.."tell a lie, and give away the truth..."

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!