Dentist

Another trip to the dentists. I hate dentists! He says "relax" and you obviously tense up , he says it won't hurt and it does! This time, the injection hadn't kicked in so every couple of seconds I had a pain until the injection worked, he even offered me another injection to which I said "no way!" and suffered until the numbness kicked in... Still I have a lovely white tooth now instead of a silver old filling and the only thing to suffer is my bank balance.
Whilst lying in the chair listening to a variety of songs on my ipod I realised that this was one of the only times I get to lie down and listen to music. Isn't that awful, the only time I switch off from being a mum and running a business is when I am forced to lie down and have a filling!!

podcasting

Today I'm engrossed in how to create a podcast. Using the tutorial from http://radio.about.com/od/podcastin1/a/aa030805a.htm I'm attempting to create one. It looks easy, but actually I'm finding creating it really tough. This leads me to thinking, the millions of people out there who are creating there own podcasts every day, isn't there something better for them to be doing with there lives? We went away this weekend to beautiful Suffolk have a look at http://www.visit-suffolk.org.uk/ .We spent 2 days walking around in beautiful countryside and it made me think that shouldn't that be what everyone is doing rather than writing blogs, reading emails, recording podcasts? I'm not sure that all this modern technology is helping the world, its making the world sit in front of computers, not spend their leisure time in nature, or reading etc Today I met a fellow mum who told me that her kids in primary school do most of their homework on computer, is that right to sit there staring at a screen rather than writing on paper or reading a book? I don't know, I do know that there are many benefits of this computer age but I am wondering if people take it too far?...
Anyway, back to my podcasting, why can't I find the answer to a simple question, like do I have to post my podcast onto a website ? can't it be stand alone?
Just to let you know, I solved the above, I just needed to read the next page of the lesson. OOPS.
My message of the day for myself is therefore, only do one thing at a time.

website mania

We have received a developmental version of our website and it's awful! This is the main selling engine for our business so it must be good and professional but currently it looks old and cheap. Its at this point when running a business where you can :-
a) feel miserable and worry about how things are going
b) feel miserable , worry about how things are going and do nothing
c) all of the above except make sure to proatively get things right again.
I'm choosing to do the last option,c as I feel I have no other choice, to do the first 2 means I don't have a business.
All obvious stuff but its hard to motivate yourself and carry on when it feels like everything is a chore and you are seeing no results. Its also raining again! so that doesn't help!

I hope in my next blog I'll be more upbeat ...