Alex and business time

Well, so, Alex came over today.

I asked to hire him for 1 hour, to ask him questions.

I paid him $300 via e-transfer. I don’t know if he saw it.

I wanted to keep it professional, and I didn’t want him to have a chance to not get the pay. But what I got instead was no business advise.

He had partied until 6am the night before, going to 3 raves with Eddie. One was an old Vietnamese people club haha. And all of them were high and full of energy!

He was over an hour late, arriving at 4:20. He said he waited 25 minutes for the parking spot.

I wasn’t thrilled about that. I was working, so it wasn’t so bad. But, I was thinking, I’m no longer horny, and I don’t want to be involved with someone who is so flakey.

But I met up with him in the lobby. We were both wearing masks. He hugged me in a way that’s like, a feeling of relief.

Right away as he arrived he wanted to order food. I wanted to get down to business!

We sat down on the sofa, and he just lied down on my belly. Suddenly we were close again, like the mushroom night a week prior.

We talked about VR. We watched some youtube videos together on VR, Mario theme park, and we laughed and got amazed at things together. It was all so natural. And we were able to share info on VR. It was fun. It’s how boyfriend/girlfriend would be, I think. It’s how I wish Bunny and I were. Three years…we were never quite this close.

He rubbed my thigh as we sat shoulder to shoulder and talked more. He actually is really cute, cuter than I remembered! His hair – he put effort in and it looked nice. He smelled alright too!

Our pho’s arrived. It was quite yummy. He was pretty sweet, cleaning up spillage, helping set things up.

After dinner, we cuddled for a bit on the sofa. We kissed. It was nice, but I didn’t have butterflies. I think the guilt was at play.

Actually I was so nervous about today, I didn’t sleep as much last night. I talked to Bunny and I thought, this could be the last time I was faithful to him.

Today, he called just before Alex got here. I felt it was a sign from above to tell me to not stray.

When Alex was over an hour late, I thought, that’s such a turn off, for sure I’m not gonna sleep with him.

But then when he was here, and he just touched me like it’s so normal. He tried to warm my feet. We cuddled. We talked about that’s what we miss in relationships.

We kissed for a bit, and moved to the bedroom. He wanted to have sex…I said I needed more time. I meant, ’til next time.

We made out. I didn’t moan much. I was under pressure. I told him I’ve never cheated before.

But we ended up naked. We made out. Eventually, we had sex.

He is actually a good size, and he fit me perfectly. I started moaning when he put it in. His dick curved to the left a bit. So when  I was on my right side, it felt extra good.

We had some good moments. I was near orgasm and it felt really nice. I wish I wasn’t wearing a wig though!

He was so tiny. I think he’s 5’7′. But he has a toned body and a really cute face. His tattoos weren’t bad at all actually. His chest was bare. I was afraid that it would be covered in tatts. His ass was surprisingly dry/leathery. The rest of him was smooth and nice though.

We talked for hours in bed. We talked so much about so many things. He’s had a very interesting life, from working on a cruise ship, getting fired and dropped off in Alaska, to moving to Japan, taking over a bar, and selling shower heads on Amazon. Had a break dance crew. Etc etc.

It was pretty fun. I think it could be funner if I would let go a bit. And not having to wear a wig.

Bunny called twice during. I called as soon as Alex left. I told Bunny about Alex’s story. Didn’t feel guilty so much.

I think some of my needs were met today, and I’m grateful of it.

One Week After Mushroom

It’s been exactly 1 week since mushroom.

It’s interesting…

I was SO HORNY for the first 2 days..masturbating 6 times a day…then it drops to yesterday where I didn’t even feel like masturbating.

I wasn’t feeling particularly sad in the sense of dopamine or serotonine deficiency, which is good.

I just feel sad about me and Bunny. I wish we could work out. I wish he wasn’t in such a dark place. I wish he was healthy and happy and rich – and horny for me! Well, I’m close to making him rich. He officially doubled my $1M on Friday! That means I’ll give him $400K. That’s a pretty good pay day!

But he whines about wishing he didn’t miss out on last year. Ugh. In such times I feel that he’ll never be happy.

There’s no fun nicknames anymore. There’s no cuddling. There’s no joy. There’s, of course, no making out and no sex.

Can you really blame me for falling for someone else?

I cried last night.

I don’t want to be “soft-cheating”, as in, making out with someone, no sex. But I also have needs. Needs of being held and kissed in a loving way.

Alex and I chatted a bit today on Whatsapp. He volunteered to put be my shirtless model. Haha.

I hired him to be my business coach for an hour tomorrow. I have no idea what tomorrow is gonna bring.

I haven’t been thinking about him much. I haven’t been as turned on. I’ve been busy working, fixing our Amazon listings.

But tomorrow I’m gonna look cute for him. I’ll likely act like I was fighting hard to resist his pull, knowing me, haha. It’ll be fun I think. I hope we have a good time. And I hope I learn a lot from him. His business acumen is one of the things that makes him attractive to me. I hope he lives up to it haha.

I think I’m open to making out, and having an intimate convo. Haven’t had that with Bunny in years.

I hope he doesn’t smell. That would be the hardest thing. My nose has been too good! I smell everything.

Bunny and Alex

I really never thought there would be a day that I’d be so into Alex.

And to be more into him than I am into Bunny.

This weekend I’m asking Alex to coach me on launching and marketing.

I’ve been wanting to ask him lots of things about this for a long time. I’m glad I finally get to. I’ll pay him so I don’t feel guilty and so hopefully he’ll put more effort in.

He asked if that is my version of netflix and chill haha.

I’ve been so turned on just talking to him and thinking about him. This is with me not knowing how many tattoos he has, and knowing he is vindictive and had really hurt Shawn…

But after he helped create the most amazing night of my life that day at Spanish banks, watching the norther lights while high on mushroom…he is special to me. He made the night. We laughed so hard. We cuddled so perfectly together. He touched me lightly down there. He grabbed my hip just right. I felt so much bliss in his arms. I was forever changed.

I loved that when we sat down by the fireplace we held hands while talking. Him rubbing my ankles. Me grabbing his knee. Him grabbing my thigh. So natural.

He smelled like feet and he was wearing a pearl necklace and we were talking about business…haha…but still it was enjoyable.

When we sat down at the dining table and talked to Verge and Keyii, he was so open. Everyone was. Maybe it was the mushroom…but…I like it. I like them being so open, so unpretentious.

He had to lie down at the end of the day cuz mushroom made his stomach weird. When I was leaving, he sat up. I didn’t expect that…I wasn’t sure what we were and was ready to jet.

But, the messages he sent me after were a bit of a disappointment. He just wanted to Netflix and Chill.

I wish I was worth a bigger effort to him.

Maybe I shouldn’t put out then haha

It’s just that, I crave him. I crave sex. At least, making out. I think sex would be truly crossing the line. Am I ready to bend my rules?

The thing is, Bunny still hasn’t said he loves me. He is perpetually sad. Being with him has been boring, depressing, angering.

He’s helped me make a lot of money. He is sincere. He is ridiculously handsome…but..our relationship is pretty shitty.

It doesn’t help that prolotherapy damaged him.

It doesn’t help that his knee is badly hurt.

How long will it take before he heals from both?

I think he will….but it might take several more months.

I truly hope he’ll find happiness. That we’ll both find happiness.

Meanwhile, I’m dying in this relationship.

I crave romantic touches. I crave that sexy feeling. I want to laugh.

Alex has been that.

I think I’ll just play by ear. If Alex is good to me, I might make out with him.

I feel I almost need to teach him to treat me better. So, I’m better off to not give in quickly. More self control, but flirt and charm to show interest. And maybe a tiny bit of making out cuz I need it. That’ll be my tactic.

I’m also sad that this will be an end to an era. An era of me never have cheated. An era of me being pure to Bunny.

I wish Bunny’s knee was fine. I wish his TMJ and Neck were fine. I wish he was in a better place mentally and physically. I wish we complemented each other perfectly.I wish we have sex, amazing sex.

He is so beautiful, so handsome. He is sweet. He is innocent (I think). He won’t cheat on me (I think). But these qualities are not enough….

I want someone who also makes me laugh. Someone who loves me deeply. Someone who is a problem solver, and action taker. Someone whom I can have meaningful and intellectual conversations with.

It’s interesting that Ty and I never reached that point of me being tempted…but Alex…

In a perfect world, I’d be with Bunny, and Bunny would be just like he is, except we’d have the sexual dynamics of me and Matthew, the intellectual closeness of me and Ty, the complementary entrepreneural drive / power couple skillset like me and Alex.

Today is Nov 3rd Wednesday. Mushroom was Friday night / Saturday. I was masturbating 6 times a day on Saturday and Sunday. Monday maybe 3 times. Tuesday twice. And after going to Bunny’s last night, no more sex drive. I dunno why….is it because he is so depressing? We didn’t even cuddle. I worry for him.

I often wish that God or his dad in the heavens would give him a lucky  break. I mean, I guess I have been that to him. I dug him out of his financial hole, and can help him get rich. He has helped me get rich. We are both grateful of this.

Now if we can figure out his health issues, he would be golden. He might even be funny and sexual! He would be a much more compatible partner then. Sigh. Dear God, please help improve his health.


Talked to Dad, Mom, and Bunny today (Nov 3). Dad moved to Yilan and seems happy. I’m happy for him because a smaller city means more chance of having friends. Mom was fine. Creating an InterativeBroker account for her.

Called Bunny at 1pm and he was all tired as usual. He’s been a kill joy the past couple of weeks, maybe because of his knee taking so long to heal, maybe it’s the lack of sativa pills. No more cute nick names for a week. No cuddles as of yesterday. No sex and no making out for at least 6 months now. (I thought it was since April, but I just realized that we didn’t even have sex on my birthday).

 

The reason why I called him was because I realized that the prolotherapy may have caused the delay in his knee healing. I called to let him know that maybe he didn’t have as much to worry about.

He gave me the good news that MAC is now at $22. He said I’ve made $2MM from SPG and MAC alone! I do have a lot of be thankful of Bunny.

I was talking to Mom later today and told her only good things about Bunny. Sigh, it really is up to me to portray Bunny well to others! It’s that easy to do.

Bunny called later to say he felt better today after sativa. Good!

I’m more calm now about my feelings for Alex. But still really want to make out with him. I thought about why I’m drawn to him so quickly. I think it’s because I’ve always been a little attracted to him, he is the power couple complement I have been wanting, he is interested, and he is sweet to me. Oh an mushroom brought us closer. And we both laughed harder than ever in our lives. Most importantly, Bunny hasn’t wanted to be physical with me for a while now. It doesn’t matter how hot he is or how sincere he is. I’m surprised that Cyn and Ty lasted that long!

 

Mushroom and Northern Lights with Alex

I had so much fun last night with Alex and his friends!

Omg we laughed so much. I don’t think I have laughed this much my entire life.

Alex asked if I wanted to go do shrooms and watch the northern lights at 2am with his friends. He didn’t think I would come. I’ve never said yes to his invites.

It was last minute and I was so on the fence. On one hand, it was already late and I wanted to go to bed early. On one hand, I thought, gosh it would be such a fun thing to say that I have done, and this was an opportunity to boost our friendship to the next level.

After some debate, I decided to go. I’m so glad I went.

I brought some lime juice and I’m also glad I did that. I got an uber and it arrived so quickly, I rushed downstairs without the juice! came back up for it. Worth it. Street cred boost.

The place was 3 minute’s walk from Bunny’s, so that made me feel safer. I called Bunny to let him know my plan.

The guy who lives in the townhouse, his parents are from Taiwan! Later on I found out that he was only 24 yo! Nice townhouse in kits.

Alex was there with 3 guy friends and 1 girl friend. They were all Asian haha. All very polite and rich.

I told everyone about the lime juice. Alex looked it up, and found the term lemon tekking. Everyone was so curious. I’m glad I brought enough for everyone. Eddie roughly took out 15g, and blended it together with the lime juice. We each got 2 shot glasses. It was pretty nasty and chunky.

We called an uber and got to Spanish banks at 12:30am. Everyone felt the shroom already because of the lemon tekking. I barely felt it.

Eddie brought the entire rest of the mushroom, and later in the night, Alex and I bought had a bit more. Maybe 1 or 2 grams more. That was when I felt it more.

It wasn’t a spiritual journey. It was just fun. Everything was hilarious.

It was quite cold. Most of the night was just about keeping warm. Eddie kept asking if we should go home. “Diamond hands”, Alex said. Haha.

I think I was always a bit attracted to Alex.

We got physically closer as the night progressed, in the name of keeping warm. At one point I was just sitting on him. He was holding me. We both thought it felt so good. He said, “Wow you fit perfectly in my arms”.

It was so nice to be in his arms. I definitely don’t get enough physical touch these days.

He is smart and pretty funny. He is not tall but he has a nice body. I felt good where we were at. We took turn laughing, giggling.

The Taiwanese guy and the girl were quiet. Eddie was walking around super cold. He turned his jacket into a head wrap. Every time we saw him he had another style of headwrap on him. That sent me into laughs.

At one point, we were all listening and vibing with the music. I think I experienced synesthesia, where I felt the music buzzing in my body. We were all immersed in the music.

I looked up and suddenly noticed the moon was at the horizon and it was freaking huge, and hanging sideways like a cheshire cat’s smilie.

I said, “Is that the moon?!”

Everybody looked, and Eddie said, “Nooo”.

Alex said, “If it’s not the moon then what the fuck is it?” Ahahahhaha

Eddie went 2 steps closer, crouched down, and tilted his head sideways.

Alex said, “Does it look different from that angle?” Ahhahahhaha

10 minutes later, Eddie said, “Wow it IS the moon!” Ahahahhaa

It was more fun that I have experienced in sooo long. Omg it was so amazing.

I wanted to be close to Alex. He was sweet. He noticed that my hands were cold so he was warming me up. We were in a zone. I was breathing, and moaning lightly. He rubbed my leg and thigh a bit. At one point he actually rubbed by pussy lightly. I closed my eyes thinking, “Wow is this really happening? I’m sitting on Alex and he is rubbing my pussy?”

He would repose and try to stop himself.

I had my lips very close to his ears. Moaning and breathing softly. I think it must’ve been nice for him too.

I loved the physical touch. Loved having someone I’m attracted to there, cuddling me and taking care of me. That made the night extra fun.

At one point Eddie asked, “Why are we here? We could be in a warm room.” Ahhahahaha

Indeed, it seemed like we went through all that, just to be able to have an excuse to cuddle in the cold and bond. It was so nice. Alex and I were perfectly happy to be there in the cold, holding each other.

It’s one of those things….it’ll never be as special again I don’t think. It was our first bonding.

More and more cars came over later in the night. It was super crowded and bright! It was funny.

Some people brought a glowing volleyball! That was fun. We joked about merch, Amazon ppc for the product.

Alex was quite fun. I don’t know if he found me as funny though. He wouldn’t super laugh at what I say, but he would say what I say later on like it’s his own thoughts. It’s interesting.

I laughed at everything he said. The rest of the group laughed at what I said sometimes, especially the Taiwanese guy. I like all of them a lot.

We think we saw a green hue. That was it. Northern Lights.

We huddled in the warm men’s bathroom at one point, standing under the vent, washing our hands with warm water. Haha..so weird of a night.

We called an Uber at 3:30am, and came back to Taiwanese guy’s place ’til 7:30am.

I sat by the fireplace with Alex. Eddie fell asleep on the sofa behind us. The other two sat at the dining table. Had green tea.

Alex and I talked about biz, vaccine, etc. We were holding hands, he would rub my leg or ankle. I was a little self conscious about the dryness of my skin haha. I am so much older than everyone. 10 years older than Alex.

He was sweet. But I also know from Shawn how he can be ruthless.

But I am drawn to him.

His looks are just fine. Not stunning. And he is covered in even more tattoos since last I saw him. But, none of that mattered. I just wanted to be close to him. I wasn’t having an urge to kiss him, or date him, or even have sex with him. I think just making out would be so fun. But…it would not be the right thing to do.

We moved to the dining table and joined the other two. We had some intimate conversations about first time having sex, etc. I like how the group is so open. It was a nice time.

Alex felt sick in the stomach and the girl too. They both went to lie down. I chatted wit the Taiwanese guy for a bit until uber came. He was a bit shocked to learn my age. I was a bit shocked to learn his age. He liked my neon green matching sweatsuits haha. We had a good bond.

Alex sat up when I was leaving. We hugged. It was a bit rushed. But, that was all we can do anyway. Kissing would not have been appropriate.

I came home, showered, masturbated. I haven’t been this wet in a while. It felt so nice. I don’t know how we’ll proceed..but…this experience definitely levelled up our bond.


Today is Sunday. Yesterday after coming home, showering, and heading to bed at around 8am, my day alternated between sleep and masturbation haha. And thinking about Friday still made me laugh. It was such a great time. Towards the night I told Alex that I had a great time.

Today, I woke up at 7am. Pretty much recovered. Eagerly went to see what Alex wrote. He said he was glad that I had a good time and that he hasn’t laughed so hard in forever.

He went to another party Saturday night and was hungover. Said he won’t be partying for a while, and said, without asking, “Let’s chill soon, binge on some shows. It’ll be raining” something like that.

I was a little disappointed in that. No dates? No forest? I said, “Lol that sounds like Netflix and chill”. He said, “Hahah maybe…. ;)”

I told him that we had amazing cuddles so maybe no chillin. I’m still in a relationship…though it’s been hard lately.

He said no worries, let him know if I wanted to talk. I said thanks.

All this made me a bit sad.

Bunny is going through a hard time. I feel like he’s been going through nothing but hard times since I’ve known him.

We talked on the phone today and he was more miserable than ever. His knee and back were bothering him.

Will he ever be in a good place in life? How long should I stay with him?

I’m so into Alex right now. I guess that’s my problem. I get really into someone really quickly.

But, I’ll stay away. For sure if I see him I’ll be consumed by him. He seems like he would be amazing in bed.

He is horny, I am horny, we want each other, but….we can’t. Sigh.

But, it’s possible that he is not even a good person. He was incredibly evil to Shawn.

One of the reasons why I wanted to keep Bunny as my boyfriend is to be able to make more guy friends and slowly eval them instead of sleeping with them or dating them too early on.

What I didn’t know about myself is that I get obsessed and lose interest in the guy that I’m dating.

Right now it’s already a little bit heading in that direction. I need to halt things with Alex.

It’s a bit of a turnoff for me that he is all tattooed anyway. Ugh, but I’m so into the fact that he is smart, funny, and playful. He has a good amount of playful. Not too much, not too little. He is such a good entrepreneur and business person. That part is so inspiring. I think that’s another reason why I like him…that’s someone I can be a power couple with.

But he is such an all-or-nothing guy. Parties hard, works hard.

He is good at so many things…good biz person, good athlete, good dancer….I bet he is amazing in bed too.

Roger Love Voice coaching event

How you sound is how you are perceived.

Voice Types

  1. Airy
  2. Monotone
  3. Blocked nasal  (no air in and out)
  4. Nasal – fix? lower adam’s apple
  5. Squeaky hinge (no air coming out..run out of air at the end of sentence before a comma or a period…millenial voice..reality show voice…) – how to fix? Only speak when the air is coming out (stomach is coming in)

Etta: southern twang

Fix:

1. Narrow mouth to give more space, drop the jaw more.
2. Higher pitch.
3. Ascending tone

Maddie: lower adam’s apple while using the higher pitch to get rid of NY accent

Mono-tone vs. Mono-resonance (for example can be nasally all the time). Be unpredictable.

Unconsciously competent

Mushroom Experience with Ty

Yesterday Ty and I went on a mushroom journey!

It wasn’t huge as we expected, but still fun and a good bonding experience!

Ty had 3.25g, I had 2.5g. Mostly African with some Mexican. We soaked it in lemon juice to predigest it, so I don’t get nausea. We also blended it for most homogeneity and absorption.

We walked towards Stanley Park, and half way there, we put our mushroom cups on top of a McDonald’s trash can and poured some Ener-C into them. Pretty funny haha.

It started off promising. We walked to the Rose Garden, and sat for a bit. We walked to Beaver Lake, and sat for a bit. When I closed my eyes, it was bright. Like my experience on Gillie T. I saw a bright orange shade of rounded geometric patterns (honeycombs, and later trapezoids), kinda like the 70s. On Gillie T. it was pink and pastel rainbow, and more geometric.

Ty said if he focused on the clouds he was seeing a bit of a geometric pattern. We at on the bench by Beaver Lake hoping for more, but there wasn’t more. We could feel the mushroom course through our bodies though.

At one point I almost puked, but didn’t. The lemon juice definitely made a difference.

Still it wasn’t a pleasant feeling. I felt like I had to hold my body together. My legs were jello. Ty’s too.

Then we went to different parts of Stanley Park, which looked like the Pacific Spirit Forest Park, which I liked!

We crossed a bridge that had a warning sign, “Wheelchair Traffic”, and we laughed so much I was in tears! How much traffic did it get that it needed a sign! Ahahahaha

We crossed a tiny bridge and arrived at a more private area. Then we sat down by a tree.

We somehow ended up lying right beside each other. I kinda craved touch, but felt like it was fine enough to lie by each other.

I always find Bunny so hot. While Ty is good looking, it’s not the same level as Bunny. So that helps me from straying haha.

But I still am fond of Ty enough to want to be physically close to him. He isn’t a very sexual person so I wasn’t getting turned on. I kinda know that I have very smooth skin though, and I kinda want him to know that. I kinda like anyone I like to know that. So far only my girl friends know that and the guys I have dated.

We talked about life. Some interesting things:

  1. There is no ugly sunset, no ugly forest.. shouldn’t we be able to find all humans beautiful? (Actually, there are some ugly forests, and ugly animals…so I scratch that haha)
  2. The moment our ancestors stepped off the tree and touched the ground was a pivotal moment.
  3. The moment that someone decided to create weekdays and weekends, also a pivotal moment.
  4. Ty asked if we would still be friends if we met at 6 years old. I said sure. But today I said no because I wouldn’t have had enough English yet. Think of all the people we could’ve been friends with, but the speak a different language or live in a different timeline.
  5. I came to realize that doing is important. I want to look outwards instead of inward. I want to socialized with ECF, dance classmates, meet more people in general.
  6. Ty is still very much into looking inward. He wants to do Ayahuasca. We agreed to do a holotropic breathing class together.
  7.  Ty has a more pessimistic view than me in general. He is in search of purpose, and he feels really sad that he doesn’t know what his purpose is. I asked him for an example of someone who has found purpose, and he can’t give one. We talked about how certainty is very similar to purpose. The certainty of the importance or impact of what you are doing.

At one point I grabbed a branch and we used that as a blanket. It was pretty funny.

We were both so hungry by 5pm, we went to Kingyo and had an amazing dinner! We came back to my place, had  half a watermelon on the balcony, and talked about covid too much. He left at midnight. We spent 13 hours together!

I masturbated 2 or 3 times between last night and this morning. I don’t know if it’s the mushroom making me horny or if it’s Ty. I didn’t fantasize about him though.

At Kingyo he talked about purpose and he teared up. I gave him a hug, and he touched my arm. I guess I was kinda turned on by that he now knows how smooth my arm is haha. Weird.

This was us being more physically close than ever. I do noticed that his hugs are longer each time I see him, and he tried to touch me a tiny bit more each time.

I think what we have right now is perfect. Admiration for each other, some attraction, but not sexual.

I want Ty and Cyn to get back together. I think they are still the best match.

As much as I enjoy hanging out with Ty, I don’t want to date hime. I’m not attracted to him enough physically, and the fact that he mistreated Cyn was definitely a turn off for me. I couldn’t believe that he had been such a bad boyfriend to Cyn. And even if I was attracted to him, he is my other best friend’s fiance! And even if they were no longer engaged, I’m with Bunny!

Ty gave me a laptop stand. That was so sweet.

 

 

 

 

KT Engraving App Work Flow

Work flow:

  1. In Etsy, VA moves newly arrived engraving orders to from “New Orders” to “Engraving Orders” progress tab. This is for easier reference later on.
  2. In App, VA searches “Unshipped” and “Not ready” and “Engraved” orders from the past 3 months. Goes through each order to make it “Ready to Print”.  All engraved orders can be readied in App except for custom image orders.
  3. Case: Lost or Defect or Size replacement order – VA searches for the order in App by order ID, creates a spin-off order, edits the order if needed, marks the order as “Ready to Print”, and press “Save”.
  4. Case: Engraving add-on – For non-engraved ring order with an engraving-add-on order, VA searches for the order in App by order ID, edit the order by adding engraving info, mark the order as “Ready to Print”, and press “Save”. This order is now an engraving order, even though in App, its “Engraved” property is False. We know it’s an engraving order because its “Ready to Print” property is True. (Or do we create a spin-off order here instead? The advantage would be that the spin-off will have the “Engraved” property, and will always show up in the search result in #2.)
  5. Case: Custom image engraving order – In Illustrator, VA creates .ai files for the custom image orders, saves them to a shared folder (File/).
  6. Case: Not ready and has an order note – In App, if an order was “Ready to Print”, but Nicole or VA updated it to “Not Ready” and left an order note (e.g. OOS), then now is a time for VA to check if new info has come in to make this order “Ready to Print”.
  7. In App, if any “Unshipped” and “Not ready” and “Engraved” order (search result from #2) cannot be updated to “Ready to Print”, VA contacts the customer for alternatives.
  8. Now in App, when we search by “Ready to Print” and “Not Printed” and a date range of past 3 months, the search result is the complete list of orders to be engraved.
  9. In Chitchats, VA creates ship label for each engraved order and puts it in a ChitChats batch. (This is done by copying and pasting the addresses for each engraved order from Etsy and Shopify). VA also looks for any pending batch (not yet dropped off at Chitchats) to see if the orders can be added to the latest batch.
  10. For non-engraved-orders: In a Spreadsheet, VA creates a list of orders (in Etsy and Shopify) to be fulfilled by Nicole.
  11. For non-engraved-orders: In Chitchats, VA creates ship label for each non-engraved order (Etsy and Shopify) to be fulfilled by Nicole, and puts it in a second Chitchats batch
  12. In Chitchats, Nicole prints ship labels from both batches. Affix onto mailers.
  13. In App, Nicole searches for orders that are “Ready” and “Not Printed”. (Date range: Maybe maybe defaults to past 3 months?)
  14. Nicole picks the rings-to-be-engraved based on list in App.
  15. If a ring is OOS (out of stock), Nicole marks the ring order as “Not Ready” in App. She’ll also enter into the Notes field: “OOS”.
  16. In App, Nicole marks each order as “Printed” and she engraves each.
  17. Nicole packs all engraved rings.
  18. Based on Spreadsheet, Nicole picks and packs non-engraved rings, denote any OOS in spreadsheet.
  19. In Chitchats, for the two batches, engraved and non-engraved, Nicole confirms that they match exactly to the mailers that she is dropping off. If an order can’t be dropped off (e.g. OOS), she takes it out of the batch and puts it into a new batch.
  20. Nicole drops of the two batches at Chitchats, and within an hour their status at Chitchats will update from “Pending” to “Received”.
  21. In Chitchats, VA opens the latest “Received” batches. These are the shipped orders.
  22. In Etsy, VA goes to Engraving tab and marks orders as shipped (based on Chitchats received batch).
  23. In Shopify, VA searches orders with filter “Engraved” and marks them as shipped (based on Chitchats received batch).
  24. In Etsy and Shopify, VA marks non-engraved orders as shipped (based on Chitchats received batch).

ECF Meetups

  1. August 7, 2021 – Kirin Dim Sum
    1. Pinterest as a selling platform
    2. Brian: Hair products, influencer brings 100% of revenue. Testing many websites with rendered products to see what catches, before committing to the brand and product.
  2. August 13 – WeWork, Fairfont brunch
    1. Influencer is hit or miss. Need to try many, and build relationship with the ones that worked well.
    2. Seeding allows the same audience to see the product often and feel the trend. Send out at least 200 products
    3. Jackson: $35K/month ($3 to $4MM per year) revenue. 50% cost vs. price. EBIDTA about 10% to 15%. Estimated profit at 20% if not focusing on growing so much. Spend about $65K/month on ads (20% of revenue). 3X each month.  Not taking a salary. GF in environment (boggs). Focuses on growth in order to exit at $100M. 80% ownership, 70% after this round of investment. Has a product director from Article, who was making close to $200K. Now she makes around $100K. Once TuftandPaw reaches certain revenue target, everyone gets a salary bump.
    4. David Bryant: Current company https://offroading.com/ directs traffic to Amazon. Sells only on Amazon. Has a 3PL geared towards big heavy items. EPIDTA about 10 to 12%. Previous company: https://www.ecomcrew.com/i-sold-my-company-how-to-sell-your-private-label-ecommerce-company/
    5. Ronnie: 35 to 40 staff. $500 Amazon Gift cert contest to get UGC on social share. $10+ million revenue. Spend about $650K/year on salary. Has staff in PH, Africa, Easter Europe, Venezuela, etc. Send rendered designs to email list to get customers to vote.
    6. Bill: Workwear. Sold a business in sports and pet. Now workwear and safety vests, but buy from ready-made. No designers. Sells only online. Walmart.com, .ca, Amazon.com and .ca. FBM.
    7. Roll-up businesses acquiring Amazon businesses (3 to 6x SDE) to sell at a much higher valuation (10 to 20x)

July / August revelations

Hello Tanya Super Spacebunny, my dear friend.

41 years old. Definitely wiser but definitely don’t want to be type cast by age.

What a life it has been!

Let’s start with some gratitude:

  1. I’m grateful to have my health! Seems like so many people close to me and close to my age are not that healthy. This is not something to be taken for granted!
  2. Able to sleep well; able to do all kinds of activities; pain-free; clear mind
  3. Sometimes I’m stressed, but it seems that I’m not as stressed as my friends. I work at my own pace, I wake up when I want to.
  4. Not waken by alarm
  5. Have over $4MM in wealth! $100k/year dividends thanks to Bunny!
  6. For the most part I can spend money without thinking about my budget!
  7. Biz is doing quite well! Especially Etsy and Shopify. Engraving is kicking ass right now!!
  8. Have great friends! Sincere, and always trying to help me. And they are! I’m hiring some of them.
  9. Bunny is sincere and grateful and has been helping me make money.
  10. My place is beautiful and comfortable
  11. My plants are happy
  12. Mom and Dad are healthy
  13. Dale is a pretty good VA.

So in general, I have love, health, wealth, happiness. I’m very very lucky!

Let’s talk about….things to improve upon

  1. Bunny is still not well. But it seems that Dr. Feng has identified something very interesting: his hip is out of alignment! Hopefully this will help him.
  2. I don’t know if Bunny and I love each other. I sometimes do wish that I was dating a funny, healthy, happy, adventurous intellectual, someone with lots of money, and someone whom I have amazing sexual chemistry with and can have lots of amazing sex with. There is actually a lot that is lacking between Bunny and I. I feel that I’m just in this relationship because he needs my help (and I’m the only who can help him), he has helped me make lots of money (still not settled, but my wealth was about $1.6MM before, and in 1.5 years it’s now $4.4MM with $100k/year dividends), I’m more driven to grow my biz than to find a new boyfriend, and he is sincere. Also he is so handsome. I can’t even think of a next step with him nor seeking my ideal relationship, just to get his health back first then see.
  3. Stocks are not reopening…yet. It adds stress to Bunny and sometimes me.
  4. Pandemic continues… This hasn’t bothered me much, until now. Now Vaccine Passport is being implemented in some countries. WTF. I couldn’t believe the ridiculousness of this.
  5. I’m getting fat. But that’s ok…just need to exercise more! I’ll take up dancing. At least this is within my control.
  6. Ella and Yana still need to get up to speed.
  7. Maybe aspects of Knot Theory is still not SODA’d.
  8. I wish to have someone do things I don’t like doing. Maybe Anna, or maybe someone who is better with people. Or maybe it’ll require 2 people.

Let’s talk about….desires and living a fulfilled life

  1. Pretty awesome that I’m able to give Cyn purpose by hiring her to market Knot Theory. Also able to give Nicole a full time job! That feels fulfilling.
  2. I’ve been wanting to grow stuff. Maybe micro greens. I don’t know if I want to grow them myself or hire someone else.  Maybe I just want to eat them. Maybe I just want to control a bigger space, wether it’s a farm or a warehouse. Do something fun on it!
  3. I want to make $100MM. How do I do that? I shall manifest often.

Some revelations:

  1. When something bad happens, my mind goes to: who to blame. I need to shift that. Shift it to: How can we take care of it? Then, bad or not that bad? Cause? Then, Prevention?
  2. I overshare the negative with mom, Bunny, and friends. It’s negative energy offloaded onto them, and it also isn’t good for my image. I want to be transparent and had thought that was the best way to be, but I’m learning that there are some things better kept to myself. e.g. when I find Bunny negative or boring. When Nicole is dumb. Accept and love people. Give more grace. Don’t be so critical.
  3. Money is the biggest gift you can give someone. Of course give authentically so it’s meaningful, but in general, money is freedom, comfort, self-worth, options. I learned that from hiring Cyndi and Nicole.
  4. Success is attractive. Ty is drawn to my success. Bunny too. Cyndi too.

General improvements I’d like to do:

  1. Stop talking badly of people. Or even think it. If you catch yourself doing it, say, “Grace”.
  2. Stop complaining to other people; can think it or say it to the void, but no need to offload it. Say, “Gratitude.”
  3. Manage stress. Don’t let it get to you. Find tools to deal with / handle stress.
  4. When unhappy with Bunny, tell him how I want him to be instead of getting mad.
  5. Fast for 1 day, once a week. I think Monday is a good day for that.
  6. Dance more, run more
  7. Laugh more, socialize more
  8. Work hard during the week – track my time and set goals so I can learn to become efficient.
  9. Push very hard on engraving. Dominate the market while we can!
  10. Think big. How can I make $100MM?

How to make $100MM?

  1. On ECF, make friends with people who often contribute smart / helpful ideas.
  2. On ECF, research what the $10MM+ entrepreneurs are doing.
  3. Once a week, manifest, thinkitate about this.
  4. Once a week, evaluate if the things I’m doing are bringing me closer to the goals.

What does it look like to have a $10MM+ business?

  1. Have teams of staff, each team has a manager. About 10~15 staff? Finance, Ops, Inventory, CS, Marketing, Design, Programmer.
  2. Able to pull some big marketing stunts, innovation stunts, collabs with brands and influencers
  3. Have a cool office + warehouse
  4. I only focus on high level vision.
  5. I can take 2 to 3 weeks off and the business will continue to grow and thrive; lots of free time

This coming month’s goal

This coming 3 month goals

Long term goals

 

product ideas:

high fibre (prebiotics) low cal flour
https://www.foodingredientsfirst.com/news/flourish-flour-addresses-immunity-demands-with-prebiotic-fiber-as-home-baking-set-to-rise.html

 

 

Grateful, Future living

I’m grateful for my health, wealth, and friendships.

I’m very very lucky. Thank you God!!

Compared to Cyndi and Bunny, my health is amazing!!! Thank you, body and mind!

Cyndi came over to Vancouver last week, and we spent a lot of time together!

She thinks I’m a source of light in her life. I’m glad. She says that I give her purpose (by hiring her). That’s wonderful!

I’m also a lubricant to her and Ty right now. I didn’t realize how bad it is.

I’m selfish. I want them to be together because then we can all hang out together and have lots of fun!

I want them to be happy. They deserve it!

I think because Cyn is suffering in many ways (eye pain etc), and I’m doing well, I have to space for jealousy. Even though I’m the jealous type.

Cyn said that Ty has been so mean to her the past two years. Gosh it is impossible to imagine. But it makes me less attracted to him and more grateful of Bunny.


Ideal living situation:

I’m SO grateful of my place. It’s beautiful, the BC Place view is the most amazing. It’s just the right size. It’s a perfect location. I love my place so much!

Lately though, I’ve been having the urge to own land, or a house. I think I want to grow stuff. Microgreens. I think I want more space.

I want to visualize and manifest this place.

I want to build or reno a house. I want to have a beautiful mountain water view. I want to have a garden.

A house is great. A penthouse with a rooftop garden is probably even more amazing!

On the other hand a house with land seems to be more limitless!

A beautiful cabin with skylight. Or a modern house with a swing!