Doh

I didn't do any push-ups today as I worked at both gyms and then had class, plus class the night before, so now I have all 100 push-ups to do before bed....

I did get into the sets of 33 though with one of 34 already done, which now means I'm going to have to continue that and double my sets of tri-sit-ups, which makes only 5 days with increased sets of push-ups to 25 before increasing. Versus the 16 days after increasing from 15-25.... So I should guess that means I'm getting better?

A few pages from my book

Well the social experiment continued with only one person, who acts like a D' not putting his keys in my hand, but all the rest doing so. The two variables are the time between, wherein the other worker could have started training them, and I took Jen's advice about the poor white man's fragile ego, and didn't maintain eye contact, but instead looked down after the initial hello.

I realized that my ability to give advice has been gone for awhile, and I used to be able to give it all the time. Now I'm more detached, and I wonder if it has to do with my energy problem, or if it's connected to my lack of emotion and/or withdrawal from others and their drama. I got to thinking just now that the last time I could really give advice was before the Whore... so 5 years ago.. 4 years?..... I don't know time kind of blends anymore... that could be an issue too.

Black Belt Homework

First Installment:

Perseverance:

What I've come up with

Well, my list of 5 has been so far:
1. Learning to make sushi (mostly the sticky rice part)
2. Japan Trip
3. Bum for a week
4. No Talking for a month
5. And to know what a fifth one would be.......(or maybe not)

Reasons:
1. Time - which now I have
2. Money and time - which I former don't but latter do have and JOB
3. JOB
4. JOB
5. ------

Funny side note though, Nassau round trip airfare, 500 per person, round trip with hotel 2500 for 5 days. Tokyo round trip with hotel 1500 for same period of time. So perhaps take bum for a week in Nassau, and then Japan trip on my own, but really I would rather it be a one way to Japan for 900 (crazy I know) and then bum and no talk there, until well I dunno, I die.... and I could learn sushi there, or I was thinking about asking Angie at Jin Shan

Fuck Lawrence Streets

I drove all the frickin way from STJ and not a single problem, I drove to STJ and Lawrence out of every city I went through had the worst, no literally it looked as if nothing at all was done, streets. It is the most pathetic excuse for city maintenance I have ever seen, the streets were actually worse than the piece of shit excuse for our parking lot maintenance did. This is goddamn ridiculous.

No More Prisons

I am still reading this book of 5 sections, but I am enjoying it thoroughly. I am up to the section about Homeschooling, and agree with what the author says quite frequently, and found another book referenced that would be a good read as well.

This one section posed this idea:

Ask teachers and adults to name one thing they could not have learned without school.

Then ask why not if they come up with something.
Ask motivational problems, and so on.

Which got me to thinking about this:
Write down 5 things you always wanted to learn or learn about, but haven't

Then write down why not, and decide whether or not your reasonings are good.

As for the other book it was by Grace Llewellyn

Then I did a social experiment this morning at the club:

Make eye contact and greet patrons as normal and hold out hand for their keys while looking at them still maintaining eye contact. Then see how many put the keys in your hands.

Results for today:

Men - none
Women - only a couple

So I pondered was it due to Fear (germs), Class Separation (lowly counter jockey doesn't deserve respect), or to underlying homosexual fears/realities.

Change in Plans

Started out thinking I was going to get my paycheck sell some games, workout, and do some taxes....
Instead I picked up my paycheck, and went to Olathe to work for a few hours since the other James was sick today, then just getting in my pushups and taxes will be later, but I foresee not at all.

PHONES!

First of course I hate the phone, and having to call every parent to let them know about Wednesday's second semester in a row forgetting to cancel due to parent teacher conferences, and then I go to check the wireless plan, and low and behold Meeks has sent over $30 worth of extra text messaging, not to mention his extra internet and downloading 3 different games....

Got a little done today

Cleaned and painted the inside of the bottom of the trailer, then it started to snow a bit, and I decided to go ahead and use that free gym membership. So swam for about 20 minutes, and realized I need to do that more often, then went to the weight room, did the sled plus 3-45's on each side, the sitting down and pull to chest with I thinking 80, then the hack thrust(like a squat thrust only with a sled) with also 3-45's on each side, and then the pull down bar with 80, and then 100, then I jogged for ten minutes with variable incline, and then did an elliptical for 2 minutes with varying resistance.

Ended up showering 3 times, and of course before I went I did my 100 push-ups, but the swimming made me feel really out of shape...

Then went to Olathe, got some candy, and then off to Top City for class, now to sleep for work is at 4 which is up at 3 and then I have to call everyone about no class wednesday.

Closed the North

With a laid back cat, pretty easy gig, day or night, just a few questions here and there and I probably need some more work on finding things, and contracts, but that just takes some practice. Hopefully next week I'll start using that membership though and swimming at least, if not some weights in there.

Unfortunately the cheer instructor did not pick up her candy Saturday, although Awesomely Anne drove from Manhattan to get hers.

9 days

well up to 9 days of 100 pushups each day, and 2 on the chart of 75, but I know there were more before I made the chart, and the week(s) of 45, and prior 30 a days, but I can't wait, although obviously I can, for the set of 25.

I think at sets of 25 I will change over to 25 of the tri-sit-ups with my legs up high and left sit up right sit up then middle, and whence I am able to shorten the number of set of pushups for 100 I will keep adding in the situp sets.

Perhaps after that when I easily reach; in months down the line, the 100 a day goal with both push and sit ups I will add in Squats.

Even easier on the East Side

Super Easy at the East Club, only 3.5 hours instead of 4.5 and the club is only 1/2 the size with no pool and no basement, but the laundry is only one load at a time, for some reason the drainage pipe is too small.

2nd mornings

Quite interesting having one everyday... or not, because of having too much to do.

my 2nd mornings are when after LAC I come home, and sleep until I have to get up again for class, but since starting next week I will only have to work Tuesday and Thursday at 4:30am until 8am and Sunday a maybe continuing from 8:30 to 13:00 and this Saturday, I don't know about any past from 15:50-20:30 which is a closing shift. So after class Saturday, and then sleep in a bit Sunday.

Tomorrow though I have to go out and sell more things fight after work, because last time it took quite some time for them to get them all figured out.

1st day at LAC

wow, what an easy freakin' job this will be.....

belief

faith, I suppose, if you will

but

really what I believe in.

I know it's not Christianity, but other than that....

What do I believe?

a simple question, but the honest answer:

I don't know.

Visiting Day

I woke up to a call from one of my moms about her and Stubby being in town for some paperwork, and then went to the pawnshop with them, and to lunch, and as lunch was winding down, Jen called so went with her for awhile, and she was nice enough to take me to the Post Office and I mailed in my taxes, then we wandered downtown for a bit and she bought some new jewelery, good times. So it was a visit filled day before class, and quite enjoyable as it is always good to see people who care about you and you care about, but don't get to see all that often.

Hooray.

Taxes are done

Now just to send them in, because it was 20 bucks a pop to e-file and f' that after having to get 3 states total with only one being free and the other two being 30 ea. Although next year I do get to write it off on my tax prep expenses. So the final breakdown:

Feds - paying me - 2011
Kansas - paying me - 263
Missouri - I pay - 62
Nebraska - I pay - 3

So the difference - 2209 - paid to me!!! woot woot

Although I'm going to have to mail a lot of things and find a stapler, then when it comes in I have to figure out which bills to pay... I was thinking to pay off the loan and and then a cc.... but now I don't know... maybe well many options...

I was looking at perhaps paying the loan and getting another, because the loan doesn't show up on my credit report....*grin*

So 2209 although technically in the account I'll have 2274 I'll est. low after the others returns have been paid:
minus 1384.4
equals 824.6

then maybe just the Best Buy that will be due this year AKA everything but the plasma, which I am already paying off all but one with this months payment in the budget now so approximately 325.9

which would then take me down to 498.7

thus having only to pay $25 each month to get the tv paid off before any interest was due in 09 of 2010, but with technically less payments if I needed it around about $14 or $10 I can't remember.....

Okay so that leaves the following options...

A. My high payment/high limit of each month with almost a 2500 balance - 18 left and 108.61 waiting to post to it this month so 2373.39

B. My next highest avg payment with 1000 limit that gives me points and free credit scores each month with a current balance, due to my low current income, of 965.04 then minus this months scheduled payment, 921.34

C. Christopher's card at 1425.73 with a yet to be named payment this month with an avg of the lowest of the 3 biggies payments, however, only a max of 1500.

D. Many not so productive options like paying it towards the car which I need about 4,000 on to get a refinance loan on, but don't know if that's worth it, okay it is, but I still hate the car, and that would extend how long I have to pay for it....
or just throwing some towards Chris' car, the Condo Mortgage, or even paying ahead on storage fees. So in reality D, is not an option.

Thinking do I that, paying Best Buy down is definitely the way to go with the money first off since that has no interest at present. Then take that remaining 498.7 towards A since Chris wants to pay his down himself, he stated now, thus making A be around 1874.69, and then take out a loan for 2000 the next week after paying off the first one or perhaps even a month later then take that 2000 and subtract the 1874.69 first so that would only leave 125.31 left from the start up of 2000.

Which I could then in turn use for either the first payment or towards option B, reducing it to 839.73 and thus my overall reported credit card debt to the 3000 - 3999 range instead of the 5000 - 5999 or slightly higher range that it's in now because this month has yet to have been paid, which would do wonders for the credit score. Seeing as the Credit Union doesn't report those personal loans *grin* I think I will make my 2000 work like 3000.

And instead of paying about X a month towards X it will be X:

50 best buy 25
100 option A 0
117 loan 117
70 option B 45
and if Chris' plans go right Option C will be 0 as well or just at 50 to 50 for planning sake and that would then be the biggest chunk of the debt hovering at 1500 with the rest in theoretical decline from there.



so save about 150 bucks a month using it that way and look better overall, instead of just saving 150 and getting worse into debt, but on the downside, that would be only good until May or so when Insurance comes around. then having to plop down 1700 bucks as always would suck.

got in three sets today

we, my brother and I, have been working on getting 50 a day on the perfect pushups. I have personally been getting fairly close with 3 sets of 15 a day. He has usually a set o' ten and remembers about 3 a day as well. Two weeks ago I was sets of ten, last week I bumped it 15's. We also do different ones, but he has a lot different body type to push up. I got the ones with my feet up high so all my weight is on my arms and such. He is doing the on the floor ones.

Worked on a Black Belt Class the other day, taught about breath control and then temperature control out in the cold of a park Tuesday, then worked on Foreground and Background, based on your choice not on your surroundings, but still being aware of noises and other things. It was a good start to what I hope to teach during the class.

Talked to Derek about a couple of things today:
1. Jessi as a certified instructor - answer:
He has to talk with her and determine her maturity level, and he doesn't like the piercings he remember, but I think the one he didn't like (facial) had to be removed, but I really don't pay attention to things like that....(product of being a musician male, I'm used to it.)
2. Summer Classes - answer:
to be had later we agreed to make a time for a meeting about the subject soon.
3. Jessi at Tournament as employee - answer:
Definitely, he would appreciate her being there.

Also between last night and today I got all paperwork done, made the new team sheets for all locations except the one that hasn't had class yet, made up all the envelopes for all classes with same exception, and did my laundry.

Friday at a yet unnamed time, because I got a message that she had a forgotten scheduling conflict at 10:30, I have an interview for working the front desk at LAC. So I might soon be working again with DOJ. I just have to call her between 7:30 and 9:30 to figure out the time for that interview.