Quote of the Day: I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure. - ?
The Bane of My Existence....
The Stock Market. Or as I like to refer to it, The Outer Gates of Hell. I guess I shouldn't complain. I finally picked and bought a stock that didn't immediately plummet. I'm actually green on the ticker and up 2%. So, that's sort of a win. I'm pissed about Netflix, though. Boyfriend had it at $106 a few months ago, it plummeted to $96 on some stupid market panic, so he dropped it. I told him to pick it back up, like, every day after it hit $96 and started climbing but he did not. And now it's $164. He did get two shares just for fun at like $140 but ugh. It's projected to hit at least $176. He finally got some options or something more complicated then my tiny mind can comprehend, so he needs it to hit $167 before Nov. Netflix is an interesting stock. It makes no sense. Fundamentally, it's an overvalued stock, yet it just keeps climbing. On days when the rest of the market is red, NFLX is up. They are making some good deals and can be streamed into pretty much every home in America via multiple platforms. Xbox, Playstation, Wii, Apple TV, Computer (hooked to your tv screen. I do it all the time with an HDMI cable), iPad, iPhone. And starting Friday, it's streaming all the seasons of some of my favorite shows. Those NFLX people are smart. I just wish I had gotten the stock at $96 like I knew I should have. Curses.
The one I have is Pfizer. It's growing slowely, but at least it's going up. My Exxon stock is just meh. I have a bunch of it that I got from Aunt Laura. I don't really want to sell it for anything else, though. I mean, it's EXXON, the largest company in the world. Unfortunately, because of that, it's massively institutionally owned (mutual funds), so with so many people hitting retirement and 401k being sold off, it's taken a hit. It's a case of bad timing. The company itself is stable and continues to grow year-over-year, but you can't fight retirement. I'll hold onto it for now. Until I become some sort of investing mastermind, I'll just let my money ride.
I think I've lost it...
"It" being my mind. Friday begins doubles. Boyfriend and I are going to start ChaLEAN Extreme on Friday, in addition to our current mini marathon training. This equates to two workouts per day on most days. He wanted to do P90X, but I'm not ready to try that again. We tried to do that last December and I was WAY too out of shape for it and I wanted to vomit most of the time, plus everything hurt and it just sucked. My butt and legs started getting so big (muscles) that I ripped two pairs of pants. I may have been going about it the wrong way. He's gotten through it before but I'm not ready. I think that if we continue our mini training, add ChaLEAN and get through that for the next three months, I will be ready. Well, sort of. We have one month before the mini w/ ChaLEAN overlapping that training. Then two months of ChaLEAN with running 20-25 miles a week to stay in run shape. Then 4 months of training for our first real marathon in Louisville. If I make it through all of that without committing hari kari or death by exhaustion, then I will do P90X starting in May, in conjunction with some other training (we want to do a tri next summer sometime).
If I'm not like 10% body fat by this time next year after doing all that crap, I am going to go back to smoking. Okay, probably not, but if I manage to stick to it all, I better have something to show for it other than no boobs and a bigger ass. I'm just saying...
From Mancouch: WTF: The Crow is Being Remade
I concur on the WTF part. Seriously? A remake of the Crow? This makes me sad on multiple levels. First, the original movie was AWESOME. Great soundtrack, as well. There is no way you can replace Brandon Lee with someone else. Second, are the movie studios so lacking in stories that they have to remake this one? I don't get it. The Crow sequels were meh, so why bother? Third, ugh.
Jenn - I think I had something else to talk about but I can't remember what it was...
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