Big News

Before I get into all the witty banter (yeah right!) I have going on in my head that I want to publish to all of the world....I have big news. I am a home owner, or rather will be in the first few months of next year.

I have been planning on purchasing my own home in the next year or so, but all the pieces fell into place last week and I signed a purchase agreement for a townhouse. Here is what it looks like so far. It was a bit of an impulse buy, but a really fun one! Ha! It all went down on possibly the busiest day of the year--they day before my company's convention. I was getting ready to go out of town for a week and ended up having to do all sorts of mortgage paperwork.

Speaking of my job...our convention was INSANE. In good ways (sales) and horrible ways (CROWD CONTROL)! One morning I arrived at 7 a.m. to this:

If you're not familiar with this situation, and why would anyone be, it is a korean sit-in, that wrapped all the way around this large convention center. Yes, we had hundreds of our independent distributors from Korea, lined up in a organized protest, at a sit-in to be the first to get our new product. This is NOT something I want to encounter at 7 a.m.--let's be honest. Which, yay for us that we have a great product, but this group was taking the whole civil disobedience thing a little too far. They threatened to riot (ok, so i realize that's not part of civil disobedience), which I was personally hoping would happen. But alas, it ended with the fire marshall forcing them to move and a lot of yelling. I got to personally escort this line around the building. If I had not had some great work friends there to help--giant shout-out to HOSTING STAFF '09: Kristen, Whitney, Chieh, Susan, Russ and Ryan--I probably would have died, or been crushed by the out of control crowds. There were times I thought I was in Brazil at a soccer game---getting crushed up against a chain link fence. Just NOT a pretty picture.

Yeah, I aged about 10 years during this event. Kind of ironic, isn't it.