Mother & Daughter Blog: Vacation: Smiles and Laughter and work!

Well AR its my vacation time....

I am so blessed to be able to go on vacation this year.  The sales are not what I had hoped or set goals for but I have an opportunity to take a vacation and I have surrender to the temptation --- well in a way I have.  I have decided that as long as it can be a working vacation... I can do it.  I know! I know! You gotta be creative to pull it off.

Well, first let me say that I am not going to the Bahamas, Jamacia, Mexico, Hawaii, Florida and no cruise is on the schedule of places to go. I'll just say its because of weather so that you won't think that I am whinning... 

But let me just say that if I had reached my "mid-year" goals I could possibly have gone elsewhere.  This market meltdown has caused some change of plans at least in my household it has.  And should it start to pick up I don't plan on being somewhere laying in the sun and not having my laptop on and doing something to make sure that our team is right in the mix.

So you guessed it, I have a friend that knows a friend that I can go visit and relax a little, but take my pc to continue working just as if I am at my home office.  Now if I sound bitter, I am not.  I am sure I will find something to do to have fun and when I come back I will tell everyone I just came back from vacation but the truth is... I will be working.

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 I CAN"T STOP THE RAIN!  

And on top working on my business, I will not miss out on posting and reading, and reading and posting on AR. I figure this will be good because if the meltdown cools off and the market pick up -- I'll find out about it on RAIN! smile

I will be going to Winnsboro, Louisiana - where the....?? is that ?? Well you might not know where it is but you know the weather will be H O T! And those rain pockets will cool things off.....Hopefully, no tornados of threats of such... but positively...(I will get good cooking and friendly faces).. gumbo, fried fish, bbq, shrimp, rice and oh I could go on and on. 

 I love visiting Louisiana and this trip promises to be fun -- even if I end up working more than one would do on a "VACATION".

Here is just some of the items I will taking on my working vacation besides just my usual vacation clothing and items..... 

• Sunshades
• a big smile
• Laptop
• My Hot files, with all the phone numbers associated with them! 
• Default lists, preprinted default letters, envelopes and stamps (going to do a mailing while there)!
• Credit card to order more post cards to have delivered and ready for me when I return
• Correction write out, pens and oh yeah my RSA SecurID - so I can log on to MLS! Can't forget that
• my camera - might take a few flicks for my "vacation book"
• my cell phone and will have jott capabilities, will have callwave working so that I can get all my messages via text -- gotta keep up with my calls.  And yes, you bet I will be making call backs all during the day!
• my laughter!
• And a few other business type equipment to keep me busy

So by now you're convinced that I am going on a "working vacation" if there ever was one. Right?  I don't want to let an opportunity pass me by just because I am on vacation!!!  Now I would not have that to worry about it the market had been nice to me and the rest of the nation during the last few months that have passed me by this year!  Thanks to the meldown. But I have faith that anyday now, it will lift and it is going to get busy!  And I am ready.

But nonetheless, I thank God that I am able to take this working vacation and that I still have my smile and laughter to carry along with me, plus my laptop!

I heard a song the other day: There is hope: You don't have to pay to smile and you don't have to pay to laugh, you'd better thank God for that!  And I do.

Happy working vacation to me.