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

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

I am really happy with it. I DO think it would be best of all if there were also more private options, which people with enough money could take to avoid waiting or just to get premium service...that would in turn ease up congestion within the rest of the system.

But all in all, I prefer knowing I CAN get treatment, even if I have to wait (which I rarely ever do) to realizing that I CANNOT pay for the treatment I need (assuming I'm really poor and can't even afford insurance, etc) and just have to be resigned to die, should I get leukemia or...whatever.

But I'd like it best the other way I mentioned, knowing there was a FAST option and a FREE option. But given a choice between the two, I will definitely take the Canadian way over the US way.

Socialist, hun? I believe Empath_eia or someone on her LJ mentioned that someone from the US (or not from Canada anyway) informed them that they lived in a 'socialist hell'. Gosh, if this is hell, it's a pretty cool place to be!

*doesn't even know what socialist means, though she can guess* Is it the opposite of capitalist? Oh you know, I don't care what it means anyway. I do just fine living in my bubble, in fact, I'm wretched on the rare occasion I try to peek my head out, so I'm staying in here! *zips extra tight*

[zannachan.livejournal.com]

ooops. My comment below regarding socialism etc. was actually supposed to be reply here. Sorry.

[golden-meliades.livejournal.com]

That's okay, it's better addressed to Meri in any case, as what I said about me not caring if I know this stuff is really true. :) In fact, it's an understatement. I usually prefer *not* to know anything. The more I know about the world, even if the information is neutral, the more miserable I feel about being human.