but I am so heartsick of getting stiffed by local employers that I just want to lay down and cry. I ask for prayers and good thoughts that the check I am owed for over a month's work will come in as the nightmare company has promised. I am tired of "lost checks" and nightmare clients. I am so sick of this that I just want to throw up. I need to ( Read more... )

My status posted on FaceBook:Felt genuinely weary for the first time in a long time today. Seriously, people, if you're got itchy hands, or clumsy hands, or just want to push past while making my handmade merchandise fall off the sales table or fall apart, at the very least COME BACK AND SAY SORRY, not just run off while it's very obvious you SAW ( Read more... )

And it's only Thursday morning ( Read more... )

Writing with a headache and annoying bloat. Things have been happening non-stop. Mostly a laundry list for this past week:

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This kid's been having her first ever experience of a school holiday this past week, but it's been a wash--flu hit her badly starting Sunday night. Ironically, the angel cards I'd drawn earlier that same day (before I knew her father and the kid were sick) were: RAPHAEL (angel of healing) and SHIELD YOURSELF. I did, but succumbed to the bug (kinda ( Read more... )

My definition: When everything goes right, even the unexpected stuff, where it's all just taken on board and everything goes better than one hoped. It's been nice having these of late, and more and more often, but even yesterday was surprising in my experience: I led a customised tour which included a river cruise (a first for me!) and a mid-tour ( Read more... )

There was lots of good prompts this month, but for me--not enough time nor energy. (I had a heavier-than-usual workload of evening tours this week. While I enjoyed doing the tours--especially last night's, which was like a night out with a girlfriend!--the mornings after always feel like hell, not helped by the toddler waking me up several times ( Read more... )

We interrupt this broadcast (the multi-parter, heh) to make a quick entry that's part book review, part epiphany.

First, Extrinsic vs Intrinsic Values (Or, The Affluenzas) was my entry last year on reading two books about consumer culture. Now, I'm near the end of a parenting book (oh, hold your groans for a sec) that's making me think about ( Read more... )

And I've just sent a bitchy reply to yet another one of my tour company's emails asking me to do tours during my third trimester.

How the fuck do these people sleep at night?

...Passed uneventfully for me, aside from completing my first painting in a long time that was larger than 3.5 inches on a side.

( Click to view work-in-progress shot and completed pic )