Welcome to my new outlet. I found a place that I can call home. Anyway, it has been to long since I sent out a Friday Love so here it is. New and improved love on a friday.
Last night I went to an awards banquet. No I did not pick up the award for biggest loser on the planet. I was there on behalf of the company I work for Zoom Communications (http://www.zoomcom.ca). The help sponsor the E awards. Awards for exemplary employees. My boss, Jeff, called me last week and asked me to do him a favor. Me being an outstanding employee, said "name it". Jeff said that he needed me to go to this ceremony and hand out an award. Alarms went off.... "This is my chance to get my message to the world!!" I can get the Peterson philosophy of 'eat, drink, and be a Packer fan' to all who is there. Start a revolution. Jeff said all I have to do is hand out the award. Cool, I'll do that.
So I show up to the show, with my pal Nouell. Donna did not attend because she had a hair appointment. So there you have it, Donna has her priorities right. Anyway, the food was great, the people at our table were cool. The lady to my left was Ruth, the senior editor for the Alberta Venture Magazine. The person who was basically in charge of the whole event. She knows my boss well, and seemed a bit dissappointed that I was there and not Jeff. As the show started, and my gut started reacting to my meal, I noticed that everyone else who was presenting had a speech written.
I looked at the script and noticed that it said "Chris speaks for two minutes". Great. I'm dead. My mind was running wild. I was trying to think of things to say. I am a new employee so I can't give a history of the company. Wait, what would Ric Flair do? Do you think I can get away with the 'Limo riding, jet flying, death defying, girl stealin son of a gun. In order to be the man you have to beat the man." Whooooooooo speech? No that won't fly. Nouell was not helping much everytime another presenter had a speech he would look at me and just laugh. Maybe I could give a lecture on how to win over and influence people. Wait, I have never done that. I am screwed.
My time comes and I open with a "Hi, I'm Chris Peterson and I am addicted to roast beef." Killed. From then on the crowd was putty in my hands. I dropped a NHL lockout joke (Canadians love hockey), and a my boss did not tell me I had to speak joke. Nouell was laughing, but not at me, with the rest of the crowd. I think I have a future in this award giving biz. I got several good comments after and Ruth even said I did a good job. I almost wanted to drop a Whooooooo! but that probably would have killed the moment.
So the moral of this story is...well there isn't one I guess, just a story that I wanted to tell you.
Oh and the thing at the top is the program from Theo Fluery's first game with a senior league team in Horse lake Alberta. He is playing with a Res team. They also have Gino Odjik on that team. Good game. Theo had three points, goal and two assists.
Have a good day and GET BACK TO WORK!!!
