Everybody has goals. What's your big one? I don't care if it sounds stupid. You can tell me.

-- Anonymous, February 21, 2000

Answers

Jan; If you want to start up your own bookstore, go for it. I started my own business and I am truly amazed. Sure, some days it sucks big time, but then you don't have a boss to complain about (okay if business is slow you don't have a paycheck either, but still...) I started my biz knowing absolutely nothing, and it still happened!

And now after all that advice, my dream today would be to go back to being a boring housewife. I don't have any time now. And I'd like to finish this house. or remodel an old victorian one.

Adventures in Living (personal journal plug) :-)

-- Anonymous, February 21, 2000

Hey Andrea, thanks for the encouragement.

If you don't mind my asking, what's your business? And how long have you been doing it?

-- Anonymous, February 21, 2000

It's a craft store!

Aren'tcha just all warm and gushy aaaallll over! Anyway, so i'm a crafty person. The idiots who live around here tho' think its a store where i sell the crafts I make, but NO! Even better! i have the *stuff* so you can make your very own dust collectors.

Oh, yeah, i have a website for that too. And a catalogue blah blah blah..... I'm tellin ya, the novelty has worn off for today. I've been doing this for 5 years, so technically I'm still a baby, and since it doesn't quite rake in enough for us to live off of (yet), maybe I should get up off my butt and work today. :-)

Well, I lucked out too because we live in the middle of nowhere and just about every store or place of business is in someone's home. So's mine. Makes going to work easy, i just come downstairs.

Hubby works at home too, he's a computer programmer/consultant. I'm his secretary too. he tells people he can fool around with his secretary and his wife doesn't mind. :-)

I've told the "how I started my business" story so many times, i'm gonna have to put it on-line somewhere..... Hmmmm that would be an easy way to complete a journal entry.... (although it looks like I made one here!)

toodles,

-- Anonymous, February 22, 2000

I'm a lazy American. I want to win the Powerball, build a nice big house in the woods, and spend my days complaining about little things like politicians and the price of milk. In the end, my offspring (if they are a product of my loins, they must come out full-grown; I'm not putting up with any whiny babies) will succeed me in my plans for world domination.

Oh, and I wouldn't mind living to a point in our society when we can all have a utopian "star trek"-like life without silly things like money, greed, hunger, poverty, politicians, milk, bathrooms, etc.

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2000