since i was a teenager i thought i might like to own a certain type of business. one that i enjoyed on so many levels. it's not one to make someone rich, by any stretch of the imagination, but rather one where certain people who enjoy a certain thing could come and well, enjoy.

about seven or eight years ago, i met someone and she mentioned wanting to have her own business. i told her about my idea and together we put kind of a new tweak on it. i did the initial research, finding that because we were women (and before my credit turned to crap) we could get a business loan or even grants.

she apparently was just talking out of the side of her mouth and really didn't mean it because her interest and enthusiasm had been completely forgotten by our next meeting. then, the "friendship" (really only forged with her because we thought so highly of her husband) went south. we lost him because of her (what can i say, some husbands actually do value their wives over other people, no matter how hateful and horrid she is as a human being).

so i had put my idea aside. i thought about it a few times over the years, but it wasn't an idea that more tangible people in my life could wrap their brain around...not to mention, since it wasn't their dream, why should they bother?

lately i've been thinking about it again. where i want to end up here (in florida) it could be a success, i think...and i've added several more different tweaks. doing some research i see that there are other kind-of-types of places popping up. tho most of them are of the non-profit kind, they are similar in many respects to what i want to do.

looking over the area i want to go, rent, remodel, inventory, advertising, and all that sort of thing, i'd probably need about $200,000 start up.

there's only four problems:

i have no capital or collateral
dubya has eliminated grants for entrepreneurs
my credit is crap (so no small business loan)
i have really no business sense or knowledge whatsoever

i might be able to overcome two or three of those barriers, but basically, the cut and dried, black and white, long and short of it is...i'd have to be independently wealthy.

so my strategy is:

my luck seems to be changing in a lot of ways, so i'll just spend two bucks a week playing the lottery. hey, even if i set that money aside, i'd only make maybe 3800 in ten years time (and come on, even with a 50% return if stashed away with a decent interest rate, it'd only be 7600..still not much to open a business, especially when i'm ten years older)

but i even have a strategy for the lottery...i play the same numbers every week. one set i pick for personal reasons (lots of times those are the ones that win) and the second set i let the computer choose and keep playing those same numbers every week. law of averages and statistics and all that, right?

heh...guess i won't be a business owner any time soon, if ever.

lol