I've Been Quiet For Too Long!

So I haven't posted anything for more than a year. My intent for this blog was to give myself a place to speak my mind and to be honest I've had so much to deal with that I just haven't given it much thought. As I have explained in previous posts I was permanently disabled from injuries that I sustained while working as a firefighter/EMT and have been dealing with it ever since. Those injuries happened over 5 1/2 years ago now and it's been a long hard road. So I apologize for not posting much.

I have learned a lot about myself since the accident. I don't recommend becoming disabled in order to learn about yourself though. I do think that there are better ways to do that. I have learned that depression can come and go and that it takes a lot of work to deal with. I've also learned without question that I am one stubborn man and that if focused that stubbornness can be a tool that I can use to fight the pain and depression. I also know what I stand for and what I believe and I refuse to compromise my principals, beliefs or rights simply because someone else thinks I should.

As an example I have had to fight with the high school that my children attend every year about something. I will not allow my or my children's principals, beliefs or rights to be walked on because they think they can. This is issue with the schools has really got me upset because the students are always the ones who suffer until the issues are resolved. I am currently trying to get resolution for another issue right now. If I do not get an acceptable resolution within a day or so I have decided to detail all of the issue so as to provide the information to other parents. Our children should not have to pay the price for someone's lack of knowledge of the law.

I have decided that I will no longer be quiet on any matters anymore. We live once and have to try to do it right and do the best we can for not only our own children but, for all of the children out there. It's time we all step up make the schools answer to us as parents. The schools like to conveniently forget that the only authority they have over our children is what we as parents allow them. We can remove our children from school at any time under the law. We as parents have the power not the school administration. It seems that over the years parents have been traditionally conditioned to believe that the school holds all of the power, however that is simply not true. As a parent under the law the power is yours. If you're not sure go read the laws for yourself. You'll find them very enlightening and you'll also find that most school administrators and even school board members don't know the laws. They all operate on assumed authority and they love to quote polices. The truth is however that policies are not law and not enforceable as a replacement for the law. If you've had much dealings with schools I'm sure that you'd have noticed that the school administration will quote a policy to you but, then turn around and violate that policy themselves. The hypocrisy drives me insane and I refuse to put up with it anymore.

Parents please read the laws and become familiar with them. Know your rights and how to exercise them so that we can help and protect our children.

Working From Home . . . Fail

Well in my last post I talked about the opportunity I found and was going to try. Well let me tell you about my nightmare. I signed up like I said and tried the free and low cost offers just like I said. Then when it came time to cancel the offers the fun started.

First the free magazine subscriptions started charging me a month before they were supposed to. Which was also 2 days after I canceled the subscriptions. I called and fought with them to get the charges reversed. A month later I started getting the magazines again and suddenly was getting charged again. I called them again and fought with them to get the charges reversed again. Two months later I got the magazines again and was charged again. This time I called the Attorney General's Office and filed a complaint. I also had to file a fraud complaint with my bank. Then I took a copies of the complaints and sent them to the magazine company. They called me this time and made sure to resolve the problem.

Second was the saw and kitchen knife offers. I had a similar problem with these two like I did with the magazines. As it turns out the same company that handled the magazines handled these offers too. I went through the same processes as I did for the magazines to resolve these problems as well.

My last trial offer was with a credit reporting/monitoring agency. I canceled my trial and three months later I got a charge. I called them and they resolved the issue pretty quick but, it was still a hassle.

Overall my experience with this was not very good. I had put the link on my blogs but, after all of this I'm taking it off. I don't want to have other honest people go through what I did. What kills me about all of this that everyone claims this is so good and is legitimate but, I never made a scent and man was it a pain to deal with. So I can say that I honestly gave it a try but, I can't in good faith recommend this to anyone else.
 

Working From Home

For those of you who don't know me I can't stand sitting around doing nothing. I've always had at least one job and a business or two jobs plus a business. Well four years ago all that changed for me. I working as a firefighter / EMT for our local fire district and working as the head of the fire / medical agency at our local race facility. While on duty at the fire district we had a house fire. I was working the fire when the unexpected happened, the ground gave way and I fell. That one little accident killed my career. I injured my right knee, right hip, lower back, right shoulder, right wrist, upper back and neck. Plus I now have a headache that never goes away.

All in all the accident has disabled me for life. I can't get hired by anyone do to my disability so I try to work from home doing projects for people. I find that I can finally do more work in a single day but, it's taken 4 years to get to this point and what I am able to do is still a fraction of the work that I could do before the injuries.

So what does all this have to do with working from home? Well I have searched and searched for some legitimate work from home opportunities and have found very few. The few legitimate opportunities that I did find required such a large initial capital investment that I couldn't afford them. Then I found a free legitimate opportunity. At first I thought no way is this free or legitimate. I searched on line to see f it was a scam. A few people said it was but, they had nothing to back it up. There was so many that said it legitimate I had to look into it further. I even called the Better Business Bureau and asked questions about the company. I found that they are in fact legitimate.

Ok I know you're asking what is it? Well an advertising company has setup free or low cost trials for quite a few companies. Those companies pay part of their advertising budget to the advertiser. The advertiser then pays out a small portion of that as a payment to you for referring someone to their website who signs up for a free or low cost trial. That's it. That's all there is to it. You drive traffic to their site and for every person that signs up for a trial you get paid. I couldn't believe that is was that simple. I spent several weeks checking this out and making sure that it was legitimate. Now I'm giving it a try since I figured out that I could ave been doing it for the last several weeks that I was checking it out.

So I'm off and going. If you've read this and want to learn more go to the website makemoneyanywhere.net watch the video, enter your name, email address, phone number to get to the step by step turnkey system. Watch the video and see if you want to give it a try. I did and it didn't cost me anything to set things up and start using the system. I did pay for a couple of trials for magazines and such but, they were only $3.00 and some other trials were free. To me the small cost it took to get the trails in order to qualify to refer others and get paid for it is well worth it.

I'm going to give this a try for a month or so and see how it works for me. I'll post some more here as I go to tell whoever is interested how things are going. If you want to check it out for yourself go to makemoneyanywhere.net and give it a try.

Day Six

Well this morning I weighed in at 246 lbs. So overall I've lost 10 lbs. Not to bad for six days and not starving myself. I haven't had any more body aches other than my injuries but, even those pains have lessened at rest. Overall I have to say this was a good thing to do. So tomorrow I will be transitioning back to solid foods. I'm going to try to stay with lighter foods and plenty of water. I'll make a smoothie in the morning and split it. Half with breakfast and half with lunch. I'll keep the solid foods light and I'm planning on some rice, stir-fry, and fish for dinner.

So I'll add more tomorrow about how well te transition goes.

Day Five

I weighed myself this morning and again I weighed in at 248 lbs but, I have to say that my clothes feel looser than before. I'm sure that if I could run or do any of the high calorie burning exercises that I used to I would see a little more of the weight loss. Besides I didn't expect to see much weight loss in only seven days. I can say that I am surprised about the energy that I am feeling today. I have no body aches or headaches at all ( except for my dull headache from the injury). I can see now why everyone said you have to do the cleanse for more than 3 or 4 days.

Surprisingly I can say without a doubt that I'm sleeping better than I have for some time. For the last 3 years I've had to have 2 to 3 drinks a night to dull the pain enough to try and sleep. My sleep hasn't been consistent at all and the only times I sleep for more than about 7 hours is when I've been sick. I also usually wake up every time that I move from the pain in my leg, back or shoulder, but that hasn't happened over the last several days. This is a side effect that I never expected at all.

Now I can honestly say that when this is over I am looking forward to some meat but, I'm thinking a lot more vegetables than I ate before sounds good.