This “morning” I woke up and knew that I had a big meeting with a regional president of Zion’s Bank and hoped it wasn’t really Friday the 13th as my blurry morning vision could have suggested. You don’t want to have an important meeting on that day. So this meeting came about from the Utah Student 25 event that transpired back in November. I got a letter from the CEO of Zion’s Bank congratulating us on our performance and said to contact him personally if I ever needed anything. Hmmm. CEO of a bank offering his services? Yes, please.
I emailed him and he got back to me surprisingly quickly. The very next day. He then put me in contact with a guy who has a sweet office at their brand new very nice building here in Provo. The meeting went well and I got to tell the whole Parker Planners story. I was surprised at how interested he and the other guy in the meeting were to hear my story. It was a confidence booster for sure. I kept thinking “why do these guys care about a planner company?” but whateva, it was good times. They were very helpful in answering some questions and Zion’s may just help Parker Planners get to the next level.
I then hung out with Mike. It was awesome as usual. The last few times have been better than ever. It almost feels like he’s my son sometimes, kinda weird but fulfilling-weird. He’s so sharp and mature for a 12-year-old. We went to Denny’s and got hot chocolate and pancake puppies- fried donut holes made of pancake. These were blueberry with white chocolate chips and they came with warm syrup- yes, as good as it sounds!!
Their hot chocolate is re-fill-able and I think I had like 4.
Afterward we stopped by my office so we could pick up a planner. Mike wanted one because his school planner is too big and he likes Parker Planners. We agreed on a price of $0.50 and it was a fair deal. He was in luck because we just got some samples from China, brand new improved version!!
Guess I should have got a pic with he and the planner.
After that I rocked out with my new roomate Andrew and we ate some chili I made from scratch. It came out great. Chips and chili is what I make when I want to pretend I eat healthily. I like to eat it with white corn chips and lots of cheese, salsa and a little tobasco.
Then it was inner-tube water polo time!! It sounds a little crazy but it’s ridicu-fun. It’s an intramural team and I love it. Rocks. We unfortunately forfeited but got to play for-fun game anyway.
Then I went to a western-themed birthday party and it was a dandy. Night y’all.
Ethan
ps my sister sent me this link. Yes it’s a Miley Sirus song but you gotta give the guy credit for his talents. He’s got a few others that are very good, too.
My brother got married 2 weeks ago and my other brothers and I were getting our tuxes in a shop when we found this:
Eric and I thought it may have been the new style that hipsters nationwide were turning toward. We thought it wad funny. We laughed. We joked with the store clerks. Ha ha, yeah who would wear two ties? . . . we would jest. . . . Who?
THIS PERSON! FROM THE FUTURE!!!!
Daaaaaahhhhhh! Marty McFly from like 2015! It’s real, folks. The days of dual tie adornment cometh and little can be done to stop them.
I snapped that photo of our TV the other night as Eric and I were watching. Holy cow what a bizarre coincidence.
Here’s a commercial I just finished for Parker Planners. I hope it can make a few people laugh, a few people join the facebook page, and a few more find a planner that is very useful for them.
I had a thought so I drew a picture with my computer. Hee hee.
To LeBron’s credit they have been doing much better and just won their 5th straight game. I also appreciate how he changed his number from 23 to 6 to respect Jordan. Recently Jordan made a commercial slamming LeBron but I don’t think that’s necessary. Let the rings do the talking. I desperately hope for the sake of the kids that Lebron can live a more moral life than that of Kobe or Jordan.
Here’s a video from last Friday. I went to an overnight training for a service organization I belong to. They had a little talent show and I probably wouldn’t have participated but they said the prize was $100! “Well shoot dang” methinks, “why don’t I give it a go?!”. I didn’t win but it was still tons of fun. You may remember the wig from Antoine Dodson’s infamous appearance on the interwebs. I didn’t know a girl from the audience was filming this and she kindly emailed me the footage. That explains the incompleteness.
I didn’t decide exactly what I was going to do until about 20 min before I went on stage, the wig and bandanna thing was pretty much improv.
Here is Parker Planners post # 2 everyone! Enjoy the randomness. Today I ran into my friend Bryan Bennett on campus and we talked for almost an hour. He co-founded Mealdrop, a company that produces software to allow people to order food from their college campus eateries and have it delivered to a designated location close by for pick-up. Pretty cool stuff! He recently graduated and is giving it all he’s got. Fun to run into someone in a similar spot as I.
Today marks the day of this blog also becoming a vlog. That’s a video-blog. Once a week there will be a video of the proceedings of Parker Planners. I pledge to be brief, random, and interesting. I was doing a weekly newsletter for my partner and accountant and employee gone Kraft marketer person but I’ve decided this is much more appealing. The blog is called “Living the Dream” right? Well it’s about time I show the world the ups and downs of running your own very small business with dreams of making it big.
Eric and I were at the grocery store and I saw the sweet vent car again! This is the business end, license plate blurred because it’s cool to blur things.
YES!! My long lost love is now found and we may all rejoice together. My high school Spanish teacher was both effective and eccentric. We sang this song in class and it forever emblazoned in my mind three monotone women agreeing with some soft-spoken Latino dude. What joy it brings me to share it with you now:
Can’t believe I didn’t have this up on the blog already.
The guy who remixed this got contacted by the real company and compensated for increased sales. This video has been viewed over 10 million times. Parodies are always more powerful when the original version is ridiculous.
Top 5 things said by Vince:
1. Slap your troubles away . . . 0:19
2. Stop having boring tuna, stop having boring life 0:45
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