Today, I wanted to share a somewhat personal story about my husband and I. I hope nobody minds. It made me really appreciate my husband and all that he does to make our marriage work.
We were at church, walking from sacrament meeting to Sunday school. We were discussing our plans for next weekend. Because we haven't visited Ben's family for a long time and because it's General Conference weekend, we were planning tentatively on going to Vernal Saturday afternoon.
I started thinking about our plan in more definite terms and started worrying about a few logistics/snags in our plans. Mostly I realized that I wouldn't be able to spend the night of the priesthood conference with my mom. That has been a tradition in past years and I love that times spent with my mom.
I brought this up to Ben, but I don't think he understood why I was saying it. I think he really misses his family and he said something along the lines of, "Well, you will get to see her tonight and you spent yesterday with her."
Needless to say, that wasn't what I wanted him to say. I am an emotional person and was a little hurt by it. I simply answered with something like, "Yeah, I know," and walked into the classroom really quickly. Once inside, we both let the subject drop.
I knew that Ben didn't mean to upset me when he said it. He was simply expressing what we both knew, which was that we hadn't seen his family in a while and this weekend would be a good time to go. He didn't know about my mom and my tradition of spending one on one girl time together every six months and he didn't understand how much I have been missing my mom recently.
Ben is such a good husband though. Even though he might not have understood why I was so emotional about it and even though it wasn't even really his fault, he knew that what he had said had hurt me. When we sat down for our combined meeting after Sunday school, he kissed my cheek and whispered to me, "Charly, I'm sorry about what I said earlier. I shouldn't have said it."
It made me feel so wonderful that he cared about me enough to do that. I know that he didn't need to apologize. By doing so, however, he showed me not only how much he loved me, but also how much he cared about what was important to me. We were able to talk about it later when my emotions on the subject weren't as close to the surface and everything turned out fine.
Ben and I have only been married five months. So far, it's been wonderful. I know that the high quality of our marriage is in big part due to the way Benjamin treats me. I am so blessed to have such a thoughtful, loving, Christlike husband.
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Sunday, September 1, 2013
A little more about my new job ...
I got a job working for Response Marketing. And, to my surprise, I love it.
Response Marketing is an outbound call company. We have different teams who call for various things (for example, one group calls people who have shown interest in wanting to start or go back to school and gets their information sent out to different colleges). I call people and offer them free tickets to different real estate seminars in their area.
It's a little hard sometimes, just because people don't like telemarketers. Most of the time, everyone is really nice about it, even if they aren't interested. Every once in a while, you get a person who's mad at you for calling or who is upset that we have their information.
It's fun talking to the different people, though. It's surprising to me at times what people will tell a complete stranger over the phone--just personal things like that they're getting a surgery or going through a divorce. I had one old grandpa explain all about how real estate works. People will tell me all about how gold is the new investment to be making or that today happens to be their nephew's eighth birthday. Even when I don't make the sale, I usually enjoy the phone calls.
It's fun to try to make sells. A "sale" is when a person lets us send them tickets, or information, about the event. It's free, so I don't feel bad trying to push them onto someone. It's really fun when a person who doesn't want the tickets or is out of town the day of the event or something and I can talk them into letting me send them the information anyways. Those are nice sales because I feel like I earn them.
The best part of the job, though, is the time between calls. We actually have a lot of times between calls, especially when we get a lot of answering machines. We are allowed to do whatever we want during that time, as long as we're not on our cell phones. So far, I've read. It's so nice, but it will be even nicer when school starts and I have homework to be doing.
My job is so flexible with hours. You can go in basically whenever, as long as you get your hours in. That is so nice for my schedule. Between work and dance and everything else I'm doing, any kind of job where I have a set schedule everyday is pretty much impossible.
The pay is good, too. It's only eight dollars an hour, base, but commission is so nice. If you hit the minimum amount of sales required, you get fifty cents an hour commission. This week, I made three dollars an hour commission, so eleven dollars an hour. Then every six weeks, they give you a twenty five cents raise. I think it's because they don't have very good retention, simply because it's a college city and also because it can be a really boring job. I'm lucky I love reading so much, and that I can read with all the noise going on. If I couldn't, I would DIE of boredom.
As it is, though, I found the perfect job for me right now. I'll probably stay with them until Ben and I are done with school.
Response Marketing is an outbound call company. We have different teams who call for various things (for example, one group calls people who have shown interest in wanting to start or go back to school and gets their information sent out to different colleges). I call people and offer them free tickets to different real estate seminars in their area.
It's a little hard sometimes, just because people don't like telemarketers. Most of the time, everyone is really nice about it, even if they aren't interested. Every once in a while, you get a person who's mad at you for calling or who is upset that we have their information.
It's fun talking to the different people, though. It's surprising to me at times what people will tell a complete stranger over the phone--just personal things like that they're getting a surgery or going through a divorce. I had one old grandpa explain all about how real estate works. People will tell me all about how gold is the new investment to be making or that today happens to be their nephew's eighth birthday. Even when I don't make the sale, I usually enjoy the phone calls.
It's fun to try to make sells. A "sale" is when a person lets us send them tickets, or information, about the event. It's free, so I don't feel bad trying to push them onto someone. It's really fun when a person who doesn't want the tickets or is out of town the day of the event or something and I can talk them into letting me send them the information anyways. Those are nice sales because I feel like I earn them.
The best part of the job, though, is the time between calls. We actually have a lot of times between calls, especially when we get a lot of answering machines. We are allowed to do whatever we want during that time, as long as we're not on our cell phones. So far, I've read. It's so nice, but it will be even nicer when school starts and I have homework to be doing.
My job is so flexible with hours. You can go in basically whenever, as long as you get your hours in. That is so nice for my schedule. Between work and dance and everything else I'm doing, any kind of job where I have a set schedule everyday is pretty much impossible.
The pay is good, too. It's only eight dollars an hour, base, but commission is so nice. If you hit the minimum amount of sales required, you get fifty cents an hour commission. This week, I made three dollars an hour commission, so eleven dollars an hour. Then every six weeks, they give you a twenty five cents raise. I think it's because they don't have very good retention, simply because it's a college city and also because it can be a really boring job. I'm lucky I love reading so much, and that I can read with all the noise going on. If I couldn't, I would DIE of boredom.
As it is, though, I found the perfect job for me right now. I'll probably stay with them until Ben and I are done with school.
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