Seriously did he just say that?
The other night at dinner, Jack is telling me what he thinks. He often doesn’t do this unless its about golf, computers, or his work. This time he was telling me what he thinks about what I do. So I was half listening with excitement and half with trepidation. I don’t mind well. He will be the first to tell you that and I was a little worried that the moment I shot this guy’s crazy ideas down I was going to get the hawk look… which is where his eyebrows come together forming a cast shadow on his face and his now stormy eyes pierce your soul with their green withering intensity. Nature has this too. Right before volcanoes blow they give this look. Moments before tornados touch down storm clouds have this face. There is even a movie…The Mummy…to demonstrate this look of wrath.
But I also love it when Jack takes an interest in what I do, so like I said half excited, half trepidatious. Ooh, now there’s a great word!!
Anyway, he says you should start selling on your website. I open my mouth to tell him that is a terrible idea, but he says calmly…”Think about it.”, and goes back to eating pizza. Hmmm. No hawk look? A little off my footing in an unexpected moment I agree. I still thought the idea sucked but I was agreeing anyway. What devilry is this? Is my husband using diplomacy?
Never has.
I scrap the topping off another piece of pizza into my spinach salad and put the crust back with its brothers and sisters, without thinking.
I usually keep it on my plate because putting it back there like someone is going to eat that useless crust just makes my hubby freak out. He is serious about his pizza.
Nothing. NOT even a batted eyelash. Uh…
Oh, my My my… he HAS grown a diplomatic limb — or been abducted by aliens or has he just read The Art of War or some other mid-life weirdness. I just scalped a piece of pizza and put it back, what’s next for me drinking all the milk except for a swig and putting it back in the refer? If I kept it up I could become a dude.
After dinner I had a LIST of reasons why Me running a Store is a sucky idea.
Too much time coding a store, isn’t that every scrap store owners nightmare? Constantly paying homage to the website and all that headache. No Thank you!
Learning another program or slew of programs…nope. I would rather pay commission.
Setting up more webspace. <eyeroll> Please no.
No time to do what I really enjoy doing, making sheez!
And what about homeschool? It takes up the bulk of my time for a reason…thinking of my cherub-faced teens here. Who now sport a soul patch and a goatee respectively. Hairy Cherubs, HOOT! Still, I have commitments to those hairy angels.
Well I hit him with all that stuff and he just says… “You’ll figure it out.”
Okay… now … that’s just…um! Seriously did he just say that? Did he just say it exactly like that? In I believe in you fashion, not I love you but please stop talking tone. He did. He made I believe in you noises. How Sweet!…Crap now I have to do it.
What choice did he leave me but to go through with the research. Who IS this guy?
So I spent most of Friday’s freetime and all the weekend looking into it and just like my body snatched husband predicted there is a way for a small potatoes girl like me to avoid coding a big online store program, making modifications, buying more webspace and spending the rest of my life learning the programs needed to fill it up. One online solution was very similar to Paypal in that only a small fee is placed when you sell something. There were online solutions everywhere. I didn’t even bother to get out of my PJs all weekend! LOL! I kinda smelled. Like gym clothes baking bread, but I started out fresh this morning with a nice hot shower so no worries this post is clean! LOL!
I was most impressed. I might actually simplify my life a little with online solutions!
Gimme a WHOO and then a HOO!
More on this tomorrow its a work in progress. I am going to try a few of these places out. Stay tuned.
Happy Monday, Friends and Neighbors!
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Oh, and Thanks Jack or whoever you are! *guffaw*
Edited: February 8th, 2010