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What’s been going on

April 25, 2009 in Eddie, daily life, jewelry, mumble, pictures

Been doing a few things the past couple days, but just haven’t really felt lilke it was something that needed to be written about.  THERE I GO AGAIN. lol

I made myself a light box to use to take pictures of my jewelry as well as other little things.  Just followed a DIY thing I found online.   I used a cardboard box we had left over from moving, cut the sides out, lined with tissue paper and voila!  I do need to get a couple little lamps for the sides, because my one lamp just isn’t bright enough. I’ll post the pictures I take once I get the lamps.

I’ve also become VERY interested in chainmaille.  I’ve been doing a ton of research (and by “research” I mean looking at a ton of photos on Flickr), asking questions, etc.  I made an order of a TON of jumprings to get started with…they won’t be here for awhile because the place I ordered them from cut them to order and they’re in Canada.  So it’ll be a bit.  But I’m still excited.

Let’s see, what else…

Eddie and I discovered that our computers were running INSANELY hot, like almost 200° Fahrenheit.  EEK!  So we both took the sides off of our computers, but our video cards were still running pretty hot.  So we downloaded RivaTuner and got that set up to control the video card fans, and it seems to be helping.  We ordered some newer, more high powered fans for the cases.  Those should be here next week, so hopefully that’ll take care of the problem.

But other than that, just been beading, watching TV, watching my poker videos and having poker sessions with Eddie.

omg so frustrated.

April 22, 2009 in daily life, jewelry, mumble, only me, poker | 4 comments

I am so frustrated right now.  I’m TRYING to learn poker but it’s entirely too difficult.  There are 987987 different things to remember and well my brain just isn’t that smart.  I try to tell myself that YES YOU CAN DO THIS, but…just…AAAAAAUGGGGGHHHHHH.

I’m sure that all I need is practice and patience with myself, but patience with myself just isn’t something I’m good at.  I’m supposed to understand how to do everything IMMEDIATELY.  I’ve always been that way with myself and it sucks.  If I don’t get it immediately then I’m stupid.  I don’t know WHY I’m like that.  It’s not like my parents spoke to me that way or thought that or anything.  They both think I’m the smartest person in the world.

I’m also frustrated at the fact that I really have no creativity at all.  I can not come up with any cute idea or design on my own, I have to copy.  And it’s SO DAMN FRUSTRATING to see these gorgeous pieces of jewelry or wonderful graphics or wonderful photos or whatever and just know that I will never be able to come up with something like that.

I try to be positive.  I really, really do.  I always try to look on the bright side of things.  If Eddie has a horrible session, I try to be like “Well, you’ll get it back next time!” or “You can’t help it if other players are stupid.  You just have to play your game, hope for the best, and hope that variance is on your side.”

I’m quite positive when it comes to him.  But when it comes to me?  HELLO, DEBBIE DOWNER.

I know all about the power of positive thinking and that if you believe it yourself, it’ll happen, blah blah.  It’s just so freakin hard to think positive when I’ve been watching poker videos for almost 3 solid weeks and I’m still so damn lost I barely know what a continuation bet is.

And then I look on Etsy and see that THE ABSOLUTE UGLIEST BRACELET I’VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE sells like hotcakes and I can’t sell anything to save my life.

/end rant

Wants

April 12, 2009 in daily life, jewelry, mumble | 4 comments

I want to be a “cool kid” with a “cool blog”.  I want to be able to sell my jewelry to people other than my father’s clients.  I want to be able to sell on Etsy.  I want to have one of the “cool” streams of photos on Flickr.

Sensing a pattern with the COOLNESS?  I’m just NOT cool and I need to get over the fact that I want to be.  I’m going to be 29 in less than one month…you don’t just suddenly become one of the cool kids after 29 years of life.  I guess that the only thing I CAN do out of my list is perhaps sell my jewelry on Etsy.  But it seems like that’s hard as HELL unless you’re one of the cool kids with a cool blog or a cool photostream.

I’m so incredibly shy that it’s even hard for me to write blog posts on a blog that NO ONE READS.  I haven’t had a visitor on this site in like 4 months, but I’m still all worried that I’m not going to say the right thing or I’m not going to make sense or I’m going to ramble.  I need to realize that this is MY WEBSITE, not other people’s, and I can say whatever I want.  If I want to make a blog post that all it says is “YAY, TOAST.”, I can do so if I want.

So, this day forward, I’m going to do my damndest to write a blog post every day.  It’ll either be a post, or a photo or something.  I think the only way to get over myself is to MAKE myself do something I’m afraid of/worried about doing.

A new year

January 2, 2009 in Eddie, daily life, jewelry, mumble, pictures | 1 comment

Some stuff has happened since I posted last.  I’ll post them in sections.

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My grandma died.  Which sucked.  She died on December 4th (really December 3rd barely after midnight), and I immediately flew home to be with my family.  It was my dad’s mom.  She’d been in a nursing home for quite a while (almost 7 years), and lately her health had been deteriorating.  She had been getting better, though, so we thought she might pull out of it.  But, unfortunately, she didn’t.

She was beautiful.

my grandma

There’s a picture of me in a similar pose and my dad said he put it next to this photo and it was striking how much I looked like her.  To be honest, I never really saw it, other than her eyes.  I definitely got her eyes.  But my dad’s a spitting image of her, and I’m a spitting image of him.  So, obviously, I look like her.  Which is just fine by me.

I called her Ma-Hon.  Everyone (including the woman that did the funeral service) always looks at me and says “Excuse me?” lol

When I was just beginning to talk, one day I was sitting in the dining room and began calling for my father.  He was sitting in the living room, and decided to ignore me to see what I would do.  I went from calling out “Daddy…” to “Honey…”, which was what my mom called him.  Then, being my goober of a father, decided to continue to sit there and see what I would say next.  After getting zero attention with either “Daddy” or “Honey”, I began calling out “Daddy-Honey…”.  After that, I went through a spell where I called EVERYONE “…-Honey”.  Mommy-Honey, Daddy-Honey, Grandma-Honey, Grandpa-Honey.  Eventually, Grandma-Honey and Grandpa-Honey were shortened to Ma-Hon and Pa-Hon.  Pa-Hon died when I was about 3, so I don’t remember him, but I do know that my Ma-Hon loved that I made up a name just for her.

I miss you, my Ma-Hon.

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My dad was able to sell ALL of the bracelets that I have made.  His customers buy them like crazy.  Especially around Christmas, but even before Christmas he was able to sell them.  I’m getting absolutely ZERO love from Etsy or eBay, so I’m just making bracelets and sending them to Daddy to sell.  So that’s really cool…I’m enjoying making them, and enjoying making a little money on the side from them as well.

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My parents came out here to Vegas to spend Christmas with me and Eddie.  Those people are crazy slot machine playing fools!  They barely did anything but play slots at Green Valley Ranch (the casino nearest to our house).  The loons.  lol  But the time we DID get to spend with them, we had a good time.

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Eddie has set a major goal for himself this year…100,000 hands a month, every month.  He’s decided to really buckle down and try to get a ton of hands in.  We’re on day 2 of it so far, and he’s doing really well.

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Happy new year, all.  2008 was pretty awesome, but here’s to an even better 2009!!

Bah.

October 25, 2008 in daily life, jewelry, mumble | 1 comment

Okay, so eBay didn’t work.  No one even bid on the bracelet.

People are looking at the stuff on my Etsy store, but I still haven’t made a sale.  So the next plan is to make up a few bracelets and ship them off to my father to try to sell.

He does hair, and we’re planning on him putting them in his retail cabinet at his station.  He’s got a lot of customers that he’s done pretty much since I’ve been alive, and they’re always asking him how I’m doing.  He’s been telling them that I make jewelry now and they’re wanting to see it. I sent him some cards to put on his station, that have my Etsy store address on it, but we’re going to try this as well.

We’ll see how this goes…

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