Personal Stuff

Okay, I dedicated this blog to my wood flooring business, which is going wonderfully, by the way, but something has happened which could result in me writing more personal life stories here.


My personal diary site crashed taking more than 5 years worth of entries with it. Those entries are gone forever. It's a little sad for me, but I also don't have anywhere else to rattle on about my life. This is a very therapeutic thing for me, so it's an issue. I may be writing more personal stuff here until I find a new diary home. Or not. I don't know.

As you can see by the date of my last posting it's been about two months since I last posted an entry about All Wood Flooring.

Shame on me! It's not that things have been stagnant. Just the opposite! We've been quite busy!

I still haven't taken pictures of our new truck and truth be told, this is why I haven't written. I wanted my next entry to have a picture of the truck with me and the Expert/Mentor/Boyfriend standing beside it looking like we just bagged a bear or something, but apparently taking a picture with the truck (clean) is beyond us, so...no picture. Bleh.

I have stolen this picture of the truck from a Google Image Search site, but you'll have to imagine it in white. Champagne is the closest I could get to white.

We bought it over the Labor Day weekend. It's a white, 2008 Toyota Tundra Crew Cab with a long bed. It's beautiful and I love it. Alas, I cannot drive it. IT'S TOO BIG!!!


I had to drive it to a Taco Bell drive-through one night (it was raining) and OMG could they make those little curvy pass throughs more narrow and....um, curvy??? I'M WORKING WITH A LONG BED HERE, PEOPLE!!!

I honestly didn't think we'd make it out of the drive through drive way. My daughter thought it was funny.

I have not driven the truck again. It is Expert/Mentor/Boyfriend's truck. He can drive it. He likes driving it. He drives it with authority. I like that in an Expert/Mentor/Boyfriend.

Okay...he looks good in the truck. We've established that.

Business is going well. I just figured up gross revenue and payroll and business expenses and came up with our 3rd quarter gross profit. It's not bad! I mean, i was all excited when I saw the gross revenue and then le Boyfriend told me to calm down and subtract all the business expenses.

Um...yeah, that does put a damper on things. But the profit margin is still very healthy, especially for a fledgling business and I'll be candid and tell you people that I apparently became quite comfortable with the idea of paying myself during the month of October. (I figured up October too) I am going to try to be more frugal during November.

I promise.

But I DO have to get the truck wrapped and that's going to cost about 2,500.00 right there, so...

but it's a business expense so it's okay. Right?

Okay, personal stuff....Last night, I got mad at Expert/Mentor/Boyfriend about something I had no business getting mad about, but we have history and sometimes things just leave raw spots you don't even know are there and then one day Expert/Mentor/Boyfriend makes, what to him is an innocent joke, and the next thing he knows I'm FAHLIPPING OUT!!!

That's what happened last night. I apologized the next morning. I did. He didn't mean anything bad. He was just being himself, but I must say that something about it really DID get me because I was extremely ticked off, so, maybe it bears some reflection. I dunno.

It must be noted that in the arena of personal improvement...Expert/Mentor/Boyfriend handled the matter much differently than he would have done a month ago. He did not blow up back at me. He did not treat me to an unhealthy dose of the silent treatment. He's turning over a new leaf and stuff. It's easy to turn over leaves when things are running smoothly. It's not so easy when those old rough patches inevitably come along, but he handled it gracefully. I'm glad on many levels for this and I think it bodes well for us.

Everyone messes up...it's how you handle yourself once you realize you've made a mistake that tells people who you are.

I'll try to keep the personal stuff to a dull roar around here...heh, just like I'll TRY not to pay myself so much money during the month of November. lol