Double post - and I'm technically writing this days after but I am attempting to catch up.
I love details - I like minor things to be very much in place and while I can see the big picture, I can also see the often very long list of tasks that must be accompished. Sometimes, it's overwhelming. Usually I feel like this love of details is a blessing and a curse, really. I know everything that should be done but I also know that given whatever constraints, there won't be things done. You can either have it good and fast, good and cheap, or fast and cheap. All three are not achievable - either at home or at work. So, my house tends to get good and cheap. Work always wants all three but we pretty much always end up with fast and cheap and then can't figure out why customers are aggravated! Oh well. The details are what makes things for a customer, whether it is for a machine or for a hand-crafted card!
I love consumable gifts!! I am getting to the time of year where people ask me what I want for my birthday and with world peace and a cleaner earth (being that my birthday is Earth Day I love that one) being so difficult to find, I usually don't have a good answer. This year I do. I want iTunes! I want Shutterfly pictures! I want to go shopping at Ann Taylor and/or Loft and just buy stuff that works for me! I want to get more frames for my house (Michaels or AC Moore)! I have tons of scrapbooking supplies that I am trying to use up except for the CM items that are stacked up at Carrie's (and she is soooo kind to allow me to do this). I want to be able to eat out at restaurants and go to the movies on occasion and have a babysitter all set up. Oooh, that one can be tough because I'm usually the one setting it up. But consumables are the way to go for me! I know, I know - this post is completely self-absorbed and perchance a little rude but these are the things I want for my birthday. I truly enjoy shopping and picking stuff out for myself but paying the bill is a lot more difficult these days with the paycut from work and the wonderful cost of the ongoing master bath construction project.
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