mmmm boredom
So yeah Im here at the store staring blankly at the computer screen. I have been doing ALOT of casting lately, WOOHOO!!! So besides engraving, finish work, and soldering, I have another part of my profession almost perfected! Well I am stoked about it anyway. All I have left to learn before taking over the buisiness is stone setting and grading (and probably a 10,000.00$$ buisiness loan) just so I can amp up the showcases or maybe buy some nice museum cases. I am proud of myself to say the least.....I finally feel like I know something that will pay the bills the rest of my life. I really like my job now, I always have I just haven't had the opportunity to say I can do this by myself, without any help from another jeweler till now.
Today I litterally took 30 grams of scrap gold and turned it into 8 new pieces.....mostly butterflies, fishies, crosses just main staple stuff ATM getting the showcases filled for Christmas. UUUUGGGHHHH Christmas, the best and busiest part of the year for any jeweler. I'll be happy to be busy I am just not ready for the crazy people yet. Like the guy that comes in 3 days before Christmas and tells me to custom make a piece he knew his wife wanted all year. WTF? Or the lady that comes in and thinks you can make
1 large stone out of her 10 piece of crap small diamonds. HA! If that was at all possible I would have made a 100 karat Flawless D color stone, sold it to Sotheby's and moved to Jamaica. I wish sometimes I could just say to a customer, " Sorry, but you cant make chicken salad out of chicken shit."
Besides jewelry work which is about all I have been doing lately. My cousins memorial service was really odd. It seemed like no one even really knew her well. There were alot of her friends and family there, but I think she was just such a private person that there just wasn't much to say about who she was, or even what kind of person she was. Even her room mate...all she could say to the Pastor (my good friend Will) was that she was a kind and quiet person that kept to herself. I just really feel for Buddy and my Aunt right now. No one deserves to loose two children, or two sisters, much less one child. I really dont know how my Aunt is still holding up with 2 of her 3 children dead. My last cousin on that side of the family has no siblings alive any longer. He is only 27, his sister that just died was 31, his younger sister died when she was 18 (she was also my bestfriend). So there has been alot of tragedy in my family lately. Oddly enough it brought my family back together on that side. Too bad Frani and Toni (the sisters) aren't here to see it. I can only relate my family coming back together by crediting my older cousins greater purpose on earth.
And besides Death.....My overall life is doing well. My boyfriend is still the same guy I got together with (thank god). He makes my life a little easier to swallow. We are both working at different times, he works from 4 till about 12:00 midnight serving tables and I work 10 to 6:00 during the day. So basically we get to see eachother at night, when we wake up and on Monday's we are both off. It seems to work out well though. I end up wanting too see him really bad and enjoy every second we do have together. So I guess the absence makes the heart fonder situation works out to my advantage . Today I also realized we only have 3 1/2 months to be at the 1 year mark. Damn time flies by quickly. Well that about sums up life ATM.
Till next time,
Angl
Today I litterally took 30 grams of scrap gold and turned it into 8 new pieces.....mostly butterflies, fishies, crosses just main staple stuff ATM getting the showcases filled for Christmas. UUUUGGGHHHH Christmas, the best and busiest part of the year for any jeweler. I'll be happy to be busy I am just not ready for the crazy people yet. Like the guy that comes in 3 days before Christmas and tells me to custom make a piece he knew his wife wanted all year. WTF? Or the lady that comes in and thinks you can make
1 large stone out of her 10 piece of crap small diamonds. HA! If that was at all possible I would have made a 100 karat Flawless D color stone, sold it to Sotheby's and moved to Jamaica. I wish sometimes I could just say to a customer, " Sorry, but you cant make chicken salad out of chicken shit."
Besides jewelry work which is about all I have been doing lately. My cousins memorial service was really odd. It seemed like no one even really knew her well. There were alot of her friends and family there, but I think she was just such a private person that there just wasn't much to say about who she was, or even what kind of person she was. Even her room mate...all she could say to the Pastor (my good friend Will) was that she was a kind and quiet person that kept to herself. I just really feel for Buddy and my Aunt right now. No one deserves to loose two children, or two sisters, much less one child. I really dont know how my Aunt is still holding up with 2 of her 3 children dead. My last cousin on that side of the family has no siblings alive any longer. He is only 27, his sister that just died was 31, his younger sister died when she was 18 (she was also my bestfriend). So there has been alot of tragedy in my family lately. Oddly enough it brought my family back together on that side. Too bad Frani and Toni (the sisters) aren't here to see it. I can only relate my family coming back together by crediting my older cousins greater purpose on earth.
And besides Death.....My overall life is doing well. My boyfriend is still the same guy I got together with (thank god). He makes my life a little easier to swallow. We are both working at different times, he works from 4 till about 12:00 midnight serving tables and I work 10 to 6:00 during the day. So basically we get to see eachother at night, when we wake up and on Monday's we are both off. It seems to work out well though. I end up wanting too see him really bad and enjoy every second we do have together. So I guess the absence makes the heart fonder situation works out to my advantage . Today I also realized we only have 3 1/2 months to be at the 1 year mark. Damn time flies by quickly. Well that about sums up life ATM.
Till next time,
Angl