technology SUCKS

The day was going quite well....




....why is it that when I want to do something unique, special and take the path less traveled, something ALWAYS stands in my way? Sure, I could have gone to party city, picked out pre-made, mass produced, "everyone buys em'" party invites for my daughters birthday. But NO. I took the time to talk to her about what she wanted for a theme, concocted an idea for cute homemade invites, went to hobby lobby, picked out special paper, vellum and stickers and came home and made a text layout in photoshop to go on the vellum. Only my fan-f**king-tastick printer doesn't want to print on vellum. It does however want to give me loads and loads of error messages about the ink tray being stuck or the door being open, which don't seem to be an issue upon inspection. A re-start and 10 retry's later, I am able to print on ONE vellum sheet, just to have it all start over on the bullchit on the second try. So I decide I'm not going to be derailed by this. The printer had been giving me grief lately anyway by making me re-install everything after a power outage or when we turn off the power strip when we leave the house for traveling. So feeling justified, I ventured a trip to sams, and bought a new one. Got it home, made dinner, ate dinner. Started to set up said new printer. Uh oh. Realized it's missing a feature that is literally my bread and butter. CD printing. I'm sure as hell not using one printer for vellum and another for CD's. So the new one is getting returned and for now I'm going to eff around with the old one to see if I can get it going again......be back shortly 


Ugh....I HATE technology. Over vellum paper of all things. Seriously??






I mean, really....is it just too much to ask for the sake of creativity? After so long those store bought invites start to look real good. I finally got it all figured out tho! Re-installed all matter of drivers/software for the old printer, and had no issues printing on vellum. Then I accidentally shorted one of the holes on the invites when I was punching them for the ribbon...and of course I was doing a mass punch, so they all have a 3/4 hole at the top. Eye roll. Oh well. They are done and I'm satisfied to say that I don't have to be forced to purchase mass produced branded invitations for my baby's party. Now if I can master a two tier cake with some fondant.....