Crunch Time Weekend Recap

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What's shaking, y'all?  (Will I ever hear that phrase and not hear Norm Petersen in my head say "all four cheeks and a couple of chins?")  I somehow got all of my Christmas stuff shipped, ordered and the like.  For the second year in a row, my cookies I ship out flattened.  Last year I could understand because I was still on the terror train of fresh grief and figured I messed something up.  I know I'm under stress of a different kind this year but dang if even chilled straight out of the fridge they didn't frisbee.  I thought maybe the oven needed calibrated so I got a stand up oven thermometer to check.  The top oven, which I didn't use, was off by 25 degrees but the one I used was just fine.  Check...it was me.  I don't feel like I let the butter sit out too long so I'm guessing I whipped too much air into it or it was because I used the darker pan which alters the temperature by 25 degrees.  (I thought the parchment paper would protect me from that though, nope.)   

I knew there were some things I needed to get done this weekend but I was saving those for Sunday so I could have a more chill Saturday.  "Oh my child, thou hast always amused me" the universe chuckled.  I should preface this by saying my print provider thought it would be fun to merge with another print provider and complete that merger on Thanksgiving Day.  You know, not like it's the busiest time of year or anything.  They assured us all was well and nothing would change in a Q&A last week.  The next day I notice my new products are erroring out.  I get in touch with them and they tell me to try something which is completely asinine but worked.  I don't like it and assume more sh*t is readying itself to be lopped at the proverbial fan.  Man, I hate being right.  I got an order Friday afternoon and I kept noticing it wasn't showing up anywhere except on Etsy's side but they're the buying platform and the actual order gets produced through the printing platform.  After 20 hours of me flop sweating and getting messages that their customer service is not available, I lie about my issue to get past the bots and to a person.  I explain what happens and they tell me it's not published.  I tell them I know it's published because it's basically the only thing I've sold over weeks and they want a screenshot.  I got to my dashboard and EVERYTHING in my shop has been unpublished!  200 listings sitting dormant that were fine before 'glitch day' (of which they told me there was no glitch and I dropped a first and last name and told them to scroll up where customer service said there was a BIG one.  *crickets*)   I freaked out and in a mass panic, I republished all of my mugs to at least get my best and only seller right now back up.   When I do that, I notice it's kicking out all of the mockups (listing pictures) that take me forever to pull together and do I have backups of all of them?  Nope.  I freaked out so hard, I scared the Mr.  I was hyperventilating, couldn't breathe and let's just say a doctor's visit has confirmed that's not a good state for me to be in.  

When I calmed down, the Mr started pulling my pics for backups on his laptop and I started noticing when I republished it was making TWO listings!  The original and the new one with no pictures.  The Mr found a workaround and I worked all day Saturday to get my most perused items back up so I wouldn't need to babysit and create a manual order if any of those items were purchased.  I saw that tags I know were in most of them were gone and replaced by either nothing or some rando crap I would never in a million years put in there.  Some of the newer listings kept their tags but older and ones from when the merger was announced had the tag issues, which to me proves that's when problems started.  I think I have as much done as I can right now and I don't want to overdo things if someone on their side decides to fix it and then I have a whole new problem to fix.  Needless to say, twas not the chill Saturday either of us hoped for.  I thank the Mr for doing everything he could to help me get some backups in place.

Sunday I decide to tackle the mountain of laundry that ate my storage bench for months at a time in the bedroom.  Some of it had stuff of Mom's that's been sitting there for over a year and altogether it was a stressful way to start and end the day.  So I got most of that into a bin under the bed, purged stuff of mine I didn't want anymore whether by trashing or donating them.  We got more laundry going and I went through a lot of clothes that I couldn't wait to wear.  Unfortunately, some are not going to see the light of this season.  Sigh.  It was a rainy day all day which was fine with me and I was ready to go on our evening walk in it, at which point it stopped.  *rolling eyes*  It was dark so it was quiet and empty.

I've got my last therapy session for the year today.  I'll have to check the insurance estimate when the new year rolls around to see how far they're going to bend us over on that one.  I can't go from paying $15 per session to some insane amount.  Here's a good little chuckle for you.  The MIL sent us a little chunk of money a few weeks ago with some manipulative BS line to go with it that we weren't biting on.  The Mr offered up the whole amount for me to continue therapy and how she owed me therapy after 30 years and how hilarious that would be.  I thanked him for the thought but said I would use my half to continue a few sessions into the new year so I will make sure I dedicate at least one session to her!  PFFT!

Then it was time to collapse in bed.

How was your weekend?

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