My thanks for all the good wishes after the previous post. I'm doing fine today!

I decided to go ahead and make that phone call I mentioned yesterday, so I headed over to Chris and Bradley's this afternoon, knowing they had a spare phone line. Call was a waste of time (turns out it has to be handled by e-mail), but I'll save that rant for another day ( Read more... )

Pictures and commentary on a Pac-Man Quilt

This came via my Twitter stream today. I thought at least one person on my FL would like to see it.

If you had told me five years ago that I would be carless and unable to make enough money in any given month to cover my rent and other bills, I wouldn't have believed you. Then a little under four-and-a-half years ago the car died, and a few months later so did my job. Things, which were already tight, went to impossible for a while, then got ( Read more... )

This has been an odd Thanksgiving for me. I realized a week or so ago that it's been ten years since I've spent this holiday with my family. And even though I'm not really sorry to miss some parts of it (the drama), I do miss the people. ( More... )

I had a birthday on Sunday. My thanks again to those who sent greetings ( Read more... )

Late Wednesday evening, when I was thinking I wanted to write something about my mother on what would have been her 98th birthday, my computer's power supply decided it wanted to create some excitement of the "let's short out!" variety ( Read more... )

Things are exponentially better than they were last night. Money came in early this morning, and I took myself to the rental office as soon as they opened.

I have some breathing room, and I'm infinitely grateful to all who have helped, however that help has come.

This is a summation of how it is I got to where I am today. It's behind a cut since it covers material some of you already know, and it's a bit long. ( Read on... )

I've finally managed to post pictures of the first nine pieces of costume jewelry for sale, and written an entry with brief descriptions of them. Instead of cross-posting this one, I'm going to share the link. If you're interested, please go look!