So on Saturday the 6th my roommate calls from work and tells me she is really sick and has to leave her job to come home. She has a horrendous version of the flu. I go take some Thieves and then gather the little diffuser and fill it with Purification to help keep the air filled with essential oils to help ward off as many germs as possible.
I know I got distracted with other things, and never got to doing the Festival ads. But heck if I can remember what I actually did. I think I did get in my studio that evening, but what else . . .
My roommate just barely got home feeling so very sick. She was going to stay in her room other than getting to the bathroom and some things from the kitchen. She had the kitchen phone as her designated phone. I kept taking Thieves and running the diffuser with Purification.
She was suppose to have flown off to a training Sunday morning, but that was not going to happen. Her boyfriend brought her things to stay hydrated and hopefully get well as quickly as possible.
Sunday I wanted to go to the Colorado College Holiday Craft Show and take a hike. The morning started with a call from our Marketer’s husband and we talked for over an hour. I then did some work on gathering info for Pottery by the Pound and emailed a couple of people about what I needed from them and what I was going to do. Time slipped away and after I grabbed a bite to eat when I headed to the CC show, decided to go on the hike first. It was a gloriously blue sky day. And I got the last parking space in the tiny parking lot at the trail-head.
I started on a trail that would be a short loop, but got distracted by a side trail off-the-beaten path. Got to be among the Cedars, so very soothing to my soul. This trail was as wonderful as the one I have taken many times that is now a bit dangerous after the heavy rains in 2013. I had to force myself to turn around, and besides, I was running out of battery on my camera, so didn’t want to be tempted by more photos I couldn’t take. And then, I had not realized how far I had gone and kept thinking I should be back at the main trail. But as long as I kept the park in view to my left, I knew I would find my way back. There just seemed to be so many more choices about where to walk coming down than going up. Found the main trail and headed back to the car.
I found a really close to the building parking space and headed in for just an hour of time to visit with friends. It sounded like most did well and it was filled with lovely art. It was an enjoyable afternoon off. I came home and watched an episode of Amazing Race to end my day of rest.
Monday I worked on getting the flyers done that were needed at the front desk of the shop. And walked to the shop to make copies and put them out. Made some phone calls and emails to schedule times with the Indy and PPB advertising folks for ads. Learned that our marketer had never actually worked out a plan with either of them in the past and both thought they could give me some good deals, so set future appointments. Put some posts for Holiday Market on the Festival Facebook page also.
Tuesday started with an Aine session, then I started working on the Festival “Call For Artists” ads. When the time for the Laidig webinar came around, I was not finished. Took that break, then went back and got the “Calls” finished late that night. Each one needs different ways of doing the information. A couple could have images, but of course they needed to be different sizes. The descriptions have to be either under a certain character or word count, or they can be very long. Was so glad that was finished.
On Wednesday, I worked on various things, including Galloping Wind’s corrections. I went to look to see what I could gather together for gifts for my family and found enough in my gift cabinet to get a good start. And then searched through cards to find ones to send to them and one to DJ and for my hiking buddy. I watched Survivor in real time.
I continued on working a bit on my Journals and sent an email to a Dreamer Friend to see if she would look at them. She agreed. I tried to create pdfs, but they came out huge! After many tries, turned of “transparency” and they became a size that I could send off to her. I set up my lunch for the next day when I had a hike scheduled.
Thursday morning my roommate was feeling better and needed to have a conversation about what happened at City Council. That was a good thing and cleared the air. She had thought about some things and wasn’t as upset as she had been. Even admitted she had been a bit more angry, so not on track at the meeting. As time slipped away, I broke away and called my hiking friend to ask if we could meet a bit later for the hike at the Garden of the Gods. She was agreeable, so I didn’t have to rush as much to get dressed, but I forgot my lunch. We took the same route as I did on Sunday. Again, it was a beautiful blue sky day. Being among the Cedars was really wonderful. Afterwards I headed to Costco to do a bit of shopping. Then headed home realizing I was going to be late for my Laidig webinar. Missed the 1st half hour, but listened to the rest and then took the night off.
Friday, just as I was getting ready to leave the house, my Sharing Inner Health person called and was trying to get a flyer to print in color, but it wouldn’t. I tried talking her through some things to look at on the computer, but still only printed in Black & White. So I suggested she put the file on a thumb drive and a copy of the printed flyer and drop them in my mailbox, as I had to leave. I ended the day with going to the Independent’s 21st birthday party. It was not very well attended, but I enjoyed free champagne, someone’s cold french fries and a lovely piece of chocolate cake. I kept going up to a small group and introducing myself and everyone was either an Indy employee or a relative of an Indy employee. A couple of people I did know showed up and we had interesting conversations. The reporter from the PPB was there and we talked about the last Council meeting and other Manitou related issues. Drove home safely, but felt really tired so headed to bed early.
Saturday at 10am I had a meeting with our CMWL President and a person talking to us about the Grant we had received. When I got home, I decided to do some gift gathering for my family. I also do some house cleaning and laundry. I wasn’t going to open the computer, but my remembered I needed to get the flyer printed in color so opened the computer. There was an email from the Galloping Wind author and he hadn’t seen I had sent the corrections to him earlier in the week. I replied and sent that off to him again. Later we connected when he couldn’t get it loaded into CreateSpace, so walked him through that or I did that from my computer. I went into my feather studio and used the weird feathers I had ordered on Amazon to make 2 pairs of earrings and three hairclips. I also set up 2 Aztec masks and 2 Curled ones. But one of the curled ones I curled the opposite way than normal. Will be interesting to see what I do with that one.
Sunday I did some more gathering of presents and worked on the computer a bit. Commonwheel’s Holiday party was scheduled that night. I cooked a gluten-free green chili cornbread. It was not very well attended, but again had some nice conversations. I had wanted to bring wine, stopped at one store and bought a Pinot Gris, then realized it wasn’t cold, so stopped at another store and bought a nice Riesling. The weather had turned very cold, but no snow that was predicted, so the roads were clear, just chilly outside.
Monday I had a 9:30 am phone call with the Indy Ad rep and she offered me a great rate, but I also realized why we didn’t advertise much with them, the ads are expensive. Then a 11 am meeting at Adam’s Mtn Cafe with the PPB sales rep who bought me breakfast. I really enjoy her and we talked of many things beyond Commonwheel and I gave her a copy of my book that needs corrections and was clear about that with her. As I was leaving, I saw one of the Deja Vu singles ladies sitting with other women. I turned out both of them also knew me, artists from Cottonwood. And one I had traveled to Spain with years ago who also is friends with our marketing person. We talked about that situation a bit as discretely as possible.
I then headed out on errands. Office Depot, Hobby Lobby, Ackley’s, Lowes and Costco. I headed back to get some supplements and they had just sold the last White Willow Bark, so stopped at Mtn. Mama’s for that which I really needed the most.
Got home with about a half hour to get ready for the Chamber’s annual Holiday Crush Party. That also was not as well-attended as in the past. But I got to meet some new business owners and talked with people about the City Council meeting and prepped some for the one I had to attend tonight relating to getting the Festival approved to be back in Memorial Park. I left the uneaten bit of cheese and crackers to have at the Marketing Task Force meeting the next day.
Tuesday, the 16th, I worked on the ad for the PPB that was due at noon. There was nothing I needed in Dropbox, so I had to recreate it and didn’t get it looking quite how I wanted, but since I had been told I could have color, created it using some color. I so would have liked to have had more time, but even at that, I was 20 minutes late. Zo called and I had to tell him I would call him back after I had the ad done. He needed help ordering Galloping Wind, so that was easy to do. At 2pm I had a Chamber meeting. I spent some time working out a chart to see how much $ Commonwheel will save by not having Wendy work right now. I don’t put in as many hours as she does, so that savings could be applied to more ads and I will work on emailing that out tomorrow. Then at 5pm a Laidig “Success in 2015 Plan” webinar that didn’t end at its usual time, so had to dash off to City Council before it ended.
Nicole was walking across the street when I pulled up and she asked me about the Tattoo Studio. She had seen there was a “For Rent” sign still in the window . . . and now when I think about it, I think that is for the cottage, not the building . . . will have to email that info to her tomorrow. City Council was a bit of a challenge, but not for allowing us back in Memorial Park, but a discussion about why the grass would not be planted as we hoped. Some citizens spoke about this and had ideas how it could work better. Then there were two parking conversations. One before the Festival request and one afterwards. Since there had been a big discussion at the Chamber meeting about the “unfriendliness” of the workers, it was interesting to hear the Council’s view about what a good job the company was doing. There is a Parking Authority meeting tomorrow that I will not be at as I am having my Survivor Finale dinner with friends that I am totally looking forward to enjoying.