Dinner and Beyond

My dinner - it's not how it tastes, but how it looks that counts: Salad topped with grilled portobello mushroom fingers, wasabi coated wild salmon, twice-cooked seasoned new potatoes.

My life: Still working on DogOn Fitness and it's 8:22 pm. Owning my own business - especially one that deals in customer service - is a lot of work. Usually I enjoy it - but sometimes it's wearing. We are constantly having to hire new people. Our Falls Church manager left us (needed to support his family on a better salary) and created a huge gap that I'm trying to fill. And now I've noticed we need people all over because suddenly I'm out with the dogs again. I prefer to run the business to running dogs. So I've put an ad on Craig's list and am starting that process all over - reading through a bunch of email ad responses and responding to likely candidates of which 1/3 will write back - what do they do, wake up and change their minds? I don't get it.

Maybe 2 will interview and I might hire one. I'm very picky and sometimes people decide the job is not for them after doing it once or twice. One person, I'll call her Emily Ozar - okay, that's her real name - went through training and took dogs out on her own once. She was scheduled to take more dogs and never came back, called, emailed, responded to calls or emails, nor ever contacted us again. Weird.