Business Seminar Tomorrow!

Work - 1 Comment » - Posted on March, 8 at 10:11 pm

A few weeks back I got some interesting mail for once. Aside from the plethora of magazine subscriptions that have found their way to my mailing address, the million and one averts for lawyers (Damn Texas and their policy of selling lists to lawyers), and [interestingly enough] even adverts forcheap life insurance, I also received information for a seminar that was interest to me and I could afford it to boot!

Normally tickets for the Get Motivated Business Seminar average around $100+ dollars (actually I think it was closer to $200) and so I’ve never even considered going before. It’s just never been in my price range. However, this year, they reduced the prices and the pre-registration prices were ridiculously low so I couldn’t let the opportunity pass.

The seminar is going to be held at the Don Haskins Center in El Paso, TX tomorrow from 8am to 4:45pm, so it’s going to be a long day. I hope to learn a lot and have a good time as well. The guest speakers I’m most excited about are Rudy Giuliani, Laura Bush, Mike Price (UTEP Football coach), and Rick Belluzzo.

Video and audio recorders aren’t allowed, so sadly I won’t be uploading any interesting clips to the blog but I will be posting an over view of it and my thoughts tomorrow after I return. We can take cameras though so I will probably post a few pictures.

I’ve finished getting everything I need for tomorrow ready and will be going to bed soon so that I can get up early enough to drive up to El Paso, get a parking space, and get checked in at 6:45 when the doors open. I even packed my purse with some snacks and bottled water already! There will be a break for lunch and the concession stands will be open and offering sandwiches, salads, and the typical fare you can expect (popcorn, hot dogs, nachos, ect) but I’d rather not have to buy my meal from there. You just know concession stand prices are outrageous, not to mention, the lines will be long. I’m in the executive seating (floor seating by the stage) so I can just imagine what the lines would be like by the time I got to the top floors where the concession stands are. So not going to fool with that. Hopefully they don’t search bags and confiscate outside food and drink.

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A Reality Check for a Fangirl – Finally!

Anime/Manga - 1 Comment » - Posted on March, 6 at 1:46 pm

I was checking out the weekly best buy deals at Buy.com just to see if there were any thumb drives or [preferably] external hard drives that were within my price range when it dawned on me that I still hadn’t gotten around to reading the latest chapter of the Naruto manga.

So, fully expecting another disapointing chapter, I headed over to OneManga.com and read chapter 485 of Naruto. And while the chapter was disappointing (I mean come on, Naruto, get over Sasuke, stop whining, and just kill the psychopath!) I was highly amused by Sasuke’s former healer and fanatical-fangirl Karin. Yes, you read that right, former fangirl. :rofl:

Is that awesome or what? I knew there was a reason I thought Karin was funny and better (in some aspects) to a lot of the Konoha kunoichi. I mean shesh, Sasuke betrayed her once and she says “fuck you!”. And as fans may recall, Ino and Sakura are still all wishy-washy over Sasuke despite abandoning Konoha and vowing vengeance on Konoha. Looks to me like Karin has a better grasp of reality then some important characters do.

That’s actually sad though when you think about it.

And yeah, I’m not even going to touch the whole psycho!Sasuke vowing to kill everyone in order to exalt and revive his clan. Yeah, the falacies in that logic are just…wow. And to think, he’s supposed to be a genius!

In other news, at least the battle with Aizen is totally rocking. Bleach doesn’t disapoint there. And I got caught up on all of the episodes for Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood just in time for the new episode (#47 Yami no Shisha) that comes out tomorrow! Which is good because I can’t wait to see Pride in action against Lin and Ed. *bounces* So exciting!!

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Tastes Like Heaven

Food and Drink, Rants and Raves - No Comments » - Posted on March, 6 at 6:36 am

I joined Gevalia coffee a little while back and my first order arrived in the mail yesterday. To be honest I didn’t know what to expect from it. I mean, I’ve had different flavors of coffee from Boca Java and wasn’t very impressed. However, the introductory offer of 3 coffee or teas of your choice for just three dollars and free S&H was just too good to pass up so I gave it a try.

Oh gosh, I’m so glad I did!

There were so many delicious sounding flavors of tea to choose from, so I limited myself to Ceylon Cinnamon Orange and Blackberry Spice. I also chose one flavored coffee, Dark Chocolate Truffle. I’ve had four cups of the Dark Chocolate Truffle coffee already and I’m more than eager to go and brew another pot of it. It’s just that damn good. *drools*

I just can’t wait to give the flavored teas a try now after this! Now I can sit down and finishing sorting through my mail from yesterday, which I picked up on my way to ‘Cruces, hence why I haven’t read it yet. It’s actually kind of scary how you use your mailing address for one thing and suddenly you’re on everyone’s mailing lists. Case in point, this last time I got in a fender bender I order some parts for Pyro and they were delivered to this address. It was one time and from just one merchant, yet somehow I’ve got a couple of different catalogs for Mopar performance parts addressed to me. I don’t even know I got a subscription to Women’s Day magazine either, let alone Cosmopolitan, Curve, and Rolling Stone. I did sign up for free subscriptions to Spin and Marie Claire, but honestly I never get a chance to read those ones, let alone all the other ones that I’m getting free that I never even subscribed for. Makes you wonder just how I got on these lists.

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I Want Some Bacon!

Food and Drink, Rants and Raves - No Comments » - Posted on March, 3 at 8:15 am

Dang nabbit, I woke up this morning with a craving for some bacon. Specifically, I wanted to eat eggy in a basket and have a side of bacon to go with it while I finally go through the stack of mail that has been piling up. Most of it looks like junk mail given that there are a lot of adverts for car insurance companies in the pile, still there is some important stuff that needs to be sorted out and shredded before disposal. But in all honesty, I think I may just settle for the eggy in a basket. The bacon is a little scary to eat.

See, I picked up some bacon the other day when I went shopping. I picked up a lot items and somehow I didn’t catch on to the fact that the cashier bagged my bacon with the soda and since I had a lot of groceries (because I waited until everything was practically depleted) I honestly didn’t notice it was missing until the next day. I went shopping at Wal-Mart in the late evening, got back around 2am, put up the groceries, then went to bed. I didn’t notice the bacon was mixed in with the soda until the following day around noon. Meaning the bacon sat out for about ten hours until I noticed it when I decided to have a glass of soda around noon. Needless to say, after swearing up a storm I chucked it in the fridge real fast.

It gets very cold at night and the only [electric room] heater that stays on through the night is the one in the bedroom, so in theory the bacon should still be good. But yeah, I’m still leery of it. Damn cashiers don’t know how to bag right. I mean seriously, the woman put my tomatoes with can goods (thankfully those didn’t get mushed or bruised up), I should have thought to check everything more thoroughly after that discovery. But all the meat, dairy, and frozen stuff was grouped together for the most part that it didn’t even dawn on me that I was missing something.

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