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Today is a good day. I love wakling up to sunshine and driving in it. I wish it was a little warmer so that I wouldnt have to go out and start my truck twenty minutes early but htats life. One thing about today is that it is my last day of class for the week.l I have an online class that I have to work on but Other than that I am done, I just made plans to go to California in march over spring break. We will leave the Friday before it starts but I wont miss any class. I am going to work most of the time however. I am going to a health product convention in Anaheim at he convention center to try and find a distributor for elderberry goods. THis will help me in the process of making a product that will increase my revenue and not just sell the berries. THis is soemthing that I have been planning for a while but just finalized yesterday. I have been to California becasue of this project 5 tiemes in the last year. This time will be different however becasue this time we are going to stay at my grandpas best frinds condo in northern San Diego. It is a beach front condo and is very cool. I am looking foward to being in california over spring break as well never been there during this time but I hear it is amazing. While there we are going to also do a little sightseeing not hjust work. We will stay for about 4 nights and 5 days. This will allow us to see parts of warner brothers and universla studios. We will also visit Disney Land and other attractions in Los Angelos. The goal of this trip is to come back home with 5-10 possible distributors or buyers of the products that we can farthur work a deal with. THis would be the ultimeate goal. I am also planning a trip to north carolina to one of the largest health supplement makers in the country. I am hoping I can get aquainted with them and maybe a you scratch my back ill scratch your business deal. THis is all a hope although I do have soem already interested in backing the business. I will be ready to start production a year from July and with that hope to be able to attend more of these conventions

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I am in a good mood today. The only thing I am worried about is that we are supposed to have striong winds and I just finished building a greenhouse and have roughly 10 thousand dollars worth of plants in it and I dont want it to blow away. I called and had my hired hand throw straps across it and tie it to my work vehicle at the place the greenhouse is at so hopefully it will be ok. I am also in the process of getting all the bids and designs together to add on to my parents house. THey left me in charge and said get it done so I am. We are addign a new family room bathroom basement and closet. THis will be approximatly 45*25. THe hard part about this process is the time. You have to deal with the dirt work guys and the concrete guys all on seperate time tables from the contractors. I have found a way to save money by buying the materials myself and bringing them to the workstie. THisw cut roughly 3000 dollars off of the price. I am in the next week going to have to plant those 10000 dollars worth of plants which is roughly 6700 plants into 4 inch containers and make sure they stay warm and are ready to plant in april. We will start planting the 3rd week in April and will wrap up in the first week of may. These platns will mature quickly and by the middle of july they will have berries ready to harvest. We will not harvest the first year however do to the integrity of the plant. We will harvest the next summer and the plants make roughly 8000 dollars to the acre. I am putting in 7 acres and looking to put in 13 more next spring. I love agriculture and have been fortunate to find an opportunity to sell these berries to a winemaker. He is also looking to expand into Missouri and wants me to help get him established which will be a nice paycheck. I am very fortunate to be where I am becuase as soon as I get it ready I have a buyer wanting to buy part of my berrries for dietary supplements.

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I am here this mornign.  I did not want to come this mornign and it was hard to get up.  I live an hour away so the drive is not fun either.  I normally like mornings vut this moring I am more tired then I normally am.  I Also have to give a speech today and that just stinks.  I am typing and it is kind of hard becasue my fingers are very cold.  One of the things that I like about coming so early to class though is that I can leavve by noon and get home.  I went top watch a movie on Friday called silver lingingns playbook and it was amazing.  Bradley cooper did an outstanding job at acting out his roll as a mentally challenged bipolar case.  Jennifer Lawrence also did an outstanding job at showing how she took the death of her husband and turned it into rage and then into love.  THis has got to be one of the best acted movies I have seen in quite sometime.  I am actually going with my mom today she couldnt go on friday so she wants to go today,  This gives me a great chance to not only see it again but to really see how they act and nopt just have to really be following the story. 
My family is in the process of getting plans together to ass on to our house.  This is something that they are having me do because I know everyione they say and I know how to get it done less then what the normal person would pay.  We are hopefully going to have it ready to go this friday.

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This is my second full semester at OTC.  I graducated last year from Purdy High School, which is about 60 miles southwest from here.  Where I am from there is about two things that everyone participates in church, and sports.  I played four years of varsity basketball and baseball starting almost all four years.  I currently working at my families insurance agency.  We own and operate a regional marketing office in the life, health, and senior markets.  We represent about 500 agents and travel over eight states to see these agents.  I myself along with my grandpa am in charge of marketing, going a checking on these agents once or twice a year. 
I love to travel.  I have been to four continents, North America, Europe, Africa, and Europe.  My favorite place I have been was Egypt.  In Egypt we spent seven days floating the Nile River and touring all of the famous pyramids. 
If I could do one thing I would spend my whole life traveling around and seeing the world.  The world is a awesome place and seeing how different people interact with others is something I really love to see.

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One of my favorite things is sports.  I like to watch and play almost anythings related to sports.  One of the coolest feelings is when you see a complete underdog accomplish something that no one thought that they wold.  I played basketball and baseball in high school becasue our school did not have football.  If we would have had footabll I definitly would have played though.  Basketball was my fovorite game to play however.  I played shooting guard and back up point guard.  I averaged 15 points my junior year and 18 my senior year.  I shot a lot of three pointers and was a very high percentage shooter.  I had to be good at shooting becasue athletically I was not gifted with the abilioty to jump so I made up with it by being ghood at shooting.  I played vartsity all four years of high school and was all conference and all district for two years.  The other sport I played baseball I could have been a lot betyter at if I would have worked harder at it.  I was one of the leaders on the team that knew exactly when to be serious however.  I was a center fielder and could throw the ball a long way which made up for me not beign super fast.  I also was very good at getting jumps on the ball so that I could make up for the slower speed.  I was an above averasge hitter in high scholl starting all four years on varsity but just never found it as wxciting as basketball. 
I love college basketball and football and some NBA.  My favorte school is Mizzou and I follow everythign that happens with them.  One of the cool things is now Mizzou is in the SEC so I can follow Alabama which is the premier program in the cojuntry./  I really enjoy watching coach Saben becasue he is definitly one of the best coashec on the league.  I also like the southern mentality with football.  They take it seriously and are one of the biggest recruiting areas in the country.
If I was to have a boy one day I would definitly want him to play football and hopefully quarterback.  If I had a girl she would be good at volleyball.  My uncle was assistant volleyball coach at MSU and MSSU for about 10 years and still coaches elite clubs in the area.  I think that will help ehr with her futrue in that career. 
I am also very into music.  My grandmother was a music teacher more 25 years and graduated from MIzzou with her masters in music education.  Her favorite thing is musci and she quit teached when she started to get larengitus a lot.

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I like to travel.  I spend a lot of time on the road traveling for my family going anywhere from Kansas to Albama.  One of my favorite places is the south where all the people are very frioendly.  They love that you are there and want to make you feel welcome.  My favorite place is either Louisana or Alabama because of this famliy feeling.  The people here will talk to you about anything and still have that feeling of sitting on the front porch and knowing their neighbor.  When we I travel I go and call on agents.  We own a regional marketing office so we are the overhead to over 500 agents in 8 states.  We go into theeir office and tell them we are going to add value to their business.  One of the first things we do is ask wether they would like to increase their income.  this immeaditly gets their attention becasue what person doesnot want this.  We then explain to them we take nothing off what they would make we to an overide which is a commision that is based on a percentage.  For instance the agents would get 100% and we would get 18 - 25 % over that.  We will go to all the main street property and casulty insurance agencies we can find in towns mostly rual areas.  The reason we do this is beacause they generally need to get a hiogher income becasue property and casulity insurance companies are always cutting comissions. After I tell them about adding value to their business I ask them wether they sell life and health insurance.  If they do not we try to help them learn if they do then we try and help them get better.  We represent the top thirty companies in the country so they at all times would be getting the best deal.  We have to be careful as to what companies we go to becasue for instance you cant go to what they call a captive agency you can only to to independent agencies.