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Daniel Spivey

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About Me

I am Daniel Spivey, a 40 y/o married father of a beautiful baby girl. I am a stay at home dad which is very cool. My wife teaches 2nd grade in Hickman County, Tennessee. I will finish my teaching degree in the next few years so we can align our careers, have summers off together to travel and all that jazz. But right now my 15 month old baby girl, Maggie, takes all my attention and devotion. I have never smiled so much in my life. I love to laugh, even when it is awkward to do so. I love the smell of coffee but I don't drink the stuff, makes me too alert. I love dogs (especially corndogs), balloon animals and kites. I love crappy Sci-Fi movies, sandy beaches and fresh tomatos. I love my baby's laugh, sweet iced tea and dancing by myself to music only I can hear. I love cheeseburgers for a dollar, sleeping late when it rains and the way foam forms on a root beer float. I love marching bands, hot showers and comfortable shoes. I despise TV commercials, abusive people and bad drivers.

My Interests

My marriage, my baby girl Maggie, my Church, Physics, solar energy, gardening, reading, comedy, music, rhythms, Sudoku, democracy, vintage t-shirts, the space program, helicopters, playing frisbee with my dog Blue, woodworking, drumming, Myspace, and making people smile.

I'd like to meet:

Jesus, Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Manny Salinas, Doug Mayes, Carl Syler, Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, Al Einstein, Aubrey Flagg, Chris Rock, Ed Murphy, Ed Medford, Finnesse Mitchell, Ralphie May, Bruce Bruce, Bobby Debreson, Butch Daugherty, Chris Eddington, Willie Nelson, Jimmy Buffett, Carl Sagan, Leonardo DiVinci, Mark Twain, My mother's father, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Richard Pryor, Payton and Eli Manning, Henry Cho, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, John Candy, Chris Farley, David Spade.

Music:

Rock, Blues, Hip Hop, Rap and Jazz.

Movies:

Comedies... The Jerk, Grandma's Boy, Groundhog Day, Caddyshack, Half Baked, Old School, Men in Black I & II, Super Troopers, Young Frankenstein, National Lampoon's Vacation, European Vacation, Christmas Vacation, Vegas Vacation, Blues Brothers, Big Lebowski, Talladega Nights, This is Spinal Tap, Napoleon Dynamite, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, The Simpsons Movie, Strange Brew, Gone Fishin', Star Wars.

Television:

Comedy Central, Discovery & History Channels, The Simpson's, The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Just for Laughs, How it's Made, Invention Nation, My Name is Earl, The Office, SNL, Mad TV.

Books:

The Holy Bible-KJV, Great American Classics, Biographies, Calvin and Hobbes, How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale, Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls, Grinding it Out by Ray Kroc,... more to follow later.

Heroes:

My family. The many close friends I have gained (and lost) over the years. A whole list of stand-up comics. People who make the world a better place.

My Blog

Food Poisoning

I am suffering from a terrible case of food poisoning or something. Yesterday, I ate at Cracker Barrel in Dickson, TN and later became very ill. I was up all night last night running relays to the toi...
Posted by Daniel Spivey on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:55:00 PST

Quotable Quotations

To get back on your feet, just skip 2 car payments.Save a little money each month and at the end of the year, you’ll be surprised how little money you have.Money is good for bribing yourself thr...
Posted by Daniel Spivey on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:48:00 PST

"More! More! More!" by Samuel Gompers

What do we want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the o...
Posted by Daniel Spivey on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:05:00 PST

Happy Easter Everyone!

Happy Easter everyone.  We will be attending sunrise service at our church tmrw morning. Our Sunday school class will hide Easter eggs and candy for the young ones to hunt and find. I l...
Posted by Daniel Spivey on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:40:00 PST

A Few Words on Praise

What is praise?  It is a varied expression of love and friendship, and we should use it more often to compliment someone for a deed well done, for a word well spoken. Why be effusive in our prais...
Posted by Daniel Spivey on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:13:00 PST

Be thankful I don’t carry a gun.

I don’t know what it is about some drivers that makes my blood boil so quickly. I normally have great control over my temper and I pride myself in that, but for some reason I suffer from road ra...
Posted by Daniel Spivey on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:33:00 PST

Happy Saint Patricks Day

I would just like to remind everyone to play it safe tonight while celebrating whatever reason it is that we celebrate St. Patty’s Day. All I know is you must wear something green or you ge...
Posted by Daniel Spivey on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:46:00 PST

New Job is going well

Just to let anyone interested in knowing, my new job is going well. I enjoy my coworkers and am thankful to the owners for hiring me. I like the fast pace, it  makes the time go by fast. I h...
Posted by Daniel Spivey on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:30:00 PST

Employed at last!

Well things are looking up at the ol Spivey homestead.  I went to a job interview at McDonalds in Centerville, yesterday.  I thought I was applying for a fry job or something, but when I got...
Posted by Daniel Spivey on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:08:00 PST

A visit with old friends.

I am really digging this Myspace thing. A few days ago I found an old friend from TX and sent him a short message. He called today and we were able to catch up on the last 15 years of our lives. ...
Posted by Daniel Spivey on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:43:00 PST