The Pumper's Wife

What kind of business are you in?  Do people make fun of you?  These days, there are jokes poking fun at just about everyone.  As you might guess, our business has a bit of a “joke bull’s eye” on it.  All sorts of things have been said about how we well know our…ahem…business. But you know what?  Sometimes you just have to laugh.  Yes, we want to be professional and we definitely want people to take us seriously, but we have a sense of humor too.  So, as this post hits most of you on a Monday…maybe these little pictures will make you smile! So if you're having a rough Monday...maybe these pictures will make you smile.  Or if nothing else, possibly appreciate your job a bit more than you did on Friday! Ha! Until next time friends!

Are you a business owner?  Do you have employees?  Then no doubt you understand how wonderful it is to have fabulous people who work with you.  We currently have the best team of guys and I pray they never leave us.  But it wasn’t always like this.  There was a time when it wasn’t like this…AT ALL. In fact, the reason I quit teaching was because there was a time when we had employees dropping like flies!  Towards the end of the school year 2014, we had an amazing guy driving for us.  We LOVED him.  He was wonderful, smart, had a great personality and was such a hard worker.  But he was blessed with a great opportunity to start up his own business with his dad…in Alabama.  I never knew I could feel so happy for someone and so sick to my stomach at the same time.  Just a couple of months later our other employee (who had been the previous owner of the company but wasn’t ready to quit working and retire…) got in a horrible car accident!!  Not only did his injuries keep him from wo

With Christmas and New Years vacations, it’s been two weeks since our family has had a full week’s work.  How was it for you?  Ours could have been better.  They say  picture is worth a thousand words, so let me explain last week in just one picture… Yep…that was pretty much how every day felt. Some days I felt like it would have been better to stay in bed.  Of course, I usually feel this way after I’ve made my attempt, hindsight being 20/20 and all.  But here’s the thing, if we can just push through to the next 24 hour period, it usually all works out.  The thing about bad days, is that they usually only last a DAY.  (Even a bad week, in the grand scheme of things is just one week…) And I have found that this is true as well… That’s right!  I have a pretty good survival rate when it comes to bad days.  Not too shabby if I don’t say so myself.  I have found the best way to “survive” or “endure” a bad day is to laugh about it.  I’m not going to lie – I’ve h

I saw this meme over the weekend Isn’t that the truth?  Isn’t life really that simple?  I love technology and all the ways science has made our lives better.  But I feel like now that we have tools to make our lives easier, we’ve figured out ways to over-complicate what’s truly easy.  This meme made me think I could probably write some equally brilliant words… YOU KNOW YOU SHOULDN’T BUY IT WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE THE MONEY YOU KNOW YOU SHOULDN’T DO IT, IF IT IS STUPID YOU KNOW YOUR CAR NEEDS GAS WHEN THE LIGHT COMES ON YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD LOSE WEIGHT WHEN YOUR CLOTHES DON’T FIT YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT WHEN YOU ARE ABOUT TO SAY SOMETHING STUPID YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD DRINK WATER WHEN YOU ARE THIRSTY YOU KNOW YOUR KID SHOULD BE WEARING PANTS WHEN HE ISN’T The list goes on and on…. Life really is simple.  Our decisions…check that, our POOR decisions is what complicates it. KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID is truly a brilliant phrase. In thinking a