This Is Some Year! Wow!

I am so glad that this semester is about to be over. We are now entering in the seasons where families come together to celebrate the holidays. We are about to enjoy some good ole fashion cooking with dressing, turkey, ham, sweet potato pies, and all other great foods. It is amazing that we can only celebrate this only on special occasions rather than most of the time. Enjoying family is important. Christmas, and thanksgiving should not be the only times we can get together as family and put aside petty differences to enjoy. As the apostle Paul would write, put behind me the past and focus on the future. This was not his exact words, but the meaning is all the same. The fair is here and almost gone again.  We are about to enter into the month of November celebrating thanksgiving. I am looking forward to enjoying the rest of this year with family and friends and just excited about our future. I encourage focus on your dreams and reach for the stars. I hope everyone is having a great week and weekend. I am taking my family to the fair this weekend as promised and just enjoy quality time with them. Yes, it is that time of the year for celebrations and restorations. Everyone be blessed!

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Just Enjoying the Weekend

 This has been an interesting week for me. After working this week on all my jobs, I will, this weekend, rest, and just enjoy the family watching T.V. or watching movies. We also have the fair. Is anyone going to the fair this weekend? I know that I will take my family probably next week. I love going to the Fair because of the rides, the smell of fresh state fair corn dogs, and the funnel cakes. I love to ride and eat whenever we go. Every time we go, I make a declaration that I will not spend as much because the fair can get you. However, when we go, I always spend more than I plan to. The fair really knows how to get into your pockets, but it is worth it. I always enjoy this time of the year because of the fair, thanksgiving, and Christmas. Overall, this has been an interesting year for us. I hope that everyone enjoy themselves this weekend and just take a load off. Enjoy your families and just have a good time.
 

Keeping the Faith

                I am so thankful to what God is doing for the family and me. It is hard, at times, when you are going to school, working three jobs, and pursuing your dreams. At times, I want to give up and just throw in the towel, but God; am giving me the strength to do what I have to do to support my family.  As I go from day to day, I rejoice just knowing that God is my strength and my redeemer. He is the reason for who I am today. The joy of the Lord is my strength. I share this because I get excited when I face opposition that try to take me down. I love this scripture; “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.”Proverbs 3:5. I know that I want to just break free and say no more, but I know that my family comes first. I thank God for them because when I want to throw in the towel I remember the scripture that say I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I reflect on my children where the scriptures say that a man should leave an inheritance to his children’s, children. And then I am reminded of this scripture;^” Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.”Proverbs 16:3 I can do nothing, but to hold on and just trust God to continue to lead me as I continue my journey to spiritual, physical, emotionally, and financially success. What also keep me focused are my dreams and hopes. Good aspirations are always good because you think of them in the beginning, the middle, and the end of the day. Yeah, we all have the oppositions that try to steal our hope for tomorrow, but I am just thankful that we serve a God that will cover us all the way to the end. My family is worth every bit of my struggle just so that they can have and not be without. With opposition, it is either do or dies and in my case, I choose to do. After all, faith without works is dead. Amen! 

Where is the Customer Service?

The strangest thing happened to me the first of Friday night, and the fourth of Monday night.  First, on Friday night, I called domino to order pizza for my family and I. I called domino and got the operator and they asked me to hold. “Thanks for calling dominos pizza, can you hold please?” so I hold for about 20 minutes. “Man, what is going on, why am I holding this long?” suddenly, the phone hung up! I called back again and the operator answered again;”Thanks for calling dominos pizza, can you hold please?” “No, because you hung up in my face the first time!” she told me that she was sorry and placed me on hold again. I called back again because by this time I am upset. This is some bad customer service. I called back and asked to speak to a manager and the person, who answered the phone, told me to hold again. By this time I am past upset, now I am furious. They seemed to have forgotten to be polite, courteous, and show hospitality. Those workers were playing games and showed no concern for the customer. I called pizza hut and finally got to order my pizza. They delivered my pizza, after an hour, and when I got it, it was cold. They also did not remember to bring my drinks. I must say, the customer service is ridiculous. The driver apologized and said that he would bring the drinks back to me. I said to him that was fine. Well I went to pick my daughter up from school because she was coming from a football game. I called pizza hut to let them know that my pizza was cold and that I did not receive my two drinks. When I called, I asked to speak to a manager. I spoke to the manager and she said that she offered me a 20.00 credit because of my inconvient. I told the manager thank you for her concern. Keep in mind that when I call back to order a pizza, I will get a pizza free because of my credit, not know that this information was not input into the computer. I finally call on Monday night to order a pizza and when I asked about my credit, they informed me that there was no credit. I drove to pick my pizza up so I was in the window for about 30 to 40 minutes arguing the fact that I had a 20.00 credit. Of course, I paid for the pizza, but am going back to speak with a district manager regarding this matter. I just like to say that when ever you have a dispute make sure you write down the person’s name you spoke to and what the issue is concerning. It does help when you confront people on the truth. To me, it was the principle of the matter, the manager told me I had a 20.00 credit, but it was nowhere in the system I ordered or had the credit. Customer service, now, is not what it is supposed to be and I just like to say that hospitality goes a long way and we spend our hard earn monies at these local restaurants and we should be treated with the upmost respect.

Just B Free!

Today is a good day!  Today is a great day! Yes, today is a good day. The beautiful sunshine and the clear blue skies, make it all worthwhile, just able to see with these middle-aged eyes.  I just gazed up in the sky just enjoying the view, and when I look, I think the sky is saying back hey you.  At times, I look up, and wonder what it would be to fly, but man what a ways up in the sky.  Oh yeah, it is great to sit and ponder, though when it pour down and rains, there lots of thunder.  I love to be able to leap off tall buildings like superman, but I am still just an ordinary man.  In case your wondering is it worth just playing makes believe, yes, it is, I have something still up my sleeve.  Thank you Lord for giving me the power, just know this, I am still the man of the hour.  Look at the entire airplanes fly by, now sitting here watching movies that making me cry.  I love peace, I love joy, and I love to dream, love sitting here throwing rocks, watching flying fish go up stream.  It’s a happing I am about to take flight, just know that your watching the kid a dynomite.   Wow! I really did enjoy that little poem or rhyme which ever I performed.  It is good at times to just allow your thoughts to ramble on and have fun. I enjoy having fun and just being me.  In spite, all the rough spots in life you got to know how to have fun and enjoy yourself.  I enjoy pursuing my dreams because it shows me how to be free and so that is just me being free.