Ok, not the orange or varietal of drink, and not the song by David Archuleta which I already blogged about months ago. A couple days ago, I dropped my phone in the bucket of sanitizer water at work. I looked down at the light in the water and my stomach dropped. I knew this was going to be costly. I don't have insurance on my cell phone. In 6 years since I had this provider, I have never carried insurance, because I am not careless with my phone and they are pretty durable. I don't even know what I was doing to just drop it. But there it was. I took it out, tried to dry it off, followed the advice of 6 different people saying to let it sit in rice. But it was not helping my situation at all. The buttons were all fried. So I went back to the US Cellular Store in town and renewed my contract early, and found a touchscreen Motorola Crush phone! It is nice, and easy, and I am still getting used to using it. It isn't super duper flash, but it was only $100. I wasn't about to get a phone without a qwerty keyboard, and the buttons were just as much as the touch screen. I will probably feel the lackluster of this phone will do me for a year and then get bored of it, as usual!
I am slowly getting closer to Tax Season. Every month we pay sales tax to the state, and every month we pay our withholding tax to the Treasury department, but quarterly, we need to file all our paper work and such, and now it is year end tax time, so I am sitting down with my accountant tomorrow for a fun filled few hours of logging all the stupid general ledger info into a balance sheet and walking out with my shirt, if at all possible.
I need this guy to make something happen for my mortgage to work. I hope I can qualify for it. I am nervous as hell about not being able to make it work. But even if it doesn't, I am going forward with my trailer plans for the fall. I am going to do well in July with the festival in town. And if that works, it works. If it doesn't, it doesn't. We'll just have to find a new plan for the next year.
I still want to help out a friend but he still hates me for some I dunno reason why.
If we get somewhat ahead this summer, I will still be able to do what I need to do to help. But I still have mortgage notes, insurance, taxes upon taxes, and the end of the year isn't nearly over. I need to keep working on this business to build it. This town is small but we are getting people coming in from neighboring towns as well! I always said that if everyone in town were to come in once a month, I'd be a millionaire! This town would definitely be in for a treat with a BIGGER "TOAO NIKOS!" And it will happen. Someday.
As I am ready to sell it all and walk away, I will be happy to take a rest for 10 years and just do NOTHING! lol
Perhaps a beach in FIGI!?!?
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
MATT STOUDT!
Tonight was the benefit for a friend of mine here in town. He was diagnosed with stage 2 cancer, which spread to his brain. He is terminal. He was sent home a week or so ago for his hospice care. He is turning 21 tomorrow. His life has been cut way too short for someone who is so gentile. I feel badly that I couldn't get to know him better. We spent some time at Cathy's at night, playing cards, or chess. Coffee at Cathy's at night is like, pretty much the only thing to do if you don't drink in town.
So tonight we celebrated his life. It was a really awesome benefit. I got to go around and sell raffle tickets for a few hours. I raised about $300 for him, and then they announced the 50/50 raffle winner, and the winner decided to donate the winnings back to the benefit fund. How amazing is that??? I am just back home for the night, looking at my emails and catching up on missed twitter messages.
I'm really looking forward to the "PETUNIA FESTIVAL" this year. I know it sounds cheesy! But it is the town celebration for a week long here in Dixon. There is a bit of a carnival on the park lawn along the river. And hopefully we can set up a food booth selling soda, chips, nachos, hot dogs, polish sausage and NIKOS' t-shirts and hats! Not to mention our first annual HOT DOG EATING CONTEST! All in all, if the weather is cooperative, I think the whole week long event will help us out with some much needed income that we missed out on last summer because of our late start.
I don't doubt that we will make it this summer. I just wish it was faster, coming. I know it is still the last week in March, and summer is just around the corner, I just wish I could speed through spring! Time to take a breath and just enjoy the seasons. I am nervous about the whole mortgage thing. I know I need make that happen this year to take advantage of the whole 10% thing from the government. But whether I will qualify for the mortgage is another thing. So that is my focus and my only prayer right now.
It's a long way away from the goals I have set. So, I need to keep working and keep my head out of the clouds. I was looking this week at another building, and it was really great looking at the possibilities! It had MORE SPACE, MORE PARKING, MORE TRAFFIC, MORE POTENTIAL, and MORE EVERYTHING, but it was about 10 times the amount of the building I am in now, and it would probably be 10 times bigger! But I just am not ready yet. We'll get there, but in time. Little by little, we will get our ducks in a row and be ready for that expansion someday. I can't look beyond this year for now. So that means, summer, fall with the trailer and school season, and winter with the slowest point of the year before next spring rolls around again and we do it all over again! If I can see one trailer this fall and next spring, and the following summer, then we can pay down some of our debt next summer and have an even BETTER 2011!
2010 is our year to hold back the reigns and work in a strict budget. In the next couple years we can let go a little more each year, but this year has got to be disciplined.
Keep me in your prayers for the mortgage. If I need to come up with any significant down payment, I will be really desperate for that to get it done in time for the federal rebate. I don't want to throw away $6,750 in free money! Have a great new week! We are going on week number 31! That is amazing! Thanks for all your well wishes and prayers!
So tonight we celebrated his life. It was a really awesome benefit. I got to go around and sell raffle tickets for a few hours. I raised about $300 for him, and then they announced the 50/50 raffle winner, and the winner decided to donate the winnings back to the benefit fund. How amazing is that??? I am just back home for the night, looking at my emails and catching up on missed twitter messages.
I'm really looking forward to the "PETUNIA FESTIVAL" this year. I know it sounds cheesy! But it is the town celebration for a week long here in Dixon. There is a bit of a carnival on the park lawn along the river. And hopefully we can set up a food booth selling soda, chips, nachos, hot dogs, polish sausage and NIKOS' t-shirts and hats! Not to mention our first annual HOT DOG EATING CONTEST! All in all, if the weather is cooperative, I think the whole week long event will help us out with some much needed income that we missed out on last summer because of our late start.
I don't doubt that we will make it this summer. I just wish it was faster, coming. I know it is still the last week in March, and summer is just around the corner, I just wish I could speed through spring! Time to take a breath and just enjoy the seasons. I am nervous about the whole mortgage thing. I know I need make that happen this year to take advantage of the whole 10% thing from the government. But whether I will qualify for the mortgage is another thing. So that is my focus and my only prayer right now.
It's a long way away from the goals I have set. So, I need to keep working and keep my head out of the clouds. I was looking this week at another building, and it was really great looking at the possibilities! It had MORE SPACE, MORE PARKING, MORE TRAFFIC, MORE POTENTIAL, and MORE EVERYTHING, but it was about 10 times the amount of the building I am in now, and it would probably be 10 times bigger! But I just am not ready yet. We'll get there, but in time. Little by little, we will get our ducks in a row and be ready for that expansion someday. I can't look beyond this year for now. So that means, summer, fall with the trailer and school season, and winter with the slowest point of the year before next spring rolls around again and we do it all over again! If I can see one trailer this fall and next spring, and the following summer, then we can pay down some of our debt next summer and have an even BETTER 2011!
2010 is our year to hold back the reigns and work in a strict budget. In the next couple years we can let go a little more each year, but this year has got to be disciplined.
Keep me in your prayers for the mortgage. If I need to come up with any significant down payment, I will be really desperate for that to get it done in time for the federal rebate. I don't want to throw away $6,750 in free money! Have a great new week! We are going on week number 31! That is amazing! Thanks for all your well wishes and prayers!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
A LITTLE CART!
Long ago, and so far away, I was a wee lad of 10 and there was this guy who pushed his little cart down the street, selling out of it, hot dogs and polish sausages. I followed this guy every day, thinking that all I wanted to do in life was just that! And I hope to be able to do that this year! Well, not walking block to block, and not with a small cart alone, but with a little help from my buyer's rebate for the purchase of my house, I will have enough to have my trailer built to specifications I need to meet the health codes of the county! Not only that, but I will have a place to put it and a market to put it to work for me! I intend on parking it on the green, right in front of the high school, so that at lunch time, the kids can come out, get their dogs and chips and sodas, put some money in my pocket, and good food in their stomachs before they hustle off back to class!
You see, we are less than a mile from the high school, but until now, we had no way of gaining our market share to those 900 kids who attend! They trek across the street to Domino's or to McDonald's or to Subway. But the journey to TOAO NIKOS' is too far to make there and back within the half hour they have for lunch. So we have a great downtown location, just not close enough to make it for that extra lunch boost.
Now, with the wonder of the Park District, and their allowing us to park our trailer in the park adjacent to the school, we can now share in that market! So this coming fall, I hope to have my trailer built! Equipped with a double steam table, a cooler, a chip rack and the Dixon Purple and White decals I plan on loading onto the sides of the trailer, I hope we can make the next winter season a lot easier to deal with, financially speaking. All we need is for it to be just a little easier. I am not asking for a lot! But this little padding through the winter months will really help us grow.
Next fall, we can do the high school, and pick back up in the spring months. Then we can have the summer months in the parks for Junior Tackle or Soccer. Beyond this year, we can begin by getting another food trailer for the new river front property. Perhaps an enclosed trailer with more amenities. Then the building next door, and the remodel! Either that or one of the many buildings on the major street Galena! That would be sweet. A parking lot. A great possibility of even looking into the future prospect of a pool hall with the restaurant attached. All a part of the growing business I want to have! All a part of the beginning dream of the 10 year old kid following the push cart vendor, long ago.
How does this start? The money it is going to take to get the trailer built, will come from my rebate for the first time home buyer program! If I get my mortgage on my house, I will get 10% back from the government for the starting capital for this venture. My prayer is only this, that I get my mortgage approved. Beyond that, I know that Jehovah Jireh! THE LORD PROVIDES! I believe that this is going to work! I believe that God has continually blessed me with each and every day that we have made it through this past 8 months! And now, I know that all this stuff is just going to work!
The Apostle Paul said that, "We know that all things work together for good, to those that love God; to those that are called according to His purposes." Another translation is even better, "Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good."
So I believe! And I know that despite my best efforts, all my blessings come from God! Because if I start relying on myself, I know I will screw it up somehow. I will be discouraged and fail. But by faith, I believe I can do all things from God's strength! And that alone will make this work! Even if it isn't in my time frame, it is going to be in God's!
For all that writing, I hope you all get a sense of where my faith is. It isn't in easy believeism, but rather in work with faith! I know I can't let myself free to let God do something if I am not working to do it myself. But I am doing all I need to do to let God work through me.
I hope everyone out there gets something from that. And now I will go finish the movie I am about to watch, and rest up for tomorrow! It is going to be another busy day! And I need to be ready for it!
Good night all!
You see, we are less than a mile from the high school, but until now, we had no way of gaining our market share to those 900 kids who attend! They trek across the street to Domino's or to McDonald's or to Subway. But the journey to TOAO NIKOS' is too far to make there and back within the half hour they have for lunch. So we have a great downtown location, just not close enough to make it for that extra lunch boost.
Now, with the wonder of the Park District, and their allowing us to park our trailer in the park adjacent to the school, we can now share in that market! So this coming fall, I hope to have my trailer built! Equipped with a double steam table, a cooler, a chip rack and the Dixon Purple and White decals I plan on loading onto the sides of the trailer, I hope we can make the next winter season a lot easier to deal with, financially speaking. All we need is for it to be just a little easier. I am not asking for a lot! But this little padding through the winter months will really help us grow.
Next fall, we can do the high school, and pick back up in the spring months. Then we can have the summer months in the parks for Junior Tackle or Soccer. Beyond this year, we can begin by getting another food trailer for the new river front property. Perhaps an enclosed trailer with more amenities. Then the building next door, and the remodel! Either that or one of the many buildings on the major street Galena! That would be sweet. A parking lot. A great possibility of even looking into the future prospect of a pool hall with the restaurant attached. All a part of the growing business I want to have! All a part of the beginning dream of the 10 year old kid following the push cart vendor, long ago.
How does this start? The money it is going to take to get the trailer built, will come from my rebate for the first time home buyer program! If I get my mortgage on my house, I will get 10% back from the government for the starting capital for this venture. My prayer is only this, that I get my mortgage approved. Beyond that, I know that Jehovah Jireh! THE LORD PROVIDES! I believe that this is going to work! I believe that God has continually blessed me with each and every day that we have made it through this past 8 months! And now, I know that all this stuff is just going to work!
The Apostle Paul said that, "We know that all things work together for good, to those that love God; to those that are called according to His purposes." Another translation is even better, "Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good."
So I believe! And I know that despite my best efforts, all my blessings come from God! Because if I start relying on myself, I know I will screw it up somehow. I will be discouraged and fail. But by faith, I believe I can do all things from God's strength! And that alone will make this work! Even if it isn't in my time frame, it is going to be in God's!
For all that writing, I hope you all get a sense of where my faith is. It isn't in easy believeism, but rather in work with faith! I know I can't let myself free to let God do something if I am not working to do it myself. But I am doing all I need to do to let God work through me.
I hope everyone out there gets something from that. And now I will go finish the movie I am about to watch, and rest up for tomorrow! It is going to be another busy day! And I need to be ready for it!
Good night all!
Sunday, March 21, 2010
JUST A BIT EASIER?
I'm glad I have been able to blog a bit more lately. I love writing when I am in the mood. Over the winter, I just haven't been in any mood to write. It's the winter blahs. I guess it was heightened by the whole, business slowdown. I am really hoping that business will pick up like I expect. I have a lot riding on the success of this business. And I really need to see my sales increase a bit more.
If it was just a bit easier, if I didn't have as many mistakes from employees, or if just some people were less inclined to drive through the golden arches and instead, find some GOOD food at my place, maybe I'd have more of a fighting chance! I really do pray every day. I have to take the time to thank God for all the blessings I have. I also have to just keep in mind that whether or not I am worrying, the bills are still going to come due, and eventually get paid. I am still going to have the same amount to pay for my utilities, mortgage on the restaurant, house rent (until I get the mortgage note on that), taxes, etc. And worry isn't helping it get paid any faster.
I put up $2 a week on a lottery ticket. I have this crazy notion that if God wanted to bless me somehow, I was going to give him a way to do it! So every week, I slap my two bucks down and hope for a miracle. That is what winning the lottery is, right? In the meantime, I have to check my deposits and spending every day, as I write my sales summaries to send off to my accountant for month end tax reporting and such.
And now April is coming up, and end of year taxes will be due. Along with quarterly taxes coming due, I will see how much I will be behind really soon. And then the whole issue of the housing mortgage approval. Will it happen? I don't know. It is my prayer that somehow, a little bird or a whole flock of birds will whisper in some people's ears in this town that my food is better than McDonald's and worth the wait. Fast food can't just be fast and cheap, it has to be good quality, which McDonald's just doesn't compare with me over. When you have a bunch of pimple faced kids working your grill, you can kind of expect that you will get what they grow themselves. Years ago, McDonald's was putting horse meat in their burgers. It was a bit of a fiasco for the food chain, when they got caught. Anything to keep costs low, I guess.
I never want to think like a chain. Even if I ever do expand to open other stores someday, I want people to know that we are a very personable experience at every turn. We aren't just another store number with profit as our only interest. If only it was just a bit easier to get there.
Couple days left for the month. We aren't doing all that hot this month. I hope April shows some improvement. And I hope I get this mortgage for the house. THAT IS MY PRAYER!
"Be still, and know that I am God!" - God
If it was just a bit easier, if I didn't have as many mistakes from employees, or if just some people were less inclined to drive through the golden arches and instead, find some GOOD food at my place, maybe I'd have more of a fighting chance! I really do pray every day. I have to take the time to thank God for all the blessings I have. I also have to just keep in mind that whether or not I am worrying, the bills are still going to come due, and eventually get paid. I am still going to have the same amount to pay for my utilities, mortgage on the restaurant, house rent (until I get the mortgage note on that), taxes, etc. And worry isn't helping it get paid any faster.
I put up $2 a week on a lottery ticket. I have this crazy notion that if God wanted to bless me somehow, I was going to give him a way to do it! So every week, I slap my two bucks down and hope for a miracle. That is what winning the lottery is, right? In the meantime, I have to check my deposits and spending every day, as I write my sales summaries to send off to my accountant for month end tax reporting and such.
And now April is coming up, and end of year taxes will be due. Along with quarterly taxes coming due, I will see how much I will be behind really soon. And then the whole issue of the housing mortgage approval. Will it happen? I don't know. It is my prayer that somehow, a little bird or a whole flock of birds will whisper in some people's ears in this town that my food is better than McDonald's and worth the wait. Fast food can't just be fast and cheap, it has to be good quality, which McDonald's just doesn't compare with me over. When you have a bunch of pimple faced kids working your grill, you can kind of expect that you will get what they grow themselves. Years ago, McDonald's was putting horse meat in their burgers. It was a bit of a fiasco for the food chain, when they got caught. Anything to keep costs low, I guess.
I never want to think like a chain. Even if I ever do expand to open other stores someday, I want people to know that we are a very personable experience at every turn. We aren't just another store number with profit as our only interest. If only it was just a bit easier to get there.
Couple days left for the month. We aren't doing all that hot this month. I hope April shows some improvement. And I hope I get this mortgage for the house. THAT IS MY PRAYER!
"Be still, and know that I am God!" - God
Friday, March 19, 2010
I WON!
I hate traffic cops. I hate their attitudes, I hate their demeanor, I hate their power trips and their egos. I can see why most people have a bad taste in their mouths about these people who are there as public servants who wield their badges and pretend they are "all that," when they are just normal citizens who are there to help people in need. But when you combine that with our criminal justice system, and you give them the license to stop drivers at their whim, it gets a bit more ridiculous.
I got a ticket for not wearing a safety belt a couple months ago, and the cop stated on the citation that when he stopped me I admitted that I wasn't wearing one. I called him a liar, and told him that he misconstrued my statement to him when he stopped me. Within 24 hours of that traffic stop, ANOTHER cop from the same agency pulled me over as I drove out of my driveway, and asked if I was the guy who called his colleague a liar. When I told him I had, he issued me another ticket for some bogus traffic violation!
So then I go to contest the ticket in court, and the Assistant State's Attorney decides he is going to dismiss the ticket for the seat belt violation. This of course, leaves the officers who made the original stop not have to appear for the other case, so I had to subpoena those officers so they would testify that they had, in fact, discussed my case with their colleagues and that was the reason for the second officer's stopping me. It cost me $46 for the subpoenas and I had to drive 40 miles each way to have the county sheriff's office deliver the subpoenas where the police station was. In the meantime, none of the officer's appeared in court on the trial date and the second was dismissed for the fact that there was no witness against me. Now I feel a bit vindicated. I don't have a stain on my driving record. But it was inconvenient for me. The judge said he couldn't award me with the compensation for the cost of the subpoenas AND he agreed with me it was ridiculous that they could bring a charge, and I could be inconvenienced, and I could not recover that cost. But such is life.
At least I am done with that idiocy. Cops are corrupt. I live in a small town, and instead of patrolling the state highways, or helping people as they are hired to, State troopers in Illinois are stopping people for their own ego-maniacal chances of strutting their stuff, with their large brimmed brown hats and their puffed up heads.
This one didn't go on my record. I have not had any moving violations in over 10 years, and now I don't have to pay any higher insurance premiums due to their idiotic show.
I fought the law, and I WON!
I got a ticket for not wearing a safety belt a couple months ago, and the cop stated on the citation that when he stopped me I admitted that I wasn't wearing one. I called him a liar, and told him that he misconstrued my statement to him when he stopped me. Within 24 hours of that traffic stop, ANOTHER cop from the same agency pulled me over as I drove out of my driveway, and asked if I was the guy who called his colleague a liar. When I told him I had, he issued me another ticket for some bogus traffic violation!
So then I go to contest the ticket in court, and the Assistant State's Attorney decides he is going to dismiss the ticket for the seat belt violation. This of course, leaves the officers who made the original stop not have to appear for the other case, so I had to subpoena those officers so they would testify that they had, in fact, discussed my case with their colleagues and that was the reason for the second officer's stopping me. It cost me $46 for the subpoenas and I had to drive 40 miles each way to have the county sheriff's office deliver the subpoenas where the police station was. In the meantime, none of the officer's appeared in court on the trial date and the second was dismissed for the fact that there was no witness against me. Now I feel a bit vindicated. I don't have a stain on my driving record. But it was inconvenient for me. The judge said he couldn't award me with the compensation for the cost of the subpoenas AND he agreed with me it was ridiculous that they could bring a charge, and I could be inconvenienced, and I could not recover that cost. But such is life.
At least I am done with that idiocy. Cops are corrupt. I live in a small town, and instead of patrolling the state highways, or helping people as they are hired to, State troopers in Illinois are stopping people for their own ego-maniacal chances of strutting their stuff, with their large brimmed brown hats and their puffed up heads.
This one didn't go on my record. I have not had any moving violations in over 10 years, and now I don't have to pay any higher insurance premiums due to their idiotic show.
I fought the law, and I WON!
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!
It is a beautiful, sunny, warm day in Dixon, IL today! It is March 17th, 2010. It is one year, two months and 18 days since I met the one person who means the most to me in the world and he is 10,000 miles away, without an ounce of thought on his mind about me.
I still think about him. I still wonder if he ever thinks about what he did to hurt me. I still wonder if I will ever meet him someday and have a coffee, like we talked about. I still wonder why I fell so hard, and so fast, but I don't regret a thing about it. It just happened. I just did. And I'm glad I did.
I still think he is an amazing person, and I hope someday he sees the same in me. If he never does, I'll still care. I'll still be here, wondering. I will breathe the same air as I have all this time. I will still work at the restaurant day in, and day out. I will still work on this house, which I have now begun to refer to as "the money pit." I will still pray every day for another day. And I will still keep on keeping on.
I do, love him. I know it's weird, not knowing someone, but there is just something so special about this guy. He is a complete piece of work right now, but someday he is going to be beyond that idiocy. I hope he will. And I hope someday, our paths will cross, so that he can take a closer look at one person who will be here... loving him... despite himself.
Have a Happy St. Patrick's Day, everybody! Eat a potato! (in Greek, that statement is really funny! "Fie mia patata")
I still think about him. I still wonder if he ever thinks about what he did to hurt me. I still wonder if I will ever meet him someday and have a coffee, like we talked about. I still wonder why I fell so hard, and so fast, but I don't regret a thing about it. It just happened. I just did. And I'm glad I did.
I still think he is an amazing person, and I hope someday he sees the same in me. If he never does, I'll still care. I'll still be here, wondering. I will breathe the same air as I have all this time. I will still work at the restaurant day in, and day out. I will still work on this house, which I have now begun to refer to as "the money pit." I will still pray every day for another day. And I will still keep on keeping on.
I do, love him. I know it's weird, not knowing someone, but there is just something so special about this guy. He is a complete piece of work right now, but someday he is going to be beyond that idiocy. I hope he will. And I hope someday, our paths will cross, so that he can take a closer look at one person who will be here... loving him... despite himself.
Have a Happy St. Patrick's Day, everybody! Eat a potato! (in Greek, that statement is really funny! "Fie mia patata")
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
DRIVING
I think I drove 300 miles today! I started at work this morning, then drove to Morrison, which is about 30-40 miles one way, then back and then to Rockford, which is another 40 or so miles the other way. Then on my way back, I got lost, took a wrong turn and ended up going about another 50 or so miles out of my way. It was, indeed, a fun drive. And I'm not just being sarcastic. I enjoyed the time away from this small town. Driving through the other towns in Illinois, and seeing all the fields and such, along with farms and factories; old farm houses that look abandoned, others which look well ready for the spring crops. And in another 4 months, they will be sky high with corn and soybean crops. But the thing that gets me is the people. While Rockford is pretty much the biggest city within 100 miles, you can see all these little towns across the state where nobody has a neighbor for miles! Even in the small towns, you can still count how many houses are around with pennies of a dollar! So, me coming from a big city like Chicago, I get the sense that I am still pretty much alone in this small town.
Business has been steadily growing. The weather has been a bit rainy, but there were some days of complete sunshine! And it is going to get up to 60 (F) by this weekend! So it appears that spring has sprung. I have some menus to get out there for the March and April specials. And we have kids coming around on Saturdays to do that. My sales still aren't quite as good as I hope for but I anticipate a good summer, nonetheless.
Now for forward thinking: New Zealand - someday, still. I hope to get far enough this year that I will have enough to take the trip come next February. It will be the tail end of summer down there. So my winter will be filled with sunshine in the middle of the dead of winter. I don't know for sure, because I still don't know how the summer is going to measure up... It is still my first summer, after all. But that is the hope for now. I am also hoping for a good cart season this fall! That is also dependent on the whole house thing, and whether I can get the mortgage for it in time.
Damn, I just printed a thousand menus and I already need more toner cartridges? I need to start stocking up on those. Color menus are really classy. I like that I have not skimped on quality. Even though I have a small place, it is big on taste, character, and style.
I guess I should wrap up this post for now. I have to get some sleep, and I have a bit of a long day tomorrow. Humpday is not my best day of the week, but it can make or break us for the week.
Hope all is well with you. Whoever reads this. Love you all for all your prayers and well wishes.
Business has been steadily growing. The weather has been a bit rainy, but there were some days of complete sunshine! And it is going to get up to 60 (F) by this weekend! So it appears that spring has sprung. I have some menus to get out there for the March and April specials. And we have kids coming around on Saturdays to do that. My sales still aren't quite as good as I hope for but I anticipate a good summer, nonetheless.
Now for forward thinking: New Zealand - someday, still. I hope to get far enough this year that I will have enough to take the trip come next February. It will be the tail end of summer down there. So my winter will be filled with sunshine in the middle of the dead of winter. I don't know for sure, because I still don't know how the summer is going to measure up... It is still my first summer, after all. But that is the hope for now. I am also hoping for a good cart season this fall! That is also dependent on the whole house thing, and whether I can get the mortgage for it in time.
Damn, I just printed a thousand menus and I already need more toner cartridges? I need to start stocking up on those. Color menus are really classy. I like that I have not skimped on quality. Even though I have a small place, it is big on taste, character, and style.
I guess I should wrap up this post for now. I have to get some sleep, and I have a bit of a long day tomorrow. Humpday is not my best day of the week, but it can make or break us for the week.
Hope all is well with you. Whoever reads this. Love you all for all your prayers and well wishes.
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