Wish money grew on trees

I'm still getting used to the routine of spending big chunks of money up front for business expenses.

My friend who used to own his own business once told me, "At some point you get used to writing $1000 checks like it is nothing." I didn't quite believe him then but I'm slowly seeing the light.

The past couple days I've spent trying to get my phone book ads in order. The sucky thing about Hawaii now is that we have 2 phone books...so it's almost like you have to hedge your bets in both books to see which one is likely to pick up more business. Double the pleasure, double the expenses.

It's pricey...both book representatives getting me to spend just a little more then I was ready to spend for. But they DO make a convincing case... this will be my first appearance in the phone directory so it pays to maybe invest a little more this time to announce myself and give my business an heir of legitimacy.

So here I am, once again writing checks in excess of $1000 asking myself, "How in the world did I get myself in a situation where I'm paying this amount of money for a little bit of print in a phone book?". That could be a new plasma TV heheh.

Well, I guess I have to keep reminding myself, "You have to spend money to make money" Hopefully those ads will get me enough work this coming year to get me that TV...my current TV has a yellow discoloration on one side of it already. I'm starting to think all my TV stars have yellow faces.