Social Media vs. Retail Hell: The Reckoning.

This may the most emotional and truthful post I have ever posted.  I am going to do my best to write it within the guidelines I have been given and I will definitely skirt around topics to work for my agenda and mine alone.  But after being in retail for almost half my life, I feel that I need to once again get my feelings about the industry off my chest.  It will be nice release of anger.

WWE and the CM Punk Storyline

Look at the last few posts on my blog.  They are all related to CM Punk and his promo somehow.  The reason? Because the promo he shot was the best thing to happen to WWE for a while now.  They brought us back into the company and wanted to find out what was going to happen with his contract and after he left.  Hell, it was the one reason I actually ordered the PPV last week and I never order them anymore.  Not with the internet giving me the same results for free.

WWE Middle Finger to the Fans

I am severely pissed off at the WWE for doing what they did.  Plain and simple, they fucked up.  Immensely, they fucked up and they are going to have to do a lot to fix it.  They dropped the ball completely on this whole angle with Punk and I just hope that how they ended Raw fixes it somehow.

Videos: Near future?

I have been watching a lot of videos lately.  I mean, that's all I do at night most nights.  I also have been watching a lot of video blogs of people, since it seems to be a trend.

I am not a stranger to getting on camera for the nets.  I used to do video mailbags for Zelda Universe before I had Lily.  I think I am itching to get back in front of the camera and try and gather a persona on video again.  Since I am going to get into a profession that may require that I get on camera or radio, I think practice would be nice.

Also, I have a camera on my laptop that I have been trying to play with.  That's the whole reason I got it.  :-)

That is all.  Hopefully I can post one video blog a week.  That is wishful thinking, but I can wish.  :-)

Longing

A month ago, if you had told me that I would have been over the fact that my ex pissed me off enough to order a paternity test a few days before my daughter's birthday, I would have said that I would have held ground and stood firm on my decision and not taken her until the courts said so.

But every day that passed and I was unable to see Liliana in my life hurt a little more. I had been in her life for almost the entirely of her first year on this Earth. While I did ask for a DNA test, I did so to make sure that if I was going to support her, that she was mine. I could never deny that child because she is a splitting image of me, but on the off chance my ex lied to me, I wanted to be 100% sure. Not only that, but if I had waited until the courts, I would have never been served my custody papers and found out that my ex wanted full custody with no visitations with me. I found out later she did that because I denied the baby. I didn't deny her, I just wanted to make sure she was mine. Big difference.

I tried to be the bigger man and work something out with my ex, but she wouldn't budge. She told me that it wasn't a good idea, so I took her court to work out an agreement. The main reason I didn't take the baby over the last month was because I was afraid that after one more argument, I would get a cop at my door requesting that I return the baby because my ex claimed that I had kidnapped her. Which would be impossible, because I wouldn't be able to take the baby, all her essentials, and her clothes without my ex there.

So, that culminated into today when the court date was set. We went in and I wanted things to go back to normal. I would resume my two overnights a week and return Lily on the third morning. My ex thought that the baby was too clingy to her and that she might not take well to coming back into my life after a month. Needless to say, we sat in court for six hours to have a judge claim that we would ease Lily back into my life with "supervised" visits with my ex or her mom to make sure that the baby was comfortable with me to take on overnights again.

Now, I am not one to brag... Oh wait, yes I am. Needless to say, I went to see the baby today and was slightly nervous that she would not remember who I was and shy away from me. My fears were extinguished the minute Lily set eyes on me at the park for the first time in a month. She gave me the biggest smile she can put on that face, waved at me, and ran right at me. She thought it would be funny to veer at the last minute, but I snatched her up and hugged her tight and gave her a big kiss. Ease her back into my life? It's like I never left.

Unfortunately I have the biggest test of my patience in my life tomorrow and next week. I have to hang out with Lily with my ex or her mom around to make sure Lily is alright. But after today, I find that pointless. But I also know that if I am going to fix my relationship with Lily and be able to communicate with my ex again about the baby, I need to follow the courts for now and deal with it. In three weeks, I get the baby on my normal days and everything will be back to normal. Hopefully for good. Hopefully, I only have to talk with my ex on those days if needed.

Now, I have a belated one year old party to plan for my little one. I guess it will be a one-year-old party mixed with my 25th birthday. What a way to celebrate my birthday than with a birthday party for my little one. Nothing special really, just to say that I am sorry that missed your birthday, but I felt that having eyes bore holes in the back of my head because everyone hates me would not have been my idea of a fun time.

Anyway, that is all for now. I will post again later!

Banks: An Adventure to Hell

I have definitely posted enough online and told everyone in real life that I fucking hate banks with a blinding passion. Most of the major branches love to find ways to fuck you over and get some extra money in their pockets. It's not like that they don't get enough money from their interest on loans and mortgages.

Now why do I hate banks so much? Overdraft fees. I am pissed whenever I get them and usually it is not my fault. It is the way they like to fuck around with my money in my account.

Take for example the most recent example and see if this makes sense. I checked my account this morning to see that my Best Buy geek squad protections for my phones are on hold for tomorrow. This puts my available balance into the negative, but my current balance isn't affected. So it is saying that I have -33 available, but 6 current (which is what I had in there).

I was planning on going to the bank anyway yesterday to put $100 in the bank for my car insurance which comes out on the 26th every month as well. So, to add everything up, I have $140 in insurance coming out later today.

Now, the bank has done this to me in the past and I know it's going to happen again. This is what they do, ready for this?

Now the Best Buy insurances come out as $10 charges and there are usually two per month. Now last month, they didn't take it out because for some reason they said my card was giving them an issue. So, they are taking out four this month. They were put on hold on the 25th.

Now later today, my car insurance is going to come out and all four Best Buy insurances are going to come out officially. Now, if I didn't get the money in on time yesterday, which I hope I did, they are going to claim that the four charges were taken out of my account, put my account into overdraft, then they will take the car insurance which will put my account further into overdraft. This stemming from the fact that those four charges were put on hold for the 26th.

Even better? They are going to put the four charges back into my account AND CHARGE ME AGAIN FOR THOSE SAME FOUR FUCKING CHARGES. Thus, putting my account further into overdraft and charging me an overdraft FOR EACH FUCKING CHARGE.

Thus, if I didn't get the money into my account on time, I will more than likely see anywhere from four to eight overdraft charges for $37 each. How does that make sense for a charge that wasn't due to come out until the 26th?

Even better? If I hadn't checked my account (because I wasn't planning on paying Best Buy this month because they were having issues with my card, so I figured I wouldn't get charged anymore) yesterday morning, I would have just deposited $100 for my car insurance and may have not avoided this entire mess. Now, I just have to sit and wait to see if they fuck me over.

The best part though is this: I have my court date for the baby on Wednesday. If I find all those overdraft fees in my account tomorrow, it is going to royally piss me off and I am going to end up going into court Wednesday pissy. Yes, I am going to call customer service Tuesday to have them fix it, but I might go into court uncertain of how fucked I really am.

That's all. My fun with banks never ends. Also, you know I am really pissed when I say "fuck" a lot in this blog. I try to avoid swearing too much here because I want to keep this blog semi-professional. Oh well. Have fun everyone.