Recently if you have been reading Turpy-World you will see a few posts of sadness, a few of frustration and a few of despair! Well I just want to let everyone know that I am not a sad of person as it may seem! Blogging is a way of relieving feelings! I post on here when things out of the ordinary happen! I have had a lot of good moments in the recent past that have not made it just cause when I'm happy I don't need to relieve anything! I like where I am and don't think of blogging it! So I just want to take a moment to let everyone know that things have been going real good for me lately! Not everything is perfect.. but I don't believe that its possible to be! You have to take what good is in front of you, enjoy it, and learn from the bad so you have more joy in the future!
I had been having a bit of struggles the past few months. It all started when my work let me go in February! It was unexpected but with the economy how it was and is they had to make changes, a lot of us didn't make the cut! Finding a job was a difficult task, I was under qualified for the good jobs just cause there were so many people out there applying, and over qualified for the crap jobs! And I was not catching a break! I decided to go out to Boston with my old pal John Gay to do summer sales! He was real successful at it, and I didn't have many other options cause the bills were piling and the job offers were not! So I spent a few months out there, did OK! But eventually found out I was not the person that could knock doors 10 hours a day! And when I wasn't enjoying it, I didn't sale! And there was no point in staying if I wasn't selling. So I came home!
When I returned I came back to nothing, nowhere to live, no job, no friends, no money, nothing! Nothing but my family! So with bi-weekly plasma donations for funds and a great family for support I went out to find another job! But it still wasn't easy! It took me about 2 months to find a job and by that time I had a lot of debt from unemployed and lack of making money in Boston! Over the past 2 months I have played catch up on a lot and am finally out of the pit I felt Like I was in! Looking back at everything that happened makes me see the larger picture, and while I had many many struggles I feel like it was necessary to put me in a position I am in now! Going out to Boston hurt me a lot financially! But I also got a lot out of it! It gave me change, i met a lot of new friends out there who have helped me a lot here at home! And even though she is married and we don't talk! I had a blast when Brittney came out to visit! One of the best weekends I have had in a long time!! I am a better person spiritually! (not that I was bad) But a lot of happiness has came from changes i have and am making! I do miss living with Brandtly a lot! He is one of my best friends! I have never lived with someone I had so much fun doing nothing with! And have missed having that best friend I have been lacking lately! He also helped me through a lot of hard times! And I do miss him! But at the same time, i'm not in a bad position now where I live!
I felt for the longest time I was in a pit I couldn't get out of! Financially and emotionally, and i'm not a emotional person! but recently I have had so much fun it makes all the struggles and pains I went through almost worth it! Having had to struggle financially and realize I was not as qualified for jobs as I once thought I was has made me start school back in the spring! I have a good paying job now that is flexible and will allow me to do it! Struggling emotionally made me come out of the shell I crawled into recently and I now have met a lot of new friends! Hung out with people I already knew but never dared to ask them out! And things are going good! A large step in the right direction! I am happy! Things are not perfect... But if they were, thats when I would be really worried!
Thanks for all the help everyone has given me recently in helping me come back to the Turpy you all LOVE!! All the fun times that I needed when I was struggling! And the support! I have great friends and family and couldn't ask for more:-)
October 21, 2009
October 10, 2009
I'm Brandon Turpin, and today is the longest day of my life.
This blog entry is a Turpy-World exclusive... This will not be posted of facebook mainly for the reason is only those who know me well read Turpy-World.... Those who are not close to me may not truly understand what happened... That being said the following are actual events, no names, dates, or events have been changed. No matter how much you think I made this up... I didn't! All events occur in real time.
The following takes place between 7pm and 8pm on October 9, 2009
This Friday was a good Friday to this point... We went and picked my brother up from the airport Thursday night so I went into work a few hours late.. While working I had a good sales day ending at 17 sales in 4 hours! As I went home after work I found myself needing to get ready to go out for dinner later that evening. My car had not been cleaned inside much so I decided to go vacuum it our at lease. As I got to the car wash they had shampooers next to the vacuums! On my passengers seat was a stain from when someone, who will remain nameless for privacy reasons. Spilled food all over the seat awhile ago! It was cleaned off but there was still a spot that you could tell was discolored. So I decided to shampoo it while I was there. When I applied the foam I soon found out that the shampooer was made for the floors and not for the foam seats that soak up the foam! So as I was getting the stain out little did I know that I was also creating a white foam mark on my seats! After vacuuming out the foam I realized what I had done! So I couldn't just let it sit in the seat so I took it to sonic to get the seat professionally cleaned I don't know if they do just one seat regularly but the lady laughed at me and did it for $20 after that I went back to get ready for the night that little did I know would be the best... and worse night of my life! :)
The following takes place between 8pm and 10pm on October 9, 2009
At 8:30ish, I picked up my date for the nights events. The plans were to go to dinner at Los Hermanos and then over to Comedy Sportz (its tradition) and I was semi excited cause she had never been to Comedy Sportz before so I was getting to break her in.. At least that was the plan!
As we arrived at Los Hermanos we found the night starting off to a great start... Right in front of the restaurant and comedy place there was a open parking spot on center street in Provo on a Friday night! It was an amazing start to the night. As we walked into Los Hermanos we were greeted by the hostess who said "you just have 2?" with 2 menus and silverware in her hand! We didn't even get the chance to stop as we continued to the back room for dinner! As we sat down we were greeted by our waitress Tatiana, to keep it simple she defiantly loved what they were selling and was a A+ server!
Dinner was good, the food was OK! But before we knew it, we needed to leave for the show. As the tab came I grabbed my wallet to pay for dinner as I realized that for some odd reason my debit card was not in my wallet! And no cash! I had no way of paying for dinner! :-( I wouldn't have let her pay for it, but even if she wanted to she didn't have anything with her! As we sat there trying to figure out what to do the manager came up and told us we had to find a way of paying for it or he had to call the cops. Kinda worried now we found out that we could leave collateral and go get money! He said I could leave me phone.. my wallet or anything of value. So what did I do? I left both my phone and wallet! I didn't need the phone and there is no money in the wallet!
The following takes place between 10pm and 11pm on October 9, 2009
As we pulled out of Los Hermanos I noticed a police officer with his lights on behind me! I got nervous as I was not doing anything wrong but have not had the best of luck driving lately! Lucky for me he drove past us and picked off the people in front of us, as he passed I mentioned to my data that if I was to get pulled over I would be pissed! Still needing to get money we drove back up to my house in Cedar Hills! When we arrived there was a party in progress, we went in for a bit, found my card but had to split to pay the dinner! At this point the show was already started so we were in no hurry! As we were driving searching through music I looked up and saw a cop passing me.. as I looked in my rear view mirror I saw he did a U turn! Knowing there was nothing good going to come out of this I tried to get away as quick as possible without going over 30 mph! Unfortunately for me... its hard to out run a cop at 30 mph... he got me! For what I did not know, but I calmly pulled over!
The following takes place between 11pm and 12am on October 9-10, 2009
As the officer came to my window he informed my that apparently I had not come to a complete stop. (which I still am not 100% sure about) but as he asked for my drivers license I had to tell him that the restaurant had is cause I needed to leave collateral. He asked for my information to go look it up! As we were sitting there laughing about the situation the officer came back up and asked me to step out of the car. As I was walking to the back of the car it was a bit nippy so i put my hands in my pocket to keep them warm... I quickly found out that I was not pulled out of the car for a good reason as the officers abruptly told me to take my hands out of my pocket! They explained to me that a ticket I had gotten a few weeks prior was not taken care of and there was a warrant issued for my arrest! And i needed to come up with $815 dollars bail or they had to book my in jail! He asked if there was anyone I could call cause I wasn't carrying $850 cash on me. As I told him I would call my parents I remembered that I had left my phone at the restaurant. I asked if i could use my dates phone and he kindly said yes but then informed me as I was walking to my car that he had to handcuff me! I was handcuffed, searched and taken to my car where the officer explained to my date what was going on. She had to get out, call my moms number and hold the phone to my ear as I talked to my dad! After about 20min we worked it out that my old man was going to come up and pay $100 somehow to get let me go free! Unfortunately I had to be taken back to the police station till he arrived, as I told my date to take my car home I was put in the back of the cop car!
The following takes place between 12am and 1am on October 10, 2009
I was taken a few blocks to the police station where they took me in and put me in a holding room till my pops arrived. When they arrived I was pulled out and taken out where I found my sister taking pics of me which I'm sure will be on facebook soon! :) But I was free! I didn't have to go to jail and everything worked out.... except any plans we had for the night. I went and picked up my car and thanked her for everything and all the crap that happened! Needless to say I was quite embarrassed! All this over a stupid minor traffic ticket a few weeks prior! Thank heavens I have great parents... and the date was more amused by the situation than anything. Even though nothing went as planned... It makes for one heck of a story!!
The following takes place between 7pm and 8pm on October 9, 2009
This Friday was a good Friday to this point... We went and picked my brother up from the airport Thursday night so I went into work a few hours late.. While working I had a good sales day ending at 17 sales in 4 hours! As I went home after work I found myself needing to get ready to go out for dinner later that evening. My car had not been cleaned inside much so I decided to go vacuum it our at lease. As I got to the car wash they had shampooers next to the vacuums! On my passengers seat was a stain from when someone, who will remain nameless for privacy reasons. Spilled food all over the seat awhile ago! It was cleaned off but there was still a spot that you could tell was discolored. So I decided to shampoo it while I was there. When I applied the foam I soon found out that the shampooer was made for the floors and not for the foam seats that soak up the foam! So as I was getting the stain out little did I know that I was also creating a white foam mark on my seats! After vacuuming out the foam I realized what I had done! So I couldn't just let it sit in the seat so I took it to sonic to get the seat professionally cleaned I don't know if they do just one seat regularly but the lady laughed at me and did it for $20 after that I went back to get ready for the night that little did I know would be the best... and worse night of my life! :)
The following takes place between 8pm and 10pm on October 9, 2009
At 8:30ish, I picked up my date for the nights events. The plans were to go to dinner at Los Hermanos and then over to Comedy Sportz (its tradition) and I was semi excited cause she had never been to Comedy Sportz before so I was getting to break her in.. At least that was the plan!
As we arrived at Los Hermanos we found the night starting off to a great start... Right in front of the restaurant and comedy place there was a open parking spot on center street in Provo on a Friday night! It was an amazing start to the night. As we walked into Los Hermanos we were greeted by the hostess who said "you just have 2?" with 2 menus and silverware in her hand! We didn't even get the chance to stop as we continued to the back room for dinner! As we sat down we were greeted by our waitress Tatiana, to keep it simple she defiantly loved what they were selling and was a A+ server!
Dinner was good, the food was OK! But before we knew it, we needed to leave for the show. As the tab came I grabbed my wallet to pay for dinner as I realized that for some odd reason my debit card was not in my wallet! And no cash! I had no way of paying for dinner! :-( I wouldn't have let her pay for it, but even if she wanted to she didn't have anything with her! As we sat there trying to figure out what to do the manager came up and told us we had to find a way of paying for it or he had to call the cops. Kinda worried now we found out that we could leave collateral and go get money! He said I could leave me phone.. my wallet or anything of value. So what did I do? I left both my phone and wallet! I didn't need the phone and there is no money in the wallet!
The following takes place between 10pm and 11pm on October 9, 2009
As we pulled out of Los Hermanos I noticed a police officer with his lights on behind me! I got nervous as I was not doing anything wrong but have not had the best of luck driving lately! Lucky for me he drove past us and picked off the people in front of us, as he passed I mentioned to my data that if I was to get pulled over I would be pissed! Still needing to get money we drove back up to my house in Cedar Hills! When we arrived there was a party in progress, we went in for a bit, found my card but had to split to pay the dinner! At this point the show was already started so we were in no hurry! As we were driving searching through music I looked up and saw a cop passing me.. as I looked in my rear view mirror I saw he did a U turn! Knowing there was nothing good going to come out of this I tried to get away as quick as possible without going over 30 mph! Unfortunately for me... its hard to out run a cop at 30 mph... he got me! For what I did not know, but I calmly pulled over!
The following takes place between 11pm and 12am on October 9-10, 2009
As the officer came to my window he informed my that apparently I had not come to a complete stop. (which I still am not 100% sure about) but as he asked for my drivers license I had to tell him that the restaurant had is cause I needed to leave collateral. He asked for my information to go look it up! As we were sitting there laughing about the situation the officer came back up and asked me to step out of the car. As I was walking to the back of the car it was a bit nippy so i put my hands in my pocket to keep them warm... I quickly found out that I was not pulled out of the car for a good reason as the officers abruptly told me to take my hands out of my pocket! They explained to me that a ticket I had gotten a few weeks prior was not taken care of and there was a warrant issued for my arrest! And i needed to come up with $815 dollars bail or they had to book my in jail! He asked if there was anyone I could call cause I wasn't carrying $850 cash on me. As I told him I would call my parents I remembered that I had left my phone at the restaurant. I asked if i could use my dates phone and he kindly said yes but then informed me as I was walking to my car that he had to handcuff me! I was handcuffed, searched and taken to my car where the officer explained to my date what was going on. She had to get out, call my moms number and hold the phone to my ear as I talked to my dad! After about 20min we worked it out that my old man was going to come up and pay $100 somehow to get let me go free! Unfortunately I had to be taken back to the police station till he arrived, as I told my date to take my car home I was put in the back of the cop car!
The following takes place between 12am and 1am on October 10, 2009
I was taken a few blocks to the police station where they took me in and put me in a holding room till my pops arrived. When they arrived I was pulled out and taken out where I found my sister taking pics of me which I'm sure will be on facebook soon! :) But I was free! I didn't have to go to jail and everything worked out.... except any plans we had for the night. I went and picked up my car and thanked her for everything and all the crap that happened! Needless to say I was quite embarrassed! All this over a stupid minor traffic ticket a few weeks prior! Thank heavens I have great parents... and the date was more amused by the situation than anything. Even though nothing went as planned... It makes for one heck of a story!!
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