Ever get the advice:  ”make a career out of what you love doing” ?
…only if you can risk resenting it later.

My friend is a fabulous cook.  He was the one that would effortlessly whip up a delectable meal, with passion.  We would always tell him as we’re stuffing our faces with his creations, “you should make a living doing this!!  You’d be SO good at it!”

He followed his dream and quit his office job to start his own restaurant.  And it is damn good.  Except for one thing:  his passion is now a job. 

We forgot the cardinal rule, “don’t mix business with pleasure.”  This tidbit applies to more than racy office romances.  My friend considered cooking a pleasure.  Cooking was his happy place to escape the mundane 9-5 grind.  He tells me that now, when he gets home from his “dream job,” he doesn’t even want to look at his kitchen.  Instead of happily whipping up a tasty dinner, he’s resorted to a fast food drive-thru on the way home. 

Maybe we all go through stages like this.  I have a passion for my career, but I’ve had moments in my car when all I want to listen to is silence.  I need time to reset, for sanity’s sake, before my job consumes my passion.  Once refreshed, (ie, I’m done talking to myself in the car.  Out loud.) the radio is back on.

Do you have a career that has turned something you love into a job? Are “dream jobs” overrated?
Froggy 101’s Wake Up Call with Eric & Selena  will be discussing this Tuesday morning at 7am.

So I’m not sure how many people are going to get this reference, but I’m going to go with it anyway.  Over the weekend my buddies and I went out to the mall, and I found myself a AWESOME pair of sunglasses!  These are probably the second coolest sunglasses I ever had.

The first pair i lost to a friend of mine, who told me he would give me $40 for these pair a replica Macho Man Randy Savage (pro wrestler) sunglasses.  I agreed, and never saw the money…  Oh well.

So Saturday night, I found a awesome pair of white avatars, but they have black V’s running across!  Very Macho Man esk.  I have been working hard on my Macho Man impersonation, and when I prefect it, I will gladly do a Macho Man Blog, so stay tuned for that…. DIG IT!

~Crockett

One of the things that always bugged me about Facebook is that people can tag you in photos without your permission.

–I’ll be checking Facebook at work, and then I’ll suddenly get an email that my friend tagged me in like, 15 pictures.

–And in the pictures I’m tagged in, I either look horrible, or like a drunken fool. Maybe I look good in two or three of the photos I’m tagged in. So I untag myself.

–But whenever I do it, my friends get offended. They say they took a lot of time to do all the tagging, and it’s rude that I untagged myself.

–Is it rude to untag yourself from Facebook pictures? Why do people take it so personally? Isn’t it worse for people to tag you in pictures without even asking you first?

Join us after 6am and we will talk about it tomorrow morning!!!

It’s supposed to snow AGAIN this Saturday…and Wednesday…and…

Before you throw your shovel down in a fit of rage, try this mantra:
AT  LEAST WE’RE NOT IN NEW YORK

 - we side-stepped that vortex of weather doom by mere miles.

NYC is buried under 19 inches of snow.  They don’t know where and how to move their Mt Snowmore.  The city is attempting to declare a state of emergency to get additional help from FEMA because they well surpassed their snow removal budget:

NEW YORK (CBS 2 / WCBS 880) — New York City sets aside $38 million a year for snow removal, but the Bloomberg Administration admits they spent more than that digging out of the post-Christmas blizzard alone. They went into the red just five days into winter.

New Yorkers are resorting to spraying pickle juice to melt the snow.

At least New Yorker and ABC World News Anchor, Diane Sawyer, is lighthearted while being interrupted during a live shot — by a cross-country skier:

….No really, get out of my way!  I’m on a time constraint, here!

Diane, you are a graceful New Yorker.

Let’s face it … all guys have strange or disgusting habits. We’ve all picked our noses or sneezed all over something or scratched our butts.

That’s perfectly fine, but what’s not OK is doing these things in public.

According to Guyism.com, here’s a rundown of some other things you should never do in public.

Cry
Break-up with a girl
Fight on the phone
Adjust your junk
Eat food off the floor
Sing
Groom yourself

-What is the most inappropriate thing you admit to doing in public? Do you care that other people think it’s inappropriate?
What is the most disgusting thing you routinely see people doing in public?

-Join us Monday morning and tell us all what you think.

Is it sad that I get excited to clean my apartment?  Well at least get excited to mop.  As many of you know, I love to mop, and today is going to be an exceptional night of mopping.  Why, you ask?  Well last night, I was lucky enough to get the rest of the Scorpions, Judas Priest, AND ManOWar discography!  So many songs I haven’t heard yet!  Needless to say I’m pumped to go home, clean and rock out to some classic metal!

Only problem is, I have a live appearance at the Mohegan Sun Arena today till 4.  Yes, yes, you can be excited that while your at the Home Expo, you have a chance to take photos, get autographs, and win sweet prizes from me… ok your just in it for the sweet prizes, but I can’t get home till around 5 pm!

The worse part of all it?  My buddies are all coming home, so I will have to clean like a mad man before they arrive!  But that’s ok, I like a challenge.  It is going to be a great time, cleaning that is, I’m sure the hangout will be fun too.  What are you guys up to this weekend?

~Crockett

Yikes, might wanna take the kids out for this one!

JAN 27TH

Here we are almost an entire month into the new year… Have you broken your New Year’s Resolution yet? I didn’t really even bother starting! HA. However, one of the most popular resolutions is to save money. I’ve got help for you! If you’re looking for ways to cut down those credit card bills, check out the following websites:

• *BillShrink.com - a free service that provides users with personalized recommendations credit cards. There’s also a service that can monitor your cell phone usage and recommend a plan for you.
• *LowerMyBills.com - Whether your checking mortgage rates, insurance rates or simply want to save money on your cable bill, this website does wonders!
• *BankRate.com - Maybe you just got a raise at work and are looking to invest a few dollars at the highest rate possible, this website can help answer your question.

Hope this helps! Again, if you have an tips, pass them along!

Your thrifty friend,
Jessie

Remember when you were a teenager and your earliest make-out sessions were often marked with a hickey?

-A little neck bruise was either an embarrassing blemish or a badge of honor, depending on who wore it. But when someone in school had a hickey, everyone knew about it. And most kids were suspicious of anyone wearing a turtleneck.

-Did you think hickeys were cool, or just a tasteless leftover from a make-out session? Do you have any interesting or funny hickey memories? Were you proud of your hickey or embarrassed? What did you try to do to get rid of it or cover it up?!

-We will be looking for your input tomorrow morning after 6am!!!

I keep asking myself this.  My buddy and I decided last week that we would hit the gym at least three times a week last week, and we have gone zero times thur far.  Worst part about it, its my fault.

On Monday, my buddy had dinner with the family, so we weren’t able to go.  Tuesday, I stopped by my parents house, when I got there, the driveway was a sheet of ice.   See the night before, there pipes in the garage shattered, causing water to go down the driveway and freeze overnight.  And yes, I said down the driveway, because my parents live on a GIANT hill.  I mean this thing is HUGE.  So when I get there, my car can’t even make it 1/3 of the way up.  So I park on the street and walk up the ice hill.

When I get to the top, my mother is there, waiting for my help.  Little did I know I was going to be helping, otherwise, I may have not shown up.  So what did I get to do to “help”?  I got to take a shingle shovel, and in case you don’t know what a shingle shovel is, let me explain.  It is a very narrow metal shovel with teeth on the end.  Anyway, I get to take this small shovel, and scrap the ENTIRE driveway!  Yes, I had to remove ALL of the ice so the cars could get up.  Two hours later the job was complete.

So I go home, pass out, and miss the gym.  And yesterday, I just did not want to go at all.  So now there is today.  I’m beat, I’m tired, and just want to go to sleep.  So today is out, and I start to wonder, “Where is my motivation at?”  I could use the gym time, my buddy gets me in for free, but I have no desire to go this week.

It is pretty depressing, I wish I had to motivation to go, but waking up at 3 am takes a lot of out me.  So I guess all I can say is, Maybe next week!

~Crockett