laugh

I think my dad has been trying to send me a message to laugh.

You see, I’ve been doing some glass etching on wine glasses and Pyrex dishes. On the wine glasses, I etch descriptive adjectives on them so that when you are having a party, instead of using wine charms to mark your glass, you can just pick the wine glass that has “sassy” or “juicy” or “mysterious” (or any other word) etched on it, and people will know who they are dealing with as well as which glass is theirs.
Recently, my cousin Heather asked me to make her some glasses, and she wanted one of the glasses to say “laugh”.

The process to etch a glass goes like this: I make a stencil on sticky vinyl, I place the stencil on the glass, I apply an acid cream to the stencil, I wait, I wash off the cream, and voila, you have an etched wine glass.

Heather asked me to make four glasses; easy enough. Well, for three of them, it was easy enough, and for the glass that said “laugh”, I was ready to cry.

Take one: I made the stencil, and was ready to apply it to the glass when I realized it said: LAYGH. Shit, time to start again.

Take two: I made the stencil (again), applied it to the glass, applied the cream, washed the cream off, and then I saw that the ‘L’ had bled, and the glass more resembled “JAUGH” than “LAUGH”. Shit, time to start again.

(at this point I am saying to my dad, “really dad, I get it, you want me to laugh more, now can I please have some luck with this freaking wine glass”)

Take three: I made the stencil (again), applied it to the glass (again), applied the cream (again), washed the cream off (again), and then I saw that the glass had a flaw in it. The glass was completely useable, but when I am making a special order for someone, I want it to be perfect.

Holy hell! DAD!! I GET IT! YOU WANT ME TO LAUGH MORE. ‘JAUGH’ WAS KIND OF FUNNY, BUT THE LINE IN THE GLASS WAS KIND OF A DUD. PLEASE LET THIS NEXT ONE WORK.

Take four: I went through the damn process AGAIN and this time, it was successful.

I hope Heather loves her wine glasses, and that every time she sees/uses the ‘laugh’ glass, she laughs her ass off.