It's getting into the depths of the holiday season again...and again, LJ dies. Ghost town! *echos*
I'm on dial-up right now so it's taking me FOREVER to do anything online...I hope the high speed comes back up before I have to make my Etsy listing today...uploading the pics takes forever on dial-up.
Thanks for the plug. :) With the US economy as it is right now, and with Canada only a couple of steps behind, Etsy is a ghost town as well. I still only get one or two hits each time I put up a new listing or renew an old one. ONE SALE at the very first of December...and nothing since then. November was dead, too. November/December should be the BUSIER months! People are really cracking down on the luxury items/non-essentials. It's not serious for me as I don't rely on my Etsy income for anything (I've only used it to pay for supplies thus far and all the rest is sitting untouched in a separate account...not that hairsticks are very lucrative anyway, being only about 20 bucks average per sale, with about 10 sales a month.)
But hey, working yourself into a knot about it isn't going to help...it's going to give you an ulcer. I mean, I know you have to work hard to keep buyers coming at a time like this but worrying on top of it? Extra work + extra stress = Burnt Out Meri.
Though there are SO few things that worry me (being that I'm an exceptionally sheltered/protected/fortunate kid) that it's easy for me to say 'try not to worry'. I could worry if I made an effort, but I would HAVE to make an effort, at this point. Right now my biggest problem is an increasingly serious winter funk...but I'm getting my brain together on that topic and trying to form some kind of plan to keep it all under control. The lamp does help somewhat but it's only a little...just enough to take the 'edge' off, it seems. The random pointless anxiety has gone away, but it's been replaced by utter sloth/don't-care-about-ANYTHING...'ness'.
I had to change my LJ layout to a sicken heart and flowers one to get a warmer colour that isn't dark. Most of the 'warm colour' layouts for 'Expressive' are dark warm colours...and I dislike dark colours for my LJ...it makes me depressed. So I had to settle for this one with hearts and daisies spilling out of an envelop. Scary!
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Date: 2008-12-17 01:40 pm (UTC)I'm on dial-up right now so it's taking me FOREVER to do anything online...I hope the high speed comes back up before I have to make my Etsy listing today...uploading the pics takes forever on dial-up.
Thanks for the plug. :) With the US economy as it is right now, and with Canada only a couple of steps behind, Etsy is a ghost town as well. I still only get one or two hits each time I put up a new listing or renew an old one. ONE SALE at the very first of December...and nothing since then. November was dead, too. November/December should be the BUSIER months! People are really cracking down on the luxury items/non-essentials. It's not serious for me as I don't rely on my Etsy income for anything (I've only used it to pay for supplies thus far and all the rest is sitting untouched in a separate account...not that hairsticks are very lucrative anyway, being only about 20 bucks average per sale, with about 10 sales a month.)
But hey, working yourself into a knot about it isn't going to help...it's going to give you an ulcer. I mean, I know you have to work hard to keep buyers coming at a time like this but worrying on top of it? Extra work + extra stress = Burnt Out Meri.
Though there are SO few things that worry me (being that I'm an exceptionally sheltered/protected/fortunate kid) that it's easy for me to say 'try not to worry'. I could worry if I made an effort, but I would HAVE to make an effort, at this point. Right now my biggest problem is an increasingly serious winter funk...but I'm getting my brain together on that topic and trying to form some kind of plan to keep it all under control. The lamp does help somewhat but it's only a little...just enough to take the 'edge' off, it seems. The random pointless anxiety has gone away, but it's been replaced by utter sloth/don't-care-about-ANYTHING...'ness'.
I had to change my LJ layout to a sicken heart and flowers one to get a warmer colour that isn't dark. Most of the 'warm colour' layouts for 'Expressive' are dark warm colours...and I dislike dark colours for my LJ...it makes me depressed. So I had to settle for this one with hearts and daisies spilling out of an envelop. Scary!