The One Where We Dream About Our Future as Entrepreneurs

Katharine  3:29 PM

Did you hear about that Maine bed and breakfast that you can win with a 200 word essay?

Stephanie  3:29 PM

No, but if you win it, I will move and help you run it.

We can be whaler's wives.

Katharine  3:30 PM

I suspect they might be looking for someone who doesn't actively hate domesticity

Stephanie  3:30 PM

You don't know that.

Katharine  3:30 PM

Educated guess

Stephanie  3:30 PM

They could be looking for someone who wants to make a difference. Shake off the "stuffy B&B" stigma

Katharine  3:31 PM

It would be interesting to run a B&B known for its unmade beds, scuzzy bathrooms and breakfasts consisting of like, one giant pancake per diner.

It's like the baby of a B&B and a hostel.

"Katharine's Hostile Bed and Breakfast"

Stephanie  3:32 PM

The beds would be made, they would just be made like, by pulling up the mismatched blankets and calling it good.

Katharine  3:32 PM

Um

You are overestimating my bedmaking

Stephanie  3:33 PM

You don't ever just pull up the covers just enough so the cat hair mostly stays on the outside?

That's all I do.

Katharine  3:34 PM

That would be a good idea

But no

That is just too much for me at 7am

Stephanie  3:34 PM

Well, you can do the business part

Katharine  3:35 PM

And the giant pancake?

Stephanie  3:35 PM

and I will cook

on non-pancake day

Katharine  3:35 PM

OK

That's a good business plan. This essay writes itself!

Katharine  3:36 PM

Ideally one of us should have a surly daughter we can force to do the cleaning for free.

Not it

Stephanie  3:36 PM

Well, once I find my whaler husband, I will do what I can, child-labor-wise.

He is only ashore once every few years

but we'll be doin' it the whole time he's back.

Katharine  3:37 PM

So I'll have to do the cooking then, too

Stephanie  3:37 PM

It can be a special event!

Pancake and caesar salad week!

Stephanie  3:40 PM

Then when he's gone and I'm back to my "he's-at-homes",  we'll have muffins and bacon again.

Katharine  3:40 PM

How many words is this? I'm just going to send this to the B&B owners as-is

Stephanie  3:40 PM

Make sure the B&B has a widow's walk on the roof.

And we'll need to make sure there's room in the budget for our daily opium.

Katharine  3:42 PM

So what I'm getting from this is that this we are turning this into a theme B&B, like those ones where you live like a Jane Austin heroine, except this is a Nantucket whaler widow experience 

Stephanie  3:43 PM

Sure.  Our evening activities can include carving your own sex toy out of whalebone and laying on a fainting couch post-laudanum.

Katharine  3:43 PM
God that sounds relaxing