Step Away From the Cake

 I need a good topic for my blog post this week. The blog I have on my website. I really think I need to write about how hard it is to work and try to run a small business. How I think that's the best topic I can come up with. Mainly because I am struggling right now. I want to get traction for my business, but at the same time I don't have enough hours in the day to get everything done that I need to get done.  You know what? Let's focus on that for a minute. I do my best "thinking" here, so let me think this through and see if I can come up with a solid plan.  So first, let me just list the things I need to do in no particular order:  Make things - real things and designs. If I plan to sell online or at markets, I need physical things to sell. If I plan to make designs, I need to make the physical things to sell the designs. So making things has to happen.  Social Media - my weakest link. But I have to do it. I have to do it in advance because if left to my ow...

 back when I would still get a period, there was definitely a pattern in my energy levels. I would be bouncing around with energy some weeks and then other weeks I could hardly get out of bed. I knew it was fluctuations in my hormones but I could kind of predict when they were coming because I knew my cycle. I know that after menopause the hormones continue to cycle, though not as strongly as before, and they fluctuate. So there are still periods of high energy and low energy but now I don't really know when they are coming. This week was a very, very low energy week. Tuesday night the pool guy came to look at the pool pump and while he wasn't here late, we did stand outside all night helping him with the pump.  I woke up Wednesday morning feeling wiped out. Almost hung over, but not quite. It was brutal. Yesterday I was also very low energy. I just could not muster up energy for anything. Thankfully today is Friday and I don't have to muster up energy for anything. I went ...

 I think it's time to get back to my gratitude. Sometimes I lose track of all the things I really do have to be thankful for.  Today I am thankful for my job. Seriously. I really do love where I work and I really do love what I do. I love teaching. I enjoy passing my knowledge onto the kids and helping them to learn something they didn't even know existed. I love that. I enjoy the people I work with, for the most part. No, that's not true. I do enjoy them. I have never, ever, ever had such a great admin team and I love that. Overall the students are awesome, there are always a few that make life challenging. So today I am very thankful for my job. Oh, the fact that it is a 4 day workweek doesn't hurt anything either, though I would not stay just because of that. 

 I wanted 2025 to be so different for my business, but we are a week in and nothing much has changed. I have tons of things I want to do, but I am not doing them. I need to change things up. I need to shake up my routine and flip things on their head. I did give myself some grace this week as it was the first week back and I was freaking exhausted. My feet hurt every single day and I wore real shoes, heels even, on Monday and Tuesday. Yeah, my feet and legs were tired!!!! But I need a new routine. I made it a routine to come home and take Mavy for a walk. I do that every night now and he expects it. I can make a new routine, I just need to figure one out. I'm thinking that working after the walk would be best. I come home and Hubby is watching Family Feud. I hate that show and I hate Steve Harvey. But I head over to the couch and site through it night after night because I'm tired. What if, instead of coming in from the walk and sitting on the couch, I was to come in here and g...

 We left for Dewey on Tuesday. It's only about 90 minutes away so it was an easy drive. The road to the house though was dirt and I was not expecting that. But we got there and it was a cute little cabin with a nice fenced in yard for Mavy.  The back and the yard It had a bbq so we ended up cooking steaks one night and chicken the next. It was nice. They had some really nice touches throughout the place.   A tiny, tiny bottle of champagne with two tiny glasses and some noise makers. Very cute since we got there New Year's Eve.  There were tiny bottles of water by the bed and chocolates. They left a note that said don't worry about doing the dishes, they would get them. That's unusual. Most places want you to leave things really clean.  The view was great too.  And the stars!!! OMG!!! So, so, so many stars. We bought my telescope but it doesn't work very well or I don't know how to use it very well, one of those.  Anyway, it was a nice stay except ...

 Love me some new beginnings. And this is kind of the ultimate new beginning, the ending of one year and the beginning of another. Reviewing last year's new year post, I had stated that I would be working on my mental health last year. And I did that to a large extent. Probably not as much as I should have, but I did. I'm in a much better place this year than I was last year. I have made a lot of strides in many areas, but there is still room or improvement.  This year is all about momentum. I just need to keep moving forward. I want to move forward with my health, with my business, with my mental attitude. All of it, just keep making progress. We are leaving today for Dewey, AZ. When we return on Thursday I will need to dig into schoolwork to be ready for Monday. That's not that hard, I just need to sit down and do it. Probably 3-4 hours of solid work and I'll be all set.  My business is humming along. I spent yesterday cleaning and organizing this room. I got all my l...