Long 4th

It was a majorly long 4th for me. Well felt long, but really wasn't. Went to the gym and it was actually a lot busier than I thought it was. A trainer and her client was there. Also another lady was there. Luckily none of them bothered me on my chest day. When I got home I said screw it with my lizards. Then closer to lunch me and my roommate went to a craft store where we got tons more paints and crafts. So after lunch I stared on one of them. Took me 3 hours to complete without a break. Basically it's one of those 3-D puzzles.

I want to point out that the blox sais it was for 6+. So I figured it couldn't be too complicated. Well it was because the instructions don't exist. Basically they give you something on the back that has all the pieces numbered and you have to try to find the piece with the same number. And the only thing you have to look at to see if you are doing it right is the front image so it's very easy to do something wrong and not realize you did it wrong until the very end. Plus the wood is very flimsy so it easily breaks. By the time I finished I was ready to throw it up against the wall.

After that I was kinda pissy so my roommate suggested I just relax and watch the After the Catch special I recorded. Well I did and it calmed me down. I then also ate something and watched some of the Twilight Zone marathon. Then watched a DVD and went to bed. The part that seemed long was of course that puzzle.

Ok back to blogging

Trying to get back into blogging. Think it helps me blow off steam. A lot has really gone on lately. My workouts are really starting to get really intense. Seems like I'm getting really sore. I swear people pissing me off in the gym is the best thing for my workouts. I put myself into my workout 150%. I mean I've never worked my chest or legs as hard as I did the past two times. Least today I didn't have to worry about the pompous trainer and his client. I swear whenever my workout partner doesn't come in no one else does.
A lot of stuff has been going on with work. It was senior day on Wednesday. We had tons of stuff to order and receive in. Should really be interesting next week going from 100 mph to 50. There will be stuff to order, but it won't be so crammed together.
The special election is finally over so that means no more political ads for a bit. The thing I love about this election is the guy that was mud slinging lost. Hopefully this sends a message to everyone planning on running that if all you do is mud sling and don't say why you are good for the job then you won't get elected. That's all that the guy did. I really never heard a single reason why he was going to be good for the job. All he kept saying is we need to create jobs and I'm in a business that does that. The thing is that he's in house construction. Which doesn't really create jobs. It keeps the people working for him employed. Doesn't create new positions. On top of that he never said how we could create jobs. Then he said that his opponent kept raising taxes and his pay despite the fact that our county had the 5th lowest taxes.
Last night my mom got my mother's day package and of course opened it up early. She was so happy. She loved the card I gave her and the fact that I put Mommy on the card and used a heart for the o. I think that was the best part of the gift that I did that.
Time for a new episode of Yu-Gi-Oh abridged. In this episode stuff happens. It was funny. It will make you laugh. Yeah. Today's tip is sometimes it's the little things that we do for people that get the biggest reactions.

Already been busy

It's been a busy day for me already. Went to the gym and it was just me there. Which was nice because I didn't feel like fighting anyone for equipment. The only thing that really annoyed me is that the place really has gone to hell since we got that new manager. How hard is it to go to each piece of equipment in your spare time (and he has a lot of it) and make sure everything works. One of the pins in the cable machines doesn't work right. Hasn't worked right for awhile. Now you can't even pull the pin out to move it around. Had tons to do now that the boss isn't around. Least this week. Managed to get a lot done in the first hour. In the next I have to get a package ready to ship. Going to be an interesting couple of weeks. By the end of the day I'm sure I'm going to be exhausted. Least I have left over pizza to look forward too. Today's tip is you never know how much of an expert you are until you try to teach someone and they give you the WTF look.

Busy Friday

So today is my day all alone and my boss is feeling under the weather so I'll probably have to be here again tomorrow. I have so much to do today. Got e-mails to send out. Got to get this raffle thing ready. Plus I know an order is coming in so I have to receive that in. All while making sure to wait on every customer. It's going to be a long day. Then I have to turn around and do it all again tomorrow. Well minus sending a fax and the e-mails. Yep long day ahead.
The gym was busy today again. Saw a customer there. Nice guy. Does make it difficult to workout sometimes. He even said bye to the pompous trainer. I know I try to avoid any contact with him. The reason being is that I still haven't forgiven him for staring me down that one time another trainer was training me. I mean why do that? Especially while you're training another client. A new guy also showed up. I mean new to the gym. I know because he asked another guy about towels. The back room is not meant to hold 3 guys. 2 max. Too much bumping into everyone and trying to get certain equipment first. That's why I always do my back or legs on Fridays. A lot of guys don't do legs and it shows. Never want that to happen to me.
This was an ad that popped up when I was checking my e-mail. I had to post this here. In case you can't read it, the ad says World's Biggest Muscles! Then to the right it asks Is this image Real or Fake. Find out at this website. Well it's an ad for Force Factor which is known to post morphed photos. As you can see from this ad the guy has been morphed. He doesn't look like that in real life. I mean you can see the bad job of blending they did. Why associate your product with fake images? I mean normal pictures of this guy are some what impressive. Why do you have to go and fake them? Makes you obviously trying to hid that your product doesn't work. So many ads do this. Yet people gobble it up and when they find out it doesn't work they never think hmmm maybe I should have paid more attention to that ad. Like hydroxycut. If you read it, it says the people were also on a calorie restricted diet. You are bound to lose weight if you cut your calories. How about showing us someone who lost weight without changing their diet. Oh because it doesn't work. And what doctor recommends weight loss products? None I know. Most say don't ever take those pills they don't work.
Today's tip is you can't blame kids for rebelling when in pretty much every kids movie the hero rebels against something. Think about it.

Glad I had yesterday off

It was just a good day to be off. I got caught up on RuPaul's Drag race season 3. I think that's what I'm going to do every time I have a full day off. Just something fun to watch when the TV gets dull. Plus from what my boss told me it was a busy busy day. Monday will be real busy too. today was really busy. I did way more today then I've ever done on a Saturday. Well maybe not ever.

This is an image from an article that I found on Aol at http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2010/03/26/cards-of-destiny/?icid=maing%257Caim%257Cdl9%257Csec1_lnk3%257C40085 that link. Sorry I'm terrible at hyper links. Anyway it's a fun little thing to look up. I'm an 8 of Diamonds which honestly describes me pretty well. Well more the 8 part then the Diamond part. The Diamond part makes me sound well obsessed with money. Well I guess I am, but not for shopping. Anyway it's kinda funny to read. Plus it makes anyone born on December 31st sound so shady. My boss is a King of Diamonds. Yeah I know that will be held over my head forever.

Today's tip is to look and to feel are 2 different things. Unless that look is laser vision in which case it feels like laser vision.

Hmm good day yesterday

Yesterday was a darn good day. Not only because I found out that I had less body fat then originally thought, but because it was one of those days when I saw a lot of people, but didn't feel like I was overwhelmed. I actually thought the sales weren't as high as they were. I just felt good all day. Just positive all around. Ok well not all around.
I don't know what the deal is with vendors. They do everything they can to get you to get their products then when you decide yeah this is a good product and have some questions they never answer you. We brought in this new product which a lot of guys liked then they decided to change it up on us. So we got samples of that and it sounds like we were going to bring in the new stuff, then we heard they are adding a new ingredient. So we asked for samples of this and literature on why they were adding it. The guy said it's the best stuff out there and has a university study to back it up. So I asked for this information. 3 weeks ago. He promised he was sending out samples and going to get us the information. Well yesterday he sends this e-mail saying this stuff is now in and if you have any questions or need information on this product e-mail me. So I did pointing out that he promised me samples and this information 3 weeks ago. Well needless to say he hasn't e-mailed me back so I called him. Shockingly I got his voicemail. Yeah hasn't called back. I even made sure he had an incentive to call back to. Threatened to not carry the product anymore. Well that's what's going to happen if when we want information we can't get a hold of him. Now imagine if we wanted to place an order. We don't want to spend 3 weeks trying to order it. I think it's that he doesn't have this information and doesn't have the backbone to admit he lied about having it or sending out the samples. Not having samples or information doesn't annoy me nearly as much as claiming you do and claiming you are sending it out or will send it out and I have to wait 3 weeks and still get nothing. It really pisses me off and that means no business for you.
This reminds me that I have a few customers I'm very leery about recommending stuff for. Mainly because if something doesn't work they will blame me. 9 times out of 10 it's because of something they do. I had one person say that the product caused him to go into a deep depression. Yeah there is nothing in a product we sell that would cause depression as a side effect. I would know if that was the case since I took the product before. Clearly something else was going on and he just blamed the product. Well I bring this up because that's one of the types of people I had to deal with yesterday. You see this guy is friends with the guy that claimed that the product I recommended caused him to go to the emergency room then to my face said it was the pizza he ate. Well the friend that came in is older then this guy. He pushes himself like he's this younger guy. He wants to take everything he's taking. In fact the owner tried to help him before and tried to steer him away from a product with heavy creatine. Well since his friend was taking it he was taking it. Well he goes to the doctor and his creatine levels are high so he couldn't take creatine for a long time and of course blamed the owner. So we are both gun shy in recommending anything to him. Well he comes in and says he wants to try a new pre-workout. Now I have to take his age into account whenever I recommend something. I also have to take into account that if his friend didn't like it then he won't like it. Well I showed him two products and then he kinda tricked me into mentioning a product that I like. Now Xpand Xtreme goes over really well with some guys, but makes other sick. I warned him several times that I didn't recommend the product because it's so intense and tends to make guys sick. Well he kept pushing and pushing so I made sure he added some waximaze to it to try to keep him from getting sick. Something tells me I'm going to get blamed for "pushing it" onto him if he gets sick or it doesn't do what he wants it to do. Lucky for me the owner was in the backroom and heard everything so he of course will back me up if he comes in when I'm not there saying it made him sick.
Today's tip is people forget how honesty can be helpful or hurtful. It can be the difference between a warning, a ticket, and having a roommate named Bubba.

Step Closer

One day closer to the weekend where I'm going to have to work my butt off moving stuff. Yeah really don't enjoy moving things. Makes me sore all over. Least this time I'm not so much moving furniture as I'm moving product. Anyway not looking forward to it like I said. Also found out my weight is down. I guess I should have focused my goal more towards my lean muscle mass then my weight. Or made my goal what it was going to be originally which was keep weight above 160. Oh well nothing to do about it now. Finally got the workout in I should have got in yesterday. Now I'm trying to decide if I could get a workout in tomorrow before I go to an early meeting. I mean yes I don't have to eat breakfast before I go, but I still have to leave early. I mean by the time I finish I might barely be able to get dressed and get out of there. So we'll see how it goes. Yesterday was a busy day for me. I had quite a few customers which makes my heart swell with pride. Now I just have to find a pre-workout to try while I'm off Xpand Xtreme Pump. The hypershock has officially fizzled on me. I got nothing from it today. No energy boost. No sort of nitric oxide boost. That doesn't make me happy. So that's why I'm trying to figure out what I want to try. One I've heard good things about doesn't have a nitric oxide boost. Now I really like those boosts. I think I have better workouts with it. That could mean I have to break down and try a product from a brand I'm not too fond of. Anyway so that's how I'm doing. Today's video is the 3rd installment of Super Freakin' Parody Rangers. This one is more about cramming in as many references and shock value as possible. Plus Meat's arms finally stop swinging. Anyway if you liked the other two then you'll like this one. Then I'll give the Parody Rangers a rest and do something new. Today's tip is someone will always have something you want. Just as you'll always have something someone else wants.

Busy Busy Busy

That's all I was yesterday. With getting my Wisconsin ID which I almost didn't get. Got my insurance which took forever to get. It was also senior day yesterday. I missed out on most of it because I was out and about. Oh btw when I was leaving from getting my ID it was hailing. Yeah hailing in April. Well what caused the hail I think blew off to the other part of the state because they are apparently looking at snow. Then I had to rush over to the other store because I was going to be late since I didn't get back in time from the insurance people. I made it with 5 minutes to spare luckily. Then I got quite a few people at that store. One of whom just loved to hear himself talk I swear. He also had to compare every single thing on the nutrition back. I was getting a headache standing there trying to explain to him why this one is different then one you'd find a Wal-Mart. He finally did end up buying something and as I'm getting ready to call my boss he comes back in saying oh and tell your boss that I finally bought something here. That of course letting me know that this guy comes into the other store and just talks my bosses arm off comparing proteins. Then I finally get to close up and leave and I find out that my room mate is baby sitting so I had to help with that. The mother came back at like 7:45ish and we ended up talking for a bit. So when I finally basically get time to myself it was 8 and I was tired. I had been going non-stop since 6 am that day. That's 14 hours of basically having something to do. Fun fun fun. So I thought I'd post a video today. This is a video I got off of youtube. I think it is the best AMV that uses the song Kodou. I mean the images fit with what's being sung and it moves to the melody really well. It's also propably the one that gets posted the most. Just wish the person left a watermark on it. So enjoy the song. Today's tip is the only journey that matters is the journey to an all you can eat buffet with take out for only a buck.

Man my days are busy

So I'm so late in posting because I had to go to a meeting earlier that was oh so much fun. There was yelling involved. A clash of personalities. So on and so forth. It took way longer then normal so I had to come over here in the middle of it. Then I had to do some receiving in that I shouldn't have had to do. Or could have done it yesterday. So that pushed me behind a lot. So now I'm trying to post this before I have to run to the other store that has no internet and be bored for 6 hours straight. Plus cold. I'll be cold too. Anyway I was watching the today show before I left and they were talking about how Nancy Kerrigan's father's death was ruled a homicide. This is not shocking considering how he died. Not to mention the son admitted to strangling him. The family is apparently shocked by this and think the person that did the autopsy jumped to conclusions without waiting for all the facts. I call bullshit on that. There is a limit to being supportive and just being in denial. I mean the guy has a history of violence. HE BEAT HIS EX-WIFE. He has a history of alcohol abuse. They had the ex-wife on the show and were interviewing her. Apparently after she was beaten by him the father came by saw all the damage that he caused and blamed it on the alcohol and walked off. Wow really you think that's the problem. How about the fact that the man is choosing to bring the bottle to his mouth and drink. I mean the guy should have been forced into rehab. I will say that based on how the family is acting I'm not shocked by the story from the ex. I think the family just doesn't want to admit that the son has a problem so they keep trying to pretend that it didn't happen. Oh well that's their choice. If he gets convicted you know they will say that the jury was unfair and didn't listen to all the facts. Yes the father had a heart condition, but the son STRANGLED HIM! His actions caused a reaction that caused the heart attack. Well I should say his actions caused the heart condition to act up which caused the heart attack. So I'll just let them live in their little bubble. Can only deny a problem for so long before it blows up in your face.....like it did.......moving on. Well got to run. Oh tip of the day. When push comes to shove is when wind comes to gale. Think about it.

Great day...not

So today I can't get onto the internet using my computer. Yeah that's just great. I have to use the company computer while the boss is away. The wireless that I usually use isn't working. Plus when I try to use the ethernet cable I get limited to not connectivity. Plus I had to get here kinda early, but got a late start on some important stuff because a guy needed to talk to my boss. My nose is still being weird. I don't think I'm sick, but yet my nose is running like a faucet. Yeah not cool at all. Plus since I'm not on my computer I can't put in a video like I wanted to because the one I wanted to post is on my computer. I will have to see if my computer works with the internet tonight. I just hope it's the networks here and not my computer, because I really can't afford to get my comp fixed or afford a new one. We also got a huge shipment of stuff in. So today is just one of those days where nothing seems to work with me. Had another one of those want to complain about their discount again. I guess people have gotten into this mode where they are entitled to get a discount from our store when it was our choice to reveal that you can get a discount. Personally I would keep that on a need to know basis since everyone wants to try to take advantage of that. Not to mention some are just down right rude. Had a lady come in and right off the bat says I bet you don't have what I need. Ok first of all how do you know right off the bat. Your just assuming that we don't have what you want. You know what they say when you assume. You make an ass out of u and me. Honestly it's more of you make an ass out of yourself, but well they were being clever when they came up with that. Anyway so now I'm totally not on your side because we did have it. Then she wants a discount on top of that. Want to post a sign that says if you want your discount? Then don't be an ass. I don't know if it's just the winter weather or the bad economy or what. Well I better get back to work. Today's tip is keep your friends close and your enemies closer. That way you always have a human shield close by.

Well that was....great

So yesterday I thought that we weren't going to get the huge shipment we were suppose to get because it didn't come UPS. Well it was on a Freight truck (oh joy) so we did in fact get it in. Spent the rest of yesteray working on that. Which was not easy because suddenly all these customers wanted to walk in and talk and buy stuff. Everytime I have work to do suddenly everyone wants to come in, but not when I don't have to work on something. Then no one wants to come in. Plus I couldn't get to sleep last night. I think I was out for like an hour then I was up until 1ish. Well least tomorrow I get to sleep in a little. So once again Leno is well pissing me off. They showed a clip of him talking to Oprah and he's seriously trying to say the late night thing was not his fault. That he did it for his staff. Oh that is the biggest load of bullshit I've ever heard, but ok let's play this game. He was doing it for his staff. Well let's look at O'Brien's staff. They moved from New York to LA only to find that they didn't have a solid job for a few years, but a few months. While your staff was going to get new jobs, until you....no wait the network handed you a show and you said ok sure. So now your staff has a job again and looks like for at least a few more months while O'Brien's staff has NO JOB! Yeah he's still the villian. Yeah this is classic Leno as Lettermen said.Today's tip is the first step in recovery is admitting you have a problem. The first step in a food fight is to throw something at the popular kid.

Almost Feburary

Which means that is when I'll be at my busiest. Tons of running around. Tons of moving and packing. New store to look after. Yeah got a lot to do. Kinda like Obama, but minus the nation and the infighting that doesn't get anything done...ok less infighting that doesn't get anything done. Which reminds me the other day that austistic customer I was talking about awhile ago comes in. I'm in the backroom working (yes!) and he starts talking to my boss. Saying everything is looking better (finally). He says it's because he's putting more faith in God (again great). Then he starts to ask my boss if he believes in god and goes to church and things like that (crap). See it's not good that he's on a Bible kick. Like I said he lacks the filter that says don't say that or your making someone uncomfortable walk away. I just worry he's going to have that discussion with the wrong person and get into a really heated arguement. I also worry he'll say something and work and lose his job, but I'm not his parents so I guess I shouldn't worry so much. Who knows he might have finally found the career he wants to do. I think I'm getting sick again. Hopefully it won't hinder me like it did in december where I was out for like 2 weeks. I think I'm finally back to my starting point before I left in December.So again I'm in the Go-Ongers mood. So I decided to post a video that has most of ending for the series. I swear this was the most music driven series I've seen so far. Anyway here is. Like I said just remember this is only a fraction of the endings. Today's tip is sometimes the newest things can be the most time consuming and be slower then what it replaced.

LONG ASS DAY!!!

I have so much crap to do. I'm finally getting to blog after taking a little bit of a break after placing this huge ass order. Plus I'm getting a stress headache which is REALLY hard for me to get since the only time I get them is when I'm at home with my parents. I didn't get them at college. I was fine there. No headaches what so over. Unless I was sick but that doesn't count. That goes to show you that this is seriously killing me. I knew this new business was going to be work, but I didn't think that I would have to do so much work. Plus my boss just keeps snapping and I get the brunt of it because I'm the only one there. I just want to take a whole day off, but no I can't. Plus if I quit I have to tell my parents why and honestly I don't want to have to deal with that. I just need some me time again, but no I can't get it at all this week. I'm just so.....ugh. I just want to crawl into a hole and stay there until everything is done. Nothing will calm down until March and by that time I'll be too pooped to even care. All I have to say is this new store better workout or I'm going to flip. Speaking of flipping the Octomom is at it again. What I mean is she's going on NBC and lying to everyone. She was recently on the cover of people or one of those magazines looking all slim and fit. She said she had no surgery done. Ok if you saw the during pregnancy pictures you know that is a bold face lie. Her skin did not just magically go right back to it's normal shape no matter how hard you work at the gym. I've seen guys that have worked out really hard, but they have extra skin and the only way to get rid of that is (you guessed it) surgery. Look at people that were once fat then lost a lot of weight. They have extra skin. It happens. There is no shame in needing surgery to fix it. You know the Octomom she never wants to admit her surgeries until reporters have to get it out of her by looking into her records to find out yeah she did. I'm just glad that all 8 of the babies lived to see one year old. Of course the battle isn't won yet. We still don't know to what degree some of the babies will be disabled. Which reminds me of this guy that came in yesterday. He comes in and asks my boss to hold his check until Saturday. That's right he comes in on Monday and wants to pay for it on Saturday. He's expecting a big bonus. Ok 1st off if you can't afford something DON'T BUY IT. 2ndly if you don't have the money for something we can HOLD the items for you. I mean you don't go to McDonalds and say oh don't run my card today. Run it next week after I get paid. They'd take the food from you right then and there. Plus I already don't like this guy because the first time I met him he comes in looks for 30 minutes, grabs one of our books and sits there and reads it. I have a long memory when it comes to people that annoy me, do me wrong, or things that make me laugh. I still won't let my dad forget the time he chose a movie that put the whole family to sleep.Today's tip is I believe children are the future which means we are all doomed if a lot of these parents don't step it up.

I feel off

Today I just feel off. Something is wrong with my chest. It's kinda where I noticed what looks like a bug bite. Might not have something to do with another. I don't want to go to the doctor because I could be freaking out over nothing. I could have just slept wrong. Anyway it's just making me feel like I'm being short with people. Also means I'm going to have to deal with a lot of customers today. So yesterday all day it felt like Monday. Today feels like Tuesday. There is winter weather coming later today through tomorrow. Yeah I'm tired of Winter. I know it's making me off. Not to mention I want to get out of my place as soon as possible. My landlord is a prick and the place isn't that great. I seriously need a full week of vacation. Too much is going on at this point and feels like it's getting worse and worse and it's not going to get any better. So anyway enough about that. Tiger Woods has gone into rehab for Sex Addiction. I can honestly say I saw this coming. A lot of the celebrities and politicians that get caught in these type of scandals always seem to land in rehab or claim sexual addiction. I don't know if he's truly a sex addict, but I do know it's hard for me to believe that he truly believes that and wasn't told by his PR people to go. I was watching the Today show and one of the experts said he could simply be a serial cheater. That honestly sounds more like what happened then sex addiction. I mean sex addiction seems like you'd be going out and having several different sex partners for one night stands, not actual relationships. Then again no addict is the same. So I was combing through my video stash and I came across one of my favorite videos. It is from the 8th episode of the Mahou Sentai Magirangers Series. This was the first Super Sentai I watched all the way through. Watching this was the moment I said wow America screwed up this series. No wonder it's going down the toilet. You'd never see the American rangers do something like this. Not to mention the Super Sentai series actually shows death and blood. So enjoy this clip. It will either make you laugh your butt off or say what the hell was that. Today's tip is do you believe in magic? If your answer is no then congrats. You have killed your inner child. The police will be there shortly.