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It's a wonder the car isn't coated with mildew on the inside, what with how many times I've forgotten to roll up the windows the night before and woke up to rain. At least there wasn't a huge puddle on the floor in the backseat, the way it was last summer when I just blithely went about my day, certain they were already rolled up. Are you actually rolling up the windows when you have power ones? The crank kind did roll, but do these? Should I be using a different word?
Two weeks ago I had a customer on Etsy order some little baby shoes. She never paid, despite sending several emails, so after one final email, I canceled the sale. A few days later she ordered a kimono and sent a message that her baby had come early and she'd spent a week at the hospital due to some minor medical issues, were the shoes still available? I'd relisted them and they sold very quickly to someone else, so I offered to make a second pair. Finished them, sent an email that I was going to prepare an invoice and she replied saying was it okay if she just bought the shoes, that she still had some other purchases to pay for. Arrggh. I contemplating just canceling both sales and asking her not to shop from me, but really, what would that accomplish? And people on Etsy often spout "would you do this/expect this from a real shop?" and sometimes I would like to cancel a sale if I could, it was impulsive, I didn't really need it, I had spent more than I thought. So, fine, at least I made the one sale. And since I had only mentally spent the money I would have received for the kimono it's not really a big deal.
Miranda gets wooden nickels everytime she goes to the orthodontist for doing things like taking care of her braces and cooperating with the treatment. She can cash them in for certain prizes and 9 nickels gets you a 5.00 Toys R Us card. Ivy's been getting nickels too when she goes because the staff thinks it's cute thats she's desperate for braces. So today we are cashing them in and going to Toys R Us. I'm such a good mom, aren't I? Tormenting myself and filling the world with more plastic--the point of the trip will be Littlest Pet Shop animals. I'm going to try and convince them to accompany me to Joanns afterwards, I figure they have the toys to occupy them.
Getting up earlier seems to mean I just have more time to screw around and waste time.
Two weeks ago I had a customer on Etsy order some little baby shoes. She never paid, despite sending several emails, so after one final email, I canceled the sale. A few days later she ordered a kimono and sent a message that her baby had come early and she'd spent a week at the hospital due to some minor medical issues, were the shoes still available? I'd relisted them and they sold very quickly to someone else, so I offered to make a second pair. Finished them, sent an email that I was going to prepare an invoice and she replied saying was it okay if she just bought the shoes, that she still had some other purchases to pay for. Arrggh. I contemplating just canceling both sales and asking her not to shop from me, but really, what would that accomplish? And people on Etsy often spout "would you do this/expect this from a real shop?" and sometimes I would like to cancel a sale if I could, it was impulsive, I didn't really need it, I had spent more than I thought. So, fine, at least I made the one sale. And since I had only mentally spent the money I would have received for the kimono it's not really a big deal.
Miranda gets wooden nickels everytime she goes to the orthodontist for doing things like taking care of her braces and cooperating with the treatment. She can cash them in for certain prizes and 9 nickels gets you a 5.00 Toys R Us card. Ivy's been getting nickels too when she goes because the staff thinks it's cute thats she's desperate for braces. So today we are cashing them in and going to Toys R Us. I'm such a good mom, aren't I? Tormenting myself and filling the world with more plastic--the point of the trip will be Littlest Pet Shop animals. I'm going to try and convince them to accompany me to Joanns afterwards, I figure they have the toys to occupy them.
Getting up earlier seems to mean I just have more time to screw around and waste time.