What a Life!

1. I’ve been trying all week to get my desk cleared off. I say “my desk” because Steve no longer uses it now that we have wireless and he has his own email account. When it was “our desk,” if I didn’t keep it tidy, he’d grump about it or move my stuff.

So I’ve been trying all week to get it cleared off. This is what it looks like as of this morning:

In the mean time, I have managed to 1) work upstairs and enjoy the nice weather, 2) unpack a Mary Kay order containing the new product that just came out, 3) pay bills, 4) ship some stuff, and 5) surf the web a little. With the nice weather, I tell myself all day that I’ll go downstairs in the evening and do it, but I’m always too tired and I’d rather be upstairs knitting and listening to Performance Today if I’m home.

Today is the day that I will clear my desk once and for all.

2. Joey laughs when I sing. Really. I think he’s laughing more because he likes it than because he’s laughing at me. But he laughs just the same. When he wakes up in the morning, I sing to him. Like, “With Joey in the family, Happy, happy home.” Ben dances while I sing. At least he doesn’t laugh.

3. Joey is officially our chunky monkey. I took pictures of him yesterday just in his diapers. Look at all those rolls!

4. I’m running an unofficial sale in my Mary Kay business. I used to have the prices of all the products memorized. In fact, when I lived in Maryland where sales tax is 5% (half of 10%), I could add up a sales ticket faster in my head than with a calculator, including taxes. And when I got home and entered the sales tickets into my computer program, I never found any errors. Since I’ve gotten married and had kids, though, I seem to no longer be able to remember prices. In fact, in the last month, I’ve sold three eyeliners for $6.50 a piece (they’re supposed to be $9.50), Bronze Highlighting Powder for $14 (should have been $16, which is even what I quoted the customer over the phone), and two cheek colors for $8 (they retail for $10). So if you’ve ever considered buying Mary Kay product, now is the time to place an order with me because you’ll get a smashing deal!

Seriously, it ain’t good. So I’ve decided I need to take action to stop this little trend. When I eat, unless I’m eating with someone I can have a conversation with (like Steve…not like Ben), I like to have reading material to page through while I eat. That’s how I read cataloges, magazines, all sorts of things. So my resolution is to read the current Mary Kay Look brochure until I know all the prices and can recite them accurately when I see the product or hear it mentioned. Otherwise, I’ll just keep shooting myself in the foot by undercharging my customers (though I’m sure they don’t mind).

5. Finally, remember the cute little sweater that grew? Well, I knit up a swatch with some of the leftover yarn and washed it like the yarn label says along with a load of clothes getting the same special care. The result? It shrunk lengthwise by one row per inch but did not change at all widthwise. So even had I swatched before I started knitting, I would not necessarily have gotten a different result. My theory was that I should have washed it in a lingerie bag even though I was washing it by itself so it wouldn’t stretch out of shape – I’m sticking with that theory for now.

Okay, I need to quit fooling around and get my desk cleared…