I still have this cold, but at this point I am reconvinced that it is allergies. All of my clients who have come in complaining about allergies have the same symptoms. Many of them dont usually have allergies (I never have.) or have had itchy eye type of allergies in the past and now are having this chest thing. So maybe it is just something in the air this year? I have noticed that I am pretty ok when I am at home and insidebut when we go out to walk I get all phlegmed up. Someone also mentioned that sometimes allergies will turn into a cold. I guess maybe germs sticking to all that phlegm? Anyway, I think that MAY be what happened those couple of days that I felt REALLY bad, and now that the cold part is gone I still have the allergies. Oh well, at least it isnt mad cow, west nile or flesh eating virus.
Work is very very slow today because so many people are on spring break. Plus it is just me and Ana today, Lynn is at physical therapy and May is out of town. Ana and I are going to split an order of California Rolls for lunch. They come 12 to an order but I can only eat about 4, maybe 6 if I am super hungry. I wanted some today but I knew I couldnt eat them all so we are going to split. And have Jamba juice also.
My stepmom, Linda, started Chemo the other day. She is doing pretty well but she wasnt feeling too well today. A little sick to her tummy. I just talked to her to tell her to check the cancer society website for recipes for people doing chemo and found out that dad made sausage, pancakes and eggs for dinner last night. And after eating that is when she went down hill. DUH! That sounds totally unappetizing for someone who is doing chemo. So hopefully they will check the website and find out what is better for her at this point.
When Beniko came to bed last night, he was really loud. And I am pretty sure that he sat on me. I just remember whining really loudly and then him getting in bed and trying to spoon me. haha. I think I was being a butthole though and made him scoot over. I also vaguely remember getting up to use the potty last night but I cant remember if that was real. I really really didnt want Benny to leave this morning. I dont know what it is lately, maybe all the sunshine, but Ive finally got some blood pumping to my genitals again.
Profits showed me how to process credit card orders last night, and we plugged through a good portion of them. We are no longer putting all of the client info into Quickbooks, because we realized we dont really need to. And Bray is working on a Batch File Script that will allow us to extract all of the credit card orders from the site at once and send them to the processing company, who will send us back an email that will tell us which were approved and which were declined. This will save us a TON of time. As it is now, it takes about 3-4 minutes to process each order. This will open us up so that we can spend more time working on designs, actually printing shirts and packaging them. Plus none of us enjoys data entry. I actually hate it to be honest.
I also have a financial goal in mind, as far when I will allow myself to leave Skin Solutions. I dont think that this goal is too far off, which is exciting. But I dont want to leave this job until I can make enough at CSS to pay my bills AND save a large chunk of money each month. Which is what I am able to do while I am still at Skin Solutions, Im not willing to give that up. If things go as planned, I could be only a few of years away from buying a house, which is my biggest long term goal. It isnt something I am always dreamed of, but in the last few years has become something very important to me. My parents always lived in rented houses and had no security. A landlord could decide to sell or evict and we would have 30 days to move. This happened to us MANY times over the years and it totally sucked. It tore our family apart really. So I definitely want to have that security in my life. I keep seeing commercials where a girl is walking buy a store window and wants to buy a really expensive pair of shoes, she gets out her credit card and starts to walk inbut then she sees that next door is a real estate place and there is a house add in the window, she puts her card away realizing that good credit will give her the ability to buy a house someday. I love it! Haha. As much as my parents bad finances suck, Im really glad that I was able to learn from their mistakes.Haha, I know that Profits and Beniko are going to laugh at that entire paragraph. They think I talk about money too much, Ben thinks I worry about money too much. I know that it is because lack of money tore my family apart. Ive stopped worrying so much about money, I know that I am never going to starve or be homeless. I just like to plan things out very well and to make sure that I have what I need. Im not stingy or anything. I love getting little presents for people, I still go to movies and rent movies and buy movies. Im not depriving myself, Im just making careful plans, and I dont like to stray from them in order to satisfy an instant gradification, consumer craving. I know that taking 5$ out to rent a movie isnt going to keep me from owning my dream house, but 5 turns into 10, which turns to 20 and so on. Is this officially my longest entry ever? Can you tell how quiet and boring my work is today. Do you know how many credit card orders I could have processed in the time it has taken me to write this entry, if I was at home? And it isnt even 11:30 yet. I need to find out when my stepsisters Stephanis birthday is. I have an idea for something to do for her birthday that I think would be really fun. She will be turning 14 this year and I thought it would be fun to take her and a friend out to Berkeley, to Telegraph Ave (which is full of street venders and cool shops, for those of you not from the Bay) and take them to lunch and give her like 100$ to spend out there. Im pretty sure shes never been out there before. I was about 14 the first time went out to Telegraph and I remember how effin cool I thought it was at the time. So yeah, I just gotta find out when the birthday is because I have NO clue. Maybe if I cant do it for her birthday, I can do it around late August. Shell be starting high school this fall, so it could be a welcome to high school trip instead. Yeah, thatd be fun! Then I can do the same for Nikki when she starts high school in a couple years. Yea for new traditions. Im ending this now, if youve gotten this far, you deserve a reward.
Work is very very slow today because so many people are on spring break. Plus it is just me and Ana today, Lynn is at physical therapy and May is out of town. Ana and I are going to split an order of California Rolls for lunch. They come 12 to an order but I can only eat about 4, maybe 6 if I am super hungry. I wanted some today but I knew I couldnt eat them all so we are going to split. And have Jamba juice also.
My stepmom, Linda, started Chemo the other day. She is doing pretty well but she wasnt feeling too well today. A little sick to her tummy. I just talked to her to tell her to check the cancer society website for recipes for people doing chemo and found out that dad made sausage, pancakes and eggs for dinner last night. And after eating that is when she went down hill. DUH! That sounds totally unappetizing for someone who is doing chemo. So hopefully they will check the website and find out what is better for her at this point.
When Beniko came to bed last night, he was really loud. And I am pretty sure that he sat on me. I just remember whining really loudly and then him getting in bed and trying to spoon me. haha. I think I was being a butthole though and made him scoot over. I also vaguely remember getting up to use the potty last night but I cant remember if that was real. I really really didnt want Benny to leave this morning. I dont know what it is lately, maybe all the sunshine, but Ive finally got some blood pumping to my genitals again.
Profits showed me how to process credit card orders last night, and we plugged through a good portion of them. We are no longer putting all of the client info into Quickbooks, because we realized we dont really need to. And Bray is working on a Batch File Script that will allow us to extract all of the credit card orders from the site at once and send them to the processing company, who will send us back an email that will tell us which were approved and which were declined. This will save us a TON of time. As it is now, it takes about 3-4 minutes to process each order. This will open us up so that we can spend more time working on designs, actually printing shirts and packaging them. Plus none of us enjoys data entry. I actually hate it to be honest.
I also have a financial goal in mind, as far when I will allow myself to leave Skin Solutions. I dont think that this goal is too far off, which is exciting. But I dont want to leave this job until I can make enough at CSS to pay my bills AND save a large chunk of money each month. Which is what I am able to do while I am still at Skin Solutions, Im not willing to give that up. If things go as planned, I could be only a few of years away from buying a house, which is my biggest long term goal. It isnt something I am always dreamed of, but in the last few years has become something very important to me. My parents always lived in rented houses and had no security. A landlord could decide to sell or evict and we would have 30 days to move. This happened to us MANY times over the years and it totally sucked. It tore our family apart really. So I definitely want to have that security in my life. I keep seeing commercials where a girl is walking buy a store window and wants to buy a really expensive pair of shoes, she gets out her credit card and starts to walk inbut then she sees that next door is a real estate place and there is a house add in the window, she puts her card away realizing that good credit will give her the ability to buy a house someday. I love it! Haha. As much as my parents bad finances suck, Im really glad that I was able to learn from their mistakes.Haha, I know that Profits and Beniko are going to laugh at that entire paragraph. They think I talk about money too much, Ben thinks I worry about money too much. I know that it is because lack of money tore my family apart. Ive stopped worrying so much about money, I know that I am never going to starve or be homeless. I just like to plan things out very well and to make sure that I have what I need. Im not stingy or anything. I love getting little presents for people, I still go to movies and rent movies and buy movies. Im not depriving myself, Im just making careful plans, and I dont like to stray from them in order to satisfy an instant gradification, consumer craving. I know that taking 5$ out to rent a movie isnt going to keep me from owning my dream house, but 5 turns into 10, which turns to 20 and so on. Is this officially my longest entry ever? Can you tell how quiet and boring my work is today. Do you know how many credit card orders I could have processed in the time it has taken me to write this entry, if I was at home? And it isnt even 11:30 yet. I need to find out when my stepsisters Stephanis birthday is. I have an idea for something to do for her birthday that I think would be really fun. She will be turning 14 this year and I thought it would be fun to take her and a friend out to Berkeley, to Telegraph Ave (which is full of street venders and cool shops, for those of you not from the Bay) and take them to lunch and give her like 100$ to spend out there. Im pretty sure shes never been out there before. I was about 14 the first time went out to Telegraph and I remember how effin cool I thought it was at the time. So yeah, I just gotta find out when the birthday is because I have NO clue. Maybe if I cant do it for her birthday, I can do it around late August. Shell be starting high school this fall, so it could be a welcome to high school trip instead. Yeah, thatd be fun! Then I can do the same for Nikki when she starts high school in a couple years. Yea for new traditions. Im ending this now, if youve gotten this far, you deserve a reward.
Congrats on the business too!