Random List of Things That Bother Me

Pictures of jewelry using flash.

Wire poking a hole in my thumb.

Wire poking a hole in my foot when I step out of bed.

The way my cat has to lay directly on top of whatever it is I'm reading at the moment.

The inability of a kitchen to stay clean for more than 10 minutes no matter how much time and attention devoted to scrubbing and cleaning it.

The idea that the conservation of information my not hold true. Damn you Stephan Hawking!

The price of turquoise.

Chewie doesn't get a medal. WTF Leia? I call racism.




Totally unrelated to my random list-- I have learned it is bad form to mention Katy Perry's Hershey Kiss Tits without some sort of visual marker. So here:

Almost forgot: Look at my Etsy shop! LOOK AT IT!!!

The last 5 places I hobby shopped.

I’m not a normal girl. I don’t like shopping. Not for clothes, not for shoes, not for sales. I don’t want to hang around a store for forever touching things, talking about the things I may or may not buy. All that looking and touching and blah-blah-blahing and spending five hours at the Roosevelt Field Mall dashing hither and yon without buying a damn thing-ing is not for me.

Except when it’s on line. I can on line shop for hours and hours, especially if it's for jewelry stuff. Gemstones are dazzling, metal melts my heart and finding findings fulfills me. So here, in case any one was wondering, are the last five places I shopped on line for jewelry supplies.



Mountain Fire Gems
The go-to, fall-back, first stop and re-visit just in case place.


Wire-Sculpture
A great place to get that hard to find wire your kids have been begging for this Christmas.


Rings 'n Things
Come here to get rings. . . and things.


Buddist Mala
I was fulfilling a request for a Mala bracelet. Finding guru beads isn't easy.



Fusion Beads
Think of a finding you want then go to Fusion Beads. If they don't have it, find a way to fabricate it yourself.


Lastly, a shout out to the meatworld fleshy store Ace Handicraft located here in lovely West Hempstead, Long Island (West Hempstead's motto: far enough away from Hempstead to avoid their cooties). Don't you dare say anything about their website as I'm sure it was handi-crafted by one of the lovely and talented staff.




If you'd like to see what I do with the crap I buy, come visit my Etsy shop.

5 Things To Do After You Get Fired

Exactly one week ago today, I was fired from a job I held for almost 12 years. Even now I'm not quite clear on why I was fired. It had something to do with my fat, arthritic, old, diabetic, anemic, sciatica-wracked self being potentially violent.At least that's the story my former boss will tell the Department of Labor. In reality it was a case of: don't make an enemy of your HR Lady.

All this unemployment I've experienced this past week has filled me with insight. It has shown me that there are five things that you MUST do after you get fired. Well, maybe MUST all capitalized like that is a bit much. Five things you must do. . . Nope, must is too pushy a word even uncapitalized. How 'bout: Five things you should do after you get fired. Yeah, no-- you shouldn't do these things at all, unless you really want to. It is list of five things I did after I got fired-- only not so much. I've only gotten to three of them. Aw hell, this is a list. A random list I pulled from the list making gland I have located between my gluteus and maximus:


1. Have ex-co-workers buy you lots and lots of beer.

2. Clean your house.


3. Make jewelry.

4. See if you can finagle a bit more sympathy and have ex-co-workers buy you more beer.

5. Start a blog.


Right now I am hard at work trying to make 2 and 4 happen. House and ex-co-workers have a tendency to stay dirty and not want to support your beer habit indefinitely.

On the jewelry front I do have this:

It is lovingly described by my son as 'slug-like'.

If you have a fervent wish to keep me in beer or would like to see other jewelry I've made, you can head on over to my Etsy shop.

There! Now I'm down with all the cool kids. I got an Etsy AND a blog.