Not What We Were Thinking

I sent an email to Protopasta asking for them to get some shots of their plant so we could put it in this very important video they've asked us to create for all their Amazon product pages.   They sent a video their marketing contact at Amazon suggested they create a video like, and we've been using that as a general basis, although I thought that style didn't play to their strengths. 

We had been working on some filament-based shots for them and were going to interleave the plant shots between them.   I'm glad I emailed because they came back and said they thought the video would be all filament and models.   

Ugh.  If we had known that, we wouldn't have spent so much time trying to work in one direction.   So we have to rework what we had, and we're not even sure what we're doing for the video, which has to be a very attention-grabbing thirty-second video.   Both my husband and I really want this video completed because it's been challenging working together on it because we are not sure what to do, and that's stressful. 

The Pokemon Card Children:  My daughter is interested in trading Pokemon cards because Mcdonald's has Happy Meal toys that are packs of four cards.   She wants to trade, which means we aren't putting braille on the cards so she knows which is which.   And that means she can be taken advantage of.   You would think of all people, her brother who has a large collection of Pokemon cards from the past four years of collecting, would trade fairly.  Only he didn't.   She figured it, out and then to retialite, took one of his cards.  She took the single most valuable card he has that was a Christmas present from Olivia, Aunt Rebecca and Uncle Dale.  The card is solid metal with enamel on the front and back.  It's quite beautiful.   I don't know if he learned his lesson because she, of course, had to tell him what she'd done and why as opposed to letting him discover the card was missing and then worry where he'd lost it for a while until she confessed.   Hopefully, he learned a lesson.  I'm not sure he did, but we can hope.  My daughter has to rely on sighted people for so much; taking advantage of her in this way is a very low thing to do.