TwitterJan 21 2010
Our business, its growth, and mine . . .
I pulled an all nighter last night. Too much I needed to get done for our business to stop.
It was 7:45 a.m. when I went into my bedroom to sleep. My room was cast in a pink hue from the sun filtering through the silky pink curtains. I buried my pajamaed self under the pile of blankets, between the soft white flannel sheets, and waited for sleep. My thoughts drifted to the memories of the occasional times when my ex-husband would work all night for his corporate job. That work went to build their business. “Well”, I said, as I pulled the covers up over my head and around my face leaving just enough space for my nose and mouth, “this work and time spent was to build my business. Work I’m going benefit from and will make a difference in our world. The lost sleep was worth it.”
I was up again at 10:30 a.m. downing a glass of water and rubbing sleep from my eyes. I padded over to the same chair that the day before I had spent 20 hours in, sat, and responded to the important emails I had expected to find there. An hour later I was back under my covers for a few more hours of sleep. When I got up this time I went straight to the computer to check emails and see where things had progressed, I responded, and then made a hot cup of Orange Blossom tea into my blue glass mug. It steamed curly wisps into the air as I checked on other things I had set in motion yesterday on the internet. Then I showered, dressed, blow dried, and left for work.
In the time that I have gone down the path of, how long has it been…the last month, discussing !BLAM!ming my parents and then onward to my kids and I, I have kept the work I do with our business humming right along. It has absorbed much of my days and nights as I revolved it around my children, the holidays, and working. Much has been done and much planned. Much of what has been planned is now being constructed or is done. One of those “things” you’re seeing right now, my blog into my own self-hosted site so I can enjoy the benefits that accompany it and the privilege of having my own “.com”. There’s been other things too, we’ve added a lot to the web site, John Solomon started his own blog which John and I worked getting set up and still tweek, and other things of much more larger in capacity and some that are the little but very significant things. But all in all the work of laying the foundation for our business is strongly under way and I’m excited and thankful.
I find this project to be exhilarating and challenging all at the same time. I’m learning the ropes of being a business woman and enjoy the growth that I am able to look back at and see of myself when I started hobbling around seeking to learn after my divorce to today. I wrote a post about that some time back. I’ll see if I can find it and link it after my closing. I am looking forward to the day when our business produces my salary and I can fully devote my time and attention to its care.
I want to close with saying, I’m glad for all of you, my friends that are along with me on my journey. That of finding myself as I come out of all the years of housewife, the trauma of my childhood, and learn to become a entrepreneur business woman/film maker/mom… of 8 of the greatest kids on earth. You’re support is appreciated beyond any thing words could ever express.
Night, love ya,
Theresa Jane
-here’s the link for that post I mentioned http://wp.me/pMvwD-iY
Speaking of amusing tweaks from too little sleep, I forgot to tell you one.
The first time I came over to your new site I had just woke up and was still bleary-eyed. My eyes take a couple of minutes to focus at first. I was reading your page, scrolling down, kept putting finger smudges on my laptop screen trying to wipe off what I thought was dust, dirt, sumpn’…
Got up, got a tissue and some Windex. By the time I was back, my eyes were on track and I realized (DOH!) it was the crinkly-paper BACKGROUND you were using!
I had been trying to “smooth it out”, or wipe off what I thought were dirt spots.
Now that I understand it, I like it.
ROFL!! Oh this is too funny. I’m so glad I decided to come over here and check my blog just before going to bed! It gave me such a laugh.
Today, I’ve been doing kids, working, and working on the business all day and sadly my blog has got the short end today but I wanted to check on it before heading off. I am baffled by the number of hits I’m getting over here. I’m getting triple the hits at my old home then I am here. This doesn’t make any sense. It’s nuts. One side of me says, “You need to double post here and there. The calm side says, “One of the reasons we came over here was to stop double booking on Blogger and WordPress. com.” The nervous, twisting a tissue around her finger side says, “Then we need to go back to our old site.” The calm side says, “Now we can’t do that, it’ll confuse people and they won’t know what side is up or down.” The trembling side lowers her voice and says, “We need to double post.”
BLAH!
I’m glad you mentioned the template because I’ve been going around saying, “I just don’t know…” It just isn’t ringing a siren bell for me and making me giddy. I picked John Solomon’s and I love his, why can’t I find one I love! I’ve gone through so many templates it’s embarrassing trying to find one that makes me really happy.
Oh well, such is life. And thanks to this comment to you I now have a post. Good old cut and paste
Theresa Jane