Waiting For Godot…
Sheffield Admin Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 4:56PM Thanks to Alexia for that great take on LEDs. Anything that is not only green, but also allows one to feel like a diva in bed (or, really, anywhere) is okay by me.
Me, I have not been feeling very diva-like, ever since getting that estimate from the electrician. In fact, I’ve been sitting here looking forlornly at the estimate, trying to screw up the courage to pick up the phone and call him, and tell him okay, come on over, break the bank. I’ll sell the cats, if I have to. Because I keep working backward, thinking, every time I come into the living room, that I really must get a new wall color, and that of course leads me back to the fact that first I have to take care of the dreadfully dull task of the electrical work.
I don’t think I could get much for the cats, even though they are quite talented and cuddly, and very, very, large. If only cats sold by the pound.
Or their fur! Why is alpaca so damn expensive, but no one is interested in buying cat fur to make a fancy sweater from?
Okay, back to decorating.
Meanwhile, remember my friend Seddy’s sister, and how I paid her 150 bucks to come over and advise me about my place? I haven’t heard from her since. No, that’s not entirely accurate. First there was an email to a long list of people saying her email hadn’t been working, and then there was an email saying she was going to Mexico for a couple of weeks. I swear---I know it sounds like the oldest scam in the world, but she really said precisely this:
…we're going to Mexico for the week. Great deals to be had in the hurricane season.
Well, yeah. Especially when you’re taking my 150 bucks with you!
Really, I do still trust this person, maybe mistakenly, maybe just because I love and trust her sister, who really is a very good friend. But now what? I’ve written to her once more, and she said she’d get in touch “early next week” which was like two weeks ago.
Do any of my readers have any advice about how to handle this? I mean, the whole thing was that I didn’t have time to do all the research on finding good ceiling fans and everything on my own. And now in addition to that, I’m working on hounding this woman who does seem like a lovely, if scatterbrained, talented, creative person. And I certainly don’t want to put a smudge on my friendship with Seddy by bitching about this situation with her.
Reader Comments (5)
Hi Stylehound:
I understand your angst against the interior designer. Being abandoned at the altar of design is nerve-racking. My question to you is this - did you have a letter of agreement or contract with the designer? One of the things you discuss with your designer is a timetable of deadlines. Usually the designer will state: "I will get back to you with a preliminary design in two weeks" and this can be clarified in the contract so that there is no confusion.
While timetables are fluid and can be changed - the client and designer should have this hammered out so both will have a clear set of guidelines and no one will feel abandoned.
Going forward, you should set down a timetable of goals and have the designer sign off on it.
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