June 29: If you could see me....

Disclaimer:  Spell check is not working so pardon any mistakes.  I am trying.  lol

I believe that one should learn at least one thing new every day, but today I am on major overload!  Quilting for people and charging sales tax was no big problem except for deciding on the right quilting design.  Setting up what we hope to be a good business with a solid income is something else.  Topped off with moving to a new home in a new state (Okay not a brand new state, but we have not lived here for 31 years.) and adding in another adult, a parent, no less, must fall into the super stress category.  That being said, I think that the people situation is working fine, and we are loving South Dakota.  That means that the problem stressors are the settling and finding space for all our treasures, planning for some remodeling and trying to get a full time business off the ground.

We did get some positive news about our jet tub/shower.  The company will pay the cost of an actual jet tub toward our new shower/remodel of our bathroom.  If you have missed that saga, suffice it to say that the jet tub went into cardiac arrest and will need to be removed in pieces, so we have decided to put in a large shower instead of another monster tub.  In the next week or so, we will be ordering the new shower, sink, and fixtures.  Installation should be completed this summer.  Our original plan was do this remodel in 2 years, but the tub's bad attitude has changed things.

This summer, we hope to be turning the attached garage into 2 small guest bedrooms, a storage space, and an additional family area for when the house fills with grandkids and other family and friends.  To that end we have drawn up some tentative plans and hope to meet with a contractor early in July.  We already have 3 bathrooms; therefore, we are not putting in another so that will hopefullly help the bottomline.  Of course, the work will probably mean a little rearranging and accomidating, but we are looking at the end results.

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Okay, all of this is really old news so why my post title?  Well, this morning we started out by meeting with our new accountant to learn more about how to operate Quick Books for the woodworking business.  She was extremely informative and both Kevin and I know that we learned quite a bit, but after the first 1 1/2 hours my brain was not absorbing as well as it should have been.  I know that I am smart enough to master it with time, but WOW!  Fortunately, we are in this together so we can play off each other's strengths and support each other during the furstrations.  For now, it is just so much to take in.  I will just consider it this way:  How do you eat an elephant?  One bite at a time.

After the accountant session we picked up our new business cards.  They have the information we want on them, but they do not look like we thought they did when the card was in larger form.  The print is legible, but too small and the watermark background is too dark.   We will use these for the moment, but we are pleased that we did not order all that many.  We will tweak things and do another printing before too long.  For now, we have just shared them with some family and friends

Kevin and I went out to lunch thinking that we would have some time to talk and sort things out for our next moves, but if you were sitting in the same restuarant as we were you would not have heard anything from us.  SO PATHETIC!

We have recovered some  Did the weekly grocery shopping, set up doctor appointments for Kevin and his dad, finished a lod of laundry, and took some downtime.  Time to jump back on the crazy mobile and deal with some more organizing in the quilt studio.  Touching fabric always helps to settle the brain!

Life is GOOD!