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3
May

Such a Deviant

   Posted by: Rachel Ross Tags: , , , ,

Two reasons why I have not blogged lately, one of which is a decent excuse.
First, I have not blogged lately because when I had that swell idea to write an Artisan story to go along with jewelry, well, writing is HARD WORK.

Second, I had a deviated septum (that’s the bone in your nose) and had surgery for it about a week-and-a-couple-of-days-ago. It was “pretty miserable” (but no one wants to hear how gross nose surgery is so I won’t go into details. Suffice to say I survived it, and if you also need this fairly routine surgery, you also will survive it.) but now I am doing better and should continue to see improvement over the next several weeks. Someone told me she would rather give birth to twins than have that packing in her nose. I don’t think it was THAT bad, but it did make me feel so sure that I was unable to breathe, that I went to the ER – where they explained to me that no, I was breathing fine, and I was in fact hyperventilating.

Thirdly – bonus reason – I have been trying to clean out and “destash” a lot of craft supplies (and even, gasp, books) that I will likely never use (check it out – some are up for grabs at http://glimmerville.etsy.com).

I will post more art/craft/jewelry, but I don’t guarantee a story like I wish I could. It still seems like it would be a good writing exercise for me, but it is kind of onerous to say “post an actual story with each piece of art, or else” - I’ll do what I can.

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19
Feb

Where was I? ER…

   Posted by: Rachel Ross Tags: , , , ,

For all of January I was very good about posting in here about three times a week. This has fallen apart in February. That’s why I don’t think I would ever be able to do a consistent podcast – I am poor with this, let alone something that requires so much editing.

Anyway I hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day, and a wonderful Monster Day (Feb. 16, a day where you buy up leftover Valentine’s candy, and get friends over to watch crummy B-grade Monster movies, and draw monsters if you are of the artistic bent.) Not my idea (though I would take credit). I heard of this at Ninjahinjinx ( http://ninjahijinx.livejournal.com/ )

I did NOT have a wonderful Valentine’s day. My dad went into the hospital last Friday, and came home Sunday afternoon. Friday evening all the youth of the church (and the youth leaders) gave a “Parents’ Night Out” – where we took all the kids in the church from 0 to 6th grade, and took care of them from 5:30 until 9:00 pm, giving the parents a nice evening off.

So in the hospital I hung out with my folks, drank free coffee, and watched Notting Hill and several episodes of Man vs. Wild. Then Tuesday I went to the International House of Johnson for Game Night, where we developed our Spirit of the Century characters (this is going to be so fun!). I wasn’t feeling very good, and mostly attributed it to heartburn, but in the night I felt worse even after some medication. So Wednesday I went to the ER myself. They gave me some Ativan so I slept the rest of the day. (The guy who hooked up my monitor looked something like Cmaaarrr.)

They discovered that my veins are incredibly hard to find. This was the worst part of the whole ordeal.

Today I’m back at work as usual.

Well, actually there was a horrible slick of ice across the highway (I should have noticed the pile of cars on either side of the road and people waving their arms frantically at me) that nearly gave me a heart attack (but I have Blizzak snow tires, and they are the best), so it took an extra hour to get here.

Still… fairly usual.

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