doing: work
feeling: a headache and a bit of a tummy ache
listening to: The Damnwells Pandora radio!
so i've logged onto this site about 5 times this week and just stare at it. i have things to write, but i dont want to write them.
i'll start with last week. we had an open house on Thursday night. we only had 3 people walk through, but we know one of them and certain people are supposed to be bugging him to buy it.... you know who you are!!! ;) Ann and i went to a few open houses during that time, to look for both of us. we found 2 houses that we both really like! one of them i know the guy who owns it! and oddly, its nothing like anything i usually look for in a house, but its got some sort of charm to it that i just really like!! today someone is walking through out house at 2:30 so i'm crossing my fingers! please please please! i am also still in love with another house on West South St. its still for sale! (they must have just taken down the sign that night Ann!)
Saturday we had a big big wedding in Des Moines! it was awesome!! the bride is Loacian so they had a Lause ceremony! it was a super long day, but the bride and groom (and 24 wedding party attendants) were so fun that the day just flew!!
plug: images on our blog site www.designerimagesphotography.com/blog
and now for the fun stuff. you all know we have new owners of the building. if you don't, the flower shop moved and now theres a art gallery and purse store downstairs! everythings been pretty decent with them so far. its just getting everyone used to the new things, they are donig a bunch of remodeling and stuff downstairs and its actually looking really nice! our one issue has been the window. for over 5 years we've had that window all to ourselves. we can decorate it however we want whenever we want. since the boutique is on one side and the art gallery is on the other side the new owners seem to think they need both windows. we thought we'd been nice enough to let them put some stuff in our window. jazzes it up a bit anyways. but we are having the kids contest running as of yesterday so id asked about getting all their stuff out so i could decorate everything FOR our kids contest. after them getting mad at us for a full day Jeff told her that we were done so they could put a couple specific things back in, because they matched. this was wednesday that we decorated the window. friday jeff had about a half hour conversation with the owners husband because he thought that we needed to move our stuff back out so they could fill the window. remember... its been decorated for ALMOST 48 hours. jeff politley told him 4 times that it would be really nice if they would wait to do anything until tuesday when i was back and i could talk to them about it all. since its my "deal" he likes to let me make the decisions.
about 9:00 that night Cassie was coming home from work and saw both owner and husband in our window moving our stuff!! jeff didn't even let me come to the front of the store to see it on saturday morning..... he knew i'd be flaming mad.
i literally had the entire window set up how i wanted it! i had images, stuffed animals, a wagon, trucks and trains in there! it was pretty sweet!
the approximate size of our stuff that is now in the window is almost 5 feet across. there are 4 images left, 3 stuffed animals.. and a basket.
they moved all of our stuff OUT and put it on the landing on the stairs.... and then took it upon themselves to move a whole bunch of their shit into the window. i just stood outside and laughed... at 12:30 at night, because it was SO rediculous!!! i could NOT believe it.
jeff had the conversation and specifically ASKED that they wait for 3 days until we were back in.... and 3 HOURS later they were moving shit around!!!
he was right... i was flaming mad. i still am, after typing it all out.
how childish! how UN-professional! and what a way to get your PAYING tennants to pack up and LEAVE!
tuesday i came in and i was a mess all day. i couldnt eat or work... nothing. i was just so mad!
jeffs sitting down and having a chat with the two of them tomorrow. they have to know that what they did wouldn't go unnoticed, don't they?! do they think we'll just shrug our shoulders and go on? if they would have said one word to me this week i would have let loose. good thing i havent seen either of them.
we've talked numerous hours about places that we can move to. and jeffs actually made some calls. we can't run a business if this keeps up. its just not worth it. so he's going to talk to them about numerous things and hopefully they will see what we need! the other thing is the Tulip Time display. that thing is up for at least 3 weeks and there is NO room for anything in the window while its up. i'm just not sure they realize that. if they can't let us have the window for longer than 2 days how can they give it up for 3 weeks!? and if that displays not up don't you think the WHOLE town plus ALL the visitors are going to notice?! uh YYEEAAHH!!
*deep breath*
i could keep on about this but i won't. i didnt plan to type that much.. it just came out.
oohh 2:30, people are walking through our house soon! BUY IT BUY IT BUY IT!!!!
have a good rest of thursday, friday and weekend!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
"when Irish eyes are smiling...."
feeling: a headache coming on
doing: grad card mania!
wishing: for more time for more work! i'm swamped!
Happy St. Patties Day!!
i hope everyone will get a wee bit-o green beer today! or at least enjoy a story from those who have been truly Irish and drinking since breakfast ( i'm skeptical that the Irish actually do that... ) any excuse for Americans to drink is good enough for me!! haha!
this month has flown. im actually suprised that its only the 17th! lots of little things have happenend and it just seems like its almost too much information! as an ongoing effort, Matt and i are still trying to get our finances in somewhat of an order. it never looks even remotely decent. but we keep hoping and praying. i'm still hoping to get this job as Youth Ministry Coordinator and that will help out! right now i'm more excited about the money than the job, because the more i think about it the more i know i'll be overwhelmed. i can do the job, and do it well, but i'm trying not to think too much about it at the moment! Matt has talked about getting a second job this summer. for a couple days it actually looked good, but then the other night he talked himself out of it in one swift sentence.... we'll see. right now i'm to the point where i think we both need to work crazy jobs until we get some debt paid off! i'm a money whore....and i don't care!
work is starting to speed up this month as well. we have a big big BIG (did i mention big?) wedding this Saturday! we are excited about it because it'll be like nothing we've ever photographed! but at the same time.. talk about TIRED! that'll be us come Satruday night! we're getting more and more appointments on the schedule. we have our kids contest starting next week and baby ducks (hopefully) coming in April! to add to all that Graduations coming up soon so we have lots of Grad Card orders coming in!
in other news... the weather ROCKS! i'm really really hoping that spring has sprung! i'm so incredibly ready for nice weather! plus we took all our heaters out of the house and the plastic off the windows. so if it snows again were screwed... and we'll be super cold!!
now that it's 1, i need to get something more for lunch than popcorn.
doing: grad card mania!
wishing: for more time for more work! i'm swamped!
Happy St. Patties Day!!
i hope everyone will get a wee bit-o green beer today! or at least enjoy a story from those who have been truly Irish and drinking since breakfast ( i'm skeptical that the Irish actually do that... ) any excuse for Americans to drink is good enough for me!! haha!
this month has flown. im actually suprised that its only the 17th! lots of little things have happenend and it just seems like its almost too much information! as an ongoing effort, Matt and i are still trying to get our finances in somewhat of an order. it never looks even remotely decent. but we keep hoping and praying. i'm still hoping to get this job as Youth Ministry Coordinator and that will help out! right now i'm more excited about the money than the job, because the more i think about it the more i know i'll be overwhelmed. i can do the job, and do it well, but i'm trying not to think too much about it at the moment! Matt has talked about getting a second job this summer. for a couple days it actually looked good, but then the other night he talked himself out of it in one swift sentence.... we'll see. right now i'm to the point where i think we both need to work crazy jobs until we get some debt paid off! i'm a money whore....and i don't care!
work is starting to speed up this month as well. we have a big big BIG (did i mention big?) wedding this Saturday! we are excited about it because it'll be like nothing we've ever photographed! but at the same time.. talk about TIRED! that'll be us come Satruday night! we're getting more and more appointments on the schedule. we have our kids contest starting next week and baby ducks (hopefully) coming in April! to add to all that Graduations coming up soon so we have lots of Grad Card orders coming in!
in other news... the weather ROCKS! i'm really really hoping that spring has sprung! i'm so incredibly ready for nice weather! plus we took all our heaters out of the house and the plastic off the windows. so if it snows again were screwed... and we'll be super cold!!
now that it's 1, i need to get something more for lunch than popcorn.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
"take this down Smee"
doing: getting a little work done
feeling: all around iffy
listening to: Ethan playing and Peter Pan running on my laptop (hence the title)
nothing terribly exciting has happenend lately. today were "sick" becuase Ethan woke up last night and was sick. it was great. i was NOT looking forward to my first puking experience. breast milk puke is MUCH different than solid food puke. i'm sure you all love that image! :) so Ethan needed a day off from the sitters and apparently i did too... we're at work right now because he's not even close to acting like he's sick! and i NEED to get some work done! (hence why i'm blogging!! haha!) i'm just working on some orders.
i've been drinking soda this week.... i dont know why but it tastes SO good! i've had two ENTIRE mt.dews. i never drink a whole can. and right now i'm on my third. i need to stop that.... but soda as opposed to water sounds so much better!!
we're having an open house one week from today. i'm still praying that the rigth person falls in love with the damn place so i can be rid of it forever! i'm just so grouchy because it seems like we'll never get it sold! fix it up you say? we don't have the money. burn it down you say? interesting....... ;) the cleaning and fixing tiny things needs to be done this weekend so we are ready for this open house deal. its so much work to clean.... i'm lazy, you know that!
i guess my biggest news is about church. i've been helping for about a year now with the Youth Group at my church (high school kids) and the church has been on an ongoing search for a Youth Ministry coordinator. of course all the adults have been telling ME that i should take the job. but with Ethan and my real job, working saturdays and all that i just couldnt wrap my head around it.
we recently had a meeting with the youth and asked them to sort of write a requirement sheet for this new YM. they came up with some great stuff! but the thing that got me thinking(again) was our group came up with and idea for a Committee to be in place for the YM. this means that there would be a list of people already in place to head service projects and teach classes and drive and on and on. and then God tapped me on the head and i realized this is what i would need! i could coordinate, but i would have never been able to do all the other stuff! so if i could walk in and have a great set of people willing to help out with all the extra (and fun) stuff then i'd be set! i honestly don't know why i didnt think of it before!!
so i thought hard about it, talked to Matt about it, and prayed about it. Matt was suprisingly on boared right away! it was really nice! and i've decided that its something that i would really love to do. it'll be hard to balance my life and then two demanding jobs... but my life is already so un-balanced that maybe this will somehow help! who knows! i just know that i think i'll be good at it., i hope i'll be good at it! and everyone is so excited that i'm considering it!
they don't have everything finalized as far as the job description yet, and they have to offer it to the parish first. but basically if nobody else comes forwards that wants it, its pry pretty much mine.
its almost nap time.... for Mommy and Ethan! so i should finish up my work and head out.
have a good one! :)
feeling: all around iffy
listening to: Ethan playing and Peter Pan running on my laptop (hence the title)
nothing terribly exciting has happenend lately. today were "sick" becuase Ethan woke up last night and was sick. it was great. i was NOT looking forward to my first puking experience. breast milk puke is MUCH different than solid food puke. i'm sure you all love that image! :) so Ethan needed a day off from the sitters and apparently i did too... we're at work right now because he's not even close to acting like he's sick! and i NEED to get some work done! (hence why i'm blogging!! haha!) i'm just working on some orders.
i've been drinking soda this week.... i dont know why but it tastes SO good! i've had two ENTIRE mt.dews. i never drink a whole can. and right now i'm on my third. i need to stop that.... but soda as opposed to water sounds so much better!!
we're having an open house one week from today. i'm still praying that the rigth person falls in love with the damn place so i can be rid of it forever! i'm just so grouchy because it seems like we'll never get it sold! fix it up you say? we don't have the money. burn it down you say? interesting....... ;) the cleaning and fixing tiny things needs to be done this weekend so we are ready for this open house deal. its so much work to clean.... i'm lazy, you know that!
i guess my biggest news is about church. i've been helping for about a year now with the Youth Group at my church (high school kids) and the church has been on an ongoing search for a Youth Ministry coordinator. of course all the adults have been telling ME that i should take the job. but with Ethan and my real job, working saturdays and all that i just couldnt wrap my head around it.
we recently had a meeting with the youth and asked them to sort of write a requirement sheet for this new YM. they came up with some great stuff! but the thing that got me thinking(again) was our group came up with and idea for a Committee to be in place for the YM. this means that there would be a list of people already in place to head service projects and teach classes and drive and on and on. and then God tapped me on the head and i realized this is what i would need! i could coordinate, but i would have never been able to do all the other stuff! so if i could walk in and have a great set of people willing to help out with all the extra (and fun) stuff then i'd be set! i honestly don't know why i didnt think of it before!!
so i thought hard about it, talked to Matt about it, and prayed about it. Matt was suprisingly on boared right away! it was really nice! and i've decided that its something that i would really love to do. it'll be hard to balance my life and then two demanding jobs... but my life is already so un-balanced that maybe this will somehow help! who knows! i just know that i think i'll be good at it., i hope i'll be good at it! and everyone is so excited that i'm considering it!
they don't have everything finalized as far as the job description yet, and they have to offer it to the parish first. but basically if nobody else comes forwards that wants it, its pry pretty much mine.
its almost nap time.... for Mommy and Ethan! so i should finish up my work and head out.
have a good one! :)
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