Anna Bixby Articles

The need to find a personal trainer for myself and my daughter was growing. I am thirty six and overweight and have seen my teenage daughter’s weight double over the last few years to where I am sure that she would be considered obese. I do not want that kind of life for her and have decided to check out a personal trainer directory that my friend told me about. I know that neither of us would be comfortable going to a gym at first, so I needed to find a personal trainer that would come to my house and work with us at first.

There were four people on the personal trainer directory that were willing to come to my house after I explained the situation. I had to borrow some money from my credit cards to pay them, but I had to make sure to try out all of them to find the right one that we would both be comfortable with.

After the first three were ruled out by my daughter, I crossed my fingers that the fourth would work and she did. I guess the fact that the other three were males, might have had something to do with it too.

The new waterless urinal has become somewhat of a tourist attraction among men that come into the office. I have no idea why every time someone new walks in, the guys in the office take them in there to show it to them. I could never see any of us women making any other woman go into the ladies restroom to check out some new fancy toilet.

I still remember the day that the plumbing fixtures company delivered it; you would have thought that it was a new beer machine or something. They all had to come up front as it was hoisted off of the plumbing fixtures companies’ truck and watch it get rolled into the office. They were like kids in a candy store; they could hardly contain their excitement.

The women in the office all laugh thinking about them all standing around it taking turns to use it. We think that they might have had some sort of raffle to figure out who got to go first but we cannot be sure. We have all wanted to ask but figure that they will not tell us anyway so it’s not worth the time. If anyone is looking to get a bunch of middle aged men all excited to come to work, they just need to install a new waterless urinal.

The salesman from the dell repair store has offered us a great deal that is just too good to pass up. He has two fairly new poweredge servers that he had to repossess from a company that had not made their payments on time. I think that the company had actually closed their doors prior to the dell repair salesman taking them away.

I asked him if I could discuss buying them with some of the other partners in the firm, before making a decision and he said that he would give me twenty four hours, and then he would find someone else to buy them. I called a very quick meeting in the conference room for all the partners, over lunch to discuss if we wanted to buy the poweredge servers or not.

It took the partners ten minutes to discuss the price, the need and the kind of servers we were talking about and we came to the decision that we could almost not afford to buy them. I think that we all knew that these were being offered at a very low price and even if we did not need them at this time, we would in the future and we would not find them this cheap then.

I have decided to start a new business selling used point of sale equipment to retailers. I had seen several different companies online that do just that and with their prices, I could still make a profit from buying my used point of sale equipment from them and then adding a bit for me.

I had seen several different sales reps that have tried to sell the new point of sale equipment and most of the retailers tell them that they can just not afford it right now. The economy does not warrant such things as new equipment that is very high priced. I may have to find out which of the items on the used pos equipment site sell the best and make sure that I have those on hand.

I am planning on making up flyers and getting them out to all the stores that will be within sixty miles of my new storefront. I hope that the used pos equipment store will take off and I will become the supplier of all the local retailers when they need cashier equipment. If not, I will just put my inventory on the auction sites, sell it off and then go back to working the old job at the newspaper like I used to do.

I had been looking forward to taking a very much needed three day weekend vacation for the first time in about two years. The company that I work for as a computer technician finally took the advice I had been giving them for the last two years and bought some new used poweredge servers. I knew that the ones I constantly had to fix were too small and old to keep up with the office but they always would just have me put a band aid of work into them, just to get them up and running.

I had pictures of used servers and the prices emailed to the big guys upstairs who would be the first ones to complain when the old servers would go down. I repeatedly did the emails right after we would go offline for a day, in hopes that they would just buy the used poweredge servers one day.

I think that all the stars must have been aligned the day that they gave me the okay to go ahead with the purchase of two much bigger used servers that would be able to handle the growing office and all the work they were expected to do. I knew that my weekends would not be spent fixing the old servers anymore.

I may want to change out my old used proliant servers for some that are refurbished that I found online. I may have to get a loan to do it, but I have seen signs that the servers are going to start giving us trouble. They have gone offline a couple of times already and the last two times were only a couple of days apart. I cannot afford to put new ones in or keep putting money into servers that will not last very long anyway.

I calculated the amount of money that we lost the few times that they did go down and it would have been enough to purchase these used hp servers that have been refurbished that I saw in the paper last week. After seeing the servers in the paper, I decided to look online too and then I saw the used proliant servers too. I knew that buying from a person in the paper was risky but the company that had the used proliant servers online was legit. In fact, they gave a guarantee with their servers and would service it also if anything would happen to it.

The total amount for the used proliant servers was about thirty five hundred and I did not have to borrow it, because I just put it on one of my credit cards.

I may only need two more players for my Scottsdale adult basketball league team if I can convince my boss and his son to join. I have been telling him all about it and he seems to show a little interest when I do. He told me that his son used to play some basketball in high school but was not good enough to play at the college level. He attended a community college and got a degree in business and works in the next town.

I asked my boss today, if he and his son would like to be part of my team on the Scottsdale basketball league and he told me that he would like it but he would have to check with his son. I asked him to call him that afternoon because if he turned it down, then I had to find someone very quickly since our first practice was scheduled for tomorrow.

My boss sent me an email later that day telling me that his son was defiantly in on the Scottsdale adult basketball league thing. He just needed a schedule of the practices and games so that he could set his schedule around it. The addition of the boss’s son, made me think that we may have the best team on the Scottsdale basketball league this year.

I really wanted to get a move on and start putting up all of the new pictures that I had recently gotten from my mother before she arrived for a visit. I had never taken the time to hang the photos but I knew that she would expect to see them up and displayed. It took me a very long time to get them up because I could not stop looking at them and remembering the times when they were taken.

Many of them were from when I would sometimes sneak into my brother’s rooms and put on boys pajamas. It seemed that the boys pajamas were so much more comfortable then the girls nightgowns that I was expected to wear. I liked the boys footed pajamas much better, they kept you much more comfortable than my nightgowns and you could just run around and play without having to worry about your dress like nightgown flying up and showing your underwear.

When my mother arrived about three hours after I had hung the last picture frame, she gave me a gift to open. I thought that my husband and kids were going to die of laughter when I unwrapped a pair of footed pajamas that were just my size, and were pink. I guess that someone finally got smart and figured out that girls do not always have to wear nightgowns, no matter what their age is.