Havi, I’m glad you manged baking AND a salad! The healing is going well, and you have all kinds of support, and that is good. Also, favorite uncles are the best! :)

Last week for me:
-the hard/bad: Didn’t have use of the car, so I lost 3 hours per day in commute time (bus always takes much, much longer.) That means I did not get any studio time in at all until yesterday.

-the good: The time on the bus allowed me to relax and to catch up on some magazines. I don’t subscribe–I have tons of back issues that I’m actually reading. Most of it’s not stuff that’s out of date, but is actually timeless or just fun.
-had a massive flow of ideas for new works. Paintings.
-decided to start researching getting my paintings scanned, so that I can offer prints. I’m not ready to sell my originals.
-yesterday, had a meeting with other local crafters and made some new connections. It was wonderful, and I may get a commission out of it.
-got all of my jewelry moved into my Etsy shop, which proved to be a very smart move! (Wasn’t getting any traffic at all where it was before, even when I promoted.)

Have a great week, Havi!
Jen M.
JenniferLynn Productions

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I love reading all about everyone’s week. Our little ritual thing-ey totally cheers me up. Every single time.

@Char – ohmygosh, no hard this week! I am amazed. You have really been plowing through some big changes. You deserve a week of good stuff already, so that’s wonderful.

@Marie – meeting you was one of the highlights of my trip! We had way too much to talk about aside from poor me poor me, so no worries there.

@Andi – Bruiser! He sounds absolutely adorable.

@Lori – did you steal my week? Because I think I had that one too. Almost exactly. Wow.

@Anna-Liza – hooray for not stuck, and for changes and for Shiva Nata! Love it.

@carma – oh, you poor dear. Sorry that you’re carpal tunnel-ey. I don’t know what to recommend because there are so many different things I’ve tried, but the main helpful ones (for me, specifically) have been (aside from NOT USING YOUR ARMS):
– Ru Graveolens from hippie pharmacy
– hot tub
– myofascial release
– acupuncture
– enzymetica repair pills
– baths with epsom salts

Sigh. And Stu.

@everyone else – can’t write/dictate any more. You guys rock. I adore you all madly. Thanks for sharing your week with me and for putting up with me when I share mine.

Good:
600 tulips poking their tulip noses above the soil.
Some work stuff doing much the same, things I planted a long time ago coming to fruition. Makes me feel really very very good.
Feeling all swoony with the love for my blogging pals.

Hard:
For various reasons, my child was home from school for 4 days this week. This is not a recipe for me getting a whole lot done. He was actually a champ about it, but he is also, let’s face it, 3. Even when he is a champ, he can wear a person right the hell out.

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Thank you for saying nice things about our work together. Makes me blush and smile all at the same time. :-)

I so get the whole tired of not being able to do things. And then, when that shifts, there’s a different kind of strangeness that takes some getting used to.

My good this week:

First, I saw my surgeon yesterday, and am now walking with just a cane! And I drove today for the first time in seven weeks. So hooray for mobility!

And then today I had another amazing session with you, and you helped me get my two most difficult web pages written and posted! All this in just two weeks–after months of eye rolling, hand wringing, teeth grinding and just plain lying down in the face of the Great Blank Page.

Thank you, Havi!

xoxo Hiro

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AND the best of all is there was NO hard this week for me – it all easily morphed into good! Wow – it’s amazing being me.

But this has been a good week, I’ve had some fun, and looks like you did too so, yea!

I kind of hate reading about other people’s troubles but so glad that you let us all vent.

I know what it’s like to not be able to do. Maybe next week, a whole salad for you! And helpful snacks. (That wacky STU.)

This week was weird as I had a daughter home for spring break, a son on spring break, and decided to take a week off from everything and give myself a break. Which has been very very nice.

Today we went to Parkersburg and met with my friend Anna who treated us to delicious Lebanese cuisine, and then we saw our show again before heading to the yarn shop to pick up some yarn. And I realized while talking with her about crocheting small animals that I do have more knowledge to share, which made me very happy.

It also rained, which ended our “Extremely High” fire danger in the area, and which made more of the trees and flowers pop. I just love the yellow green of the willow trees this time of year.

And what appeared to be bad (my daughter was told she needed to replace her head gasket) turned out to be something good because our mechanic said that if it hadn’t been caught so early she would’ve probably ended up having to replace the whole engine.

And my mom and dad got a new puppy, a Boxer/Chihuahua mix who they’ve named Bruiser. He sounds really cute and I am very happy my dad has someone to keep him company while my mom’s at work :)

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This week, for me, the hard:

- I’m fighting some kind of bug. I’m tensing against it, which is only giving me a headache and making me tired. And my 2.5-hour nap today did nothing but make me groggier and more headachy.

- I’m facing up to how much filing and organizing I haven’t done over the past year (three big boxes of random crap worth), and have to get it all sorted before I can begin doing taxes. And I seem to be missing March-April and can’t figure out where I might have stashed it.

The good:

- I got two projects off my desk on Wednesday and am ahead on another.

- The daffodils are getting ready to bloom, and the little woodpeckers are out in full force in our trees.

- I love my new haircut.

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The bad: Still no work for husband, but he’s doing amazing things with finding opportunities. It’s the waiting to see what comes of it that’s hard.
Someone stole my 5-year-old’s trike last weekend. Hard to believe a person would do that, isn’t it?

The hard: Still haven’t gotten yarn for a large project with a hard deadline. Getting a little panicky about this one, but I still have work to do on the pattern, so I have at least one area where I can keep moving forward.

The good: I got my Dance of Shiva DVD on Wednesday! And I got to get started on it yesterday! *Such* coolness. I have to say, I’m seriously curious about the esoteric stuff Andrey says he’s not going to talk about in the theory section. One immediate benefit–my neck, shoulders, and upper back are feeling more relaxed. This is wonderful, since I spend about eight hours a day in front of a computer or on the phone (or both).
An acquaintance who heard about the tricycle theft has one she is going to give Mr. B, as her son is about to go up a step in cycles.
I am feeling really blissful about all the healing and growth that seems to be happening for me, instead of letting myself get stuck in all the stuff that’s been happening to trigger it. Yay not stuck!
Havi, you mentioned me on Twitter and suddenly I have followers! That has made things so fun! Thanks!

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