Some good news and some expensive news

Rett is finally getting to go out on the road and start doing his own closes for the appointments he sets. The person they have doing it right now is really not as good as Rett thought she would be at first, so at least now he has total control of the sale. Even better, since he'll still set his own appointments, he'll get commission for setting the appointment and for closing the sale! He starts training next week, so I'm crossing my fingers some money starts rolling in soon.

Speaking of money, we had the honor this week of parting with $400 to the local Dodge dealership. After 90,000 miles, my Durango actually needed some real work - can you believe it! lol There was apparently something wrong with the wheel bearing, that would make my front left tire pop off at any random time. Not a big deal of course, but we thought it might be worth fixing


I'm really really really x10 excited for this weekend - I have a group of girlfriends coming in for a girls weekend! We're still kind of 'new' friends, I was introduced to their chat board by my darling Jannypie in July. They're incredibly nice women and I already feel like I've known them for a heck of a lot longer than 3 months! It's going to be a great weekend

The end of sanity is near

***warning -- extremely whiny post!*** :-)

Past experience has shown me that I can only handle working 2 jobs (like I am now) for about 5-6 months. I've been at Avenue since the end of April and I'm definitely at the edge of losing my sanity. Working at Ohio State Univ. Medical Center 40 hours a week and then Avenue 15-20 hours a week creates a messy house and a stressed marriage.

Rett's still working his sales job, but there haven't been any closed deals in about 3 weeks, which means no money for us. The person who does the meetings (Rett's job is just to set up the meetings) keeps telling him that she "thinks so and so will close" but then it doesn't happen. "Thinking" a sale will close doesn't pay our rent :-(

Hopefully the sales will start picking up or he can find another job, because I'm past ready to quit Avenue and only work 40 hours a week.

well, it's something!

Rett started this week at a "job." Why the quotes, you may ask? Because it's a phone sales job and 100% commission based.

It's for a company that sells ad space on the back of a local grocery store's receipts. Businesses can pay X amount and get an ad that would be on everyone's receipt that shops at this grocery store. Rett calls to sell them on the idea and set up a meeting, then a 'closer' goes in to talk prices and finish the deal. If a deal is closed, Rett gets 15% of the selling price of the ad. Great potential, no reliability. Not necessarily a good thing for those of us living paycheck to paycheck. He's scheduled about 5 meetings, so hopefully we'll get good news and $$$$ soon!

On the homefront, I think the dogs are starting to feel extra lonely since we've been gone so much. Tobey is now a non-stop cuddler and Bella is constantly kissing us. It's not a bad thing, I just feel bad that they've been feeling the effects of us working 2 jobs each.


We have a small vacation planned for Aug 3-5, and I can't wait! We're going to Hocking Hills in Southern Ohio and staying in a private cabin with a hot tub! It will be so nice to just relax and spend time together.
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Peaks and Valleys

Sometimes it feels like life is nothing but a giant roller coaster ride. Well, right now, Rett and I are in a definite valley. We've both been working 2 jobs since we really really really (and maybe a few more, but you get the idea) want to get a house this year. We've rented together for 7 years now and that's MORE than enough.

It's stressful, but we were handling it. We even planned a little get away for a weekend in early August, so we could relax. Then the bomb hits. Rett lost his job that he's had a Buffalo Wild Wings for abotu 8 years. They've been treating him like total poop the past couple of years and putting him through the ringer. They used a bullcrap reason last Friday to say that he was fired. ( very brief version - they changed his schedule, didn't tell him, then fired him for not showing up on the day they added to his schedule.) Already he's done a dozen applications to different places for all sorts of jobs, and talked to any and all friends/ contacts he has that could help him find something. Thankfully, the owner of the bar that Rett was working at part time is going to give him more hours, so that will definitely help.

But other than that... it's pretty dull! LOL

Changing the tone

Since my diet is currently slacking, I'm going to change the tone of my blog to just about my life and stuff in general. I'm not sure posting only about weight loss is my thing, I always felt like I was letting myself down by having to post that I hadn't lost any weight. So onto The Life and Times of Stephanie W!

My parents are in the process of moving to a new condo so my grandpa can live with them and have a 1st floor bedroom. He's 91 and just had a pacemaker put in last week. All in all, he's doing really well. He's in a nursing home/ rehab facility until next week since he was having trouble walking after being in bed for 7 days, but he's doing a lot better. It's kind of stressful right now though, trying to move my grandpa's townhouse, my parent's 1600 sq ft condo and a storage unit into a new condo. I'm sure we'll get it done, but it feels like the never ending project.

Rett and I currently working 2 jobs each. We just needed the extra money with prices going up on everything and we had an old medical bill that we thought insurance covered, but didn't. It was only a $1,700 bill, so nothing big, LOL.

My birthday is this coming Sunday (June 22) and I'm really excited since one of my friend's shares the same birthday, so we're having a joint party :-) Should be a lot of fun, so I'm really looking forward to it!