Taxes, taxes, damned taxes!

I have now got a week to finish it off (thank goodness for online forms!) and am getting stressed out about it.

When I was at uni and working hard (yes it is possible for an arts student to work!) I always found that, when I was stressed about whatever I was working on, I'd put the book onto my head and I would feel better. I didn't believe I was absorbing the info, or anything crazy like that, it was like a relief valve and it did calm me. Then, 5 minutes later, I'd have relaxed enough to take said book from my head and get back to work. With the additional benefit of a little light relief for the others in the library.

I can't do that with a computer- at least not with my desktop computer, hence my need for a laptop.

Then everything would be fine, taxes wouldn't stress me, and chocolate would have no calorific value.

You see a flaw in my logic?

The end is here!

I have finally shipped off my last bogof bumGenius! nappies, and so it is with some regret I end the sale <:(>
Not the whole sale, I will keep the Mother-Ease and Tots Bots sale going (check out my website for further details!) but the version 2 bumGenius!, which were offered as a bogof have ended... and the new and improved version 3 has arrived!
Don't worry if you have the v2, they are still fantastic nappies, but the v3 is a formal roll out of a few tweaks and improvements on the design.

It's a shame as I quite liked doing the sale... but one lesson I have learned is to do my sums properly and make sure I can make something on a sale... I'm not doing it just to break even after all! (mind you it is still more of an expensive hobby at the mo, but I don't set out to loose money on each sale!)

I am such a great business woman lol

Dundee Baby Fair

Well, the Baby Fair is this Saturday, and I do not feel ready! I think the problem is that I have quite high expectations for my stand, but no idea how to make it happen!

I have no display boards and can't put up posters, or anything on the walls ("It cost over £3000 to repaint this room last year, you knw, s no blu tack!") so all I have is a table. Perhaps I'll make a skirt for it made out of pictures of babies/nappies etc...

I do have a horror of embarrassing myself by looking a bit crap, tbh. Last summer someone had set up a healthy living fair in the City Square with loads of stalls for all the various groups but they were bare tables with a couple of leaflets scattered about on them, and it just left a very bad impression. I know one shouldn't judge the service on the display, but we are a sophisticated audience when it comes to things like image. I don't mind people knowing I work out of my house, and that I'm not a multi national organisation, but I'd like to think I look like I know what I'm talking about. It's not enough to just know what your talking about, you have to look like it to!

Then there's the big Baby Show in Glasgow... but that's a fret for another day!
lol

Winter blues... and pinks

Tis indeed the season of sickness and we are no exception- colds abound in the Ivory Tower and we are now locked into that fantastic re-infection loop. It's my turn to splutter and splatter, but now J has returned to the germ fest they call nursery school, I'm sure he'll come home with something more interesting some time soon :)

It's a good nursery, don't get me wrong, but it's the way these things go!

And the pinks? Well, that would be my brand new pink bike! My lovely, beautiful friend only went and bought me a bike for my Christmas!

I feel like a 10 year old :)

Fully equipped with a child seat for J I am now mobile(ish). I live on a hill so I'm trying to build up stamina a bit at a time. It's hard enough going up a 45% slope but with a 3 stone backseat driver I do tend to get off and push!

Hope new year finds you all healthy, happy, and hearty!