A "Productive" Day

Got Analia's presents shipped off, so I'm very excited about that-- I hope everything fits and they look as absolutely adorable as I think they will! I bet that blue dress in particular is going to be cute as a button.

I also finally sat down with mom's computer and hooked up the printer and all that sort of thing, did up the save-the-dates, and got them all printed out!! I printed out about 20 extra since new addresses keep showing up-- I had the names on the original guest list but never got addresses to go with them, and since I won't be using these postcards for anything else in particular I'll just print them all up.

Watched all my shows, talked to Jeremy for a while, ate some Cheez-Its and am now fighting the urge to make red garlic curry at 2a and watching Angel. We'll see if Jon remembers to bring me the boxed set or not, I'm betting not. I'll remind him at the staff meeting tomorrow since we apparently decided to start those up again and I missed the memo... hopefully I haven't scheduled too much on Saturdays-- I know they're not mandatory in the strictest sense of the word, but they're not horrible meetings, and I like my coworkers and Jill, and I get to learn a little bit more about what I'm doing. However, since I don't work Saturday nights, 4p on a Saturday isn't the most inconvenient time, but it's not the most convenient time either... ah, well, c'est la vie.

Off to bed with me so that I can get up and finish off my save-the-dates and figure out how much postage I need to buy... that's the kicker, the darn postage!

A little something

So I'm seriously considering starting up my own custom cards business. I hand make most of my special events cards and while Christmas got a little out of hand this year (as I custom-tailored each card for each family), almost all of the cards usually end up pretty sharp and darned cute, I think. I don't have the capability to do anything super fancy, but I can do some nice, hand-made cards and get the envelopes to go with them from like PaperDirect (if I need special colors) or something. I could sell them on Etsy and possibly market them to some of the boutiques in Decatur-- have some stock designs and then offer custom type stuff on a website? Plus, the materials aren't that expensive and since I only work part-time, my time isn't all that valuable...

I don't know, what do you guys think? I know there are lots of you who come by, but nobody ever says anything! Well, with the exception of Em who left a note last night :)

Things are going along here, I ordered my save-the-dates tonight and I'm really excited! Hopefully I'll have them out in the next week and a half/two weeks. The template that I ordered ($3 to save myself hours of screwing around with layout in Microsoft Word? Hells yeah!) is downloadable, so I can go ahead and figure out fonts and layouts and all that sort of thing before the actual paper gets here so I'll just print 'em out and address them on slow nights at work, maybe have Em over to help with the rest.

Work hasn't been too bad, and I have my car back which is a huge weight off my shoulders, so now I have to replace the Mass Air Flow sensor and plug the exhaust leak, which will hopefully get done by mid to late February so I can drive down and see Jeremy! He's also talking about coming up here for Valentine's day weekend, which would be really sweet. I have to work Valentine's night, but there's a good chance the dishwasher won't show up, so maybe he can make himself useful during that time and do some dishes... hey, it'd be an extra $30-50!

I'm finally exhausted enough to fall asleep without tossing and turning (not that I wasn't exhausted when I got home, but mom was still packing so I ended up waking up a little bit which was awful), so I'm going to hit the hay and try to prepare for the whirlwind of packing tomorrow morning...