Calendar Girl Blog: Running a Business/Life

My learning curve is getting tighter these days.

I'm trying to find my place on line both with an e-business that sells a physical product that I make and as a writer using blogs as my publishing platform. Of course my physical world cannot be ignored either. I own an old house, have a health issue that sucks my energy, a meager social life, and an office which needs supplies and attention.

Take today for instance.

1. Men are hammering on my house. Men ask questions about what I want done. They want concise, clear answers, quickly. And hot beverages every now and then.
   
2. My bookkeeper Sharon is in my office. She asks questions about the paper trail I've left. She requires concise, clear answers, quickly. And hot beverages every now and then.
3. Orders for calendars needed to be packaged and shipped. Today, about 25 in total. At the downtown post office, a new staff person is training. Because I am a regular, with a pleasant reputation, I'm her first customer.
4. I designed a new logo for My Menopause Blog which needed to go to my graphic designer for scanning.
   
5. Intermittently, as I wind through the day, I promo the In The Spirit Show that I'm co-producing with several other artists.
   
6. My office chair went the way of the dodo some time ago. Hence, my lower quarters suffer from the poor state of affairs of my dead chair. So off I went, to the far end of the city to the office supply store, where I try a dozen seats out, buy one, wrestle it into my compact car, muscle it up the stairs to my office and pleasantly surprise Sharon.
7. I attended a two hour presentation for a product line that claims to have cancer fighting properties. I don't have cancer. The link is the calendar and the company is hoping I will be one of their spokes people.
   
8. On-line, more orders are waiting to be processed.
9. My blogs are empty of their daily post and the sun is setting.
10. After a quick visit to Pro Blogger site I've been cruising, I discovered three new things that I want to try and implement. Try is the operative word. When would be the question.
    
11. I have evening plans that are bearing down on me. The Walmart Movie, The High Cost of Low Prices, is showing. Given our city has been engaged in a 10 year battle with the giant, I want to know more. I will recognize, at a number of different levels, 90% of the audience. No doubt the pub will be filled with us later.
    
12. Dinner?
    

Calendar Girl is feeling a tad rung out. She tries to exert some control on the days tasks, is gifted at saying NO thank you, and does not have eyes that are bigger than her belly. But some days simply spin her round the curve.

Calendar Girl