pvc chippings in my hair and clothes...

Today was quite a productive day, I think. Well, except for the whole "spending 8 hours at work" part of the day, but whatevs.

As I was about to leave work, I called dad asking if he'd stoke up the wood stove in the garage so we could work on a big crazy project for a couple of hours. He said it was warm enough that we didn't have to do that, but asked if I could bring home pizza for dinner.

Blaaagh. Ok sure, dad.

So he ate. The smell of the pizza in my car on the way home was quite nauseating, so I couldn't eat. And besides, I was too pumped about everything I had planned to do tonight.

Cutting pipes. Tuning. Using a chop-saw for my first time, EVER. Hoping that we weren't going to waste too much. Hoping it wouldn't take forever. Hoping I wouldn't take my hand off with the blade. We cut and flat-tuned 12 pipes, enough for 1/3 of the project. It's going to be a long haul, but it's looking like I won't hate life as much as I thought I would while trying to do this. Then again, this could be the easy part and I just may feel like using the chop saw for horrible things in a week or two. But for now, I feel quite handy. And it's fun hanging out with dad.

Then the more daunting task of coming up with a general invitation design for an event coming up soon. Not planned by me, but I offered to help with the design since I like doing that kind of stuff. However, I'm always really picky and hard on myself and find I'm not as professional as I'd like to be. And it was really intimidating that I've never seen an invite for the previous events and that I'm really afraid to look silly or let people down if they're not as "cool" as is sort of expected from me. I've nailed down a few of my favourites but to me it's a really vulnerable place offering something I've created for the approval of someone else, and it's kind of scary. I really do think I have a horrible fear of rejection or looking stupid.

(But don't let that stop you from being honest with me - I'm pretty sure I can take it from you.)

:)