Rude customers.

I HATE HATE HATE it when clients ask me to put together an estimate and proposal after we've already spoken over the phone several times and emailed back and forth and THEN doesn't contact me to let me know to proceed or not.

If you WANT your project done, you HAVE to tell me "yes, the estimate is good, get going."

If you DON'T want to pay for my work, AT LEAST have the decency to TELL ME SO.

Ugh. Rant over.

I am....

Working on a new layout/header and all that jazz. Patience, please.


That is all for now.

Epic Fail :)

Yes, epic fail on my part. I don't even remember how long it's been since I've updated. The last time was at Shoe Gypsy, so at least three weeks ago. My bad!

I started the new job... there's honestly not much to say about it other than it's not very exciting. I edit and print for 8 hours a day. Anyways. I'm grateful for the paycheck and for the insurance. Everyone I work with is awesome, they're all super nice and they're helping me get adjusted.

That's pretty much all I do now... so I don't have much to write! I am researching school, which I've already told both of the people who read this blog :) I'm most interested in med school, and I've contacted a couple of doctors to get an opinion about my academic situation. I won't know how soon I can start night classes, where I'll go or what I'll take until I talk to anyone, but at least it's in the work.

Anyways... my life's not that exciting. Not right now anyways. Hopefully soon things will start moving forward!

xoxo
schmashmelia

Scent Memories??

Do you ever smell something and all the sudden it takes you right back to a certain place or time??? Or is that just me? For instance, I'm at work and the front door is open, and some mixture of car exhaust, cigarette smoke, fresh baked bread and dogwood trees took me right back to Notre Dame, in Paris. Isn't that strange?? Just for a second I was lost in that memory, it was so specific!

There was a street along the side of Notre Dame, opposite of the river, where there were several touristy sorts of shops and little cafes. I remember standing just outside the cafe, looking up at the gargoyles adorning the corners of the cathedral, and I'd just gotten a coffee with milk from one of the cafes. It was kind of chilly in the shade at about 10:00 in the morning, so I had my hands wrapped around the cup. A girl with long black curly hair walked in front of me with several loaves of bread wrapped in brown paper. It was kind of a wide street so there were several trucks and cars delivering various things to the shops. The street was paved with cobblestones, all rounded squares and various shades of gray and dirty.

And that's it. That's the whole memory. There's so much detail, and yet so little in that single snapshot from my memory. I don't remember, for instance, what I was wearing, or who I was standing next to. I don't remember exactly what we did after that, or exactly what day that was, or exactly what time. But so much detail about what I saw and smelled and felt.

Strange, huh?

EVEN WEIRDER.... I found the EXACT spot I was standing, using Google Maps. So so so so so weird.

This is the aerial view of Notre Dame, it's the big oval thing in the middle. haha. On top of that, where the 4 dots are in a row, I'm standing about the second dot.

And in this picture, I was standing just in front of the popcorn cart thing. And if you turn around and face the part of the picture you can't see, you'd be looking at the north wall of Notre Dame.

So so so so weird you can actually find this on the internet. Kind of creepy too, I guess, if you think about it! :/

love,

schmash

So much to do...

And so little motivation to do it :) hahaha.

I've been SO stressed out over the past week that I've had ZERO energy for the past two days. Bleh. I hate feeling useless and unproductive! So I cleaned up a lot at the store today and brought home a bunch of the store dishes and the bathroom rug so I could wash them. And then I did our laundry and put our sheets on our bed since Larry had so kindly put them in the wash this morning when I left for work and even put them in the dryer when they were done! What a great hubbs :)

So my interview went really well on Tuesday, and I got the job, of course :) They met me at my salary requirements (which is dirt cheap for them I'm sure, but effectively doubles my income...), I will have full health coverage through Cigna (PPO, all I'll have is a regular copay), I am eligible to contribute to the 401K after 90 days, and they have a corporate membership to LA Fitness ($20 a month for me, which is waaaaay cheaper than what I'd normally pay). I don't know if/when I can add Larry to my health coverage, and how much it will cost if I can add him, so I'll have to find out about that. I also have 15 days PTO every year, plus 9 paid holidays. All in all, it's a pretty sweet deal. I just hope I can adjust to having a desk job.

AND TO THE 8-5 I'LL BE WORKING. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRHHHH.

I'm not excited about that part, but it's worth it. With Larry starting school soon, I'm going to need to have something stable. Not to mention the health insurance.

Anyways. That's about it. Oh. Except for I didn't even mention what I'd be doing. haha. See? Useless :) I'll be in Production, which basically makes me a glorified editor. Except for I have kind of the final say on products going to the client, I'll be proofing and editing, researching product descriptions, and generally making sure it looks cool. Not as graphics-intensive as I would've liked, but all the members of the team I'll be working with are graphics veterans, so I'll have the opportunity to learn the entire Adobe Creative Suite (including Flash and a little Dreamweaver) from them. So that's pretty cool. Anyways, I'm brushing up on my AP stylebook skills, as well as reading the Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign "Classroom in a Book"'s.

We'll see how it goes :) That's about all I've got for now, and the hubbs just got home, so we're going to hang out!

love,
schmash