Having this business has changed our lives and how we interact with each other. As you all know by now my boyfriend John, Eli our dog and me do the traveling for our business together. We share so much time with each other; from long driving hours, to eating on the road to sharing our seat with the boy (Eli), to doing things in the house, with the furniture, online, etc. Eli and I have gotten closer, he is so used to me being in the same seat as he is that he falls asleep on my lap or uses me as a pillow/ cushion most of the time (even when we are not in the car).
Our crazy business schedule has forced us to do things like getting up in the middle of the night to be somewhere else by the time the sun rises, to come back home when the sun light is starting to hit the roof of our home, to eat just nuts and chips instead of meals, to make up songs about us going on a road trip just to break up the long hours. Sometimes sitting in heavy traffic breaks up the road time. We’ll look at the other people entertaining themselves while they sit in the traffic stew. Like in that picture of 495: we were supposed to go home and do some cleaning and prepare the things for the next day for SOWA but noooo, we were stuck there for almost an hour and a half and by the time we came back we were so exhausted we didn’t do anything.
When we go on road trips there is a certain excitement in the air, often I catch myself thinking about what would be good for our next trip, how to make it more comfortable, what to eat so we don’t end up at a fast food joint. Or what can we see at the towns and villages so it’s not too much business and more like a mini-vacation.
To be honest it feels like a mini-vacation a great percentage of the time. I get to day dream that we are going to get all the stuff we have planned and then some. And it helps that we thoroughly enjoy each others company. Which makes it easy for us to share our business and personal lives together. And yes that includes Eli our dog.
