Busy Bee

I'm afraid that I've been too occupied to post a blog entry this week... I've been very strongly inspired to fashion new designs for my Etsy jewelry shop. (Setup still in progress... I'm waiting on a bust to be shipped from Hong Kong so that I can photograph my necklaces on it.) Just in the last 24 hours, I've made three new pairs of earrings to sell and taken almost a hundred pictures of my designs so that I can pick the very best ones to represent my works. I can't tell you how tedious it is to click through twenty-odd pictures of the same damn pair of earrings over and over trying to narrow it down to the best three or four.

Today is busy... I offered to bake brownies, muffins, and jam bars for the hubster to take in to work tomorrow rather than just letting him buy doughnuts from the local bakery. (Apparently it's his turn to take in the sweets this week.) I also have to make a large batch of strawberry jam tonight because I have a customer that requested it.

Tomorrow, I'll be making a big pot of vegetarian chili for my friends to enjoy with our baked potatoes during our weekly Art Night get-together. It's thick and full of kidney beans like Frisch's chili, but redolent of cocoa and cinnamon like Skyline's. My son and husband especially love it... I made chili cheese fries for dinner the other night and my son couldn't get enough! There's nothing quite like the satisfaction I feel when I see my son cramming the fruits of my kitchen labor into his sweet little face. :) Ahhh... heartwarming.

Anyway, I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm doing well this week. Therapy was challenging, as anticipated, but I came out feeling much better than when I went in. I guess I still have a lot of work to do on myself. I still don't know what to really expect when I've finished dealing with and accepting things. I mean, what will that feel like? I've been carrying all this so long, I barely even felt the burden of it anymore. What would I be like without it? It makes me question a lot of things... what makes a person who and what they are... the difference between both the "who" and the "what"... and just who and what the heck I am right now. Ah, well... it's not terribly unlike trying to attain a Zen state of mind, so I can't say that I don't enjoy the mental exercise.

Okay, have to go. Lots more to do!!! Later!