Author: Christine

Christine is an Avenger of Sexiness. Her Superpower is helping Hot Mamas grow their Confidence by rediscovering their Beauty. She lives in the Heights in Houston, Texas, works as a boudoir photographer, and writes about running a Business of Awesome. In her spare time, she loves to knit, especially when she travels. She & her husband Mike have a food blog at Spoon & Knife.

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How Deep is Your Love…

I’m so bummed. I had seen the news the other day that Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees was in critical condition, but I had hoped that he would pull through. I just discovered at Michele’s site that he didn’t.

The Bee Gees have always been a part of my life. Their first hits were before I was born. One of the first cassette tapes that I remember was one that my Dad ordered from Columbia House – the Bee Gees looking at you from inside of a can. I’ll have to look up the title tonight.

When I moved to Kankankee, Illinois, my best friend Amy & I were completely in love with the Bee Gees. We played house and pretended that we were married to them. She was married to Barry, I was married to Robin, and another girl in the neighborhood, Renee, was married to Maurice. No one could be married to Andy because we all fought over him. We listened to all of their albums and my Dad took us to see Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band when it came out.

One of the first “teen” magazines I bought had the Bee Gees in it. I took their pictures out and hung them in my closet. I think I even had a whole “Tiger Beat” type magazine that was devoted to the Bee Gees. I knew everything about them. I knew their birthdays, I knew all the stats. I was a huge Bee Gees fan.

My parents had friends that lived down the street from us when I was about 8 or 9 and we went to their house a lot on Saturday nights. While the grown-ups were watching TV (the early days of Saturday Night Live), I got to sit in the living room in this really comfy chair and listen to the stereo with giant squishy headphones. If I wasn’t listening to the Beatles, I was listening to the Bee Gees. I absolutely loved the Saturday Night Fever album.

Just a few months ago I bought the 2-disc collection of their Greatest Hits. I was listening to it today on my way from downtown to the temp assignment. My love for the Bee Gees hasn’t faded over all of the years – they were one of the first groups I ever liked (along with the Beatles and the Monkeys) and I love them still. It is sad to think that Maurice Gibb is gone. It is sad to think that there will never be another song, and I will miss them.

How deep is your love … is your love … how deep is your love … I really need to know … ’cause we’re living in a world of fools, breaking us down, when they all should let us be … we belong to you and me …

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Around the Web…

Things you should know about going on around the web (or is it around the blogosphere?):

:: Rannie has set up the PhotoBloggies. Like Rannie, I was stunned that Nikolai didn’t include photoblogs in the Bloggies this year, although it made sense considering his definition of a blog. Feel free to nominate some of your favorite community or travel photoblogs!

:: Speaking of shameless promotion, Blogwhore 2: Revenge of the Blogwhore is drawing near. If you want to see what the first round of Blogwhore was all about, you can visit the game site here. Come on, you’re a blogwhore and you know it. Now is your chance to flaunt it. (FYI, since I was a contestant in Blogwhore 1 I am not eligible to play in this round. In case you were wondering.)

As for work related news – the interview seemed to go very well. There will be a second round before they make a decision, and I should know by tomorrow morning if I made the second round. She liked my diverse skill set, and even though they weren’t looking for web experience they had considered sending the previous person in the position to training to maintain the site once it is launched to cut costs – so my web experience caught their eye because they wouldn’t have to train me! All in all I felt “on” today, in a really good spunky mood (probably thanks in part to Ciscley’s comment in the last post and everyone cheering me on!) I felt like we really clicked, and left with a good vibe.

Before I left for the interview I got a call asking me to return to the temp assignment from last week – the person I was filling in for had a really sick baby on her hands last week and now she is sick. So after the interview I headed across town to the other company. So far so good – no tales to share!

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Post author By Christine
Post date Friday, January 10, 2003
7 Comments on The Irony isn’t Lost on Me…

Normally, I would never talk about a job I have an interview for, but this one is just too ironic…