Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Hello everyone. I know it's been a little while since my last post. In fact, during the month and a half or so that it was just me and the girls in clinton, I did come on here and post, but mostly I took about 15 minutes every single day and used our digital video camera and did a video blog about how things were going, what was going on, etc. Well ever since being here in pa, I have recorded a video blog a few times but with the whole family being back together, I find it hard to remember to do it.
So here's an update. We've been here in PA together for less than 2 months now. About 5 weeks in, which was about a week ago, I hadn't heard from my parents for a little while. I had spoken to my dad before I finally left clinton, and as we were on the road, but I hadn't heard from my mom in months. A lot went down between us and them recently. After not hearing anything from my mom for months, we went to church a week ago from this last sunday, which was like the 5th of november I believe. We went to church, and then afterwards we went to Panera Bread for lunch. While we were there, erin looked at her facebook account, and found out that my mom was logged onto facebook via my sister jessica's account, and was attacking erin publicly on her wall. There were 4 parts to her message, and each part was really long, and basically it was about things like how erin is supposedly ruining my life, how we are slobs, how erin will never be a chef, about how much they financially helped us when we first got out of the military and that we spat in their face. She went on and on even going as far to say that Zoe would be able to come live with them if she needed to but that they would never help us again. It just went on and on, and I finally responded to the post saying "mom, this is inappropriate! You should not be posting any of this publicly! This is something you need to take up with us over the phone or in person but THIS IS NOT RIGHT! You need to appologize to Erin!"
Well, it didn't take me long before I noticed that my oldest brother josh, the asshole that he is, had read mom's post and had "liked" it. He then came on to respond to my response and was saying how we are free-loaders, that we should look in the mirror and tell ourselves that we are slobs, that we should be the ones to apologize to mom and dad, bla bla bla. I simply said "whatever josh. You are talking out of your ass." After this went on for a while, remember, it was on the public wall where employers and anybody else could see, I finally came on there and posted that I would not allow them to publicly attack us and say whatever they want about us no matter what they might be upset about. That this was something that should have been discussed between us privately. I said that I was going to block them all so they couldn't continue their rampage against us on a public social networking wall and that I expected an apology for going about things this way before I would ever consider unblocking them on facebook.
I then blocked them, which included mom, jessica (since mom can obviously get on her facebook account), josh, and sonia since i wouldn't put it past josh to try to get on sonia's account to say something else.
The best part about all this is that my family had my number and erin's number and they could have very easily called to yell at us about whatever they wanted to complain about. Yet, they thought it was ok to go on a public forum and post very hateful stuff about erin first and then me when I told them it was uncalled for.
Here's the gist of what the hate was about. They said we left the house trashed. 1) erin wasn't there for the last 6 weeks to 2 months. It was me and the girls. I was having to deal with getting me and the girls moved out here, as well as moving our stuff since erin was out here working her job. It wasn't a small job, especially because dad also wanted me to clear out junk from the house. So here I was packing boxes, getting us all ready to move, doing what I could around the house, but at the same time, was still only on unemployment, and was having issues paying everything that needed to be paid. So, my options were a) not move for a little bit and try to put what money I could away to help, but at the same time I was having trouble paying mom and dad the rent and so I didn't think it was fair for us to stay in the house and keep not being able to pay them. We werent several months behind, I had to pay them september still when we moved out just after october 1st, but I thought that the longer I stayed there without being able to really pay much, it was just going to get worse.
So, me and ally and zoe rented a penske truck, the biggest one we could, and I sold my ford truck to help pay for the gas on the trip, and we loaded the truck ourselves *which was mostly me loading it. Ally helped a little bit, but mostly it was her and zoe playing while I loaded the truck. which made the process of packing the truck and trying to get out of the house take what felt like forever*..
So, we started loading the truck up around noon on monday, which was October 1st, and we loaded until about 1AM that night, and we were so wiped out by that point and had so much left to do. I was trying to clean as I went, and was bagging up not just junk that was ours, but junk that was already in the house when we moved in that belonged to mom and dad, but dad had asked me to clear out places like the basement, garage, and attic, but i know he either didn't realize just how much stuff was in the house in those areas, or he just didn't care and thought that we should do it anyway. 1) it cost money to get rid of stuff like that, 2) we didn't have enough to get rid of everything they wanted...2) we had payed out of pocket for things at the house that technically weren't our job... for example, the sun porch when we moved in was jammed full of crap. We put a little bit out there, but mostly there were old beds, junk on the floor, tubs, plastic parts, etc, from one side of the room to the other. It cost us $500 to have 1800gotjunk come out and clear out that room for us, but we paid for it and got it done. And was there a thank you frmo dad whenever he came out and saw the room nice and open and no trash or junk out there? nope.
Well while I was packing boxes from stuff we had stored with the stuff already in the basement, I went through stuff that was down there, both ours and theirs and bagged up a ton of stuff. By the time we moved out, I had bagged up a dozen contractor size trash bags and had them out in back of the houes. Because of the money issues, I had not been able to get trash stickers or to take all the bags to the city dump. Then when it was about 5 days before our move date, I sold my truck and so I didn't have the option to try to go to the dump anyway.
When it was 1 am, we were all wiped out, and I finally said "ok girls lets just go to bed and get a few hours sleep and we will continue loading then." I had to get online and do school work anyway, and only had an hour to do so, and so I got online with my computer upstairs in our room and i did my post but didn't last much past that because after I got my posts submitted to my class, I crashed hard because i woke up at 6:30 AM, my light still on, and my computer open and I was asleep on the keyboard. I had never done that before. We resumed loading the truck, and I got the playroom/sunporch toys all boxed and into the truck, and cleaned up the sun porch, and then had the yellow room cleared and swept that floor as well, and got the kids beds in the truck as well, then got our bed and furniture in the truck and cleared out the bathroom and got the bathroom shower, tub, sink, toilet and floor cleaned.
It came to a point where the truck was almost full and we still had quite a bit to go. I hadn't barely touched the kitchen and i still had boxes in the dining room and zoe's room had her tv and some stuffed animals and stuff, and so i ended up unpacking some of the boxes that were more important and throwing stuff into the back of the truck seperately so that we could at least get them here. When we left, there was a majority of pots and pans still in cabinets and dishes still in the cabinet in the kitchen, and boxes that I was not able to load in the truck that were in the dining room, in the kitchen i realized i still had the sleeve inserts from our dining table. There were some box fans and zoe's tv, plus little stuff here and there. In ally's room and zoe's room and our room, I had a lot to do yet, but we would have been there another day or two and we really had to go because i had money for the trip, but no more food in the house. And so I loaded us up as best I could and we left. The reason i didn't clean more is because dad had told me it didn't matter how much we cleaned, he figured it would be trashed and he was planning to have a cleaning crew come in anyway. So, no matter what I did, it was not going to be enough.
So, after the huge argument on facebook and me and erin blocking them and getting rid of the post online, dad was texting me saying I was to unblock them or he was going to do this or that. It went as far as him saying he was going to file charges against me for how we left the house, and stuff like that, and that i would go to jail, bla bla. I told him no i would not, that I hadn't started this argument and that they would apologize first and then we would. Then the next day, again, more threats, and it came to the point where I looked at erin and said 'lets go ahead and change our numbers to local numbers. I don't want to keep getting these threatening texts."
I texted dad before hand and told him "we're changing our numbers to a local number, I wont tell you the number just yet, but eventually we will when things calm down. tell mom i'm sorry about all this and that i hope that some day we can put this all in the past.love you dad.' And then we changed our numbers.
So there you have it. That's what's going on currently. Till next time.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Home Based Business Opportunity and Video Phone Technology
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
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
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
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