Not a lot of time before work, so a quick one:
Yesterday was Amy and my ninth anniversary, and also a regular day off for me. At least we got to spend the day together, more or less. What did we do? She did gardening and I did a partial reorganization of the garage.
Last year, we went to Florida for an extended weekend. The idea was to replace expensive gifts with priceless vacation trips together. Last year we were able to leave Jareth with my parents--not an option this year.
With money and time both in short supply, a distant trip became out of the question. On the other hand, the dealership sponsors a camping club. The boss had wanted me to join that group as the dealership representative.
Their first trip for the season is this weekend. So we'll be borrowing something used off the lot, probably an older motorhome, and we'll be camping this weekend about an hour from home.
I've backed out of the firewalk. The logistics of Amy coming with turned out too complicated. Part of the idea had been for she and I to both do it, so I'll wait until next time. It happens once or twice a year, so it's not now-or-never.
That's all the time for today...
So I'm signed up for a Firewalk coming up June 16th at the Dome Center near Rockford. I've still got to arrange the day off, and I really don't want to tell my boss that I need to day off to walk on fire. There are some discussions I don't want to have with him. We'll see if I can keep it vague enough.
Amy had wanted to do it, too, but I don't think the logistics will work, what with breastfeeding and all. When we first heard about it at the Winter Solstice drum circle we went to, I told the organizer (and my Dad, who will also attend, but might not walk) that I definitely wanted to do it. Apparently Amy said at the time that she did, as well, and somehow I missed it. I think she's upset with me for starting to plan it without her. We'll have more time to discuss it later, after work.
I'm getting better at the whole sales thing, but traffic has slowed down some. I am, however, starting to get about double the commissions, partly by getting better at selling warranties with RVs.
Kayla is hitting the interactive stage. We can smile at her and get her to smile back. She has just hit that point where she'll smile at peek-a-boo. I can't wait to hear her start laughing!
We hosted the local drum circle Saturday night. It was a lot of fun. Dad came over to join in, and Mom took advantage of the opportunity to visit with her new granddaughter some more. Win-win. :-)
It was also a handy excuse to get the place cleaned up for Jareth's birthday party next week. Three already. Where does the time go? I'm certainly not sleeping it all away...
The training stuff at work is already paying off. I sold two on saturday (even if one was just a cargo trailer I'll only get about $25 for selling...) making it three for the week. One of the ones on Saturday I did very well on.
Part of what I find amusing about it is the units involved for the week, not counting the cargo trailer. The other two were both used pop-ups, a 2000 and an '01. Both the same brand and model, both taken in as trades. The Saturday one I took in back in December for a hard-sided travel trailer. I got to make a little more on that trailer because I sold an extended warranty with it. There was also an extended warranty sale with the pop-up sale, which is where some of the money came from. Interesting that the two warranties I've sold have been on units linked together like that. That and it's always fun to sell the same floorplan twice in a row. We still have a new one in that same model, although there are slight changes in the floorplan.
So that's the five minute update.