Thankful!

I am SO HAPPY!!

I love my job! It's so perfect for me and I am so very thankful.

We hosted Thanksgiving here this past Sunday for 43 of our friends (think that was pretty much ALL our friends but we missed you Jen & Shane!). It was a rainy, rainy morning and then, an hour before the guests were due to arrive, the sun came out! Thankful. We set up inside anyway because it was quite windy but at least the 17 children could go outside and play. Thankful!

Some of my family are getting together to enjoy a Thanksgiving meal around the table and the rest o' the family are going to get together with in-laws and there will be food on their table -- THANKFUL!

Every day we wake up and have another chance to make it wonderful in little tiny ways for the people in our lives and those we encounter as we go about our way.

Wonderfully thankful!

Customer Happiness

Guess what GUESS WHAT?!? I have a job.

With OOOOBY!

The day after I helped out, I received an email from Karen, one of the chief OOOOBY women, telling me that she and the other chief OOOOBY people would like to meet with me and talk about how I could possibly get more involved.

Later that week, we met at a very groovy cafe and, over lunch, they explained to me how things are working and where they see me fitting in.

Me! Fitting in!

So, bottom line, I am going to be in charge of the deliveries to our customers and also overall Customer Happiness. How do you like that title? I quite like it; came up with it myself (it's already caught on so it's a keeper).

I'm going to meet with Karen and Pete (the founder) Thursday afternoon for a bit of a handover (Karen handles the deliveries right now as well as everything financial).

And I'm very, very happy about it all!

Yes!

Something to do!

A little while ago, I found this organization called OOOOBY, Out Of Our Own Backyards. It's a collaborative effort full of local gardeners and those passionate about all things fresh, local and sometimes organic.

http://ooooby.ning.com/

There's the link if you want to check it out.

They started this thing a few weeks ago where you pay some $$ each week and, on a Monday, delivered to your doorstep, is this box full of gorgeous produce! Fruits and vegetables all sourced locally. It's truly a beautiful thing.

I'm happy to say I was one of the first to sign up for this service so was in on the beginnings of things and get to have some input each week about what I think of the contents of the box, etc. Let's face it, I love pretty much anything delivered to my doorstep and hey, any human contact I can have during the day is welcome so why not!

All my feedback has been very positive because they are truly doing a wonderful job.

I offered my help in exchange for a free box (I'll work for it instead of pay for it).

Sooo, starting this coming Monday, I'll go help pack the boxes and then deliver them!

I'm very excited. Maybe this'll lead to more involvement. Who knows. At the very least I'll get that longed for human contact and meet some groovy people and maybe get some gardening tips, too.

Sigh...

I wish, just once in my life, I had so much money to deposit I needed to use one of those handy calculators they provide you with at the bank.

I wish those closest to us loved us enough to be honest with us. Loved themselves enough to get help if they can't do it alone.

I wish, for one whole week, I could fall asleep first. And stay asleep all night.

I wish the scent of jasmine that lingers in the air around me now would last all year 'round.

I wish it wasn't so expensive to travel from there to here.

I wish professional people would return my calls/emails when I said I'd call and/or email and do exactly that, as agreed upon, and then wait and wait and hope all for nothing.

I wish GST wasn't 15%.

I wish someone would cook me dinner. At their house.

I wish there would hurry up and be a cure for Alzheimer's.