If I had an ELISE JOY team meeting scheduled for today I would say :
"Good job this past quarter, team. We are right on schedule with product roll outs and are doing much better with expense management. I am happy to see that past workshops have all been turned into PDFs and I am pleased with the work that has gone into the Blog 2.0 workshop. Way to go on the craft fair acceptance, but man alive do we have a lot of items to tackle for that one! There are nine long months ahead of us and it is going to be difficult to maintain the sales numbers from March. I expect a list of highly profitable product ideas from all of you on my desk by the end of next week. APRIL FOOLS! I will, of course, need it by the end of the day."
And then as the only member of the ELISE JOY team, I would feel proud but panicked because my boss can be very unrealistic at times. Not to mention how embarrassed I would be that I just dressed up for a meeting of one that took place in my living room around a big trunk that is pretending to be a coffee table.
No, but seriously.
2011 is my first year with this business as my only job. Every single day I wake up and am thrilled that I get to make stuff for a living. Sometimes though, I wish I had a co-worker to come up with ideas while I worried about my virtual crops on facebook. (Except not really, because I refuse to grow virtual crops.)
It's the best job ever. And I am happy with what I have done so far this year. Especially the Blog 2.0 workshop that officially starts Monday. (YAY!) The only goal from January that I have let go of is turning the minibook workshop into a book and really, that was a good move. I need the income that comes from the PDFs much more than I need the idea of a book sometime in the future. I would still love to write a book someday, but I no longer envision it as a scrapbooking book. We'll see. I'll chat more with the boss at my Q2 meeting in July.
Thanks for humoring me, and thanks (as always) for the support.
enJOY it 
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