A summary of my day, plus a rant about writing

I gave M the two fountain pens, and she was really happy to get them. She kept thanking me, and I told her the truth--I had been helped by someone else when I first became interested in fountain pens, and I was just passing that kindness on. Then I joined my staff in trying to make as much stuff in as little time as possible, because the stock on our shelves were starting to look way too thin and I had to spend most of the afternoon in a meeting. (Arg.) As a side issue, my assistant manager and I figured out why our last two batches of Morning Breakfast Cookies have been so weird, and why the cake I baked yesterday failed. (The two have independent causes, we just were brainstorming stuff while running around the bakery.)

Then after the meeting there was still a bunch of stuff needing to be done in the bakery so I didn't get out of there until an hour after I supposed to have left (but hey, I'm on salary so it doesn't matter to anyone but me) and I went home and whined on FB about how I had to do some writing tonight and I was in a bad mood and didn't want to be productive. This elicited a variety of comments, which included (condensed):( Read more... )