update on what's going on at the Wentz household

Feb 5, 2009


update on what's going on at the Wentz household

OMG – I can’t believe it’s almost been a month since I last posted anything.
It’s been crazy at work (with the Inauguration). Our team (and National’s) were supposed to go to Orlando on the 21st. Well, the 21st was CRAZY here at the airport – the retail stores could NOT keep up with the crowds GRABBING Inauguration merchandise. There were empty fixtures EVERYWHERE. The 22nd was almost as crazy. I think it probably took the stores about 3 days to get back to normal (merchandise stocked and looking good).

At home, Dan’s been working a lot – some overtime and holidays. He had to work on the 19th and 20th, so ended up staying at work, sleeping in the car for a few hours and then back to work. Crazy, I know, but there was no way he was going to be able to get back to work on the 20th with everything going on downtown. Needless to say, it was better that I didn’t have to travel to Orlando that week with Dan not coming home at all.

Besides work, not too much has been going on the last couple of weeks. Esa continues to keep us busy. She now “requests” 3 walks on the weekends. Luckily, they don’t really need to be that long and she’s ok with it. I can’t believe she’ll be 2 on the 14th. It seems like every time we look at her she has grown taller. (I know, I sound like she’s a human).

We are very lucky that the economy hasn’t really affected us (so far) except for maybe savings not growing as much as it used to. The airport is pretty low on crime – especially shoplifting. Every once in awhile we’ll get some crazy story, but within the last week, we’ve had money stolen from a store (by a manager) and merchandise taken out of a display box (that was locked). In the local paper, they have posted to lock everything because there has been a rise in thefts and break-ins. People are so desperate. Now I think I can really imagine the riots/ breaking into stores in a time of an emergency (like what happened in New Orleans and the locks broke).

Westfield did have layoffs on the mall side. The AGMs were laid off (my position!). Here at the airport division, we run so tight that we can’t afford to cut back staff-wise, but we get the memos to cut back on expenses as much as possible (so much for a new computer this year!).

So, we are just happy to have jobs and keep plugging along.