When it comes to progress, I live life in the fast lane. If
I can do it faster, I’m game. Meeting Jason has taught me a lot of valuable
lessons in how this is a risky approach to always take. Since he loves projects, I’ve
seen many more of them in progress while being with him – and a few more examples of projects
gone wrong (and the disastrous effects).
To Jason’s credit, one of the biggest lessons he has deliberately
taught me is the importance of taking things slowly. Not only is there more to
be enjoyed in taking your time working on a project you enjoy, but you can also
prevent a lot of mistakes from happening if you give each step the time it deserves.
Unfortunately I had a case-in-point example of this recently
when working on some crafty things for our wedding reception.
I invested in a circle-cutter because circles are my
arch-nemesis in the crafting world. I can’t draw or cut a perfect circle for my
life. So when the circle-cutter came in the mail I was SO EXCITED to see how
much easier this was going to make my life! The excitement was so overwhelming
that I decided to just go full speed ahead, not watching the extremely helpful
tutorial the company had posted on YouTube or reading the customer reviews for
helpful tips.
Well…you wanna know what happened…
This is a picture of the table I decided to arrogantly try
the circle-cutter on. This is also the table that Jason’s siblings ate numerous dinners at while
growing up, and the table that Jason spent hours
staining the perfect color black to match our apartment two years ago…my heart STOPPED when I
saw what I had done.
So now after watching that previously mentioned YouTube
video, and refraining from using the circle cutter until my self-healing
cutting mat came in the mail (per the advice of many happy circle-cutter users)
I am forever changed.
New experiences are exciting, and new tools can make you
feel like a kid on Christmas morning, but my god, READ THE INSTRUCTIONS PEOPLE!
The circle-cutter I bought didn’t say anything about using a mat underneath it
or anything like that, but if I had taken a few minutes to let my common sense
kick in, I probably would have thought to cut on a better surface than the one
I chose, and we would still have our desk sans-circles.
So anyways, lesson learned :)
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