Part III ....

Day one at new job .... Oh my gosh did I ever feel like a fish out of water!! For an organized obsessed person this can go into my book of the 10 most un-organized days of my life!! First off Don didn't tell his gal she was being replaced until today (I was sure he would have told her on Friday and thank goodness he did tell her away from the office). Needless to say all of her stuff was still in her office. Piles of paper everywhere ... files everywhere ... need I say more. She was going to come in tonight after she got out of school to clear out the office. I didn't want to go in and start moving papers around and making myself at home. Just didn't feel comfortable and didn't want her to feel bad when she came in tonight to clear out her stuff. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to dive right in to all the files and make heads and tails out of all the piles in the office. I can already tell that Don has a sorta of "whatever works" attitude about paperwork. I bet he doesn't even know what agents have what properties listed. I have to really take a step back and take off my "bosses" hat and realize that I am no longer the boss. Give me time however and I am sure that hat will be put back on!! J/K!!! Hopefully this weekend I will be able to get into the office and really get it set up to my liking so next Monday I will be ready to dive right in and start organizing things and see where I fit in at Re/Max.

A New Adventure .... Part II

Today I was able to make final settlement and arrangements for my New Adventure ... I guess it isn't so much a New Adventure as it is a new work place. I will begin my new job on Monday, March 23, at Re/Max 5 Star in Redding. I will be doing pretty much the same thing I did at Premier in regards to Transaction Coordination but will take on some new tasks as Don Davis' assistant. Not sure what it all will entail but it will be a little bit different than the tasks I did for JC. Hopefully I will be able to step back a little as the dominate person in the office and not let my controlness get in the way. I think I will learn some new stuff from Don and I also think I will be able to bring some ideas to him as well. First item on the agenda after I get settled in is some organization (my gift as many of you know!!). I don't think organization is top priority in that office as boxes of files are just stuffed here and there. I feel very blessed to be able to land a job so quickly. JC gave me notice on Friday and I was able to sit down with Don on Friday evening and start the negotiation process. I even received a call from a totally different job situation once the owner found out I would be looking for a new place of employ. It did make me feel good that someone out there was interested in my talents based on my professionalism in dealing with the public. I fell good about my new job in that my dear friend Robin works at Re/Max and my dear friend Tara will also be leaving Premier and working at Re/Max. I am excited about the new job opportunity but sad in the fact I have to leave Premier. I really felt I would be working at Premier until I retired in my 60's. It also saddens me that someone was removed from employ in order for me to take this position. Stay tuned for what lies ahead for me! Who knows ... maybe when JC is able to get his personal life on track and he is ready to get back into Real Estate he will open the doors of Premier and I will be ready and willing to go back into his employ!!

P.S. I was even lucky enough to negotiate my Friday's off for R-Ranch time!!

A New Adventure ....

WOW .... Friday the 13th ended up being an interesting day. After 11 1/2 years at the same job with the same fun people my journey at Premier Real Estate will be ending within the next couple of weeks. It just goes to show that your job is never secure no matter how confident you feel. It came as a surprise and shock. I am okay and will be embarking on a new adventure. For those of you who pray all I can say is please pray for my dear friend JC for the Lord's guidance and direction and to make decisions that are based on God's direction and not his own. More details to follow once I know what I am going to do.

As if the work week wasn't enough....

Many are lucky enough to have their families all under one roof for most of the time. I know an occasional getaway or job takes us away from our spouses and family. For the past 15 +/- years William has traveled for his job. Started out 5 days a week (sometimes 6) and through some great negotiating he has managed to get his work week down to only being gone 3 nights a week for the past 7 +/- years. He recently moved his office to the north side of Sacramento so now he leaves around 5:00 am on Monday morning and returns by 5:00 pm on Thursdays. As if being gone during the week wasn't enough he has decided that he will help out a friend in Yreka do some much needed remodel work on his home which will now take him out of town Thursday evening through Saturday evening. This will be a benefit to him as well because he took his drift boat up to Medford to have some upgrades & modifications done so with the money he will make being out of town it will help pay for his boat upgrades, so it is a two-fold situation .... Steve gets the professionalism of William's work and William gets the much desired drift boat he wants .... but what about me???? Okay, I must admit it will be nice to have Saturdays free to work on my scrapbooks which I don't do when he is home due to guilt (Hard to be inside working on scrapbooks when he is outside dinking around doing yard work, moving wood, mowing lawns etc.) and I will also get to enjoy the drift boat this summer & fall while we fish together .... however .... it doesn't curb the feeling of missing my husband while he is gone!! I will just reflect on our many weekend's together at the ranch come May ......

I have a goal .....

.... only time will tell if I actually meet the goal. October will be our 25th Anniversary .... WOW how time flies. I hope to put together a memory book for William as a SURPRISE highlighting our 25 years together. It all sounds fun and exciting at this point going down Memory Lane but will I even find enough pictures to go along with my ideas. Not only do I have to rack my brain back 25 years but to make it interesting enough for William to enjoy. I will just have to try my best to make it simple and special. Only time will tell. I will keep you posted on my progress!

A Day with my Hubby!!

It's not often William & I just get to have a fun filled day together. Heather gave William Sacramento Kings Tickets for Christmas so we took a day and went to Sacramento & Manteca. Our first stop was the Bass Pro Shop in Manteca. This is a new store in town within the past couple of months and since he drives by it on a weekly basis he wanted to go check it out. It was great because I benefited from the visit and got some fishing attire. When we fish in the winter and late fall it can get pretty cold out on the water so we bought me some Under Armor clothing that is suppose to keep me warm in the colder weather. We will see on Sunday when we go Steelhead fishing on the Klamath. Our next stop was a dinner date in Lodi with some R-Ranch friends Dennis & GerryAnn. It was great getting caught up with them. Then on to Sacramento to the Kings game. This was my second game but Williams first. It was a great game against the Utah Jazz. The Kings lost in a very close match. It was fun also because we were able to see the retirement of #4 Jersey that was last worn by Chris Webber. Many of his teammates that played with him were in attendance and some of them were actually names I recognized like Vlade Divac, Doug Christie and Scott Pollard. We stayed the night and headed home early Saturday and he took me by his new Sacramento office.

Random Act of Kindness

I must share this most amazing story ... it brought tears to my eyes.

Last night Stephanie & Jordan, along with 4 other young adults, went to Cool Hand Lukes for dinner. When it was time to leave and pay the bill the waitress told them the bill had already been taken care of. They were all amazed and wondered who did such a thing. They asked who and of course the waitress wouldn't tell them. They all began to look around to see if they recognized anyone in the restaurant to which none of them did. As they sat at the table talking and looking around the waitress could tell they were trying to figure out who had paid the bill. They questioned her again and was told a nice gentleman said when he was younger and out with a group of friends someone had picked up the tab and we wanted to repay the favor to another group of young people.

It's nice to know we still have some kind people in this world!! This will hopefully have an impact on the young people and they will be able to do the same to another young group of friends.