Team 7 Vlog - Episode 3

Our third corec IM game and last game of the season. Playoffs start Monday!

Recorded with a Canon G15.

"Seven million will lose insurance under Obama health law"

Not that I've ever been an Obama supporter, but this totally just made my opinion of him go even lower. I thought he said, and I quote, “First of all, if you’ve got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you.”¹ Ummm... Yeahhh... So far, I don't see things going in that direction. If businesses no longer feel like they have enough incentive to pay for your insurance and would rather pay the penalty to the government, something is up. Now the estimated 7 million Americans losing insurance will have to find new doctors and health insurance plans. There's no keeping that.

Read the full story here:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2013/feb/5/obama-health-law-will-cost-7-million/

Right now, my family can't afford to go through this kind of crap. If you know about my family situation, you would know why. There's too much at stake for us. It was already a mess when my dad's company decided to switch insurance providers. I can only imagine what would happen if the company decided to drop health insurance altogether.

Then what is this thing about paying an individual penalty if you don't have health insurance? I feel like Obama is just trying to find ways to dig himself out of this $1.165 trillion deficit that he's about to get us into with his health care plan. There is no reason to take money away people for not having health insurance. They already pay enough every time they go to the doctor's office.

Read about health insurance penalties here:
http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/29/pf/taxes/health_insurance_mandate/index.htm

Stop making promises you can't keep. Geez, I can't wait for his term to end.

Team 7 Vlog - Episode 2

So we played our first corec IM basketball game today and this is what happened...

Recorded with a Canon G15.

Hughie's and Life Updates

It's been a while since I've posted anything and I felt like since I wasn't doing anything right now that I would do a quick look at what I've been up to. Let's start from the top. I still haven't found a job and I've been stuck at home taking care of "mommy duties" due to family problems. When I say "mommy duties," I mean like waking up early to drop the kids/siblings off at school and going to pick them up when school was over which is all fine and dandy except for the fact that I have 7 hours of nothingness to burn. I found out that I would hate to be a stay-at-home mom.

On to my Hughie's project. While I haven't been able to find an actual job, I've been doing some freelance work for a restaurant/lounge that's opening in Houston sometime this year. The person that approached me is an acquaintance from church who's aunt owns this restaurant. When I first received my creative brief it was labelled as a casual Western themed bar/lounge. My job was to create a logo and to help with marketing. Sooo many logo designs were drafted between November until now and I'm still not sure which logo was chosen...

To see all the logo designs I drafted up, click the link below:
https://plus.google.com/photos/112994609708042405063/albums/5841725880853578785

Marketing is something that I'm not really comfortable with at all. I guess it's time to put my minor to use. Actually, I find that my ATEC class is more useful to me for this project than my marketing classes. Without my ATEC class, I would have never found out about HootSuite. So far HootSuite has been a lifesaver when it comes to digital marketing. What it is is a consolidation of different social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ all in one platform. This site allows me to create a post and post it on several different sites at the same time. It also allows me to schedule posts so that they'll show up at certain times so that my target audience can see them. Anyways, I hope this project provides me some useful experience that might land me an actual job. Freelance work probably can't support me cuz I don't have enough clients looking for me. Blehhh...

Seriously, though. I feel like I'm dying at home and need something to do. I think I would rather go back to my crappy job at Studio Movie Grill if it meant being productive. At least I made money. All I do at home is take naps while waiting til it's time to pick up the kids...