It Keeps Me Off the Streets!

I haven’t updated in about ten days. I’ve been busy! Not only have we had a heavy schedule at work, I’ve been busy at home, too. I will be participating in a charity art show on January 31 for one of the largest private schools in the area. Many of the city’s most highly-regarded artists will be showing there…and me. I’m the only jewelry designer. I feel more than a little bit out of place, but one of the organizers is a friend and customer – and she just insisted I should participate. Aside from trying to help me move some jewelry, she feels some people will want to help the school – but will not be able to spring for a $2,500 painting. So, I’m the low-budget option. My pieces are priced from $75 to $150. She really had to twist my arm before I agreed to do this, but now that it’s becoming a reality, I’m getting kind of excited.

I’m showing several of my older pieces that haven’t sold in the last few months. I’ve also made several brand new ones just for this event. I thought you might like to see what I’ve been up to. I hope it all sells…I could use the cash flow! But, if not, they’ll show up on my Etsy page in a couple of weeks. Stay tuned! I hope I have good news soon!

Keep your fingers crossed for me, will ya?

Catfight!

I couldn’t believe it this morning. I came back into the office after a brief absence of maybe five minutes or so and found my two assistants in the middle of a major…well, there’s no other word for it..catfight!

I was stunned! To say the least. Snot and tears were flying in all directions. I expected tufts of hair to come next.

When I tried to get to the bottom of it, it was as if each party had taken part in a totally different scenario. In fact, one loudly accused the other of “making up stories” about what had transpired. I couldn’t make heads or tails of what happened – and still haven’t sorted it out. I didn’t feel as if I could say much of anything, since I had no idea who threw the first punch, so to speak. I just let them go at it for a while, hoping they would work it out before I had to send the two of them into the alley! They eventually quietened down as calls came in, but it was the most bizarre few minutes I have ever experienced on the job!

These are grown women. One is nearly 60. The other is in her forties. One is quiet and – I thought – somewhat mousey. The other is clearly more fiery but is a doctor’s wife – well-known and well-liked in the community. What do you do when grownups act like children? I’m afraid I was so stunned I didn’t do much of anything productive. They spent the day in a huff, barely speaking to each other or me…and occasionally dissolving into tears.

Is there a full moon?

Gremlins!

I do NOT understand what motivates people to deliberately mess up other people’s lives/stuff. Yesterday I was hit by a computer virus. I’m going to use the term generically, because I’m not sure if it’s a virus or Trojan horse or worm or whatever. All I know for sure is that my computer is fried! I’m doing this from my office computer. SIGH….

I am not sure how the malicious little devil got in, because I do take precautions. But, just before the thing stopped working entirely, I noticed that an icon for gay porn had been added to my desktop. WhatEVER possesses people to do these things? It is beyond my understanding.

I’ve spent most of the day researching cleaning strategies, checking my bank account and credit cards, changing passwords and wringing my hands in general. I’m going to try to save my photos and other un-backed-up stuff via a flash drive. I’m better than the average bear when it comes to back-ups, but I haven’t done it in six months or more. So, I may lose a bunch of good stuff.

And then there are all those emails!!!! I could just cry.

Oh well…crying won’t get me back online. Learn from my mistakes. Get in there and back up that data!