Monday, October 29, 2012

would you rather

Would you rather be submerged in mayonnaise tell I suffocated or would I rather be stoned to death by pickles. If I had the choice I would pick to submerge in mayonnaise tell I suffocated. I think suffocating would be faster and less painful. Mayonnaise is thick so it would still take a while to die. Being stoned by pickles would take a while because most pickles are not very dense and don’t weigh very much so it would take a while to really hurt you. Both deaths would not be pleasant and if I could choose a third option I would choose not to die by either of those means. With the mayonnaise I could try to eat my way out. Eating my way out would be one of the most disgusting ways to try and survive but I would have to try.

Would you rather have living eyebrows that crawled all over your face or leave a trail of paprika wherever you go? I would pick the trail of paprika because I hate the feeling of things on my face. The trail of paprika would come in handy around holidays and other occasions making deviled eggs. I wouldn’t have to pay for paprika ever again. The trail would also be somewhat of an inconvenience having to clean up all the time. Having the trail would be better than feeling something crawling on my face all the time. I would also never have to pay for paprika again. Maybe I could sell the paprika and make some money on the side. 


Would you rather look like Yasir Arifat or have the Imperial March play every time you entered the room? I would pick the Imperial march; I would not want to see the face of such a horrible dictator every time I looked in the room. With the Imperial march everyone would look at me when I entered a room. I would demand everyone’s attention and no one would be able to look away. This would have drawbacks entering certain rooms but it would still be better than looking like a dictator.

Would you rather sleep between the mattress and box spring or listen to Funky Town every time you hear music? I would pick to sleep between the mattress and box spring every night because I don't get much sleep anyway so there isn't anything really different. I wouldn't want to hear this song the rest of the time because I have important events in my life coming up and I would want to hear the music that means something to me. One song for the rest of my life would get old real fast. At least with the mattress I could catch a nap every once in a while somewhere else.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

cupcakes no wait cookies.

Cupcakes are a delicious snack that is a cake slice in the palm of your hand. Cupcakes are not a very healthy snack but it is delicious. I enjoy eating cupcakes. Cupcakes are a wonderful baked good that everyone can enjoy. Cookies on the other hand are flat and still good in their own part. Cupcakes and cookies are both good snacks and it was hard to choose between them. I would enjoy getting cupcakes if we win this competition. The kind of cupcakes you make matter as well as the type of cookie. Both have their own special ones. Macadamia nut white chocolate chip cookies are amazing, and most type of cupcakes is good too. Now that I think about it I think I want cookies instead of cupcakes. I am changing my vote I want cookies. A white chocolate macadamia nut cookie is my vote.

Monday, October 22, 2012

Red

Taylor Swift has a new album called Red. Rojo in Spanish. Or you can think of old Soviet Russia. Red is also a color of strength. Red can also be associated with red necks. Red has many different meanings to many different people. Red is the color of blood, like the blood soldiers sacrifice to help keep the freedoms that we have today.
Red also reminds me of code red mtn dew, by far my favorite drink of all time. I could drink an entire case in one day, if the sugar and the caffeine wouldn't kill me. I am also trying to be healthier. It doesn't work every day but I do try to work out at least three days a week. If I can work out more I do if I don't get all my workouts in I don't feel the same. I can notice a change in my body style in the past few months since I started working out. Hopefully this time next year I will have even more muscle than I do know. Muscle is also red. It’s funny how I made a loop there and didn’t even realize it. I wonder how many other things are red that we don’t realize.
The stripes on an American flag are red. The words on Microsoft word that you spell wrong are underlined red. When I get to typing and don’t go back and make changes I have a lot of underlined words. The marker that you wrote red on the board with is red. The blister on the side of my finger is red. Your Shaw that you were wearing when you came in is red. The color red is all around us. It is in things we see and it is in things that we see and maybe not notice. I am typing more and more about these subjects that we are given and making longer and longer posts. They may not make a whole lot of since but there are plenty of words typed.

Blog

Looking through all my blogs and doing a word count I am way under where I need to be. I should of been writing all week every day. It isn't easy writing, I should have just written in a journal and then typed it all up when I was done. That would of made up plenty of blog posts and I wouldn’t be so far behind. Right now my word count is just over six thousand words. I am about ten posts behind or three thousand words to go to get all the posts I need. It isn't an easy task to accomplish but I will try my best. It doesn't make things any easier the fact that I miss class for one thing or another. Missing class is what got me in trouble my first semester. I had to retakes English 050 because I missed class and didn't get assignments completed. I hope to do good the rest of the time that I am in college. I am thinking about transferring to MSU when I completed my culinary and Hospitality here. I figure the higher my degree the better paying job I can receive when I am out of college. The only bad part is my student loans right now amount to one hundred and fifty dollars out of my pocket every month for the next twenty years. That is a long commitment and a good amount of the money I make right now. I am about done with this post after I am if I make it to three hundred words that just another nine posts tell I am done with this blog part of this class. Hopefully I pass all my classes with a B or better, and I keep my current GPA. I don't know if I will but I do know that I will give it my best.

Monday October 22, 2012

It is the morning of October 22 I am sitting in the computer lab waiting for my first class to start. Wearing this dress shirt with tie and black slacks I am getting a lot of people looking at me. I don't like to dress up, but I have to dress up for a speech later today. With the size of my neck compared to the hole in the shirt for my head sometimes it is hard to breath. One of the sacrifices I have to make to get a good grade in this class. Hopefully I get all the points that are possible to get my grade up in this class. I missed some important assignments because I forgot to check black board and get everything done that I needed to. Not having a laptop or desktop computer at home is really hurting me. I am glad to finally be getting my money in the next couple of weeks. Now that school is almost over. It really sucks that a mistake was made in my financial aid and I had to do so much more paper work before they could start my loan process.

 I am sitting next to one of only a few empty computers right near the door. Everyone would rather look around for a different empty one than sit down here. I wonder if it is me, or if it so that they can focus more on what they need to do. Class doesn’t start for about another hour, so I think I will type tell it is about time to leave just so I can get as many blog entrees as I can. Writing three hundred words is not very easy. It takes a long time to get all three hundred words written down.

 I am missing my family already today. I don't like that I won’t be getting home tell after seven today, but i need to help a friend out. He has been living with us for over a week now, and he needs rides to work here in Springfield. Hopefully I will get my car fixed this week and be spending less money on fuel.

 I haven’t decided yet on what I am going to do next semester, I wonder if I should take online classes, cram all my classes in 1 or 2 days a week or just take the semester off. Driving back and forth four days a week is not easy, and it’s not light on my wallet. I hope I have more than three hundred words. I am pretty sure that I do. Copying this document into word to check for spelling and grammar errors it seems I have around four hundred and fifty works typed up. This entry so far makes one and a half blog entries in just this one post. I have hardly written nearly enough to make my thirty entrees. I hope they are not due today. Class starts in just under one hour now. Just around fifty eight minutes. Fifty eight minutes is not a lot of time.

 I missed both Thursday and Friday last week, I don't like missing school but when family emergencies come up I have to take the time off.  Hopefully those were the last days that I will miss this year. I have a test I have to make up for my Thursday Hospitality 101 class. Luckily the test is a take home test. I have a good grade in there and I want to keep it a good grade. I already had to drop that class once I can't do badly in it again.

Now I have over six hundred words in this post. Not too bad for ten maybe fifteen minutes of writing. I am dreading this speech later today. I don't know how it is going to go. I hate talking in front of large groups of people. I can feel the butterflies in my stomach and throat already. I am regretting not getting a good workout this morning but I had to leave to get clothes for my speech later. This tie is still choking me. It seems the more I move the tighter it becomes. I can feel at any moment it will completely close off my airway suffocating me. Come to think of it, it could also be my nerves acting up, making me nervous.

It is ten after now. I am running out of things to type and running out of things to think about. I think I will wrap up this writing for now, I think I will play some games on my phone or I will get ready for class.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Five words

indubibly- for sure
what- what, what, what, lil john
ooookay- lil john
beautiful- name for wife
sissy- name for my daughter

Guitars

Guitars are musical instruments dating back hundreds of years. They are mostly made of wood, with wired string attaching a neck to a body. A guitar can be either electric or it can be acoustic it all depends on your preference and your style of playing, Guitars make up all different types of music. Anything from country to rock, guitars are made for both left and right handed people. A famous guitarist is Jimmy Hendrix he was made famous more for his stage performances than for his actually ability of playing. He would break guitars and light them on fire. He could play a guitar with his teeth. Jimmy once made a right handed guitar into a left handed because he couldn't afford to buy a left handed guitar. Guitars are a vital role in music today because of people like Jimmy Hendrix. This writing prompt is not the easiest writing prompt that I have had to deal with, it isn't really something that interests me too much. But I can sit here and write about it because I know that you never stop writing and you never edit until you are done writing. Guitars guitars guitars guitars I sont know anything about guitars. i am so bored with this writing I am just going to keep on rambling until the time is up. Guitars guitars guitars guitars the word guitars just uses the first two lines on the keyboard. The word guitars has almost as many vowels as it does constanints. I think I spelled that word right constanints not to be confusede with continents wich there are seven of.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Who you know, not how you work

I work at Wal-!@#$ and to get a promotion it doesn't matter how hard you work. What matters is who you know. I have worked there for three and a half years and have had one promotion. That promotion came after I threatened to quit and leave them to find someone to replace me. I work hard every single day; I make sure our customer always comes first. I have asked management about new positions, I have applied for those positions and never got any of them. Someone who has been with the company less than a year gets pulled up to a position I asked for and it upsets me. The people who get the better positions don't work harder than I do, they just suck up to management and get what they want. I have worked hard, I have done what is asked of me, and I actually enjoy my job for the most part. The ones that get all the promotions complain daily about their job. The whine and moan and groan, and eventually they will get another promotion into an even better job; until they stop liking that job too and complain tell they get what they want. Most of them don’t even want to work there, they complain on Facebook or in person and yet they still keep their job, and they get promotion after promotion. One person I can think of right now, complains daily on Facebook, but talks all nice and sweet with management. She works full time in the pharmacy making well over what I make, and this is her 4th promotion since I started working there. Another one complains just as much, when a customer asks for help finding something she has told me she will go to the back for five minutes and come back up saying we don't have any in stock. She talks it up with management and she is about to get another promotion.

Things that make me mad

Mondays
Work decessions
People who call their kids names
Violent people
People who care for themselves
No me time
Not getting answers to questions
Brown nosers
Who you know, not how you work
How hard a worker you are
Drunks
Druggies
Thieves
Child Abusers
Court System

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

physical and personality before and after

A person that I observed today was quite unique. She was tall wearing a cowboy hat. She wore glasses. And she had on sandals. She wore shorts that didn't cover her cast on her broken foot. She had on an orange shirt which didn't hide her broken finger.  She also had short curly hair. Her personality was quite unique too. She was a loud funny person, who was smart but she also cheated sometimes, she was antisocial and clumsy. She was kind of geeky and alienated sitting by herself.

I observed a quite unique person today. She wore a cowboy hat, and 6 foot tall. She wore glasses and she had on sandals. She wore shorts that didn't cover her cast on her broken foot. She had on an orange shirt which didn't hide her broken finger.  She also had short curly hair. She had a unique personality as well. She seemed humorous and loud, she seemed intelligent but she cheated, she distanced herself from others and tripped a lot. She seemed geeky and alienated herself from others.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Audience

My audience this semester consists of people from all different economic backgrounds, people from all different parts of Missouri. Most of the students are straight out of high school. Some of them still live at home, some are out on their own, and some of them have families of their own. Some of the students are parents most are not. My audience this semester is different young people who are all trying to get a higher education. Some of my audience this semester won’t be able to relate to some of the things I am talking about. Some will be able to relate what I am talking about. Most of the students this semester are really creative when it comes to asking and answering questions when it comes to learning about our audience. Most of us wanted to know questions that weren’t probable of happening. What animal would we be, what super power would we have, what would are superhero name be?  The audience this semester was different then the past semesters, the audience will continue to change throughout the rest of my college life. Our audience also includes our teacher, she has probably been through most of the same things that we are and have gone through to get to college. I would enjoy trying to get to know my audience more. I would like to learn more about what they do in their free time, what kind of family life they have, who they idolize? I would like to know what they do in their free time, do they study more or do they play video games? Audience perspectives change over time, I wonder if our audience at the beginning of the semester is going to be the same as the audience at the end of the semester.

Monday, October 1, 2012

Out My Window

Looking out my window I see a yard that need tended to, two dogs that are on their chains outside. I see two kids growing up fast, a loving wife to be holding one of those kids. I see myself off to work, or off to school again. I see another late night followed by another early morning. Looking out my window I see myself getting close to a crossroad, making a decision do I keep down this path or do I change and try something new. Looking in my window I see someone struggling, I struggle every day, college and work is really hard. To make things harder i have a family I support. Luckily I have a wonderful wife to be who does all the things around the house that need to be done. Looking in I don't know how much stress from work and school I can handle, I wonder if I can really do this still. From one assignment to another it is getting harder and harder to keep up with everything. It's too late to drop any classes, but I don't want to quit. I am not only struggling to keep up, I am struggling to adapt and overcome. Life has been a struggle for me for a long time. Since I was fifteen and diagnosed with a neurological disorder that causes my body to grow tumors on most of the nerves. My spinal cord is covered in tumors as well as most of my abdomen. Pain is something I have come accustom to; doctors wonder how I am still able to walk. With a tumor on my frontal lobe short term memory is really hard for me. If i am to remember something I have to try to convert it to long term memory.  Faces come real easy to me, and certain situations in people’s lives do too. I can't remember names to well and it frustrates me that I can't figure out who some people are. With this condition it makes some school work difficult as well. I have to read things multiple times. Looking out and in my window I see things around me, some things I can change and others I can't, but I will always do my best in whatever I do.

Ego

A time that my ego was promoted was when customers compliment me and tell me that I do a good job. I do my best to treat others with the upmost respect and when people recognize that, it makes my ego go up. I treat others the way that I would like to be treated; I do my best to make sure they have a memorable and hassle free shopping experience. When customers recognize this and tell management about the way that I treated them it makes me proud of my accomplishments. It helps my ego when I do well, but if one customer complains about something I did, it would offset many of the good things that I did to help others. My ego can be affected positively or negatively according to what customer says what to management.

A time that a customer did not have a positive experience was when I told them I could not price match an item because it was not the same item they were purchasing. They stood in line and called a manager although I followed policy it still affected my ego in a negative way. The experience made me feel negatively and made the customer feel negative as well. Many things can have a negative effect on my ego, customers yelling or putting me down, customers being negative toward other associate’s. Customers being negative toward management and a trickle down affect to other members of our workforce.

Positive Male Influence

A personal credo of mine is that children need a positive role model in and out of the home.  Children who have a positive male role model are less likely to get into trouble at home, less likely to drop out of school, to use drugs and less likely to end up in prison. Children who have a positive male role model have a better outlook on life. A positive male role model is so important they have started organizations to help with this problem, programs like big brother and big sisters of America, with this program once a week or more, a volunteer will come and mentor a child who would otherwise not have a positive person to look up to. Positive male role models importance has also inspired a movie, Courageous where men also sign a declaration stating they would be positive male role models in their homes.
I try my best to be a positive role model to my children, we try to eat at least one meal together a day as a family. We go to church as a family and sit and worship together. I show my children the importance of going to work and getting an education. I spend as much time with my children doing productive and fun things with them. Being a positive male influence has had me make some changes in my life, I have started going to church and stopped some of the more destructive things in my life. I quit drinking, and started focusing on my family after my daughter was born. Being a positive male role model isn’t hard to do, you try your best and you raise your kids how you think they should be raised. Cutting negative thoughts and actions out of your life will help you be a positive role model in children’s lives. I have cut most of the negative thoughts and actions out of my life; I still get a negative thought or two on occasion. When something bad happens I try to look for the positive. If I have a bad day at work I see at least I get to go home to a family that supports me and loves the sacrifices that I make for them to have a better life. If I am fighting with Sarah, I know we are arguing now but we still love each other and it is going to take more than this little fight to end what we have together.
A positive male role model doesn’t necessarily have to be the father of the children. Nephews and nieces look up to their uncles as a positive male role model, before I had children of my own my nephews looked up to me, and still look up to me to this day. Their father divorced my sister, and has not been the most supporting and positive person. You could be a positive male role model in someones life and not even realize it. A neighbor who sees you as an older brother, they could be looking up to you. It is important for males to make a positive effect on younger people around them.
Just being in the situation and living with your children isn’t always being a positive influence. If you are doing negative actions around children i.e. smoking, drinking, drugs, and other actions children also pick up on the negative role models. Children who see negative behavior are also more likely to do the negative behavior themselves. Kids who are in a home where there is smoking are far more likely to start smoking themselves.  Kids who are in a home where there is drinking are more likely to drink themselves. How you treat others also affect the way your children will act towards others. I young boy who sees his father acting negatively towards women will see that as a behavior that is ok and will himself treat women the same way.
I am thankful that I had a positive influence in my life. My dad worked hard every day of his life, but he was there for us when we needed him. He was someone I could always go to if I needed someone to talk to, or someone to just listen to what I had to say. My dad helped shape me into the man that I am today. He was a positive role model and I am proud that he was there for me and my sisters.

Credo

Exercise One
I believe that children need a positive male influence in and out of the home.  Research shows that children who have a positive influence in the home are less likely to commit major crimes, and less likely to get into drug use. Children who have a positive male influence are more likely to be a positive influence themselves. I want to be a positive influence in my children’s lives. I show them that it is important to work when needed, to have an education and to go to church as well as spend as much time as I can with them.  The positive male influence in the home has inspired movies like Courageous.