For those of you who knows that we do carry some musical instruments at our store now, you will also noticed that Chloe loves the drum set so much that she wants to learn how to play the drum besides playing the piano. After much persuasion, we’ve decided that she can take up playing the drum as well. But first we have to buy drum cases for electronic drums at musician’s friend , so that she can carry her kid’s drum set to and fro to her teacher’s house. You see, she prefers to practice using her own drum set, which is perfectly understandable for her age, so the drum cases would come in handy not only for Chloe but for those who have kids and taking lessons or those musicians who wants to transport their drums to wherever they are playing their drums. It’s a win-win situation for us, now we will have drum cases to offer our own customers as well.
Computer Problems
Sorry I haven’t been online for a lot this summer, been busy with the lil’ brat of course and also had some computer problems, so was reformatting hard drive and doing all sorts of virus scanning before we said, I give up and reformatted the computer. But while we were at it, we decided to look into a new laptop for me and sell the old one but we still had to reformat the hard drive because I didn’t want someone else to see what I had in my old hard drive right? So yes, so in between reformatting the hard drive and getting the new one set up and transferring all my old stuff to my new laptop, that’s the reason why I haven’t been updating a lot. But now that everything is almost set up, I should be good to go.
Talent Show In Town
The annual talent show is coming to town again this October and we are to source for some USB microphones for the talent show and thus far we found some usb microphone at musicians friend that are of professional quality and affordable for the organizers. Of course, we do have the cheaper ones but they are mostly for personal use, these ones that we’ve found are of a better quality. So next week, we are going to present them to the organizers and then will order it for them if they are agreeable with it. We are happy to be a part of the talent show this year and even though we are not making any money in sourcing the microphones for the talent show, we are happy to give back to the town. It’s not all about money for us you know.
Bed Hunting
I went bed hunting with my girlfriend today because her ex- mother-in-law wanted to get back the bed frame that she is currently using. Yes, even though she knows that it is her son’s fault that she is losing everything, this ex-MIL wants to get as much things outta her as possible – yet, she still thinks that her ex- MIL and her ex-in laws are good people. *slap forehead*.
Anyhow, we didn’t find the right bed for her nor frame, so in the end we decided to save money, she can buy the headboard and she can use our double bed that we have spare in our basement for now. I love my g/f like a sister and if I can I wanna help as much as possible. But she really do need to be stronger and take a stand for herself but how do you teach someone to be a B.I.T.C.H.
Interesting Read For Cigar Lovers
The father – in – law who loves cigars mentioned about jonathan drew and his column. Intrigue by what he read, he told me to go read Jonathan Drew on the internet. And being the curious me, I loved reading and finding out just about anything, plus I do like the smell of cigar and maybe, this column can recommend some good places to buy cigars and how to differentiate a good cigar from a mediocre one. For those cigar lovers out there, check out this column, and although it might be a bit shocking at first when you on the website, you will definitely get a better insight of cigars from this column and webpage.
Electronic Games & Kids
I’m glad that my kid is not into electronic games that much that she won’t do anything else. Chloe loves the outdoors, drawing, sewing, reading, watching tv but every now and then she wants her electronic games too. From Skylanders to Lego Batman and Lego StarWars, so the rechargeable batteries aa is a necessity in our home.
I don’t know about other parents but I prefer Chloe to be outdoors playing or doing something creative, I’m not too happy when she is indoors watching tv all the time or playing games on the tv with PB. But when you have a store full of games for you to pick from and a gamer dad, I feel that I am not doing a bad job with Chloe.
So how much electronic game time is good for your kids? I say depending on your kids, for me no more than 30 mins a day – but most times, Chloe doesn’t play her electronic games except to keep her dad company or to do something with daddy on weekends.
March Break
Well, March break is almost over and we survived it – wished my leg didn’t hurt so bad when we were up in Halifax though – that suck big time and to think that I didn’t think of taking some muscle relaxant was really stupid of me. I think it was probably trying to accommodate everyone, from PB, Chloe and my g/f who went with us that took a toil on me. But Chloe had a good time although I wished I had more time with her, the next time we go up to the city, it has to be only 3 of us and no one else – so that I don’t have to try and please everyone or worry about PB being bored or anything of that sort. Don’t get me wrong, we loved to have our g/f with us but I just worry too much about everyone and trying to make everyone feel comfy that I had forgotten about myself, so yes, the next time, it has to be only us 3.
House Renovation
The father in law is doing some major renovation in his old house and it’s about time because part the 100 yrs old house is sinking and some spring mounts is needed to jack the house up so that they can fix the bottom part and put in some reinforcement. Thus far, he had been doing the work with some help and when we visited last week, the computer room felt more solid than it did in a long time. I think the father-in-law is doing it the cheaper way instead of hiring professional help but it is his house, so I’m not going to butt in like I do all the time. Andy from the apple farm was joking that the father in law should have done the renovation when the mother -in -law was still alive because she really wanted a better foundation for the house. Oh well, at least he is doing it right?
Yoga At Work
A few of the girls around the block decided that we have to go for yoga before work, so here I am going out to find yoga pants for this office yoga session. For $5 a session, I think it’s a great idea – because yoga relaxes me a lot and I wished more people could see the benefit of going to yoga. There are some yoga stuff that they sell at the yoga studio here but not yoga pants, so I had to find them online and it’s way cheaper I heard from the girls who had gone to the city and bought them there. Anyhow, I’m looking forward to office yoga everyday before work, it’s definitely a great way to start the year.
Quarterly HST Remittance
It’s that time of the year again where we have to remit our quarterly HST to the government and the last quarter the HST that we’ve collected is closed to $6500. How do we know? with a reporting engine that we use at the store for calculating sales and the intakes of the store, it shows us exactly where and what products are selling good and where our remittance should be. When you own your own business, you have to find reliable software to help with the running of the business. Fiances are kept closely watched because of this software and we get to know exactly how our sales and our receivables are at. We don’t like giving more or less to the government, therefore investing in a good reporting software was the best thing we could have done for the store. Sure there are more improvement to be made in the store and for the store but we feel that this is one of the most important because when we do need to finance our other business venture, this software will help us with the bank as well.