the dawn of a new age

My how times have changed. I know not everybody likes that word. "Change". But it has indeed proven itself to be a very big part of my life. I'm blogging this from my thunderbolt so I will do my best to hit every point I'm trying to make so please bear with me. Way back about 10 years ago (wow, has it really been that long? I guess it has, I am about to turn 29 so that'd put me around 19 back then). Well anyway, about 10 years ago was when my ex Lori and I got married. The whole marriage was not bad. I believe it was at the tail end. Dealing with money issues since neither of us had a real job and my parents never approved of her and she always knew it whether she wanted to admit it or not.Well, then after moving to Montana and things really getting much more distant between us, I left to go join the air force and by that point she had already decided she wanted a divorce and so life as I knew it was in for a change. There's that word again, change. So its been about 5 years since that all took place, and so much has happened. First, I was a fire fighter in the air force and I got remarried. Erin and I have two beautiful little girls together and although we have hit rough patches especially with finances, we have been doing pretty good. Do after getting honorably discharged from the military, we moved to Clinton, IA into the house my mom grew up in that my grandparents left to her. We lived there for about 3 years, during which, Erin worked at this local restaurant and I was a driver for schwans for about a year, then when I had to resign because of a surgery, I was then a security g Guard for a hospital for the next two years. I was layed off from there in may of 2011 and on unemployment until recently when I just officially attended a truck driving school and got my class A cdl license and have been out on the road t past few weeks training with a guy younger that me by about 5 years who has been driving for the company we work for (cr England) for over 2 years. It was pretty scary at first because there is a lot to the job when you're not driving 11 hours a day. Like hooking your truck to the trailer you are picking up, learning how to drive the truck, which I am now pretty good at, but at first it was rough. But even though the school has an extremely high wash out percentage, and id give an actual percentage, but I'm not sure what it is and I don't want to guess. But to give you an example, my class coming in had 140 students. After the first week we had to take 4 tests to get our cdl permit. Tons of information crammed down our throats, with the threat that although we each could retake the tests 3 times if needed, if we didn't pass them that day we were back on the greyhound going home. Well after the written test day, half our class was gone. That's 140 now down to 70. We practiced backing maneuvers and then went on the road the last week with an instructor to learn the basics of how to drive a semi and by the end of the 3rd week when we were getting ready to go take our inspection and road test with the state of Indiana, we were down to 30 students. All 30 of us went to the testing site at the same time. One guy went, then they called this guy named branding, then they called me. I knew I could do it. I was terrified but I knew that if I just relaxed and took it slow, I could do it. So I did. Started with being tested on the pre inspection of the truck. I went from part to part. Properly mounted and secure, not cracked, bent, or broken, no leaks, and for lights, clean and working. For hoses, not cut, gouged, or bulging and no leaks. Got through the exterior inspection and the examiner said "ready to do in cab?" To which I responded "yes sir" and climbed in. Started with the obvious, seatbelt not cut or torn, latched properly. Mirrors properly adjusted, city horn and air horn both work. Oil pressure between 100 and 140 psi, water temp between 170 and 200 degrees, volt meter between 12 and 14 volts. Wind shield not cracked, no illegal stickers and nothing obstructing my view. Heater and defroster work and all my light indicators work. Then I did the four point brake check and the parking brake check, was told good job you passed, let's move on to the backing maneuvers. Straight line backed really easily. Next was off set which basically is you pull the semi out of the lane about 100feet and then you back at an angle to park in the lane right next to the lane you were in. Then I had to pull forward 100 feet and parrallel park the semi and trailer in a spot next to that space I just parked in. After passing those, it was time for the drive test. There are auto failures like shifting while crossing rail road tracks, killing the engine in the middle of an intersection and impeding traffic and a few other things. I remained calm minus the fact that I was sweating my butt off because I came down here to get my cdl and get hired and did not want to fail. Well, I did pretty good through out all the turns and got to the last turn just before turning back into the test site and I then struggled to downshift before the turn. I did get it in gear and complete the turn, pulling into the test site, but was thinking "shit, I hope I didn't just fail'. The examiner sat there writing for a good 5 minutes. I was like "im usually really good with shifting. That was the first time all week I wriggled with it'. He was like "technically I could fail you for that, but your backing and the rest of you driving through the city was spot on, so I'm passing you". I nearly fainted. So, when I got done, me and branding passed, there was one failure and a bunch still to test. I heard over the next two days that the rest of the 30 failed. I was like "holy Crap!". So Tuesday the 17th, me, brandon, and a few others went to pick up our cdl temporaries which are good for 90 days. Erin already received my actual license back home. I started school away from home on new years day, and after I got my license, I was officially hired with cr England and went on the road with a road trainer. I mentioned him earlier. We are on our 3rd week of the 30 day training requirement and things are going well. I have decided that because you make a significantly higher amount of money when you lease compared to being a company driver, I decided I am going to lease. I might even become an owner operator, which would increase the paycheck by about 800 a week. That'd be really awesome. Already this past few weeks, we went through Texas twice which I drove right past plano and the exits the ex and I would get off on to go see her family. I commented to my trainer "my ex would flip if she knew how close I was to her". Lol. But thankfully we kept going. All the way to loredo tx, right near the border of Mexico. We went from there out east to Atlanta, GS, and then to Tennessee, then from there we came north and passed from east to west through Nebraska, into Wyoming through yellow stone, and to Idaho to deliver and then pick up a heavy shipment of potatoes. I drove that night most of the way through the yellow stone mountain passes, which my trainer said he had never done but he thought it'd be shorter, but it was snowing and the roads were slick. I got most of the way through yellow stone, down shifting correctly and then climbing up a massive hill I completely lost momentum. Missed a gear when down shifting and literally just stopped. We had no traction and so we couldn't get moving. A cop showed up and was like "when I saw you pass me back there, I wondered if id find you on this hill. Everybody gets stuck here during the winter. You're going to have to put your chains on". So we did. Not only did I learn officially through hands on how to do it,but my trainer had never had to chain up before so it was a first time for both of us. So we chained up and got out of there. That load took us two full days, me driving 10 hours while he slept in the bunk, and him driving 10 hours while I slept in the bunk. We went all the way to Massachusetts, near Boston, and then went up through rode island and into Connecticut. From there back down to central PA which was about 5 hours from home, and then from there, back down to south Texas. This time we weren't there as long as the first, and we came in from the east and then went south, so I ended my drive that night at 10 hours and 58 minutes, about 30 miles north of loredo, and he woke up and took over. I crashed in the bunk while he was up in the drivers seat browsing on his computer or playing wow, and then the next day while waiting on our next load, we picked up food supplies at wal mart, I western unioned cash from my com data card to the joint checking so Erin could pay the rent and get some groceries for her and the girls. I hate com data. Some people out there might not know what it is. Well here you go. It's basically an atm card that some employers put your pay checks onto while you wait for direct deposit to kick in which in my case I'm told it takes like 4 to 6 weeks. So got that taken care of, Erin mailed off the veteran check to be deposited to the usaa joint account to cover the rest of rent, and all is good. I'm looking forward to getting done with training in about a week and a half, and getting on my own truck. I'm looking forward to starting a retirement fund with cre, because I'm told you put 17 cents a mile imho the ira or 401k. So if I average 3000 miles a week, that's over $500 a week into a retirement account. Times that by 52 weeks in a year and Erin and I after one year of my driving professionally would have $26,500 in a retirement account. That's freaking awesome. Obviously we would be trying to squirrel away money from each pay check through out the year. I never realized just how much stuff I can write about just after a short while on the road. Recently after having been away from home for 5 weeks, I had a few times where I'm driving and find myself thinking about the past. Things that I failed at, friends that I no longer have, etc and then I end up shaking my head and telling myself to snap out of it. Yes the past failures and mistakes suck. Can I change them? No, I can't. So I just have to do the best that I can in the now for my family. In a closing note, stopping at truck stops and using their showers is not bad. I wasn't sure what to expect but they literally have seperate shower rooms with a toilet and sink that you lock yourself in, there's no time limit, you shower and do anything else you gotta do, and then you leave. Simple as that. Some pilots or flying j truck stops even have a laundry area which is cool. I ended up doing my laundry at a big pilot, and they had this lounge area with a big screen tv and lots of chairs so since I drive during the day time, I gotta sleep during the night shift, so I was upstairs in the lounge area watching the mentalist and then the closer till about 11 pm and then I went back to the truck and went sleep. My trainer woke me up a few hours later when he was getting ready to drive so I could switch to the bottom bunk. Cre does not allow anyone on the top bunk while the truck is moving. Usually it just involves him throwing his sleeping bag up top, and I climb down and drag down my pillow and blanket. Then go back to sleep. So after leaving Texas last time, we are at a truck stop in Ohio, and will be heading to Maryland next. Who knows where to after that. I'm going to call that it for now but obviously there are always big adventures to be had while traveling the open road. I shall try to make it a point of posting on here about anything I deal with while driving all the many highways in all the different states.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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