Monday May 12, 2014

Today was an experience.  (I'm just going to leave it at that.)

My day started with a 24 hour stomach bug.  (I originally thought it was food poisoning from the dance team trip to IHOP; a move that I strongly disagreed with.  However the nurses later diagnosed me with a gastrointestinal bug that had been wandering around the school.)  I won't go into details, but it was a rough start.  So, not only did I have a bug, I also had to take my AP Biology Exam that day.  Needless to say, by the time my exam let out, which was around 12:00 PM, I felt like I was dying.  Luckily, for the rest of the day I did not have classes; just one make up quiz, which was quick.  Since I did not have classes and could not move without feeling sick, I went to the health center for the rest of the day (rest of the day being rest of classes and sports).

Even though I was sick, I actually managed to accomplish a lot.  From my mom budgeting time on Saturday, I had a lot of "assignments."  The first was to do some research to fill in various costs.  For example, under the insurance heading, how much is property insurance and crop insurance.  (SIDE NOTE:  I actually never found out specifically how much either would be, since one involved calling an insurance representative and the other involved calling the USDA.)  The second task was to finish a spreadsheet of my inventory of oysters for the first 5 years.  As you can see from the picture below, I have each year broken down into my my deliveries, loses, demos/samples, and sales.  Using this spreadsheet I can see exactly how many oysters I can expect to have on hand at any given month during my first five years.  I can also use it to show the change in total inventory per week.  (In the picture, I have my years going from May to April, rather than January through December.  This is a change I made later in the week.)

Although, my stomach bug was an obstacle that I didn't need or want at this stage of the project, it actually allowed me to have more time to work and research.  I still haven't gotten over my GI bug, but I am hoping that by tomorrow I will.