So, a check came today, but not all of it. Got a check for 2022$. WHich is an odd amount. This could be 2 different things. 1, when my wife called SSi they said they would be cutting her a check from their end, but it would be deducted from the 19,800. So, this might be from them. Or they are paying the 19,800 in increments. My wife is going to call tomorrow and hopefully find out. Either way we got some money and I can't wait to start spending it. It would be sweet if the big check comes by saturday, my day off so that we can do everything we planned on doing.
I really want to play some poker lately. I'm thinking of trying to get another home game going, maybe every other week. I'm sure we could get 6-8 guys regularly and we would just have to make sure we keep the blinds low, so that it doesn't get out of control like the last one did. It would be fun to play in a regular home game again. The really fun part would be if Ryan from poker dynasty played in it. You all know him by now, he should be in St. louis soon and I'm sure he would be down for it. Competition would definitely go up a notch with him there.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Saturday, September 26, 2009
I don't get to blog enough
I think it's more because there's nothing going on rather than I don't have the time. I mean, I don't have much time and I'm never on my computer, but that's not a great excuse. I make time for what I want to do. More than time, my life is pretty damn boring. Which is good I guess, considering when I wrote the most was when my life was in turmoil or I was engrossed in the pokers.
Couple things happened at work over the past week. On last saturday, we had our Customer Appreciation Day. Basically, $3.99 med pizzas all day, as well as discounts on wings, and breadsticks. It was a huge success and we got so much marketing material out the weeks before. I was dead afterward and my entire body sore. We did over double what we usually do in sales and had my biggest personal sales day ever at 2500$. We usually do about 60 medium pizzas on a regular saturday, well for this we did 346 total. Not to mention all the breadstix and wings. It was so busy my wife helped me out and worked for free answering phones all night. It was a huge help, because we ended up being short staffed. I had no way to fully prepare for the madness that it was. Now that I have a floor to go by and an idea of what it takes to get to that point, I know next time will be bigger and better.
On Thursday, during school lunch I lost my cool a little bit. I'm not much of a yeller but, there are times that I'm due for a good meltdown. New guy, whose name is Josh, but we call DJ. (there are two josh's and my AM bryan last week said "whenever Dumb josh gets back lets get him out of here." I said, sweet his new name is DJ. So when he got back I called him DJ and he's like "what's the D for" quickly I thought and said "Driver Josh." Great inside joke for us now) Anyways, DJ is the slowest and possibly the least common sensical (word?) person I've ever met. During school lunch we are on a very tight schedule. We are limited in our heat wave bags, that we carry food in. Anyways, he takes forever on his delivery and then ends up calling me about a pizza remake from the SCHOOLS phone. He has a cell phone. Also, another driver didn't show up for his shift so we were already on the verge of disaster. School lunch is a huge client and we cannot F that order up. So, I end up having to take a full delivery to a school with NO heatwave bags and no way of keeping the pizzas as hot as possible. We are obligated to get the food to the school at a certain temp and potentially we'd have to totally remake the order if we dont do it. So, I take it and the lunch ladies are giving me the evil eye. I kind of jumped the gun and mentioned the whole temp thing so that they didn't think I was trying to pull one on them.
I guess the temps were fine cus they took the pizzas. But, when I got back I laid into DJ a little bit. I told him from across the room that in situations like that he needed to be in his truck, on his cell, on his way back telling me about that. We dont have time for him looking around for their phone and taking forever on deliveries. I threw a few things said a few curse words and chilled in my office for a few minutes. I was pissed. Worst of all my boss was there and a few other workers. But, all my working up ended up for naught. We got everything out on time with NO complaints. It was a success. But, like I said sometimes you just gotta get a good yell in. This dude is on the his last leg with me, that's for sure.
I was yelling about some stuff yesterday during work too. It was mostly a joke though, but I played it off as real for awhile. A few of the drivers took it seriously and seemed concerned. It's good to show them that I'm a little crazy I think. Keep everyone on their toes and let em know whose in charge still. Makes things fun.
Anyways, Money still hasn't come and like before after the court date we are dieing a little every time we check the mail and there's nothing there. Someday... right?
Couple things happened at work over the past week. On last saturday, we had our Customer Appreciation Day. Basically, $3.99 med pizzas all day, as well as discounts on wings, and breadsticks. It was a huge success and we got so much marketing material out the weeks before. I was dead afterward and my entire body sore. We did over double what we usually do in sales and had my biggest personal sales day ever at 2500$. We usually do about 60 medium pizzas on a regular saturday, well for this we did 346 total. Not to mention all the breadstix and wings. It was so busy my wife helped me out and worked for free answering phones all night. It was a huge help, because we ended up being short staffed. I had no way to fully prepare for the madness that it was. Now that I have a floor to go by and an idea of what it takes to get to that point, I know next time will be bigger and better.
On Thursday, during school lunch I lost my cool a little bit. I'm not much of a yeller but, there are times that I'm due for a good meltdown. New guy, whose name is Josh, but we call DJ. (there are two josh's and my AM bryan last week said "whenever Dumb josh gets back lets get him out of here." I said, sweet his new name is DJ. So when he got back I called him DJ and he's like "what's the D for" quickly I thought and said "Driver Josh." Great inside joke for us now) Anyways, DJ is the slowest and possibly the least common sensical (word?) person I've ever met. During school lunch we are on a very tight schedule. We are limited in our heat wave bags, that we carry food in. Anyways, he takes forever on his delivery and then ends up calling me about a pizza remake from the SCHOOLS phone. He has a cell phone. Also, another driver didn't show up for his shift so we were already on the verge of disaster. School lunch is a huge client and we cannot F that order up. So, I end up having to take a full delivery to a school with NO heatwave bags and no way of keeping the pizzas as hot as possible. We are obligated to get the food to the school at a certain temp and potentially we'd have to totally remake the order if we dont do it. So, I take it and the lunch ladies are giving me the evil eye. I kind of jumped the gun and mentioned the whole temp thing so that they didn't think I was trying to pull one on them.
I guess the temps were fine cus they took the pizzas. But, when I got back I laid into DJ a little bit. I told him from across the room that in situations like that he needed to be in his truck, on his cell, on his way back telling me about that. We dont have time for him looking around for their phone and taking forever on deliveries. I threw a few things said a few curse words and chilled in my office for a few minutes. I was pissed. Worst of all my boss was there and a few other workers. But, all my working up ended up for naught. We got everything out on time with NO complaints. It was a success. But, like I said sometimes you just gotta get a good yell in. This dude is on the his last leg with me, that's for sure.
I was yelling about some stuff yesterday during work too. It was mostly a joke though, but I played it off as real for awhile. A few of the drivers took it seriously and seemed concerned. It's good to show them that I'm a little crazy I think. Keep everyone on their toes and let em know whose in charge still. Makes things fun.
Anyways, Money still hasn't come and like before after the court date we are dieing a little every time we check the mail and there's nothing there. Someday... right?
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
A pretty nice birthday
So, yesterday was my birthday. I'm now 27 years old. The prime physical time of my life. If I were a baseball player, this would most likely be my breakout year. lol. I actually have thought about that a few times and I honestly feel like it's my last chance to actually lose some weight. I really think if I don't do it before I'm 30, I'm destined to die young of heart disease, failure, attack.. whatever. So, time to go to work.
Anyways, on my actual birthday nothing real special happened. Spent a lot of time with my wife and we just enjoyed the day. I went to the doctor with her, where she had to explain to the doctor that although she doesn't do drugs and will never do them again, it probably wouldn't be best to take a urine drug screening at this moment. You see a friend of hers was in town and they decided to say hello to some mary jane. It's been a dozen years since my wife had gotten high and apparently one of the drugs she takes if combined with non-prescription drugs can induce a stroke. Well, my wife had the worst trip ever and telling the store to most people, the question becomes "was it laced with something?" The answer is no, that's just how f-ed up she was. Her friends being already in a state of serenity themselves decided that even though she was screaming for them to call 911 that she must be faking and they didn't want to get into trouble. My wife seriously could have died. But, she didn't and she somehow made it out of the spirit world.
So, she had to explain to her new doctor who had just told her that in order to consistently get her to write prescriptions for Vicodine to her she would have to oblige to random drug tests. Awkward and very bad timing. Luckily the doctor understood and she still gave her the drugs and warned her not to be selling them on the street.
After that we went and had lunch, then ran a few errands. It was a very long day and we actually got a lot done. I didn't have to work and that's always nice.
This saturday I'm going to get my ass kicked at work. We are having a customer appreciation day and Medium pizzas are only 3.99 apiece. I have gotten a lot of marketing out for it. I'm hoping for us to do between 2000 and 2400. I'm afraid any more and we will be turning people away and I'll be spending my sunday off trying to find more dough to make it through the weekend. I will be pretty disappointed if we do less. I have seriously gotten so much stuff out and people have spent hours doorhanging. If we don't have a blowout I think I'll lose my faith in marketing and myself. But, anyways, I don't wanna stress out about it. All I can do is what I think needs to be done. Hopefully, everyone ends up happy.
I think this sinus medicine is making me drowsy, so I'm going to bed.
Btw I'm really enjoying the WSOP on tv this year. Knowing who makes the final table has resparked my interest. I do miss poker.
Anyways, on my actual birthday nothing real special happened. Spent a lot of time with my wife and we just enjoyed the day. I went to the doctor with her, where she had to explain to the doctor that although she doesn't do drugs and will never do them again, it probably wouldn't be best to take a urine drug screening at this moment. You see a friend of hers was in town and they decided to say hello to some mary jane. It's been a dozen years since my wife had gotten high and apparently one of the drugs she takes if combined with non-prescription drugs can induce a stroke. Well, my wife had the worst trip ever and telling the store to most people, the question becomes "was it laced with something?" The answer is no, that's just how f-ed up she was. Her friends being already in a state of serenity themselves decided that even though she was screaming for them to call 911 that she must be faking and they didn't want to get into trouble. My wife seriously could have died. But, she didn't and she somehow made it out of the spirit world.
So, she had to explain to her new doctor who had just told her that in order to consistently get her to write prescriptions for Vicodine to her she would have to oblige to random drug tests. Awkward and very bad timing. Luckily the doctor understood and she still gave her the drugs and warned her not to be selling them on the street.
After that we went and had lunch, then ran a few errands. It was a very long day and we actually got a lot done. I didn't have to work and that's always nice.
This saturday I'm going to get my ass kicked at work. We are having a customer appreciation day and Medium pizzas are only 3.99 apiece. I have gotten a lot of marketing out for it. I'm hoping for us to do between 2000 and 2400. I'm afraid any more and we will be turning people away and I'll be spending my sunday off trying to find more dough to make it through the weekend. I will be pretty disappointed if we do less. I have seriously gotten so much stuff out and people have spent hours doorhanging. If we don't have a blowout I think I'll lose my faith in marketing and myself. But, anyways, I don't wanna stress out about it. All I can do is what I think needs to be done. Hopefully, everyone ends up happy.
I think this sinus medicine is making me drowsy, so I'm going to bed.
Btw I'm really enjoying the WSOP on tv this year. Knowing who makes the final table has resparked my interest. I do miss poker.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
So, how much can I use for my bankroll?
My wife didn't like this question. go figure, right?
I was half-joking. I wanted to put some money back onto online poker, but she is completely against it. She however, doesn't mind if I play live poker though. The bad thing about that though is I actually have to go somewhere to do it and a bankroll would be much higher for that. Would need less buy ins, but still higher. I guess it'll be more of a play as we have the money type thing at first. I think what I'll do is when I win, I'll keep the money to the side and build a bankroll through that. I really don't want to just play to play. I'd rather treat it like I treated online poker when I did it part time. Just keep building the bankroll up. I wont need the money so it shouldn't be a problem. It would be awesome to make enough to where I could use it to build a business. Honestly, that would be my goal. I just feel like yes, we are going to be comfortable and finally have enough money for everything we need, but how long is that going to last?
Even with my wife making almost 12k a year from disability, that only puts our income at 38k for the year. Yes, people live off that and they can live off of that their whole lives, but what's wrong with wanting more? Also, we want to have children, it would be nice to be in a state of comfortability when that starts happening. So, if I can build up a side income, then use it to invest in a business for myself that would make us more money in the future, that is ideal. I'm not sure what that business is. Also, there's no guarantee that I will be a GM for that long. They like to rotate GMs in this company like a ferris wheel. I know so many people who were former gms or became GMs at other stores. right now I don't feel like my job is in jeopardy, but all it takes is a young up and comer that they think can do a better job or a bad couple months in sales for me to be demoted or moved.
I have been a little down lately because of my job. I feel like there is a constantly decreasing allowances that we are being given and it's taking some of the joy out of it. There is constant pressure to perform and while that's not a bad thing, it is when you go to perform and they tell you NO, you can't do this or that. It's really taxing. I don't want to work for this company for more than a few years. I initially wanted to move up but, seeing what the District manager's actually do, I think I would hate that job. They don't do anything. They are middle men. They do paperwork, they answer to dumb questions from the higher ups, and they tell the GMs what they need to work on. They in my opinion seem quite useless. I think if I were in that position I would probably end up in trouble for doing too much and not following the procedures that the bosses would want. I don't like asking for permission, I pretty much just do it then apologize later. It can get me in trouble sometimes, but whatever, I feel like it's my biggest asset. I don't need to be baby sat or watched. I do everything my self.
Regardless of this job though, it's not what I want to do with my life anyways. So, if poker can down the line provide what I want to do then that would be sweet. Now, obviously, I wont be able to go that often. I was thinking 6-8 hours a week at most, probably mostly in 1 day or session. That could be a little tough mentally if I start losing or catch a string of bad luck. I have to make sure I keep good records and that I only go when I really feel like playing. Seems like I've been through all of this before.
I think this time I'm more prepared and even though I'm excited about being able to do it, I know I wont get as involved this time. It will still be only every once in a while and it'll still be a nice release from daily stuff. I feel like I need the breaks more now than ever.
I think I may have noticed a trend with myself the other day. I've been a little down lately, as I already said and I think I figured out why. I definitely go through these stretches in my life where I'm up then I'm down, hardly ever just content. I think it's my personality. Well, I think it has to do with obsessing over something or not being able to obsess over something. I think when I get to fully integrate myself into something I'm happier. Then when I'm just kind of la-de-da about stuff and I don't have that 1 thing, I'm down. I look back on when I was engrossed in poker. I was fully into it and I didn't think about anything else, I was pretty happy. Now my home life sucked and in reality it was very bad for my relationships, but in itself it made me happy. Then when poker became an afterthought and I had nothing to focus on, I was sad and a bit depressed. I think a month or two ago I was pretty happy because I was fully engrossed in my job where as lately I haven't felt like doing much with it and so that's what I'm down about now. i don't really have something to focus on right now.
I'm certainly not done with my job. I'm not at the point with my job where I was with poker when I quit. I was mentally done there. I think I've just accepted that I have to quit trying so hard and I can't do the things I want to at the workplace. I feel like I'm just a manager as opposed to in the beginning where I was like, it's my store. It's not my store. But, it is my JOB to run it correctly and do the things they ask me to do. which is fine. I have to be okay with that. I think I am. hopefully it helps me keep that hunger that I need to do my own thing someday. It reminds me how much better it would be to be on my own. I'm still not ready to be on my own though and I know that as well. There are a lot of things about business I really just DONT know about.
I guess that should really be my next goal is just getting educated about the things I'm lacking so far. Whether it's through self teaching or taking some classes I gotta learn these things. I figure the more prepared I am the better chance I have at success. I guarantee you if I started a business today, I would probably fail, simply because I don't know enough. I wouldn't have the money to hire people to fill that gap, so it would solely be on me and hard work just isn't enough to overcome those things.
I do look forward to the challenge though. Hopefully, the timing will work out to where as I'm building my business the economy gets its shit together it'll be a little easier time than a lot of small businesses are having now.
I can't wait to eat some live fish though and it'll be fun building up that live poker bankroll.
I was half-joking. I wanted to put some money back onto online poker, but she is completely against it. She however, doesn't mind if I play live poker though. The bad thing about that though is I actually have to go somewhere to do it and a bankroll would be much higher for that. Would need less buy ins, but still higher. I guess it'll be more of a play as we have the money type thing at first. I think what I'll do is when I win, I'll keep the money to the side and build a bankroll through that. I really don't want to just play to play. I'd rather treat it like I treated online poker when I did it part time. Just keep building the bankroll up. I wont need the money so it shouldn't be a problem. It would be awesome to make enough to where I could use it to build a business. Honestly, that would be my goal. I just feel like yes, we are going to be comfortable and finally have enough money for everything we need, but how long is that going to last?
Even with my wife making almost 12k a year from disability, that only puts our income at 38k for the year. Yes, people live off that and they can live off of that their whole lives, but what's wrong with wanting more? Also, we want to have children, it would be nice to be in a state of comfortability when that starts happening. So, if I can build up a side income, then use it to invest in a business for myself that would make us more money in the future, that is ideal. I'm not sure what that business is. Also, there's no guarantee that I will be a GM for that long. They like to rotate GMs in this company like a ferris wheel. I know so many people who were former gms or became GMs at other stores. right now I don't feel like my job is in jeopardy, but all it takes is a young up and comer that they think can do a better job or a bad couple months in sales for me to be demoted or moved.
I have been a little down lately because of my job. I feel like there is a constantly decreasing allowances that we are being given and it's taking some of the joy out of it. There is constant pressure to perform and while that's not a bad thing, it is when you go to perform and they tell you NO, you can't do this or that. It's really taxing. I don't want to work for this company for more than a few years. I initially wanted to move up but, seeing what the District manager's actually do, I think I would hate that job. They don't do anything. They are middle men. They do paperwork, they answer to dumb questions from the higher ups, and they tell the GMs what they need to work on. They in my opinion seem quite useless. I think if I were in that position I would probably end up in trouble for doing too much and not following the procedures that the bosses would want. I don't like asking for permission, I pretty much just do it then apologize later. It can get me in trouble sometimes, but whatever, I feel like it's my biggest asset. I don't need to be baby sat or watched. I do everything my self.
Regardless of this job though, it's not what I want to do with my life anyways. So, if poker can down the line provide what I want to do then that would be sweet. Now, obviously, I wont be able to go that often. I was thinking 6-8 hours a week at most, probably mostly in 1 day or session. That could be a little tough mentally if I start losing or catch a string of bad luck. I have to make sure I keep good records and that I only go when I really feel like playing. Seems like I've been through all of this before.
I think this time I'm more prepared and even though I'm excited about being able to do it, I know I wont get as involved this time. It will still be only every once in a while and it'll still be a nice release from daily stuff. I feel like I need the breaks more now than ever.
I think I may have noticed a trend with myself the other day. I've been a little down lately, as I already said and I think I figured out why. I definitely go through these stretches in my life where I'm up then I'm down, hardly ever just content. I think it's my personality. Well, I think it has to do with obsessing over something or not being able to obsess over something. I think when I get to fully integrate myself into something I'm happier. Then when I'm just kind of la-de-da about stuff and I don't have that 1 thing, I'm down. I look back on when I was engrossed in poker. I was fully into it and I didn't think about anything else, I was pretty happy. Now my home life sucked and in reality it was very bad for my relationships, but in itself it made me happy. Then when poker became an afterthought and I had nothing to focus on, I was sad and a bit depressed. I think a month or two ago I was pretty happy because I was fully engrossed in my job where as lately I haven't felt like doing much with it and so that's what I'm down about now. i don't really have something to focus on right now.
I'm certainly not done with my job. I'm not at the point with my job where I was with poker when I quit. I was mentally done there. I think I've just accepted that I have to quit trying so hard and I can't do the things I want to at the workplace. I feel like I'm just a manager as opposed to in the beginning where I was like, it's my store. It's not my store. But, it is my JOB to run it correctly and do the things they ask me to do. which is fine. I have to be okay with that. I think I am. hopefully it helps me keep that hunger that I need to do my own thing someday. It reminds me how much better it would be to be on my own. I'm still not ready to be on my own though and I know that as well. There are a lot of things about business I really just DONT know about.
I guess that should really be my next goal is just getting educated about the things I'm lacking so far. Whether it's through self teaching or taking some classes I gotta learn these things. I figure the more prepared I am the better chance I have at success. I guarantee you if I started a business today, I would probably fail, simply because I don't know enough. I wouldn't have the money to hire people to fill that gap, so it would solely be on me and hard work just isn't enough to overcome those things.
I do look forward to the challenge though. Hopefully, the timing will work out to where as I'm building my business the economy gets its shit together it'll be a little easier time than a lot of small businesses are having now.
I can't wait to eat some live fish though and it'll be fun building up that live poker bankroll.
Friday, September 11, 2009
I'm still here
School lunches at work started this week, so I've been really busy. Did 11 hour shift yesterday going in at 7 am and had non stop pizza making til 1. It reminded me just how rough thursdays are going to be all year. At least it's only every other week.
We haven't heard anything else about our money. My wife and I did sit down and talk about what we are going to do with it though. The way we figured it out is that we can put a down payment on a new vehicle (used), get our vehicle now repaired a bit and up to snuff, so that hopefully it will last a little longer. We decided we aren't going to fix the transmission. We are paying back everything we owe to family. We are going to get new clothes, since neither of us has in over a year almost two years. I'm getting new glasses, since it's been about 4 years for that. We are taking about 500$ a piece to blow on what we want. Then the rest, about 3000$ we are saving. We are very excited. We've never been able to save before and with extra income each month and a 3000$ head start, we will be in great shape. Obviously, with the new car and other things our monthly bills will go up a little bit, but we should still be bringing home an extra 500$ on top of what we are now.
If only the check will come!
Football starts this weekend and I'm stoked! my brothers and i got together last night at the house to watch the steelers/titans play. I'm off this sunday and hope to be able to be off most sundays so I can enjoy the season.
We haven't heard anything else about our money. My wife and I did sit down and talk about what we are going to do with it though. The way we figured it out is that we can put a down payment on a new vehicle (used), get our vehicle now repaired a bit and up to snuff, so that hopefully it will last a little longer. We decided we aren't going to fix the transmission. We are paying back everything we owe to family. We are going to get new clothes, since neither of us has in over a year almost two years. I'm getting new glasses, since it's been about 4 years for that. We are taking about 500$ a piece to blow on what we want. Then the rest, about 3000$ we are saving. We are very excited. We've never been able to save before and with extra income each month and a 3000$ head start, we will be in great shape. Obviously, with the new car and other things our monthly bills will go up a little bit, but we should still be bringing home an extra 500$ on top of what we are now.
If only the check will come!
Football starts this weekend and I'm stoked! my brothers and i got together last night at the house to watch the steelers/titans play. I'm off this sunday and hope to be able to be off most sundays so I can enjoy the season.
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