Thursday, June 21, 2007

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...

4 comments:

Routine Mom said...

Now that you have a GPS, you can go geo-caching or geo-tracking! If you do, we will have all kinds of nerdy nicknames for you.

Mama Chanoli said...

Oh, yes - Steve will be thrilled to hear about your GPS system. Wait. I'm not telling him. He'll want the new fangled one that you have! We do have a new universal remote that works - thank you!! This is fun - write more!! How'd the cleanup go on that melted hair stuff?

WeLoveKaren said...

How interesting about the Mike Theology discussions! How are those going? Your flat iron story made me LOL. Sorry I didn't read this sooner. Let me know when you update it again (I'm not a cool daily blog check like our SIL).

Mama Chanoli said...

I'm starting to think this is not your typical day in the life anymore... ? Looking forward to the "Must have cereal before I go crazy" post. Or something. ;)