random thoughts – Day 1,871 – (Thursday) –kitties and tassels

Kitties in the window
with reflections 5-1-25.

We had a guest scheduled to be in the office today, so it became an onsite day for me. On the way into the office, I got to check out the Lazy Cat Lounge windows and saw the white kitty and the black and white kitty together in one window. So cute. Still so hard to photograph the black kitty with all the window glare and reflections.

We were hosting a high school student who is a co-op in another department and who wanted to learn about marketing. Four of us were onsite for the occasion, each with scheduled time with the student.

In preparation, I spent time gathering samples of types of projects I work on because I find it easier to show the finished product and talk about the strategy and work behind it. I had a gajillion PDF tabs on the screen with sponsorship ads, business banking ads, bi-lingual ads, billboards, and other stuff. Then I accidentally hit the X in the corner instead of the minimize screen button and blew it all away. Then I got to reconstruct it all. After 45 minutes at my desk, he met with the others, and then after that it was just a mostly regular day.

At lunchtime, there was a walk to the Dollar Central store where I browsed the aisles and chuckled. There is an entire wall of products that includes sewing scissors, elastic, needles, pins, and other various tools and notions for sewing recognizable and not, and every single package bore the same product name of “Sewing Kit.” And none of them was actually a sewing kit, which is usually a set of thread, needles, a needle threader, and maybe a couple buttons. I wanted to take a picture of the wall of not sewing kits, but the guy working there was following me around like he thought I was going to rob the place. 

Curtain ties now,
belt tassels later?

My mission was tassels and trim for a tribal style dance belt, and as hoped, they had some curtain tie backs with tassels and corded balls which I bought instead of playing the ridiculous game of “I’ll come back” and then not and getting all stressed out because I forget. Theoretically, the curtain tie backs will magically be transformed into a dance accessory. Or not. We’ll see. 

I still have hope I'll find the tassel belt I already own, in which case, the new tassels and parts will become another layer for it. This stuff was all so much easier when there were fabric stores, and I totally missed the boat with the JoAnn fabric store closing sale. Timing is not always my strong suit.