Tonight we're meeting friends of ours and taking their kids to Elkmont, just outside of Cades Cove to view the Synchronous Fireflies. During a two week window here in June a natural phenomenon happens that scientists still can't fully explain. Thousands of fireflies gather and mate in this one spot and they all blink in unison! THOUSANDS! I can't even imagine. What inner child doesn't love lightening bugs?? I know mine does! So I'm pretty excited to see this. Hopefully I'll have a video to post in the morning.
AND I have fallen in love with a tiny little stone cottage in Sevierville. It has three out buildings, two being rather nice storage sheds and one like a kennel/ carport/ roof and three sides thing with a fence around it (that will be torn down) It sits on 2.25 acres with ample room for the kiln and the pups. It's oober cheap and has our name allll over it! The pillars on the front porch even have little bears carved in 'em!! :o) Problem is, it's on a short sale and we still haven't sold our house :'o( I'm afraid we won't be able to make an offer in time........ I'm dying a little inside. We were gonna go with a Realtor, had one come to the house and started paper work, then my father in-law suggested to my husband that we do FSBO first to save 6%. I TOLD him all that would do is delay sale. I've tried advertising every which way I can find for owners, short of paying $3-400 for listings and we've had very little interest at all. Meanwhile, the Realtor we originally met with had called us the very next day and said she had people interested if we would let her show the house. When he told her no I sat in the bathroom grinding my teeth till I was able to face him and keep my trap shut. We could have had it sold in the first week!!! grr But anyway, NOW I win, and we're calling another Realtor in the morning and listing with them. I'm hoping today, after work, we can go look inside that adorable little cottage so I can convince my hubby to light a fire under his ass and make an effort here and hopefully all our cards fall into place and we can get this one.
But now I don't know if we'll have time. Guess the landlord/ shop owner next to us has informed Chad that they made $300 yesterday after 5:00 and $150 the day before whereas we left at 5. Our hours are 10-5, 7 days a week. Now I would LOVE to stay till 6-7:00 and pick up those few extra people that MIGHT stop by. But see, what the other shop owners here don't seem to get is that Chad and I are IT! SEVEN DAYS A WEEK 10-5!! They ALL have people that work for them. They've been doing this for years so they can afford it. AND they all live within 10 minutes of here! We drive TWO HOURS every single day. So really we're dedicated to work from 9-6, at least! Chris, the landlord, will show up here around three and stay till six then give us shit for not staying after hours. Easy for him to say! If I had someone else opening for me daily, the ability to leave any time I'd like and only lived 6 minutes away, I'd stay till 8 if need be! But that's not the case. PLEASE don't compare yourself to us!! Our situations are entirely different! And like I said, I'd LOVE to make an extra $300 in an hour, but come 5 I'm burnt with this place, know I'll be back first thing in the morning every day from now till January and still have an hour drive home. AND that $300 is never guaranteed. Promise me I'll make enough money to make it worth my while, and I'll stick till 6.. *sigh* We NEED to move closer. We NEED to sell this house. We NEED to save the $560/month we're spending in gas getting to and from here so we can stick around and possibly make a few extra bucks after hours. Hell, with that extra $560, I could maybe pay someone to open for me! Either that, or a family member needs to hurry the hell up and move here so they can cover the shop a few days a week. Think of all the things you can get done before 3:00pm....... If we do absolutely nothing but come to work, leave right on time and go straight home, I am home from about 6:15pm- 9am. How much do you get accomplished THEN....... not a whole hell of a lot! Dinner. Sleep. Don't preach to me about staying here any longer then I already do. Take out the hours we're sleeping, roughly 1-8 (if we don't get up to hike), we have 8 hours a day to do something other then work or drive. Big 'ol F U talkin like I'm not dedicated to this shit cuz I leave on time. Grr Grr Grr Look how I go from so happy to just..... grrr
Breathing................. Fireflies.................... *sigh*................. :o) Smile at the tourons
Well there goes... everything :o( Guess we're gonna have a VERY busy day tomorrow
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