cornerofmadness

My grandmother did it. My mother did it. I did it...until I moved here and the goblins in my head said why bother keeping it, you have NO ONE to give it to, you lonely idiot.

So I started using the 'good china' and never looked back. Mom is cleaning out grandma's house to sell it and is finding ALL these things grandma kept for good. It was for 'company' and even then rarely taken out because it was put so far away in the cabinets it was too much of a pain to get to it. Mom has turned out beautiful dishes, stunning glassware, pretty lace table cloths all things grandma kept for the good, for those special occasions. She found a blanket today and even I remember grandma fighting with us when we tried to put it on her bed. Keep that for good. Mom's comment:I should have buried her with it.

What good is that blanket doing anyone? What good are the dishes never used? These are the beautiful things you bought for yourself. Use them for YOU. Enjoy them. Or someday someone will be boxing away your things wondering why they never even saw them before.

It took me for fucking forever to try and make up postcards to take to the printshop at work. I wanted the backs to be different than the ones DSP made up for them. Mostly I wanted a quote on them instead a blurb (a mistake maybe) but more importantly I wanted MY QR code on it (crosses fingers I did that right) and MY contact info, not theirs (though their url is there too). I couldn't get this shit to line up. I KNOW I can get two post cards on a sheet and it would be cheaper but I couldn't line it up. I hope I did it right. I hope the print shop does it well. It's a one man show and he had the nerve to tell me 'I hope it doesn't come out upside on the back.' I'm like this is your JOB! Print one and see if it's right. If not flip the thing. WTF? I'm also a little embarrassed to give him Kept Tears. That one is obviously gay romance on the cover. None of my other covers are. I teach in a highly religious place so I'm a little worried. But I'd rather give the money to my school than vistaprint at this late date.

I just got the books sent. Cost me 150$. Yikes. Pray they sell, people. Seriously.

I did get a little boost today. The acquisition editor seems to like my stuff (she's mentioned it before but I forgot it. She was like the one person to tell me she loved Soldiers of the Sun). She was excited to see me send something and told me while it usually takes 8 weeks to hear back she's bumping it to the top of the pile. No one has ever said that before so maybe it's true. I'm going to believe it is.

I went to the school to do some work and check on my seedlings. thank god I did because I nearly lost several. I didn't realize the pots had no drain holes (seriously why do they even MAKE pots like that?) and they were swimming, literally. I just scooped it out. Also I stole some irises from behind the dumpster. I broke the corms so they'll probably die. Sigh. It's hard for me to bend and dig though.

Mom has better Googlefu than me because she found a couple of tours to Canada that I didn't. I really like this bus tour. Okay I don't REALLY want to ride a bus all the way there but it is a safe way for me to do this.

And she found this train tour which would be cooler than the bus but much more expensive and the one I liked the best is sold out. Sigh. And the 1,300$ one is cheap because part of the tour they kick you off the train and tell you to go rent a car to get to your next stop...

And when I was in Cincinnati I picked up tourist stuff. I've lived here a decade less than 3 hours away and how did I not know there was SO much fun stuff to do there. I'm thinking of these for labor day Cincinnati tours