Category: Self-Serving

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Annoying Commercial

I’m annoyed everytime Tanya Roberts, the former Bond girl, comes on my radio.

No matter what radio station you tune to, you’re likely to hear her “pretend” interview with the show host, chatting it up about Consolidated Resorts. The host obviously has a script and she knows what they’re going to say before they say it. The worst part it even sounds that way to every listener, not just someone who’s in the business. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have anything against commercials, they pay my salary. This commercial in particular just grates on me.

WTAM in Cleveland isn’t immune to the ads. Bob Frantz does one. I normally don’t even turn on the TV in the morning. I just turn on the radio and listen to him and the newscasts. I think of it as part of my preparations for work each day.

Even though I think Bob has a quality show, I shriek everytime I hear this canned commercial. Even Coast-To-Coast host George Noory isn’t above doing the interview with the raspy voice former Charlie’s Angels actress. I was going to mention that she sounds like she smokes a pack of cigarettes every day but I decided not to do so.

I also hate the Vermont Teddy Bear commercials that you can just will predict will start popping up on the radio near Valentine’s Day, Sweetest Day, Easter, Christmas or any other holiday. They’re also annoying.

One last thing, apparently Tanya Roberts isn’t the only star who’s pitching for Consolidated Resorts, you can also add Alan Thicke, David Faustino and comedian George Wallace to the list. Anything to pay the rent…

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Time To Relax

After going just slightly less than crazy trying to get my new apartment in order, I’m taking today off. The laundry, the dishes and the trash can wait until tomorrow.

Today is a day that’s all about kickin’ back and loungin’ a little. I may take some pictures of the place and post them later today if I feel up to it. 🙂

So far, I have to admit I’m loving living downtown. The drive back and forth to work is so quick. I love Steelyard Commons for my Target and Wal-Mart needs. I just went to the Westside Market for the first time in my life last week and it looks like a great place. I can’t wait to explore it more.

Happy New Year and here’s to a rest filled day!

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Reflection

It’s that time of year when people look back at the past 12 months and reflect on what they’ve brought them.

2007 brought me so much. Most recently, I have a new nephew that I’m so proud of. I got a lot of “holding” time with him on Christmas Eve at my sister’s house.

I got to take the trip of a lifetime, however I hope that I’ll again get to visit Europe again. I visited Holland, Switzerland and France.

I got promoted to Executive Producer at my job.

The Cavs, Indians, Buckeyes all went to the playoffs and even farther. Now, let’s just cross our fingers for the Browns.

I got to see Barenaked Ladies and The Police in concert.

We completed a move for me downtown to a great apartment. No longer will I have to drive back and forth to Avon Lake. My trips to and from work will be less than 10 minutes.

I once again realize how great my friends and my family are and how lucky I am to have them.

Take a look into the mirror and reflect back on the past year for yourself. What did you experience?

Hopefully, you’ll come to the same conclusion as I did… I got it pretty good and thank God for his blessings.

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Everything’s Happening Fast…

It’s been a little while since I had a good life update post. So here goes…

I’m mulling over a move to downtown Cleveland from my apartment complex in the ‘burbs. The place isn’t raising the rent but now wants to charge me $60 more a month for my attached garage. It’s just not economically worth it with the rising prices of gas to continue living where I am right now. I’m looking at a couple of different places and have some appointments later this week. I really don’t want to leave my apartment because it’s where I’ve called home for two years (rough years at that) but it’s probably time to break out of my comfort zone and take on a new experience.

I am going to enjoy December. I have a lot of days off work. I think I work a grand total of 14 days. I’m off the rest of them. My sister is going to give birth to my third nephew. I can’t wait to see the little bugger. That should happen sometime around December 20th. It’s the holidays and I have more to celebrate this year.

The remainder of this week is busy. Tomorrow is the end of the November ratings period. I hope we’ll eek out a second place win for my newscast. Hopefully, “Dancing With The Stars” viewers will like what we put in our newscast and we’ll have a big number to catapult us over the top. I am going to my nephews’ school tomorrow. I haven’t seen Spencer since he came down with the kidney infection. (He’s doing better!) On Thursday, I have lunch with a friend. Friday through Tuesday are my days to do whatever. However, they could be filled with me looking for an apartment.

Anyone who reads this blog got any good suggestions on a good building? I’ll take them. Enjoy your Wednesday!!

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Watch What You Put In Your Eye

I did one of the dumbest things I’ve done in recent memory. I got up this morning and went into the bathroom, grabbed what I thought contained eye drops, it wasn’t! Instead it contained a solution you put on a cut. I flushed my eye out for more than 5 minutes hoping to get all of it out. My eye feels dry but it’s otherwise okay. Learn my lesson, don’t put anything in your eye before you know what it is.

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Not Feeling My Age

You probably know I recently had a birthday. It was my 35th. Hard and unbelievable to write that. I’ve been kicking around this big blue marble for a while now. Even with that number I don’t feel anywhere that old. Let’s agree that it’s NOT that old. I still feel like I’m living life in the 20’s.

I do things like lay on the floor by crawling under my coffee table. I like to sit on the breakfast bar when I’m talking to my friends on the telephone.

Do you feel your age? I think that’s what we’ll all have to deal with for the rest of our lives.

GO TRIBE!!!

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Blog Block

Anyone else ever experience this? I’ve written three different blog posts just to save them thinking I’ll complete them later. I get about two or three sentences out and then stop.

I write for a living and really never had to worry about what to write about because the subject matter is always there. But besides sports recently I haven’t had too much that I wanted to write about. The holidays are coming so maybe that’ll motivate me a little. I need a shake up in my life. Something to ruffle my life’s feathers.

The next couple of days could be interesting. The Indians are as aforementioned so close to the World Series. I’ll end up working Sunday if the Tribe hasn’t beat the Indians. I hope the Indians win and advance before then. I don’t think Cleveland sports fans can take too many more games against the Boston Red Sox. The Colorado Rockies are next. They scare me. They’re on some crazy rollercoaster of winning and not loses.

That’s all for now…

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Weekend Blahs!

After a busy week of hour-long 11pm newscasts, breaking news, going in early, going to the dentist, and just going crazy, it’s the weekend. I feel blah! I wanna go out and have fun with my friends but I’m just as happy sitting here watching friends in my pajamas on my comfortable sectional.

The Indians play again tonight. We all hope the Tribe will score some runs tonight and not allow the Red Sox to score as many.

The Browns almost have a guaranteed win tomorrow against the Dolphins. I’m tailgating before the game so that should be fun. Go Browns! Go Tribe!

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Seven Random Things About taawd

The meme: 7 random facts about me

The rules:

  1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
  2. Share 7 facts about yourself: some random, some weird.
  3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them).
  4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.

1.) When I was a kid, I thought Jack Frost was real. I didn’t think he was human but I was scared to death of him. My parents would tell me “Jack Frost was here” and I wouldn’t get out of bed.

2.) While I was kneeboarding back in high school, I hit a wake the wrong way after landing a 360 flip. The kneeboard came up and hit me in the face. I had braces at the time. The impact slit my lip and rearranged my teeth. The dentist I saw told me if it wasn’t for the braces I would have lost about a half dozen teeth. I got nine stitches in my lip and still have a scar. I haven’t kneeboarded since that accident.

3.) My cousin swung a croquet mallet like a golf club and hit me squarely in the nose. I have never lost so much blood in my life. My nose is still screwed up because of that accident. I have since forgiven her but will never let her forget it.

4.) I really don’t have that many fears of living, breathing things. Spiders don’t bother me, snakes don’t either, however I don’t have either as pets. I’ve somewhat conquered my fear of dogs after getting bit by my aunt’s german shepherd (she claims he scratched me). My fears are more life-oriented.

5.) I grew up on a farm even though my parents weren’t farmers. We rented the century home. Our landlord’s daughter’s family demolished the house and built a similar home on the same spot. Our house still exists but only in our memories and the hundreds of pictures my parents too over the years.

6.) I used to wear hoodies back in the day when they weren’t even popular. They were my security for some reason. I wore them to school everyday. I even forgot to take it off for picture day and my mother was furious mildly upset with me.

7.) My local newspaper named me and Janey Haskins as “Teenagers Of The Month”. Yes, I like other people who were trying to be cool sported a hockey hairstyle (yes, others call it a mullet). For pride purposes, I am not including a picture. You’ll have to trust me!

Here are my tags:
Bruce: He claims to be getting back into the blogging business. This will give him easy content.
Jennie: She’ll be a wiz at this and we’ll all learn something about her.
Megan: I read her blog every now and then.
Wet Cat: Apparently, his name is really Carl but for some reason everyone calls him Wet Cat.

I know I’m supposed to do 7 people but this is all I can muster. They will have to do.