Thursday, 20 October 2011

Can a 120g bar of chocolate kill you?

And what happens if you add half a bag of marshmallows on top of that?  I didn't start eating until after 3pm today and, credit where credit is due, I do believe that I have more than made up for those hours of unintentional fasting.  I now feel a teeny weeny bit disguisted with myself.

However I'm now lounging on my sofa (working off the carbs in a passive manner, granted it's never been scientifically proven to be an effective fat-busting technique, but that's probably because the scientists have been busy working on other things.)  I've had a great day today, I went to the Business Gateway Marketing workshop this morning.  It was informative & very interesting.  It was delievered by Roz Caulwell and she was brilliant.  She has a relaxed yet professional style and came across as very knowledgeable and managed to be inclusive of everyone at the workshop!  I hope our paths cross again in the future.

I also managed to get Windows 2010 up and running on my desktop...only took about 14hrs (ok, that might be a wee bit of exaggeration...but it really was a very long time).  First I found out that I had to upgrade Vista to Vista SP1...who knew that existed?  Anyway the outcome is that I'm now all set up with Outlook, I feel like I have some organisation to my life again.  I spent a good 30 mins inputting all my appointments in to the calendar...now all I need is a smart phone to sync it up with!! One day =) 

To raise money I've been selling lots of stuff on ebay, oh and I had a carboot sale last Sunday.  Couldn't have asked for better weather, it was gorgeous.  Also, in it's small way, it was a successful day...I raised a grand total of...£11.05 BUT that was from selling things that I would've thrown out otherwise!  I have made a conscious decision to not divide that amount by the number of hours I stood there as that might be too much information.  But I can think of worse ways to spend a Sunday morning...I got to stand/sit out in the sun, people watch (another thing to add to my list of things I love!) and barter over a pair of bookends (which I found) and eventually managed to get a fiver for!!  =)
Ebay has been a lot more successful financially and in terms of decluttering my home.  But then again I've been selling good quality items which I hope will go to people who will enjoy them rather than store them under their bed/back of their wardrobe etc.
Between the two I managed to raise enough to buy: Windows 2010 + correct licence for a business = very happy me!

So my business....I'm setting myself up as a VA (Virtual Assistant).  I have had some meetings with potential clients, which seem to have gone well but time will tell ~ keeping my fingers crossed.  I've got something else that I would like to do along side, but I'm in the very early stages of researching that idea & also I don't want to bite off more than I can chew...

I registered my business with HMRC yesterday =).  I haven't started trading yet, but I was advised that it's best to get it done ASAP, so it's done.

Tomorrow I'm going to a workshop in Book Keeping...I never thought that I'd get excited about a book keeping course, but darn it, I really am!!

1 comment:

  1. You're really getting your teeth into this, Jo! Good on ya girl :-)

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