Friday, October 31, 2008
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Bobbing for Tootsie Rolls
Happy Halloween!
How many times have you read or said that today?
I have had enough sweets to last me for awhile.
Well, I'm not so sure we're moving anymore. We looked at that house today, it was a very nice house, but we weren't fast enough to get it. It was very narrow, brick with some steps up to the front door. The foyer entered into the living room which opened into the dining area. There were two large windows, one a sliding glass door into a nice sized, fenced in backyard. The kitchen was straight ahead, a tiny bit small but not anything you couldn't live with. The bedrooms were a rather large, and the bathrooms were small in comparison, but how many hours a day do you spend in your bathroom?
I wouldn't have been unhappy there. I would be unhappy moving again. I'm just ready to stay in one spot for awhile. We'll see. It's all up to my husband.
I'm just a fuddy. I'm really tired and frustrated right now. I've not had the best month of my career and I'm very dissappointed and stressed about it. It's something that the Lord will have to take care of for me. I'm just thankful that this month is over and now I can put it out of its misery! It's not fun looking at your numbers and being literaly one sale away from your goal...
How many times have you read or said that today?
I have had enough sweets to last me for awhile.
Well, I'm not so sure we're moving anymore. We looked at that house today, it was a very nice house, but we weren't fast enough to get it. It was very narrow, brick with some steps up to the front door. The foyer entered into the living room which opened into the dining area. There were two large windows, one a sliding glass door into a nice sized, fenced in backyard. The kitchen was straight ahead, a tiny bit small but not anything you couldn't live with. The bedrooms were a rather large, and the bathrooms were small in comparison, but how many hours a day do you spend in your bathroom?
I wouldn't have been unhappy there. I would be unhappy moving again. I'm just ready to stay in one spot for awhile. We'll see. It's all up to my husband.
I'm just a fuddy. I'm really tired and frustrated right now. I've not had the best month of my career and I'm very dissappointed and stressed about it. It's something that the Lord will have to take care of for me. I'm just thankful that this month is over and now I can put it out of its misery! It's not fun looking at your numbers and being literaly one sale away from your goal...
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice
Another day another dollar! Good news on the home front today. I hate to say I can't talk about it but I will tell you that the Lord has been giving Trey and me some continuous blessings these past few days.
Before you speculate: no, I'm not pregnant.
Trey's been working so hard on the Hueytown house to get it to sell. Well, small little miracles that be, new and authentic rentors may be moving in atleast until the house sells - I can now check the mortgage off of my Stress List!
It's so nice to feel that relief! However, another stressfull issue is this getting ready to move again. I'm feeling kind of rushed into this and I'm not liking it too much but this is just the ride of life and I'm trying to sit back and enjoy it. I'm bound and determined to quit moving so much - I swear I'm sick of it! I've already told Trey that he can do the packing, moving, unpacking and re-organizing! Oh, I can't tell you how much I do not want to deal with that!
However, it's the ride of life. Maybe I'll like this house I'm going to look at tomorrow soooo much that I'll not be able to contain myself and look forward to decorating a new home!
Or maybe I'll just go find some crown and coke to help the time pass faster...
Before you speculate: no, I'm not pregnant.
Trey's been working so hard on the Hueytown house to get it to sell. Well, small little miracles that be, new and authentic rentors may be moving in atleast until the house sells - I can now check the mortgage off of my Stress List!
It's so nice to feel that relief! However, another stressfull issue is this getting ready to move again. I'm feeling kind of rushed into this and I'm not liking it too much but this is just the ride of life and I'm trying to sit back and enjoy it. I'm bound and determined to quit moving so much - I swear I'm sick of it! I've already told Trey that he can do the packing, moving, unpacking and re-organizing! Oh, I can't tell you how much I do not want to deal with that!
However, it's the ride of life. Maybe I'll like this house I'm going to look at tomorrow soooo much that I'll not be able to contain myself and look forward to decorating a new home!
Or maybe I'll just go find some crown and coke to help the time pass faster...
This picture is a little off...
There is something wrong with the image of the World Series coming to an end and people sitting in the stands like wrapped up like they are at a football game.
I thought baseball was a summertime game...where you get to wear shorts, a baseball cap, eat a hotdog with some ketchup, mustard and relish, sweat and whine about how hot it is outside and scream at the umpire for being a blind bat. I have never pictured baseball with parkas, blankets, toboggins, heaters, Hot Hands, and scarves!
Eugh....count me out!
I thought baseball was a summertime game...where you get to wear shorts, a baseball cap, eat a hotdog with some ketchup, mustard and relish, sweat and whine about how hot it is outside and scream at the umpire for being a blind bat. I have never pictured baseball with parkas, blankets, toboggins, heaters, Hot Hands, and scarves!
Eugh....count me out!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
It is possible to for you to have too much coffee...
It's amazing what a little sleep will accomplish.
Last night, I was exausted, irritated, frustrated, stressed, hungry, uncomfortable and just down right moody. After a small breakdown (don't define the word small) and a quick nap, I was already beginning to feel better. Sometimes, I guess, all your body needs is a moment to recollect itself. When I laid down, all the thoughts, the problems, accomplishments, everthing throughout the day was starting to literally race through my head so fast. I began to wonder if that was what if felt like to have a nervous breakdown. My head was spinning!
After a nap, some super quick microwavable supper and some reading, I was ready to lay down again and get some rest. I rarely stay up past 9 or 10; last night at midnight, I was begging my body to let me stay up a little later. The book, which is Club Dead by Charlain Harris, is just to interesting to put down!
I woke up refreshed, a little groggy from having stayed up so late last night, and ready to try another day with a better attitude. After all, that helps the day go by better even if nothing is accomplished. There is always something worse, I like to tell myself.
I fixed my pot of coffee, made me some toast with Nutella (I heart Nutella) and even fixed a few chicken breasts to take to work with me as well as a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich. I got in the car, running a few minutes behind, made it to work just in the nick of time and began my day...like I was running in a race.
My mind, while not spinning like it was last night, is on super speed! I feel like I have so much to accomplish today and just cannot wait to get it done! I've already printed all of my car deals for the day, have my list of service customers to call, have fixed title and printer problems -- I'm just a happy busy bee!
Oh, and I agreed to move last night. Again. That's the fourth time since I've been married to my husband of three years, 10 months and 21 days. So now, we're house hunting. We temporarily thought about living in the old house in Birmingham again, atleast until it sold, but after the Jefferson County Sewage geniouses screwed up, I'll break even spending a little bit more in rent in the Tuscaloosa area instead of driving back and forth to Hueytown six days a week. Not to mention the mileage I'd be saving. I am in a borrowed vehicle for the time being.
Trey has already found a house in love with (which is all houses in the Tuscaloosa area, btw.) and I have an appointment Friday to go see it. Oh - hey, the car business may be quiet right now but if you don't have an appointment to see me, it never fails that you'll overlap somebody! Never! From what I understand, this house is in a garden home subdivision so I'm imagining the first house we lived in when we moved to this town; large square footage, a huge living room and kitchen with more than enough counter and cabinet space, two bedroom, two bath and a bonus room. High vaulted ceilings, a fire place and fresh scent that says home in every room to make me fall in love with it even more. The more we move, the more I want our house to sell so we can buy something of our own to make our real home in Tuscaloosa!!
Last night, I was exausted, irritated, frustrated, stressed, hungry, uncomfortable and just down right moody. After a small breakdown (don't define the word small) and a quick nap, I was already beginning to feel better. Sometimes, I guess, all your body needs is a moment to recollect itself. When I laid down, all the thoughts, the problems, accomplishments, everthing throughout the day was starting to literally race through my head so fast. I began to wonder if that was what if felt like to have a nervous breakdown. My head was spinning!
After a nap, some super quick microwavable supper and some reading, I was ready to lay down again and get some rest. I rarely stay up past 9 or 10; last night at midnight, I was begging my body to let me stay up a little later. The book, which is Club Dead by Charlain Harris, is just to interesting to put down!
I woke up refreshed, a little groggy from having stayed up so late last night, and ready to try another day with a better attitude. After all, that helps the day go by better even if nothing is accomplished. There is always something worse, I like to tell myself.
I fixed my pot of coffee, made me some toast with Nutella (I heart Nutella) and even fixed a few chicken breasts to take to work with me as well as a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich. I got in the car, running a few minutes behind, made it to work just in the nick of time and began my day...like I was running in a race.
My mind, while not spinning like it was last night, is on super speed! I feel like I have so much to accomplish today and just cannot wait to get it done! I've already printed all of my car deals for the day, have my list of service customers to call, have fixed title and printer problems -- I'm just a happy busy bee!
Oh, and I agreed to move last night. Again. That's the fourth time since I've been married to my husband of three years, 10 months and 21 days. So now, we're house hunting. We temporarily thought about living in the old house in Birmingham again, atleast until it sold, but after the Jefferson County Sewage geniouses screwed up, I'll break even spending a little bit more in rent in the Tuscaloosa area instead of driving back and forth to Hueytown six days a week. Not to mention the mileage I'd be saving. I am in a borrowed vehicle for the time being.
Trey has already found a house in love with (which is all houses in the Tuscaloosa area, btw.) and I have an appointment Friday to go see it. Oh - hey, the car business may be quiet right now but if you don't have an appointment to see me, it never fails that you'll overlap somebody! Never! From what I understand, this house is in a garden home subdivision so I'm imagining the first house we lived in when we moved to this town; large square footage, a huge living room and kitchen with more than enough counter and cabinet space, two bedroom, two bath and a bonus room. High vaulted ceilings, a fire place and fresh scent that says home in every room to make me fall in love with it even more. The more we move, the more I want our house to sell so we can buy something of our own to make our real home in Tuscaloosa!!
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Patience is not my virtue...
So I come into work today planning on having a much better attitude than I did yesterday. My attitude at work was horrible - I had a case of the Mondays. I apologize to all of you who understood that before I admitted it to myself...please forgive me.
First of all, in my business, when you're paid on how many you produce instead of how much of what you produce, fighting and fighting and fighting with lenders to make something happen and having the customer still say, "We want to go home to pray about it," or "We can't afford that down payment," really starts to wear on you after awhile.
Let me say this, you are what you eat. You ARE what you say you ARE. We will be in a recession if you continually say, "We're headed for a recession!" Nothing, to me, is more frustrating than listening to someONE's bad attituded head us in the wrong direction. It happens in the sales force, it happens in the service department, in the office, with family, with friends; if you are in a group of people who are relatively content with being where they are at that moment, it honestly only takes one person to ruin the good time with his bad attitude! It's contagious.
That is the exact reason why I feel awful for having such a bad attitude yesterday. I'll make excuses for it in a minute, that way maybe you'll have a little more for which to forgive. I should not have been as short with people. I get irritated quickly sometimes and in the market I've been battling for several months, my frustration has mounted.
So just to clarify, I was extremely ill with one bank in particular - no I'm not naming them - for the way a deal was structured yesterday. In the chaos of the moment, the customer became invovled and had to take a course in F&I 101 in under 5 minutes in order to understand the argument I had with this bank. This dissappointment came after I had to fight on other deals with other banks about approvals and cash down and yada, yada, yada. Overall, without having anything to show for my work, my attitude just went down the drain. On top of that, I've done something to my shoulder and it's extremely uncomfortable.
Today, I woke up in a great mood. I told myself, I am going to be productive, I am going to make something happen today, I am going to have a better day and not be the moody person that I was yesterday.
I walk in the door, begin my work and get a phonecall from an idiot who challenges my promise to not be like yesterday. I am told that I've been called a liar, that I didn't do what I said I would do and that my customer is going to have to get a refund on their product from me...
That didn't sit well...
Seriously, it was right after my first cup of coffee, so I'm already jittery. I've just recapped this other deal from last night and I'm a little fired up about that and now I've got a phonecall from my customer wanting to know if what this company has said about me is true...let me ponder this for a moment...
Just a few thoughts on that...
Anyway, customer decides to get the company and me on a three way phone conversation so she can get clarification and I'm all for it! I wanted clarification myself - and maybe to do the clarifying...haha. So Ms. Customer learned very quickly through my conversation with this company that I did not appreciate their accusations a bit and that they were not only wrong with that but they were wrong with not fixing her problem. Miraculously, they were able to find where I had sent them what I had sent them and talked to them about and were able begin working on not resolving this issue. Irritating. I don't like stupid people. That's really all the detail I want to give you about why they aren't resolving the issue.
So I get the rep for the company on the phone after I get off the phone and let him exactly how much I appreciate the words the company used about me to my customer. Now that's being channeled up the totum pole and maybe there will be a resolution for that soon. (Remember my promise for the good attitude step one: Glass is ALWAYS half full!)
Now it's back to work on the deal from last night. One last hope for the straw I'm grasping there. It will work, It will work, It will work! Chant with me: It will work! It will work! It will work!
Just now a co-worker/former fitness trainer comes into check on my shoulder. He's very knowledgable about how things in your body work so when he offered to see if it was my rotator cuff, I thought sure! Well...if any of the tests he tried are correct, my rotator cuff has issues...
But it's a great day at Tuscaloosa Hyundai!!
(Remember, the glass is ALWAYS half full!)
First of all, in my business, when you're paid on how many you produce instead of how much of what you produce, fighting and fighting and fighting with lenders to make something happen and having the customer still say, "We want to go home to pray about it," or "We can't afford that down payment," really starts to wear on you after awhile.
Let me say this, you are what you eat. You ARE what you say you ARE. We will be in a recession if you continually say, "We're headed for a recession!" Nothing, to me, is more frustrating than listening to someONE's bad attituded head us in the wrong direction. It happens in the sales force, it happens in the service department, in the office, with family, with friends; if you are in a group of people who are relatively content with being where they are at that moment, it honestly only takes one person to ruin the good time with his bad attitude! It's contagious.
That is the exact reason why I feel awful for having such a bad attitude yesterday. I'll make excuses for it in a minute, that way maybe you'll have a little more for which to forgive. I should not have been as short with people. I get irritated quickly sometimes and in the market I've been battling for several months, my frustration has mounted.
So just to clarify, I was extremely ill with one bank in particular - no I'm not naming them - for the way a deal was structured yesterday. In the chaos of the moment, the customer became invovled and had to take a course in F&I 101 in under 5 minutes in order to understand the argument I had with this bank. This dissappointment came after I had to fight on other deals with other banks about approvals and cash down and yada, yada, yada. Overall, without having anything to show for my work, my attitude just went down the drain. On top of that, I've done something to my shoulder and it's extremely uncomfortable.
Today, I woke up in a great mood. I told myself, I am going to be productive, I am going to make something happen today, I am going to have a better day and not be the moody person that I was yesterday.
I walk in the door, begin my work and get a phonecall from an idiot who challenges my promise to not be like yesterday. I am told that I've been called a liar, that I didn't do what I said I would do and that my customer is going to have to get a refund on their product from me...
That didn't sit well...
Seriously, it was right after my first cup of coffee, so I'm already jittery. I've just recapped this other deal from last night and I'm a little fired up about that and now I've got a phonecall from my customer wanting to know if what this company has said about me is true...let me ponder this for a moment...
Number one: Why does this company think it is of good
practice to talk down about the people who sell their product?
Number two: Why is my customer even involved much less
getting the trash talk about me?
Number three: How wise is it to not only say
that about a female with moody tendancies but at 9:00 in the
morning????
Just a few thoughts on that...
Anyway, customer decides to get the company and me on a three way phone conversation so she can get clarification and I'm all for it! I wanted clarification myself - and maybe to do the clarifying...haha. So Ms. Customer learned very quickly through my conversation with this company that I did not appreciate their accusations a bit and that they were not only wrong with that but they were wrong with not fixing her problem. Miraculously, they were able to find where I had sent them what I had sent them and talked to them about and were able begin working on not resolving this issue. Irritating. I don't like stupid people. That's really all the detail I want to give you about why they aren't resolving the issue.
So I get the rep for the company on the phone after I get off the phone and let him exactly how much I appreciate the words the company used about me to my customer. Now that's being channeled up the totum pole and maybe there will be a resolution for that soon. (Remember my promise for the good attitude step one: Glass is ALWAYS half full!)
Now it's back to work on the deal from last night. One last hope for the straw I'm grasping there. It will work, It will work, It will work! Chant with me: It will work! It will work! It will work!
Just now a co-worker/former fitness trainer comes into check on my shoulder. He's very knowledgable about how things in your body work so when he offered to see if it was my rotator cuff, I thought sure! Well...if any of the tests he tried are correct, my rotator cuff has issues...
But it's a great day at Tuscaloosa Hyundai!!
(Remember, the glass is ALWAYS half full!)
Monday, October 27, 2008
First Cup
This is always the most interesting post. What do you say? It's your first post?
Introductions are extremely common, rants and soapboxes - often the reason why you started the blog in the first place usually a second place. Photos and stories maybe the third reason you have a blog.
Me personally? I don't have a reason. I just thought I'd better start one to tell stories about my life. Someone told me yesterday that I would be a good book to read. Well, how about a blog instead?
My life really isn't that awful, it's really a wonderful, blessed life. It's just hectic and crazy and always is something happening! Well, I say something new; as soon as I set about a blog to confirm it, life will be very quiet...
something to think about as I click the "publish post" button...
Introductions are extremely common, rants and soapboxes - often the reason why you started the blog in the first place usually a second place. Photos and stories maybe the third reason you have a blog.
Me personally? I don't have a reason. I just thought I'd better start one to tell stories about my life. Someone told me yesterday that I would be a good book to read. Well, how about a blog instead?
My life really isn't that awful, it's really a wonderful, blessed life. It's just hectic and crazy and always is something happening! Well, I say something new; as soon as I set about a blog to confirm it, life will be very quiet...
something to think about as I click the "publish post" button...
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