Happy Bosses day. Woke up to some nice texts and emails. Want to send out a happy bosses day to all our managers and corporate members. It’s a great little company with incredible people. Fantasy fest about to start in Key West. can’t wait to see all the craziness!!! Totally fun. I hope when I am in my 60s I can walk around with my significant other wearing buttless chaps and no shirt. That’s true confidence and love! Oh and believe me he will be wearing a little sac to hold his manliness in check but that’s it!! A couple that can wear buttless chaps together sticks together!

A very fun day. I had a call with a company about a tv show. This “CALL” was supposed to take place after my open water swim lesson. I was a tad ill prepared when they decide to Skype and videotape the call. ” Well I guess I better have a lot of charisma to help camouflage the goggle marks and the Fucked up sea water hair .” It’s the hard that makes it great. Just fun talking about something new.
Regardless, This morning I woke up thinking, ” I want a mother fucking bar in London. OK Let’s make that happen Justin!!”

Some of the NYC staff doing the Tough Mudder!!!

” Dude you better have me swimming like a damn mermaid if the doctor keeps me from running or biking.” That was my statement to my triathlon coach. I just got a call from my doctor. I ruptured a Popliteal Cyst ( baker’s cyst) at the Half Ironman. I knew it. I go in on Wednesday for a Cortisone shot. Even though it hurts I feel relieved. I will be back on track in no time.
Bars did mediocre this weekend. Daniel just called. This 30 hour full-time issue is so time consuming. ” Mac wants approval for … Marsha wants approval…” What the f ? We discussed this for months. These managers better figure it out.
NYC bar did the Tough Mudder this weekend! fun. ( It must of been cold)

What a tumultuous week. Daniel has been flying all over the country. We had upheaval at the Nashville bar . Now we are trying to get the bar back on track. Dinesti’s mom Facebooked me asking if I could send Dinesti back to Nashville. I love Dinesti and her mom but I don’t think I can grant her this wish at this point.
Nashville sucked this weekend. San Diego was down this weekend. I am feeling a bit antsy. I think I will head to Austin with Chantel next week. Where shall I go this week? Phoenix? hmmm
I had a very interesting email this week. Once I iron out the details I will spill the beans. Very funny. MRI results should be in this week. Let’s see.

Bars did great last night except 2!! NYC making a huge reversal. Well done. Numbers going way up!
This morning I received the Jeff wake up call which is never good. FUCKING KEY WEST. I am tired of this negative attitude. You wake up every day with the beach as your backdrop. Start giving gratitude to your surroundings and start bringing positivity to the people around you. I am very close to my limit. FUCKING MOVE ON THE GOD DAMN ANNIVERSARY PARTY !!!
Today I am grateful for Chantel and Judy. They are both very calming people in my life. I believe in my heart I have calmed with age. But I am latin which means that on occasion I let my temper get the best of me.
So I have been invited out on a date by an ultramarathoner. Very funny person. He had invited me out to go trail running ( fucking california. They don’t drink on dates like normal people ). I had told him that I will get an MRI on my knee on Friday so I could go but make sure to give me a map of the trail when he blows by me. His response ” I would never leave you alone in the woods. We can go your speed. But I need you to know that if we swim in the pool together I will make you cry like a little girl.” Why is that sexy? LOL

This is very funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ndbb4m9yI

I am going through post Half Ironman depression. I don’t want to do a damn thing. Bars are doing well. Every week there is one bar that seems to rise to the surface as the Number 1 headache of the week. It’s a toss up between NYC and Key west.

Perfect. ” Friends are God’s way of apologizing for our families!” Just received this from Judy .

Went to the San Diego bar tonight to watch the Saints Game. ( game was horrific). I was carded by 3 people. While I am glad they are doing their job I said to Dinesti ” part of their job is to know the history of the bar. Do I really need to point at my picture on the wall for them to have some recognition? ” I am simply too old to get ID’d at one of the bars. On a good note the service was really great. All my friends have a wonderful time.
Saints: This is what happens to a team when they have to give all their money to a quarterback. Drew is a hall of fame quarterback but he’s only one player. We have lost so many key players this year. URGH He simply can’t have a bad game. the whole team crumbles.

This is hysterical. The Hot Crazy Matrix. Mike ( triathlon training partner) showed me this and claimed that from his speaking with my friends I cluster in the danger zone or wife zone. ( I personally think I am in the Fun Zone.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKWmFWRVLlU

Thank you universe for having such a great group of people around me for the Coyote Ugly Manager’s Seminar. Daniel has really put together an incredible learning presentation. So Nice to have our Russian licensees here. Really I am so happy to be surrounded with such good, kind, hard working people.
I heard some great stories yesterday. At the Kiev Bar which unfortunately is in a war torn country the BMF’s have to check weapons at the door. Some guy actually came in and checked a live grenade. I can’t imagine having to hold a grenade for someone but also give it back to the person once they are finished drinking. Just crazy. Still a bit rough around the edges from the Half Ironman. I was afraid to ride a bike before this . Now my bike will sit in the kinetic trainer for a long time!

Heading to Cancun today for the Manager’s Seminar.
I am outraged. On the race results they don’t have my run listed. While It may not be stellar results. I fucking finished the damn race!!!
The proof is my Suunto watch results!!! ( don’t judge my knee is the size of a watermelon )

RUNNING
2:58’39.7
09/21/2014 10:29

Finished Cozumel Half Ironman. Wasn’t pretty and right now every inch from the knee down hurts but I finished. Thanks to Chantel and Kevin for making sure I finished in the allotted time. The standup paddleboarding yoga years may be coming soon. To the cyclist who plowed into me today and fucked up my leg. ” Learn how to fucking swim so your not so far behind in the bike!” I know that is mean I am sorry. ( not to him but to the universe.)
Tomorrow Manager’s seminar in Cancun. Pretty beat up right now while they are all in Cancun boozing it up.lol

There is no turning back now. Both Chantel are I are heading to Cozumel for the Half Ironman on Sunday. I received an email saying that my bike is already there.I am freaking out a tad bit. I am in pretty good shape but perhaps not quite at half ironman shape. My body is tired. Everyday I receive training instructions from my new coach. ” do 3 hours on the bike trainer doing drills at 80 percent power then run an easy 3 miles. Swim an hour and a half mid day.” dude I have to work. Thank god this week is an easy week before the actual event. A lot of preparation goes into this. We are supposed to eat 700 calories before the race. During the bike you are supposed to ingest 200 calories per hour on the bike. Then another 200 on the run. These cyclists bring full meals and have pockets in their shirts. I am scared to take my hands off the handlebars. I won’t take them off for even a second. So I bought a camel bak and I am mixing a calorie drink in the water during the ride. So much work. Just get me through this so the mexican seminar/vacation can begin.

” Daniel, all these people are poking me on Facebook. What does that mean? You know I hate talking to people.” His response ” Just ignore them.” OK that’s what I planned on doing.
One of our long standing investors texted me about a month ago upset that the San Diego bar wasn’t making more money. I was shocked because SD has been rocking since the beginning. ( We did go over budget but after 2 months that was corrected). Well I just received the latest P and L’s for all the bars, which by the way were Fucking Awesome, and I texted him. ” When you receive your dividends I expect a formal apology.” Let the groveling begin!!! He texted back asking if the apology was a hands and knees type? Hmm I will have to think about that. Bam the bars rocked!!!