So it's been about 24 hours since I started this blog and not much has been accomplished since then. My day could've been more productive...starting with my workout. I stayed up until after 2am trying to choose the link colors and border sizes of this dumb page which caused me to be exhausted during bootcamp. Put in a few hours of work at my house before taking a little side trip across town. Hoping to get some quality time in at the office when I got back, I found myself completely distracted by this random (kind of) mental image which had just been painted for me moments prior. Image was making me smile but I knew I shouldn't have been thinking about that at all. Priorities - Reality - Contracts - FOCUS! In between David pestering me with questions and Lindsay and I talking about how much we love Drake I somehow managed to finish a few things. Just as I was getting in the zone a new contact from one of our studios hit me on AIM. I needed to talk to him about a deal anyways so I was glad he said hello, although I can't lie, one of his first questions (after telling a few jokes and then asking me to hang on like 3 times,) was about "what we could do together to push monthly sales over X amount of dollars"and it deserved my standard reaction. "The less time I spent entertaining him the more time I'd have to actually sell his content." For some reason I felt comfortable enough to actually tell him that where usually I'd keep my sarcasm to myself. He didn't take offense though. He must have been too busy throwing bait my way. LOL Quote of the day: "You are skilled, like one of those fishes that swims around the boat all day and doesn't take the bait!" I literally laughed out loud - I've been told this before but never heard such a clever analogy so I asked if I could quote that on my blog. Haha I completely gave up trying to work somewhere in between his list of bait that I had ignored and his recollection of my right shoe strap constantly sliding off of my "Asian feet" the other day at lunch. He was witty enough to get my attention (or maybe it was that Mandingo DVD that was playing in the corner of my screen idk) so when he asked to see my blog I shot him the link. I was a bit apprehensive since my older blogs get pretty deep but I figured if he wanted to know what I was all about that was as good of place as any to start. Thinking he'd be bored after the first few Amy-ism's, I didn't expect him to read the entire page so when he came back and started scoring himself according to my checklist I was slightly embarrassed! He said he was shooting for an 80% which had me cracking up. I admired his honesty in checking off his qualifications and unexpectedly the conversation turned serious for a few. My blog had invoked a conversation that I likely wouldn't have entertained otherwise but at the end of the two hours I was happy I did. I ended up giving him like an 83% since he helped me with a math problem. It would have been an 85% but I had to deduct 2% because he accused me of being a "gamer" by testing him to see if he was actually just an idiot. Apparently the answer was so easy he thought I was messing with him so you can imagine how stupid I felt when I actually wanted him to tell me the answer! -2%! hahahhahahahaha I'm laughing again re-living this conversation but the reality is 82%, 85% or even 99%, I don't date people in the industry. I don't allow myself to cross that line because I need to mind my P's and Q's in order to uphold a certain level of respect as a woman working in this male-dominated industry. Even though he's not a "porn guy" and his motto is the same as the hook in "
Guillotine", he's still off limits romantically. Maybe he really is the ultimate "closer" like he said because his vibe made me want to make him a lot of money!
Speaking of making money, I was just told a very disturbing, yet brilliant scheme of how to raise money fast. Shoot this hustle could actually be a full time job! In the process of looking for a new place to live David tells me that some landlord asked him to pay $30 for a credit check today and he didn't want to do it. At first it struck me as odd since a paid credit check is standard but then he says, "How do I know that this guy isn't just advertising his need for a roommate on craigslist 24-7 and having potential tenants coming by all day long just to collect cash from them? Maybe he never lets anyone move in." He goes on and on theorizing about how you could make hundreds of dollars a day and no one would ever know and that if you make the price really low, everyone will want it! He even suggests that landlords could be purposely leaving multiple rooms/units open just to constantly show collect the application fees. Someone could show a room 10 times in one day and make $300 - literally not doing shit. How someone even comes up with a scheme like this cracks me up but I'll tell you what, I'm never filling out another application unless I'm sure I even want the place! Too funny!
btw I have another criteria to add to my checklist...MUST be able to properly fill my tires with air...omg For as many ex's as I let floss my whip around town like they own it, never had a man who took care of it for me. Tire light was on for over a month and it took my moms dragging me to the gas station. lol
Bed time! Bootcamp in less than 3 hours...FML.
