La Bene Vita

Friday

I'm . I should get hazard pay. I'll talk to my boss about it.

NEW GOAL: Clean up my port.
*thumbdown* No activity.

Post at MichelleTuesday.com   at least once per week.
Pending and overdue.

Business priorities
Compiled and prioritized the list below:
1. Take a nap and drink lots of tea
2. Reconcile all accounts (every weekend)
3. Close October books and update projections* and break-even

* We compared our November income to our projection and discovered that we were well above - in fact, our actual November income looks more like our projected January income. This wasn't really a surprise since we are so ahead of plan on enrollments, UNTIL WE REALIZED THAT WE HAD ALREADY UPDATED THE PROJECTIONS. We updated them after our Grand Opening a month ago. So, one month later, and we're two months ahead of our REVISED projections. If you're not a business person, I'm sorry if I lost you. If you ARE a business person, please find yourself a bib, because you're drooling all over your shirt.

...although, we did have a humility check yesterday. We had a very abrupt withdrawal from a family we liked a lot. They had paid through yesterday's lessons, but had not paid for November. They emailed to say they wouldn't be coming back. They didn't even come for their last lessons that they'd paid for. We were very sad, hurt, and confused. The children were delightful and the parents really nice. They were obviously unhappy about something, but we have no idea what it was.

4. Fill Samplers: (1) Advertised at Google and (2) strongly suggested to several walk-ins and callers, emphasizing deadlines
5. Drums and soundproofing: (1) Need to move drums to an isolated room, (2) Soundproofing work over Thanksgiving

LOW PRIORITY:
1. Update planner: Pending mileage and day scheduling
2. Scheduling and retention databases: Pending Step (1) Research MySQL at GoDaddy.
3. Customer appreciation planning: Handwritten Happy Holidays cards. Maybe even religious, if I know the client's religion.

Temporary goal: Plan Keith's 40th birthday party.
In progress. Still bouncing ideas.

Launch one new performance repertoire song per week.
Pending, but it might not happen this week, because I'm off sick today and probably tomorrow.

One load of laundry per day.
and doing another today.

Achieve a weight of 150 by 12/31/2010
Weight: I'm just too damn lazy to get up off the couch and go stand on the scale. And, before you ask, being too damn lazy to get up off the couch has NOTHING to do with this goal.

Meals:
No coffee today. Plain tea.
7:30 Bagel with cheese (3.5)
8:00 Abby's leftover oatmeal (3) ...thank goodness I insisted on getting the fiber kind
10:00 Cauliflower with cheesy sauce (3)
11:30 Soup (2) and pretzel pieces (6)
12:30 Nerds! (1)
5:00 Caramel corn (4)
6:30 Spaghetti (6) with veggies (2) and buttered toast (2)
TOTAL POINTS SO FAR TODAY: 32.5  (Goal: 25)