Legal zooming...

Hey all. Sorry for the relative lack of posting lately. I've been up to my eyeballs in diapers and my second job, the moving biz. The first is certainly more important, even if it's totally a liability, bottom line-wise. (I feel all grown-up thinking about bottom lines and stuff). And during the days I'm at my grant writing job which basically puts me into a coma-like daze wherein I drool on my keyboard. Not a great recipe for blogging...

Like many of you, I expected my "Making miracles" post to be a lot of good-intentioned-but-futile bluster. But ah ha! Ho ho! No! I've been busy getting the legal infrastructure up to speed on the moving business. Speaking of feeling grown-up, I've got a federal tax ID number and everything. I just completed setting up my LLC via LegalZoom.com, and I'm in the process of writing a business plan. In other words, I've taken a number of steps that more or less commit me to seeing this thing through.

Whoa.

Never in my life have I embarked on something so ambitious. Me--starting a business? Unthinkable. Me, a boss? Absurd.

But you know what? It's fun. I'm sure I filled out the legal paperwork wrong, and I've got only the foggiest idea of how I'm going to build this business into a profitable company, but I've honestly never done anything so liberating before. Sure, I've published a certain number of articles for a newspaper, but I still received a paycheck. With MyTruckBud.com, I'm building something completely from scratch, whatever "scratch" is. I believe it's another term for "money," but that too only raises more questions...

Anyway, things are in motion. My only worry at this point is that taxes and the expenses of running a business will mortally wound my bottom line. Heh. Yet again I understand something my dad said way, way back when: "When you start making your own money, you'll become a Republican." Of course, we have to adjust that somewhat to reflect the realities of the 21st century wherein Republicans spend money like teenage Saudis. So, I'm becoming much more CONSERVATIVE as I begin to start a new business. (Ironically, as I get deeper into my faith, I become more liberal, at least as far as some issues are concerned.)

Hopefully I'm not living the Chinese curse ("May you live in interesting times.) But even if I am, it's, well, interesting. ;-)