I Hate When Business is Slow

Nothing is worse for me than when business is slooooow. Right now it is almost nonexistant. In the big picture, that's okay. I had my busiest holiday season ever. And I still have a little money left from that that will cover bills. Although most of that is going to pay taxes, but that is another post. When business is this slow I start to get bored. I have no deadlines to meet, nothing pressing to paint. I have spare time (a new concept to me : ) Look, I have so much time, I even started a blog .

This week I actually have plans. I volunteer at a local church during their Easter Baking Fundraiser. That will actually take up most of my time this week, so it is good that I don't have orders that have to go out now. I think God has cut my orders so I have no excuse not to go and help. I would go anyway, but no orders definitely makes it easier. It's not really no orders anymore....when I got home from church yesterday after setting up the kitchen for baking, I had 4 new orders, and then another one came in later in the day. So perhaps things will get back on track now. That would be a huge relief.

When business is slow I get Lazy (with a capital L). I am normally someone who likes to be busy doing things. I just can't sit and watch tv. I have to be doing paperwork or painting or something while I am just sitting there. But now I don't care....being lazy is such a switch from painting 24/7 in the fall. It's almost like a vacation (which I came back from the beginning of february).

But having more time gives me more time to.........eat. Argh. I just hear that chip calling me from the kitchen. Or those cookies are calling my name. I know they are there and I must eat them. That is one of the hardest things about working at home, busy or slow. Not eating everything in the house. At least it is a challenge for me. And it doesn't help that I do most of my painting sitting at the kitchen table. I think I have gained about 10 lbs since I started working at home. Which doesn't sound too bad when you figure out I've been working here at home for 9 years, and so it is a little more than a pound/year. I guess that's why I really don't notice the change (who steps on a scale anyway???) But the pounds add up over the years and now my jeans are getting too snug and I hate how they fit/don't fit.

So I have to get this under control. Maybe blogging will make me accountable to myself.....we'll see. Can't hurt, unless I sit here typing with one hand and eating girl scout cookies with the other (dang those girl scouts!). No, I'm not actually doing that now.....but I could : )