Employment Chatter

with a car! I was saddened to turn in my rental car earlier (yesterday now I guess). What joy! What freedom! I went all around the island and only used up half a tank of gas!

The car was a Ford Focus hatchback. Before this, I would never have considered buying a Ford, I mean, Found On Road Dead. However the car handled splendidly and had plenty of zip. The leather seats helped the experience as well. My phobia of driving over overpasses and emerging from the Pali tunnel nearly disappeared. Parking in the ubiquitous compact spaces here was super easy. Best of all, when I was parked next to Kealoha’s similar sized hatchback on Sunday I realized the Focus was long enough to hold a surfboard (I’m really trying to get up the gumption to try surfing and make it a life habit). My friend Leslee has the non-hatchback version of the Focus and she said that it is definitely not a lemon and very easy to maintain.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
New Dragonflies and Ladybugs Store

Hi! Well it is Finally HERE!!! Our new store has been launched! We still sell on Ebay, but we are slowly moving our products over to our prostore account.
We have our newest inventory listed and our NEW fall items are in! We have both NWT and Used Gymboree, Janie and Jack, Hanna Anderson, Baby LULU and much much more.
Great Prices!

Check us out when you get a chance: Dragonflies and Ladybugs

posted by The Mom’s Cafe’ @ 2:26 PM 18 comments links to this post
How Do You Define Success

How do you define success for yourself, for your life and your home business.

Well, I would say that I feel most successful whenever I can survive a full day with my girls without any major “breakdowns”. I felt successful when my 3 1/2 year old decided to start going potty after 6 months of me tirelessly trying to get her to wear regular “big girl” underpants. In fact, the day the light bulb went off, and she finally started going into the bathroom on her own and decided to retire the pullups and use her big girl pants…. I felt more successful as a mother than I ever did in all my years in business and in graduate school… funny how those things turn out.
I feel successful in my business when I make my customers and website visitors happy. Honestly, I do not make a huge or even significant income from my home based business, but I feel successful when I get an email from a customer that is happy with my site or our products.
Best of all, the Focus gets 32 mpg. It makes paying $3.35/gal seem not so unreasonable. Right now I don’t think it is the best idea to have a car - I’m uneasy about the oil supply and feel better about making a stab at being green. Parking in downtown is costly plus there is all the money that would be spent on insurance and maintenance. The only time I would want/need a car is on weekends so I can get out and really enjoy Hawaii. Leslee suggested that I could rent one weekend a month, and I’m beginning to think that’s a fantastic idea. It would certainly be affordable.

posted by KaOs at 5/29/2007 05:28:00 AM 0 comments links to this post
Story-a-Day
Lately I’ve felt that I haven’t set aside enough time to write fiction (and that was the point of moving to Hawaii). So, inspired by my mother’s crazy habit of writing in her journal every single day for 35+ years (I am not kidding), I’ve decided to write a story a day. Fortunately, I’m not making myself write very long stories. I probably won’t post anything longer than a 1000 words. The point of this is to mature my writing. Writing so much non-fiction kind of puts you in this weird non-fiction voice where you sound like thousands of other writers. You conform to be understood - but fiction is also about having a unique voice, and I want to develop mine.