Good Sunday morning. Sitting at my little desk waiting for my nails to dry so I can get moving this morning.
I am ashamed to admit that I didn’t do any meaningful work at work from Tuesday through Friday. It was weird. I’m just so sick of the bullshit. I attended a meeting on Thursday, and something struck me so strongly. Something I’ve seen for months now, but it felt glaring. It was so glaring that I had Kitty Cat (the outgoing CEO) take a look at the video recording of the meeting.
Not only is our fractional COO (never can remember the name I gave her - I call her “No-Show COO” because she never does anything she says she’s going to do and then throws people under the bus because she didn’t do the thing) not doing a damn thing, but there’s extreme favoritism happening with the only other full-time employee (my counterpart) that is absolutely glaring. I usually joke about it, saying No-Show has a favorite, but Kitty Cat came back to me after she saw the recording and was blown away by how OBVIOUS it was!
This woman clearly haaaaaates me by showing my counterpart how much she looooovvves her!
On Monday, my latest product launched. It turned out to be the #1 product in sales volume and dollars for the whole week - which is saying something HUGE. I designed, developed, worked with the factory back and forth, negotiated materials and costing, wrote the purchase order, had manufactured and shipped, tracked shipping and made sure it got through customs, had all of the marketing assets created (including photography, packaging, copywriting, and registering all of the legal stuff) and guess who No-Show COO showered praise upon when it was noted that the launch was highly successful?
That’s right - my counterpart - who is in charge of simply listing the item on Shopify.
Does this remind you of something in my past? Remember The Line that I Created? Hahaha. After alllll these years, I suppose I haven’t learned a thing. I need to take a lesson from MEN and toot my own horn LOUDER because, goddammit. FUCK YOU PEOPLE.
Kitty Cat was bummed for me, because at this point, she’s pretty much outta there.
But there is one last hurrah that she’s trying to make happen and that’s to replace No-Show COO with someone else. After all, No-Show’s contract is renewed every month. There’s a handshake deal that she’ll stay through 4th Quarter - the Holidays (obvi very important time), but there’s no guarantee.
We shall see.
This entry wasn’t supposed to be about that, though. I hate that work and this BITCH take up so much space in my brain. Ugh. She’s probably singing that new Taylor Swift song, Actually Romantic in her brain about me because I spend so much mental energy on this c*nt.
What I REALLY came her to write about is also something frustrating!
Do you ever see something in a store or online and think, I could make that so easily and so much less expensively!! and then actually go out and purchase materials to do it? And then you soon find out that it’s not quite as easy as you thought and you need more materials and end up spending just as much money and soooooo much more time and energy on the damn DIY project?
Yeah?
Me too.
A couple of months ago it was bandana charm necklaces. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’ve actually made a few of them and I even sometimes wear them, ha! But it took a million tries, many mistakes, and a ton of time.
This week, for some reason, I got a wild hair to make THIS butterfly headpiece! Why? I have no idea. Am I going to wear this anywhere?? Maybe. If I end up doing something for Halloween or some other event…a music festival? A show? Something?
Regardless, I found and bought what I thought were all of the elements - pretty easily too. The metallic butterflies, wire and headbands are all listed on Amazon. And everything came in last night and I thought…I’ll make this lickety-split!!
Well.
Even after all the research to figure out the wire connecting parts - which needs to be flexible enough to let the butterflies have motion but strong enough to keep them floating in the air…I realized that I’d purchased wire that is much too fine. All of my butterflies sadly drooped and fell flat after attaching.
So then, I thought… I have floral wire that I use for other crafts!!
I dug my floral wire out and attached about 20 butterflies, thinking that it was working!!
Three or so hours later, I realized that it was not. Still too fine. Still droopy butterflies!
So now, I’m determined to make this work!! But it requires a trip to Michaels to find some MORE wire that is sturdy yet flexible enough to hold and fly these fine butterflies. I am going to make this happen! I promise!
But gah! All that time and energy! And nowhere to wear this?
Yet.
Who wants to go to a fancy Halloween party with me?
OK, gotta roll. These DIY projects aren’t going to make themselves!
xox,
GS
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