So as I lie awake at night thinking; since little man has already decided that I'm not allowed to sleep much, I've been coming up with some thoughts in regards to starting up my own business. I've thought about doing some animal work of some sort but most agriculture based business would require a great deal more land than I have available to me at the moment, not to mention a great amount of risk attached to it. So after all the things that I've been crafting lately I gave some thought to my own crafting store.
And after much thought and deliberation realized that there really isn't much of anything in the area that would constitute a specialty craft store. Ok yes there are a few places that have quilting and fabric type stuff going on but really no one that has reached out to yarn crafting. Well considering my craft of choice is crochet it would be in my interest to have somewhere that I could get specialty yarns and materials to make yarn crafts.
Well I talked to some people about it and talked to my mom and she gave me a great little tip. There is a group called SCORE and they work with the small business administration to help people start, run and sell small businesses. So I dropped them a line let them know what I'm thinking and now have a plan coming to order! I'm so excited! I have an appointment in two weeks to sit with some counselors to go over some business ideas, particularly whether or not this would even be a viable option in the area and then start coming up with a game plan from there.
So now I'm off to do some hunting around on the Internet, maybe a stop down to the library later and try to figure out how I am going to fund the start up of this operation. He mentioned friends, family and fools (or people willing to make the long shot investment) but since none of those are really realistic options for me I'll see what I can find. After all I'm an unemployed single mother, someone has to want to throw money at me right? They just toss it to politicians who squander it on cars and fancy suits. I want to make good use of it and promote economy.
In the mean time little miss is supposed to be cleaning her room, and while that's not usually too much of a task for her, for some reason today it seems to be almost impossible to keep her focused. Speak of the devil here she comes asking me to make mashed potatoes because she is so starving! I swear you would think I never feed this kid. Except for the fact that now all the sudden she is soooooo tired and needs to lay down on the couch and watch her pony show because she is so tired... what a piece of work.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
After a while
Well I didn't manage to keep quite to what I had thought and keep up on posting as well as I would have liked,but life happens and you don't always get a chance to keep exactly to your thoughts or plans.
It was kind of funny the other day actually I was perusing Facebook and came across a picture that showed a young man, looked like it was supposed to be the cover to a card, and it said "I wish I could go back to the age where I thought I would have it all together by now." And I thought to myself, yea there are definitely days where I wish I could have more together, more going in the direction I thought it should be. But then I saw an episode of How I Met Your Mother and in it Marshall was reading a letter he had written to himself about how by the time he was 30 he should have this great job and a fabulous blonde bombshell wife ...etc. And I sat there and thought as he was telling himself that it was ok that he hadn't totally followed that plan that where I'm at and what I'm doing right now is definitely not where I thought I would be, but that there is absolutely nothing wrong with where I am or what I'm doing right now.
I have a beautiful little girl that I love to pieces, no matter how crazy she makes me. I have two dogs that again although they drive me nuts on occasion, want nothing more than to come curl up in bed with me and get pet. And most importantly I have a spouse who would do anything for me. He has supported me entirely while I finished my college degree and now he is completely ok with me not working and staying home with our little girl and raising her to be the best little girl that I can. And best of all he is absolutely thrilled that I can be home to take care of myself while I work on keeping myself healthy and safe while we await the arrival of our little boy in April.
Realistically I couldn't even imagine what my life would be like otherwise and as much as I've tried to think about it and think about where he and I would be or what we would be doing if we didn't have kids, a family, our life, but then I realize that when I went to college my thoughts were to be an architect and move to a big city and work for some big designing firm. But now I can't possibly imagine living in the city and I would rather be out in the country with a small farm and friends and family around all the time.
It's funny really, that all through high school, really all while growing up, people ask you what you want to be and you get all these plans set into your head as far as what you want and who you are going to be. But then the time comes and you step out into the real world and you realize, or at least hopefully you do, that there are very few who are privileged enough to be able to keep straight to that plan. The rest of the world has to wake up and smell the coffee in the morning and realize that the world, the economy and the social dynamic have drastically changed over the past 20 years and so what you thought was possible then, very well may still be possible, but more than likely isn't what you want anymore.
There are so many different paths out there and it doesn't matter how long it takes you to drive, walk, skip, whatever way you want to get there, as long as you get where you want to go and you're happy about being there.
Bit of a deep way to come back I know but this whole blog thing was supposed to be about me writing down things that I wanted to make sure got put down so that's what I did.
And I plan on trying to keep up again, though I do have a few other things in the works at the moment so we'll see where priorities land.
It was kind of funny the other day actually I was perusing Facebook and came across a picture that showed a young man, looked like it was supposed to be the cover to a card, and it said "I wish I could go back to the age where I thought I would have it all together by now." And I thought to myself, yea there are definitely days where I wish I could have more together, more going in the direction I thought it should be. But then I saw an episode of How I Met Your Mother and in it Marshall was reading a letter he had written to himself about how by the time he was 30 he should have this great job and a fabulous blonde bombshell wife ...etc. And I sat there and thought as he was telling himself that it was ok that he hadn't totally followed that plan that where I'm at and what I'm doing right now is definitely not where I thought I would be, but that there is absolutely nothing wrong with where I am or what I'm doing right now.
I have a beautiful little girl that I love to pieces, no matter how crazy she makes me. I have two dogs that again although they drive me nuts on occasion, want nothing more than to come curl up in bed with me and get pet. And most importantly I have a spouse who would do anything for me. He has supported me entirely while I finished my college degree and now he is completely ok with me not working and staying home with our little girl and raising her to be the best little girl that I can. And best of all he is absolutely thrilled that I can be home to take care of myself while I work on keeping myself healthy and safe while we await the arrival of our little boy in April.
Realistically I couldn't even imagine what my life would be like otherwise and as much as I've tried to think about it and think about where he and I would be or what we would be doing if we didn't have kids, a family, our life, but then I realize that when I went to college my thoughts were to be an architect and move to a big city and work for some big designing firm. But now I can't possibly imagine living in the city and I would rather be out in the country with a small farm and friends and family around all the time.
It's funny really, that all through high school, really all while growing up, people ask you what you want to be and you get all these plans set into your head as far as what you want and who you are going to be. But then the time comes and you step out into the real world and you realize, or at least hopefully you do, that there are very few who are privileged enough to be able to keep straight to that plan. The rest of the world has to wake up and smell the coffee in the morning and realize that the world, the economy and the social dynamic have drastically changed over the past 20 years and so what you thought was possible then, very well may still be possible, but more than likely isn't what you want anymore.
There are so many different paths out there and it doesn't matter how long it takes you to drive, walk, skip, whatever way you want to get there, as long as you get where you want to go and you're happy about being there.
Bit of a deep way to come back I know but this whole blog thing was supposed to be about me writing down things that I wanted to make sure got put down so that's what I did.
And I plan on trying to keep up again, though I do have a few other things in the works at the moment so we'll see where priorities land.
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