Well, I haven't posted much in awhile, but I got this funny email from my mission president and I thought everyone should read it. It's funny because it is so true. This kind of belongs on my other blog, but I'll just put it here anyway. Enjoy!

Once upon a time, on a farm in Virginia , there was a little red hen who scratched about the barnyard until she uncovered quite a few grains of wheat.

She called all of her Democrat neighbors together and said, 'If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?'

'Not I,' said the cow.

'Not I,' said the duck.

'Not I,' said the pig.

'Not I,' said the goose.

'Then I will do it by myself,' said the little red hen, and so she did. The wheat grew very tall and ripened into golden grain.

'Who will help me reap my wheat?' asked the little red hen.

'Not I,' said the duck..

'Out of my classification,' said the pig.
'I'd lose my seniority,' said the cow.

'I'd lose my unemployment compensation,' said the goose.
'Then I will do it by myself,' said the little red hen, and so she did.

At last it came time to bake the bread.

'Who will help me bake the bread?' asked the little red hen.

'That would be overtime for me,' said the cow.

'I'd lose my welfare benefits,' said the duck.

'I'm a dropout and never learned how,' said the pig.

'If I'm to be the only helper, that's discrimination,' said the goose.

'Then I will do it by myself,' said the little red hen.

She baked five loaves and held them up for all of her neighbors to see. They wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But the little red hen said, 'No, I shall eat all five loaves.'

'Excess profits!' cried the cow. (Nancy Pelosi)

'Capitalist leech!' screamed the duck. (Barbara Boxer)

'I demand equal rights!' yelled the goose. (Jesse Jackson)

The pig just grunted in disdain. (Ted Kennedy)

And they all painted 'Unfair!' picket signs and marched around and around the little red hen, shouting obscenities.

Then the farmer (Obama) came. He said to the little red hen, 'You mustnot be so greedy.'
'But I earned the bread,' said the little red hen.
'Exactly,' said Barack the farmer. 'That is what makes our free enterprise system so wonderful. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern government regulations, the productive workers must divide the fruits of their labor with those who are lazy and idle.'

And they all lived happily ever after, including the little red hen, who smiled and clucked, 'I am grateful, for now I truly understand.'

But her neighbors became quite disappointed in her. She never again baked bread because she joined the 'party' and got her bread free. And all the Democrats smiled. 'Fairness' had been established.

Individual initiative had died, but nobody noticed; perhaps no one cared...so long as there was free bread that 'the rich' were paying for.

EPILOGUE

Bill Clinton is getting $12 million for his memoirs.

Hillary got $8 million for hers.

That's $20 million for the memories from two people, who for eight years, repeatedly testified, under oath, that they couldn't remember anything.

IS THIS A GREAT BARNYARD OR WHAT?

Pest control needed

You would think that I being a pest control salesman, wouldn't have a bug problem ... unfortunately I do.  For the summer they put us up in brand new apartments, but after about two weeks I saw my first cockroach. Since then there has been a gradual increase in bugs, until now we have tons of ants all over the place - in the bathroom, in the kitchen, and worst of all in my laundry. It's pretty gross. I guess it wouldn't be too difficult just to have one of our technicians who parks their truck here anyway come over and spray around. The ironic thing is that our apartments are contracted out to ABC Pest control, so we can call them and they will come and do it - that would be funny. 

Anyway ... About the ants in the laundry, I went to wash my clothes and I saw what most have been about 50 - 100 ants crawling all over my clothes in my laundry basket. The weird part was that they weren't just one type of ant - there were big ants, small ants, and worst of all ... fire ants. Well I didn't really know what to do to get rid of them so I just threw them in the washer anyway. When they were done being washed I could still see some of them on my clothes, so I just threw them in the dryer and my clothes came out ant free ... the lint collector thing apparently collects ants off of clothes too. Unfortunately my camera doesn't have any batteries so i couldn't take any pictures of the real ants, so these internet ones will have to do.

Fine ... I'll make a blog

My sisters have been telling me for months that I should make a real blog that talks about my life. Apparently my political blog wasn't cool enough ;), and besides, I haven't updated that one forever, so I guess I'll just start this one so that everyone can know what is going on in my life. 

Right now I am down in Houston, Texas selling Pest Control for Eclipse Marketing.  It has been an interesting experience to say the least. Basically, we work everyday from about 9 in the morning until about 9 at night with a couple hours off in the middle of the day for a break. I walk around neighborhoods knocking on people's doors and try to get them to sign up for our brand of pest control.  When I found out we were coming to Houston, I figured it would be the perfect place - lots of bugs and really hot - soon after coming down here though I realized that we weren't the first company to think that! In some neighborhoods everyone already has pest control and in the older neighborhoods some have had the same company for up to 20 years. Every day I hear about a new company ... some of my favorite names are these: Big John's Pest Control, SPLAT!, Bug-be-gone, and of course ... Barker Pest Control (really, there is one). Anyway, I found out that it is much more effective to sell in neighborhoods where the houses don't have their own zip code, so I have been selling in smaller houses with lots of bugs, and that has worked out slightly better. 

One perk of the job is that I get to practice my spanish almost every day. If I didn't speak spanish I would probably have about half as many sales as I do now. 

Unfortunately a few weeks ago I started having symptoms of asthma which made it so that I could not work effectively because of the heat and humidity. After seeing the doctor twice and being on medication, I am doing much better, but it still is kind of rough. The reason that this came up out of the blue was because of the heat and humidity of Houston. I haven't had a problem with asthma since I was really young and back then it was Exercise induced. Although one time I did have problems and that was when I was in Hawaii (Hot and Humid .. hmmm.. see the connection?) Anyway, hopefully things get better soon, because I haven't been able to work the hours that I need to to make more sales.

The group of people that I work with are is really cool. We all get along really well and we have had some pretty fun activities down here. I don't take many pictures because my cameras battery is messed up, but thanks to facebook, there are a few pictures from some of our activities that are posted throughout this post.