shifting gears....

today is somewhat a different day for me as i had it spent with the gifsthop manager of my community... A benedictine nun Sister Kateri, OSB of the sisters of Our Lady of the Desert: our neighboring Benedictine community for women.



Yesterday, I was taken aback and was actually tongue tied (i said to myself, it's better not to say anything, affirmation nor negation) when my superior told me in our Sunday afternoon recreation with the monks, that i will be taking over the work of our giftshop manager the soonest time possible.



In my mind, i was asking him, "Why me? Why not assign other monks who have backgrounds in Business, Accounting, or Marketing? I was a classroom teacher! and I had nothing to do with sales and market. Why scrape kateri out from the giftshop when she has been performing her work well and and functioning as the manager superbly?" But I remained very quiet and had to accept the challenge of shifting gears with the current head of our giftshop out of obedience.



So, today, my baptism of fire started: I, and Sr Kateri, went to Sta Fe specifically to run errands for numerous apppointments that had something to do with the giftshop's sales, website, supplies, office supplies....



So that would mean several stops to business shops; talk to store owner-managers; familiarize myself with the store locations; get myself acquainted with routine that goes with purchases and sales and be introduced to our suppliers whom to contact with in ordering these and those stuffs.....etc. All of these errands needed to be done and be accomplished before sunset...



And so, with a bright hope in my mind, I asked myself and posed a big challenging question in my head while we were heading to Sta Fe: "Will I survive?...The answer to that question should and must be: "I will survive, so help me God!"



our first stop: at Rapid refill Ink Store



our second stop was at Wal-Mart



our third stop was at Buena Mano



our next stop was at jackalope.

















The next shop we visited was at Joann's.









next was at Michaels.









Last stop was at World Market.









when I arrived at the monastery, I drove the nun to her monastery, went back to my monastery, got my superior's blessing, then ran to my room and dropped down my bed and slept (plakda!)....



When I woke up- I had to blog these images, but found out that Blogger.com's ADD IMAGE option in create post box was disabled so, i had to resort to my photobucket account and had these images posted in their original sizes. Please bear with them.