Another week gone by and little to show for it – again.
Husband had planned for us to go to a quilt show in Pennsylvania last Thursday, the first day of the show. We normally will go to this and other shows from the same company on Thursday as it is less crowded and items are not sold out – not that we normally buy anything there. While we both have done quilting, we go for something to do and because there are no other sewing or embroidery shows in this part of the country and I do sew and hand embroider. Since we – and our RV – really need a trip we had planned to stay overnight and go to the farmer's market we like in Lancaster on Friday.
So, of course it poured on Thursday – here and there. We changed our trip to just go for the day on Friday to the quilt show, but drove there in the RV so it was driven and would keep the engine and RV batteries working properly.
Husband's sister has self-published a book and somehow managed to get a local bookstore to give her a reading/signing event on Thursday night. Since we were home, husband decided to go to the signing – in heavy rain. We could not figure out where to park – hard to see in the rain – and ended up 3 blocks away. I am “made of sugar” - when I go out in the rain, I get sick.
So Friday midday a cold hit me. Luckily it is a relatively light cold and will soon be gone. But husband is a hypochondriac and does not like me touching things that he will touch or eat when I am sick. We ate out as usual on the weekend. Monday night we had reenactment unit meeting and bought deli sliced turkey for dinner. But last night, Tuesday, dinner needed to be cooked. Understand, husband is, or at least was when we cooked more elaborately, a better cook than I am. But he is out of practice, was worried about the batteries in the RV (which are still not right) and an oil leak under the RV, and I have stand there and step by step tell him how to cook and where things are – so dinner and clean up (done by me with plastic gloves on) took forever.
In addition our reenactment unit has an event this Saturday that originally husband said we were not going to. Now not only are we are going, but he found out he can sell the items he has been weaving. So he (and thereby also I) are involved with getting ready to do so – we have not done a craft show in 10 years and this has to be setup differently and we have never sold items he has woven before so we do not a have setup at all for same, let alone one that will pass for a country fair. So we are running around trying to put together a setup and also finishing the woven items. Finishing them consists of washing and drying them and then cutting the start and end threads and doing something with the fringe ends. Not something that can be quickly done for about a dozen scarves and table runners.
He also decided that we need to be able to take credit cards – something I agree with – so he filled in the required info to be able to take credit cards from Paypal. We have an account with then that we use for online sales that exists for about 10 years, so we are not strangers to them, it should be easy to get a card reader and use with our existing account. As of today – a week after he filled in the info – we still don't seem to have the account for sales with a card reader and they seem to be sending the wrong card reader. The day after he originally gave them the info and we saw that there were problems he signed up with Square – who we had never done business with before - and we were able to immediately sign up and pick up a card reader at one of an assortment of stores locally that sell them. So much for loyalty to customers by Paypal.
So I have not get anything done as we were away and we have been trying to get everything done for Saturday (which to our minds mean that it will rain Saturday and the event will be canceled or they will have it and we will not go due to the rain).
In addition I have the cold, plus a couple of weeks ago I started having pains that we think are from my lifting the last analog monitor we got rid of – the pains come and go depending on if I lift something else heavy – and last night I was terribly ill after dinner so I have not been of much help, particularly since husband will not let me lift anything “heavy” which has much lighter threshold than it does for most people. (I am not sure how we will be able to setup Saturday as he will not let me carry any of the setup or the weaving and we cannot park close to where the reenactment unit is setting up.
I was suppose to take my mom to the doctor this week – but had to speak to her about when she is available to go so I can make an appointment, so I had not done so, plus I did not want to her give her my cold – so I called tonight to check her schedule and will try to make an appointment for next week.
I also have to go to client this week or next. I would greatly have preferred this week as she is in Manhattan and next week the U.N. will be in town and it will be a travel and security mess, but she is also older woman in her 80s and I did not want to give her my cold either.
Oh, and the RV battery is not keeping its charge so we were “playing with it” all week and now our car mechanic has it – he fixed the oil leak and will see what he can see about the batteries tomorrow. (Husband spoke to RV company that installed the new batteries – batteries have warranty, but does not cover labor and we will need to leave the RV there for at least a week – ouch, at $100+ per hour… - plus we will have to drive both RV and car to New Jersey, come home with car, when it is fixed drive car to NJ, pick up the RV and then drive both home – and tolls for each vehicle for each round trip is about $30 – so the tolls alone are almost $100, plus the gas.)
So I have gotten some computer work done I managed to trace and resolve problems in the posting of our Etsy sales and fees – mostly only have fees, few sales – from using their new payment account that handles both fees we pay and sales we make (terrible idea from an accounting point of view). I did scanning of tax return recently finished for client. That sort of thing.
THOUGHT OF THE WEEK -
Sometimes one just has to go with the flow of what is going on. Great to get stuff done, but when life has other plans – don't go crazy, just go with the flow and catch up when one can.
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