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EJ

Behold, the year of Lucky SeVen!

About Me

Fond of - in no particular order:
+ My friends & family (this is #1 btw)
+ the number 7
+ Baseball
+ Bacon
+ the letter X
+ my dogs Moxxi and Max
+ pursuing true happiness
+ white rice and soy sauce...yuummmm!
+ baby powder / Gold Bond
+ closing a deal
+ orange Gatorade
+ random strangers who make me laugh
+ High Definition TV
+ San Diego
+ singing songs in "Creed" voice
+ Megan Fox
+ traveling
+ hitting a home run
+ Wahoo's Fish Tacos #10
+ Family Guy
+ good music
+ Lake Tahoe - in the summer and winter!
+ Mexican street tacos
+ coin night...what a concept! ;)
+ the beach
+ Joe DiMaggio
+ guacamole
+ a clean house
+ motivational quotes
+ red contacts
+ WWW.DJEJ.ORG .
Not a big fan of:
- mornings
- misspellings
- hypocritical people and actions
- cookie cutters
- asthma
- laundry - my dry cleaner sends me cards not just on Christmas, but every holiday!
- procrastinating
- shootings in my neighborhood
- not being accountable
- hangovers
- paperwork
- allergies
- being disorganized
- FUD - ask if you don't know what it means...
- tomatoes
- avocados
- blaming
- cover charges
- Moxxi's shedded hair
- slow Internet
- tomato-based drinks...V8 is the work of the DEVIL!
I've become a big proponent of the phrase "Make your future bigger than your past." I've had a great life thus far, but recently, time came to make some much needed changes...so given how big my past has been for me, my future will be HUGE!
Read my Goals -- Happiness blog to learn more about the changes I'm making. If it helps inspire you to make changes in your life, please let me know!
Funny how what on the surface can appear to be the end of the line...can turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to you. "A dead end is only a dead end if you don't have the strength to turn around and find your freeway." Let's just say I'm getting back on the freeway. It's going to be a long, tough struggle but I'm definitely looking forward to the adventure.

My Interests

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." ~ Aldous Huxley
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." ~ Winston Churchill

"Change is inevitable. Change is constant." ~ Benjamin Disraeli

“Procrastination is like Masturbation; In the end you're just screwing yourself.” ~ Anonymous

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." ~ Bill Cosby

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive." ~ Stephen Spielberg

"Experience is a dear teacher, and only fools will learn from no other." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors." ~ Jim Morrison

"Start every day with a smile and get it over with." ~ W.C. Fields

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." ~ Ingrid Bergman

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." ~ Ferris Bueller

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing." ~ Andrew Carnegie

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." ~Alexander Graham Bell

"Sex is nature, and I believe in going along with nature." ~ Marilyn Monroe

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." ~ Winston Churchill

"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone." ~ Robert Frost

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." ~ Albert Einstein

"Every day above ground is a good day." ~ Tony Montana in Scarface

"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." ~ D. Dunham

"Nobody believes the official spokesman, but everybody trusts an unidentified source." ~ Ron Nesen

"Never miss a good chance to shut up." ~ Will Rogers

"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday." ~ Dale Carnegie

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." ~ Thomas Edison

"Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive." ~ Elbert Hubbard

I'd like to meet:

* People with interesting stories to tell *
* People who have successfully dealt with all types of adversity *
* People who are going through tough times *
* People with good jokes *
* Me, had I made some different decisions *
* People who can carry a conversation *
* Tom Brady *
* People who are pursuing true happiness *
* Seth MacFarlane *
* Dane Cook *
* Chase Utley *
* Tom from Myspace *
* The other guy with my exact same name in Sacramento *
* Megan Fox *
* Jon Stewart *
* People who aren't afraid to let you know when you have a booger in your nose *
* Sneakers O'Toole *
..

Music:

Dave Matthews Band, Outkast, Ludacris, Sublime, Beastie Boys, Jack Johnson, Gorillaz, James Hardway, Bob Marley, Eekamouse, 2 cents, Guns N Roses, Alice In Chains, Justin Timberlake,

Movies:

Iron Man
Pepper Potts: "What's going on here?"
Tony Stark: "Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've ever caught me doing."
Bull Durham
Crash Davis: "Charlie, here comes the deuce. And when you speak of me, speak well."
Ace Ventura
Ace Ventura: "If I'm not back in five minutes...just wait longer."
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Surfing Intsructor: "When life gives you lemons, just say "F#&@ the lemons" and bail!"
Fletch
Fletch: "If you shoot me, you're liable to lose a lot of those humanitarian awards."
Dumb & Dumber
Harry: "Ooh, look at the buns on that one..."
Lloyd: "Yeah, he must work out."
Scarface
Tony Montana: "Say hello to my little friend!"
Transformers
Sam Witwicky: "I was wondering if... if I could ride you home, I - I mean if I could give you a ride home."
National Lampoons Vacation
Officer: "Do you know what the penalty for animal cruelty is in this state?"
Clark Griswold: "No sir, I don't."
Officer: "Well, it's probably pretty stiff."

Television:

Family Guy, SportsCenter, The Soup, Baseball Tonight, Conan O'Brien, American Idol, Simpsons, Most Shocking, Pass Time, 2 1/2 Men, South Park, CSI: Miami, The Hills, The Office, The History Channel, Deadliest Catch, anytime I'm on TV...

Books:

Moneyball, The Fred Factor, The Success Principles.

Heroes:

My mom, people who can put up with me, Jim Morrison, Joe DiMaggio, positive people...oh yeah, and Sneakers O'Toole!

My Blog

Goals --> Happiness

I've been through a LOT of adversity lately. This adversity has caused me to re-evaluate my life from top to bottom. Essentially, when I took a long hard look in the mirror, I didn't like the person I...
Posted by EJ on Mon, 05 May 2008 11:23:00 PST

I love you Mom

This is an excerpt from the passage I read at my mom's funeral on April 29, 2006. I wrote it as a letter to her. I wanted to re-post this to help her memory live on and give you a feel for how close w...
Posted by EJ on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:55:00 PST