STEP BY STEP

And yeah, it isn't three forward and two back. Not yet anyways. I have been wondering when the good stuff is going to stop happening. I really don't think there are many things left in the way. For the first time, things are really going pretty much right on track. I went to the banks last week and the appointments went really well. I got two commitments in two days from filling out the applications. And they were from the banks I was interested in. I got my building inspection report and nothing major was wrong with the building. I finished working on my menu. I set up an appointment with the liquor control commissioner and then when I went to get these beautiful patio sets, even after the local store sold out of them, I managed to have the manager locate them at another location! So I have these beautiful mosaic patio sets for the front of the restaurant.

I could also get the sign guy to scratch the work on the old sign and do my window glass instead for the money I already paid him (I hope). And I am ready to move into a new THREE BEDROOM HOUSE! The house was sort of a last minute find, on a double lot with a detached garage! So I have a year lease, with an option to buy the place after the year is up. I'm pretty stoked about that. I should be pretty much ready to do that by then. Fortunately, because of my vote this past November, MY President decided to give first time home buyers $8,000 towards the purchase of a new home. Which is almost like, 15% of the purchase price! Which is like, the down payment! Which means, my mortgage and taxes will be really cheap for this AMAZING find! Between all of what I will have to pay in mortgage on the building, mortgage on the house, and my line of credit loan for the equipment, I will pay less than my rent was with the douche bag slumlord I had in Chicago.

So, yeah! I am really excited to move now. I pretty much have been for the past few weeks. I will really miss this city. I won't have much time to come back to visit often. But I want this really bad right now. I hope this is the start of something big. Well, I want it to be the start of something bigger. I want to be able to find myself still looking at the coffee kiosks, across the country, like Starbux, and eventually find myself somewhere in time, sooner than later, when I won't have to worry about work anymore, because my money will be working for me. I will have rental real estate working for me, and the coffee business working, and then I will always have the first place I called home.

It'll be nice when I can fulfill a solitary obligation to someone, and slip a call into Apple for an I-TOUCH to be delivered. Beyond that, I would really like to look forward instead of back. The back looks pretty sad, when it is filled with someone who lied about me to all his friends, making me out to be some creep. He'll never know who I was, because he never got it. I feel bad for him. But all that aside, my life is really, really good! For the first time in a while. Ask me how I feel when I have been working 7 days a week for the past 6-7 months, and I'll tell you then if that has changed at all. My guess is, yeah... It'll be better because I will have a lot more money in the bank! :-)