Working For the Haus

This past Monday and continuing until Sunday evening,  I was running the online small business of some family friends. They run a profitable ProStores, eBay, and Amazon business that sells many different types of fans and umbrellas. If you want, you can check them out here for the fan store and here for the umbrella store. Basically their entire garage is full of inventory and boxes and I take orders, package them up, and have them shipped out. It was also fun because I was actually living at their house right now with no one but 2 cats to keep me miserable company. Heh. Great thing to say on a public blog, but who actually reads this blog anyway? Anyway, I had a blast because running it is something you do all throughout the day, but definitely not all day by any means, so I got to hang out and read and they’ve got AT&T U-Verse so it’s pretty nice. I was listening to Dean Koentz’s Phantoms, but after a point, it just got so scary and dark and even demonic for my tastes, so I deleted it. Horror stories and movies really aren’t my thing at all. Another cool thing is having unlimited access to…you guessed it…FOOD! I have always requested Home Run Inn cheese pizzas and I had a mini stock in the freezer (For those of you who don’t know, Home Run Inn pizza is the best frozen pizza you could ever get. It has about 7 ingredients so there aren’t any weird artificial chemicals in it). I also was able to for the first time ever, sleep in a king sized bed. (I figure the qualifier “by myself” is quite unnecessary). The best part was simply being on my own and having absolutely no one to annoy me. It’s like a taste of what my life will be like when I’m older. *Sighs* So wonderful…although there was a subdivision-wide power outage that basically shut everything down for 2 hours. Anyway, I also mowed their grass, which had gotten really long. Problem was, their mower was not self-propelled. Now, I'm no lawnmower wimp, because I mow mine every other week, but ours is at least self-propelled. Combine that with the crazy heat and I was sweating buckets. Oh, I also got to watch some cool TV shows I don't get to watch because we don't have a TV. There were some cool old MeTV episodes of Hogan's Heros, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and others. The History Channel also had some great stuff. So yeah, overall, it was a fantastic time and a great opportunity to catch up on reading and being away from everyone else.