Are You Easy To Work With?

I pride myself on being easy to work with, but I’m no push over. Unless that is, you are specifically paying me to produce 100% only what you ask for, colour scheme, jargon and all. Then I’ll take the pay cheque and will give you only what you’ve asked for. I don’t need to fight every battle going on out there. You signed off on what you want? You got it. Happy to help. You want to collaborate & get my input? Well then, that’s a whole different ball game. Let’s tussle for the sake of the finished product. Either way, I’m pretty easy going, with a can do attitude. Sounds fun right? Yeah.

Lazy Sunday is here. We have a family date to celebrate great grandma at Parkview retirement care home. I think we’ll gather outside the front room windows, and we’ll sing Christmas carols through the glass, waving cards and hand made drawings from the grandchildren. She’s almost 96, with worsening dementia and other such related ailments. So could be the last one, so best make an afternoon of it! There was talk of a rented room, but one other wing is on lock down with a SARS2 COVID-19 out break. So may be best to stay outside – again. C’est la vie.

Other wise not much else going on. I plan to start wrapping gifts tomorrow. I have a spare rigid table I’m going to bring in, so that I can set up a station to work properly. Scissors, straight edge, table, chair, music, box full of brand new tape dispensers, 60 plus meters of wrapping paper, self sticking tags, and I’m all set to go. Beats trying to wrap on the couch or floor, or on my bed. I’ll tell you that much. If I ever win the lottery (hard to do as I don’t play) I’d love to expand our house to include a proper laundry room with space to fold, iron & sort after washing/drying, but also a proper crafting room where I could wrap gifts with a good amount of table space at the ready. I’d do other things, bit I’m talking about wrapping gifts right now. Doesn’t have to feel like a study hall sized cavernous room, but one that fits at least one, if not two 4x8ft tables, and a few wheelie carts, paint easels, and the like would be awesome. Give it a picture window with a view, and a sound system and TV, and it’s the place to be for crafting! Booyah! Add some racks, drawers, and closets for raw materials and it would take a stick of dynamite to get my kids out of there and off to school!

Did I mention I did more snow tires yesterday? Guess who’s back, back again? My back pain! Yes, you guessed it. Tweaked it again when it wasn’t entirely 100% to begin with. Do I regret it? No, not really. Saved a little more than $100.00 doing the tire swaps myself. And spent 2.5 hours in total doing it. The weather was reasonable both days, so no numb or frozen fingers. I have the impact wrench, jack, jack stands, wheel chocks, breaker bar, and torque wrench to do it all properly anyway. I have an air compressor to level the tires out too. So win-win, as far as I am concerned. I get why people have those hydraulic lifts though. Way nicer to move the work to you, than move down to where the work is. Save your back a lot of unnecessary bending. Do I think that I am mechanically inclined enough to warrant one should I ever win a Mega Millions Lottery? No. Not really. It might make me try, certainly. But you need to know what you’re doing to try doing breaks, or anything along those lines. I can change bulbs, tires, fluids, and do an oil change, and replace a few filters. That’s it. An old school style pit in the garage would be cool, but they were classified as too dangerous to build new. You’d have to find a place that all ready had one. Grandfathered in sort of a thing. Plus you need some specific brake repair tools for the calipers, pins, springs etc… I’m sure I don’t have those. And they are probably all make specific between the big car companies. Also – from what I understand from our mechanic the design of the 2016 GMC Terrain brakes & rotors are a mess with hardly any room for fingers, tools and such. Doesn’t sound like a project I’d care to take on.

What else is new. Hm. Thinking, thinking. Nothing else comes to mind. I could always day dream about the lottery and the upgrades I’d make to the house & property. I could waste hours doing that. I think I’ll grab my spare folding table and get prepped for tomorrow’s wrapping extravaganza. Ciao Bella!