Diane's Diary-ah

Well the Miss Texas Teen pageant was last weekend.  It unfortunately goes to the one who has had a personal trainer, tan, bleached teeth, hair at least waist length and curled, and fairy well endowed up top!  Yup! That's pretty much it in a nut shell!  Oh and had to have spent thousands on her evening gown, yes thousands!  Needless to say it was a nice experience for Stacey but she didn't place in the top 15 (which is where they went from 134).

She looked beautiful but not in the way that they look for which is stupid.  If all those girls were given rules like, no make-up, no hair dressers, and no tans, Stacey would have been in the running!  She looks very pretty without any makeup - many of those girls?  not! 

But hey, it was a once in a lifetime experience for her so I'm glad she had the chance.  I also got to spend some quality time with my other daughter who is in college and that was very nice too. Although it was a nice change of scenery, the Hilton we stayed at was a little too upper crust for my taste and the one restaurant there, extremely expensive. 

Glad to be back in my digs, dog hair and all.

This is the time of year when the first thing that comes into my head is not how many shopping days left until Christmas, but rather where I 'am' with everything.  I could care less how many shopping days there are left as I refuse to get all engrossed in the shop til you drop frenzy that we can expect from now through Christmas Eve.

I start thinking more about whether I should really keep being a rep for all these businesses I'm in. Many of them have minimums, some monthly, and it can tend to add up.  And I don't really like buying too much stuff that I don't even need. 

The job may not be real stable right now either and so I'm thinking of how to save money.  I'm in a few shopping swap groups in which I will get some sales in the next few months. And if my job maintains the status it is now, I probably won't make any major moves until the Spring. Then I will re-look at things and maybe drop everything, even Lia Sophia and Lavender Love.  Lia sophia requires a quarterly quota and the last quarter I ended up buying a qualified show by myself. I just don't do home shows and don't have a ton of time to try to get internet sales - that is the luck of the draw.  And maybe I'd feel more 'free' if I didn't have anything else I was involved in. 

I may have more time to write then as I'm still trying to write ...possibly a book.  If I feel like I should be doing something to promote my businesses, I tend to do anything else but sit down and write. Not having files over the weekend has helped me write some, but at this rate I will have to live to be 100 to even get a chapter done.

Well that's it for now...