Blog: The Joy Of Filing

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I got home last night to find that the Dinosaur Planet Christmas Cards had arrived - and they look GORGEOUS!

As I think I've mentioned before, the original idea was to get these done for Promotional Purposes, but as a) they look so FANTASTIC and b) it was only a few more quid to get TWICE as many I thought I'd order a load more and see if anybody wanted to buy some. I thus had a happy half hour last night putting together PACKS of 10 cards and 10 envelopes, containing the lot in MYLAR bags from the comic shop (which just happen to fit PERFECT) sealed with homemade stickers. The packs look even NICER!

It felt BRILLIANT to finally be able to START putting things together like this. My HOME STUDY looks like a WAREHOUS at the moment - there's boxes of Dinosaur Planet postcards, Dinosaur Planet Christmas Cards, an Dinosaur Planet T-Shirts, BAGS and BAGS of pre-addressed pre-stamped ENVELOPES in various categories for mailing the CD out, and THREE boxes seperate kinds of ENVELOPES ready for when we start sending stuff out. The one thing missing from all of these piles is the one thing we really NEED, the Dinosaur Planet album itself!

Quite apart from all the hassles about getting the album manufactured the main frustration of all the delays has been the FACT that every day I see ALL THESE PILES, sat LOOKING at me, reminding me that things can't get started yet, so it was a JOY to be able to DO something at last. In order to celebrate this fact I treated myself to a frenzied half hour of FILING. Aaah, FILING! Was there ever an activity so well designed to calm the soul AND be easily done whilst listening to the radio? CDs were put in their correct places, reciepts and invoices were LOGGED, future train tickets were put into the Future Train Tickets drawer, and order was derived from CHAOS. I also put the various boxes neatly on top of each other, so at least they LOOKED a bit neater, it was GLORIOUS!

We may not be quite out of the FOREST OF FRUSTRATION just yet - I'm _hoping_ to have CDs of the album next week, tho this is by no means certain - but I feel I am at last beginning to hear the distant sound of the motorway beyond the edge of the woods. I'm hoping beyond hope that, by the end of the year, we shall be fully LAUNCHED... at which point I guess I'll have to think of something ELSE to worry about!

posted 30/11/2011 by MJ Hibbett

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