As you could probably tell, it wasn’t me but rather the misses who wrote the blog yesterday. If you remember, I was in San Francisco. It’s easy to tell, as the misses sees life through much more colorful glasses than I do, I just love her descriptive observations of the morning sky.
San Francisco was great, about 80 degrees and sunny. It was actually 95 when I left Napa headed back to the airport for my 3pm flight. It was a good meeting. Not many of you probably really understand what I do so here’s a brief look into my work life. I’m the one who is 100% responsible for getting somewhere between $500,000 and $1 million dollars of revenue for the Company each month. I have about 40 distributors around the country and need to oversee each of them to make sure they stay on track and continue to sell and buy wine. If just one market doesn’t order in a given month, it can ruin that particular month and even throw the company off for the entire year. Needless to say I’m under a lot of pressure to perform every month. It has its stressful moments but I’m pretty much immune to it as it’s a daily thing for me. I actually got my no fear, take risk attitude from my mother. You see growing up she was about the bravest person I knew. I won’t go into details but some of the choices she made with no idea of how to get through them, just for the well being of her kids, makes my job look like a day at the beach. So if you think about it, the reason I’m self employed, and take all the risks I do, and have no fear, is all because of her! The difference is she didn’t have a choice whether or not to be brave and take risks, I do. Deep down, I wouldn’t have it any other way. It keeps me sharp and on my toes and is challenging every single day. I couldn’t imagine a mundane 9 to 5 job where you do the same thing everyday. Oh well, we’re all wired differently.
Anyhow it’s 6:15am, I just got back from the gym and Moms waking the oldest for swim team. I guess he had a great first day and did really well. We also have football tonight for both boys from 6 until 8. Busy busy! Mom had really bad allergies yesterday, the cotton (from the cottonwood trees) is just killing her. I guess it was so bad she had to take 2 allergy pills. She did manage to get 1 1/2 hours of yoga in which really helps how she feels. In fact, exercise and the endorphins it releases will make anyone feel better. Trust me, if you’re not working out, you’re missing out on a great high.
Well it’s time to take Mark Spitz junior to swim practice so time to sign off. It’s going to be 85 or 90 today and everything’s still really green.
Take care and have a great day,