ugo

Happy New Year! i still have about four and a half hours to go here in Florida. as we say in spanish...

Feliz año nuevo.

That's right, I forgot! It's ALREADY midnight there!!
Take care friend.

Nuovo anno felice to you too Ugo! (Hope I got that correct )

I really hope your situation improves in 2009. Just remember, stay true to yourself and you'll succeed in the end!!

Happy New Year Ugo, my friend. Only 3 more hours until 2009. May the next year bring you luck and happiness

Happy New Year to you my friend. Hope 2009 brings you happiness and better fortunes.

Happy New Year to you too, ugo!!

The new year is 11 hours and 42 minutes away here.

The Buddhist saying means that when life is throwing so much ill wind in your direction, don't fight it, but instead let it just swirl around you. Maybe a better saying is "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade." Take the bad that's around you, and make it into something useful, or at the very least just leave those co-workers to their little games they're playing on you. In time, you will be the one left standing, and they'll be shown for the foolish little children they are. I know, too, that words are easy to say than to live (I have bouts with diverticulitis and pancreatitis brought on in part at least by those around me). All I can do is to close me eyes, take deep breaths and try and let the stresses that would overwhelm me slip away as much as I can, like opening the valve on a teapot about to explode. Anyway, personally I'm not looking for anything more than maintaining the status quo next year--I gave up the dream of a new year equaling a fresh start for myself long, long ago, but most sincerely hope that this new year will bring a fresh start for you, for Danielle, and for everyone else.

Hi there, Ugo--a happy New Year to you, too! I was sorry to see you'd been indisposed and in hospital a short time ago. I sincerely hope you are feeling better now. Believe me, I can empathize! I just noticed your new avatar--really neat, Ugo! Now we all can see what, or who, is on your mind! Seriously though, be the willow and bend in the winds of unkindness that swirl around you, rather than the oak that gets toppled over and broken. Its something from an old Buddhist saying (I think) that I keep in mind every day. Stay true, Ugo, my friend!

A Happy New Year to you, too, my friend.

I hope you and your mother are getting better and your colleagues behave themselves in the new year.
Maybe tell those "colleagures" you've got a big international family that wants to get after them if they harm you. That will be not far from the truth.

Hopefully...more money...LOL!