Now that ‘woot’ has made it into the dictionary, I can safely use it without reprisals.

But the real purpose of this post is to share the news that my Etsy shop is now open and I’ve sold 9 buttons to 4 different people. Whee!

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• I wonder if I’ll ever be able to write a real post again. You know, something with content and detail and maybe even a plot.
• I have two proofreading assignments right now, both due within 2 days of each other. Yikes. That’s a lot.
• I got two new tires this morning at Les Schwab. The guy even ran out to greet me at my car, just like in the commercials. They’re awesome.
• I finished the first newsletter for Zonta of Everett, but I made a few boo-boos. Now I have to gain access to a certain laptop again at some point for revisions. I’d do it on my computer here, or any other PC, but I had to change a bunch of stuff so I could work on it on a Mac laptop, and now it’s all hopelessly screwed up for PC work. Macs are AWESOME.
• I can’t express in words exactly how badly I want my own laptop with the Adobe Creative Suite on it. I don’t need much. Just Adobe, and wireless internet, and Word. That’s it. But I have to wait until the crazy discounts Day After Thanksgiving. Boo.
• This computer is being twitchy and annoying today. Or maybe it’s just Facebook that’s doing that.
• My To-Do list for work is getting out of hand.

My new job is awesome. Really hard and confusing and unclear and humbling, but still awesome.

I’m actually at work right now, so I can’t write much, but I wanted to check in and let y’all know that I’m surviving.

I am The Marketing Department. I guess I need to learn about marketing now. Right now my priorities are to create a marketing plan, to get hooked up in various social networking avenues, (re)design a promotional postcard, and find ways to tap into the LGBT market.

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I have found my purpose in life. It is to make buttons.

I’ve been using every spare moment lately to make button designs on Photoshop. Well, compiling ideas for buttons and then actually making the button designs. Next, when my circle-punch is ready to pick up, I can actually make the buttons. I can’t wait to see what they actually like under mylar with a little pin-back.

So far I’ve made about 80 button designs. And, if I may say so, I’m pretty darn good at this. And I’m having a ridiculous amount of fun.

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One of these days, I’m going to get a taco from one of those silver buses that are always parked in gas station parking lots advertising their 79-cent tacos.

I’m going to eat that taco, and I’m going to live to tell about it.

But that’s not all.

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There were long stretches of nothingness at Coffee Fest this weekend. Very long stretches. So Mckenzie and I filled the time will all kinds of childish diversions. We took personality tests to determine everything from our dominant chakras to our Native American power animals. We did enneagrams and horoscopes and discovered our inner goddesses. (Turns out Mckenzie is a bossy whore and I’m a verbose stalker.)

When that book ran out of entertainment value, we started reading some of the 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said. And I even read aloud some anecdotes from a book I was inexplicably reading about coming up with ideas for advertising.

But all that was Day One. And there was a whole lot more boredom stretching out before us. Despite the abundance or rude and/or stupid people to make fun of (behind their backs, of course — we are in the customer service industry, you know), and despite the fun rubber yoyo toy that looked like a jellyfish, we needed more distraction.

Yesterday, our desperation reached junior high levels, and we made cootie catchers and played MASH.

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Every once in a while I have a day (or week, or month) when my brain is so scattered I can’t keep anything straight. Too many thoughts and ideas and plans and wishes and fears and tasks and obligations all at once. It is at times like this that I resort to making lists. Sometimes, I even make a list of all the lists I need to make, or a list of all the lists I have made, indicating where each one is located and what its purpose is. Does this make me crazy?

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