On the 4th Day of Christmas........

Basketball season started today for the kids. Razorbacks and Badgers (and yes, we've seen the honey badger video on YouTube). Back to hardcore studying once Christmas has passed. The eldest will be starting in on book reports and having to read things that she doesn't want to read. The youngest will be upgrading to bigger numbers and carrying the 1. These are the only things that I'm concerned we may shed tears over. I think I've gotten a good start on the business. I'm ironing out what I'm going to be making and selling as well as starting to compile cost lists and so forth. May have an Etsy store up and running by the start of the New Year. My next goal is a table at the Flea Market on weekends. There are some higher class people who would swear to me that that is not the place that I want to sell my items because that's not the kind of crowd you want to be selling to. 'Cuse me? You never know when there might be a business man in the crowd looking to market someone. That and the lower class is just as entitled to having something handmade and wonderful as the upper and middle class are (..... if not more so in most cases). I just have to keep telling myself that I can do this. I'm so good at starting things....... not so good at finishing. I would like to finish this and see it through to the beginning of a lucrative living. I would be happy if it just brought in a little extra money until I can get that creative career as an animator for a hit tv kids show. Sorry...... went off on that dream again. There's the other one where we all tour the country going from craft show to craft show in a gypsy caravan (or Tumbleweed House) and my kids find themselves a niche in the craft and art world. I'm rambling now. This is what happens when I don't get enough sleep. The Christmas tree looks nice though. Love the lights, every year.

It's Beginning to Look A lot Like.......

I try to save the insanity of Christmas for December only and not allow it to seep out into the rest of the year. Yeah right. I'm a knitter which means that my insanity level hits critical mass in September and stays there until the last gift is unwrapped. Then it begins again at the beginning of the New Year. See September is crunch time. Time when I have to figure out do I really have time to knit 14 more pairs of socks before Santa squeezes his fat arse down the chimney. Time when I wonder if I'm going to hell for that thought and time when I see if I can squeeze in more knitting without making my head explode. It never works out. Why? Because I am procrastinator and what I should have done in September I am now doing in December (good thing the list is short this year) along with trying out ideas for a little business I may be starting up soon (if I ever gear up the necessary confidence.... this is scary). Enjoy your Christmas and I'll enjoy the Nog.