Whoops

I've been remiss/amiss! It's hard to know beforehand which days I'll be feeling like a lump of condensed sleeping powder and thereby incapable of doing anything other than nap the hours away ^_^;

And in between the downtime I've been working on producing some more necklaces/etc. Since it so happens that there's a sketchbook in my possession I've even tried my hand at sketching out ideas before flinging around the actual beads. So far only one's come out exactly like the original idea xD The others either evolved or inspired me to something entirely different.

It's a bummer when an idea of mine can't make the transition from paper to bead but I think of it as a learning process instead of getting depressed about it. And something will always come out of it in the end. Sometimes it'll be better >.>

I'm really enjoying having a [continuing] hobby for the first time in my life, in case you hadn't noticed already :P

Now there's just the task of obliging with the wishes of my elder sisters on pimping them for sale, lol. Elder sister Angela has been spreading the word about me to her friends and insists that I send her some pictures since she is thinking of starting a web shop where she and a friend of hers will sell t-shirts with their unique design prints. Eldest sister Eleine is bordering on demanding that I start my own business ^_^;;;

The idea of starting an actual business feels a bit far fetched to my small brain, not to mention it'd need careful consideration + investigation, but it'd be cool to test the field with what I've done so far to see if there's even a market for my designs. That is, if Angela does get around to give me the "all systems go!" on that web shop of hers, heh.

For the moment it's just a matter of keeping my momentum and beading away :D

Oh, one more thing. The following is a recent conversation between my dad and I while we were driving home from the store:

Dad: So, how much would you say you've spent on beading material?
Me: Well, I'm sure I could make an estimate *pauses* Do you want to know how much I've set aside in my savings account, though?
Dad: Sure.
Me: Roughly $2,350 ^_____^
Dad: ............ O___________O!!!!

High five, anyone? :D

Time to go a-beadin! :D

Guess what happened the day after my last work day? I got seeeeeeeck (sick)!!!! But despite a sore throat and feeling sick to my stomach, off to the unemployment office my legs took me on the Monday to sign myself in. Because if you don't do it on the first unemployed business day ... you get squat. Which isn't good.

The following couple of days were then spent feeling like someone had punched/kicked me repeatedly in the face, put me on a merry-go-round an entire day and then stuffed candy floss up my nose. So yeah, wasn't feeling good. It eased up a day ago but now my throat's being iffy again O.o;

Beyond sickness, which had me in bed most of the time, I've been sensory-overloading on beads. Along with the last purchase of beads I ordered 4 magazines. During my very first flip through one of them I had to do just that. Flip through. Fast. So much goodness blasted my eyes on every micro inch of every page!

Once it was possible for me to more thoroughly read I alternated between being fascinated over the content and mentally noting all the different websites in their ads >.> Then, of course, I dove head first into checking them all out, haha.

Some were for wholesale only (bummer!), others were ... sloppily (to put it nicely) constructed, and a handful were only dedicated to Swarowski crystals. But even after weeding those out there were still a plethora of excursions to embark on *_*

(I didn't even begin to tackle the text lists on the last pages of the magazine. Only the image ads scattered throughout o.O)

Hm ... nothing else comes to mind so ... time to wash my hair!! Maybe it'll wash away the feeling of imminent sickness, too :o

Love you all :3

ice-cream, mmmmm

so, i'm sitting here, eating ice-cream and wondering how to convert flac files to mp3/whatever to enable me to listen to the clannad music i downloaded recently. my brain is tired from work, and i work again tomorrow (10am-7pm), therefore i do not google/wiki it myself now.

anyone wanna guide/help me? :3

mmmmm, ice-cream :)~

You're fired/the weakest link, goodbye!

Well, since I wasn't hired in the first place it's not technically correct but it conveys the gist of my situation ^_^;

They're gonna do some "structural changes to the staff" so there apparently won't be much need for me after the 15th *shrug*

Time to do the "What to do with Mimmi?" spiel again D:

PS: Boy, am I ever glad I was insightful enough to set aside a good chunk of money from my paychecks for 'rainy days'. I think I see some clouds in the distance :o

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Shin, watch Toradora! 16 NAOW! Be broken into a million tiny watery pieces together with me ;______;

(Uhm, I guess I could try to do a proper post. We'll see if it happens by the end of the day :p)