Daylight savings monday

Yesterday someone in the office mentioned that daylight savings is this Sunday coming up. So I was completely surprised and responded with much more feeling then necessary "WHAT?!?! THIS SUNDAY?!?!?" well needless to say everyone in the office looked at me in shock. It was still early morning and anyone that has been near me in the mornings knows its hard enough to get me to speak at all, but to have any emotional response is out of the question. In attempt to save face I shrugged nonchalant and said "oh that's cool." Sometimes even I think I'm weird. But honestly already daylight savings? And this is the evil one where its light later so you have a hard time going to sleep and then you have to wake up earlier which is just sucky.


But I have good news, next week (fingers still crossed) I will most likely be driving my new car! HURRAY! After tons of research and test driving I decided on the Honda Fit Sport http://automobiles.honda.com/fit/exterior-360-view.aspx in Tidewater blue (basically as sky blue). Apparently I tend to pick the least common color. I had done the same with my bug but settled for the blue but this car, nope, getting the color I want, YAY! It also comes in the blue of my bug but my mom was already making fun of me because we all had to agree that this car is basically my bug with four doors. But what really sold me is the seats. They lay down for the large trunk, which is common, but they also flip up so in the middle you can put stuff.... I know my dad asked me when it would ever be necessary but who cares it's awesome! http://automobiles.honda.com/fit/interior-photos.aspx?num=FT7-26 He also kept calling the car color sea scum, pond water and the like. He is getting closer though, at least he is no longer calling it pond or sea scum. So tomorrow if all goes well Tom and I will go pick it up! I'm so excited!


In other news, the store will probably be doing a soft opening in about two weeks. Grand opening plans are going great, keeping me busy but I realize I definitely enjoy coordinating events, well fun ones like grand openings and weddings. It was frustrating last week though, a friend of my grandparents got a News letter from the elderly community center in Morro Bay that mentioned the store.... in a bad way. Its so frustrating that they can attack us and on things that are so far off from the truth. What happened is they wrote us a letter asking us to donate to them. Well at the time we were still not in possession of the store and not 100% sure if we would ever be. And with over 1000 applications, hundreds of interviews and not to mention just all the legal hoops one has to get through to open a store we were all pretty busy. Well we never responded to the letter and once we were in the store, busy cleaning and getting it up to health codes (yeah Vons was missing the mark on multiple health codes.... never shopping there, at least Albertsons is clean) they came in and rudely addressed our new store manager Randy, and anyone who knows Randy knows what a great guy he is.


Randy told them that the food scraps that are left and not fit for humans goes to a pig farmer. So in the News letter they mentioned how Cookie Crock has a contract with a pig farmer and we only give to them and we have no community spirit..... what the? honestly if they did one step of research they would see we donate to more charities and in more financial amounts then any of the chains here. Its so frustrating, I mean our whole grand opening is also being a community service exhibition. We opened it up to local non profits to have a chance to talk to people, give handouts about what they are about and just become more recognized in the community. We have joined the Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce and hopefully the Los Osos one as well. Our Cambria store has donated since its beginning to Rotary, Coast Union Boosters club, Camp Ocean Pines and many more. Our list grows yearly! Ok enough venting but its just so frustrating to see people so dumb. They are trying to screw us when we are really the ones that could have been a large supporter of them. My dad wrote them a letter that was much nicer than I would be. He is so calm and collected.

My mom always told my dad you have to toot your own horn and she was right. If you see an article about a large company donating, that is exactly what they are donating, no more than that because if they can't get press on it, they wont do it.

But anyways I'm sorry for the word vomit. It's been awhile since I have posted. We have had networking/internet problems. Finally got everything put back together. The Morro Bay store is looking so great, and the grand opening is going to be awesome. I am really looking forward to it.

Oh and how could I forget, some great news, my mom got an inheritance from her mother when she passed away and since she didn't need the money she wants to do a trip. Nathaniel of course is not interested but Tom and I are stoked. 2 weeks in Egypt! Egypt is in the top 2 of places I have wanted to go! It's not until November, but I can't wait! We are doing a river cruise on the Nile for 7 nights and then the rest of it is spent in different parts. It's put on by the travel agent downstairs and he is really about getting his tour groups to get to do things different and fun. My parents went with him for the first time last year. Also when we are on the boat, each night after dinner there will be an Egyptiontologist which will tell us some history but also have plenty of time for questions.


So exciting! I had hoped to go to Egypt but thought it wouldn't be until much later. It's very exciting. And Tom got a raise when we got married and with that he gets 3 weeks vacation time so it's perfect. Also exciting is this week will be his first week with two days off! He is for the most part going to have two days off from now on and we are so incredibly blessed that they are two days in a row and even more so that its a Friday and Saturday! We are so excited. It will make trips to visit his family much easier (before he had a kids program until 8 friday so we would be able to leave until after then would have to come back saturday night so he could work sunday).

It's pretty exciting, and in 2 or 3 months my cousin from Florida is coming out and will be living with my parents for the year! She will be interning with Tom which is so exciting, she is really just such an awesome person and I am excited about getting to spend more time with her.

I need to get a link on here for this site that has a really cool resource for reading the bible. It has different translations, commentaries and a dictionary, I will try to remember to get it, it's pretty darn cool. Anyways, to whoever is reading this, hope your week is going great! God bless