PartyLite and Other Such Things

 Becoming a PartyLite consultant has been more difficult than I anticipated. I’m finding it to be really difficult to get bookings. Which shouldn’t have even been a problem, because when I was first considering joining PartyLite, I had about thirteen people who all said I should do it, and ‘Don’t worry- I’ll have a party for you.’ But now that the time has come to make good on that, no one remembers saying it. I can’t believe I’m going to say it, but I’m mostly pissed off at Sam’s Aunt Jeanne. She kept telling me that she’ll have a party, and she knows all these people, and they would all be willing to buy stuff, she has a lot of people who owe her favors,etc, etc, etc. 

But when I asked her about it again after I got my starter kit, she told me that the people that she would invite to her party- she knows them all from work. And she doesn’t want to create that kind of party environment and end up losing her job. 

I don’t even know. 

So aside from Meg and Chris, I haven’t really gotten anyone else to agree to help me out and have a PartyLite party. I think I’ll ask my mom if she would have another one. Maybe I’ll be able to persuade her by telling her it isn’t the same catalog from December. IDK. PartyLite is starting to become more trouble than what its worth. And that’s kind of a bummer. 

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On a better note:
 

I’m almost at my goal for my St. Baldrick’s fundraiser! I’ve raised $832 for childhood cancer research so far. I know I have more people that will be donating. My whole family hasn’t donated yet, and I know they will. Joey said he wanted to wait until the date came closer (March 31st!) I have a feeling that if I were to fall short of my goal, he would donate the difference. Which is pretty sweet of him. I think its the same story with my parents. But I don’t think I’ll have any trouble meeting my goal of $1,000. 

On March 22nd I’ll be driving out to Colorado with Michelle. She just got a job there, and has to drive to get all of her things out there. She asked me if I would go with her to help split the driving and offer company. I’m really looking forward to it. Although I am really sad that pretty much as soon as I started talking to her again, she’s leaving. We’ll be seeing her and her friend from Colorado tonight and tomorrow night. We have dinner dates. I should clean the house. 

Bayberry Knitting in Plainville looks like it is going out of business at the end of the month. Michelle and I are going to head up there for when they open this morning and see if they have anything discounted. I told her it might be a good opportunity to snag some sweet sock yarn for cheap. She agreed with me. 

I bumped up my Planet Fitness membership from a white to a black. I can go to pretty much any gym I want to now. Which is good, because I need to get Sam into the gym like… yesterday. My mother made a comment about his weight on Saturday, and he was mortified. But at least he’s agreed to get his own membership and go to the gym two to three times a week. The only downside to this, is that I know I’ll have to go with him 90% of the time. And now that I have two gym buddies, and each will be going two to three times a week, I’m pretty much going to be living at the gym after work. I can’t decide if that’s a bad thing or not yet. I haven’t seen any weight loss yet (although I shouldn’t be surprised once I stop and take a look at what my diet has been lately) but hopefully some toning will come. 

My older brother Joey has decided to take up painting. I don’t have any photos to post on here, but he’s pretty good at it. And I’m really impressed .Painting can be really difficult sometimes, but it looks like he’s doing really well with it. 

And my younger brother, Christopher, is scheduled to graduate from RPI on Memorial Day weekend! I’m really proud of him. He’s worked really hard the past few years, and from what I hear, he already has a job lined up. Although I have also heard that he’ll be moving far, far away. Again, both happy for him, and sad that he’ll be leaving. But I couldn’t be more proud of him. 🙂

And… yeah. That’s about it, I think. 

ALW