OMG! It's 8:30 pm and 81 degrees! This is Seattle, people! Where are my 70's???

I'd rather be sleeping...

Spent most of the weekend playing WoW, but I did manage to finish Mom's afghan. Also saw Transformers2 at drive-in. AWESOME!

Ideas

I have an idea for a writing project. I've been told many times that I should write and have had a few very short stories published for a small gaming company. I also have been told that I should write a book about some of the stories I tell. So, I think I might just create a book of autobiographical short stories. We'll see what happens. May lead no where. LOL

I still have been having some episodes of anxiety, but it's really to be expected and I'm so much better since I learned not to stress about stressing out. ;) I go in to the doctor's tomorrow for a cortisone shot in my knee. I'm not looking forward to that at all! Getting up early to make it into work by 6:00 am so that I can leave early enough to make the doctor visit. My stress test is the 9th of July.

It's been interesting how many people have been contacting me since my first visit to the cardiologist. I talked to my mother to let her know what was going on and how scared I have been. She offered to come up from California. I told her that I'd be okay, and I'd let her know if things got worse and I needed her. Then my best friend (who is like a sister) and her husband have been checking up on me. Oh, and one of my brothers called me last night and talked to me for over an hour to see how I was and swap medical stories with me. My husband even comes to check up on me from time to time. At least I know I'm loved and cared for. It's really sweet. Even friends I haven't seen in over 20 years have shown concern.

I have so many pictures to go through and clean up to put up on my Etsy site. I've also really been thinking about upgrading my Artfire account. Perhaps keeping Etsy strictly for crochet and Artfire for photography? I also have an account with RedBubble. RedBubble doesn't seem to have the hits that Artfire and Etsy do. Upgrading the Artfire account will cost $12/month - which is more than I pay for my personal website. However, Artfire has the marketing tools. I'll just have to think about it a bit more - and have a little "disposable" money.

The crocheting has kind of slowed down due to my need to finish up personal projects. The baby blanket for my boss' new daughter was finished earlier this week and given to him yesterday. I'm very close to finishing the afghan for my mother - which is a good thing since she's visiting us towards the end of July. I no longer have anything up on eBay. They were getting too confusing and constantly changing something in their policies. eBay may have the people on it, but it's not worth it if we're not making the sales and spending an arm and a leg in fees.

Well, I had best get to bed. It's almost 10:30 and I have to be up by 5:00. Ugh.

Don't stress the stress...

This is my new mantra. A friend of mine at work said it to me and the sentiment was later repeated by my mother. I've been worried about my health issues and how stressing out about them will just increase the problem. In a nutshell, I've been stressing about stressing. As I talked to my friend about this, he told me the following (and this is as verbatum as my poor memory will allow): "You're going to stress about this. Don't stress the stress. Allow yourself to go through it. Feel it and let it run its course." A very wise man, my friend.

Don't stress the stress.

Health - the ever growing saga

So, saw my doctor again yesterday to get my knee x-rayed. Turns out that there doesn't appear to be any tearing in my tendons. However, there does appear to be some arthritis in the knee. Joy. Now he wants to inject Cortizon into it and possibly drain fluid (if necessary). Um...do you know of my needle phobia??? *groans* So, I'm to go back later to get the shot. Didn't do it yesterday because I had a later appointment with the cardiologist and we thought I might be on a treadmill, which would defeat the shot. Goodie.

Oh...Cardiologist. There's another good time had by all. It appears that my episode a month ago was possibly a heart attack. Joy oh joy! So...try not to stress about that, but worry enough to do something about it. And the appointment was only an office visit! I get to go back on the 9th for the actual Echo/Stress test.

Can I just crawl into a hole and hibernate now?

New ideas

I have always loved candles and soaps. What girl doesn't? I bought some soap samples off of a friend on Etsy and love them. Then my husband asks me if I would like to learn how to make soap myself.

ACK!

Just what I need. I think I would enjoy learning how to make soap and/or candles...but do I really need another hobby that I hope will make money? Plus the start-up expenses! I don't know what to do or think about this. Perhaps I'll just research (which I'm very good at) and learn what's involved before completely making up my mind.