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I love getting new clients to the small services, in music and photography, that I can offer.  Today, I booked another wedding to a very nice girl over the phone.  Funny thing, she's getting married on my anniversary!  So, yeah, I will be working on my anniversary this year, which I talked to my husband and he said it was OK.   I hope we get to plan something out on another day then.  Also, I've been getting so many new customers from my online adds in KSL.  It's a local newspaper and news source in Utah and I love that I've gotten responses.  I don't charge a whole lot anyway since I do mostly all of this for the love of fine arts and being more accessible to those who just want to spend bigger money on more long-term goals, at least that's how I think.  I just hope I don't go broke from traveling around for resources, locations, and other stuff I need to maintain all of this. 

I actually offered my services to people from my Spanish church building first, making calls and answering questions without really selling anything ( I don't think church is for that anyway) and everyone approached me from performances I did or callings I held instead.  Unfortunately, no body really responded besides questioning so I went the old-fashioned route and posted onto a newspaper source.  I used to teach to just minorities back in California to help out my community's enrichment, but minorities here are focused on other things maybe.  I was hoping it'd be different and maybe it will be soon.

Well, as far as me managing my businesses, I try to give it my all when I do service others because that's what I would like if I were a customer, no matter how much I'm paying.  I think quality doesn't have to come at the price of a limb!  I think quality is just that...quality, not a price tag.  No gimmicks, no half-efforts, no lies, no sales pitch, no strings.  What's most important is helping the community and society through individuals.  I know for a fact that music, for example, stimulates better, shall we say, karma.  While photography is an art medium that records moments and hopefully helps pick up our mood or teaches us to meditate about memories and experiences so we can reflect on more uplifting things.

Change in plans...

I was very exited last Saturday because it would be my last day at work and Hugo and I needed to pack, but it's not happening anymore...for now. We were going to move out to Hugo's parent's "other" home they own and they were going to rent it out to us and another couple (Hugo's brother and wife), but we found out his mother didn't exactly get the place ready. We told our landlord we'd be out by Monday. That gave me the weekend only to pack and go. Luckily, our landlord was nice enough to forgive our misleading information and let us stay another month despite our contract lease ending. Well, as a result of this miscommunication, I'm just going to continue working for another 15 days. It's just half the month, but it will help with Christmas presents and I was worried I'd be too poor to even think of giving presents this year. I guess I could groan a little more, but venting out a little isn't bad and I gotta keep positive anyway. It'd be hard to stay bitter in life or to pretend to be super happy too. So, I'm just thinking that I gotta do my best still at work and just be patient.

Finally!

We did it! We're going to start out a new phase in our lives. Between the three jobs mentioned earlier, Hugo has finallly decided. What a relief!

It was a very hard decision to make, but we made it together. We're growing...slowly, but surely. We first sat down and talked about his offers. We laid it all out, pros and cons, advantages and disadvantages, school, money, baby, insurance, bills, and savings. The whole works. We made out goals, long-term and short-term, along with adjustments that need to be made. After much pondering and me praying every night, we decided to go with Wells Fargo. He can definitely reach great heights when it comes to competition. It's a very stable company and he can move up if he wants to, all our main concerns are taken care of as far as what it has to offer and it's where he can be loyal and trusted. (Sigh) I'm so happy for him and proud of him too. He starts his new position on the 23rd of Novemeber, 2009.

Choices

I'm gonna make this one short. I've been working at my job for 2 1/2 years. Got married a little over a year ago. Gave birth to our new baby 5 months ago. I have been exhausted. I hate to admit it, but my home's been not-so-good-lookin'. Hugo works too. He works 40 hrs, I work 30 hrs. Combined we make more than enough to live off, without any luxuries, of course. I don't need to work anymore. Why strain myself and become a bitter wife or woman in my early 40's later on? We need a real life we can call our own. I made up my mind about work because Hugo agreed, besides, he got a good offer on a new job 1 hour south of where we currently live. It's good for him, he deserves something else. We'd move far away from our families. Not so good as far as realtive ties go, but better for us as a newly married couple still. I mean, seriously, 1 year is not enough to establish a solid communication, mutual friends (especially with family so close), time alone, outings, a shared respect, mutual decisions, and so forth. We have three choices for Hugo as far as jobs go: American General Finance, Wells Fargo, and Federal Buildings. They're all great. He's getting confused and too many people are giving their opinion in our needs. What to do? What to do? Times running short. Our lease is up at the end of November. He gave his two week notice and ends this FRIDAY. Oh, whoa is me. Oh well. Just gotta keep praying and doing my best to help. The answer will come, I know it will. It always does.