by the printer. I managed to get the Xmas cards out but only one calendar before I waved my white flag. I set up the other 6 calendars I needed to print and sent them to MPix. That cost me $60 so now I know it cost about $10 a calendar. Doing them myself I have no idea. It cost about $85 for a full set of inks. Normally I don’t go thru that much even tho the printer is thristy. Where I am really saving however is in my sanity. I can’t get a decent print printed so that means even more ink (and card stock) wasted. Tonight I had to go make a run for cyan ink. I shouldn’t of run out. That is the last ink I ever buy for that printer. In the meantime I will use whatever ink I have left on general printing but then will buy a new cheap printer after the ink is gone.
Next year I have to rethink how I print Xmas cards and calendars. I will go out and get it printed and save the headache. The only disadvantage is that I have to get my act together early so I can get my order out and printed before it is too late.
Today I finished the card and got it in the mail. I then moved to cookie making. I now have to wrap stuff up and hopefully we will be ready to go to Indiana on Monday.
I am off all of next week. This last week was a challenge because I was already stretched thin getting the year end bookings done when H falls ill. Apparently she may have an aneurysm. Eek, just what she needs. She had one hot project that she was in the middle of that I had to pick up and pretty much start from scratch because she used Swift 3D and I didn’t have time to figure out what she did and how to match it with what still needed to be done so I felt the only way to get it done before Friday was to do it my way from scratch. I did faux 3d and the client was very satisfied. Now I am behind on my regularly scheduled jobs. Putting it out of my mind until the next week.
The interesting thing about H’s aneurysm. The night before, I had a rare headache. I took some Advil and it seemed to get worse. Since I never get headaches, my hypochondria kicked in and I even tweeted “the bad thing about never having a headache is that when you get one you think you are dying or something”. The next morning I find about H’s aneurysm when her partner shows up at my desk. Me and H always talk about having a second sense about things like that, I think I just had one of those with her.
Wonder how long H will be out. I have a feeling it might be awhile before we see her. Thoughts and prayers going out to her.