News..

First things first: I guess i should tell you that i don't work at the Daily Grind anymore. No, i didn't just quit. It was the most bizzare thing.. I got a call from Lori, my boss, saying," hey, we heard that you paid off your loan, that's great! I was just thinking about Jody and how she has been looking for another job and could really use the money right now. How would you feel about giving her your management possition and working just a couple days a week instead?" WOW!

Rewind: Monday, Jody came over to the house, and we were working on getting her a new job. She looked thru classifieds and called to see who was hiring. She has been hating her Frito Lay job and just needed something different. Full time possibly. We actually prayed together that the Lord would provide a job for her.... Little did i know it would be.. um... my job.

I've rarely been faced with an option that was so clearly what God wanted me to do. This was one of them. Jody now has the night shift manager possition and i am no longer on the schedule. I could go back for a few hours a week, at less pay.. I just thought.. naw.. the girls need those hours more than me.. So the chapter at the Daily Grind is done. I loved every minute of it and it was my favorite job ever.

Sooo i'm back to being a domestic goddess :) I'm actually kind of sad about this, (who knew??) but i know it is the right thing and the Lord will provide for my knitting addiction in some other way tee hee.. speaking of..
I'm afraid to share this with you, i don't want you to think i'm some freak.. but i am. I started a new blog, about my projects. Mostly knitting and sowing. If you care, take a look: Denise & i . Your feedback is soo encouraging.

I'm TOTALLY done!!

Wow... I can't believe that i am done with paying off my loan!!!!!! I just got my check in the mail from Jerrod! I only have like $1,190 left to pay on that loan, so plus the check waiting for me at the Daily Grind the loan is PAID!! i was originally thinking i would be done around April or May. OH MY GOSH!! i can't believe i was sooo much closer.. Now i don't know what to do with myself. DO i stay and just make for fun money? or do i put in my 2 weeks notice?? i do love my job, but you know i would much rather be doing other stuff with my time, like knitting, or sowing. it feels like a dream.

It all started 3 years ago when i became a director. In January 2002 i needed a lot of new things for my buisness, consolidate debt, training trips i had to go on and other buisness supplies. I took out a loan. $8,000. Wow. that's the price of a car. The payments were $260 per month and i've done all sorts of creative things to pay it. For the first year i was still in Mary Kay so i had classes to make MK money to pay it. Then dad got sicker and i gave up my director possition, gave the car back.. oh man that was the hardest part.

Then for about a year i did random stuff to pay it off. Sold some stuff here and there. but mostly Brian paid it for me. Then we did My Director. Matt and Brian paid me to sell that at the expo and a few months after that. It was fun but i didn't like working from home i found out. When Steph asked if she could help me out by giving me a job with Sammibag i was really excited. I thought, every little bit will help towards paying off this loan! Mark and Steph paid me so generously it helped a lot towards paying it off. I loved the bags so much it just made sense. We had tons of fun together, and learned a lot abot each other too. I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. Thanks again Steph for helping my cause!

Then i took some time off.. and every month was the same, "Hey baby, can you pay my loan this month?".. till he got tired of that :) and so did i! i hated that he was helping everytime. So we decided that i would just get a job fuller time :) tee hee.. and pay it off faster. Incomes the Daily Grind.. i had always wanted to work there, i mean, i thought it would be fun. Thanks to Matt Pantana who knew my boss, Matt Fleming i got the job. It totally just came to me, i wasn't even looking at the time. i was just recovering from surgery.

And now i just got back from a great trip to Atlanta, with my friend Jerrod Weeks from Pink Inc whom i met when we were in Dallas selling My Director. Wow it is so amazing how everything worked together. Thanks to Jerrods check i am actually done with this loan that has been hanging over my head for so long. I am soo bursting with thanksgiving right now. I don't want to forget this feeling. I actually finished. i actually finished something. wow.

so i'm taking votes on staying at DG or just putting in my two weeks.. OH btw if you know my boss.. please don't tell him i'm thinking of leaving.. He doesn't need to know yet. I'll give him a fair notice. Thanks also to all who helped me along the way to get this done... Brian, Steph, Matt, Jerrod.. I'm so excited.. wow. wow. wow. wow. ok i'm done. I've got to clean the house..