La Bene Vita

Wednesday

On the agenda for today: Christmas shopping!

Resign from Abbott by 6/1/10.
In progress and on schedule. I did finally order business cards under my stage name as a music instructor and live entertainer. Also, the manager from bd's Mongolian Grill requested a meeting for Thursday to discuss gig scheduling in January. I'm waiting on that conversation to start planning out what my January is going to look like. The OCD in me is going crazy at not having that month lined up yet. I have blank pages in my Franklin planner all throughout January.

Look into real estate for music instruction.
Nothing yesterday. My "Plan B" was to just teach out of my (Keith's) home, but Keith made a good point: Where will parents sit during the lesson? It's not like we have a lobby. Fortunately, we have two sofas and a chair in the basement, where the instruments are, but some of my kids don't want their parents in the room. Keith suggested teaching at my house, but then I would have to move my piano back!!! after paying $100 to move it from my house to Keith's. I could also invest in an electric piano, because I need one anyway (heh... "need"... along with a Gibson Les Paul), and set it up at my house. On the other other hand, I could sell my house at any moment.

...hence the need for real estate.

I need more amplifiers, too. And another mixer, and some decent PA speakers, maybe a couple monitors, lots more cables, gear, gear, gear... and actually, for my business, I'll need computers, software, and another piano or two. So I need affordable real estate, because I'd rather spend my money on gear!

Business: Music Instruction Books.
In progress, but no recent activity. Today will be honkin' busy, what with the shopping and all. Have I mentioned that I hate shopping?? I hire people to shop for me.

Current real estate goal: Organize garage.
No activity.

Launch one new Praise Band song per month.
Goal met. Not only that, I published bulletins through 1/3/10, which made the church secretary about jump for joy. And with Emily gone, I'll need to recruit some volunteer help from among the band members. When I suggested monthly voluntary planning meetings, I'm pretty sure I mentioned the word, "margaritas."

Post at WordPress at least once per month.
Goal met. Last night, I posted upcoming appearances: http://michelletuesday.wordpress.com. I need to put my appearances in a calendar. Does Wordpress have a calendar?

Achieve a weight of 145.0 by 1/31/09.
Weight: 152.6
Meals:
8:00am Breakfast burrito (3.5) and coffee (1)
1:45pm Skinny roast beef sandwich (7)
6:00pm Ten peanut butter pretzels (2.5) and a large Rice Krispies treat (4)

Last night I ate a ton of junk that I didn't write down. It was like an obsession: four or five fresh nuts (1), then canned nuts (1), then wasabi almonds (1). None of that kicked the craving, so I ate leftover Johnny Marzetti (4) and a couple cookies (5). I haven't done that in a long time... I gotta stop using the holidays as an excuse or I'm going to fall back into some very bad habits.