When busyness trumps all.

[somasoul]

Throughout April I've been totally swamped. My mind is like a jumble of frogs in a dryer. I don't know what that means but it sounds fitting.

The first of week of April I was in Newark NJ for training on Wednesday and Thursday. I came back Friday. When you miss one or two days and you're in sales everything piles up on you. You have 100 emails to check, 20 voicemails, orders to fill, and customers that need to be seen. So, anyway, I come back Friday and handle all that crap. Then I'm off again Monday morning to Greenville South Carolina (if you've never been I highly recommend going. Awesome little town!!!). I'm there Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Back Wednesday Night. Get a ticket. Handle that. Work Thursday and Friday. Really, all I do is handle the pile up........AGAIN!!!!!. Monday and Tuesday I'm in Training again but at least I'm in town. I handle the pile up again on Wednesday. Then I'm off again to NJ the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Wednesday night I come home at 7 and at 7:20 an officer comes to my door and informs me that my dad has died. So I'm off again, Thursday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Does reading this madden you? Imagine living it.

AAAHHHHH!!!!

So now I'm back. I have a clean slate. An empty schedule. But I feel like April didn't exist for me; like I missed some big chunk of my life somewhere.

I was so busy I missed life. I have a collection of hotel toiletries to show for my hard work and my life on the road. It's tiring. I'm exhuasted. My father's passing ruined me emotionally. All the running in April ruined me physically. I've been smoking like a chimney. And I haven't got a chance to annoy any of you with my weird comments.

I'm sorry for my delay. I will continue taunting you all as soon as I can.

[Forrest Curo]

The way I used to put this (because my father & the roomer used to watch fights on tv when I was a kid) was that people would ask how I was and I'd answer "staggering from one rope to another," or "bouncing off the ropes." It didn't mean that what I was doing wasn't worthwhile, just that if I really had to figure out "how I was," I didn't have the time to do it.

Frogs wouldn't like it in a dryer unless you turned off the heat and kept it moist! Maybe you'd be wise to look about for a more suitable dryer? Maybe God is trying to tell you something here?--not for me to know what, but "Look and you'll find," I hope!

[Susanjaz]

Wow- what a brutal month. I can somewhat understand because, two years ago, my mom died within two weeks of the birth of my first child. The following month, we went to settlement on the house we still owned in Baltimore (we had been living in Elkton for 6 months by then).
I sincerely hope you get some time to process everything you need to emotionally and spiritually.

[Bob Kemper]

Sorry to hear about your dad - losing anyone is painful - but I can only imagine what it is likek to lose a parent...sorry
I know what you are saying about sales, I used to sell siding and windows, artwork, etc...hated it; I couldn't sell icecubes to a dying man in in the dessert!! I lost more money than I made.....moved from there to food service - spent 20 years there before entering the ministry - kicking and screaming.....been there for 18 years now....thanks for the comment - it is good to know ther are others struggling out there....

Bob