InsideTrip, saving furniture, virtual assistant

Doing: Jason, Uncle Jon and I have been cleaning my dad's place this week. It's slow, miserable work but I think we've turned the corner. John will hate that I'm doing this - but I'm saving my dad's dresser and nightstands. I've been watching a lot of HGTV and I know all it needs is a new coat of paint. It's the perfect size to put a changing pad on, so I have plans to make it white, do up the hardware and put it in the someday baby's room in the someday house. Well, hire someone else to do all that— you know what I mean. I just can't decide on whether or not I should save two matching lamps from the Salvation Army pile. I know all they need is a coat of paint. And new lamp shades...

From the Desk: Speaking of hiring other people. I paid a friend to find me a virtual assistant. It was terrific that he could write the ad, put it up, go through all the crap responses and weed out the finalists. It sounds like online dating and that could've taken me forever.  Instead of using just one of the three finalists, I'm going to divey up the work between two people. For starters, telling me which phone to buy, giving me the hand-held cliff notes to Commission Junction University and a little bit of web research. Maybe coding too. I'm excited about it. The going rate is around $20/hour.

Travel Website you have to check out: There's a new travel website that's hitting the Internet today. InsideTrip.com. In addition to just searching flights and prices, you can compare legroom, the age of the plane, gate connections, and more. It doesn't quite address my "pain point" of a decent entertainment system - but so what. I'm excited about this site and can totally geek out on it. Here's my full preview of InsideTrip.com.

CURRENT: SAN DIEGO
NEXT: L.A. (Wednesday night)

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[Heather]

HGTV Rocks!