Location, location, location...

I made up some brochures for Bone-a-fide Pet Services and I'll tell you, I keep patting myself on the back over how incredibly great they came out. I love them. I love putting things like this together because it lets my creative side flow like extra chocolate fudge over the vanilla ice cream mountain range. But we all know something that delicious has to be fattening and I am now entering all the cellulose causing addresses from an excel form to the correctly sized labels. All eleven hundred of them. Yow. As much as it's going to take a while, I am still super excited over the font GillSans Light in bold. Very pretty.

All these addresses and names have my head in a whirl. The names! Olga, please call us! I have always wanted to say the name Olga. I almost named Francine Olga but everyone freaked out enough to sway me and remind me how much I love the name Francine. Miss Von Iderstein, just pick up the phone! You know we're the ones for the job! The brochure makes it so obvious! Ramsey Fountain! You're just plain awesome! Beatrice! I'm so sorry but I recently decided your name is like the best name for a small white pig! I don't know if I can take you seriously, but I'm sure going to try!

What happens when you live on Lovers Lane and you have a nasty break up, or worse, a divorce? Does the name of your street bum you out every time you think about it? Enough to make you move? Hounds Ditch Lane! I love the name of that street! Every time I drive by it, I celebrate a little. What would I do to actually drive down it with purpose? Would I offer a day of free daycare? I feel like I might. Otter Rock Road? Who are we trying to kid with this one? When's the last time anyone saw an otter in this area? Seriously. Joy Lane. I'm obviously super biased but come on, how happy is that? Does Pond Road have a pond on it? How about Cordwood? What's going on there?

Are there people who base where they live on their street name? I feel like I would be that person. King Caesar Road would make me feel like I was trying to hard whereas High Street would bore me to tears or constantly make me think that I'm right... everything probably would be more fun while high. Like reading my street name. Trippy huh? I'd probably pass on Old Mill Road.

So it's pretty clear at this point that these labels are going to take way more time than they should. The first clue should be that I am blogging instead of entering the words onto the labels. The second is that I have the internet at my fingertips. Take last night for example: There I was plugging away when my latest favorite game popped into my head. In the spring I like to play What's My Favorite Tree? It's pretty easy. As the trees bloom, I choose my favorite tree and any time I see one I yell "FAVORITE TREE ALERT!". It changes about once a week. It started with the Weeping Cherry Tree. I've always been a Weeping Willow fan. And in pink! Big Weeping Willow fan UNTIL! I remembered Dogwoods come in pink! I've known this for a while but my brain was so yay weeping cherry tree! that it kind of pushed the dogwoods to the back of the line UNTIL! I saw one and everything came rushing back to me. Then last night I was admiring them online so as to take a break from all these fucking labels you have to be kidding me... needless to say I ordered one. It's going to be pretty small but I have faith and I am going to fence it off so it's not pissed on to death while loading it down with sweet nourishing food instead. It's going to be the most loved tree ever. My job is super easy considering how many problems they don't have and they are drought resistant. I love me some drought resistance! I'm even going to look up how to avoid any problems that might happen even if it's rare. Ooooo... I'm going to do that right now while pretending to enter label data!! Later!! I'm off to continue making labels! These babies aren't going to type themselves you know!