Sunday November 8, 2015 to Saturday November 14, 2015
Another busy week planning and organizing the move into our tiny condo. The lawyer contacted us, and we signed the paperwork to finalize the sale of the condo. Now we have to arrange to move our stuff out of the storage unit and all the other fun stuff that goes with moving.
We have a new sofa, new bed and new appliances, all arriving on my birthday (December 2, 2015) – I have informed Ralf that these are not my birthday presents. We have arranged for a plumber and a mover (December 1, 2015). All the utility companies have been contacted. I think we are ready to move in – two more weeks and we will be in our tiny condo. It is going to be a really chaotic week and probably the whole month of December trying to decide what to keep, what to donate and what to sell.
New Business
I went to a seminar on Monday morning on how to start your own business and found it really interesting. I think I am going to start my new business in the new year. I will spend the month of December creating a Business Plan and setting up advertising, networking etc and will launch it in January – New Year, New Company.
I am still thinking of a good name for the company. I will be providing secretarial, administrative support to companies in Barrie that may need assistance for one day a week or for special projects. I thought about Administrative Support Services, but the acronym would be ASS, maybe Barrie Office Support Services (BOSS), yeah that’s sounds better. The person who led the seminar suggested accounting companies to be added to my list of possible businesses to contact. They are usually really busy January to April and might need help keeping up with the demand.
New Job
Ralf has been busy sending out resumes and attending courses. While we were in Ikea on Thursday (shopping for a new bed) one of the companies contacted him to attend an interview. Ralf has an interview on Monday morning.
Kindness of Strangers
We are still experiencing the kindness of strangers even though we are not on our bikes. On Thursday we were waiting for the bus in the cold and rain, we were actually taking shelter in the small strip mall. An older gentleman arrived in his car and went into the pub to take something out of it. Ralf helped him and we got chatting. His daughter owned one of the businesses in the area. He asked where we were going and we told him to pick up the rental car. He offered to take us and proceeded to drive us to the car rental place. What a nice man, thank-you John.
Texting on a virgin
On Saturday we went to Georgian Mall to check out cell phones and plans. Ralf needs a bigger phone and I will take his little Samsung that we bought in Australia. We were discussing our needs with a very nice shop associate and Ralf was asking whether his old phone (Motorola) would be compatible for talk and text. I said that my Dad could text on the phone he used when he was last over from England. Ralf’s comment “If my father-in-law could text on the little virgin I should be able to on the motorola”. We all started to laugh with visions of my old Dad texting on a virgin.
We had a good productive week.