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But today’s looking up. I was very crabby this morning, but I’m better now. The coffee might have helped. I didn’t think it would because frankly, it was too strong, but maybe strong coffee was what I needed.

I am still not 100% sure I like the design I did for the BirchBark postcards. I think the logo is too big. Actually, I think the whole thing is too big. I was planning to send them out in envelopes (I bought them) but now I’m sure I’m just going to do a postcard. I don’t have postcards stamps, the ones I bought yesterday were regular ones.

Had a phone interview this morning, which is always nice. And I sent two resumes out. I consider it a successful job searching morning, which is the opposite of how I felt two hours ago. Oh, and I cleaned toilets and started on the tub, so if you’re keeping score, we can update the Wednesday to-do list to cross off the bathroom stuff. I’ll go do that right now.

Okay, my state is shown in this image. It’s under the green arrow.
It looks to me like a giant purple thingy is going to smack into North America. Panic ensues.

What exactly is that? I guess it’s not coming near land, because the local weather report shows sunny 70’s for the next few days. (I think that’s how the local radio station refers to their playlist.) Odd thing about looking at these radar images…they don’t have any kind of key, to tell you what the colors mean. Silly if you ask me. What’s the point of showing me a picture of something if you don’t explain what I’m looking at?

So if you’ve only got a postcard’s worth of space, what’s the most important thing to say so that someone will smack hand to forehead and say “Dear God in Heaven, get this gal on the phone PRONTO!”?

The one thing that it driving me BATTY is setting up the printer to print two copies on the same piece of paper. It insists on printing landscape. Every time I think I’ve swapped it, there it is, printing the wrong way again. Soon, I break some fingers.

I got all confused this morning. But I’m better now. Made a run to Office Max (oh, the agony! Forced to enter an office supply store!) to pick up a paper cutter. You know, like they had in elementary school? Except I just need a small one to cut paper neatly, not the mondo “guillotine for pre-schoolers” style. I’m doing another BirchBark mailing and need to trim the paper a bit. Found one for $10, plus some other stuff. Got some specialty card stock too…I’m about to try it in the inkjet. Some papers just do NOT handle the ink properly, so I’m hoping I didn’t just waste 8. If it works, I’ll be using this for my postcards. Much cheaper than buying special postcard paper.

Okay, so let’s get an updated to do list. Realistically, here’s what I want to accomplish today.

1. Buy stamps

2. Design my mailing

3. Print the postcards

4. Determine the target mailing list (40 or so companies)

5. Work on my PHP

6. Update the main Dump

7. Review job websites for new opportunities

You’ll notice all the housekeeping stuff is missing this time. I did get the counter pretty clean last night. I think if I want to put on something house-related it will be

8. Clean the bee-spray residue off the siding before it stains (I sprayed a MONSTER nest behind one of my shutters. I watched about 12 wasps stumble out and die)

9. Put one tub of toys in the spare room. (I cleaned out a bunch of stuff for the yard sale, baby toys, etc., so now there’s room to put more junk in there.)

That all sounds do-able, right?

Okay, so it’s 6:30 and the update is that I didn’t get very much done on the list. Actually, I need to update the whole list and add an item 12: Mail bills. Once that’s added, I’ll cross it off because I did write out some checks and actually get them into the mailbox before the mailman arrived. And #8 is done. So I guess that’s the easy stuff crossed off. Tomorrow I’ll have a whole new list, I’m sure. Or I’ll just repost that one with some new items, including “go to postoffice to check PO Box and buy stamps”. I think I’m going to be owing the postal service for another 6 months on the box, and I never even used it. Never got ONE piece of mail that wasn’t junk mail or mail meant for the previous owner. *sigh*