I own a coffeehouse!

I know it has been quite a while since I posted. Again I apologize but I do have a good excuse. In December my husband bought me a coffeehouse! It is a really big venture for me since I have never owned a business before. I am spending a great deal of time learning quick books, and how to run a coffeehouse and well it is an adventure! It is also a lot of hard work, long hours, tedium, and waiting and worrying and well the list goes on and on!
Since I got the coffeehouse on January 1, I (with some help from my friends and family) have repainted, remodelled and put up a folk gallery as well. It has been a huge undertaking as the space is 1200 square feet and before I took it over it was 1200 square feet of "not much going on". Since I took over I have scheduled activities each evening with live music two nights a week now. Sometimes I have it three times a week but that is not on a regular schedule. Anyway, I have quite a full house some nights and on others no one shows up and it is a dismal evening. In all it is still a crapshoot!
I frequently have people come in and ask me how my business is doing? This is rather a rude question I think considering it is my business, but people here seem to feel they have a vested interest in my survival as a business. It continues to amaze me just how insensitive and rude some customers can be but then the ones (who are about 99.5% of my customers in truth) are truly becoming friends I would like to have long after my business has expired.
For those of you who follow my art... I am still working on art pieces but it is slow in the coming. I have a rocking horse in the car that I am making for my grandson and I just purchased 7 new chairs to paint and do up for the shop. 4 of them came from the library and are really heavy duty oak. Yes I am going to paint the oak! they are not antique and not anything real pretty even but they will look awesome painted! I also have a small table that I purchased and I am going to turn it into a game table and put it out on the floor too. It is very nice and three of the chairs I purchased are the perfect height for the table. I still have several lamps at home to finish and get out as well. So yes, I am still doing my art, just not as fast as before I had the shop.
My grandson is doing wonderfully in Florida and both of his parents are doing great as well. He is growing so rapidly! I cant wait to see him again. My boys are great. Each is doing his own thing. Dan is working on becoming the Master Chief of the Coast Guard and Mollye is such an asset to him in this endeavor. David is in Boston and preparing to go back to college. He wants to study philosophy since he says he believes that education should make you more knowledgeable not necessarily teach you a career. To a degree I agree with him but my concern is that he is far to intelligent to spend his life as a "flunky" working in a printing company. However, he needs to find his own way and I think his path is rather interesting at this point.
Well, I guess this is enough for today. I will write more tomorrow (I hope) if it isnt too busy here. I wish you all well and bye for now. R