A practice in self-control

I went to the store the other day to purchase something from a friends Bridal Registry. It was exciting to me as I was thinking about knowing the groom since he was little and playing baseball with my brother, and now he was getting to take this huge step in adulthood. I walk into the popular local establishment and walk to the back room where I know all the Registries are displayed where I encountered an employee. She asks if she can assist me finding the registry and I give her the name. 

She then directs my attention to it, looks at me and says in a nasally voice "Well, all the cheap stuff is already gone." and continues to check out my outfit. I do a mental gasp and actually forced myself to take a deep breath. I take the high road saying "Thank you" and then start looking at the beautiful home furnishings that were displayed. The employee then says; "Well, there's nothing under $30." So at this point I am looking myself over asking myself if I look like someone that can't afford paying over thirty dollars. I take the high road again and try not to let her under my skin, "thank you" I say again and ask for the list of gifts as it wasn't on the table. 

As she goes to retrieve it I look at the items on the table and have the burning urge to buy every last item just to shove it in this girls face! OH if I had the money I would have. It made me think back to the movie Pretty Women, when Vivian goes to the clothing store and comes back saying that they were mean to her, and she goes back and makes them feel stupid. Anyway, I don't have a billion dollars. I purchase something in the exact price point that I was expecting to spend and bought a beautiful lantern to complete a set that I saw others had bought the two smaller lanterns. I always do that when I go to a registry, it's my plan and rounds out what my fellow buyers have already purchased for the couple/or baby shower if that be the case. 

Maybe I should have reported the snarky girl, maybe she was just having a bad day...but I am the only one that can control my reaction to the people around me. So that day it was the High Road.

Early Bird gets the worm.

This Happened the other morning:

Wild morning at my house! When I was in the bathroom fixing my contact, I hear the front door open and shut, then I can't find Gavin...looking everywhere and calling his name out the door...I load up and drive to the school, and yup there he is at 6:55. I get him home and he tells me he wants to be the first kid at school, but he wasn't dressed right and his hair was messy, I try to do his hair and I kid you not, he told me he wanted it to look like....ALFALFA!!! LOL Good luck Broadmoor today...he's a man of action...

It's been a long time...

Whew! Long time no Blogging! I miss writing, and there is SOOOOO much that's been going on! Gee, where do I start? How about I start from Dave and I looking at rings and work my way up to date?

January - Dave and I go to pick up a broken necklace of mine, and we spent the next hour and a half trying on rings together! It was a HUGE step forward, so then I showed him a ring that I REALLY like via a link later that night, he liked it! :o) Made me giddy that we might actually get official!

January - THE NEXT DAY after looking at rings - The family goes to my little cousin Riley's Birthday party, and play in the Rolling Video Games Trailer that was rented for his party. We LOVED how fun, cool, easy and exciting the party was, so we looked them up when we got home. Both Dave and I got cards thinking that it would be a good business idea without telling the other person. We looked into it, and agreed, we could do this! 

February - After some research we decided we were going to go for it. I prayed about it, and prayed "Lord, if this is a good idea, that's great! But if not, please shut this door in our faces REAL quick!" Well, things kept clicking into place, we had a generous offer from David's family to help pitch in for the down payment and boom! We were off to Chattanooga, TN to pick up our trailer!

Off we go and make great time, just my Dave and me! We got our trailer on Feb. 17th and it was a great trip, though coming home was a challenge, we were new to driving that sort of rig, and the wind was ummm very helpful! One of the best highlights of the trip was being able to visit with the Knoef's! We all went to the zoo in Nashville and walked and walked and talked and talked! :o) We also got to sit on the interstate while a tractor trailer fire was cleaned up...for about 3 hours! The night we picked up the trailer we already had our first booking! We were over the moon! 

March - We filed our LLC paperwork, got our insurance and worked out all the nitty gritty details on the business. We used this month to have a "soft" opening and really test out how we wanted to work on things before we could really be an official business. We had 7 bookings for the month of March and had a horrible time with the warranty issue we had with the generator on the trailer. (That's a whole other blog in itself.) We took the trailer to the Teen Center Open House and David talked on the radio and really rocked at it! We continued to book dates for April and we still haven't had to advertize! 

April - We got our LLC paperwork back after over a month of waiting and we are officially & legally business owners! Dynomite Gaming LLC, from Hobbs, NM. We still need to go and get a bank account for the business but being on the phone for about 45 minutes took up all the free time we had to do that, so we have to reschedule. I can't wait to have it all set up for online payments to make the whole system more streamlined. HomeSmart a rent to own store in Hobbs, used the Trailer on the 14th for their grand opening, but there wasn't a huge turnout, but the wind was blowing 50 mph, so WE didn't even want to turn out! :LOL We are STILL cleaning out the red dirt! This weekend we had our first real weekend off since we bought the thing and I used it to throw a party for Dave's 30th Birthday! We hauled the trailer to the house and I invited all his rowdy friends. We had great food and everyone had a great time! He got lots of gag gifts and got LOTS of booze! LOL

That brings us to tonight I got him some Crown XR and ummm yea, I have never spent that much money on alcohol in my life, but it is the BEST tasting stuff I have ever tried. He doesn't even drink all that much so we almost need another party just to get rid of it all! I also got him a couple of Oklahoma State things for the new truck we got...OH! I forgot to mention that, but we are caught up without too many details, but I plan on being better about blogging, I need somewhere for my thoughts to go...but I guess the theme of this catch up was to let everyone know that though Dave and I might not be officially committed but we ARE committed to a future together in our business if not marriage yet and hopefully the business will be a successful one!