A Typical Day in the Life of

Today was another great day. It was pretty typical for a candy broker. Had a rough time waking up, and finally rolled out of bed around 7:30am. As I got ready, I heard a hissing noise in the bathroom....I thought it was the toilet, so I flushed it again. It still kept hissing............Great, the toilet is broken.

About 10 minutes later, I leaned down to use my hair straightener.....oops. I had put a bottle of hair stuff on top of the hair straightener--it was now beginning to melt and all the liquid was oozing out, on top of the iron--creating the hissing sound. Hopefully Mike doesn't notice how sticky it is on the floor of the bathroom!

Started to work and struggle with the blinds to insure an accurate amount of sunshine was floating through onto my desk. Then dealt with the oldest rep we have over the phone for about 30 minutes--it felt like an hour.

Took a break mid morning and started preparing tonight's dinner and lunch. Thanked God for how much I enjoy cooking. It is so relaxing. There is something about dumping all the ingredients together to make something that soothes me.

After lunch, I headed to my 1pm meeting. I bought a GPS system this week---which has become my new favorite device. It is so great, it is a huge stress reliever. In any case, my meeting was with www.candywarehouse.com. They are a long time customer, and one of my favorites because I exercised my feeble "selling abilities" with this account when I first joined my company years ago. One of the employees, who is my age, recently bought the company out. Having done this myself, I can really relate to him and thus enjoy visiting them. We had a great meeting and I found myself being pretty happy about my job.

I know it is just candy, but it is fun to be able to help people with what they need. Having been in the industry for a bit, I now have a pretty big knowledge of things--it is fun to be able to provide others with the depth of my nerdy knowledge of confections.

With my trusty GPS system at my side, I headed for home. Spent the evening with Jasmine watching movies. It was fun, and now Mike is home. He had to work late (again). Now he and Jasmine are discussing theology (surprise, surprise).

Anyways, I am thankful for a nice day. I have been trying hard to not get wrapped up in the business....God seems to be blessing me with discipline in that area...for now...

Post #1: Denial

Based upon Heidi's recommendations, I have started a blog. But in typical fashion, I am conducting it in a paranoid fashion. Only making it available for viewing by the 4 of you super lucky people...at least initially. In any case, I got a sweet address!! Hopefully we stay in Torrance for quite sometime, otherwise it will seem dated.

In any case...in an effort to keep the 4 of you informed on what is up with me, I have started this blog. Heidi claims that I have somewhat interesting musings, so why not share the wealth?

I can't promise that I will keep this thing updated. But at least I have it for when I will need to start posting pictures of my plants. Or my dogs, or whatever...:)

I already feel like this first posting has been a letdown and I am in denial that I have a blog.