Mr. D (but not Mrs.)

I came to work in the office of Mr. D's almost five years ago.  I was loving staying at home, but not loving the lack of extra cash!  So I made a couple phone calls to friends I knew owned their own businesses and ended up running the office at Mr. D's.  My friend Don owns this small business which does painting and general contracting.  There are so many perks to working here.  Just to list a few... Don is Christian, the office is ten minutes from my house, no traffic, work part time, wear jeans to work, so flexible (just make up the hours whenever I need time off), good pay, I am on my own a good part of each week, and the list goes on.

I do get asked about once a week if I am Mrs. D to which I answer emphatically, NO!
(I am Mrs. C people!  Get with the program.)
Okay, I don't say the last part, but I think it.

We do some painting at Knott's Soak City here in San Diego, and every year we have our company picnic there for employees and their families.  We had a about 80 attend this year.  It's "free" food and fun for the families.  Our kid's each bring a couple friends for free, too.  It was about 100 degrees Saturday, but we didn't notice!

Good Sports, Bad Sports

The bad sports news is that I broke another finger playing volleyball and am out for two months.  Boo!  I broke a piece off the top of my first knuckle of the pointer finger on my right hand.  Splinted for now, but the finger end will probably droop a little forever.

The good sports news is that Chris and I went to see the Padres play the Mets.  We had great seats, six rows behind the Mets dugout.  The Padres lost -- it was a good game though!  The game even went to extra innings.  So weird -- we don't go to ball games that often, but when we do it seems like 90 percent of the time they go to extra innings.

The dreaded foam finger!  We love them, Chris hates them.  But I got on the big screen with them!

I actually took apart our dryer and put on a new upper felt seal, because clothes were getting caught due to a worn out seal.  If you know us, you know we can rarely fix anything ourselves.  Thanks to the internet -- ALL is possible!  Here's a photo of my work drying -- see my professional clamps... ha ha!  I probably saved $70 in labor costs.

Last week I had to take a trip to Coronado for work for just an afternoon... but what a view from the condo we were working in!  Love Coronado:)