Christi and I will start working live/real quotes tomorrow for the first time - kind of scary and very exciting. We both are glad we can finally feel we are helping our team. We will do live quotes for 2-3 weeks and then go back to training to learn long and short term disability - evidently this is the hardest/most complicated of our non-med coverages to learn to quote. I've not been told officially but the trainer believes I will eventually have the Denver office to do their quoting - and the Denver office helps support the Phoenix office - and those two offices have some "unique" twists to dental quoting. I will work these two offices on my own when I am released from training, checking, etc. Christi will partner with one of her team members to work the Philly office.
We had some snow Thursday evening and I planned to get up a little early Friday morning to try to shovel a path on the sidewalk and a little of the driveway before work. Looked outside and half my driveway had snow and half didn't - cool. Before leaving I went outside and ran the shovel up and down the sidewalk to get some of the light covering of snow out of the way - the same with the driveway. By the time I got home from work Friday, it was all melted. Still haven't used my snowblower this winter. SO glad I didn't fill it with gas last fall - just enough gas to make sure it started up ok.
Yesterday I went to the Jake's Journey (aka Life Is Good) store in West Glen to see if there were any bargains. The owner is closing the store which is kind of sad but I can understand why - I don't think he got a lot of business to offset his rent in that area. In his email to tell of the store closing, the owner mentioned he would be keeping the Altoona store open - yesterday he told me he had decided to close that store too. Looks like I'll be ordering my shirts online.........
After running my errands and going to Jake's Journey - I headed to the Fairgrounds for a craft show. The Fairgrounds were hopping with a scrapbooking deal plus some fishing thing going on. I love our Fairgrounds - I think they are beautiful and I'm glad to see it gets used a lot when the State Fair isn't going on. The craft show was INSANE! People EVERYWHERE! I made the mistake of stopping at the place that makes personal vinyl sayings that you can put on walls and had the guy find a greyhound for me. His booth was at the beginning of the craft show from where I entered the Varied Industries building so I thought by the time I wandered through the rest of the booths, my dealie would be ready - nope. I don't think the guy and his wife realized how popular he would be - they live in Highland Park so I'll stop by tomorrow night after work to pick up my dealie. I also stopped at a bead/pendant booth that I've visited different times. I was talking to the young lady that creates the pendants saying I had a couple of her stones and she said she recognized me - kind of threw me. She said it was my scarf - the one I wear with my long jeans coat that is made with the funky yarn that sticks out all over. She said her mother, who helps her at her booth, noticed it a couple of shows back, admired it and tried to make one herself.
Today was the day I'd been waiting for since mid-November...............the Daytona 500. I had ironed my Dale Jarrett UPS crew members shirt to wear to church. I figure we have Jersey Sunday for the Superbowl - I'd have NASCAR Sunday with my DJ shirt. I had to educate my pastor that today was the Daytona 500..... But some of the guys got a kick out of my shirt and we talked racing before the service. Came home, turned on the tv, and found out it was raining at Daytona. About 4:00ish NASCAR said the race would be postponed until tomorrow at noon. :( I don't know if I'll DVR the race or not. For a while I thought the rain would stop and they would get the track dry to run the race today so tonight I would have the Daytona 500, Amazing Race/Celebrity Apprentice and the Oscars to flip from channel to channel. Guess I'll settle on the Oscars..................
Oh ya - for a special Daytona 500 treat I stopped by McDonald's after church to get a double cheese burger meal deal with sweet ice tea and two packages of McDonald's cookies (for Butler and me to share). I also had the moon roof wide open because it was like 50 degrees. Well, the snow was melting like crazy off the roof of the McDonald's and it took me a second to figure out what was leaking in my car - dripping on my head - as I sat in the drive up. Oh ya - the moon roof was wide open. Closed that baby up and reopened it after leaving McDonald's parking lot. The sad news was when the girl handed me my sack of food and sweet tea, she had $2.00 in her hand. I was just getting ready to say I already received my change at the first window when she told me it was my refund for the cookies - they didn't have any - bummer.
