I Have to ask you to leave!!!!

That is what the undercover cop said to me on Monday as I was peddling pictures in a neighborhood. It had been a bad "no sale" day and this was the last straw. So as I was kicked out of the last neighborhood I was going to be in for the day....I decided to head back to Atlanta...I was craving clean and quiet.
You see, last Saturday nite the party was here again....lucky me. As I laid in my bed wishing for sleep I certainly did learn some things....wow, nothing is sacred in college kid world. I can assure you these kids parents would be shocked. However, I did have to wonder how much of this big talk was bragging or "one upping"...but it was surely eye-opening for me!! I finally passed-out about 1a....thankfully. I heard it got exciting about 3a with a girlfriend/boyfriend fight but thankfully I slept through that. If that had woken me up.....I'm very afraid they might have seen a side of me that's not so pretty!!!!
It was great to be home a few nights and I made the decision, after much research, to join Ignite.
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Please go to my website....look around, learn somethings and consider joining my team. If being a team member is not for you right now....then if you have a natural gas bill, I'd appreciate you becoming my Stream Gas customer. We have .79/therm right now and you can lock that in for a year which will get you thru the winter...a very good rate. Any questions....feel free to email or call....I thank you in advance for your support in my new business venture.

My picture peddling is really going well...but since Athens is a tough market it goes a bit slower. I did at least sell over $3k worth last week so I think that paycheck will be fairly good. Coming into a holiday weekend we'll see how it goes....this is my first holiday weekend hope it goes well.

Me and the kids are doing ok....it's about to be down to me and only one for a bit and she starts summer school next week so I'm hopeful the parties will end or at least slow. In fact last nite she said last weekends party was not all that fun to her so she may be done. She is almost 23 and at that age where the partying is about over.....one of those "crossover" times of life. I'd be happy to help her crossover so I can have quiet nites!!

Hope you all have a fun Memorial Day weekend, I 'll be out here selling....I hope!!!

Hanging Out one Nite...Ear Plugs the Next Nite

What a week #2!! Sales got better and I got into a groove as well. Got back into exercising which felt really good and probaby helped the over all attitude. Thurs nite I went to another Ignite meeting, I really feel like this is something that can work. It will take effort, like anything, but one cannot deny that it is pretty cool that everytime someone pays their gas bill, if they are with Source Energy, you get a piece of that pie!!! I have a meeting this morning to discuss this further.
On Fri the rain came and I had to knock off early....so there I was, a hot Fri nite in Athens at my little apt. I was whopped and didn't know exactly how "busy" my apt would be. However, when I got home my roomies were doing laundry and watching a movie.....cool. So, we ordered from the Athens famous Choo-Choo's, I now know about the "yellow sauce", listened to it rain and watched chick flicks....not a bad nite. HOWEVER....Saturday nite we were back to being kids. OK...I know I sorta signed up for this, BUT!!!!! Seems several of them went to a friends wedding....but the "after wedding party" was here...oh goody!! Yep...I finally passed-out about 1am....it was a long nite. But I sure did learn a lot from all their loud talking. NOTHING is sacred to these kids....is it the truth or are we bragging or trying to impress, who knows.....but made for some interesting listening. But I would have traded that for sleep....thankfully I could sleep late on Sun.
I did rise about 10a and stepped over the bodies left in the living room to get to the front door so I could go for a morning swim. I knew the pool would be empty....waaaaaay too early for college kids. Got back about 1130 and the bodies had moved upstairs...so I decided they needed to hear MY music....Good Morning Lynard Skynard.....had that blaring about an hour then I left. However, not long after I was "jamin'" I heard noises from above....oh darn.....did I wake you up???!!!! Sorry.......NOT!!! This old lady can soooooo play your game!!! I thought 1130 was nice, wait till next time!!!

Roomie Rules as Promised.....

This morning as I stood in the kitchen eating cheerios I saw the rules again and decided it was time to entertain you.....I quote.......

1. Please keep doors locked (loved this one...great idea)
2. Don't eat anything that isn't yours unless set aside in the comunal area (I had to ask what was comunal area...that meant if you over cooked and left stuff on stove top up for grabs...if u dare)
3. Lets' keep counters clear/clean and the sink empty....if you have to leave dishes in the sink, rinse them. (this rule is clearly ignored...but it sounds great)
4. Sunday-Thurs lets' keep it down past 11p (great idea, but there were keg parties on Mon & Tues nites last week so what happened...oh yeah, school is out, so any nite is okey dokey, lucky me, I got here just in time for "open party" season)
5. For privacy purposes, room mates and guests of room mates need to use their OWN bathroom (love this rule since my bath is the only one on ground floor, but I keep it locked, otherwise I may as well live at Wal-Mart...wait, I might like it better...I'll see if they allow overnighting.....they do in an RV....oh when can that ever happen?)
6. After late nights downtown, please make sure the guests you bring back are of a certain caliber..aka no sketchy guys!! (dang...guess the old farmer I met can't come visit!!!)
7. Please keep cigarettes/clove smoking an outdoor activity. (whew....this one had me worried, glad I won't be hearing the smoke alarm, and meeting the local cops!!)
8. Feel free to call a house meeting if you have housemate problems. (woohoo...let's discuss the refrigerator....isn't science classs over?)
9. If you plan on having a lot of people over try to let everyone know before hand! (you see it folks.....so when you all plan to visit, gotta give me warning, I'm very sure each of you wants to see this place!!!!)

Now you have it......the rules I must abide by if I intend to live here 2.5 more mths. Yes, this shall be an adventure I'll not soon forget.
And perhaps some of you with kids in college or going to college will find these rules helpful. You can see that your kids will have rules at school as well....I'm sure this puts your mind at ease!!!! Especially the "skecthy guy" and "smoking" rule....I'm sure you all had similar rules to home, so you can know they will stay intact even when they move to college!!! I know my parents had rules like these....right Mom????

Not a bad first week.....

My work week is Mon-Sun....however, I didn't start until Tues and I took Sunday off....so, for my 5 days....I sold just over $2k...not a bad first week in a rough area for sales. I was about to run out of frames since Fri was a great day and the office told me they had 3 RV folks up here selling also. A couple and a single guy. I contacted the couple and went to their RV and got 4 more frames.....it was cool to see where I'm hopefully heading, they had a great rig and have been full-timing for 10yrs......I'll get there one day. Was nice to chat a bit...then I was off on the selling trail. Sold 4 that day...not too bad. Was good to get back to my little "haven" and crash, I was whopped.
Sunday was my day to finally explore.....I think I finally have Loop 10 figured out...shall make life better for me I think. I'm really tired of going the wrong way and out of my way.
Downtown Athens has lots of places to eat and drink, not so many shops...but it's quaint. The little town of Watkinsville is not open on Sunday's so I shall have to check it out another day.

I found a pool I can use and a work-out room.....so this week, I shall get back at it, I've been off track now for about 2 weeks. I'm slowly getting in a routine....

My "roomies" have been quiet, for that I am thankful. They are good kids.....but they are kids.

This week is off to a good start....4 sells today, and tomorrow I shall finish my 1st roll. By Wed I will start working some new turf....hopefully with better sells.........I think all rommies are out for the nite.....yahoo, shall be another quiet nites sleep.

A 600 Acre Horse and Tree Farm!!!

Wow ...what a week....and I've only been selling for 4 days....already sold over $1500 and I'm about to hopefully have a killer Saturday. I'm almost out of frames and the office could not get me any until Tues, so I'm about to go meet some real RV'ers that are up here doing the same thing and they will loan me some frames until mine come.....I wish I was in that RV park with them......one day.
This has been amazing....I've met the older widows that just "can't imagine how I got this picture"....but they buy it cause they and their late husbands have had that land for 60yrs....all the way to the 600 acre farm that had a 40-stall horse barn on it, and in the photo I had I thought it was a house..... then I learned different. The owner was there and gave me a grand tour.....if you met this guy in Publix you'd think he was just another guy....his favorite little quotes were..."you betcha"....and "yeah buddy"......he said I could come back anytime I wanted.....so "you betcha" I'll be going back and having my lunch by his 32 acre lake some time. Check it out.... you'll see why I thought I was looking for a house. He said they will likely put our picture on their website. www.hollinfarm.com
And here's a kicker.....my best friend's husband does their website....what a small world.
This is a family compund with siblings and spouses all living on it. One of them has a tree farm and we got a great shot of that as well....it was really an amazing fun day. The tree farm owner approached me with a business venture and I ended up going to a meeting with him that nite....what else did I have to do....come home to a keg party!!! Here's his site....gorgeous place...they need our pic too www.angelcreeknursery.com , and maybe I can get them to move to their business to Pat.
I'm still checking out the business venture but it's basically this....with the deregulation of gas in Ga and TX...and company called Source Energy decided to use it's customers for advertising instead of paying for it....about 30% of your bill goes to advertising. So....you switch your gas to them and get others to do so and you make money on every gas bill paid...how cool is that.
Here's a site to check that out if you are interested. www.southpointeenergy.igniteinc.biz
And I've only been here 6 days.....what ever shall happen by the end of July.

Time to go peddle pictures.........I shall take Sunday off.....even God rested then...so shall I.
But I was told about a place I can go pick my own strawberries...so I may happily go do that.

The Power of Cotton Balls

When I first arrived I thought the first floor room was great....I have since realized, this is the level where all the parties happen....and there is some cool college rule that they can't start until 10p....ahhhhhh! Right outside my window is the back patio and the keg and the kids......after being startled awake several times on Mon nite.....I was oh so grateful when I remembered last nite that I had some cotton balls....yahoo I could sleep. I think tonite may actually be my first nite w/o a party...wow! The kids try to keep it down....but noise just happens.....and I did sort of sign up for this....so......
My sales job is going well...in 2 days I've made 4 sales.....I think/hope that will pick up, I am still new....this area cannot handle our pricing, so we are discounting the photos, which hurts my commission, but beats no sale at all. The cool part is seeing things I'd never see and meeting neat folks. An elderly widow bought a picture today and she was so excited....it was cute.
I accidentally found a park today....it was very nice and had a great Veteran's Memorial Wall, pretty cool.
Tonite upon returning home I could not take the "science project" frig anymore....so I tackled it and the freezer and I just heard the first ice cubes drop.....yahoo what a great sound.
While doing this cleaning, I read the Room Mate Rules that are posted on the frig...another time I will entertain you with that.....
Time to clock out...it's 11p and no party yet, so I may actually get a party-less nite!

End of my First Day.....whew!!

Well....thanks to GPS I arrived at the doorstep of my new address on time. It's a very old townhouse, reminded me of times from yesteryear. The gal I'm renting from was here to meet me...very nice....showed me around, didn't take long!! I have the one bedroom and bath on the main floor. All others are upstairs....hope they are quiet...this old lady needs to sleep. As I unloaded, my room-mates came in and out....all nice gals....but very different. One will only be here on weekends.....one will be here all summer....the other one is doing May-mester and then will likely be gone mostly....so maybe not too bad....EXCEPT......the one that's here is the party-girl. Said I just missed the Cinco de Mayo party...it went on till 4am.....holy crap!!! What have I done??? There's enough booze here to float a battleship....and the weeekend keg is still on the back patio, I could help myself......very hospitable. The refrigerator is almost a science project. The freezer has an ice-maker but since the bucket was taking up needed space...out it came and in moved pizza's and corn-dogs....and a bag of ice, because you gotta have ice....and I'm sure that bag takes up less space than the actual ice bucket....ah the ingenuity of youth.
As I was getting ready to leave one gal and her boyfriend were about to cook dinner and said they were making the frig their project for the nite.......wonderful.....so maybe my stuff would fit in when I returned from Wal-Mart. I'm guessing something else struck their fancy....cause I saw no improvement in the frig and their dirty dishes were in the sink......the dishwasher was full of dirty dishes.....but was not running....what gives?? So I started it....unloaded it and then put their dirty stuff in.....now....just maybe I can have a bowl of cereal in the morning..........this is going to be a hoot..........gonna have to really go with the flow!!!!
Had a nice chat with party-girl and her guy friend.....they agreed to do the summer party's on Sat nites so I could plan to be gone after selling all day.......very nice of them. They told me about good cheap places to eat and cool things to go see. We are just down the street from The Botanical Gardens....I shall visit before I leave.
Things have quieted a bit so I shall get some shut-eye......my sales job starts tomorrow....I need to be rested..........night-night from UGA town.

Going back to college!!!

OK folks....many of you have ask for this...so here it is.....my blog from the beginning of my adventures....
Today I shall roll into Athens, GA (in my fairly new little Hyundai Tucson...had to sell one Durango...bad gas mileage and I can't tow it)...home of UGA...to live for 3 mths. And yes....I will be living in a 4br apt with 3 college room-mates...oh my!!! I will be working for www.airphoto.com selling aerial photos door-to-door!! My Daddy used to tell me I could sell ice water to Eskimos...I'm hoping he was right!! I will be selling aerial photos of folks homes....hope I can make this happen. When my IT job ended on March 12 I decided that I was done with the IT world for a bit unless Travelport called me back. So, since one day I hope to RV around the country I need a job I can do all over...so I found this on www.workamper.com
and.....the rest is history. After much hard work I'm about to hit the road on my first...sort of RV adventure....without an RV. Maybe one day soon I'll get a rig and this will be mush easier.

So...travel along with me as my adventure begins!!!!