Things are slowly beginning to settle into place now. My sister is getting married in just four weeks, her fiancé just got a new job (“So now they don’t have to live at the Jimmy Hale Mission,” Mom says), and Steven will be a college graduate in a little over two months. It’s been a crazy-ass year, and I’m ready for it to be August.
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Earlier I was doing some exploratory research shopping online for my boss’ daughter, who will celebrate her first birthday in a few weeks. In my quest to find something normal, and yet unique, I came across the cutest baby blanket.
“Man, Cathy needs to hurry up and have a baby, so I can get her this blanket!” I mused. It’s definitely right up her alley, but I won’t go into too much detail on account of her faithful reading of this site.
So come on, Cathy, pop me out a niece or nephew so I can get you this blanket. Better yet, I’ll make it myself if I ever learn to sew. It can’t be too terrible hard, and now I have incentive to learn.
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If you ever contract someone to do some creative work for you, whether it be design, decoration, remodling ideas, or other things of that nature, do ’em a favor and answer the questions they ask you. If they want to know if you like or abhor a certain element, tell them so. Don’t wait until they bring the finished product to you to exclaim, “It’s nice, but just one thing: I hate azaleas.”
Uhhh, not that this has ever happened to me, of course.