Mon
Aug
10
On Monday, January 1, 2007 - I called FTD after looking online for prices of roses and asked them for a quote for 250000 roses 45 days out from Valentines Day.. the original idea was to send each troop in the gulf region a Rose and a Valentines Day card. The person at the other end of the phone was dead silent at the request. As I explained it was for the troops she said I should Set up a myspace page for it… so I did and I started www.myspace.com/aroseofthanks on 01/01/07. It was A Rose of Thanks only website until August of that year!
Also on January 1st i found the official rose color that would represent A Rose of Thanks:
The Peach Rose = Thanks and Gratitude!
Tue
Jul
28
We got over 250 cards during the 2 days we were out at the Vans Warped Tour last week. Loved the energy of all involved. The bands, the music, the fans and most importantly the othe non profits that were out there.
Warped Eco, Sex Communication, *Skate4Cancer *Boarders for Breast Cancer, Peta2, *Music Saves Lives, *Social Vibe, Unite the United, *Rock For Health, Invisible Children, *Music for Relief, and all the others…. Visit www.warpedtour.com and go to the non profit area to learn more about these great organizations.
*you can follow these twitter.
www.twitter.com/aroseofthanks, www.twitter.com/warped09, www.twitter.com/skate4cancer, www.twitter.com/rockforhealth, www.twitter.com/musicsaveslives, www.twitter.com/socialvibe, www.twitter.com/b4bc, www.twitter.com/musicforrelief
Thanks again Vans Warped Tour 09 Cant wait for Sweet XVI, next yr!
Between the day I got robbed and the beginning of the year I kept thinking about how I was going to give back… the first thing I did was call into the David Stein Show on Sporting News Radio and ask for a contact for a friend of the show who was going through a difficult time and offered to help He was a loan officer from the DC area and was throwing papers to make ends meet and they weren’t meeting. So I sent him a $25 gas card and a check for $20 bucks not a lot but it could help him out…
Wed
Mar
11
Just wanted to let you know I haven’t forgotten about this it is just hard to write about it.
I go back to work the next day knowing, I need the money to pay the bills and when I get to work they have me training a new driver…a girl…oh the excitement and wait there’s more the 1st delivery is to the same compplex where I was robbed less than 24 hrs before., my heart was pounding and I was freaking sweating… So I am driving this girl Sam and the first quetions she asks me is it safe and if I had ever been robbed…..How do you answer that? by telling the truth.
Fri
Mar
6
I am going to slow down my posts here it seems as if I have become angry rethinking about these two events that changed my life and my fellow coworkers are asking me what is wrong why are you so angry? Cold weather and well I guess talking about this.
Sun
Mar
1
I go back to the store and Emily comes out to the parking lot and gives me one of those I am sorry and I care Hugs. She is a doll. I go back to the back of the store and say i am not taking anymore runs tonight if that is ok. My brother comes in and he starts his shift I tell him you don’t want to work tonight… not telling him I had just been robbed and come off as being pissed off at him for coming to work… So Clay the Asst manager kind of tells him…. and O am like yeah it happened and tell him what the fuck happened again…. damn I get pissed off thinking about it today and that was almost 3 yrs ago. I went back to work the next day not even thinking about it saying I needed to pay bills and all…. the real fun starts on the next day… the day after!!
Mon
Feb
23
I call Emily back and she says the cops are downstairs lookng for me around my car….2005 Mustang…. I told her I was in the apt and to let them know I was coming down. the cops asked me the standard question are you ok, can you give us a description… I said I am fine he was a young black male between 18-25 with a grey hoodie and dreads probably about 5’6’ 150 it didnt matter if I out weighed him by 40 lbs he had a gun and I followed Domino’s training and my gut to agree and do everything he says…. He has a loaded gun. So the cops ask me if I want them to follow me back to the store which was about .25 miles away! I said sure… the cops that were on the scene are cops that regularily came into Domino’s late night and told us that other pizza guys got robbed and for us to be safe, now I am one of their stories. To date i do not think they have caught the individual…making a delivery at night sometimes I ask myself is this going to be the 3d time…
