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Kerblooey.
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Things have blown up in my face in the past 4 years.
Had a hysterectomy since though I have been telling doctors for 20 years 'There is something *WRONG* they ignored me. My current doctor did not ignore me. Endometrial Cancer was the cause, thanks, doctors who never listened. But hey, one of those doctors said I had the flu shortly before I was admitted to hospital for gallstone pancreatitis.
Now? Now I am waiting on hernia surgery (result of Covid hitting during my hysto recovery) - but not for something simple.
I am waiting on blood, urine and bone marrow testing to clear me from a "nodule" on my left adrenal gland to be sure it's not active, to be sure I don't have some crazy immuno-issues, or whether my mile-long list of symptoms just says 'lol you are an extremely paranoid alien.' or something.
Meanwhile, my chiropractor and pain specialist are doing their best to keep me free of pain and keep my nerves from going off the deep end and my PC is trying to keep me from going crazy or for my body to actively fall apart in the middle of all this.
I have not created since 2019 when all this started, and likely won't for a few more years.
Consider me on hiatus. For much longer than I ever wanted to be...
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So much work. So little time.
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A lot has happened.
Not going into details.
Good news, however; I finally have a proper website thanks the to the uber awesome boyfriend I have, who was savvy enough to help me get set up with everything I could want at a reasonable price.
www.dwjewelryam.com is now up - covered in dust and construction mess, but it's there. I have a new phone/tablet (it's a phone, but it's HUGE, more like a small tablet - so a friend of mine said it's a "Phablet" ... and I love it), so nearly all of my photos are going to be redone (excepting of course, the items which have already sold and are only there as part of gallery archive of "Lookit what I can do! - Want one? Ask!" type of things.
I'm trying to get to more local venues, and my trip to Retro Mega ComicCon's Terrorfest was a success - a small one, but still a success, thanks to my brother in law's gift of a paypal card reader, which I am now setting up for my own account. So here's to future success with the ability to take plastic as well as cash.
Bad news:
I'm still being stalked. It's slowed considerably, but there it is.
Still on a lot of anxiety medications due to the above.
More good news:
Anxiety attacks are fewer because of said meds, and I can get through things more clearly.
Lots more good news:
While I will not be participating in NaNoWriMo this year, I will be finishing Last Breath sometime soon, and it has a sequel in progress.
I'm creating more than ever, and am now making rings, as well as specializing in pierceless ear-jewelry as a "main" focus, with earrings, bracelets and the "normal" jewelry as a lesser concentration.
I'm in a bit of a state of overwhelmament at the moment, so I'm sure I'm forgetting things - but I figured I should at least update this place while it was on my mind to do so.
Back to work for me!
Not going into details.
Good news, however; I finally have a proper website thanks the to the uber awesome boyfriend I have, who was savvy enough to help me get set up with everything I could want at a reasonable price.
www.dwjewelryam.com is now up - covered in dust and construction mess, but it's there. I have a new phone/tablet (it's a phone, but it's HUGE, more like a small tablet - so a friend of mine said it's a "Phablet" ... and I love it), so nearly all of my photos are going to be redone (excepting of course, the items which have already sold and are only there as part of gallery archive of "Lookit what I can do! - Want one? Ask!" type of things.
I'm trying to get to more local venues, and my trip to Retro Mega ComicCon's Terrorfest was a success - a small one, but still a success, thanks to my brother in law's gift of a paypal card reader, which I am now setting up for my own account. So here's to future success with the ability to take plastic as well as cash.
Bad news:
I'm still being stalked. It's slowed considerably, but there it is.
Still on a lot of anxiety medications due to the above.
More good news:
Anxiety attacks are fewer because of said meds, and I can get through things more clearly.
Lots more good news:
While I will not be participating in NaNoWriMo this year, I will be finishing Last Breath sometime soon, and it has a sequel in progress.
I'm creating more than ever, and am now making rings, as well as specializing in pierceless ear-jewelry as a "main" focus, with earrings, bracelets and the "normal" jewelry as a lesser concentration.
I'm in a bit of a state of overwhelmament at the moment, so I'm sure I'm forgetting things - but I figured I should at least update this place while it was on my mind to do so.
Back to work for me!
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The world has lost a heart of gold...
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I heard today that an old school friend has left us all. From the rumor mill, a suicide.
He was an artist. He was a saver of lives, a fighter of fires, and presented to the world a smiling, cheerful demeanor that would pull smiles from rocks.
The world has lost a heart of gold, and it was a shock to everyone.
I am no stranger to losing people around me.. I lost a dear friend in 2003 to asthma. My father in 2010 to cancer.
I am, however, a stranger to losing someone to suicide. I wish I had been closer, more in touch. I may not have done anything, or been able to do anything...
I wish I had more information, but I'm guessing that will come.
For now, I can only sit and be in shock.
He was an artist. He was a saver of lives, a fighter of fires, and presented to the world a smiling, cheerful demeanor that would pull smiles from rocks.
The world has lost a heart of gold, and it was a shock to everyone.
I am no stranger to losing people around me.. I lost a dear friend in 2003 to asthma. My father in 2010 to cancer.
I am, however, a stranger to losing someone to suicide. I wish I had been closer, more in touch. I may not have done anything, or been able to do anything...
I wish I had more information, but I'm guessing that will come.
For now, I can only sit and be in shock.
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Tireless Tumbling
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For those of you here who don't follow me on Facebook, I FINALLY got to use my rock tumbler.
There's a story to go with this...
When I was 10, I got a Rock Tumbler for Christmas. I'd been collecting interesting stones, and wishing I could polish them for years before then.
It was the only gift that Christmas that I remember, in fact, though that could be due to the tragedy that occurred not an hour after I opened the box.
We put stones in. We put grit in. We set the O-ring. We set the rubber ring on the motor. We set the tumbler on the counter. We filled the barrel with water, just over the stones, as the instructions said. We put the barrel on the tumbler. We plugged it in.
HOLY LOUD.
We unplugged it.
... It was to be banished to the basement.
Dad offered to take it down, and when he was about halfway down the stairs, we heard a curse, a thud, another thud, a third thud, and then...
*CRACK*
Dad was still holding the tumbler, but the barrel had fallen out, and tumbled down the stairs to split in half on the cement basement floor.
He tried mending it with duct-tape and electrical tape, but nothing doing.
I had a rock tumbler for three hours...
They replaced it the year I moved out, but it has taken until now, when I've moved back to take care of Mom, that I've finally gotten to fire it up at last.
Now, 25 years later, I'm finally finishing up the second stage of that first run of rocks. They will be going into the polish stage this afternoon, and in a week, I will have more lovely stones to wrap!
Even better, I will be able to make more!
I'm just hoping my second batch will have better rocks in it... since the first one is mostly red and orange leopard jasper... and I'm in need of quartzes and brighter stones.
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There's a story to go with this...
When I was 10, I got a Rock Tumbler for Christmas. I'd been collecting interesting stones, and wishing I could polish them for years before then.
It was the only gift that Christmas that I remember, in fact, though that could be due to the tragedy that occurred not an hour after I opened the box.
We put stones in. We put grit in. We set the O-ring. We set the rubber ring on the motor. We set the tumbler on the counter. We filled the barrel with water, just over the stones, as the instructions said. We put the barrel on the tumbler. We plugged it in.
HOLY LOUD.
We unplugged it.
... It was to be banished to the basement.
Dad offered to take it down, and when he was about halfway down the stairs, we heard a curse, a thud, another thud, a third thud, and then...
*CRACK*
Dad was still holding the tumbler, but the barrel had fallen out, and tumbled down the stairs to split in half on the cement basement floor.
He tried mending it with duct-tape and electrical tape, but nothing doing.
I had a rock tumbler for three hours...
They replaced it the year I moved out, but it has taken until now, when I've moved back to take care of Mom, that I've finally gotten to fire it up at last.
Now, 25 years later, I'm finally finishing up the second stage of that first run of rocks. They will be going into the polish stage this afternoon, and in a week, I will have more lovely stones to wrap!
Even better, I will be able to make more!
I'm just hoping my second batch will have better rocks in it... since the first one is mostly red and orange leopard jasper... and I'm in need of quartzes and brighter stones.
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..../headdesk
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It appears as though the little stalker/harassment problem has not yet stopped, though it was stated by said stalker that they would stop.
Fear not, I'm not going to quit doing what I do, and the more this person posts, the more ammo I have to give to the authorities!
I got horribly sick this weekend, since it is not the contagious kind of sick (unless one can pass along probable food poisoning/allergic reaction; more likely allergic reaction), but it has not stopped my hands from continuing to create.
In the meantime, for all of you who celebrate, Happy Easter! May your day be both blessed and filled with chocolate bunnies.
I am going to go see if I can finish a project I'd been waiting on an order from my supplier to finish, before diving into about five more!
Fear not, I'm not going to quit doing what I do, and the more this person posts, the more ammo I have to give to the authorities!
I got horribly sick this weekend, since it is not the contagious kind of sick (unless one can pass along probable food poisoning/allergic reaction; more likely allergic reaction), but it has not stopped my hands from continuing to create.
In the meantime, for all of you who celebrate, Happy Easter! May your day be both blessed and filled with chocolate bunnies.
I am going to go see if I can finish a project I'd been waiting on an order from my supplier to finish, before diving into about five more!
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