Frustrating Friday May 29, 2009
The lesson for today is business is business, and 15 years of loyalty to a business does not mean that they’ll have loyalty to you. Long story short – my husband prepaid for materials from a local lumber yard. Said lumber yard closed it’s doors today and, low and behold, never ordered the materials. Not only that but then they accepted a huge payment for more materials yesterday, knowing that they owed a credit and that they would be closing their doors. All I can say is “UUGGHH”. I’ve temporarily fixed the situation. But I wonder – what has happened in our society that a business would pull what they pulled to a loyal customer of 15 years? I know the economy is struggling; believe me I know first hand how hard it is these days. But don’t businesses realize they’re only making things worse by doing these types of things to people?
Sometimes I Miss It. . . May 18, 2009
Sometimes. I definitely miss the money associated with having a traditional full-time office job. I sometimes miss wearing clothes other than sweats or yoga pants. I sometimes miss the structure of working the same hours 5 days a week. Sometimes. I sometimes don’t miss the commuting at least 2 hours a day. I sometimes don’t miss the struggle of wanting to help out at my son’s school but not having enough hours in the work day to do it. I sometimes don’t miss writing a check out to daycare for 1/2 my pay. I sometimes don’t miss not having the flexibility to take my daughter for a walk or go out and play on the swings if I want to. Sometimes. . . sometimes.
Feeling a Change Coming On May 16, 2009
A while back I wrote about how it seems like every couple of months I shake things up a bit and get a new lease on life type of attitude. I feel one coming on again. I quit a job that just wasn’t working out for me and my family. I’ve committed to going back to working out 3 – 4 times a week. I’ve started a diet and fitness journal. I planted some new flowers and a vegetable garden – we’ll have to wait and see how that works out. I’m the self professed Queen Dunce of Gardening. I’m trying to take more time each day to just enjoy my kids – play with them, read to them, snuggle with them. I’m trying not to stress out over the little things, because in the end all that’s really going to matter is that I was true to myself and my family, and friends.
