Burford Designs: Save Rachel and Elsie

I make lists. I have to do list, to purchase lists, to watch lists, etc. I also keep a couple of calendars…a yearly one in my handbag (broken down by week) and a large dry erase one in my room (it has room for five weeks). It relaxes my mind (because it’s ALWAYS zooming) to sit and write things down (thus the post yesterday).

I enjoy the process of writing on my dry erase calendar when it needs to be updated. I use different colors (that’s the creative side coming out) for different activities and due dates and some things are in my own shorthand or code. I usually change the color of the dates and the name of the month to coincide with what I feel is a good color for said month. So January is an icy blue, February can be pink or red, March green, etc. Then certain things are always the same color – like bill due dates, work obligations, etc.

On my monthly calendar I put my bill due dates, swap send out dates, any appointments, vacation/non-work days, and lately I’ve been putting says that different online class info should be posted. The calendar I carry around has the same info as well as my daily work schedule, if I am owed mileage, etc. And the blog title if I posted one that day.

For both of these calendars I end up using my shorthand after the first couple of times (I have to get used to what I’m writing). So for one of Teresa’s classes it may just read “bella” or be specific to the theme so right now it is written down as “cottage”. So on a to do list I may have “save cottage” written down.

That’s what leads me to the title of this post. I am taking the spring online class from the darling RVA girls Rachel and Elsie that I wrote about here and here, so for my initial shorthand I wrote “Save Rachel & Elsie”. At first I didn’t think anything of it until I looked at my open calendar one day and thought what someone else might think if they saw that. I laughed and decided to test the theory…I left that page (with only “Save Rachel & Elsie” written on the calendar page) open on my desk.

It was a short while and one of my co-workers stopped by to chat and glanced down, didn’t say anything, we continued chatting and then she looked down again and asked “Who are Rachel and Elsie?”

I chuckled and explained who they were, but left it at that (without going into the entire “save” part).

She then looked at me quizzically and questioned “and what do they need to be saved from?”

Of course, I’m also a smart aleck so I replied “from awesomeness”.

She walked away at that point but returned later in the day and asked what did they really need to be saved from…I joked that it was similar to the “Heroes” motto “Save the cheerleader; Save the world”. Then I told her what was really going on… I’m not that mean.

(photo from the spring class sign - altered by moi)

I still have to take some photos of some of my completed projects (and possible some works in progress). Hopefully I’ll be able to post them later today, if not, then I will show you all sometime soon.

Happy Wednesday!