Damn it
Now with extra annoyance
Damn 1. Green dress still isn't ready. She took out all the bright blue thread (wtf?), but in the process lost the correct angle on the straps, so they now have an awkward bulge at the point where they join the back of the dress.
She did a beautiful job on hiding the stitching, this time... but ugh! Lumpy straps, when they were perfect before.
And I hate having to decide whether to push back on this, and if we risk making things worse each time the delicate over layer is edited.
Plus part of me feels I should offer her a bit more money, because she's doing more work (and at rush tempo). And then the other part says, no, a quoted price is a quoted price and if it's not done right that's her lookout. But I worry that I'll regret the ungraciousness later.
2. Got a parking ticket (too close to a driveway) when I went to pick up the dress. I totally deserved it, but if the dress had been right so the pickup went quickly as planned, I'd've been gone before the meter-man arrived. Phoey.
3. LJ app seems to have irretrievably eaten my earlier post on this subject.
Bonus: she just called to invite me in so she can repin on me. Which is good that she's being careful, but annoying because we had her business partner pin out this morning (see above mentioned parking ticket). And he'd said she'd be in around 2, but it's 4 now, which means traffic coming home from the shop might suck. Maybe I'll bike.
The real annoyance of this latter piece of news is that, in order to get it done while I wait, she's not going to do the nicely hidden stitches. So I'm back to deciding on lesser of two evils.
Luckily for me, I'm home sick today, so I have the availability to zip out there. BUT at this point in the day I already used up all my allotted 4 hrs of PTO. (I took a nice walk at lunch time... plus the various slowdowns related to sickness, which are why I'd had the foresight to call today a 50% off day to begin with.) I don't WANT to take a break now!
Damn 1. Green dress still isn't ready. She took out all the bright blue thread (wtf?), but in the process lost the correct angle on the straps, so they now have an awkward bulge at the point where they join the back of the dress.
She did a beautiful job on hiding the stitching, this time... but ugh! Lumpy straps, when they were perfect before.
And I hate having to decide whether to push back on this, and if we risk making things worse each time the delicate over layer is edited.
Plus part of me feels I should offer her a bit more money, because she's doing more work (and at rush tempo). And then the other part says, no, a quoted price is a quoted price and if it's not done right that's her lookout. But I worry that I'll regret the ungraciousness later.
2. Got a parking ticket (too close to a driveway) when I went to pick up the dress. I totally deserved it, but if the dress had been right so the pickup went quickly as planned, I'd've been gone before the meter-man arrived. Phoey.
3. LJ app seems to have irretrievably eaten my earlier post on this subject.
Bonus: she just called to invite me in so she can repin on me. Which is good that she's being careful, but annoying because we had her business partner pin out this morning (see above mentioned parking ticket). And he'd said she'd be in around 2, but it's 4 now, which means traffic coming home from the shop might suck. Maybe I'll bike.
The real annoyance of this latter piece of news is that, in order to get it done while I wait, she's not going to do the nicely hidden stitches. So I'm back to deciding on lesser of two evils.
Luckily for me, I'm home sick today, so I have the availability to zip out there. BUT at this point in the day I already used up all my allotted 4 hrs of PTO. (I took a nice walk at lunch time... plus the various slowdowns related to sickness, which are why I'd had the foresight to call today a 50% off day to begin with.) I don't WANT to take a break now!