...Time took nothing away

Oh how I love the comfort of being with an old friend. My friend Mia came into work today to surprise me... she will be in and out of town for a while. I wish it were under better circumstances - my heart goes out to her Dad right now. Anyway - we went out for dinner to catch up and it was so nice to be a with a friend and fall right back into each other's lives and never have a quiet minute. So nice to reconnect and just have that familiar feeling of comfort, kindness, and the bond... time took nothing away. We shared a great dinner and 2 hours flew by like 2 minutes. Thankfully she'll be back next week.

So I had the MRI. It was not fun, but not the worst thing I ever did. The soft white light made it bearable and they played my John Mayer cd, so his sweet sound helped calm my nerves. The only part that REALLY FREAKED ME OUT was one of the sequences made a horrible 'alarm' sound and vibrated quite a bit, so I thought those crazy 'what if' thoughts.... like "what if the machine is broken and the guy doesn't know?" and "what if the the tsunami struck - would I be stuck in here?"
I have mixed feelings over the results. They found nothing wrong, so that's terrific, yet at the same time, I have no answers to why my migraines are worsening and any leads to a cure. Ugh. Is it all in my head? Pun intended.

Cool little blog toy

Check out the right column and scroll down till you see the map. I added that last night during my 'online all nighter'. It logs where everyone is from around the world. How fun is that?

Snow Day .... Charms & Headache Free

Last Thursday we had a snow day! Oh ya - we got a whole 2 inches and the town was in a tizzy and canceled school. They just have no idea what snow is around.... it NEVER happens. Sometime we get slushy snow mixed with rain, but it never never sticks on the ground, so to wake up last Thursday and this was amazing!
I was so sick with my damn headache, I wasn't able to go driving around to take pics of the dunes or anything, which was a drag, but I was happy to know it was there.

So yesterday (Sunday) was my fist day, migraine free, in almost a week! I just had the best time finishing up my charms for the other charm swap. Tyler spent the whole day with me (instead of being in his room hooked up to his headphones and guitars), so I was sheer heaven. After spending the entire day taping and soldering I hopped online to read my mail, surf the net, catch up on some blogs and even managed to crank out the two scrapbook pages for the snow and charms in photoshop! I was a little too excited and stayed up till 4:30 this morning playing, but I don't care - it's the first day I have felt like myself in weeks!!!

Here are my charms... I had made up the pic with brushes in photoshop, punched them out and stuck them to the glass pebbles earlier, so all I had to do was wrap them in copper tape and solder them up, but it took pretty much all day because I did quite a bit more than the 25 needed for the shop, since I knew that some of them might would be duds. I am not a master solderer, so I always make extra ;)

(All the credits for my layouts can be found on my flicker page... click on the link to right)

MRI

I've been off sick for a few days now. Excruciating migraine again, so I haven't been able to come online because I can't see properly. This morning I woke up just a little headache, but I still have that darn eye pain. I saw my optometrist yesterday and she has scheduled me for an MRI. I've never had one before, so if you have - please let me know what it was like. I called the radiology dept and they said I would be in that machine for about 40-45 minutes. Yikes... I honestly didn't think it took more than a few minutes. Leave me a comment if you've done this before - the more I know what it's actually like to be in there, the better.

photo a day...

is one thing, posting them is another. I have been taking pictures, but I don't always get the time to log on, hook up my camera, edit the size, etc. Oh well - at least I'm taking more pictures.

I bought a 250 gig external hard drive last night. I have a dinosaur of a computer and it's full to the brim with all my pics, songs, and digital files. So full it won't even defrag properly, so I got some extra storage and it's nice to have my important stuff off my computer in case it ever crashes, I won't loose everything. I got an external one so the whole family can use it. My son can take it to his room and put his stuff on too. I'm pretty happy with it.

I'm working on my second set of charms for the other swap. I have to get them in the mail pretty quick so I better finish. I'll post pics later.

Thank you ... thank you ... thank you

I'm glad to be back among the living... my migraine is gone!
To make my day even better, I've just sold a few pendants on Etsy. Woo hoo. Thanks for the support. It perked me up big time!
I added a new one too... with pearls. Finally made something... the first thing in 2007.

Sick Days

Oh - tonight I finally have some relief of my migraine. The pain is gone, and I'm able to see clearly again but now my eyes just ache. I couldn't come on and post yesterday because I literally couldn't see - everything was just so blurry. You know somethings wrong when you can't read the digital clock on your microwave. Thankfully that's over - and I'm hoping the eye pain will be gone by tomorrow too. K - I'm going back to bed so I can go to work tomorrow. Peace!

Pretty pretty flowers

While Trev was here he surprised me with roses! They are still looking pretty good after all this time!

STUDIO FRIDAY : Proud Artist Of

This weeks Studio Friday (well I'm late, so it's a few days ago) is about being proud of a piece of art that hasn't been in the 'lime light'. For me, I think it's my "Key to my heart" piece, which kicked off my art sales for 2006. It was the first piece that got me out of my shell, to show and sell, and really jump started me for the rest of the year. It hung in an alphabet show and sold quickly, so I am proud of that. I was the letter K in the show....

It's acrylic on stretched canvas. The K is is plexi-glass that I painted (on the reverse side). The heart is paper clay that I formed by hand, then painted, and the key and key hole are metal additions to finish it off.

Happy New Year

Happy new year! I had a nice new year in, getting movies, making special snacks etc. I got invited out, but I like it quiet these days.

So how about those resolutions? Last year mine was to make way more art, and I did - so that's cool. This year I want to spend more time with my friends and keep in touch with those that are not here. I really need to do that. I want to see how long I can go at doing a photo a day too - so that means I'll be posting it here if it happens. Wish me luck!

Last night I downloaded some new wallpapers for my desktop and found one that looks like my cat Mew. Then when my screen saver came on, it was awesome - it looked like she was looking through aquarium glass. I snapped a photo with my phone:
How fun it that? You can get the background and the cool screensaver free (with no spyware) here. The animated screen savers (like my aquarium one shown) are really cool, and the best part is they are truely free, no adds, no spyware. Go get some!