Ok ok, here it is....Conny doesn't do blogs, so it is up to me and since I can't find the memory card attachment I can't update any photos. Plus, to be honest we really haven't taken very many pictures. Oh, but I do have every angle possible of our cat. <---(Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the first two sentences Conny has ever written on our page. Thank you Conny). Now, after my little drink break I can get back to the update. I am midway through summer school where they are totally taking advantage of me. A three credit hour class at Belmont is devastatingly expensive and every time I think of it, I have to fan myself so I don't pass out. Plus if for any reason I get below a C, Conny will sell Kitty and my life will be over. So I have a little incentive to do my best. But don't worry, I turned in the first of my two term papers and got--oh, a 94%. I was happy. I got literally one hour of sleep that night. I had to reread what I wrote and I have to say I am pretty surprised what I can come up with being half conscious. So school is going great. As for sales and servicing, Conny continues to leave me behind in the dust. She and the other top sales reps daily rape and pillage the poor wealthy people of Nashville. well, I am at 94 and she is at 128 or something. She isn't that far ahead of me, but at the same time she has only been doing it since May 10th--so about a month and I have been going at it since the beginning of April--but, I was only doing half days until May 10th. I really should have a whole lot more than I do. This is horrible for me. I am used to having 5-7 sales a day. Well anyways, they are excited for me to graduate with my Entrepreneurship degree in December because they want me to open a new office for HomeShield Pest Control in a new market. They haven't told me where yet. It is all up in the air. I don't want to leave Nashville. I love it here. Conny does too and so does Kris. Bytheway, Kris is doing lovely. I watched him lathering up a bunch of soap and water and vigorously washing his face cause he sprayed himself with pesticide. Poor guy. Now, don't get mad at me for not looking out for his safety because--trust me--I have told him to wear the goggles. Have I told any of you how much fun it is to work with my wife and brother on a daily basis for the same company? I love it when Kris services my accounts because he does such a good job. I always brag to my customers how good of a technician he is. He is a hard worker. He has told me on occasion how good he feels about himself because of how hard he is working. I am proud of him. He also is feeling very good--health-wise. He has been trying to quit smoking and living with Conny and I--he doesn't get many opportunities to do it. I have learned that I can't ask him how it is going because it makes him want to go smoke because it feels like I am nagging. So, I don't say a thing and just tell him that I will help him in any way he needs me to. Surely, he is giving it up and you can tell a difference. Conny and I think it is cute cause sometimes he will ask one of us to give the blessing on the food so we can eat. He cooks the best food! He makes this chicken cordon bleu that is bomb! We had a girl over yesterday that is one of our married friends and she ate with us cause her husband is in England for the month. She asked Kris if he had thought about going to culinary school. This morning he asked me if I thought he could do it? I told him, "Sure you can, you just have to find a way to do it." What is so cool is that from where Kris has been in his life to where he is now is a lot different. He is the same person. He wants to do things his way and that is perfectly fine. I wouldn't want him to do anything other than what he wants. But it is great to see him slowly changing into the person that is who HE wants to be. I love Kris for Kris. He is such a good buddy. I tell him all the time that he is my favorite little brother. And it's true. I am glad that Nashville has given him the ability to get away from influences that have kept him from progressing. Most of his friends damned him from being anything more than what they were. And it is good to see Kris doing things because he really wants to do them--not because he has to because his friends have the power to influence him.
Isn't it nice that sometimes we can uproot ourselves from one place and go somewhere totally unfamiliar and create a new life again. Have the freedom to find ourselves again and create a life that we want.
Ok, I am a rambler. What can you expect, after all I was named after Richard... :). As soon as I can I will post a picture of us servicing and knocking--get some action pictures.

I better go to sleep. I love you all and miss you. So does Conny. And Kris...and Kitty.
I'll blog soon.

TIM