be really good at taking care of my finances

when i know a lot of people don’t and I am grateful for it. also i have raised my prices decently

having a wretched bad streak here, many mistakes, broken things and am very demoralized. I have serious doubts about my ability to be a business person

ah October,
didn’t owe too much, good to get em done.
having the new office is so much better.
my theory with all the dreadful news is to focus
on what I need to do, then worry after that, since I always have something I CAN do, I guess I won’t get around to worrying. Also there are so many cool free creative things to do, in a way it’s good to have an excuse to do them. Just for the record, I have good work right now.

I turned in my tax information today!!!!! oh my god, this is the earliest ever. I did last year’s in november. it feels great. learned all about my corporation duties, kinda complicated, but supposed to be good for my business. I bid on a job I think I will get today! got a deposit on a job that I thought I lost today. I really needed the money NOW too! have an interview for another job tomorro! doing a beautiful project in my studio today too. really grateful.

helped my son move into his new place today, enormous fun! I usually spend a lot of money on him and it hard because I really want to. so today we scored big at the salvation army , a couch , a love seat, a bed with box springs for 4 dollars!! really. big sale. the whole rest of the day whenever we’d make some little 5 dollar purchase we’d crack up and say “you can get 2 couches and a bed for less than this”. second hand stuff can be cool, and it’s recycling. so it is also cool to find ways to have fun without crazy spending.

entering a full years worth of business, it is pretty good but I got stuck on one part, I have a bookkeeper on wed, so she will help, I can still finninsh entering without reconciling. this is the earliest I have ever done it, so that is good

am in the process of getting better insurance for myself and my son. it is huge because I have been spending up to half of my income for medical expences for several years, very stressful.
Also am getting a new (hopefully way better) quote on car insurance. doing it with a decent attitude too!

prepare and pay my taxes before April 1- 08

1. reconcile checkbook by Jan 15-08
2. 10- 99”s by jan 20-08
3. Learn to do my regular bookwork by myself in Jan 08

I sold a sculpture through a gallery yesterday. yippee, even tho I only get half the money , it inspires me to know someone pays the big bucks for my work.

I delivered a beautiful set of lamps for a bedroom today. they also have a lot of my other work and treat me with wonderful respect. I analised the price and did this one mostly exactly right! this is the lamp without the shade. the hands in this one are modeled from my assistant, the pair I turned in are from my hands,which is kinda cool