitude self to anyone I cared about"?
Anyway, I finally got a job February 1st and I am no longer in the car business. A Mortgage Broker decided to take a chance on me even though I had no exprience. They paid for my 60 hours of mandatory classes and paid for my exam, which I took on Thursday and passed the first time. this seems to be quite an accomplishment as everyone at my office seemed quite impressed that I passed it the first time. It was certainly hard, lots of legal mumbo jumbo, regulations and whatnot.
So, I passed my test and am now awaiting the arrival of my loan officer license to arrive. I am quite excited to be starting a new career path at this juncture of my life. I believe I can make a pretty good chunk of change doing this if I am good. And after 3 months I should be able to work Monday through Friday, 9Am to 6PM which would be awesome because I have worked nights and weekends my whole life. I am very excited!!
and last but not least, I really want to do this movie quote meme.So here goes. I have soo many movies that I could list on here but these are certainly in my top 50. Good luck, some of these movies are somewhat obscure.
1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.
1.Hello, Doctor. I hope you don't mind: I took a few of your groovy painkillers. I'm just enjoying some of your greatest hits here. Oh God, this is excellent. Oh, bravo.
2.What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?
3.As you know, l'm quite keen on comic books. Especially the ones about superheroes. I find the whole mythology surrounding superheroes fascinating. Take my favorite superhero, Superman. Not a great comic book. Not particularly well-drawn. But the mythology... The mythology is not only great, it's unique. Now, a staple of the superhero mythology is, there's the superhero and there's the alter ego. Batman is actually Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker. When that character wakes up in the morning, he's Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spider-Man. And it is in that characteristic Superman stands alone. Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red "S", that's the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears - the glasses, the business suit - that's the costume. That's the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.
4.So what's more likely? That an all-powerful, mysterious God created the Universe, and decided not to give any proof of his existence? Or, that He simply doesn't exist at all, and that we created Him, so that we wouldn't have to feel so small and alone?
5. My husband was a movie freak. Actually, he was particularly obsessed with one movie, "The Wizard of Oz." He talked about it constantly. I thought it was cute at first. On our wedding night, I was a virgin. When we made love - you've seen the movie, haven't you?
6.The same alarm clock every morning, same two pops on the same snooze button, same shower, towel, toothbrush, razor, blazer, hair pump, gel spray. It's a fucking epidemic, Fisher. You're getting married, baby. I'm not going to candy-coat it - it just gets worse. It's an eighteen-wheel cement truck that's going to crush every bone in your big body.
7.We will shoot some arrows into the white man. If he truly has medicine, he will not be hurt. If he has no medicine, he will be dead.
8.Let me explain something to you, Mr. Weathers. Through the vicissitudes of wholly gratuitous genetic accidents, I was visited with extremely high intelligence. I was further blessed - or burdened, as it were - with certain physical traits that would suggest, shall we say, "good breeding." Now, in this proletarian stew which we laughingly call society, these attributes are not always advantageous.
9.As I said before, I've allowed you to keep your wicked life for two reasons. And the second reason is so you can tell him in person everything that happened here tonight. I want him to witness the extent of my mercy by witnessing your deformed body. I want you to tell him all the information you just told me. I want him to know what I know. I want him to know I want him to know
10.I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One.
11. Hi. How are you? My name's Elliot, and I'm with the Cub Scouts of America. We're... we're selling uncut cocaine to get to the jamboree.
12. Every person who... chooses the service of God as his life's work has something in common. I don't care if you're a preacher, a priest, a nun, a rabbi or a Buddhist monk. Many, many times during your life you will look at your reflection in a mirror and ask yourself: am I a fool? I'm not going through a lapse; what I've experienced is closer to awakening.
13.You know it's funny what a young man recollects? 'Cause I don't remember bein' born. I don't recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic. But I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world
14. Okay, so the scariest environment imaginable. Thanks. That's all you gotta say, scariest environment imaginable.
15. I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.
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