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Chaos Week: January

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You ever have one of those weeks were you know you have a lot to do, and that list just seems to be getting longer by the minute?

That’s me this week. Also, sorry this is late, I meant to have this ready to post this morning and this got out of hand.

My kiddo is being home schooled while some things with him get figured out. I was informed 2-sih hours ago that he’ll be having an assessment on Wednesday. While I would have preferred said assessment was in the morning, they have in scheduled for in the afternoon.

It’s fine, I’ll make it work.

Thursday is the day before my first convention for 2024. It’s also a Den Meeting (Boy Scouts) and my monthly Small Business Meet-Up. I’ve enlisted my mother for help with the logistics with that as the 2 events to overlap. 

I also need to prep all the Friday home school stuff to give to her so that she will have it, as he will be spending the weekend with her.

Friday thru Sunday I will be vending at Convival 2024 at the Clarion Hotel in Williamsburg, Va. This will be their first year, but so far it looks like it will be fun and a good turn out. If you are going to be in the area, multi-day and single day passes will be available at the door. Events kick off at 3pm on Friday and end 3pm on Sunday. For more information can be found at https://convivialva.com/.

I will have the contents of the shop, as well as dice bags, scarves, hats, and more amigurumi that haven’t made it into the shop yet with me. I will be taking custom orders as well.

I do have some ultra big news in regards to the business.

I’ve been accepted as a vendor for the Tidewater ComiCon. They are (to date) the largest ComiCon in Coastal Virginia. This will be there’s 10th year. The show will be at the Virginia Beach Convention Center. I’m uber excited about being accepted. This show is May 18-19. I plan on debuting some new products at this show. More info to follow as the show gets closer.

Small Business and the Introvert

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I’ve been trying to write this one for awhile.

Running a small business is already difficult. Running one as an introvert is just that much harder.

I’ve been an introvert since my teens. I learned to hide it in my 20s, and finally gave into it in my 30s, after I had my son.

There are still people who don’t believe that I’m an introvert, and think I’m actually a social butterfly. I’m really not.

Being a small business owner, you have to put yourself out there. Especially in the early days. If you can start right out the gate with a extrovert friend who is willing to be the face of the company – for free, that’s awesome. For the rest of us, we have to suck up dealing with people for a few hours during shows/conventions/markets, and putting ourselves on social media.

I had an event on Saturday, I talked to a lot of people. There’s a lot of things that I should be doing today. I haven’t done any of them. It’s been 25 hours since I got back from the event. I spent 10 hours of that asleep. My other half lest night already knew that I wasn’t going to be talkative. My social battery was empty, and I don’t mean, less than 2% of power left in it. I mean, in DnD terms, that my HP was at 0 and I had failed 2 of my 3 death saving throws, empty. I still wasn’t back to full health this morning, but I pulled it together enough to go get groceries and grab the kiddo from my mom’s.

I will probably not have a full social battery until later this week, thought I do need to leave the house tomorrow for appts and I plan on doing a stream tomorrow night since I won’t have to get up early on Tuesday.

I have another event this coming Saturday in Courtland, Virginia. It ill be my last show for 2023. My first event for 2024 will be ConVival 2024 in Williamsburg, Virginia. Follow me on any of my other social medias for more information on those.