Today it is official. I am no longer employed; I am now running my own business. It has been a crazy couple of weeks of winding down, of getting the business registered, putting the paperwork together, and finding health insurance for the family (though I am still waiting for approval, on pins and needles). Much of it was easier than I expected, and I'm pleased at how much I was able to accomplish while still winding down the previous job.

Not all of it was simple though. Digging up 10 years of medical history for the insurance application was a trick. We don't have very much to report, but I didn't want to miss anything and get nailed if it came up in the future. This whole area of health insurance has me skittish because I don't feel like I have any real say in what happens, all the control is with the insurer. But at the end of the day I feel good about the choices we made from the options we had.

The Operating Agreement for the LLC was also challenging. It could have been very simple, since the company is just me, but I wanted to allow for additional members later on should everything go well. So I had to consider things like shares of ownership, voting, and the protocols of adding, removing, or losing members. It was fascinating though. I would not have expected to enjoy working on something so legalese but I suppose there is a technical appeal to it, rather like finding the edge cases for an important feature and putting code in place to handle them.

And then there is the rather surreal experience of having an organizational meeting with myself, and capturing the minutes from said meeting for the records. I understand the purpose, but it is still weird.

Procrastination is a worry, but my real fear is of turning it all into "work", into a 10-12 hour a day obligation and losing the nights-and-weekends joy of it. I've posted reminders around my office, pictures and thoughts to help me keep in mind what I'm trying to do here and why. At the end of each pomodoro I make a point of sitting and soaking it in for a few minutes before betting back to the task at hand.

And speaking of tasks at hand, it is time to get back to it. This week is the website: what I've got, what I'm missing, what needs to go where, and how it all fits together. And oh yes: remembering to have fun doing it.