Business (as usual!)

[merimask]

Well, yesterday certainly was exciting in a geeky cyber artist kind of way.  Final count after my day of being featured on DeviantArt:  over 2,700 hits on my gallery, and over 4,800 hits on the Fire Dragon that was the featured Daily Deviation.   Just to put that into perspective; since I opened the site (November 20th I think) I'd only recieved 291 hits on my gallery in total, until yesterday.  Wow!  My Etsy shop experienced a boost in hits exactly like the kind I get when I buy a showcase...so not bad at all!

I ran out of black dye over the weekend...what to do?  I know; make BLUE things.


This one was a special request, so it was going to be blue anyway...

Both up in Etsy, naturally.

I am doing an awful lot of dragon masks lately.  I just keep getting requests for them...it's not my fault!  It seems very few mask artists make dragon masks, too, so I have cornered the market there.

Not complaining...I really like making dragons anyway.  I just figured I'd better explain myself, since you guys are probably sick of seeing dragons!

In other news; not much going on.  I'm very very worried about our health insurance.  Greg's employer is raising the rates by over $200 a month for our health coverage.  That means over $400 a month out of Greg's paycheck, just for insurance.  Greg is making noises about dropping it, but getting health insurance on your own is an extremely expensive proposition.   I'm afraid we might not have a policy in a month.  Scary...

Comments

[zannachan.livejournal.com]

It may also depend on where you are, too. I was in a pretty rural area, though only about an hour from a good sized city and not that far--3 hours, maybe less?--from Toronto. But being a rural area, there was a shortage of doctors, and long waits for basic services. Some people opted instead to cross the border (as we were close) and get things like MRI's in the US because of it, even though they'd have to pay for it out of pocket.

My understanding is that its better in more urban areas.

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

I live in a town, 1.5 hours north of Ottawa...about 5 hours north-east of Toronto, maybe slightly more. We don't bother trying to do any major stuff here in town...we go straight to the city, as that's where the specialists are and I have to see a neurologist, none of which exist in my town.

I was diagnosed with a tumor in May of 2001, though, by my family doc, got an appt for an ultrasound a month later, then an appt with a specialist another month later, and an appt for surgery about a month after that. The tumour was out on September 10, 2001, so all told it was less than four months from me suspecting something was wrong to it being all fixed.

Mostly I'm lucky...but yeah, I have absolutely no serious complaints about the Canadian health care system, as it has so far never let me down. :) What others have experienced, I can't say...I don't know anyone personally with a major complaint but I'm sure there are plenty.