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Hopefully this week.

I really hope we get these negotiations all finalized this week.  My angst is taking the form of rage towards others and it's just not good and I have a feeling until all this guessing is over with, it's only going to get worse. I'm talking myself in and out of driving to Michigan on Thursday to pay my respects to an old friend who lost his wife yesterday.  I'm waiting for the schedule of the visitation and/or funeral arraingements.  It's not out of character for me to do it, but I wonder if it's the smartest thing to do, spend 4 hours on the road on my day off to spend 15 minutes talking to an old friend who will more than likely be swarmed with visitors. But I've done it before.  Guess I'll wait and see when things are going to be happening up there before I decide what I'm going to do.  I may opt to visit him next month when I can plan a better trip up there, but we'll see. I'm so out of sorts this week, my mind is such a mess, I can't

It should be illegal

He's smart, he's funny, he's a hard worker and he looks slamming in those pants.  I only get to work with him every other week for one day and today I put him right in front of me to make the wings. When you make the wings you have to put the lid on them and shake them for 15 seconds to coat the wings.  Watching him do this was the highlight of my day.  They shouldn't make guys like him, but I'm glad they do, it makes work go so much better.  :)

selling update

For those who can't follow crypted messages on facebook....... The appraisal came back for the real estate and it's not all that great, I'm not happy with it at all.  I still have no idea what that means as of yet.  The next step is to have a different appraiser come in and appraise the business assets.  Fortunately the guy doing that tomorrow is a very good friend of the family and wants to help me as much as he can and wants to see the appraisers report and see what advice he can give as well as see just how much value he can pack into the business assets to get the number as close to my price as he can.  The report is flawed enough already I have some cards I can play, but I'm going to see what gets said tomorrow when I meet Denver. We're still pushing hard and fast to close on the first week of June, we just need to do some final negotiations on the price and then we'll get the contract finished, meet to sign it and then turn it over to the bank who said the

Reflections

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I'll be honest that over the last 4 months I've kept myself fairly busy not really thinking about leaving this place.  I bury myself in packing, and cleaning, and organizing and leaving message after message with the bank to see what the latest hold up is. Yesterday my brother and father came over and brought a trailer to start packing up the items they have had in this store for the last several years.  As we got everything loaded up and made piles of my stuff to be packed up it really hit me, it's nearly over.  I was flooded by memories everywhere I stepped and it really hit me hard, this place, my very first big purchase, my first business, my dream (well sort of), was coming to an end. I remember the old garage, how dilapidated it was, nearly falling down, one wall held up by a chain and a rotten 2x4, the old rotted out wooden cooler that was still intact in there, the piles of years of junk back there, Eldor's giant old boat of a car that was parked in there for y

I left a part of my heart in Cleveland.

So this past weekend I ventured to Cleveland and had an amazing time.  It was the first time visiting that side of Cleveland, I have always stayed on the west side and only ventured down town once or twice at night for different reasons.  This trip I spent my time on the east side with Jake and Cody. The drive there was uneventful, although I did get to enjoy some awesome Starbucks on the turnpike, that's always such a treat!  The barista was a bit caddy but he was cute at least.  There aren't all that many turns between my house and their house so it was actually very easy to find. Cody took me to Lakeview Cemetery.  It seems odd to some people to spend the day at a cemetery but this place is beautiful!  We started at Garfield monument, the place built for president Garfield and where he and his wife are entombed in the lower level.  It is a beautiful building filled with details that just can't be redone anymore.  The craftsmanship of the days gone past just can't s

It only took 16 years

I know, I'm still working on my Cleveland post.  I'm finding it hard to put my feelings into words, but it's in the works. :) Tonight I received a pleasant surprise.  I was contacted by the area director at work today and was asked to stay.  He said my boss has made several statements about how lost she is going to be without me and how hard it's going to be to replace me and he wanted to offer me more money and a higher position landing me as the second in charge of the store.  The money is o.k., but I would be able to achieve monthly bonus's which could equal as much as an extra pay check. I was very surprised and actually shocked.  For the first time in the 16 years I've worked on and off for that company, someone above my boss has spoken appreciation and even offered compensation for all my hard work.  It's enough to live on around here, I could easily get a place to live on my own again and not struggle from month to month and constantly worry about how

Need Suggestions

So I had a fantastic weekend this past weekend in Cleveland and will be writing a couple of different posts or maybe one good post about it, but this one isn't it. So I've been reviewing both of my public blogs out there and have decided with the selling of business the other blog should come down because there is so much on there about the store, but I don't want to take it down.  What I plan on doing is creating one blog out of the two current blogs.  I want to merge them together on a new blog and continue in one voice. My question is this.....what on earth should I be calling it?  I really have no idea what to call the new blog, or even what to think about naming it about, or after or anything really. I thought I would post the question to my few readers and see what they had to say.  I'm not sure when I'll get around to this, but I think it will be much easier to just have one blog, I don't really write much on the other one, and my readers are pretty much