The Baker’s Hat and Other Musings

Do you wonder how Tiffany and I have time to work together on this blog?  Especially since I work full-time and she’s a full-time Mom to the Princesses P and wears a multitude of hats?

We don’t.  Have time, that is.  What we do have are iPhones and texting and email and voice mail.  In that order.  If we’re lucky, truly lucky, we SEE each other about twice a month.  Sometimes with the Princesses P (and Chris) and sometimes without.  Like this past Friday.  We actually spent multiple hours together “working” on the business that is TS4T (Toot Sweet 4 Two).

But, 90% of the time, our relationship is texting.

So, here’s a sampling of last Saturday’s texting.  I thought it would make you laugh.  I’ll show the text with a “C” for Carole or a “T” for Tiffany.

It starts with Tiffany:

“I just walked in to find this.  ‘I wanted my hair pink.’  It’s a pink tube of Chapstick.” (T)

 

“Hahahaha!  Blog worthy!  I changed our ‘About’ page and ‘The Wishing Well’ to two of your pictures.” (C)

“This made me happy!  Sorry, I’m a space case today…what was I suppose to take care of changing today?” (T)

“Nothing that I can remember.  You changed the recipe thing this morning.  I think we’re good.” (C)

“Ok, good.  I’m out of it today.  Even Princess P said ‘Mom, you are weird today.’  I kept forgetting everything!” (T)

“How nice!  What a great thing to say.”  (I meant from her friend, NOT Princess P). (C)

“I know.  Love her!  I just spent some time exploring tumblr.  Come to realize that it is another blogging platform.” (T)

“Imagine having someone addicted to our blog.  How very awesome and way cool!  Like WordPress?” (C)

“Yes, but simpler.  It’s considered a ‘short-form’ blog or micro-blog.  From Wikipedia: ‘if it’s too big to tweet and too small for a substantial blog post, I’ll post it to my tumblr blog (tlog).'” (T)

“Geez!  So many platforms to understand!  How do you know what to use?  Does it have a word count limit?” (C)

“I haven’t gotten that far.  But, I’m confused as to whether it would benefit our actual site.” (T)

“Hey, I made Crunchy Onion Honey Mustard Pork Nuggets tonight.”  (See Tiffany’s “Crunchy Onion Honey Mustard Chicken Strips“).  “They were good!  Here’s a picture.” (C)

 

“So I’m at a crossroads…I have to decide tonight (tomorrow by noon) what to order to stay active with thirty-one.  I’m pondering the thought of just letting go.  One less thing to consume my very little and precious time that is ‘my time.’  Thoughts?” (T)

“Yummy!!!  They look great!” (T)

“Well, I’m for letting go.  You’ve taken on working at Princess P’s school plus you now have your nephew, who by the way, Geri said was the most beautiful child!, so if you count them, how many hats are your wearing?” (C)

“Princess P’s school is much more important.  I’m not sure how often I’ll have my nephew, but I’m sure it will be fairly regular.  So how many hats do I wear…

1. wife
2. mom
3. blogger/niece
4. personal assistant to Geri
5. Avon lady
6. Thirty-one consultant
7. classroom helper on Fridays
8. room parent (not clear on this one)
9. Daisy co-leader
10. part-time (unofficial) babysitter to nephew

Did I miss any?” (T)

“5 going on 15!” (T)

“You forgot Craigslist trader, Deb’s stocker (or is that stalker? hahahah!) and accidental picker.  A baker’s dozen.  You should wear a baker’s hat as a trademark.  I think it’s time to give up one!” (C)

“Gosh, she looks so old.” (C)

“Yes, it is.  It’s not making me money, it costs me money realistically.  It’s time to let go and walk away.” (T)

“I’m in support of that.  Remember, you are Executive VP of Marketing, Social Media and Brand Identity for TS4T, too!” (C)

“Haha!  You’re giving me too much credit.  Next to go is Avon.” (T)

“Well, I did Tupperware 3 times before I finally gave it up for good.  Plus I was a paper boy.  All while I worked at my job in the early years.  Plus I was a Girl Scout leader and a Sunday school teacher.  All at the same time.  So, I get it.  But life starts to disintegrate around you when you have too much going on, hence Princess P’s  comment today that you were weird.  Did you look at our ‘About’ page?” (C)

“Yes, that was eye-opening when she said that.  Something has to give (go) because I don’t have enough time to give my best to all of these things.  Direct selling is on the bottom of my list of importance.  No, I’ll look now.” (T)

“Look at Wishing Well too.” (C)

“I like the ‘About’ picture.  Where is that from?  Did you figure out SmugMug?” (T)

“Adorable!  I remember that day very clearly (obviously before I wore a baker’s hat!).” (T)

“Yes.  It’s one of your SmugMug pics.  Taken by you at the beach condo.  But your SmugMug is hard to navigate because the background is white and the words are white, so I can’t see them!!!  So navigating is hard.” (C)

“It is??  I can and will change that!” (T)

“You can?  I’m so relieved.  It will make finding things easier.” (C)

“Yes!  I’m changing it now.” (T)

“I couldn’t figure out how to log off so I hope I didn’t screw it up for you.” (C)

“No, it’s fine.  I don’t think it matters.” (T)

“We should blog about this text series.  It’s really funny and will make people laugh.  I think I’ll write it up tomorrow.” (C)

“I was thinking that a little earlier!  If we could have a ‘publish/send to blog’ option in our texts, it would save so much time!” (T)

“Hahaha.  But it would be full of typos!  That would make the proof-reader in me crazy!” (C)

“That’s why it should just send to blog draft!” (T)

“Oh; great idea.  Send email to WP suggesting that!” (C)

“I should, then they can work with Apple to make it happen.” (T)

“Yes and you’d be a gazillionaire!” (C)

“Hmmmmm, how do I get started?!?!?!?!?” (T)

“Hmmmmm, I don’t know.  But if you knew a geek, you could do it with him/her.  Plugin development geek.  That’s what you need.  Charlie wants a piece of your cake.” (C)

“Yes!  Tell Charlie to help himself!  Or tell him I said ‘you have my cake and want to eat it too??” (T)

“Now we are both weird.” (C)

“Hahahah!  Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!!!  Look what I just came across on SmugMug…I don’t know exactly what it means, but must explore!” (T)

“Very cool.” (C)

 Good night, world.

Tootles,