A Peaceful, Rainy Day

I'm spending the afternoon sitting at the window with my laptop on the windowsill, so I can look out at my wet neighborhood. Earlier this afternoon I had been knitting as I took notes of our weekly conference call. I'm an account executive on the financial services team of People's Financial Network, and we meet each week by 'phone to exchange information and ideas.

In my past jobs, I hated meetings. Most of them felt like a waste of time, and many were full of useless propaganda, either for the company or for someone's personal agenda. (We weren't supposed to notice, though.) But I've sat in on several conference calls with the financial services team as we've gone through our various permutations, and all of them are full of useful information. It helps me to touch base with the others, especially since I work from home. So, I don't mind calling in each week. (It also helps that Verizon Wireless recently started their own Friends & Family program, so I can use my minutes for business calls, rather than using my minutes to call my 5 most-used personal numbers.)

( In which our heroine rambles about her day(s). )

A Note From the Universe

These are the times, W, when hopes are dashed and chaos abounds, that golden opportunities, prized ideas, and new friends emerge into the view of all, but are only seen by the few who look.

Let's go crazy,
  The Universe


Broadway and 59th Street, NYC

Finding A Treasure

My Etsy shop is part of the Photographers of Etsy (POE) Street Team, and I am responsible for putting together daily lists of the Etsy treasuries which feature POE members' work. Other POE team members send treasury links to me, I compile the list, and then I send it to the team. In the process of receiving the links, I sometimes have interesting conversations with other team members. I also get to have a first glance at my fellow team members' work before the rest of the team does.

Yesterday I received a link about King, a 5x7 photographic note card. I took one look at the photo, fell in love with it, and bought it on the spot. The shop owner was thrilled by the quick sale to a fellow team member. I can hardly wait to receive it; I know just the person to use it for!