Offers

I got an offer yesterday to upgrade our cabin on our cruise coming up. It sounded wonderful. In fact, they had something for me on an inside cabin but (isn't there always a but, well, we have one but that is with two "T's") we would have been separated or we could have paid a lot more money to upgrade to a balcony cabin for the other half of us and paid a lot more money. Tempting? Not really. We don't want to be separated and I think we are in a pretty good place. There are only passenges above us and no one below us. We are the first and/or last stop on the elevators so we will always get on and no one will be coming to our floor just to mess around. Again, I called and asked but it wasn't what was good for us. Work went well yesterday until lunch. Hilarious thing happened: My sales guy and I were eating, having a quarterly review and just chatting. I had ordered some food and a pickle came with my lunch. I was trying to be polite, not stab the pickle, bit off a piece and then put it back but I was cutting it with my fork. Anyway, I had a pile of ketchup for my onion rings (who doesn't love onion rings and order them if you have the option?) and as I went to cut my pickle with just my fork, no knife, my hand slipped on the fork, landed in the ketchup and I splattered it all over my shirt and a bit on my sale guy. I mean it was ALL over my shirt. All I did was laugh and get mad at myself. Yes, the rule as always is, dad is an.....! We still made a couple of other visits to people I knew and they proceeded to bust my chops. I like the relationship I have with our customers. Anyway, I cut the day about an hour short. I wasn't going to go and meet new customers like that. I have to represent our company in the best light possible. Getting back to the offer and separation; I think that we ahve to go through things in life and it is important that we not get separated. I would hate to think that my family and I would be separated for eternity. That scares me to death. I know that I have to do everything I can to make sure I get there and I need to encourage my family to do likewise. I know that it is easy to get sidetracked in life because the adversary makes error so attractive with his offers..