Interesting week
It's been hella busy at work; we had a set of documents come through that are twice-yearly annoyances (though they used to be quarterly annoyances; I'll take it as a win). Small, two-page doc sets that are localized into 6 languages other than English. Five of them. Per language. The frickin' paperwork takes roughly 10x as long as the docs themselves. And of course they have to be done Right Now OMG even though they won't be published until February. Since they also drag along quite a bit of baggage in the form of ancillary docs, we cringe when they show up, soldier through, and hope that next time they'll have become yearly documents.
This is, of course, in addition to all of our regular work. I do love overtime!
I've been actually coming home and cleaning. I know! I don't know why either, I'm just taking my willingness to scrub the tub and mop the kitchen as the gift it is and I'm exploiting it while it's hanging around. I've been doing bits and pieces every night--a pile put away in the bedroom here, a pile for Goodwill there, putting my bookshelves to rights... I even vacuumed most of the apartment tonight (after replacing the belt in the vacuum) and OMG the cat hair I took out of the bin thingie was insane. There's still a lot to do, and who knows how long this will last? But the place is looking much better. More "cluttered" and less "crazy single lady".
I found out today that my workshop space will go away at the end of March. Now I need to find a new place to set things on fire that I can afford, which in this town is pretty laughable. I'm hoping one of my co-renters will want to go in on a place, but when I posed it to him, he said something about it being "really hard". WTF? I'm willing to do all the footwork. Oh well, I'll talk to him again tomorrow. And put word out on FB.
I'm going to the Austin Craft Riot meeting on Saturday and I'm going to join. They're all about the business/marketing end of crafting and I do need help with that. Then after I pay my sales taxes for the year, I'm going to scrape together money for some spring shows. If i'm going to be paying more for my space I'd better make it worth it.
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