Are you kidding me?

"Hello, Leasing Guy speaking?"

"Leasing Guy?" "This is Development calling."

"How may I help you Development?"

"Well, as you know contractors are on site and we are about to start hoarding in 5 days."

"Yes, yes, I know"

"Well it seems that the City has not approved our relocated entrance because the distance is too far and doesn't meet code."

"Really?" "Nobody checked this before we put it on the plan?"

[eyes starting to twitch and vein in head throbbing]

"Anything else?"

"Why yes, funny you should ask." " I seems that the columns in front of the food court are actually 62 inches wide not 25 as previously thought and now they're too close to the front of the stores so they don't meet code." "We may have to move the food court."

[starting to foam at the mouth now, eyes rolling in the back of head. need alcohol!]

"Really, move the food court, the one we start construction on in 5 days?" "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?"

mmmm....come to me my love....

Cool...

You know I hate being late guy to the party because you're mad at yourself for missing stuff and when you tell your friends how great it is they're like, "Dude, we got here before you!"

Ok, having said that here we go...

I was turned on to this website by a friend of mine and went onto it yesterday. Awesome you need to check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/

I know, most of you have been there before and I'm like a big giant newbie but I was listening to some excerpts from Family Guy, frickin' hilarious.

Physician, heal thyself...

A proverb, thousands of years old, re-stated in the Gospel of Luke. A phrase that lately I've been pondering.

Most of my life I've been the sparkplug, the guy that gets everyone excited and motivated. The life of the party. Even last year when I started my odyssey of getting into shape and running a marathon I was able to motivate those around me to do stuff.

The last couple of months though, I've been in a bit of a funk. Haven't been going to the gym, feeling low energy. Its been really difficult to motivate myself to get going. Its really so easy to tell other people what to do and to 'suck it up," but much more difficult to do so for one's self.

So, if you're in this boat, don't worry. Try to surround yourself with people who will help you to get where you want to be. The hardest part is starting, gets easy after that.

I'm reminded again though that guilt is a totally wasted emotion. Uses too much energy and brain power. We (me) spend so much time feeling bad about what we haven't done and what we should be doing.

I'm back at the gym now and the last 2 days have been great. Feeling better, mentally which is making me feel better physically. Bring it on....

:)

Brain surgery its not....

Its just real estate. Shit happens, deals fall through problems arise. We have set some timelines in this project that I'm working on which is making the project more challenging. I need to remind myself to just roll with the changes and relax. It will get done, really, someone will do it if I can't.

Sometimes we get so caught up in what we are doing that it becomes insurmountable. Its difficult to step back and look at things with a more detached or objective perspective.

I figure life is about perspective. I read somewhere a quote something like this "Shit happens, sometimes you're the pigeon and sometimes you're the statue."

Just think in a few years we'll all be dead and no one will give a shit that we were even here. :)

Oh Yeah...

Mange Cake went to ex-ahole-boyfriend's birthday party on Saturday. Shocker...not. He ignored her the whole night and was a total arrogant SOB. She's glad she went however because it made her realize how over him she really is. Ummmm....ya....

TTFN.

P.S. She reads this blog, I'm so f'ing dead!

Wow

Why do people eat so much? Holy phuck man. People, stop eating! I'm not talking about the people who have 10 or so pounds to lose, a category which many people are in. I was out all day at the "beach" not "beaches" in TO and never saw so many obese people in my life. OMG stop eating!!!

Also, it has occurred to me that women are so desperate to have a man that they'll date anyone. I repeat, ANYONE. Never saw so many attractive women with so many ugly guys.

Ok, I know many of you guys work out, but how attractive is it to see some big muscle guy walk down the street with his arms hanging out the side of his body horizontal to the sidewalk. I know you can lift lots of weights but you look like a moron! Try for balance. Try to balance your physique instead of looking like you pump yourself full of fucking steroids every day.

Ok, so that was my day at the beach. I won't even bring up the waitress that was a girl but we thought she was a guy for the first hour....yikes...

Glutton

Why do people like to torment themselves? Why is it so important that everyone likes us? If you broke up with someone and you really want to move on then, move on! If you have trouble moving on it would be good to accept it at least to yourself in order to deal with it. Maybe you can start a blog and talk about it.

So, I'm talking to "Mange Cake," I think I've written about her before, not sure if this blog or the other. She's going to her ex-boyfriend's party. Everytime she talks to him he does something to hurt her or piss her off. Why go? Perhaps because all her friends are going and she doesn't want to be alone. Maybe just to prove to him that she's "over" him. I don't know if we really ever get "over" someone. Once there is a relationship with feelings involved its bound to leave some lasting effects.

So, stay home, curl up with a 5 liter tub of Ben & Jerry's and watch a movie. Or go out and do something. Either way if its time to move on, then its time to move on....unless of course its not time to move on...then you'd better read someone else's frigging blog because I don't know what to say about that!

Inspiration

A song by the 70's band Chicago? Maybe its why we do what we do. Perhaps this is how we make sense of all that is coming at us in life. Separate the good from the bad, the important from the trivial.

The Dictionary defines "inspiration" as,

1. Stimulation of the mind or emotions to a high level of feeling or activity.
2. An agency, such as a person or work of art, that moves the intellect or emotions or prompts action or invention.

Two things to notice. First, mind and emotions have to be involved. Second, it must lead to action. I don't want to do things because I "have" to but because I "want" to.

There are "agencies" all around us...perhaps even some that make us write blogs. :)

Cougar...(not John Mellencamp)

Time to weigh in...

Question asked at dinner on monday night.

"What is your definition of a Cougar?"

I said anyone over 30 years old. (That however was for shock value, I do that quite often.) Truly I would say a woman 40 and older.

The gay guy beside us who was desperately trying to prove that he's not gay said. "I know women who are 50 and are quite sexy and not cougars." Only a gay guy would say that.

Ok, so what does everyone think?

Savin' Me

You know, just because a band is popular, it doesn't make them bad. I know it sounds wierd but I was at dinner yesterday and got into this conversation about music. I mentioned Nickelback and everyone went apeshit about how terrible a band they are and how bad of a voice Chad Cruger has. Whatever! There's a reason Nickelback is popular, its because they're good. Not everybody's cup of tea but popular nonetheless. I just watched the video for the Savin' Me song and was quite amazed. Powerful theme. We don't know how much time we have left. We just plod through life as if we had endless amounts of time. What will motivate us to get off our asses to do the things we want to do? Or maybe nothing is what we really want to do...