I'm thinking in sentence fragments. Urge to write as such simply overwhelming.
Busy. Finished the stupid belts.
There they are. Dumb belts. That's all I'm going to have time for, too. Seven. *shakes head* Pennsic will just have to fight it out over 'em...I have priorities now & they don't involve accessories. Still, they did turn out nicely. I always do my best.
The plaques are coming along...coming along. I've been at them all weekend. It's all those tiny LEAVES that are tripping me up...so damn many of them. Also I started the beading (pearls are simulated mistletoe berries) and the pearls are being hateful & ugly. They're too irregular...I hate them. I got as close to round as I could afford, but they still look too potato-shaped to me & so I've ordered some new nice regular glass-core pearls. They'll be here by Friday so that still leaves me plenty of time to get other stuff done.
The other plaque is also having its share of bead problems (carnelian beads simulating holly berries), because the carnelian was exceptionally orange. Not much I can do about it; they're a natural stone & sometimes they just look that way. *shrug* It's still pretty though.
The other plaque is also having its share of bead problems (carnelian beads simulating holly berries), because the carnelian was exceptionally orange. Not much I can do about it; they're a natural stone & sometimes they just look that way. *shrug* It's still pretty though.
Crazy stupid weekend. My daughter wanted to throw a party for her best friend's birthday. Our yard is small, the neighbors are old & mean, and we have only one bathroom so my Mom kindly volunteered HER backyard. What a nightmare. Can you imagine...13 teenagers in a backyard? I don't know how we managed to survive. It was too frustrating & exhausting for me to want to revisit the horror by writing it down...let's just say I'm never letting her do that again. :-/
It occurs to me that teens are like ferrets. They LOOK cute, & they seem like they'd be great pets...but they're just a few clicks short of wild animals. They're domesticated only in the broadest sense of the term, they're smelly, & if you don't know how to handle them they can bite. *sigh* Really, no fun at all.
It occurs to me that teens are like ferrets. They LOOK cute, & they seem like they'd be great pets...but they're just a few clicks short of wild animals. They're domesticated only in the broadest sense of the term, they're smelly, & if you don't know how to handle them they can bite. *sigh* Really, no fun at all.
Happier stuff: Look! Look at what
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moonphased made! Naruto onigiri, or something like that. Isn't it adorable? If I ever get to Tokyo I'm going to BEG her to teach me how to do that. My sushi is pretty damn good, but that's just freaking amazing. It's too cute to eat!Back to glum: My weight loss is still going really well. I feel pretty good, my miles during my bike rides have increased (oh yes grasshoppers...even though I'm terribly busy I am STILL making time to exercise. I'd go nuts without it) , my clothes are getting ridiculously loose. But. I have a problem. My belly is freaking ugly. :-( It got like this the last time I lost weight too, only now it's even worse. Having Charlotte stretched me all out of shape & nothing I do helps worth a damn...it's a saggy ugly thing. I need a tummy tuck in the worst way. They cost between 5 & 7 thousand dollars.
Thing is, insurance sure won't cover it. Certainly, my HMO won't. Know what's obscene? If I was on Medicaid it'd be covered! Grr! It's like I'm being punished for having insurance.
Anyway, it's really making me sad. The more weight I lose, the worse it looks. :-(
So yeah. Pictures of all the plaque work coming soon. They'll be spectacular, I think.
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It's something that's near to my heart also, just from personal experience. There's nothing like dangling over that insurance-less abyss for ten years to make one aware of the costs. The part that I was always bitter about was that the people who just collect and collect and collect and do *nothing* to attempt to better their lot by their own efforts have an extensive safety net, and the poor slobs who work hard but are say, temping, are hung out to dry. It's just... complicated. And the existing system is corrupt on so many levels that I don't even know where they'd start!
But after ten years on the outside looking in, we've gotten lucky with my job, and it's a blessing I count every single day.
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We've been without insurance 4 of the 5 years we've been married, and the year we had insurance it was very hit and miss--we never knew month to month if we would be covered, and when we were covered, we had to fight with the insurance company over every single claim we made (nor were they expensive claims--I'm talking basic stuff like a doctor's visit for a sinus infection and the like). Fortunately, I'll be graduating hopefully this spring (finally!) and then hopefully will be able to find a job with good insurance.
I can't imagine being without insurance for 10 years! But I'm glad that you have insurance now, and excellent insurance at that.
And I hear you about being frustrated with people who abuse the system--I have a friend who's a doctor and she gets very frustrated with people who try to take advantage of the system. It's so frustratingly not fair, when I know there are people who are working and really struggling and fall through the cracks.
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Hopefully we'll run into each other at the booth. I'd love to meet you!
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It would be really cool to get to meet you too! We always come and visit Merimask at Pennsic, so it's very possible we'll run into each other there.