I couldn’t be happier with all the bars ( except New Orleans). At 10 pm central time the lead bars were San Antonio, Milwaukee , Austin, NY, and San Diego. The managers were hustling to beat the other bars. By closing time San Diego was the victor. San Diego , San Antonio and Austin crushed everyone . But really all the bars did phenomenal . The race is back on today with Key West in the lead and NY second ! Daniel is working down in Key West . He wants to win , lol

San Diego rocking last night. God I am getting older, there were a ton of marines in the bar and they looked so young. ( Yes we check all their IDs). A girl got on the bar last night with skin tight spandex/satin pants. I couldn’t tell if she was in costume for a disco night or if by some weird phenomena those style pants are making a comeback! Lord have mercy. Allison is freaking phenomenal on the mic. And Haley is so comfortable up there. All the girls did great. I swear I can do a 12 month calendar with just the San Diego girls. So gorgeous.
Austin Bam! Kicking everyone’s butt. I love SXSW!
So I arrived Thursday afternoon and went straight to my new house in San Diego. I walked in the door and the place was a disaster. Mac’s Air Jordans were all over the house. He hadn’t vacuumed . Food Crumbs all over. Big Gulps and crappy soda drinks everywhere. It took me two hours to clean up the kitchen. I was pissed. My text to him was simple ” Get your shit out of my house now!” Mac landed in a proverbial shit storm this weekend. When I landed on Thursday I received a call from Kevin. ” Mac is dipping and spitting on the patio. It’s disgusting.” So Kevin came down on him. Then I came down on him. Last night when Lee and I were in the bar he was having withdrawals from not being allowed to dip. LOL. Good . Who in their right fucking mind stays in their boss’s house and leaves it a wreck? LOL. Ok on a good note, Mac is an extremely hard worker so at least he’s got that!

South x Southwest is rocking. Go Austin ! Heading to San Diego today to work on an additional location for Samurai Pie!!

A date came to pick me up at my apartment the other day. Jackson answered the door and introduced himself. He then went into the most unusual grilling session I have ever witnessed.
Jackson: If you could teleport anywhere in the world whenever you wanted but you had to choose 1 location that could never change, where would it be?
Date: My moms
Jackson: Are you religious? If you believe in heaven and hell regardless of what the religious implications are , what would your heaven look like and what would your hell look like?
Date: uh
Jackson: What was the wildest thing you did when you were 14?
Date: Cut school with my friends.
Jackson: What was the worst punishment you ever got when you were 14?
Date: Getting caught by my mom cutting school and getting whipped by her in front of my friends.
Jackson: Do you enjoy the sciences? If so , please elaborate .

This was hysterical. I could see the beads of sweat canvassing my date’s forehead . A priceless moment.

Bam Wrestlemania at the Denver anniversary party! Awesome.

Fun day at the New Orleans anniversary party. The belly dancers were awesome.

Even my friend Kaye preformed.

Hate hearing about all the violence in the Ukraine. The Kiev bar reopened but it’s struggling. A complete mess over there.
On a positive note the Key West bar is kicking it into high gear! I love to see those numbers.
New Orleans anniversary party is on Sunday. That’s always a two day hangover. I got nothing else. I am emotionally ready to move to SD. First week of June and Jackson and I will be there.
Daniel called today.. ” blah blah NY, Blah blah Key West, blah blah, Austin… ” He’s like the grim reaper. ” Lil I will be down in Keywest the second week of spring break. I will sleep on the floor at our old head of security’s apartment.” Ok just know that when i go there I will stay in a nice cozy hotel.
Chantel and I are starting to freak about the Olympic distance triathlon on March 30th. Going to a chiropractor tomorrow because half my body is completely cramping up every time I run. May be time to join the yoga olympics and give up all this craziness.

Last day of Mardi Gras!!! I have been going to the New Orleans bar in the morning because I get trapped with traffic if I go when the parades are rolling. The bar has been doing alright but not what I was hoping. Yesterday was one of the better days which was nice for Lundigras.
Let’s go San Diego . Today there is a huge Mardi Gras celebration in the Gas Lamp district! Bam
One month to get the Denver girls into Jello Wrestling shape! Time to shed the winter pounds.

Holy crap should I take a pedicab to the french quarter today? All I want to do is go to my bar and have a few beers. It’s a complete hassle to get there because you can’t drive with all the parades rolling. ” Universe I want a delicious beer at my bar!”
San Antonio and San Diego rocked last night. New Orleans did alright but I was hoping for higher numbers.
My life is going to hell in a hand basket. I need a personal life pronto this is f ridiculous.
I can’t install the “small slotted cup” into my kinetic trainer. I just wrote the company an email. ” I know I may be an idiot but I have to assume other customers are idiots too. Why didn’t you install this cup in the factory?”
Ok I will shower and walk to my bar 3 miles away. Not far but still a hassle .

I sent Lee to Key West to bring some life through art to the bar. Key West has live roosters walking all over the island so he decided to paint a rooster as a side addition to the skin board art he also designed. This rooster looks incredible. I was laughing so hard when he called me yesterday. ” Lil this has taken me 17 hours. 8 hours to create the design and lay it out and 9 hours to actually paint it. WTF.” I love it!!!
Mardi Gras kicks off with the New Orleans bar opened 24 hours a day for the next 5 days! bam

In our company everyone knows of Daniel as extremely cheap. Jazz priced out some extra security cameras to provide more surveillance before mardi gras. She texted both of us asking permission. I said yes. 4 hours later Daniel said No because he can do it much cheaper. ” Daniel, We are about to go into our busiest week of the year. You are actually on vacation right now in Colorado so you can’t come here to do it. And don’t you think factoring in the airfare for your ticket it is actually cheaper to put the cameras in now?”
” Daniel , I will already apologize because I sent Lee down to redecorate the Key West bar and you know nothing Lee does is cheap.”
Bars are on fire now!!
I am having my guy moment. I ordered custom rims for my car. It took 8 weeks for them to get made but today they are finally getting placed on my car . Not only am I super excited but I feel this need to wear a cocktail dress so I look good when I get into my car.
” Please universe let all this spending stop! Give me a little of Daniel’s cheap genes. Between the new house and the rims I have spent a fortune.” MIDLIFE crisis please stop. The shopping and The Half Ironman training are taking over my life. Thank god my kid keeps me grounded. By the way he got his dad’s cheap gene so thankfully I don’t have that to worry about.
Did I report that I sat next to Lisa Nicholls , the motivational speaker, on the plane.

You are F kidding me!! How the fuck did the new audio system jump in price from $5000 to $10,000 by adding one freaking speaker? This is an outrage!! The bars rocked this weekend but I have woken up to many negative issues today. 1. Milwaukee, blah, 2. Exhusband bitching about the New Orleans building. 3. Lee in Key West. ” why the hell is the lighting so bad? Why did someone authorize this?” 4. Milwaukee again. 5. Going to round out the day with a Vegas conference call. Oh fuck I am late for it! crap

This is what you learn when managers live at your house. Especially male managers. 1. They will leave food in the fridge for months without throwing it out. 2. They lie straight in the face of my wonderful assistant and pretend they will dispose of the cardboard boxes and also pretend they will take some boxes to good will. 3. They don’t use sheets to create less laundry.
The cool personal stuff I just learned is Mac’s obsession with Air Jordans. He has probably 50 pairs that he purchases on line as a collector. He will wait until 6 am to purchase a rereleased vintage pair. He takes out the tissue paper because it yellows the sneakers and he will keep some pairs in the freezer. Interesting

The Kiev bar had to close yesterday because all the riots. The staff isn’t safe riding the subway or simply leaving their house. It’s such a horrible situation.
Bam Denver kicked ass last night!! We have a program on our phones that let us view the sales for each bar. At about ten o’clock West coast time San Antonio was slightly in the lead with Denver and NY following. We sent a text to Marsha ( San Antonio GM) and Mac ( San Diego GM) and told them that Denver was going to crush them. Marsha is very competitive so I know she tried to push the staff a bit harder. Within 1 hour Denver had blown by all the bars. Awesome!!!
Daniel , Tommy and I drinking wine at my new house last night. Fun

We made the paper. http://blog.nola.com/eastjefferson/2014/02/kenner_boxer_gives_back_by_tra.html

Bam San Diego is rocking!

” There’s a sucker born every minute.” The National Geographic channel had a show that featured a pastor who trapped snakes and used them in his services. His claim was that a person who believed in god and was anointed by god would not get killed by a snake. Did people actually watch this show? How many dumb asses watched the show and in hopes that they were” anointed by god” actually tried to handle a snake and got bitten? The pastor of course died of a snake bite. Let me guess, his children will carry on the snake gathering and torturing tradition, in the name of the lord.
(CNN) — A Kentucky pastor who starred in a reality show about snake-handling in church has died — of a snakebite.
Jamie Coots died Saturday evening after refusing to be treated, Middleborough police said.
On “Snake Salvation,” the ardent Pentecostal believer said that he believed that a passage in the Bible suggests poisonous snakebites will not harm believers as long as they are anointed by God. The practice is illegal in most states, but still goes on, primarily in the rural South.
Coots was a third-generation “serpent handler” and aspired to one day pass the practice and his church, Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name, on to his adult son, Little Cody.
The National Geographic show featured Coots and cast handling all kinds of poisonous snakes — copperheads, rattlers, cottonmouths. The channel’s website shows a picture of Coots, goateed, wearing a fedora. “Even after losing half of his finger to a snake bite and seeing others die from bites during services,” Coots “still believes he must take up serpents and follow the Holiness faith,” the website says.
On Sunday, National Geographic Channels spokeswoman Stephanie Montgomery sent CNN this statement: “In following Pastor Coots for our series Snake Salvation, we were constantly struck by his devout religious convictions despite the health and legal peril he often faced.
“Those risks were always worth it to him and his congregants as a means to demonstrate their unwavering faith. We were honored to be allowed such unique access to Pastor Jamie and his congregation during the course of our show, and give context to his method of worship. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.”
In February 2013, Coots was given one year of probation for crossing into Tennessee with venomous snakes. He was previously arrested in 2008 for keeping 74 snakes in his home, according to National Geographic. Tennessee banned snake handling in 1947 after five people were bitten in churches over two years’ time, the channel says on the show site.
On one episode, Coots, who collected snakes, is shown trying to wrest a Western diamondback out of its nook under a rock deep in East Texas. He’s wearing a cowboy hat and a T-shirt that says “The answer to Y2K – JESUS.”
The pastor is helped by his son and a couple of church members.
“He’ll give up, just sooner or later,” one of the members says. “Just be careful. Ease him out.”
The group bags two snakes, which a disappointed Coots says hardly justifies the trip to Texas.
“Catching two snakes the first day, ‘course we’d hoped for more,” Coots says in the video. “We knew that the next day we was gonna have to try to hunt harder and hope for more snakes.”