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I will of course talk specifics with my accountant, but I don’t even know what I don’t know, yet, hoping you will have some ideas!

I’m planning to open a bricks and mortar shop, part of the model is based around local makers selling their products through the shop for a commission.

The shop is GST registered, but I can figure out how that interacts with maker sales.

Regular stock, the sale price on the ticket includes GST

A makers’ product, the sale price should? Should not? Include GST (or is that dependent on whether the maker is GSTregistered ?)
What about the commission?

I cannot even!

We all know that sleep matters, and take-your-meds™️ and such, but what else’s do you do that keeps you on balance?

I saw someone comment they try to eat a can of chickpeas a day?!, someone else suggested a bar of soap tucked in between the sheets to combat restless legs.

What do you do that’s perhaps unconventional, maybe has no science logic but you swear by it any way?

I’m just back from seeing my psychiatrist and though I’m not at all well, I have borrowed optimism that I could become well.

Setting the scene, my psychiatrist is a very serious man, I have never seen more than his “professional smile”, and he has no capacity for coddling, or sugar coating.
I’m pretty sure he doesn’t think I’m funny.

(I am, though)

Reasons for damp hope found in passing comments (not offered as reassurance or platitudes) as randomly expressed by one of the best doctors in the region:

Bipolar is a very serious illness. Scientists and researchers take it very seriously and are working diligently to improve outcomes.

This might not be as good as it can get.

Even with excellent medication compliance, there will most likely be times when symptoms break through, but we know that, and we don’t have to be surprised or panic when that happens.

Until something comes along and tops it, the worst thing has already happened and is behind me.

I came away from that appointment with a meds change to try that might make things better, or might make them the same but simpler, or might make things worse (and then we’ll know not to do that).
And somehow a faint tinge of hope.

Maybe it’s the bipolar. Maybe I’ve been feeling particularly dreadfully hopeless.
Who knows? Hopeful is nice, I’ll take it.

*at the end of the rainbow there’s mostly a ruined hairstyle and worms on the footpath

I find Mothers Day …complicated… and I’m sure I’m not the only one.

If your mum’s not around, or you never had one (or you wish you hadn’t had that one). if your arms are empty, or you’re exhausted by so many kids or just not feeling the happy families vibe.

If you’re feeling like a failure, a fraud, or forgotten today, here’s space to be honest about it.

It took my husband and I seven years of actively trying- expensive treatments, special diets, the right undies, and all, to become parents.

Anytime I’d be a bit salty about Mother’s Day, I’d be told “it’s not about you, it’s about YOUR mother” or “but you’ve been Like A Mother to so many young people” and all I wanted was someone to recognise that it’s possible to be happy about aspects of a thing while also being utterly devastated by it.

So, if you’re having Feelings™️ about today,you can let them out here, no one will judge.

I said, NO ONE will judge, right? And I didn’t stutter. Be kind, people.

It’s Friday, but Sundays coming, right?

Or, in my case, it’s already Saturday!!

What are you doing to prepare for worship this weekend?

My ideal is for “no sound of hammers inside the temple”, referencing that the noisy work of shaping the stones for rebuilding the temple was done off site -, meaning there’s no preparation work still being done when it comes time to worship.

It’s a lovely aspirational goal, but our people resources don’t work that way.

Our congregation is anything between 80-140, music team entirely self-taught-and-rarely-practices (including me, to be fair 😝)

I don’t run the roster, so I can’t explain why this week, the good drummer is playing learner guitar, which means the brass player will play …adequate drums, on the same day as we have the learner bass player, and because I’m leading, I’ll be at the low spec keyboard upstage not the baby grand at the back (eye contact) and only paying half attention to my fingers.

It’s going to be a joyful noise, I guess?

I have a running theme of God being good no matter the circumstance eg Blessed be the Name, and Praise (that elevation one) so I have scriptures on that theme that I need to print. I’ll distribute them ready to give opportunity for people to either pop up and share a testimony, or read the scripture they got.

I’m amazed at how many people who wouldn’t ordinarily speak up, will happily read a scripture, and the momentum of other people speaking seems to give courage to others to share something (as opposed to the awkward silence when you announce a testimony time)

The tech team are prepping today, they say have my list and visuals, there will still be some tweaking of arrangements in the morning as we run through/practice.

Even more so because half of the team weren’t able to make practice plus I switched out some songs we DID practice, because they went so badly.

Tonight my husband and I plan to go to the local beach to watch the sun set, which isn’t specifically part of it, just bonus.

TBH I don’t usually actually build worship into my prep. I should think about that!

What’s going on in your world?