Why, when asking for advice on something… say, “are these apples any good?” is the first answer some people go to something along the lines of “if you’ve bought bad apples in the past that’s on you, and the question you should really be asking is Why Haven’t You Tried …
For about the last week, I feel like I’ve been gently hit by a bus. Not really full-on smashed into, but more like… clipped, and knocked out into traffic, where another bus hit me and sent me reeling over that way, where another bus…. get the idea? I’ve just been …
For the second day in a row I’ve turned off the dye pots after everything is steaming. Yesterday I decided I was just never going to get to it, since they’d been on for five hours and I hadn’t gotten around to pouring any dye yet. Today I set my …
I’d say I’m not feeling the Christmas spirit yet, but if you work retail you probably know I’m feeling the Christmas spirit alright, but it’s a spirit that wants to smack people across the back of the head and drink tequila straight out of the bottle. But today is going …
As I was getting my coffee ready I was planning out my blog post, where I was going to talk about how I didn’t feel well again, woke up with a sore throat again, and am really hoping it’s just exhaustion and not being sick again… and then I hopped …
That little kiln I bought has been making itself invaluable this week. Even though I’ve been sick – and I’m MUCH better today, thank you – I’ve been glazing a little and firing almost every day. Yesterday I fired some of the re-glazed tea infuser cups, and I did some …
I was hoping to be able to copy and paste parts of a blog post I wrote years ago about all the volunteering I’ve done, but unfortunately it looks like I lost that post in the Great Blog Migration of 2007. Ugh. So, I used to be … I used …
Yesterday was a day primarily of errands; including going by the Verizon store and telling them that the website and I have differing views of the definition of “efficient” and even though Verizon wants me to do this online may I please walk through the store and find a different, …
Sometimes I like to talk to other small business owners about how they do what they do. How do you get X done? Have you ever dealt with Y? I overcame Z by doing… that sort of thing. A back and forth. What I don’t like – and I just …
This post is brought to you by the fact that anything below 61 or over 86 and I become a raving, angry crankpot who can’t hold a thought in her head for more than about two seconds. I do not for the life of me understand people who, when you …
Small business owner rant ahead: Even though I don’t know a single human being who likes to get newsletters, I am constantly shouted at by business advisers to work that email list, gurl! WERK IT!!!! So I spent two hours yesterday, Sunday, a day when I could have been not …
I’m cranky and haven’t slept well the last couple of nights, so feel free to not even read this Ranty McRantyPants post. I have about twenty minutes of physical therapy exercises for my hand that I’m supposed to do six times a day, plus a 13-minute contrast baths for my hand …
Last year I tried to take a vacation, and HAHAHAHAHA! I had more questions, more problems, more messages on multiple platforms *after* I posted I was on vacation than in the two weeks previously (“hey, since you’re taking some time off, let’s talk about what I want to order when …
I think this is the new theme with which I’m going to stick. I’ve figured out how to rotate the headers (right now I have about nine photos so you’ll get one random one each time you land on or refresh the page) and I’ve figured out the typeface. I’m …
I’d still kill for a serif typeface, though, and to be able to make the header and tagline italic. You’d think that would be in the CSS, wouldn’t you? Yes, you’d think so. You’d think that if you just replaced “Verdana” with “Georgia” or “Bookman Old Style” that it would …
One – load of laundry I did last Tuesday that I haven’t had time to fold yet (but that’s OK, I’ve actually worn most of it by now). Eighteen – number of owl ornaments I painted over the three-day weekend. Twelve – number of hours it took me to paint …
One of my old Regional Managers, back when I worked at a Big Box Bookstore, used to say that “energy comes from the top.” Meaning, the cashiers aren’t going to be happy unless the department heads are happy, the department heads aren’t happy unless the assistant managers are happy, and …
If I ever have time to blog regularly again it’ll be a Christmas fucking miracle. We used to have a saying at the Enginerding company – “when everything is important, nothing is important.” I’m working on about sixteen things that all need to get done first, and I feel like …
… or maybe have them involved in a to-the-death cage match? Y’all probably know most of the recurring issues I have with Etsy, and now I’m on the fence between continuing the shop like it is (a mix of stuff I just want to get rid of and a few …
Yesterday I felt like I could not do a single thing right. I tried to drink coffee; I moved the cup so the cat wouldn’t knock it over, I forgot about it, it got cold, I reheated it in the microwave, forgot about it there, etc. etc.. Clearly I was …
Another thing that’s on my mind right now is the amount of time I spend online answering questions (and this is NOT to make anyone who has asked me a question lately feel guilty). I think I’m agitated about this right now because not only have a pulled a muscle …
There have not been enough hours in the days this week. A lot of that, though, is because I’m not trying to push myself to do ALL THE THINGS. So is it really fair to say there aren’t enough hours? Or would it be more fair to say that I …
Clearly I am not yet awake enough to come up with a title. Or really something to write, heh. It’s not that I don’t have stuff on my mind, BELIEVE ME. But some of the stuff that’s on my mind, that I want to write about, is that kind of …
Who’s got two thumbs and got hot water all over her because her dye bar still wasn’t fixed yesterday, only she didn’t know it until three hours into the dyeing cycle when she went to dump the hot water in the sink, exactly the same thing that’s happened for the …
