Mom's Are Worth Every Penny They're Not Paid....

So I saw this article on the FoxNews website this morning. I think I've seen something like this before but it really made me take a minute to think about and really appreciate the efforts that my mom and my wife put forth with raising me and my son respectively.

Moms really do pull alot of different jobs and they should be appreciated for them all.

I LOVE YOU MOM AND TRINA!!!!!!!!!!!

Article on FoxNews.com (5-9-2008)

BOSTON —

If a stay-at-home mom could be compensated in dollars rather than personal satisfaction and unconditional love, she'd rake in a nifty sum of nearly $117,000 a year.

That's according to a pre-Mother's Day study released Thursday by Salary.com, a Waltham, Mass.-based firm that studies workplace compensation.

The eighth annual survey calculated a mom's market value by studying pay levels for 10 job titles with duties that a typical mom performs, ranging from housekeeper and day care center teacher to van driver, psychologist and chief executive officer.

This year, the annual salary for a stay-at-home mom would be $116,805, while a working mom who also juggles an outside job would get $68,405 for her motherly duties.

One stay-at-home mom said the six-figure salary sounds a little low.

"I think a lot of people think we sit and home and have a lot of fun and don't do a lot of work," said Samantha Russell, a Fremont, N.H., mother who left her job as pastry chef to raise two boys, ages 2 and 4. "But they should try cleaning their house with little kids running around and messing it up right after them."

The biggest driver of a mom's theoretical salary is the amount of overtime pay she'd receive for working more than 40 hours a week. The 18,000 moms surveyed about their typical week reported working 94.4 hours — meaning they'd be spending more than half their working hours on overtime.

Working moms reported an average 54.6 hour "mom work week" besides the hours they spent at paying jobs.

Russell agreed her job as a stay-at-home mom is more than full-time. But she said her "job" brings intangible benefits she wouldn't enjoy in the workplace.

"The rewards aren't monetary, but it's a reward knowing that they're safe and happy," Russell said of her sons. "It's worth it all."

Rock the Vote!!!!!!!

So I put a little poll up on my blog. Go vote.... or lose me forever!

Cool Flashlight

The only thing that makes me uncomfortable is that he keeps pointing it at himself.

I'm still around..... I think.

I haven't posted in awhile and I thought I should post something or what good is this blog? I'm not really sure than anyone even reads it but I'll post in the event that someone might care.

What have I been up to lately? Well, pretty much the same ole stuff. Work, school, family, church, and now that the weather is getting nice I'll be working in the yard. Another major thing that I'll be doing in the coming months will be assisting a friend of mine and a brother in Christ with his run for a seat in the Arkansas House of Representatives. I'll be on the tech team (web manager) and working to help maintain his website, MySpace, Facebook,and YouTube presence. The guys name is Bill Fechtlekotter and he's an awesome man of God and a guy that really thinks differently than your average politician. That's the thing... he's not really a politician. He's a man that has a passion and feels that God is calling him to be used to initiate change.

So that's exciting. I'm also working to wrap up my Masters degree program. The goals is to be finished by about October of this year. I can't tell you guys how much I'm looking forward to getting this school stuff wrapped up once and for all. I just can't wait to get that off of my plate.

Umm... for those of you that were interested in my Velocity Diet experiment, I completed it a couple of weeks ago. I made it the entire 4 weeks with the majority of my nutrition coming from protein shakes spiked with other goodies like flax seed and fish oil capsules. I dropped about 13 pounds and about 2 inches over different parts of my body. I am pretty pleased with the results. I went from 191 lbs. to 178 lbs. I'm going to continue to build on the progress that I made and drop a little bit more weight and add some more muscle to my frame. This physique stuff can be tricky. It definitely requires a thought out approach.

Anyway.... That's what I'm up to in a nuttshell.

Hairy @ O'Hare....

So I'm stuck in the Chicago O'Hare International airport this evening. They canceled all the flights (except for that one to Louisville that I saw boarding as I was walking to the area where there are cots provided by the airport). This must be kinda what it is like to be in a catastrophe center or a barracks after a hurricane hits or something. This is what I imagine it must have been like after Katrina hit and all those people were sleeping on cots in gymnasiums and places like that. Obviously this isn't a situation like that at all.... but still there's a bunch of cots in here and strange people sleeping all around me.

Ok, checklist:

1. Wallet .... check
2. Cell phone alarm set..... check
3. My feet not in some other dudes face..... check (but who cares really).
4. Bag full of electronics and other valuables inconspicuously hidden under my shirt....check


Ok, I guess I can call it a night and hope for things to be better in the morning.

Night.

OH wait.... random thought. I think it'd be fun to strip down to my boxers and just walk around the airport like I was at home or something. Hahahahah.... I wonder what kind of reactions I'd get. Hmmm......

Still Sexy Ladies?

Job Market - 2010 (Sad but possibly true)

This makes me sad: