Dawn Is Me

It’s been awhile, eh?

I just did something that I consider to be rather amazing. I filled out an online application to get a job at the local Sears-owned K-mart. I even have an interview scheduled for Saturday.

The reason why I would take such an outrageous step is simple and should be obvious. I need the money.

No, I haven’t shut down my business. On the contrary, that’s part of the problem. See, I’m making a little money with my business, but not much. I could make a lot more money if I were able to take what I’m making and re-invest it in the business.

But I find I can’t do that because it always seems as though the household finances are running short. I just don’t have it in me to sit on my company’s cash when the cupboards are bare. And, right now, for a variety of reasons that I’m not going to get into, the spouse’s earnings just aren’t getting it done.

Hence this rather extreme step.

Actually, it’s not all that extreme. People do it all the time. I’ve been out of the workforce for about a thousand years so, in many ways, this will be quite an adventure. But there are things that I want to do for my business and, of course, it is of paramount importance that we dig our way out of the hole that the Flood of 2006 put us into (really, you’d be amazed at how long it can take to recover from a disaster, insurance or no insurance). I need to do something about all this … simply because nobody else will.

Of course, the first spouse will hear about this is when he reads this blog post. I wonder what he’ll say? Perhaps more to the point, I wonder what he’ll really think but not tell me?

Sometimes, I do things because I have this funny idea that it’s good to be organized.

Sometimes, when I do those things, I regret them. I did one of those things today.

Every month, I print out a calendar with all the stuff I’m supposed to be doing that month typed neatly into the relevant day. Yes, that’s right; I’ve gotten to the point of scheduling myself to within an inch of my life, a month in advance.

June is going to be nuts.

First and foremost, Gina is going to be graduating from high school. That means there will be Music Awards Night, the Athletic Banquet, the Senior Reception, the Senior Trip, the Senior Banquet and the Senior Picnic. Fortunately, I don’t have to attend all of those but I do have to know when they are.

Then there are the meetings. Women Impacting Public Policy teleconference, town Democratic Committee meeting, county Democratic Committee meeting, county Democratic Committee annual dinner, town council meeting, and a certain amount of running around taking both David and Kimmie to med reviews during the month.

And on top of all that, I’ve got a return engagement in Spain this month that will neatly carve six days of my time out of the equation. For the record, three of those days will be spent in transit.

As of right now, the last week of the month is mostly empty – oh, didn’t I mention that all this stuff is crammed into three weeks, most of one of which I’ll be out of the country? – and I think, in the interests of self-preservation, I’m going to block out that time right now.

I’ll need it to recuperate.

[tags]business meetings, business travel, June 2007, mommyblogging[/tags]

Okay, now that that’s over with …

I don’t know about you but everbody — every single creature — in this house is waiting. Major anticipatory vibe here today.

I would do one of those standard year end put-it-all-in-persective posts but the thought of going over this year in my head is just way too exhausting.

Last night, Gino and Derek and I sat down for one of our montly business meetings, last one of the year. We do this as a sort of in-house Master Mind group to discuss what we’re doing and get feedback and input on our business plans. Very helpful actually — you should try it.

Gino pretty much summed up the entrepreneurial year for us with his usual eloquence all when he said, “It was a crappy year.”

Really, after that, what more needs to be said?

But it was good. We reviewed where we are and what our plans are going into the new year to reverse “crappy” in favor of “lucrative.” If everything goes according to schedule, we’ll be doing rather well by the end of 2007.

Hope springs eternal in the heart of the entrepreneur.