Thursday Thoughts

Thursday Thoughts is perfect on those Thursdays that I am busy but need to post a few things! Here we go again...

1. Today is my Friday. I am taking tomorrow off to take my niece Erin to look at a college she was accepted to but hasn't visited yet.


2. After the college tour, I will be headin up to my nephew's for a weekend of Tom Foolery and Rockin' out. That's right, I am schlepping Rock Band AND Guitar Hero...and I have to pack my car in daylight...hahaha!


3. My big project at home this week has been to lessen the noise from my elderly neighbors below (you know, when you're older things need to be louder) so I added a fan in my bedroom to create some ambient noise and that is working nicely. Next I bought a great pair of corless headphones and set them up for TV watching in the living room. I got them yesterday and they are awesome! Their TV is always so loud that I can't really relax and watch an hour of tv before bed most nights. These headphones not only have great sound and negate any noise from downstairs, but I can walk around my apartment and still hear the program, (or at least tell when the ads are over!) I LOVE THEM!


4. Another project I have been working on is "The Ultimate Lost Boys Soundtrack"!! This is a project that I have been dying to accomplish for decades!! (along with the Ultimate Goonies Soundtrack!, but that is provin extremely difficult...) I watched The Lost Boys Sunday night and decided to go and look online for any score music that was available, even tho the score is not very melodic and more background and sound effect-ish. I knew none had ever been published, but wondered if anyone had even separated soundtrack from film. At least it would be something! Within 15 minutes I found a chat forum and a link to download 17 tracks of the original Lost Boys Score by Thomas Newton. Clean and crisp sounding I was psyched that I now had the chance to make my Ultimate Lost Boys Soundtrack. The music will be in order as it appeared in the film so it flows through the story line. I haven't decided yet, but I might pull a "Cinemix" (as coined by my friend Dave P) and sprinkle in some sound clips as well...I will ahve to see if that will help or hurt the flow. I am just excited to have the opportunity to work on this pet project!!! If anyone is interested in a copy I would be glad to burn you one. Just email me at cclifeblog@hotmail.com and I will send you one! (complete with my watercolor cover design!!!)


5. I get to see all my animal friends tonight. I am traveling after work tonght to my sister's house so that Erin and I can leave early tomorrow for the college tour. If 4 cats, 2 dogs and a bird sounds crazy to you, you are right! But what a riot they are. I am looking forward to "Cats and dogs, living together" fun!

Monday Catch Up

Hello all! I am sitting here finally eating my lunch and getting a chance to listen to this great song I found after much searching. Problem is, I can't download it which stinks, but I am working on it. It is called "Rudy" and it was in the movie "Pretty in Pink". Unfortunately it wasn't on the soundtrack for the film, but I have found it on the MySpace of the guy who was in the band who originally performed it: Talk Back. If you would like to hear it go here and click on the 4th song down on the player to the right: "Rudy". If you are able to download it, let me know.:)

This weekend was a blast. The Annual Meeting and Party for my company at the refurbished Theater was fun, even tho I had to work for 1/2 of it. I went out with a bunch o coworkers afterwards for a drink. I had fun watching all the interactions. Office Politics is soemthing I enjoy watching from afar. It's interesting when coworkers go out together...many of them drop their inhabitions and drink WAY TO MUCH. Even higher ups. It's weird. You would think by now they would know to not get too wild and crazy in front of their coworkers. The Accounting Nazi (a dept head by the way)had 3 manhattans and was (understanably) plasterd. I have never seen her more friendly or talkative. I just smiled and was polite while I sipped on my ONE beer. It was an interesting evening!

I did get my guitar Hero extra guitar and Guitar Hero 1 Game tho which was nice. I arrived Friday night about 5:30pm and my roommate was home to receive it. With this, I was able to take it with me to my nephews and we played against and with each other. It was fun. They did really well.

We also went cross coutnry skiing. We went during the day on the trail around and near their house and then we went at night in the same area. Sunday Thomas and Mike and I went our onto the Harbor and skiied across the lake. That was really neat...but extrememly cold. I had never gone out on a frozen lake/harbor before so that was really cool.

Hey boys, if you are reading this here are a few memorable sayings from the weekend:

1. "It's a PsychoBilly Freakout!"
2. "When skiing at night, never look behind you..."
3. "It's Dixie Acres!"
4. "We need to purchase the 'Grim Ripper!' "
5. "Gentlemen! Confuse...A CAT!"
6. "What am I saying, how am I saying it and why do you want to listen?" (Or something to that effect)
7. "Only an Elephant could break thru this ice!" "Or Piehole!"
8. "Nathan, That was actually funny!"

It was a fun weekend with my boys as usual. It always seem to go by too quickly!