Just when I thought my job was going to get the best of me, I made a simple suggestion and they loved it. I love it... I suggested that we split the prospects. Simple, but this will ease my mind. I have my very own people to deal with. I am no longer going back and forth. I no longer have to answer for anyone else's numbers. I know that I am supposed to be part of a team but, if I have to crash and burn; let it be because I didn't do my job. Not someone dropped the ball so we all have to suffer.It's bonus time...crunch time. I really don't feel like part of a team, and finally I have the chance to prove myself , my worth. Now if one of my co-workers will keep their ass away from my files...this will work.

Ron O'neal died of cancer last month (otherwise know as Superfly). He was also Whitley's father on A Different World. Rest in peace brother. Today I was marketing for the company and sometimes I feel like I'm beating a dead horse. I'm going to all these chamber meetings and luncheons, making all these contacts and I just feel like I'm hustling backwards. For everyone one that we bring in 2-4 leave. So what are we doing about retention? Nothing! When I mention this in our meetings I'm looked at like I have two heads. All they have to say is...We have to market more, we have to get prospects in here! It's not rocket science people. ( positive) 1 and ( negative ) 2 leaves a ( negative) 1. I think we learned this in first grade.I'm working over , under, past and through time, for what? Lord, please let my business pick up.

As I am preparing Sunday dinner I am having my own Old School Revue "Up in Here". What ever happened to Sybil, Vicki Sue Robinson, Junior and Col. Abrams, Miki Howard, Chic , Force MD's...my list is endless and if I'm dating myself I don't care. This is good music! Is meatloaf still singing? I think he's taken to acting now. Back to the music...Kool and the gang,Hall and Oats, Air Supply, and Parliment-Funkadelic.. here I come

Would they throw my ass under the jail and throw away the key if I was found guilty for dumping my stock a day before it went belly up? Answer... Hell Yeah. Didn't even have time to blink before you answered that one. Will Martha serve any serious jail time.. I doubt it. I bet she has really good credit.

My car died today...I have been watching it day by day try and sputter along and slowly take me to and fro. It was a good sturdy car. I appreciate the effort it made to hang on. As we were sitting together for three hours ...THREE DAMN HOURS...waiting for a tow truck, I let him know that he would be missed. Now I have to go find another, one who will hang on at least half as long as he did. Goodbye Nick....so long.

Without looking at the word only hearing it. I chose to help my nephew with his vocabulary. Surely, I had forgotten that words can sound alike but be spelled differently and mean different things. The word... Eminent. I tell him, because he did not know what it meant. "What if someone says to you that you are in imminent danger if you walk in front of a truck?, Does that help you?." He said no it didn't because he was looking at the sentence used in the book. So of course he was confused. I said " Okay look it up in the thesarus and see which words are similiar". He said it says ...famous...prominent...projecting...conspicuous. I say.... because it still had not clicked.... " Well the thesarus is wrong because that is not what imminent means!"... By now he is thinking I have slipped off the deep end. So I walk over and actually look at the word. ....OH!......However, I am willing to admit when I am wrong. Websters... I apologize.