A touch of glamour

I know I haven't been around much. Work has been crazy to say the least. There are two of us trying to wrangle doing the work of three/four people. We already know we lost the one position and I'm bidding on the other because it would be a promotion. And both contractors are just having a ball filling up our calenders with meetings. (Gah, so many meetings). Usually when I come home, I am so brain dead. I'm sort of irritated over not having written much of anything or even reading. I really need to fix that, even if it is half an hour before I go to sleep.

On top of that, I haven't done much jewelry making either. I need to get working on some things. I've mostly been doing custom requests.

If anyone wants to take a look, it's currently up on Facebook, Bead Foundry. I'm working on getting stuff up in an Etsy shop as well. Small stuff but I'm hoping to have more up soon, depending on my time constraints.

Writers: Does anyone use Duotrope to search for open calls? I know they have gone to a subscription service of like 5 bucks a month. I've been tossing it around for a while on if I should join it.

Mother's day was nice. Went out to eat at a local diner that has banging food, went to a place that opened up that is frozen yogurt that is pretty damned yummy and got stuff to start the garden for this year.

This year has not been working out much. Had to get a new car because my Saturn was just taking too much to keep inspected, Cyrano crossing the Rainbow Bridge, the freezer dying and having to get a new (used) one and the motherboard on my laptop slowly dying. *sigh* That's the new one. There is the choice of spending the money on having the motherboard replaced or buying a new laptop. The new laptop really isn't much of an option and considering that Microsoft now came out and said that Windows 8 is pretty much a failure, I really don't want to get one. So it's pony up the 300 and get mine fixed.

It might be helpful to write more if I had someone to do it with but those I have on any sort of messenger usually aren't on at the same time. At least then it is the whole accountability thing.

Anyway, enough whining from me. It's time for another fun filled day at work tomorrow.

I think my horse is conversing with my car to drive me out of my mind. This past February was when Fantasy had an abscess so I had to go up every night for a month and a half to clear it out. Now my car decided that it's time to make me think again that things were evening out. My AC stopped working Friday. since I had scheduled to have the oil changed, I thought it might be a simple recharge.

Of course not.

the compressor isn't kicking on. So, it has to be replaced or else I can go without AC. This past weekend, because of the heatwave we were having, I had such a migraine that I need the AC for some relief when I'm driving longer distances. Plus I hate peeling the shirt from my back because I'm sweating. A new one, to get the warranty, I'd have to buy other associated costs and that would come out to about a thousand. I don't have a thousand dollars to throw on a ten year old car. The used is four hundred with a year warranty. *sigh* Not like I have much choice. So I'm using a good chunk of money that I had saved up to go to Assateague with this September. And at this time, I don't have the money to take on a car payment again. I want this car to last me a while.

Guess it's a good thing that I started helping at the Auction again because the extra money will help so that I'll have SOME spending money. Not as much as I wanted to take, unfortunately.

The past two years have been sucking, financial wise. I just want a break. JUST ONE. Hell, I'd be happy to win the lotto for only a couple grand. But the stupid Powerball will only get within 1 of the numbers I picked. -_- Curses. Or I'll have two numbers at most, which pays nothing if I don't have the Powerball.