Day 2

Why hello there reader of today’s Daily Blog!

It’s Me! Michael Amit LoL

This blog marks day 2 of my random daily blogs and today started a little earlier than I was willing to accept!

My church (Thrive Church) is in Portsmouth, but I live out in the Hampton/Newport News area so I have to wake up a little bit earlier to commute almost 30 minutes.

Besides the commute itself, I’m blessed to be a part of the Worship team, so I also need to show up an hour before service for one quick run through of our songs, so again… I have to wake up a little earlier lol

I didn’t wake up to my alarm clock… instead I woke up “before” my alarm goes off and stared with irritation at my clock because I had 10 minutes left.… in these types of situations, I wish I would have just woke up to my alarm clock instead of being “teased” that I didn’t have enough time to go back to sleep. So… what did I do? I changed my alarm to go off in 25 minutes instead of 10 and I closed my eyes and somehow woke up when I had 5 minutes left!

I gave up, accepted defeat and began my morning.

I didn’t have the energy to really do much of anything, so after I got dressed, I came downstairs to let my dog outside, grabbed some protein, took my vitamins and supplements and headed out the door.

When I arrived at church, I was greeted by the normal crowd of service team members, the pastors/leadership team and we jumped into a quick announcement circle and prayer. After that, we did our quick run through of worship and then I was surprised to be told, “You will go to the gym today whether you like it or not!

Who told me that you ask?

Cinnamon Rolls….

Glorious, beautiful, fresh and FREE Cinnamon Rolls that were provided by one of our church members who runs a bakery in our community.

I’m new to this whole blogging thing, as I explained in my “About” section and my “First Daily Blog” but now that I’m typing this blog, I wish I would have taken a picture of these awesome Cinnamon Rolls and I really need to get the name of the business so I can give them a shot out because they know how to make their goods! lol

Anyway, I took one serving and saved it for later and got ready for service!

Today’s message was about Envy and it was good, I encourage you to check out the recorded message on Thrive’s website (Series here)

Oh, I forgot to mention, I was asking a few people around church to go to my website and it was nice to see people excited that I have my own blog site! YEAH FOR SUPPORT! =D

After church, I dove back to my side of the water and stopped by a Pizza place (Anna's Italian Restaurant by The Leonardi Bros)

Yeah… I already had the cinnamon rolls, I figured why not just go ahead and get the pizza too! YEAH YEAH I know horrible cheat day meals/snacks!

The young woman who took my order was very lively and she was actually kind of cute but my word… a bit too many facial earrings and tattoo’s on her arms…

That’s just not for me, so I just enjoyed good conversation while I waited for my Stromboli and when I got it, Yeah I’m super glad I asked her about the size differences for a small and large because WOW a small Stromboli is HUGE!!!!!

Again… new to this whole blogging thing… I def. should have taken a picture of my food so I could have posted it on this blog… I’ll get used to it.

OHHH Wait I just remembered, I took a couple of pictures of shirts at Walmart after I left the gym so there will be a picture somewhere further down in this blog LOL

Anyway…. I called my mother before I got to the Pizza place to ask her if she wanted anything to eat, (I’ve become her personal GrubHub driver after my father passed away late last year but I don’t complain because she tells me to get whatever I want to eat so YEAH FOOD!!!! LoL) she told me to get her “normal” which is a Salad from Wendy’s.

When I got there, I decided I would download the Wendy’s App so I could start getting points for the Salads that I get often for my mother. I actually go there enough that I know one of the managers names and I think I caught her off guard when I called her by name, it was like a deer in headlights look, and after the shock, she came over and took care of a mistake the cashier made and I headed on home!

I got home, gave some belly rubs to my puppy Sarah Lee, gave my mother her salad and tea then went upstairs to my “Apartment” LoL

For those who don’t know… as I mentioned, my father recently passed away late last year and my mother decided to move downstairs to the Junior suite so she wouldn’t have to use the stairs.

Well… she offered me the whole second floor and I wasn’t going to turn that down LOL so I moved into her second floor, converted the master bedroom into my office space for my small business, chose a cozy room to be my bedroom where I pretty much just sleep and read, left one room for a guest room and the other room as an in home gym!

I was married in my past (a story I won’t get into) and no, I’m not fond of being single at the moment, but being that I’m trying to work on myself and get my business up and running, I’m very happy to be able to take care of my mother but still pretty much have my own space upstairs!

Soo off the topic of living arrangements lol

I stuffed my face with my Stromboli, ate another Cinnamon Roll (yes more was given to me prior to leaving church haha) and then I went into a food coma lol

I tried my best to convince myself that I could just lay in bed for the rest of the day, especially since I brought my dog upstairs to take the nap with me but I just kept thinking about all the calories I just took in from my horrible diet today so I rolled out of bed, got dressed and went to the gym!

When I got there I questioned myself…… Why on earth do I have BOTH of my key fobs for my car in my pocket?!!?

I started stressing out a little because I didn’t want to workout with two sets of keys in my pocket and I didn’t bring a lock to put the keys in a locker (it’s one of those sensor keys where it won’t lock the door if the key is in the car and even if it did, I’m not leaving the key in the car for someone to break in and drive away lol)

That’s when I remembered that there are lockers in the front of planet fitness and I think they have locks on them, so GOOGLE became my friend and I found out they were free and they are pretty cool too!

Basically you pick a locker, throw your stuff in there (they have a charging port too if you want to charge your phone) and you choose your own combo key and lock it, then when you leave you put the combo key in and bam! Free locker no lock needed!

So I used that tonight and ended up asking the staff about the black card spa because I have had the black card for a while but never used it and he explained it to me and I was tempted to try it today but I decided not too, maybe next weekend!

I literally walked for almost an hour, my food coma really affected my ability to move so yeah, not doing that again anytime soon.

I left the gym and I wasn’t ready to come home so I went to Walmart to see if they had the Matrix movie series (I’ve been wanting to watch all of them for a while lol)

They didn’t’ but they had some funny shirts AND HERE IS ONE OF THEM LOL!

Yeah… I’m def. going to have to work on how I post pictures because I just threw this in here and it looks funky!!! lol

Don’t worry I’ll get better but for now, I’m just rambling for myself, and if you continue to read my rambles more power to you! LOL

But anyway!!!!

I love Stich, he has become another character that my Ate (Older Sister in Tagalog) and I love and it’s because one of her puppies can def. look like him! LIKE FOR REAL! LOL One day I’ll do a blog with the puppies in our family and prove it to you! haha

But I think I need to wrap up…

I walked around Walmart for a little while to kill time and then I went home and prepared dinner for myself and my mother, oh and for Sarah Lee too lol

Oh I also texted a ton of people to check out this blog just to drive traffic to my site and I scheduled dinner with a family friend/business associate to just have some fellowship and discuss the possibility of work!

Other than that (“that” being the ridiculous amount of words that I just typed for today’s blog lol) the rest of my night I’ll prob. just read or listen to an Audio book.

I’m thinking about getting “Atomic Habits” by James Clear but I need to finish “The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry” by John Comer, the Sam Walton book (about Walmart) and I just started a new Manga series that was suggest to me by my godbrother “One Piece”.

I tend to do this thing where I’m reading a billion things at one time… I should really stop that and at some point I’d like to blog about some things I’m reading but in due time!

That’s definitely enough for today’s random blog. I’ll try to keep tomorrow a lot smaller!

Thanks for reading!

Take Care!

-Amit