New Rules for business

Unless you are a GOOD friend of mine, good as in like you are reading this blog, or you actually converse with me on occasion, I will no longer be offering discounts to you. Period.

I can't believe how badly people try to take advantage of others in business. It is sad really. Kate - I like your idea of a forum for business owners as there are so many challenges that you face, and as a business owner, no one to talk to about it.

The short of it is that i MUST get my photography website up and FAST. That way I can point everyone to that site and then they can decide if they want to come to me or not and i won't have to negotiate prices and structure AFTER they have already verbally agreed to pricing :(

I think I am offended.

So my friend called yesterday to inform me that she and her boyfriend were coming out to the beer festival in october (nothing like a bit of advanced warning)

So, in that conversation, I mentioned that if she wanted to stay with us she could, and hubby and I would give up our room and sleep with the kids and they could have our room.

Her reply, "no, I don't want to stay with you, we will stay with Stacey I just want to spend quality time with you and the kids"

But just minutes before she said that she hadn't talked to Stacey in well, a year or so.

I am hurt and offended. Yes, I bitch about ILs staying with us, but that's for different reasons. I am seriously hurt.

I am most likely going to have to go back to work.

Well, the time has come. I will cry my eyes out for a few days while getting my resume together, but we just simply cannot live off of what we are making now and loosing in benefits.

we are both really upset as we have screwed ourselves into a hole with our mortgage (not behind but it went up 200 this year and we cannot afford that) so we are looking into refinancing, and we are expected to loose about 5-7k in refinancing.

I have a lot to do in the next week or so, getting my resume up to snuff, rehashing all this out with hubby (who doesn't want me to go back to work) but i am seriously not seeing any other option.

i am going to go curl up in a ball now, and cry. i won't be around online for awhile, and will be invisible if i am. :(