Charlee Morgan

Russ’s kindergarten report card! 

How cute is this? On Friday’s show I was saying how my report

cards always read “Charlee needs to apply herself”.

Ha ha ha…  I then joked that Russ failed kindergarten at Harbour View Elementary in Coquitlam. 

Who knew he’d have ‘Exhibit A’, provided by witness (and teacher) Mrs. Hardcastle, with evidence to the contrary?!

We now turn to ‘Exhibit B’.

Our Phrase Of The Week!  Pic was staged as a joke circa 1910.

“Not kidding” about a ‘torture chamber’ (blog-bondage with bling!!) thing, for the boys when they get a failing grade on ‘keeping their noses to the (Clear Morning) grindstone’!

Guess I could have “applied myself” to this blog earlier in the weekend but I have a houseguest in town.
I’ve got Exhibits A-Z of excuses as the ‘Queen of Justification’!
      
“Fit For A Queen” opens Thursday in Vancouver for one night only at the River Rock Show Theatre.  A ‘Vegas Style’ drag show with proceeds to the Shooting Stars Foundation.  Join me Tuesday morning at 7:50 for Charlee chit-chat with Kendra Sprinkling, Executive Director of the foundation.

Lots of fun on our Monday too, including our first BC SPCA Pet of the Week  on Clear Mornings!   A Makeover Monday and a Clear Escape for mom through Clear Rewards to give away, and I give myself an A for keeping a secret this long! 

BIG Clear concert announcement tomorrow morning just after 7 and just before weather with Wayne Cox from the Global News Hour.  A New and exotic Clear Escape will be announced before 9am! 

Enjoy the rest of your weekend. Talk to you on our Monday drive!  Bruce Williams is back  tomorrow morning with traffic, and an ‘A’ for ‘creative commute’!

Charlee…
(with thanks to Clear listener Karen for contributing to my blog quote today).

            
“Never bend your head.  Hold it high.  Look the world straight in the eye”.  - - Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).

The annual list of the World’s 100 Sexiest Women is out.  If I can pry it out of the hands of my Clear Morning boys, I’ll tell you who the sexy girls are!

There are 99 female billionaires in the world, 16 more than last year. We’ll tell you who the rich girls are!

More money means less sleep according to StatsCan.  Join us tomorrow to find out how your income is related to your sleep pattern. Perhaps we can count pretty dollar bills falling from Heaven to help us fall asleep?!     

                           

From ‘Jeans Day’ today to ‘Hat Day’ tomorrow on Clear FM! 
Another Friday thing we do is the ‘Phrase of the Week’.

Looking forward to winding down a crazy, busy week with you!

Charlee

   “Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.  I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead”. 
– Louisa May Alcott

If it’s a good man, look for the average-looking man!  I’ll tell you why tomorrow morning with results from The Canadian Club MANners Survey released this week.

If it’s a baby boy, eat bananas!  What you eat can influence what gender you conceive.  More on that as well.

 If it’s more happiness, it comes with more birthdays!  The ‘golden years’ really are golden.  I’ll share the happy news with you tomorrow on Clear Mornings.

My boy Byth is conquering the Coquitlam Crunch!  For a

great website of all the local walking trails visit www.mountainguru.com

I just might join Russ on this fabulous ‘booty’ walk!

 Tomorrow it’s all about putting your butt in a pair of blue jeans for the 18th Annual Jeans Day.  Proceeds to BC Children’s Hospital.  More at www.jeansday.ca

Charlee

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children”. — Charles R. Swindoll

We can keep it moving with the  ‘The Top 10 Actions’ on Earth Day today.

As gas prices keep going up, Zipcar could be an alternative for you.  The company just celebrated its first year of ‘car sharing’ in Vancouver. 

Join me tomorrow morning, around 7:50, for Charlee chit-chat with Ann Marie MacKinnon, Marketing Manager of Zipcar Vancouver. 

I’ve got an open invitation to test-drive one of their cars. I can be the Danica Patrick of Zipcar!  ‘Charlica’ Morgan.

Met the one the makes your heart race?

Want to be the first to cross the non-traditional line?

Tomorrow on the show, ‘Nuptials meet Narcissism’!  A new trend where the bride and groom plan their wedding based on their personalities.  Recent wedding cake creations include a ’shotgun wedding’ design featuring a pregnant bride; a ‘multi-tasking bride and groom’, each with a cellphone to their ear. Or how about this to shock the relatives?
A leggy (figurine) ‘bride straddling her groom’ on top of the wedding cake!              

This and more (do we need more?) on the show tomorrow, including Administrative Professional Day defined!

Kisses to the Earth and enjoy the rest of your day.

Charlee

 “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
- Gandhi

Vancouver calling!  

Where are all the single men in the city?

I keep hearing about dating drama and the challenges of finding available men.  The odds are against us girls, with a 3:1 ratio of women to men.  

We need a miracle, or perhaps a Match Made In Heaven!  Join me tomorrow morning at 7:50 for Charlee chit-chat with  Simi, a Personal Matchmaker, featured in the North Shore News last week.

Some ‘Sex And The City’ talk about Canadian Kim Cattrall who plays sexy Samantha, and who goes matronly in a PBS movie this Sunday night.  We go global shopping, in the morning, to the ‘Knock-Off’ Capital of the World where even the stars can’t resist the brand name bargains!

It’s Earth Day tomorrow.  I’ll share the ‘Top 10 Actions’ we can take to help the environment, and you’ll find out where the one day recycling depot for computers will be.

We also have a ‘weather warming’ for Wayne as we move him to ……

The Other Side… of the clock!  Starting tomorrow, Wayne’s weather with me will be just after your Clear FM updates at 6:00, 7:00, and 8:00am, rather than prior to.  And don’t worry, you’ll still hear your favourite weather guy in the Clear FM updates at 5:30, 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30am as usual.                

Our Global weather star, Wayne Cox, won’t mind his new shorter work day.  If we keep this up, he just may catch up to Tony Parson’s TWO day work week!

At Least Wayne can head up to the cabin earlier now on Fridays. This pic was sent in from Clear listener Donna Baldry who also has a cabin at Green Lake. 

What a beautiful sunset from ‘Wayne’s World’!

       “A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Charlee

…with Love!  (This is so Facebook)!

                                                   

…and with snow!

Didn’t last long though, unlike the seemingly forever ’sweet’ high on Salt Spring.

My nephews indulging in the  other ‘white stuff’,  sugared up (my fault!) on the computer next to me; Downloading songs which I’ve never heard, from artists I never knew existed! 

The ocassional ‘Coolness’, ‘Awesomeness’ and ‘Uberness’  would be uttered from their prepubescent potty mouths.  Huh?  When I ask “Aren’t you too young to be an Uber”?  My 11-year old nephew, Elijah, responds with: “Uberness is not a noun Auntie Charlee (with a snotty expression in a disgusted tone!) it just IS”! 

Huh?, again.

Meanwhile, I’m thinking ‘Miraculousness’ that I manage to sneak onto one of my fam’s three personal computers, especially as my sister flirts with a professional poker career online.  ”Wine Princess” substituted  for her most recent ‘victory of the vices’ tee , “I knocked out a pro at Full Tilt Poker”.   

I’m hoping her next acquisition will be ‘pretty in pink’ for her “Famousness” sister!  I’ll then have two choices for Russ’s designated ‘Hat Day’ on Fridays.  Pink poker cap from sis or Harley Davidson, Puerto Vallarta cap from Russ.  I’ll be good to go next Friday!

Going for a nature walk to the beach now, followed by a BBQ and a family poker game after dinner!  “Craziness” is the new “Togetherness”!

“Every artist was first an amateur”.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

….where I catch my ferry back to Vancouver!

Cxoxo

Talk to you on Monday.

 

Burnaby Fire Fighter’s Union President, Michael Hurley, with a surprise presentation at the podium for me!  It was the 16th Annual Fire Fighter’s Ball for their Charitable Society.    
       

      

“How Sweet It Is” to be told that I SAVED the Fire Fighters by MCing the “Evening In Paris” on short notice.  It’s the least I can do for the members who save lives and rescue animals too!    

                                              

                                                 

“All By Myself”, last night, when I logged into our Michael McDonald special through Clear Rewards. Love the former Doobie’s soulful sound and his new album ‘Soul Speak’.  I asked Russ “Did they really name themselves after drugs”?  To which the reply was “C’mon Charlee, you’re from Burnaby”.  Hmmm….always wondered why we were called ‘Burnaby Burnouts’?!!

That conversation led to the topic of ‘the devils music’ and the Crest Scandal in the 80’s where the company was accused of supporting the Church of Satan.  The president of Procter and Gamble supposedly made several tv appearances on talk shows, including Phil Donahue and Merv Griffin, denying such claims.  Regardless, the company has since changed its logo.
           
                              As a teengager, I remember looking at the back of toothpaste

tubes for the alleged ‘666′ in the stars of the Crest   logo.  I am spiritually unscathed from  those ‘dark’    days, even surving the Hell of a few bad   relationships since then.  So I think I must have a halo in Heaven with my name on it.  Although, my friends do lovingly refer to me as Charlee ‘Angel’ Mind Freak!

A Clear listener asked for some girlfriend advice on “Being dumped    or  divorced”.  While I do some R & D on that,  I highly recommend Debbie Ford’s  Spiritual Divorce’.  It helped remind me that the sun always rises after the darkest hour, and frankly, it kept me out of jail where I would have talked my cellmates to death!

Looking forward to ‘rising’ with you tomorrow morning!

 Charlee

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
                   –Albert Camus, summer, (1954)

   …from this day forward he’s Mr.McNightmare to me!!!!

By the end the show today, I had the good doctor working at THREE hospitals!  How can you tell I don’t watch the hospital dramas?  Got enough of my own.

Oh Perez Hilton would’ve blogged me on that one for sure.  Wayne and I talked about Hilton’s new THREE minute radio shows for major stations in the U.S., and a movie in the works. 

Hmmm…three minutes is enough to get ME into trouble with my big mouth.  On or OFF the radio !           
                                                
                                                   

Hopefully, however, I’ll be on my best behaviour tomorrow night at the Hilton Metrotown as MC for the 16th Annual Burnaby Firefighter’s Ball.  Global’s Steve Darling got the ‘911′ call from his pregnant wife and is unable to continue his four year reign as MC of the evening. 

Dignitaries in attendance will include:  Burnaby Mayor, Derek Corrigan; Deputy City Manager and Chair, World Police And Fire Games 2009, Chad Turpin;  Burnaby Fire Chief, Bob Cook; Burnaby Fire Fighter’s Union President, Michael Hurley; and Burnaby RCMP Superintendent, Rick Taylor, among others.  Grammy winning local artist Jim Byrnes will sing the national anthem for guests.  Proceeds to the Burnaby Firefighter’s Charitable Society.

Join me Monday on the show for Russ’s return from Mexico, and the beginning of my annoying question “Did you get me anything”?

We’ll also do some Charlee chit chat, after 7am, with the Executive Director of ‘Dress For Success’,  an organization helping disadvantaged women gain independence through donations of business attire, among other support.

And finally… ‘Silver Bullet’ was the phrase of the week this morning. Figuratively the term has now evolved into meaning ‘A direct and effortless solution to a problem’, derived from the actual use of silver bullets; the most famous user being The Lone Ranger.  Silver Bullet war bonds were issued in 1914.  Silver Bullet cocktails served in 1930.

As promised, here’s the recipe on our ‘Happy Hour’ cocktail menu.

Cheers from Charlee..

And here’s to drowning my sorrows of Dr. McDreamy drama this morning!

Silver Bullet

2 1/2 oz gin

1 1/2 tsp Scotch whisky

1 twist lemon peel

In a mixing glass half-filled with ice cubes, combine the gin and Scotch. Stir well. Strain into a shot glass. Garnish with the lemon twist.

   “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” –Henry Ford (1863-1947) 

  

Several of them on the show today!

I start off by saying I could never wear Pam Anderson’s bra; Wayne ends up talking about the Playboy mansion and Hef’s legendary ‘love’ grotto!

The ‘Pam’, Wayne, our weather guy from Global flirted with was Pamela Martin, his former TV Anchor co-worker who shared a seat with Wayne at opening night of Mamma Mia last week!  Not the SAME seat. Wayne’s wife was sitting next to him as well.  A Clear listener e-mailed the drama to me the very next morning.

From Playboy to P.E.T.A. for Pam, our B.C. babe!

The ‘Life And Times Of Pamela Anderson’, is the name of a new documentary-style reality show this summer.  I really like the girl because she’s a strong voice, and a beautiful face, for P.E.T.A.

“Pam call home!”.

Tomorrow on the show, my Clear line guest invites Pam to do ‘Breast Strokes’ for breast cancer awareness.  Join me, just after 7, for a conversation with Clear team member Tina with a fabulous fundraising idea for ‘The Weekend To End Breast Cancer’.

And this Law Of Attraction stuff really works (not so much for the Canucks!). Less than 48 hours of wanting to ‘off’ Global’s Steve Darling from MCing the Burnaby Firefighter’s Ball this weekend, there’s a sudden turn of events.  Don’t worry.  He’s still alive!  More tomorrow on the show (if it passes ‘Carpet City’ CLEARance : ) !

Charlee

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking”.
- Gen. George S. Patton

Or…just ONE sad story!

Let’s hope Russ clears customs on his way back to Clear! Mexican border guards may wish to detain the Canucks beach towel (I had given Russ) for DNA sand sampling.

Russ had the towel buried on the beach and then hung upside down on his hotel balcony in Mexico, reflecting the Canucks season.

In the meantime, the boys in the newsroom are still drawing straws to see who gets Charlee as their part-time job for the rest of the week. I think Mike will be back tomorrow.

Join me tomorrow morning after 8 for a conversation with Burnaby Fire Fighter Union President, Mike Hurley. We’ll chat about the 2009 World Police And Fire Games, and the Firefighter’s Ball this weekend in Burnaby.

Ok, well, THIS picture tells a story too doesn’t it?

For a girl’s inside voice!

Cxoxo

“Love What You Do. Do What You Love.
-Wayne Dyer