Laughter is My Response

I've been so busy that I don't really remember feeling Isaiah much this week.  Is he as tired as me?  Poor little baby boy...  Well at least we're both getting a good work out! 

And at least I've got something to do.  That's definitely a good sign for the business.  I've been very blessed. 

That's not to say it's been easy.  Oh no, nowhere near easy.  In fact, now when something goes wrong, or takes too long or doesn't go at all, I just laugh.  And then I try & figure out how to overcome it or go a different way. 

An example? 

I tried to open a bank account & I got assigned the slowest representative that worked at the bank.  When she finally was done going through the application & verifying all of my information (probably 4-5 days), she informed me my company wasn't in good standing with the secretary of state. 

It wasn't in good standing because I didn't file a franchise tax report that you are supposed to file every year even though your business may or may not have an revenue. 

I filed that & eventually got the slowest rep at the bank to finally open my account. 

Time to open an account to be able to process credit cards. 

Well when that 2-3 day long process of going through the application was done, I found out that... 

You have to have good credit to accept credit.  I had no idea.  And my credit isn't exactly what you would label "good."  "Very poor" would probably be a better description. 

It was good, until I started a debt management program to pay off my credit card debt.  And despite many assurances by many people that my credit would be fine, it is no longer good, or fine, it is very poor.  So I've been spending all week trying different companies & trying to conjure an alternative.  There is a glimmer of hope. 

That is an example of a very long process of multiple things going wrong, all leading to things that will eventually lead to a solution.  It's funny.  It's funny like catering is funny.  So many things go wrong.  You can't stress out, you just have to figure out how to fix them. 

Both things, they're like puzzles.  The end result, the established business or the produced event can't just appear.  The pieces have to be put together, one by one, some easy, some ridiculously hard.  And the picture at the end is much more fulfilling when you struggled with putting the pieces of it together. 

Another giggle because Isaiah is moving now.