Count the hours
I’m cranky and haven’t slept well the last couple of nights, so feel free to not even read this Ranty McRantyPants post. I have about twenty minutes of physical therapy exercises for my hand that I’m...
View ArticleNewsletters. I just don’t get ’em.
Small business owner rant ahead: Even though I don’t know a single human being who likes to get newsletters, I am constantly shouted at by business advisers to work that email list, gurl! WERK IT!!!!...
View ArticleMy weather is worse than yours is.
This post is brought to you by the fact that anything below 61 or over 86 and I become a raving, angry crankpot who can’t hold a thought in her head for more than about two seconds. I do not for the...
View Article17 ways you’re running your business wrong (#3 will shock you!)
Sometimes I like to talk to other small business owners about how they do what they do. How do you get X done? Have you ever dealt with Y? I overcame Z by doing… that sort of thing. A back and forth....
View ArticleCan this week be over yet?
Yesterday was a day primarily of errands; including going by the Verizon store and telling them that the website and I have differing views of the definition of “efficient” and even though Verizon...
View ArticleIt’s never enough
I was hoping to be able to copy and paste parts of a blog post I wrote years ago about all the volunteering I’ve done, but unfortunately it looks like I lost that post in the Great Blog Migration of...
View ArticleFire when ready
That little kiln I bought has been making itself invaluable this week. Even though I’ve been sick – and I’m MUCH better today, thank you – I’ve been glazing a little and firing almost every day....
View ArticleToday can already suck it
As I was getting my coffee ready I was planning out my blog post, where I was going to talk about how I didn’t feel well again, woke up with a sore throat again, and am really hoping it’s just...
View ArticleChristmas spirit
I’d say I’m not feeling the Christmas spirit yet, but if you work retail you probably know I’m feeling the Christmas spirit alright, but it’s a spirit that wants to smack people across the back of the...
View ArticleWhere did I leave that thing….?
For the second day in a row I’ve turned off the dye pots after everything is steaming. Yesterday I decided I was just never going to get to it, since they’d been on for five hours and I hadn’t gotten...
View ArticleDid you get the number of that bus?
For about the last week, I feel like I’ve been gently hit by a bus. Not really full-on smashed into, but more like… clipped, and knocked out into traffic, where another bus hit me and sent me reeling...
View ArticleNot the question I was asking, dude.
Why, when asking for advice on something… say, “are these apples any good?” is the first answer some people go to something along the lines of “if you’ve bought bad apples in the past that’s on you,...
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