New wheels

It feels so good to drive my new Volvo C30!



Till late, I used to be a "from A to B" person when related to cars. And then my husband kept talking about how good it feels when the car drives nice and fast and people actually turn their heads to look at your car, so I became one of "enjoy the driving" people. As you can see, this car is very catchy, sporty and (wrongfully) gives the idea that the driver is a single person. Someone told me that from behind, it looks like some kind of animal. I have actually noticed Audi and BMW drivers getting behind to look at my car's ass :)) Or some do see the car from behind and then they get in front and check me out from the mirror to see if the driver matches the car. Driving games you learn when you spend 2 hours a day on the High Way! I wish my behind was that attractive after the birth :)
When you drive it, it gives a sense of accomplishment. I have also prepared a CD with some songs with a nice beat that give extra energy. My work mates can understand from the way I say "good morning" if I drove my car to work or not. It's just sweet and fun to own a car like that!I have also ordered a customized license plate that will tell everyone what city I was born. Very proud about that, and very proud to have a car that matches how I feel :) .. altho' not many people will understand my license plate unless they know the city I was born.

The best salesman

John starts a new job in a huge supermarket where you could find anything under the Sun. The manager takes him a side and explains to him that in order to succeed in this position, he had to be prepared to take the customer's attention and although the customer might be there to buy something small, you have to make him buy more and bigger. Let's see how you do today and if things go fine, you will be hired full time.
At the end of the day, all the sales assistants get together to see how they did. The first one had 11 customers and made 30000 Euros income, the second one had 9 clients for 20000 Euros and so on and so on. What about you- the manager asks John. I had 1 customer and I made 350000 Euros - he says. How come -asks the manager.
Well- says John- this guy wanted fishing hook to go fishing in the lake. I sais: Look, the fish in the sea tastes better so you might want to go there. But to get there, you need a boat. To get the boat to the sea, you need a truck. And so he bought them all.
The manager, very existed, turns and tells to the others: Look what a great example, he came for a fishing hook and bought a truck!!

Actually - says Johh - he came to buy Tampax for his wife and I said:
Since you are not doing much next week, why don't you go fishing?!

My latest favorite lyrics

The new song of Bon Jovi
.....
If you leave now
I understand
but if you stay
hey, I have a plan
...
we'll make memories!

It's just a very fine line to change the story of a life. You can give up and start being friends apart, or you can stay and get closer, maybe for better... you hope for better!

Voyage,Voyage

April was a vivid month. Started with a week in Dominican Republic and then 3 days to San Francisco.






Dominican is an interesting country. I understand poverty as I come from a country that has been poor for long. The common thing that poor countries have is bad roads, have problems with electricity and running water, they make strangers feel un-secure while if you live there it's all fine, there is always a guy responsible for messing things up and bring the country in the status it is. Simple people are friendly, middle class wants to rip you off in a nice way, rich people ... they are the same everywhere! I have the feeling I was not in the best resort Dominican has. They kept things clean but not much facilities for children and not much variety in the buffet menu. Was nice not to cook for 1 week but not nice to have choices like banana pie (some kind of Shepard's pie where mashed potatoes is replaced with mashed bananas), pre-sweetened french toast, skimmed milk... They also had an area where for half an hour a day was a competition on target shooting and arrow sling. I tried both. Arrow was the first time and kind of hurt myself trying to get to the target, failed "crapy-crapy" as the guy there kept saying. But on the gun... I had to bring back the memories of military training from high school and I did much better than some big men there. One of them actually asked me "Are you a police officer?" :))) Anyway, if I go again to Dominican, I will try to pay some more and go to a better place.

San Francisco in the other hand was NICE! Because work payed for my trip, I stayed in a very nice hotel, with a king size fluffy bed just for me! A little chilly when I was there but much warmer than the place I spend the rest of the year. Getting this picture of Golden Gate was almost like taking it from an airplane. The wind was so strong, I could have felt down the hill. But it was all worthy! The downtown is very cute. Loved the streets that start at the ocean and like a ribbon stretch to the top of the hill. The houses are all well kept, with personality and I'm sure I can't afford one! Spent most of the free time I had by Pier 39, main tourist area. You could see Alcatraz from there and there were a lot of store selling jail clothes, even baby jail clothes!! One thing I will not forget from that trip is the size of sandwiches. They are HUGE! I order a turkey sandwich and I get half a loaf of bread, a whole turkey breast, 2 tomatoes... I ate it in 2 portions in a 3 hours time difference. Same with a veggie sandwich next day...My work matte started having fun with me "You and your big sandwiches"!
I don't want to live in America, but Cali can change my mind... ok there are also a handful of other cities that I can live in States but they are colder than California so they fall lower in the list. I am ready to have a lower salary but live in a warm and sunny place. I feel smarter, stronger, sexier when the weather is nice. It's not fair the way Canada and States share the continent. The border shouldn't divide North with South but East with West. In that way, each country can have a share of the sun and snow. I guess these are things we have to blame our predecessors for the wrong decisions they made.

Au dessus des vieux volcans,
Glisse des ailes sous les tapis du vent,
Voyage, voyage,
Eternellement.
De nuages en marécages,
De vent d'Espagne en pluie d'équateur,
Voyage, voyage,
Vole dans les hauteurs
Au dessus des capitales,
Des idées fatales,
Regarde l'océan...

Voyage, voyage
Plus loin que la nuit et le jour, (voyage voyage)
Voyage (voyage)
Dans l'espace inouï de l'amour.
Voyage, voyage
Sur l'eau sacrée d'un fleuve indien, (voyage voyage)
Voyage (voyage)
Et jamais ne revient.

Sur le Gange ou l'Amazone,
Chez les blacks, chez les sikhs, chez les jaunes,
Voyage, voyage
Dans tout le royaume.
Sur les dunes du Sahara,
Des iles Fidji au Fujiyama,
Voyage, voyage,
Ne t'arrêtes pas.
Au dessus des barbelés,
Des coeurs bombardés,
Regarde l'océan.

Voyage, voyage
Plus loin que la nuit et le jour, (voyage voyage)
Voyage (voyage)
Dans l'espace inouï de l'amour.
Voyage, voyage
Sur l'eau sacrée d'un fleuve indien, (voyage voyage)
Voyage (voyage)
Et jamais ne revient.

Au dessus des capitales,
Des idées fatales,
Regarde l'océan.

Voyage, voyage
Plus loin que la nuit et le jour, (voyage voyage)
Voyage (voyage)
Dans l'espace inouï de l'amour.
Voyage, voyage
Sur l'eau sacrée d'un fleuve indien, (voyage voyage)
Voyage (voyage)
Et jamais ne revient

Weekend is to me like vacation is to ...

So is this show, Test the Nation IQ and I was expecting to do a 89% in a 100% scale. Missed some questions as it took a while to get them, but I made it to be a 85%, not so bad but not so good either! At the last page, when they showed my result, the bell of results was from 50 to 140%. Now how can someone be 140% smart???? Maybe that can be a question on it's own. If you want to take the same test, cbc.ca/testthenation

Before this show, was another one "Canada's next great Prime Minister". The judges were 4 ex liberal Prime Ministers or Ministers. So there were 3 guys and 1 girl picked from some audition tapes. There were some very good ides from the peoples in tapes that didn't make it to the stage, like: marijuana has to be legal, there has to be a match making agency controlled and organized by government! At the end of each poll, the results were close between a guy from Quebec and another English speaking young doctor. The doctor won 2 out of three polls but the french guy won the last one, the final one that gave him 50.000$. Well, I'm ok with that, he was 23 and married, spoke english and french and came from a military home. What I didn't like is that he was french! Why all the politicians of Canada has to come from Quebec? Is it true that french have the politic in the blood and they can spin the words and the situation in a way to make you angry and win by just being ... what's the word....son of b*s!
Anyway,
the most important thing about my weekend is that I started the karate class! I always wanted to be good in kicking ass, but never took it seriously. This guy that works with me, has black belt and he has classes very close to where I live. At the end of the class, I felt my legs being wick and I thought: good thing I'm driving home. By the end of the day, my legs are in so much pain that I'm holding to the rail to come up and down the stairs. Ohh... I don't see a nice Monday ahead! The teacher is not coming to work tomorrow for some personal reasons and I think he is just lucky cause I would have taken all the energy left in me, multiplied it by the pain and give him a very good kick. Take that black belt! I'm supposed to go back next Sunday... I will think more about it during the week.
And the answer of the title is: cruise captain! He does not enjoy vacation while taking care of all the people in the boat!

That Secret

So, this huge hit book, "The Secret", that explains how to be happy and have any thing you want. Because my reading time is lost, I got the movie and I thought I will get it in nutshell in a couple of hours. I like it quite a bit actually, although there is a lot of bullsh** in it. The idea is that the Universe and everything works based on the law of attraction. In order to attract something, we must use our body-brain-muscle energy in order to focus it to make that wish come true. Not bad at all! Dream about something, visualize it in your mind, if a chance to make it happen, grab it! And then, there is this part when they say "You can't change the World! Forget about the past and think about what the future can bring you" That sounds a little wrong to me.



For some reasons, it just feels to me like it's coming sealed from Bush before elections!



I would like to think like that, to base my every day in good and happy thoughts, to be a dreamer with a philosophy behind it. But what if my dream is to change the World? What if my dream is to re-live some part of my past? This secret kind of limits your dreams like that.
Now, since I am a grown up and I kind of given up on changing the World, and since I have lived my life and I have no worries about my past, I will give this theory a shot! My dream is to have 20 million dollars in a couple of years minimum and in this life time maximum! I will be very positive, I will buy Lottery tickets every time the price is 20 millions, I will say yes if a millionaire will ask me to marry him and I will help any rich person in trouble after s/he promises me to pay me back. This is my Secret and I will go and work on it, right now! I have actually bought also a T-shirt that reads "DESI(RED)" in order to attract desires (hmmm ...)
In the book they say that there is plenty of resources out there to make all of us happy. We do not desire the same things so the resources can be shared in a peaceful way. This means, you other people, dream about other stuff because I'm dreaming about money.

Loose the muse

You can tell I lost my muse somewhere last month. Nothing to write for a month... actually a lot but nothing to amuse me. It doesn't really matter what brings you the energy, but once you loose it, everything else is multiplied by zero and makes no sense.... practically, it sucks! And then I decide to watch only romantic movies so maybe they can entertain me, but all they do is make me feel even worst, ... ok I admit, I cry....To rub it more, the weather is getting so warm and nice that is almost spring. This morning I did see birds in the little tree in my front yard. As good as it might sound, there is a big bell inside my had that goes ding-dong and reminds me that I have to loose some weight before I start wearing clothes that let skin show.

So, back to the energy and muse. A couple of weeks ago I felt smart, I found this solution for a big problem around and I can tell you that being a hero it feels good. I had in my head this AC/DC song "I'm TNT, I'm dynamite...." with all the power and energy it brings. Every other problem around started feeling like it was just a question that was waiting for my answer (solution). Yeah! The down side was that the weather at those days was the worst of this winter. Snow and cold like hell.
And then it started...one day we got stuck on something that I didn't expect and I didn't have a plan on how to handle it. The other day, the testing team found out that the big solution I had two weeks ago, actually doesn't work as expected. All that energy is kind of sleeping now and although I can still find solution for other problems, it just does not feel good. All I need and want now is vacation, take some days off, re-charge my energy and get my muse back... oh.. and loose a little weight.
It looks like all I can think of is work. I have said before I'm a workaholic, but I do get my muse from other stuff too. The thing is that it does not matter what brings or takes the muse, I must push on all the options around me that can bring me the energy I lost... even if that means watching more Hugh Grant movies.