Thanksgiving Memories

Yesterday was one of my favorite Thanksgivings,  we got to hang out at the hubbys house and visit with family.   We played board games for hours!    I felt like any moment the ghost of Norman Rockwell was going to appear painting us!    This was seriously a top 5 Thanksgiving moment.

Another one was the year we were making dinner and the pan I used was not deep enough to hold the turkey  We tried to pull out the Turkey and some of the Juice fell out in the oven and instantly flames shot up everywhere.  My mother-in-law grabbed a fire extinguisher but we yelled "NO SAVE THE TURKEY" which, in hindsight sacrificing the house and not the turkey was not the smartest thing to do.  Well during this commotion my husband calmly walked over and threw flour on the fire...  there was puddles of gravy everywhere.  It was awesome and we still laugh about it every year!

So there you have it folks... my recipe for oven gravy!  thats a freebie.   I hope everyone enjoyed there thanksgiving too!

Being an entrepreneur is fantastic.   For me it is the ultimate in creativity, multi-tasking, and control (or lack there of).   In my experience the road has been great/terrible/diverse.   I would recommend it to anybody.  One of my hobbies though is creating and deciphering business/marketing plans I don't know why and I am not sure I can explain it.  The artist in me cringes at that idea, however when I see an idea or a spreadsheet I get all warm inside with anticipation...  its weird I know.

Which sort of leads me to what I have dying to blog about all day.  Today I saw 2 great examples of entrepreneurship, one was a couple of kids who were in front of there house selling koolaid for .25.  There were in there cutest little "I'm an awesome kid" clothes.  Now my favorite was when I pulled over to buy some, not because I was thirsty or even like super sweet koolaid but because if these kids were outside not playing video games or on a cell phone, I am going to support it.   I bought 2 for me and my kiddo and as I was paying for them they looked at me grinning and said "do you have anybody else you would like to buy for, we're saving up for christmas"   now regardless if I believe that it was true or not, that was just good marketing.   I could learn from this...  

See a need or tug a heartstring, know your customer and fill the need.  They saw me, a mom, who pulled over on a busy road to buy a 2.oz sized cup of koolaid for a quarter.  Of course I will, anything else do you have a tip jar.    LOL

Now my other favorite thing is business names. Yes they should be creative, or funny but they should at least be pertinent...   Now what I mean is if you name your business Jane Doe LTD.   Thats great but what do you do are you a cleaner, seller, artist, what do you do.   Your business name doesn't tell me that.   Now if your name is   "Buzzkill Pest Control"   I am going to literally LOL   When I saw this I thought seriously at the notion of switching purely because of the name, because how awesome is that.  Here this person used a word typically used in a completely different setting and transformed it to a business name that is both creative and pertinent.   Now anytime I hear/read the word "buzzkill"  I will only think of this pest guy and the great story of today...  Thanks Buzzkill guy your awesome!

tap tap tap.... is the blogger still here?

Well yes... and no.   I have been on hiatus so to speak, concentrating on my illness and treatments, and wondering why my hands are starting to make new shapes and fingers going in new directions!  Learning how to write with my left hand since holding a pen and typing takes forever and hurts!  

I gotta tell you learning, how to write is incredibly difficult, I have a whole new appreciation for children.  Which is basically what I am doing.  It is difficult to start over with anything I feel even less competent sometimes.  I think the key is not giving up and try not to project my own insecurities on other people.  And to not let other people's judgements define me.

Anyhoo... my apologies for dropping off the map, both on the blog and in life in general.  Which brings me to today.