It Has Begun: Excitement

Back in August 2009, I was given the opprotunity to work with some fellow PassPorters and interviewd for a travel consultant with Ears to You Travel.  I finished the College of Disney Knowledge courses, got my certificate and graduations "Ears" and finally got myself set up to start finding clients.  With the move into the new house, things got delayed a bit but things have begun!

Last week, I booked my first trip to WDW for a client.  I have another one making a decision on where to stay.  My mom, my former travel agent, gave me some names and addresses of her former clients to contact.  Today I sent off letters to some of these clients to let them know that I am here to work for them in planning and booking a WDW vacation. 

Chuck is excited to see this slowly taking off and has told me that once he is finished with his Master's degree, he is getting all up in my business to get this "job" to soar.   It feels wonderful to have his uspport in this little adventure. 

So...if you need a travel consultant to help you plan your vacation to a Disney Destination, click on the link to the left for Ears to You Travel and find me under Contact Us!!

Furniture Shopping

Since we moved into the new house, we started creating a list of stuff and furniture we wanted. One of the first things we wanted was a sectional couch and some sort of coordinating chair for the "great" room, where we spend the majority of the time.  The furniture we have now will be split between two rooms.  The recliners will go up in the loft where we have the game systems and library, and the sofa will go into what we call the sitting room. 

We went out to hit all the furniture stores in the area.  First, we hit Value City Furntiure.  While we didn't find a couch that fit our wants and desires, we finally picked up a second matching nightstand to the master bedroom set that we have had for 6 years.  Better late than never.  We get to pick that up on Thursday.

Next stop was Ashley's Furniture.  After getting mauled by 3 sales people wanting our sale, we finally escaped to actually begin looking around.  After spending a good 45 minutes just walking the store, we found three sectionals that we liked.  We flagged down Joey, the one salesperson that seemed to be following us around to ask some questions.  The first one was knocked out of the running as it didn't come as just as sofa instead of a reclining sofa.  the second one had an awesome coordinating chair that I fell in love with and really worked for what we wanted the room to look like.  The third one was red...I love red!  Chuck kept it in the running but I knew that it would lose.  Chuck couldn't see us having a red couch.  Sigh!

After about 15 minutes of deliberation, we asked Joey what he could do for us as far as some extra markdowns or whatever.  We ended up getting 20% off the 2 piece sectional and 10% off the oversized ottoman and coordinating chair.  One warranty plan, in-store credit app, and 20 minutes later, we got the furniture.  Of course, the expected delivery date is January 24th, could be sooner but also could be later.  Glad I work from home to accept delivery whenever it gets here. 

The chair is the lighter bottom cushion that matches the couch.