April Birthday Update

Look what Kimberly got me for my birthday.Check out the bottom right of this posting, "Ain't it Cool". April has been a really great month so far. I have discovered for all my fellow arthritis people that when you ad MSM to Glucosamine Sulfate the results are astounding. Try it, you'll like it. I was also pleasantly surprised to get a promotion at work. I am now a Line Director, which means I have my own team which I get an override on their deals,yeah. But it also means that I have the responsibility to help with their continued training, and keeping them motivated and on the right track, which in this business of selling Timeshare can be very very physically and emotionally draining. No, you don't have physical labor, if you don't mind walking around the resorts twice and sometimes 3 times a day, but believe me you are beat tired by the end of the day. Plus emotionally, you have to be able to accept rejection more often than you can believe and still remain upbeat. Sure, the money at times can be unbelievable but it's no easy "gig" no matter what you may hear.


I do however have very mixed emotions about the promotion. I am inheriting Jimmy Evans' team which I don't feel was the right thing to do. First of all, he is an outstanding TO. In fact, he has done more sales on my deals than anybody by far and he along with Richard Ochoa have made me a thousand times better than when I first started this 2 1/2 years ago. We do have our politics like most businesses but this was clearly an unfair thing to do to Jimmy. As I said, he and R.O. have been my mentors and clearly if Dominic didn't have a bug up his ass about Jimmy, this would not have happened and I believe that as a fact. My time would have come. Dr. Phil ( that's our own Dr. Phil) not the moron on TV, reminded me that he got his promotion because our dear friend Tom had to leave because of serious illness and he too had mixed emotions when he got his promotion. So, on with the show and I hope Jimmy makes $200,000 this year and shoves his year end pay stub up Dominics ass.


My birthday was really great. I have already outlived my Dad by twelve years and I expect to see Stephanie's baby graduate High School and College. Besides, what would Kim do without me.LOL :). I heard from just about everybody who is important in my life. Those who missed, won't be mentioned here, but you know who you are and you know how deeply it hurts. I took the day off from work and Kim and I shopped for a new bed (She's really very rough on this 62 year old body) and a new vacuum cleaner. We also had Chinese Food ( no surprise there) with Phil, Ilene, and the girls. This has been a tradition of sorts for the last nine or ten years to celebrate birthdays with good food and best of friends. By the time the day was over my only disappointment was the Met's losing to the Phillies on my birthday no less ( Gary and Chris must be loving that) but it all ended well because when I opened my e-mail I found two birthday cards from Rex and Carli (my grandchildren) that were adorable just like they are and that, most certainly made my day and the best birthday since my 18th when Lois Salovitch opened the door and opened her robe and said "This is your birthday present right HERE!"

Have a great year everyone and make all of your birthdays the best, because all those who read this deserve it for putting up with me!