Money only means something, when you don’t have it. Blog #20

Wow what a week. I last left you with the hope I’d get my money in a couple of days. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Dan called me up Tuesday and said we have big problems. Apparently the BDC wanted me to buy all my equipment first. Then the second wave of cash would be the lease hold improvements. Of course I did this backwards. They weren’t exactly pleased. I asked how things could be done that way. I mean buy your stoves then grind the floor so there is 10cm of dust everywhere. But Dan was great! He did some work and made an amendment and we were good to go. Almost. I had to collect all the cheques I had written and send them to the BDC so they could match them up with the invoices.  On top of that, a few of the invoices had no HST numbers. So that was crazy and, as it stands now, I’m still waiting the get the remainder of the money. Last week was painting the base boards. Wow what a tough job. Plus doing touch ups. Jake and Richard did the bathrooms as they were a mess. But they looked great after they were done. I spent last weekend painting the bathrooms. Kate popped in for a few hours on Sat. but other than that, it was me and the radio.

Also during this time I was having quite the time with AGCO. They were asking for papers that I had completed months ago. And when they realized this, they said ok you just need to send us a cheque to put the ad in the paper. Good thing I had a copy of the cheque due to the BDC thing. I emailed them back saying here’s the cheque you want which was sent over a month ago and cashed a month ago. The problem with these emails is they were two and three days apart.   So it wasn’t all finalized till Today.

My bar was supposed to come Tues but that has been pushed off till tomorrow (I think).  I hope so though, because Fri is the Christmas walk. And although I’m not open, I’m going to serve hot chocolate and hand out menus and business cards. Speaking of which My Web site and business cards came in on Sunday. And I have to say the Site is phenomenal and the business cards are very nice. You can check out the web site if you wish at www.lebonmarche.ca 

I almost forgot. My art work came in on Fri and, oh my, it is WICKED!!! 4 fairies. 3 girls and one male! So that’s where we are this week at LBM. Sorry it’s been so long. Working like crazy and too tired at night to write.  I hope to write this weekend and tell you all about the Christmas walk.

Cheers Le Commis Glenn