Merry Christmas!!

Well i know i haven't written for a few days. I really do mean to, i mean on Friday we had a friggin fire in our fireplace for the first time. I have pictures and stuff, so i'll definitely post them. Anyway i'm at home in Sandy right now cuz tomorrow is CHRISTMAS!!! WOOO HOOO We'll see how it goes... :) Ta Ta For now!!

Hot Tub Adventures

Oh man. Instant classic. If any post ever merits any kind of award this will be it.
So to set up the situation lets go back about 8 months. We, being Eric, Mike Madsen, and myself all lived in Crestwood apartments. We somehow got the idea that we should move into a house, BUT Mike said he could maybe even buy a house and have us pay rent on it. Well as a lot of people know now, this speculation is now a reality. The funny thing about it, is we dreamed about having a big screen mounted over the fireplace, having more rooms in the basement, and having a hot tub out back on our deck. All of these things have become a reality. Now the best part. In the back of our house there is a shabby hotel. In fact one time Mike M. and I went to this establishment to ask if it would be possible if we did some kind of small service for the hotel in order to use their pool. Well we walked in (sorry this a small tangent) and there was an Israeli/Hindu/Muslim woman standing behind the counter. Now i have no prejudice against her, but honestly if you are going to attend to a hotel...make sure you know English well enough to help those that come in. I'm sure she can get buy with getting a room setup and paid for and stuff, but that's about it. We talked to her and she basically had no idea what we wanted, and we realized this when she said "so you want room?" Apparently the manager was gone, so we just decided to come back. The funny thing was, my roommate was talking to her and we could both tell she had no clue what he was saying, so oddly she looked to me for help. I almost started speaking Spanish to her...but i thought that might confuse her even more. Anyway we finished up the non-conversation we were having with her, and left. Well so now we know this motel is pretty shabby...on top of it we noticed the pool looked disgusting...so we were better off anyway. So the motel is shabby, I'm sure no one ever stays in it, and I'm not sure how it's even still running.
So up until this point, we had been in the hot tub a number of times at night time, ranging from probably 10 up until i think Mike Bready and Cami were in there once until like 3 am...so needless to say, we hadn't ever run into anything. WELL last night, December 18, 2007, this all changed.
Mike, Mike and myself are all chilling in the hot tub, talking about who knows what and just passing the time away. The two Mikes are facing away from this establishment behind our house, while I am situated facing the Motel. All of a sudden i see a light flicker on. I start thinking to myself "well this is new." Then it happens. I see a very large man approach the window. Now i know that one of the first things a lot of people do when they get to a old, run-down, shabby motel is to go IMMEDIATELY to the window and check out the view....ok probably not. Perhaps in a sweet ocean side view hotel, during the day..(mind you this was about 11:30-midnight ish) but most likely not in a residential area, from the window of a shabby hotel. Well i started to laugh a little bit, and I'm sure my roommates thought nothing of it because i'm sure we were discussing something relatively entertaining. Then my chuckles turned to a hardcore laugh because, the guy left the window and then came back and cracked the blinds a little to see better outside. By this time the attention of my roommates is focused on me wondering what the crap I'm laughing at. All i can say is "that, just turn around...that." Well they turn around and immediately lose it. The best part of the whole thing is the guy leaves the window again, comes back and cracks the shades again, THEN, and only after checking one more time decides the coast is clear and proceeds to undress. By this point all of us are laughing so hard, but we couldn't help but look. It was one of those things where you know you SHOULDN'T be looking because A)it's not that funny, or B) it's disturbing. But this was one of those...SO hilarious and disturbing circumstances, you couldn't help but look. The guy leaves the window and comes back...i am truly grateful the window came up to his waist...because i'm pretty sure he was buck naked...Mike says he saw underwear, but i don't know. Regardless it was still massively hilarious. My question is how he didn't see us out there...we DID have the light in the hot tub turned off, as well as all the lights inside the house. We don't' have a back porch light, so there was basically no light out. We were just enjoying the slight sprinkle of rain and the the few stars poking through the clouds here and there. Eventually we saw him go into the other room, and then the lights turned off and that was that. But this experience alone has taught me That while in a hot tub...anything can happen!

Finals at BYU

So i was walking up to the WILK today to study, and take one of my finals. I noticed something rather intriguing on my way there. Basically every person i came across had one of many looks on their faces: Terror, Stress, Sadness, Anxiety, mass depression. However, i did notice 3 people with a big smile on their face. One of these mysterious characters was a girl, which rather surprised me. Not that there was a girl walking on BYU campus, because that's generally pretty well known. The thought that immediately came to my mind was: "Why would ANYONE be smiling on finals day?" Then it occurred to me that it must be one of two reasons. 1) She just passed a terribly impossible final exam with flying colors or 2) She failed so miserably it made her smile upon thinking about it, which has happened to be on more than one occasion. The other two people i noticed were either a boy and girl together (I'm counting this as one), since who can't be happy when they are with someone they attracted to. And lastly older adults.....meaning not students. These people i have decided were most likely teachers laughing and giggling at the stress and anguish they are putting their students through. Pretty much everyone else i came across had a smug, sad, depressed, and sometimes angry look on their face. Oh and i came to sit down to study and the line where i need to go to was out to where i'm sitting...but now it's died down..so i should be good to roll. I'm taking New Testament and Chem 105 today...the latter i'm 98% sure I'll fail, but I'll let you know for sure.

Putting off finals...

Today i woke up at 10:00 am. I had set my alarm for 8:30 so i could go to school and take a final, then study for another one and take that one too...WELL it is now 12:18 PM and i am still at home, haven't showered, and i decided to put it off again. I mean honestly who has ANY motivation to go to school and take a test...NOT ME. So I'm going to take two tomorrow, and two on Thursday. Luckily i have one scheduled on Thursday, therefore at least forcing me to go that day and take that test...I'll just have to add on top of it another one. That's OK with me though, i am enjoying my time not being at school. I suppose i should be using more of this time to study for the tests i have to take, but I'm not :) Yay for procrastinating!

Sticky Rice

So i have this tradition with Jessica. We both LOVE Thai food, and we get the same thing like everytime. Today we decided to try a different Thai restaurant....i'm not sure how impressed i was. First of all the service wasn't as great as the place we usually go to. Second of all, they took FOREVER to get HER food out....for some reason, my food came out pretty quick. Lastly, THEY DIDN'T HAVE STICKY RICE MADE!!! I love sticky rice! When the guy said they didn't have any made, i was like...."Can you cook some?" And he was like "No, it takes a long time...like over night to soak in order to make it..." So i didn't get my sticky rice. All in all, honestly, the food was basically the same. The thing is...this place is like literally less than a minute from my house in driving time...probably like a 5 minute walk....yet i'm pretty sure we're not going to go to that place anymore. I'm willing to drive further just to get better service and better food. AND STICKY RICE!!!

Being Human!!

Whoever put it in their head that it is a good idea for people to have to work on Saturday, should be punished to full extent. I do realize that many places, such as food places, retail stores, and certain businesses do their best on weekends. However, I work in a call center with many other people as well. Ask me, is the call center EVER busy on a Saturday? Generally no! Sure it gets busy sometimes, but that's rare and hardly merits me to work on a Saturday. Of course the gracious company i work for, decided that if you work after 2 YEARS for the company, IN the call center, only THEN would you have the opt out of working Saturdays. I suppose this is a pretty fair deal considering it IS a good company to work for, and they do pay well. But honestly....most people don't even last here beyond a year.

Many times I've debated on quitting my job and finding something else more exciting and unboring. The only thing that stops me is the money i make here, and some of the benefits. If it weren't for that, I'm sure i would have quit long ago. Apart from the benefits, lets be honest. How FUN is a job where i sit on my butt all day answering phone calls from people who most likely aren't going to have ANY idea what they want or what's going. "I've been a distributor for 12 years, but can you explain to me how to use my ADR points?!?!" GET WITH THE PROGRAM!! If you are going to do a business, you should understand what's going on! If you are going to buy products, having a monthly order, DO NOT call me and tell me "i didn't know my order was automatic!" or "You sent me products i never ordered!" First of all, I DON'T send you orders, you send yourself orders! The Distribution Center sends you orders. If you are going to be on an automatic ordering program, UNDERSTAND what the word AUTOMATIC means! I do realize that if you are new to the company that things need explaining, and I'd be more than happy to help you understand these simple things. Just don't make it harder than it needs to be! I'm a person too! I have needs just as well as you do. Everyone makes mistakes and knows they need to improve on certain things, but at the same time we need to learn to deal with circumstances, that even though truly may not have been our fault, with ease and patience. What's the point of causing your Aortic Artery to explode because there is so much blood pumping to your brain from you're ridiculous, unnecessary, ranting and raving. The truth is, i do like my job. I was reminded at how good of a job i have last Tuesday at our company party. I just truly wish the people in the world would get a clue and figure out how to function as a normal human being. It really is not that hard.

OK well enough of my ranting now about my fabulous job. I saw the movie I Am Legend yesterday. I went in kind of knowing what it was more or less about, but still it was a REALLY good movie. Will Smith really is such an awesome actor. I hate when people diss on an actor because of maybe one movie they did way back in the day, or a TV show they starred in that was amazing in the 90's. Anyone that has watched any kind of tense movie with me, knows I'm a jumper. But hey, isn't that the purpose of the director? He did his job, and that's that. Overall i give I Am Legend 4 stars, out of 5. The only thing it really lacked was more of an explanation of how the situation we were presented came to be.

I work til 5:15. Hopefully i can get off early. That is all.

Hum Dee Dummmm

So today. Today was a fabulous day. I don't really know why. Nothing amazing happened. What can i say? I guess it was just a good day. It might have to do with me turning in my Astronomy stuff and the teacher wasn't the wiser that i haven't been to his class in the past like 3 weeks...i mean HONESTLY. If the class lecture, ALL that was said is on the Internet and you can just read it...instead of listen to the teacher read it off the power point...is there REALLY any other purpose of going to class? I believe not!! Some classes, for example Chemistry....which will most likely be the death of me...you need to go to class because even though the power points are on the Internet, it's pretty much impossible to understand them if you don't know what they are about or how to interpret them. So that's my feelings on that. Kelly, my wonderful cousin, was in Provo today, and took me out to lunch to Los Hermanos. It was nice to hang out with her. Good times.
So vent time. Work. Work is fine i suppose, but you know it's really starting to get on my nerves with how tight they are trying to make things. When you try to hold a small child down, usually they struggle more. Anything you try to hold down, it seems they just get worse. I know there has to be limitations, but for real I'm sick of them treating us like babies. It really irritates me that they get mad at us for not knowing EVERYTHING and especially when we don't always get all the info they say we are supposed to. It's ridiculous. I don't' understand it. I know i work for a stellar company...we had our company x-mas party last night. It was awesome...good entertainment, portable DVD player, 2 week pay bonus...etc. it's great! it really is! The thing is, one reason why they treat call center people so well sometimes....well I'm pretty sure it's because they know how bad our job sucks. I HATE up selling..i really do, and i do it because i know i need to. If anyone is going to tell me that up selling helps a distributor, you know i just can't believe that. I know for a fact a lot of people really do get suckered into buying our products. The products are good....this is true...but really expensive and most people that are buying just what they need DO NOT WANT something else they CAN'T afford. I love my job. I really do. I just wish we would have more credit than once a year!
Next semester I'm working 7-12 (noon) and going to school in the afternoon. We'll see how that goes.
All for now.