Hello All! As you all know, I am currently in the ranks of the unemployed, but more importantly, while I apply for jobs and we work on our move to PA, I am what you would call self employed. So here's the web addresses of some stuff I'm doing. Please check it out and let me know what you think.
www.chrisblodgett.com
surripets.myworldpower.com
amazing-videophone.weebly.com
These are a few few of the sites that I have up currently. On top of that I am also putting up youtube videos in an attempt to direct more traffic to my sites and get more leads. I heard the other day that a great way to market yourself is to post videos on youtube and make sure you include key words in the video description. It was a rough start up but it's not seeming too bad now. They also recommended doing blog posts, but I'm not sure exactly what I would call the new blogs, and what I would say. After all, what exacly does one say in a blog to up their chances of geting traffic to visit their blog, and then to visit their web sies? I'm sure when I learn more about how to do this effectively, I will let you all know so that my readers can take advantage of these great opportunities as well. On that note, I'm going to call it a night. I will write more for you all again soon.
Respectfully,
Chris Blodgett
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
7/29/11
Hey all. I finally came to the decision that maybe it'd help how I feel to come around here and post an entry. Let's just say, life has me down right now. We are paying our bills fairly well. School is the same. Even with the help I have received with Algebra, I believe this class is going to be my first college failure. It sucks, but it's true. I am in my last week and I'm 8 percent away from passing right now. Those danged tests and quizzes this class dragged me down really quick where as algebra 1A I was able to do ok on the quizzes and then failed the tests and managed to stay just above passing. So, I gave it my all but last week I felt myself giving up. I knew I was lost.
So, the other thing is, our home businesses that we are involved in. ACN is our main business, but Erin does the Healthy Living Oils as well. We do that one more so because we use the oils ourselves and they help us a lot, and we are distributors mainly so we can also share their benefits with others whenever people approach us about them. That's mainly what happens, we will be at the mechanic shop and someone will come in and be complaining about shoulder pain, and someone that has gotten oils from Erin will refer them to her and they will be amazed at how well the oil takes away the pain.
So, with our ACN business, I'm working with this sort of "training" where I am going through a program and within a year, I am guaranteed to add 100 representatives into our business. They are helping me put up a web page to market myself, without advertising ACN that is, simply advertising myself in whatever service or services that I want to advertise, and then getting leads that way, and then when I'm in contact with them, then I direct them to my online store front. Well I was going through the training last night, and it had me go to the web site generator and create a web site, creating the auto generator and stuff like that as well, where they would read what I put on there, and then have the option to leave their contact information if they want more information. So here's what I thought I was supposed to do because I was not told anything different by my mentor or by the training material that I was reading. Well, when I did my first web page, I selected to have it sent to me instead of to the hbsa web team, that way I wasn't actually submitting the page to be put up online just yet. Was almost like a practice page if you will. But on this page, I talked about finding a solution to financial independence, and being able to spend more time with your family, etc, basically working on a site that might generate leads with people that are already looking to get into an opportunity like this. The funny thing though, that caught me for a loop is I talked to my mentor today and he was first like "you shouldn't be putting up a web page yet unless you got to ______ section." I was like "well, in the last training material handbook I went through, at the end it had me create a page, but I didn't have it submitted, I had it sent to me." He was like "oh, ok, then that's good. I thought you said you submitted it online."
So I told him what my page said and he was like "thats not right." I was like "what do you mean?" He was like "we're not advertising your business. We don't care about getting people signed up to do business, what we are getting you online for is to make you the expert, gain you lots and lots of customers, and then those customers will be the ones to inquire with you about how you are able to offer them these services, and you simply say 'i get a piece of the action', and then a lot of them will be like 'how do i get a piece of the action too?' and that is when you direct them to your ACN rep page and they join your team that way." I guess I have been slightly depressed since that call, but it makes sense. I have to have not just rep's on my team but reps AND customers as well, so I guess I should just stick with it. I wish I could find a legit, not too complicated way to go out there in the world and bring in a significant amount of money. I keep getting this ad for some lady in davenport that supposedly is now bringing in multiple streams of income and is not having to work a normal job. If only it were true. I don't doubt ACN, I know it's a great business, and eventually we will get it up there. Right now is just really slow. Doesn't help that when we talked to family about it, either we heard nothing, or josh and sonia basically were like "yeah you helped us out with monavie but we heard from a cousin of a cousin that acn doesn't work so we aren't interested." Everyone that we thought would jump on something like this didn't, but that's part of the training we go through, they even tell us "those that you think will, wont. Those that you think wont, will. Those that you think can't, can, and those that you think cant, can. It's interesting because you would bring someone that you think is too young, say a 19 year old with no job, and you think she's broke and she signs up and becomes a rep. Then you try to show it to a business owner and they wont even give you the time of day. SO FRUSTRATING!
So, dad keeps calling us asking us for updates about going to philly. Hopefully we will have a more definite date soon. We don't have a definite just yet, but still shooting by the end of summer ish. It might be that Erin and Ally go out there first and I stay here for a month or so and then I go out too. I guess we will see. Anyway, I needed to come on here and vent because I feel like I am being pulled in ten different directions. I still get unemployment, so that helps, but school sucks, and I want the money situation to be 100 times better than it is, but I am doing what I can. Some days I feel like I don't have enough time to try to do all the things I want or need to do. oy. So anyway, I'm going to go upstairs and hopefully be able to go to sleep. Have had lots of trouble doing that lately. Last night I didnt go to bed till 4 am and still it was 5:30 before I fell asleep, then I was up by 6:45 because zoe was having a night mare, and then I slept till about 11, and dragged myself up finally.
On that note, I'm going to head out. Really hoping things look up pretty soon. Sometiems I think that we just need to get out of this town. I sometimes think that it's the town of clinton that depresses me. Anyway, I will talk to you all later.
So, the other thing is, our home businesses that we are involved in. ACN is our main business, but Erin does the Healthy Living Oils as well. We do that one more so because we use the oils ourselves and they help us a lot, and we are distributors mainly so we can also share their benefits with others whenever people approach us about them. That's mainly what happens, we will be at the mechanic shop and someone will come in and be complaining about shoulder pain, and someone that has gotten oils from Erin will refer them to her and they will be amazed at how well the oil takes away the pain.
So, with our ACN business, I'm working with this sort of "training" where I am going through a program and within a year, I am guaranteed to add 100 representatives into our business. They are helping me put up a web page to market myself, without advertising ACN that is, simply advertising myself in whatever service or services that I want to advertise, and then getting leads that way, and then when I'm in contact with them, then I direct them to my online store front. Well I was going through the training last night, and it had me go to the web site generator and create a web site, creating the auto generator and stuff like that as well, where they would read what I put on there, and then have the option to leave their contact information if they want more information. So here's what I thought I was supposed to do because I was not told anything different by my mentor or by the training material that I was reading. Well, when I did my first web page, I selected to have it sent to me instead of to the hbsa web team, that way I wasn't actually submitting the page to be put up online just yet. Was almost like a practice page if you will. But on this page, I talked about finding a solution to financial independence, and being able to spend more time with your family, etc, basically working on a site that might generate leads with people that are already looking to get into an opportunity like this. The funny thing though, that caught me for a loop is I talked to my mentor today and he was first like "you shouldn't be putting up a web page yet unless you got to ______ section." I was like "well, in the last training material handbook I went through, at the end it had me create a page, but I didn't have it submitted, I had it sent to me." He was like "oh, ok, then that's good. I thought you said you submitted it online."
So I told him what my page said and he was like "thats not right." I was like "what do you mean?" He was like "we're not advertising your business. We don't care about getting people signed up to do business, what we are getting you online for is to make you the expert, gain you lots and lots of customers, and then those customers will be the ones to inquire with you about how you are able to offer them these services, and you simply say 'i get a piece of the action', and then a lot of them will be like 'how do i get a piece of the action too?' and that is when you direct them to your ACN rep page and they join your team that way." I guess I have been slightly depressed since that call, but it makes sense. I have to have not just rep's on my team but reps AND customers as well, so I guess I should just stick with it. I wish I could find a legit, not too complicated way to go out there in the world and bring in a significant amount of money. I keep getting this ad for some lady in davenport that supposedly is now bringing in multiple streams of income and is not having to work a normal job. If only it were true. I don't doubt ACN, I know it's a great business, and eventually we will get it up there. Right now is just really slow. Doesn't help that when we talked to family about it, either we heard nothing, or josh and sonia basically were like "yeah you helped us out with monavie but we heard from a cousin of a cousin that acn doesn't work so we aren't interested." Everyone that we thought would jump on something like this didn't, but that's part of the training we go through, they even tell us "those that you think will, wont. Those that you think wont, will. Those that you think can't, can, and those that you think cant, can. It's interesting because you would bring someone that you think is too young, say a 19 year old with no job, and you think she's broke and she signs up and becomes a rep. Then you try to show it to a business owner and they wont even give you the time of day. SO FRUSTRATING!
So, dad keeps calling us asking us for updates about going to philly. Hopefully we will have a more definite date soon. We don't have a definite just yet, but still shooting by the end of summer ish. It might be that Erin and Ally go out there first and I stay here for a month or so and then I go out too. I guess we will see. Anyway, I needed to come on here and vent because I feel like I am being pulled in ten different directions. I still get unemployment, so that helps, but school sucks, and I want the money situation to be 100 times better than it is, but I am doing what I can. Some days I feel like I don't have enough time to try to do all the things I want or need to do. oy. So anyway, I'm going to go upstairs and hopefully be able to go to sleep. Have had lots of trouble doing that lately. Last night I didnt go to bed till 4 am and still it was 5:30 before I fell asleep, then I was up by 6:45 because zoe was having a night mare, and then I slept till about 11, and dragged myself up finally.
On that note, I'm going to head out. Really hoping things look up pretty soon. Sometiems I think that we just need to get out of this town. I sometimes think that it's the town of clinton that depresses me. Anyway, I will talk to you all later.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
Well this is quite interesting. Here we are, on the road, driving on the highway to go down towards KC and pick Ally up from the grand parents house and when we left, I mentinoed to Erin that I thought we should bring our 4G mobile wifi and our computers with us. That way, one of us could drive on the way down while the other tried to work on school work and then on the way back, we would switch. Well, I was trying to do what I could for this week's algebra assignment, and I am again struggling really bad. I'm looking forward to our ACN business taking off and having less to worry about. Speaking of that, we are hosting a speaker at our house this coming tuesday. We have a lot of people that we are planning to invite, including quite a few people from businesses that we know, and I figure this business is highly thought of by doctors, dentists, medical staff, etc, and so I am thinking of talking to the surgeon I had when I got my gall bladder removed and inviting him, as well as our family doctor, and Erin is going to invite the dental surgeon that extracted her broken tooth the other day. Hell, I want to go down to our local verizon store and talk to the manager there, and over at where we get our oil changed, the manager that works there is very familiar with us because we had our fuel filter changed there and he had to redo it because it leaked when we drove off, and he gave us 2 free oil changes on the house. So he'd be a good one to tag. So, here's hoping for a huge turnout for the reception tuesday night. =)
So I was trying to work on algebra and even with the stuff that should help, dang, I'm just floundering. I can't wait to be done with algebra and I hope to God that I can pull off a passing grade. I think I am just barely below passing right now, so basically I am currently failing, but hopefully I can pull it out of my arse. =P
So anyway, when Erin and I started our ACN businesses, I immediately messaged Josh and Sonia because I thought "they were so gungho about monavie and were able to do really well with that, but they had to keep doing monavie parties, and with this business, you don't have to sell to people, plus you really don't have to keep meeting with them. Josh and Sonia would rock at this business, and I figure, when erin and I move up the ladder and are eventually making a residual income every month and not having to work, and continueing to build our business, I would love for my family members to be right there with me...but that just means that when we succeed, maybe they will want to jump in then. We shall see! So I was working on algebra and today's assignment is pretty bad. I got the first few questions right, but then I got the next few wrong. Sometimes I just absolutely can not figure out how I need to solve the problem. I can do all the practice stuff I want and sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesnt.
So recently we made a trip to PA near Philly to visit family, apply for jobs, look at houses, etc, just to do the preliminary. THings went well. It's interesting, because I really love that side of the family, even though it's erin's side and not mine. I guess what I love about them out there, compared to moving closer to her kc family, or my family, is that all the family in philly are all about family. They don't judge us, they accept us no matter what, and they have always been supportive no matter what. It's kind of sad in a way, but I guess it is what it is. So we found a few houses that we really like, and we do have a favorite. It's been on the market for about a year now. As soon as we got back in town we connected with this lender that also does credit repair and guarantees that in 3-6 months we would have a credit score of near 700 and be lendable. So we started the process with them and we will probably be renting to start, but within 3months to 8 months hopefully be financing our first home.
So on that note, I'm going to sign off here and see if I might be able to pull another few impossible algebra problems out of my arse! I will write again after we start to get more people on our acn team and things start to pull ahead even more. ;) Talk to you soon.
C
So I was trying to work on algebra and even with the stuff that should help, dang, I'm just floundering. I can't wait to be done with algebra and I hope to God that I can pull off a passing grade. I think I am just barely below passing right now, so basically I am currently failing, but hopefully I can pull it out of my arse. =P
So anyway, when Erin and I started our ACN businesses, I immediately messaged Josh and Sonia because I thought "they were so gungho about monavie and were able to do really well with that, but they had to keep doing monavie parties, and with this business, you don't have to sell to people, plus you really don't have to keep meeting with them. Josh and Sonia would rock at this business, and I figure, when erin and I move up the ladder and are eventually making a residual income every month and not having to work, and continueing to build our business, I would love for my family members to be right there with me...but that just means that when we succeed, maybe they will want to jump in then. We shall see! So I was working on algebra and today's assignment is pretty bad. I got the first few questions right, but then I got the next few wrong. Sometimes I just absolutely can not figure out how I need to solve the problem. I can do all the practice stuff I want and sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesnt.
So recently we made a trip to PA near Philly to visit family, apply for jobs, look at houses, etc, just to do the preliminary. THings went well. It's interesting, because I really love that side of the family, even though it's erin's side and not mine. I guess what I love about them out there, compared to moving closer to her kc family, or my family, is that all the family in philly are all about family. They don't judge us, they accept us no matter what, and they have always been supportive no matter what. It's kind of sad in a way, but I guess it is what it is. So we found a few houses that we really like, and we do have a favorite. It's been on the market for about a year now. As soon as we got back in town we connected with this lender that also does credit repair and guarantees that in 3-6 months we would have a credit score of near 700 and be lendable. So we started the process with them and we will probably be renting to start, but within 3months to 8 months hopefully be financing our first home.
So on that note, I'm going to sign off here and see if I might be able to pull another few impossible algebra problems out of my arse! I will write again after we start to get more people on our acn team and things start to pull ahead even more. ;) Talk to you soon.
C
Monday, July 11, 2011
11:22 PM 7/11/2011
Hello everybody. Tonight's entry will be short, as I really do not have a whole lot to talk about. Technically, my time, it is 11:22, but we are currently in PA checking out houses and seeing family out there, and since we are on the east coast, local time is after midnight.
I hope everyone is doing well. I have been officially on unemployment for the past 3 weeks or so. What will take place by the end of summer as far as move goes? I'm not sure. no matter what happens though, I know I will be giving my parents a decent amount of notice. I know after hearing from mat that I was looking into moving out of the home we are living in right now, they were worried that we would just leave and not give them notice. I assured them that this would completely not be the case.
So here's the deal right now. Erin and I just partnered up with this company called ACN. We are both Independent Representatives. In fact, she is the first member on my team below me. It's a network marketing company that has partnered with almost all of the major companies like all the cell phone companies (ATT, SPRINT, VERIZON, TMOZBILE, etc), and the tv companies like (DIRECT TV and DISH NETWORK), and they also partnered with ADT, and they have their own security company as well. Basically what we do, is we recommend these products and services to our friends, as well as the opportunity that erin and I were presented with. Anyone that wants to join us, become a representative, will help us out greatly, but even better than that, they will be on the road to making a monthly residual income based on other's peoples bills. But I will go into that in a little bit.
The other thing that people can do is become a customer of any of these services through my business web site and two things will happen. 1) they will be helping me out tremendously, because every individual service, every single customer I get, boosts me that much closer to a promotion. 2) They will save up to 30% on their bills and here's how! Companies in general, pay millions of dollars to advertise their business. When they partner with me and the other independent representatives of ACN, they save the cost of having to advertise, and so they pass savings on to the customers, and then we as reps get commissions or bonuses for referring customers. So here goes.
My business web site is available upon request
If you are even slightly curious about this business opportunity, go to that link and click on the videos tab and watch the videos, especially the first two.
Now if you are not interested in that, or if you did watch the videos and this opportunity is not for you, please do me a HUGE favor and help me out by becoming a customer of mine. At that link you can click on "products" and you will be able to see the services that we offer.
I really hope some of you will give us a chance, and help me out in the process! Thank you in advance. Have a wonderful day!
I hope everyone is doing well. I have been officially on unemployment for the past 3 weeks or so. What will take place by the end of summer as far as move goes? I'm not sure. no matter what happens though, I know I will be giving my parents a decent amount of notice. I know after hearing from mat that I was looking into moving out of the home we are living in right now, they were worried that we would just leave and not give them notice. I assured them that this would completely not be the case.
So here's the deal right now. Erin and I just partnered up with this company called ACN. We are both Independent Representatives. In fact, she is the first member on my team below me. It's a network marketing company that has partnered with almost all of the major companies like all the cell phone companies (ATT, SPRINT, VERIZON, TMOZBILE, etc), and the tv companies like (DIRECT TV and DISH NETWORK), and they also partnered with ADT, and they have their own security company as well. Basically what we do, is we recommend these products and services to our friends, as well as the opportunity that erin and I were presented with. Anyone that wants to join us, become a representative, will help us out greatly, but even better than that, they will be on the road to making a monthly residual income based on other's peoples bills. But I will go into that in a little bit.
The other thing that people can do is become a customer of any of these services through my business web site and two things will happen. 1) they will be helping me out tremendously, because every individual service, every single customer I get, boosts me that much closer to a promotion. 2) They will save up to 30% on their bills and here's how! Companies in general, pay millions of dollars to advertise their business. When they partner with me and the other independent representatives of ACN, they save the cost of having to advertise, and so they pass savings on to the customers, and then we as reps get commissions or bonuses for referring customers. So here goes.
My business web site is available upon request
If you are even slightly curious about this business opportunity, go to that link and click on the videos tab and watch the videos, especially the first two.
Now if you are not interested in that, or if you did watch the videos and this opportunity is not for you, please do me a HUGE favor and help me out by becoming a customer of mine. At that link you can click on "products" and you will be able to see the services that we offer.
I really hope some of you will give us a chance, and help me out in the process! Thank you in advance. Have a wonderful day!
Monday, June 27, 2011
Monday, June 27th, 5AM
This one will be short and sweet. I'm beginning week 5 of 9 of both my classes, (algebra 1b and my 2nd hospitality class). The hospitality class is going well, with a high b or low A so far. The algebra class so far is slightly better than the last, but still just trying to keep a passing grade in the class. If I can get through algebra, i should be ok for a while.
So right now, things are ok, the bills are payed up for the most part until the beginning of auguest. The only ones that we have to pay yet, there are 3, electric $260 or something, $550.00 to my parents for the rent for july, and the cell phone bill for july, which I believe all 3 of these bills are due middle to end of the month of july, so thats not bad.
A recent development, Erin got a text from Eric (the supervisor that claimed I never contacted him,m and said some things about me that I never found out what). he claimed to erin that he had nothing to do with me getting fired, and he is saddened that I wont talk to him. the funny thing, well there are a few, is this. 1) I'm not "not talking to him." I simply have been the one to have to initiate contact with him in the past when we didn't hear form him for a while. I don't trust him at all, and with the way that the firing went down, with him and securitas claiming two things that werent true, which were that I had the car towed (which I didn't, and I have proof,) and that I never contacted my supervisor (which I did, but eric claims I didn't talk to him.) So oh well! But the funny thing is, Eric has my number, he has the means to be able to reach me if he wants. To say "he's ignoring me. I have tried to call him and he wont answer." I'm like "that's a bunch of crap. He has not tried to call me once." Erin tonight asked him "you 'do' know that chris upgraded to a new phone right? He's no longer on blackberry, which means that you can't reach him on blackberry messenger." Eric was like "oh, I didn't realize that. I will try him again." So erin goes "just be on the lookout, he might message ya."
I'm just like "i will believe that when I see it. Eric is more the kind of guy that gets where he wants to be, such as how he got to be supervisor, by talking big, and making himself look better than he is. It is because of having worked with him, and our experiences with him as a supposed friend that I probably trust the guy less than anyone else. I hate to say it, but it's true. You can only have someone tell you something that turns out to be a lie so many times before you're like "how on earth can I believe anything you say?" If you claim that you are a friend, and you didn't do anything to help push a firing on you, but then when I got fired, securitas said "eric said some things about you," but then wouldn't say what he said, it's like "You had nothing to do with it, but yet you obviously did from what the company told me, and not only that, but the reason you and securitas gave as to why I was fired was complete bs!"
It worked out though, because I was awarded the unemployment because the company was unable to provide any proof what so ever as to why they fired me. THey and eric had no actual proof about what they accused me of. What I 'was' guilty of was simply giving a car a parking ticket because they were parked in a no parking zone and I did what was right with the safety of the other drivers in mind. They turned it around and said "he had the car towed and didn't talk to anyone." When the unemployment representative interviewed me and told me what they reported, and said "is this true?" I was just like "no ma'am, I never had the car towed, and the supervisor was notified of the situation. I'm not sure why they would make these claims."
So oh well, I just completed week 4 of both algebra 1b and HTT210. Lately I am having trouble getting all my assignments turned in by the deadline, but I learned in the past that it is better to turn things in a day late than to skip turning them in. Getting half or 3/4 credit for an assignment helps compared to how much it hurts to get 0 points out of however many. With these math classes I just want to get past them. With the other classes, I have found that I can get a b or an A much easier. LOL!
So on that note, I have to sign off because I spent quite a bit of time on assignments tonight and my batter power is at 7% which means it will put me in standby mode soon. I will talk to you all again next time! take care and God Bless!
C
So right now, things are ok, the bills are payed up for the most part until the beginning of auguest. The only ones that we have to pay yet, there are 3, electric $260 or something, $550.00 to my parents for the rent for july, and the cell phone bill for july, which I believe all 3 of these bills are due middle to end of the month of july, so thats not bad.
A recent development, Erin got a text from Eric (the supervisor that claimed I never contacted him,m and said some things about me that I never found out what). he claimed to erin that he had nothing to do with me getting fired, and he is saddened that I wont talk to him. the funny thing, well there are a few, is this. 1) I'm not "not talking to him." I simply have been the one to have to initiate contact with him in the past when we didn't hear form him for a while. I don't trust him at all, and with the way that the firing went down, with him and securitas claiming two things that werent true, which were that I had the car towed (which I didn't, and I have proof,) and that I never contacted my supervisor (which I did, but eric claims I didn't talk to him.) So oh well! But the funny thing is, Eric has my number, he has the means to be able to reach me if he wants. To say "he's ignoring me. I have tried to call him and he wont answer." I'm like "that's a bunch of crap. He has not tried to call me once." Erin tonight asked him "you 'do' know that chris upgraded to a new phone right? He's no longer on blackberry, which means that you can't reach him on blackberry messenger." Eric was like "oh, I didn't realize that. I will try him again." So erin goes "just be on the lookout, he might message ya."
I'm just like "i will believe that when I see it. Eric is more the kind of guy that gets where he wants to be, such as how he got to be supervisor, by talking big, and making himself look better than he is. It is because of having worked with him, and our experiences with him as a supposed friend that I probably trust the guy less than anyone else. I hate to say it, but it's true. You can only have someone tell you something that turns out to be a lie so many times before you're like "how on earth can I believe anything you say?" If you claim that you are a friend, and you didn't do anything to help push a firing on you, but then when I got fired, securitas said "eric said some things about you," but then wouldn't say what he said, it's like "You had nothing to do with it, but yet you obviously did from what the company told me, and not only that, but the reason you and securitas gave as to why I was fired was complete bs!"
It worked out though, because I was awarded the unemployment because the company was unable to provide any proof what so ever as to why they fired me. THey and eric had no actual proof about what they accused me of. What I 'was' guilty of was simply giving a car a parking ticket because they were parked in a no parking zone and I did what was right with the safety of the other drivers in mind. They turned it around and said "he had the car towed and didn't talk to anyone." When the unemployment representative interviewed me and told me what they reported, and said "is this true?" I was just like "no ma'am, I never had the car towed, and the supervisor was notified of the situation. I'm not sure why they would make these claims."
So oh well, I just completed week 4 of both algebra 1b and HTT210. Lately I am having trouble getting all my assignments turned in by the deadline, but I learned in the past that it is better to turn things in a day late than to skip turning them in. Getting half or 3/4 credit for an assignment helps compared to how much it hurts to get 0 points out of however many. With these math classes I just want to get past them. With the other classes, I have found that I can get a b or an A much easier. LOL!
So on that note, I have to sign off because I spent quite a bit of time on assignments tonight and my batter power is at 7% which means it will put me in standby mode soon. I will talk to you all again next time! take care and God Bless!
C
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Sunday, June 19th, 2011 (FATHERS DAY!)
OMG I can't believe that. You ever have part of an email or blog or whatever, and then you accidentally hit the wrong key and you delete it all? Well I just had that happen here. Thankfully I didn't have a whole lot typed up just yet, so I'm glad for that. So here we go again!
Happy Father's day to all you dads out there!
This past thursday, I finally had my over the phone hearing with iowa work force about the unemployment. They tried to call securitas but were unable to get anyone on the phone. I got a few answers to some of the things that I wasn't able to find out when they fired me. They said that Eric had said some things about me, and that there were discreptancies (however that's spelled) with my report, but wouldn't tell me anything else. Well to start the phone interview off, when the lady came back on the line and told me that securitas was unable to be reached, we talked about what they said in their report about why I was let go. This caught my attention, because it was 2 things that were complete bullshit. She said "Their report said that the reason you were let go was because you had a vehicle towed, and said that you notified your supervisor, and this was a violation of company policies. Did you have a car towed?" I was like "NO ma'am I did not. I had a vehicle 'ticketed,' but the car was still in the lot when I left. They told me that the hospital paid for teh parking ticket, but I know nothing about it being towed." She was like "that's interesting. So you did not have the car towed, you only had the car ticketed, right?" "That's correct ma'am." "What did you have the car ticketed for?" "They were parked in a traffic area. I have a photo that I took as well as the police officer that issued the ticket. In the photo you can see at least half a dozen spaces near the vehicle that they could have parked. There was no reason they should have parked there, and I felt that it was a safety concern for other drivers coming into the parking lot." "Oh, I see. Well yeah, it makes sense to me Christopher, if they are parked like that then they should have been ticketed." "Exactly my thoughts on it ma'am."
She asked me how many written and verbal warnings I had received prior to this. I said "I only received one verbal warning about something about 8 months back, but otherwise in the year and a half that I had been there, I had a spotless record." She simply said "sounds great! I think that's all I need. I will make my decision and you and securitas will receive notice of my decision. If either party doesn't agree with the decision, they can contest it." I simply said "Sounds good. Thank ou ma'am."
So, now hopefully by next friday I will receive my first unemployment check in the bank. It'll be for 4 weeks, so that should be pretty nice. If it doesn't happen by then, then it should definitely take place by the following week. I'm just anxious because I don't know the "official" decision. I guess it worries me because there's always that chance that she decided not to award me the unemployment. I'm sure I have nothing to worry about. I am applying with jobs each and every week, and focusing on my algebra and hospitality class. So far so good with those. I think I have a B in both of those currently, not that i'm 100% positive that algebra will remain there, but we will see. All I can do is try my best and see what happens.
I'm hoping that after finding out that their report wasn't exactly the truth, that I should have no issues with getting the unemployment. It made me stress a bit though because I'm like "why would they say I had the car towed?" Also, when we talked about them saying I didn't contact my supervisor, I explained that I contacted him through black berry messenger, and sent him the photo that way. She asked me "and you two had always communicated that way and never had any issues till this incident right?" I was like "that is correct. Working the grave yard shift, if it was something like this, we never used to have to call anyone and get permission. It was not a very big deal and I feel I made the right decision. Eric was notified though, whether he claims he was or not, and the vehicle was never towed, so I'm not quite sure why they are saying those two things."
It made me go "oh, that makes sense though, becaues they claimed there was a discreptancy between what happened and my report, and said that I had an integrity issue. Well if they are claiming that I towed the car and didn't contact eric, and I actually did contact eric, and didn't tow the car, and wrote my report exactly how things did really happen, they could easily claim that I wasn't truthful in my report. It makes sense that they would not tell me that when getting fired becaues they knew that if they tried to not say too much about what they were claiming, maybe I wouldn't fight them on it. And I would have. I kept the photo of that car for a reason. I still have it, not that it is much good to me anymore.
So it's interesting, I am loving my HTC Thunderbolt phone from verizon. Ever since I upgraded from my blackberry, I am so addicted! I love the android network! There are so many free apps that you can get! Plus compared to my blackberry, I can download songs for free. I have gotten into this game, Live Texas Holdem. I play with the chips that I win for free every day. every day that I log on, I get awarded 5,000 chips. I only do the low stakes tables because I don't like losing a lot quickly. Plus, for some reason I win a lot more on the low stakes tables than on the high stakes tables. Erin was like "Just don't bet with real money though." I was like "oh trust me, I'm not. I don't want to lose real money on it, that'd be too depressing.". I like the "idea" of gambling and possibly getting rich but at the same time, I'm scared to death that I would lose a lot of money. But I want to know how to play cards a little better, and I have noticed that I am picking up more on the different types of "hands" you can get and then knowing when to bet more, but also knowing when I might be better off to fold. I downloaded an actual poker game and I didn't like it because I had to put money into the pot each hand no matter if I folded or not. I couldn't just check. So I uninstalled that app and will stick with my blackjack game and my live texas holdem. The blackjack is against the computer but the texas holdem is against actual players.
So other than that, I just felt like with the new news about the unemployment, and stuff like that, I knew it was time to once again get on here and post. I went on facebook to post happy fathers day to all the fathers I know, including a few friends (or one that I thought was a friend). This other guard named Matt Kestel, when I got fired, I blocked Eric on facebook and deleted matt because I was trying to sever connections with past employment. Matt texted me by that night complaining and asking why I deleted him. I re-added him and said that I really did not have any issues with him, just with eric, and I thought things were good. Well, I went to try to look him up on my friends list and he wasn't on there. I was like "well that's very interesting." I was able to look him up so apparently he didn't block me, just probably deleted me, and he did so after acting like I offended him by deleting him. I'm like "um, ok? Why throw a fit just to turn around and delete me instead?" If he wants to be childish like that, when he claimed that he and I were good, then that's his problem. OH WELL
But it did bug me quite a bit today. I was making lunch and doing the dishes really quick, and erin came in there and asked me if I was ok. I just shrugged. She was like "what's wrong?" I told her that I was just thinking about the things with work, and what they claimed in their report, and the fact that matt de-friended me, and although I know it shouldn't bug me, it does a little. that I thought that the main problem I have is that they weren't honest in their report. If they said "he had a car ticketed and didn't follow chain of command, and that's why we let him go." That's actually what they told me, but then to turn around and say "he had the car towed and never contacted the supervisor, and lied on his report." I'm like "huh?!" So, apparently I just have to let it go. There is not a whole lot I can do about it. I had to keep explaining to Erin's mom why I don't think I will apply at securitas out in Philly. After this, I don't know if I want to work there again.
I look forward to being out there though, I really want to get into a flight school and start working on my pilot certs. That will be really awesome!
So anyway, at least all bills except rent and the cell phones, are paid up till the beginning of august, so that is great. I am getting another refund from my school that should be deposited in my bank account by monday morning, so I will be able to send off rent for the month and pay the cell phone bill. As long as the unemployment begins, I wont have to worry much.
On that note, I will call it a night! I will have to get back online in a little bit and do one assignment. I already did algebra for the week, I just have to do my hospitality class as well. Talk to you all again soon!
C
Happy Father's day to all you dads out there!
This past thursday, I finally had my over the phone hearing with iowa work force about the unemployment. They tried to call securitas but were unable to get anyone on the phone. I got a few answers to some of the things that I wasn't able to find out when they fired me. They said that Eric had said some things about me, and that there were discreptancies (however that's spelled) with my report, but wouldn't tell me anything else. Well to start the phone interview off, when the lady came back on the line and told me that securitas was unable to be reached, we talked about what they said in their report about why I was let go. This caught my attention, because it was 2 things that were complete bullshit. She said "Their report said that the reason you were let go was because you had a vehicle towed, and said that you notified your supervisor, and this was a violation of company policies. Did you have a car towed?" I was like "NO ma'am I did not. I had a vehicle 'ticketed,' but the car was still in the lot when I left. They told me that the hospital paid for teh parking ticket, but I know nothing about it being towed." She was like "that's interesting. So you did not have the car towed, you only had the car ticketed, right?" "That's correct ma'am." "What did you have the car ticketed for?" "They were parked in a traffic area. I have a photo that I took as well as the police officer that issued the ticket. In the photo you can see at least half a dozen spaces near the vehicle that they could have parked. There was no reason they should have parked there, and I felt that it was a safety concern for other drivers coming into the parking lot." "Oh, I see. Well yeah, it makes sense to me Christopher, if they are parked like that then they should have been ticketed." "Exactly my thoughts on it ma'am."
She asked me how many written and verbal warnings I had received prior to this. I said "I only received one verbal warning about something about 8 months back, but otherwise in the year and a half that I had been there, I had a spotless record." She simply said "sounds great! I think that's all I need. I will make my decision and you and securitas will receive notice of my decision. If either party doesn't agree with the decision, they can contest it." I simply said "Sounds good. Thank ou ma'am."
So, now hopefully by next friday I will receive my first unemployment check in the bank. It'll be for 4 weeks, so that should be pretty nice. If it doesn't happen by then, then it should definitely take place by the following week. I'm just anxious because I don't know the "official" decision. I guess it worries me because there's always that chance that she decided not to award me the unemployment. I'm sure I have nothing to worry about. I am applying with jobs each and every week, and focusing on my algebra and hospitality class. So far so good with those. I think I have a B in both of those currently, not that i'm 100% positive that algebra will remain there, but we will see. All I can do is try my best and see what happens.
I'm hoping that after finding out that their report wasn't exactly the truth, that I should have no issues with getting the unemployment. It made me stress a bit though because I'm like "why would they say I had the car towed?" Also, when we talked about them saying I didn't contact my supervisor, I explained that I contacted him through black berry messenger, and sent him the photo that way. She asked me "and you two had always communicated that way and never had any issues till this incident right?" I was like "that is correct. Working the grave yard shift, if it was something like this, we never used to have to call anyone and get permission. It was not a very big deal and I feel I made the right decision. Eric was notified though, whether he claims he was or not, and the vehicle was never towed, so I'm not quite sure why they are saying those two things."
It made me go "oh, that makes sense though, becaues they claimed there was a discreptancy between what happened and my report, and said that I had an integrity issue. Well if they are claiming that I towed the car and didn't contact eric, and I actually did contact eric, and didn't tow the car, and wrote my report exactly how things did really happen, they could easily claim that I wasn't truthful in my report. It makes sense that they would not tell me that when getting fired becaues they knew that if they tried to not say too much about what they were claiming, maybe I wouldn't fight them on it. And I would have. I kept the photo of that car for a reason. I still have it, not that it is much good to me anymore.
So it's interesting, I am loving my HTC Thunderbolt phone from verizon. Ever since I upgraded from my blackberry, I am so addicted! I love the android network! There are so many free apps that you can get! Plus compared to my blackberry, I can download songs for free. I have gotten into this game, Live Texas Holdem. I play with the chips that I win for free every day. every day that I log on, I get awarded 5,000 chips. I only do the low stakes tables because I don't like losing a lot quickly. Plus, for some reason I win a lot more on the low stakes tables than on the high stakes tables. Erin was like "Just don't bet with real money though." I was like "oh trust me, I'm not. I don't want to lose real money on it, that'd be too depressing.". I like the "idea" of gambling and possibly getting rich but at the same time, I'm scared to death that I would lose a lot of money. But I want to know how to play cards a little better, and I have noticed that I am picking up more on the different types of "hands" you can get and then knowing when to bet more, but also knowing when I might be better off to fold. I downloaded an actual poker game and I didn't like it because I had to put money into the pot each hand no matter if I folded or not. I couldn't just check. So I uninstalled that app and will stick with my blackjack game and my live texas holdem. The blackjack is against the computer but the texas holdem is against actual players.
So other than that, I just felt like with the new news about the unemployment, and stuff like that, I knew it was time to once again get on here and post. I went on facebook to post happy fathers day to all the fathers I know, including a few friends (or one that I thought was a friend). This other guard named Matt Kestel, when I got fired, I blocked Eric on facebook and deleted matt because I was trying to sever connections with past employment. Matt texted me by that night complaining and asking why I deleted him. I re-added him and said that I really did not have any issues with him, just with eric, and I thought things were good. Well, I went to try to look him up on my friends list and he wasn't on there. I was like "well that's very interesting." I was able to look him up so apparently he didn't block me, just probably deleted me, and he did so after acting like I offended him by deleting him. I'm like "um, ok? Why throw a fit just to turn around and delete me instead?" If he wants to be childish like that, when he claimed that he and I were good, then that's his problem. OH WELL
But it did bug me quite a bit today. I was making lunch and doing the dishes really quick, and erin came in there and asked me if I was ok. I just shrugged. She was like "what's wrong?" I told her that I was just thinking about the things with work, and what they claimed in their report, and the fact that matt de-friended me, and although I know it shouldn't bug me, it does a little. that I thought that the main problem I have is that they weren't honest in their report. If they said "he had a car ticketed and didn't follow chain of command, and that's why we let him go." That's actually what they told me, but then to turn around and say "he had the car towed and never contacted the supervisor, and lied on his report." I'm like "huh?!" So, apparently I just have to let it go. There is not a whole lot I can do about it. I had to keep explaining to Erin's mom why I don't think I will apply at securitas out in Philly. After this, I don't know if I want to work there again.
I look forward to being out there though, I really want to get into a flight school and start working on my pilot certs. That will be really awesome!
So anyway, at least all bills except rent and the cell phones, are paid up till the beginning of august, so that is great. I am getting another refund from my school that should be deposited in my bank account by monday morning, so I will be able to send off rent for the month and pay the cell phone bill. As long as the unemployment begins, I wont have to worry much.
On that note, I will call it a night! I will have to get back online in a little bit and do one assignment. I already did algebra for the week, I just have to do my hospitality class as well. Talk to you all again soon!
C
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Good evening all. I'm not sure how long of a blog I'm going to make tonight, but I wanted to at least do something. So, I received my first of 3 refunds I'm scheduled to get this summer this week. It helped tremendously, even though it was pretty much gone within half a day. The great thing though is that we paid a huge chunk of change to the energy company, so we are all paid up with them, and we paid off our qwest bill, so bot those are good until at last the end of july. Then we had some work done on Erin's car beecause it really needed it.
So this week in class has sucked really bad. University of Phoenix has been having a lot of technical issues with their student web site. There have been at least 2 days so far where I have not been able to turn assignments in on time because it wouldn't let me into the site. At first I freaked out because it said I was not enrolled in classes, which I was like "WHAT?!" I can always reach my financial aid rep,and they can reach each other, so I called her and told her what was going on and she told me it was not on my end, and was actually the college student site messing up. So, I breathed a little bit easier. The night before, I had worked my butt off to get my algebra quiz done and i passed it, and then suddenly I was unable to submit my assignments. I was like "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I DONT WANT THEM TO BE LATE!!!"
Side Note: One thing that bugs me about my netbook sometimes is I have to pay close attention because while I'm typing, I will notice that one of my keys did not register and so I will have a word that shows up with a letter missing.
So, the night before, I felt great having all my assignments done on time, but then I was depressed because I knew that I was going to probably take a hit on my grades on those assignments. I was up till like 4 AM and then still could'nt sleep very well. It sucked.. but now I hear that wih the problems that the site is having this week, they are going to be lenient on the grades if we are unable to get on the site and turn things in. I hate it, but at least there is that positive part of it.
So on that note, zoe, erin,and I went to the strawberry farm and picked about 18 lbs o strawberries. That was fun. We paid $1.50 per pound, and they took us right to one of the rows and we were there for about an hour. Then we sold off about 5 lbs of it to a friend, bagged up most of the rest, minus about a lb that I split with Zoe. I had about 10 oz in a bowl with sugar on it, and zoe had about 6 oz. I thought she had quite a bit, but I realized I was wrong when she finished it and was like "MORE!" lol.
So on that note, tonight I went to try to log into the student website and now they are having issues with people being able to even log in, so I was like "well, I guess no school work for me tonight!" Oh well. I'm going to try to not stress out about it. On that note I will call hat it for the night! I wish you all the best, God Bless you all, and talk to you again soon!
C
So this week in class has sucked really bad. University of Phoenix has been having a lot of technical issues with their student web site. There have been at least 2 days so far where I have not been able to turn assignments in on time because it wouldn't let me into the site. At first I freaked out because it said I was not enrolled in classes, which I was like "WHAT?!" I can always reach my financial aid rep,and they can reach each other, so I called her and told her what was going on and she told me it was not on my end, and was actually the college student site messing up. So, I breathed a little bit easier. The night before, I had worked my butt off to get my algebra quiz done and i passed it, and then suddenly I was unable to submit my assignments. I was like "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I DONT WANT THEM TO BE LATE!!!"
Side Note: One thing that bugs me about my netbook sometimes is I have to pay close attention because while I'm typing, I will notice that one of my keys did not register and so I will have a word that shows up with a letter missing.
So, the night before, I felt great having all my assignments done on time, but then I was depressed because I knew that I was going to probably take a hit on my grades on those assignments. I was up till like 4 AM and then still could'nt sleep very well. It sucked.. but now I hear that wih the problems that the site is having this week, they are going to be lenient on the grades if we are unable to get on the site and turn things in. I hate it, but at least there is that positive part of it.
So on that note, zoe, erin,and I went to the strawberry farm and picked about 18 lbs o strawberries. That was fun. We paid $1.50 per pound, and they took us right to one of the rows and we were there for about an hour. Then we sold off about 5 lbs of it to a friend, bagged up most of the rest, minus about a lb that I split with Zoe. I had about 10 oz in a bowl with sugar on it, and zoe had about 6 oz. I thought she had quite a bit, but I realized I was wrong when she finished it and was like "MORE!" lol.
So on that note, tonight I went to try to log into the student website and now they are having issues with people being able to even log in, so I was like "well, I guess no school work for me tonight!" Oh well. I'm going to try to not stress out about it. On that note I will call hat it for the night! I wish you all the best, God Bless you all, and talk to you again soon!
C
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