Car driving; bead sorting; picture making

I have been filling in for Briana for a week, going over to her place every night for several hours and shipping beads.  During this time I’ve been driving Tonya’s Honda Accord.  It’s been since 1995 that I drove a car for any length of time.  Except for an occasional rental car I have had a truck for nearly two decades.  Although visibility is less, simply because I’m lower, it sure is fun to drive.  Its comfortable, rides smooth, has a stereo and is easy to park.

Last night when I got to Briana’s there were only a half a dozen orders or so but half of them included one or more packages of these new bead she has listed.  I spent several hours separating, packaging and labeling the beads.  I had my iPad and was listening to music, skyped with Lori until she had to go grade papers and for several hours the boys next door playing in their pool.

At the end of the night when I had a couple more orders to ship, I snapped this picture for my 365 project as it was 9 pm and there were not going to be any other shots for the day.

Tonya and Briana are in Hawaii for another whole week.  In my emails back and forth with Briana about the bead business she has mentioned snorkeling, art walk, swimming with turtles, a hike with a waterfall to play in at the end, kayaking, tour of a Hindu monastery, snorkeling and more snorkeling.  I know Katherine and I just got back from there but I want to go do more snorkeling!

What you can get with sugar

No not bee’s or fly’s or hell any bugs.

I have been having a heck of a time getting my posters out of the vendor.  It seems he only works on weekends or perhaps the first and third weekends of the month, I am not really sure.

Although I have been extremely frustrated he would not know that from my email.  Granted I did have  my lead volunteer call his wife on the pretense that she (volunteer) had not yet seen a poster from me and would she (vendors wife) forward it to her.  That got me at least the first draft…several weeks late but I got it.

We have a two-week turn-around in the print shop.  I have been updating Karl every time I see him about the delays and letting him know what is going on.  This really is the sugar part.  So many people push and push for this one man print shop to get stuff out.  There is actually only so much a machine can produce.  Maybe it’s because I talk printing with him but yesterday I cleared my second (very very tardy) poster to print.  I put on the due date one week out and a note telling him I knew I was under the minimum and understood if it took longer.  Today he tells me he will get to my stuff today.  Woo Hoo.

I’m sure there is a better metaphor beside you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar or  an apple a day or some such ridiculous.  I am just thrilled that the markets are falling together and I really do dig this job most days.

Cute Shoes

Cute shoes made the day…that and 80 degree weather.  **Warning, no real content here, feel free to move right along to something with substance**

I hadn’t even made it to my desk this morning and I had six “cute shoes” followed by several “you look so springy”.  After running around Renton distributing SIFF guides and doing a little shopping I can’t even tell you how many “cute shoes” I had by the end of the day.

These are from the designer Nina and they are very comfy.  I’ve had them for a while and got them to replace a pair of shoes by the same designer I bought for a friend’s wedding in the late 90′s.  I wore the predecessor shoes completely out and even tried to get them fixed.

When I bought these I liked them, but was still comparing them to the shoes they were replacing.  But after a couple of years they are definitely one of my spring favorites and the weather has helped with the cute shoe factor lately.

I love my winter boots but it sure it nice to have a Summer preview….I’m sure I’ve mentioned the weather in nearly every post this last week.

Oh, and ignore how gargantuan my calves look from my taking this picture with my phone and a weird angle, cause ugh.

Maddening Migraine

Yesterday was productive.  Lots of yard work completed along with a couple of baking orders.  Today was going to be more yard work, laundry, grocery shopping, taking flowers to Sara and then working for Briana shipping the bead orders from the weekend.

However, this morning started off with a migraine.  All I could do from 6 to 8 is lay as still as possible.  I needed drugs, water and coffee.  I got into the bathroom and took 3 Exederin migraine pills but just the moving was making me nauseous.  I showered and dressed but kept needing to lay back down.  By the time I got out of the house and heading over to Sara’s it was 10:00 and I just had a bad headache but lost four hours of productivity.  I had a wonderful visit with Sara and John, got all caught up on my extended family.

I then went and shipped beads for several hours.  The things I wanted to get done today, laundry, yard work, shopping and such did not happen.  But the two must’s got done.

The migraine couldn’t thwart my entire day, the rest will need to wait until later in the week.  Why cant the migraine show up on a sucky weather day and not the warmest day of the year.  At least the day was not a total loss, great visit and headache is gone!