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This is a special Valentines day wish from our special Valentine.

Daddy please put this on the Gardner Family Website and wish everyone a happy Valentines day.

His name is Cory pictured here:

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     Life is a series of choices, but we don’t always see the choices we have, and so we give away our choices all the while thinking they were taken from us. What we choose today may well determine the range of choices we will have tomorrow, and so it makes sense to take better care of ourselves today, no? Too bad we don’t have that common sense when we are younger!

     If we take better care of ourselves because it feels right and is a life plan and not a temporary goal or something someone else expects of us, we can find a path that suits us and works best for our lifestyle, instead of an unbearable daily torture, a temporary solution and a difficult to keep promise that will be broken once the goal has been met, from which we will slip back where we started from, wondering what happened. If we give everything up like a martyr and have that sense that life will no longer have any joie de vivre…well, then it won’t, because we will rob it of every joyous moment with our attitude and negative perspective! We will spend every moment thinking of the things we are missing out on, what we do not have, snapping at everyone around us instead of realizing that we have it pretty good and we haven’t really given up so much after all, and what we are gaining is pretty spectacular. If you are a negative person you will only see the negative and miss all the great things in your day, but if you step outside of your black cloud you can see some pretty amazing things, you just have to be willing to let go of all that is holding you in that bad head space first. If you are used to being there it can be pretty hard to get out, and even harder to stay out. Baby steps, but once you start stepping out each day it gets easier, the brain just needs to be retrained. The “ego” doesn’t like change, it wants everyone around you to change instead. But change is good, it shakes things up a bit.

     When you are truly healthy you will find that the unhealthy foods you once craved no longer hold the same appeal. So often people get angry about having their diets changed by their doctors, they feel denied of favorite foods, but do not realize that they crave those favorite foods because their systems are out of balance and if they would just follow guidelines set to help balance out their systems those cravings would pass. They would still enjoy some of those foods, but their “needs and cravings” for them would pass, so long as they did not allow themselves to binge on them and knock their systems out of balance again.

     Some people set difficult goals because they enjoy the thrill of the obstacle course, or they put things off until the final hour and then have to push themselves like they are in a race to get it all done in an impossibly short amount of time. Make choices for yourself, be selfish in this, and find what works for you, ask questions, do the research, do what needs to be done to be the best you, to live the best life. If you must live your life like you are in a race, then recognize that the race is not meant to make you miserable in reaching a goal that you can only fall away from in the end. After all, the joy of life isn’t in arriving at the destination, it’s the journey…and the characters we meet along the way!

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Now you can dress like you live in a barn.

All you have to do is drive to Moreno Valley.

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One of the latest installs by Gardner Graphics

One of the 2008 solutions is to do work for other good companies.

Chili’s Moreno Valley Has 2 Primary Zones ( Bar & Dine ) but has a separate system in the kitchen and 3 audio sources plus the tuner for the kitchen.

Dine Speakers

Bar Speakers

Entry with Speaker

And Finally, the Rack

Customer is very happy and another one is already been taken on in Riverside.

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And don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

It wasn’t all bad. My nephew Jason and his wife Myah had their first baby Taylor. Born 4-26-07.He was 7 pounds 3 ounces and 19 inches long.

And then there is my Niece Crystal and her husband Brian. Their son Jaedon born 1-16-07.

Both are healthy, happy and doing great!

Cory, Candace and I are healthy. I have lost 35 pounds.

That would be the Good News.

My father lost his battle with Cystic Fibrosis in July. His health had been deteriorating for months culminating in a collapsed lung. While he did recover from that the aggressive pattern of the disease left him with less lung function day by day. He passed July 26th 2007.

My fathers attributes were many. A man of character and wisdom. Not to mention a great sense of humor.

You are missed by so many Dad but I will always be your pal.

Shortly after my dad’s passing my Uncle Ernie lost his mother and two days later his own life from a heart attack. This was totally unexpected since he had been given a good bill of heath from his doctor just before it happened. As you can imagine my Aunt Arleen having lost her brother and husband in just a few weeks was almost unimaginable.

While all this was happening we found ourselves largely deprived of our primary income due to management changes at DMX Music. They are the company I had been doing most of my contract work for. After years of being their “go-to guy”, I found myself anything but in favor. Management was literally making things up to make me look bad and ignorant of my track record with DMX/AEI. Their clueless management approach and total lack of honest dialogue with me has been finacially trying for us and proved to be quite detrimental to the company’s performance. They are a major player in this business and the Western Region under this management has been run into the ground. It’s more than sad, it breaks my heart. Stupid is as stupid does.

Meanwhile due to the previous bankruptcy they filed sticking us for over $10,000.00 (that in itself a hard pill to swallow), we found ourselves on the receiving end of a $26,000.00 lawsuit asking for money back that we received. Oh yes it’s completely legal BK law. But more than we could handle. We might have been able to make a deal but it would have been for half still more than we could pay. So… One bankruptcy has lead to another and we close this year with one of our own.

I no longer drop everything for DMX. I work for other companies every chance I get. I should have been doing this as soon as they faltered but the truth be told it was my comfort zone and they are a really big fish. Not to mention that I have serviced their client base for 30 years, older than the company itself. It’s just like stocks, you gotta diversify.

I hope that 2008 brings the opportunity to heal the wounds that 2007 inflicted.

With life lost there is life anew and with all the evil in the world there is the comfort of family.

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