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[b]Tuesday, August 24th, 2004.…[/b]
Boy oh boy… what a start to our week… first being in sick bed all day with my 26 oz. flu :oops: … blah… Then today we had a slow lazy start to our day… we’ve been lazy mofo’s for the past 2 days and we didn’t want to bother with the gym today either… even though I do wanna see D... she just went to Vegas this past weekend… wonder if she was a lucky ducky!! I guess we’ll try the gym again tomorrow… right?? :? [i]Ha ha ha[/i]… So our morning was spent in front of our computer searching for places to live… We were at dinner the other night at the inlaws (or [i]outlaws[/i] as some of [i]us [/i]call them… [i]he he he [/i] :wink:) and they were interested in maybe purchasing some investment property... Great!! We are too… so now Daddy and I are doing the leg work … searching out investment properties… fun stuff actually... It’s amazing the cost of some of the areas around our fine country… Even more interesting is the fact that most of these luxury residences are unopened to US sale… meaning there’s no way the Canuck owner is going to part ways with his lovely land for a Yank’s few dollars… In alot of ways I don’t blame the owners for having that sort of clause in their sale agreement… Lately there has been a tonne of American investors coming up to Canada to invest… now that’s all great and fine... I have no problems with the little guy starting business and trying to make a name for themselves in another country. What I hate is the Big American Corporations … or Big Corporations in general… I totally don’t care for their major Canadian/World.. take over… don’t you just love the thought that one day all you’re gonna have is a huge Walmart and nowhere else to shop at? It’s a sad thought… but with Big Corporations trying to make life ‘easier’ for us with their huge stores… big parking lots and not to mention the fact that your favourite 'little guy' store down the street that “Joe” owned is now gone… and now “Joe” also can’t go to his favourite beach anymore b’cus the "American Joes” have bought up all the lakefront property and now none of the local town residents can enjoy their once cherished swimming spot… sad but true… it’s going to be a [i]super sized[/i] world in the future… owned by [i]everyone[/i] but [i]us[/i]… I guess that’s why you have to try to get in on the getting when the getting is good… or so I have heard a few times…
Our big investment ideas are some pricey lakefront lots and houses… Some in the Okanogan area ... where I grew up… actually, the exact same piece of lakefront property I grew up at! Strange enough 20 years later it’s for sale… It’s a great place … I know that for sure… but we have also been looking at the Vancouver Island area too... We have found some great investment out that way… and maybe if we’re really gung ho we can find a business to start up out there and leave this store and climate behind us… weeee... But!! There is a huge BUT in there… we are just in the stages of looking right now… and that means it’s all ‘just talk’… which is all fine and dandy but unfortunately we have come across some mixed signals… well actually I don’t know how crossed the signals are … but we are starting to pick up the vibe that Daddy’s brother Corkey wants to take over our business… Well… this could be good for us… but also very far in the future for us… At the moment we are in no shape to start a new business and move right away… and as far as starting a new business … when we already have a functional one…. why bother?? This has been our game plan for a long while now… We have a store… we have a house and we have no debt… we make an income off the store… why jump back into all that stuff again?? Why not sit on our duffs for a bit and really plan out our next step out… Good plan… this has been our plan for years… but now Corkey is in the store everyday and he is all offering to help out… [i]Hmmmmm[/i]… well that could be extremely helpful in most cases but also very sticky…. I am under the impression that Corkey is out for a full time pay… for zero hour shifts… He has been persistent on offering us time off…. “Go.. GO” he says… I could handle a weekend or two around here… :? This I’m not quite sure of… and if you knew Corkey you would agree with me... that a weekend under his control?? :shock: This place may not be standing when we get back… [i]ha ha ha[/i].. just kidding.. But we would be a tad bit leery of letting Corkey run the store… but if we need the time off to look at property… and no one else is offering to help work the store… so... we might just take him up on his offer…
I have seen a tonne of Corkey in these past few days… since he has moved out to the area where our store is located he has been in our store every [b][i]damn[/i][/b] day… he has been following us home and staying until all hours of the night watching our cable television [i](since he is too broke to have his own)… [/i]I am all for having people hang out… but I get to a certain time and I don’t want to have company in my house anymore… it’s like the old Cinderella story… come midnight I change… I guess I change more into a Warewolf or Mr. Hyde or should I say Mz. Hyde more so at midnight than a sweet and frumpy girl looking for love.. [i]He he[/i]… unless you catch me on the right night :wink: [i]ha ha[/i]… but none the less I turn into someone that isn’t quite the friendliest when I am tired… and people... I think they know it… But Corkey... he seems to be oblivious to this vibe I throw out… So like I said for the past few days he has been hanging off my ass... not just b’cus the store is such a fun and interesting place to hang out at all day (not!) and all the great channels we have… but b’cus I made the mistake of mentioning an old friend of mine... A friend that I haven’t seen in years and a friend that years ago he used to have a huge turn on for… Well years later her and I have gotten back in touch and we’re planning on seeing each other and getting our friendship back on track again… all is great with us… But … me in my drunken stupor the other night mentions to Corkey… “Hey wouldn’t it be great if you and Twy could get together… she could use a nice guy like you... she is miserable you know?”… I went on to blab about “How she hasn’t been happy for years and needs a nice guy to help her through her problems…” I think Corkey is a nice guy… but he can’t take care of himself properly so why I mention all of this banter while intoxicated … I dunno :? … But now I have been paying the consequences… Corkey has been on my ass constant none stop since I mentioned Twy and her misery and her needing a nice guy… badgering me to tell her that he is still interested... [i]VERY[/i] interested… and asking me about all of her problems and how he doesn’t care what her hang ups are or what issues she has… he is willing to work through it all… with her… and the future is going to be all roses and buttercups and they are gonna love each other forever and ever and ever… [i]blah blah blah.. just please tell her... please...[/i]… When you can take care of yourself… I might mention your perks to my friends… but he’s about as helpless as her… I do think he is a great guy… and if she ever comes to town to visit.. maybe.. I will invite Cork over… but.. I’m not going to completely badger her like Corkey has been badgering me… I’m not going to ‘sell’ Corkey to her the way he has been pestering me to… if it happens... it will happen…
Can’t help but feel like we have given Corkey some false assumptions about working our store and about Twy [i](on my part)… [/i]I truly think he thinks he is gonna work the store for a few shifts … and then eventually take over our business… Since we had conversations about the ‘perfect plan’ would be to have a full time employee run our store for 3/4 -1/2 of the month and we run it for the other 1/2 - 1/4... therefore leaving us to live where ever we want… But it takes money to do that and he has none… so if he wants to buy our business I think he should start to get a move on in the finance department before thinking the future is already set…Personally I don’t think the few hours we can offer him in shifts per month will help him get to that goal anytime soon… and as long as he holds on to the thought of working here full time one day... [i]which won’t be happening any time soon since Daddy and I need to make a living out of the store and have no plans on moving soon[/i]… is not helping him… he is going to have to have to find a job of his own… but like I have said... he seems to be a bit mislead in what he is going to be contributing to our stores hours… and there is only so many times we can say “we can’t offer you full time work right now“… I also can’t help but feel like I have also given the guy a false hope with Twy too… since he was sooo infatuated with her years ago and out of everyone [i][b]I[/b][/i] should have known he wouldn’t be over her… 10 years later and he’s still burning for her… so big OPPS on me… I should have never said a word… but I did.. and now I am in the position of telling him… “don’t hold me to my drunken banter”… “I don’t know where her head is at”… “I was just saying, wouldn’t it [i]be[/i] nice?”… Hopefully he’ll get the point and realize I didn’t mean that she was interested… I just pretty much wanted to know… that if she was interested… I could tell her that he was too… That’s all!! Nothing more nothing less… *shakes head* when am I ever going to learn to keep my big mouth shut? :roll:
Well... these are the thoughts running through my mind today… work was boring and filled with a whole bunch of nothing going on… except for the Corkey badgering and following us home for another late night visit… GRRRR… Tuesday night is BB5 night… no time for talk... me wanna watch tv!! Hopefully Daddy and I can have a day alone tomorrow… maybe even a night to ourselves too… [i]oooh.. [/i]now there’s a concept :wink: I’ll keep my fingers crossed…
So until tomorrow watch what you say to the ones you talk to today… or anyday for that fact… you may be giving them the wrong impression if your not addressing what you say correctly… who knows… maybe you’ve given someone the wrong impression and opened a can of worms of your own that you can’t close!
Take care y’all… see you tomorrow!
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