Carrie had the day off, which was awexome, 'cause she nevar gets teh Fridays off. In the morning she went with Linnea to watch Lena's gymnastics class at the Y. I went to the Y myself around the time that class ended and ran into Carrie as she was getting finished with her post-gymnastics-class workout. Then I worked out myself. My knees are starting to feel a bit better, so on Monday I'll start with the actual cardio-style workouts, but yesterday I just did weights, which don't require any knee usage.
After a lunch of potstickers we went to Paper Zone to buy (what else) paper. Card stock, to be specific, on which we planned to print out postcard announcements for the upcoming Winterfest show at which both Carrie & I will have booths. Then we hit Office Depot to buy some sticker labels and a receipt book for me, just in case anybody wants to actually buy anything at my booth.
We came home and I started printing out the postcards while Carrie manned the paper cutter and cut them out. Then the plan was to print out a little "bring this postcard and get 20% off" onto the labels, and affix them to the back of each postcard. It was then that I realized (quite proudly) that the postcards, being 4" x 6", could be printed on exactly as if they were photos. We didn't have to use labels—we could print directly onto the backs of the postcards!
So I put the un-opened package of labels back in the Office Depot bag to return to the store at a later date, and commenced the printing-off of the backs of the postcards.
This is when the fun ended, because when I was almost completely done with this task, Carrie realized that we had the wrong dates for the show on the postcard—on both the front and the back. We were both very upset and extremely mystified as to how such a blatant error could have gotten past the proofing stage, but the end result was that I had to print out all 102 postcards again.
Two-plus hours of work completely down the drain, not to mention all the printer ink (one of the most valuable substances on Earth by weight).
While I commenced the re-printing, Carrie went over to Lisa's to make some jewelry. Originally she was gonna go over there to address and stamp the postcards, but that obviously wasn't gonna be happening.
Anyway, I printed out all the postcards and started cutting them out myself, but I only managed to cut out about 40 of them before I just felt so sick of the whole thing that I stopped. While cutting, I found and watched this fascinating 1971 lesbian vampire exploitation movie, Vampyros Lesbos
that was quite a kick to watch. It had a very bizarre musical score (which, I just learned, was partly used in Q.T.'s Jackie Brown)Carrie came back, we ate some lasagna for dinner, and then I etched and watched TV for the rest of the evening (Battlestar Galactic and Numb3rs). I etched some more Playing Card Suits and a couple of snowmen:
Oh, and just in case anybody is actually interested, these are the correct dates:
