HAPPY 2013

 

 






New Years Eve  between 2012  and 2013.  A time to celebrate the outgoing year and the incoming of a new year.  What shell happen.

I'm sitting here with my glass of champagne....waiting for the floor below me to open and me falling through the cliff.   What will the new year bring................In two words

                              NOTHING NEW  !!!




This year on this day, I have two losses in my life.  I have lost my Attorney and my Doctor.......both to retirement.  My Attorney was absolutely brilliant protecting me from legal forces.  My Doctor was extremely valuable keeping me going and even though she was a woman physician, I felt very comfortable to discuss all issues with her.  Thanks to both Stephan and Karen for these years.  I will miss you guys. Hope the replacements will be half as good as the both of you.

I will be here tomorrow..............with one bottle of champagne less................but I will be the same old person I have always been.  Still looking to self publish my first book and starting work on my second...............just like the last 5 years.

I sat today, thinking of my New Year's Resolution.  For the past upteen years,  I would think of how to improve my life:
give up smoking
loose weight
exercise more
read more
pay less taxes
pay no taxes
get bigger tax refunds
get rich
get richer
have sex
have more sex
have the most sex
have meaningful sex
clean the yard
get organized

NOT IN ANY NECESSARY ORDER

of all that I have promised myself, only one was totally accomplished, THE FIRST,  GIVE UP SMOKING.  check and double check

Now, can I really do something about all these failures........are New Years Resolutions meant to be broken............are they just a fiction of ones imagination.  So this year I will try several resolutions
I will try to understand other people feelings, laugh at those that have stupid ideas, be more sensitive to those that think the way I do.
I will listen to my Doctor who  advised to drink more RED wine......and to exercise more.  I will listen to my Attorney and think before I act by writing a pros and cons list before acting on the problem.   My only problem I can see is this exercise thing.........don't like it but realize it has to be done........ssssssoooooo.  after using the pros and cons idea I have come up with how to do this.  Every time I visit the food store,  I PROMISE.  to take my food cart ........back to its proper place    INSIDE the store.  that should do it.

That's it my friends..................another end to another year.................another beginning to a NEW ONE.                  HAVE A HAPPY, HEALTHY NEW YEAR   and I will see you in the new year.

2013 Contract
 

After serious & cautious consideration...
Your contract of friendship has been renewed for the New Year 2013
It was a very hard decision to make...
So try not to screw it up!!! My Wish for You in 2013
May peace break into your home
May thieves come to steal your debts.
May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet for $100 bills.
May love stick to your face like Vaseline
May laughter assault your lips!
May happiness slap you across the face
May your tears be that of joy
May the problems you had, forget your home address!
In simple words,

May 2013 be the best year of your life!!!

Happy New Year!!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL..............

I wanted to make sure this got out before Christmas, since my house has been voted the best decorated and draws approximately 250 cars per day passing by to get a look at it.  At one point we had to have policeman here to direct traffic.  My neighbors are not very happy with me, especially since last year we just had a red light bulb and a green light bulb that lite up the entrance way to our house. I felt so much energy from all the walking I have been doing that this idea emerged.


Make sure to read the story at the bottom…

"Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after 2 days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever.Great stories. But two things made me take it down.

First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost wrecked when they drove by.

Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn't realize he was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn't take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard."

HOLIDAY CHEER  to all
and to all...............a good night.

SEE YOU AFTER THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY!!!!

HOLIDAY ............SPIRITS

 

TIS THE SEASON

TO BE   JOLLY!



Once again this year, I’ve had requests for my Vodka Christmas Cake recipe so here goes. Please keep in your files as I am beginning to get tired of typing this up every year! (Made mine this evening!!!!)

1 cup sugar,
 half pound butter,
1 tsp. baking powder,
1 cup water,
1 tsp. salt ,
 1 cup brown sugar,
 Lemon juice,
 4 large eggs,
 1 handful mixed Nuts,
 1bottle Vodka, 
 1 cups dried fruit
 4 cups self raising flour.

  Sample a cup of Vodka to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the Vodka again to be sure it is of the highest quality then Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar. Beat again. At this point, it is best to make sure the Vodka is still OK. Try another cup just in case. Turn off the mixerer thingy. Break 2 eggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit. Pick the fruit up off the floor, wash it and put it in the bowl a piece at a time trying to count it. Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers, just pry it loose with a drewscriver Sample the Vodka to test for tonsisticity. Next, sift 2 cups of salt, or something. Check the Vodka. Now shit shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find. Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over. Don't forget to beat off the turner. Finally, throw the bowl through the fekin window. Finish off the Vodka and wipe the counter with the fekin cat.

SOMETHING         SWEET   !!!!

‎1 lb large strawberries
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
3-4 Tablespoons powdered sugar (or sugar substitute - to taste)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

...

Instructions:
1. Rinse strawberries and cut around the top of the strawberry. Remove the top, (enough for a hat). Clean out the whole strawberry with a paring knife, if necessary (some of them are hollow already. Prep all of the strawberries and set aside.
2. In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese, powdered sugar, and vanilla until creamy. Add cream cheese mix to a piping bag or Ziploc with the corner snipped off. Fill the strawberries with cheesecake mixture.
3. Once strawberries are filled, top with the 'hats.' Decorate according to photo.
4. If not serving immediately, refrigerate until serving.


Do you really understand your wife???




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvf9kdovG_E


 

  Now.............. let me offer this Holiday Song for you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooc5eJc5SHA


HOLIDAY  CHEER................OR ............................whatever !!!            This is   FFUUNNYY.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0HWhp31GIE

Have a very HAPPY HOLIDAY   from our house to yours.

LOOKING BACK AT MY TIME WITH ......SAS......

I have spent a few months more than 39 years with SAS.  I turned down 5 retirement programs. I would show up at work as much as an hour before my schedule and stay perhaps up to an hour after my shift..............(unless I was still working on things) , I felt needed.  I argued.......or rather discussed situations with many colleagues overseas about what I thought right or fair to help protect my peers, subordinates and their ideas.  From the first day with SAS, and for the next 10 years, this was my life. When I married in 1965 .........SAS took  second place...........then again, both Margot and I worked for SAS and had so much in common. On the birth of our first child............SAS dropped a little further but now became more important, as this was my lively hood. I became more dependant on SAS, it keeps us going.  We moved to Seattle soon after Lisa arrived and a new section of the book opened. I was their selection to start a new airport operation in this fantastic city.  Scott, our son came onboard and SAS dropped to 4th place ...............BUT..................more and more dependency was on SAS and more and more time spent...........at the office.  Retirement at the end of 1994 became reality but SAS still was important to me, for many reasons.
Now, after 18 years of retirement, I still find myself engrossed in SAS if only in my memories. I still have contact with many, many of my SAS friends and love to talk about............those good old days. SAS will always find a way to be in my memories.

I would like to dedicate this posting (in a small way) to SAS,  and thank them for the way it has treated me, and my family for all the years.

The first video is in Danish  but reflects the early years of SAS as a company, and I do remember a lot of these things shown.  The second video is a video I made of the Last visit of an SAS aircraft to Seattle, WA.   my station...............  You will have to copy and paste this one into the browser, apparently I did not get the proper authorization of some of the music so I had to redo the video in YouTube with different music. This is the original.  It reflects the sales staff of 1966, to the airport staff of the 60's-90's and then the staff that actually was there for that very last flight on July 31,2009.

In closing let me once again thank SAS, all it's management and employees  for what they have done to make this .................A COMPANY.    KEEP THEM FLYING, my friends

Vito      


http://youtu.be/7XUEcRB8ots



(the next one must be copied and pasted in your browser)



C:\Users\Mom And Dad\Videos\Last SAS Flt. to Seattle (2).wmv








http://youtu.be/7XUEcRB8ots