Today has been pretty productive for me. As I mentioned in a previous blog, I am working on setting up my own business at home. It is going to be a combination mail-order and online sales type of business. I went today and picked up my "Home Occupant Use Certificate" from the city's Planning Department. It's essentially a business license. I have already mailed in my applications for my Fictitious Business Name and Resale Certificate, and have in hand my Federal Tax ID number.
What I've been doing is entering different products that I sell into an offline inventory program that makes it a breeze to upload to eBay. It also calculates all of your listing fees before you actually list the item, so you can tell how much you can afford to actually list. It is a hit and miss project with eBay. I had some success a few years ago, and have just let it fall by the wayside until now. The best part is that the warehouse that I purchase from is located in Fontana - which is maybe an hour away. So, I can either have things shipped to my apartment, or do will-call and go and pick it up. Also, I can either have the warehouse company "drop ship" to my customers, or I can pick up the items and ship them myself. That is how I prefer to do it, so I can put in some promotional materials and free gifts. Okay, I lie - I do not do any of the shipping, that is something that my husband loves to do, so I let him.
Oh! Yesterday I successfully made Shelly's Pizza Bites - and oh my gosh, it was like a pizza explosion in my mouth. I highly recommend them! Tonight, I am going to try and conquer those blueberry muffins again.
I have still been having issues with liquids hurting my stomach, but I've been finding ways around it to get some fluids in. Protein, however is another story - so unfortunately the scale has not moved down in the last week. I have my one month post op appointment on Tuesday, so I will talk to the doctor about that. I've been having problems with pain management, so I have been taking liquid Lortab; at night mainly, but there has been some times when I have taken it during the day.
Onto some good news: the carpet drying company came out and got all of their equipment, and the construction company came in and fixed our walls in the dining room (I haven't checked the office). Now, we just need to have the walls painted and we should be almost back to normal! Something that came out of this whole mess is that we had to move the saltwater fish tank we have. No, there are no fish in it, as of yet... but I like where it ended up. We just need to have a stand built to accommodate the "guts" of the tank (such as the pump, and filter lines, etc) and have it actually fit where I want it to go. Luckily, I know someone who works in construction.
Well, I'll let you go for now; I have some work I need to get done and stuff. But, I leave you with this:
"They can because they think they can" -- Virgil
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