A Foolish Woman

Who: Me, waiting in line minding my own business

What: 11 Items in my cart

Where: 20 Item or Less Self Checkout: Commissary Case Lot Sale

So, I'm innocently standing in line, my 11 items in my cart.  A woman walks up behind me.  I think to myself,  I wont be rude and interrupt her phone call, but when the next self checkout comes open, I'll wave her around me... she is after all, very pregnant and only has one gallon of milk, while I've got 11 items.  Yes, there are 4 different self checkouts, but that is the polite thing to do.   So, not even two seconds after I think this, she says loudly, to me, more than the person on the other end of her phone call, "You know what I hate?  I hate it when people go to the self check out when they know they have more than 10 items (hello? it's 20 or less) and they just stand there and know I'm behind them with only one thing!"  So, I've decide not to reward bad behavior and I say to my friend Steph, who is already checking out, (loud enough for the rude prego to hear, of course) "Well, I was going to let this lady with one item go ahead of me but since I heard her talking rudely about me on her cell I'm going to just go ahead and she can wait." 

Honestly, that was rude of me, but it is sometimes gratifying to not let someone walk all over oneself.  I suppose I could have let her go 1st.  What would you have done?   

Is There an Etsy Anonymous?

....cause if there is I probably should go to the meetings!  I have become an addict in like 3 days flat, completely dumping Craigslist.  It probably misses my daily visits!  I opened a Etsy.com shop a few days ago.  My shop name is "gonegirly" and I've got a whole 2 things in it so far!  Check them out  (I'm shameless, I know.) 

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31419908

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31389600

The onsies I am selling in a craft fair on Oct 3rd and I thought I would try to sell them to a local aviation supply place - Wings. I talked to the lady who would be in charge of buying, and she wants to take a few in on consignment to see how they do, but yet doesn't want me to sell them anywhere else!  Am I ridiculous to think that is ridiculous? I thought a vendor/creators got paid booocoo bucks to have an exclusive on a product, yet she want to keep it that way without even buying any from me! So, I am going to try the Aviation Museum here on post, they have a lot more "female traffic" than Wings does, and there is a graduation there every week with people from all over the country, well probably world with all the forgin nationals here at flight school.  And since it is something to do, when people come visit, they are usually taken to the museum, not a flight school student supply place.  So... keep your fingers crossed for me!  

Destin, Florida

We went to Destin when my mom came down for a visit.  It was raining most of the day, so we went to the nations largest designer outlets to wait out the rain... yes, of course we got stuff =). Kevin has been asking every day if it's cold out yet so he can wear his new leather jacket, silly boy. That evening was nice though, so we watched the waves come in until it got dark.  Chloe enjoyed the water just as much as grandma did.  More pictures from that weekend to come.  

Gearing up for Craft Fair

Kevin has been nagging, well, encouraging sounds nicer... so he has been encouraging me to sell the stuff I make. So, when Elizabeth Nixon asked me to do a booth with her at the craft fair in Ozark, I said yes and headed off to buy too many $$$ in supplies.

I decided on two things, child/baby Bath Blankets and homemade appliqué onsies. I though being so close to Ft Rucker, that onsies with helicopters in ACU print would be quite a hit... I hope. I am also doing girl ones in pink ACU, and a variety of other things too, such as flowers, hearts, monkeys, trucks and I'm thinking of doing dog tags too. Any ideas on what would be cute? I can really make just about anything. The only problem is that I keep going back and forth on price.... I hope it is just worth while for my time!

Ready, set, go...

She's learning to move forward now. Whether this is good or bad remains to be seen. I guess it's time to start childproofing everything...

Anything for food I guess...

The Announcement Guy

With a great big push from some friends, (and wife's encouraging words) Kevin has decided to try his hand at starting a business. He is now "The Announcement Guy," creating custom picture invitations, announcements, professional photo editing (digital enhancements) and the like. He has been doing my cousin Tana's senior portraits and they look amazing! We had some friends over last week and they were working on their "Save the Date" card for their wedding. So, Kevin spiced it upquite a bit, and a few days later: Email established, portfolio pulling together, water mark made, web page ideas being tossed around, 1 confirmed returning client, 4 potential clients and more to come! We are just sticking our toes in to get a feel for this. Kevin will be going on hold between Primary Flight Training and Black Hawk Training for a few months with only PT to go to, so this should be something to keep him busy and entertained/productive! So, if you know anyone with a new baby, getting married or ? that needs his "services" let us know! His e-mail address is theannouncementguy@gmail.com. And, here is some of his "work"