Ever heard the quote "The coldest Winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."

Well it was cold out here today. I am on a two week business trip and I am having a blast. I love San Francisco. The first few days were really nice. In fact, Saturday was beautiful. But it started to get cold yesterday and today was gray and chilly. It's funny that it is hot as hell in North Carolina and I am wearing winter clothes out here.

I have posted some pictures of my trip and I will be adding more soon. Check them out.

I am stealing Skippy’s Twelve questions because I am having writer's block today.

Twelve questions
1. Favorite actor: John Cusack
2. Favorite musician: Right now it is Pink
3. Favorite sex scene: Kitchen scene from Bull Durham
4. First job: Working at a daycare
5. Worst job: Working at a daycare
6. Most embarrassing moment: so many, so little time. But it was probably the time Matt walked into my office and caught me adjusting my boobs.
7. Teenage celebrity crush: Leif Garrett
8. Biggest regret: There are several but most recewnt was asking him what he would do if I told him to leave
9. Ever had your heart broken: three times: Oct 1981, August 1982, & this year.
10. Longest relationship: (romantic?) 10 years
11. Best thing you've ever done: Go to college
12. Worst thing you've ever done: Get on a plane to Wilmington in 1984.

Why does the Tonight Show suck?

Tonight Dave Letterman had Kid Rock singing his remake of Sweet Home Alabama.


Jay Leno had this guy singing a horrible version of What the World Needs Now. Who the hell is Steve Tyrell anyway?

I am in a strange mindset tonight. I have been down-in-the-dumps all day and really have no motivation to do anything productive. I am not sure if I like being alone or if I am feeling blue because I am lonely.

For the last hour I have been going through four years of Twinkie's Flickr pictures. I ran across some of old friends and former Karaoke buddies and they made me smile. The strange thing is Twinkie and I have known each other for 8 years and there are no pictures of us together. I guess it's because we know to never leave evidence.

Anyway It's interesting to see how we have all changed (and in my case aged) over the past few years.

This is a picture of me and Tam before I moved to NC and then 4 years later.

What started off as a trip to Florida to see a close friend ended up being two weeks on the road and stays in multiple cities.

Unfortunately H3s mother passed away but it also meant that our family was all together for a few days. We also got to visit the 'ville and hang out with a few friends.

I have uploaded some pictures from the trip.

Last night myself, Megmonster and my daughter-in-law Ulli dropped the guys off to see "Iron Man" and then "the girls" went to explore nightlife in downtown Nashville. Ulli is from Germany and she wanted to see some of the Downtown Nashville sites. While we were walking around Broadway, e spotted a Karaoke bar on Music row and I talked the girls into getting on stage. I explained to Ulli that since she was visiting from Germany she had to be able to tell her family and friends that she sang on stage in the heart of Nashville. We rocked the place with a great Joan Jett number.

When we were walking around, Megmonster wanted to show us Painter's Alley. She failed to tell me that it was a little on the seedy side. But I was speechless when I stumbled upon this little bit of Karaoke heaven (or maybe hell) in that strange little alley.

It's hard to explain but I think this picture with Ulli and Meg explains it all.

The people around me don't really see me. If they did how could they continue to do things that break my spirit and make me feel that I have no worth.

Today I just wanted to jump on a plane and go where no one knows me. I know that's not the answer but it's very tempting.

How easy is it to completely vanish?

Here are the images from our great tattoo adventure!

Tattoo

1. Don’t care what others think
They don’t care what others think or have to say. If
they did, they wouldn’t let themselves free and be happy because
of the possibility of scrutiny.
Really happy people also never let negative people and their
attitudes get to them. Whatever the negative people say or do just
rolls off the backs of the happy people.

2. Always looking at the bright side of things
No matter what situations are thrown at a happy person, they
look for the bright side. Everything that is negative has a positive
side to it. Negativity wouldn’t exist without positivity. Happy
people know this and have practiced looking for the bright side so much
that now it has become a habit. And even if a happy person can’t
find the bright side of something, they’ll create it.

3. Being friendly
Happy people are always looking to make friends. They
don’t care what you look like or what background you come from,
they just want someone new to laugh and be happy with. And by default
happy people are friendly; everyone wants to be happy as well and are
drawn to them.

If you know a friendly person who is always making fun of
others to bring them down, then they aren’t truly happy person.
There’s something inside of them that they are insecure about.

4. Laugh & Smile
This habit goes along with being friendly. I have NEVER seen
a happy person not smile or laugh. It just isn’t physically
possible. However, a really happy person smiles so much that they
turned it into a habit. You might even see them smiling for no real
reason, it’s that natural to them. Laughing is another mandatory
habit of really happy people. If you or they aren’t laughing,
then there’s no true happiness.

5. Live in the moment
Really happy people make the most of every minute and day
they have. They aren’t going to wait to have fun; they’re
going to create fun now.

6. Push aside their troubles
Even if a happy person can’t find or create the
positive side of a situation, they do the next best thing, they push it
aside. They forget about it and move on because they know it’s
only temporary and they know they can make their troubles leave even
sooner.

7. Laugh in the face of fear
Just like the rest of us, really happy people have fears.
Most of the time they just don’t display it. Happy people make
jokes to lighten the mood and to make others feel more relaxed so they
will too.