La Bene Vita

Thursday

Potbelly was cute today. A little boy, maybe four years old, was playing peek-a-boo with me from behind his booth bench. As they were bundling him and his little sister up to leave, I played "Santa Claus is Coming to Town." At the end of the song, he said: "Hey, Music Lady! Santa's already here! I just saw him!" Everyone in the store heard him!

Resign from Abbott by 3/1/10.
In progress and on schedule. I just landed a regular gig at bd's Mongolian Grill. They want to launch a Student Night on Wednesdays to drum up mid-week business, and they hired me to provide live entertainment every week. It pays much better than Potbelly and it comes with free dinner and drinks, so, woot! I just requested vacation time at Abbott for every Wednesday during January and February. That's Step 1. Step 2 is Talk to Boss, which will happen the first week of January. After that, I should have a pretty good idea of timing. Although, it depends on who Boss is at that time, because there is an org change coming very soon. I expect to see an announcement by the end of the week (i.e.tomorrow or even this afternoon.)

Look into real estate for music instruction.
Not so much, but I picked a name: Mocha Notes Music Instruction and Mocha Notes Music Cafe. I reserved all the domains, etc. Woot squared. Progress.

Brand the biz.
Keith suggested looking into coffee franchise opportunities for the cafe part of the biz. Any recommendations? I want to make sure the coffee is tasty and delicious! Because I lurve coffeh! While I do realize this might affect my biz name, a franchise would provide me with the tools and expertise to run that part of the biz successfully, so I'm open to it.

Business: Music Instruction Books.
In progress

Current real estate goal: Organize garage.
No activity, which conveniently provided plenty of nice hiding places for unwrapped Christmas gifts.

Launch one new Praise Band song per month.
Goal met.

Post at WordPress at least once per month.
Goal met. However, I'll be posting again soon to plug my bd's gig. Likewise, they're going to plug my blog on their Facebook page, so, holy crap, I need to start updating that thing regularly again! In particular, I need more upbeat recordings. They want upbeat.

Oh, I also need promotional materials - like, signage for the wall, maybe some sort of sign on an easel to set up next to me, that sort of thing. Woot cubed! I have plenty of time to take care of that while I'm on vacation the week after Christmas. Everything is falling into place.

Achieve a weight of 145.0 by 1/31/09.
Weight:
Meals:
7:00am Three strips bacon (4) and coffee (1)
11:00am ZonePerfect bar (4)
1:45pm Skinny roast beef sandwich (7)
3:30pm Chai (1)