you know what fucking sucks?

that mood where you can think of like eight billion things you could be doing, and most of them you should be doing or do at some point, but…

you just…

don’t

aren’t

nothing is interesting

cannot make decision

*refreshes tumblr again*

Touchpad update, aka ‘y’all changed my life and i love you’

Because I am still just kinda overwhelmed by gratitude every now and then.

Because since getting the touchpad - what, a week ago?  two? - my pain and stiffness levels in my right hand have decreased significantly.  Typing will still fuck my shit up and I have to be careful about that, and while it isn’t always necessary (or at least doesn’t feel necessary) I do tend to take breaks while maille’ing to slap an ice pack on for five minutes and run through the various stretches and stuff the physical therapist showed me…but just scrolling through tumblr doesn’t hurt anymore.  I use it left-handed at least half the time, maybe more, and am always picking it up and moving it where I want it (so so so glad I asked for enough to cover the wireless one, I would be so sick of rearranging cords by now).  I’ve adapted half a dozen different “styles” of using it, different hand placement, which fingers and which hand, etc. and I switch as needed to be comfortable at any given moment.  

Having this touchpad has done everything I’d hoped it would.  My RSI isn’t *gone*, obvs, but it’s worlds better than it was.

So I wanted to say thank you.  Again.  A lot.  For making this possible. <3

It has been a productive day.  I have:

  • made the big green cabochon into a pendant and strung it on a new chain to wear while out and about today
  • finished the small cabochon - the border strip was about half-done from yesterday, but I finished that, closed the loop (pain in the ASS), got the cab seated in it, epoxy’d the back, then made the ring strip and attached that to finish it as a finger ring
  • made both a Captive Crystals and an HP4 bracelet for a custom order that finalized today, so they can ship out tomorrow
  • also there was a bunch of stuff with errands and being stuck in traffic and the upshot of it is I missed my physical therapy appointment but got a Juicy Tube Lancome lipgloss and a mini-quad in shades of gold and bronze so it wasn’t a total loss.  

Now, gonna throw some ice on my hand, stretch it out so it’s not feeling stiff or sore anymore, and go the hell to bed.  

Also this got here today. I&#8217;m still getting used to it a bit (had a few fun moments moving stuff around where I&#8217;d go to mouse and be like &#8220;&#8230;why is the mouse going sideways I&#8217;m not moving my fingers that direction&#8221; then realize I&#8217;d accidentally turned the pad sideways) but so far it has been exactly what I hoped it&#8217;d be. Thanks, loves. *completely optional hugs for everybody*
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Also this got here today. I’m still getting used to it a bit (had a few fun moments moving stuff around where I’d go to mouse and be like “…why is the mouse going sideways I’m not moving my fingers that direction” then realize I’d accidentally turned the pad sideways) but so far it has been exactly what I hoped it’d be.

Thanks, loves. *completely optional hugs for everybody*

Commissioned by my aunt, for my grandmother&#8217;s birthday. Will get a proper &#8220;product photo&#8221; pic tomorrow. Cannot be arsed today. Someone tell me to set my shit aside and rest my damn hand for at least half an hour before I start experimenting with cabochon wrapping. I have a bag of silver, charcoal, cobalt, aqua, and green cat&#8217;s-eye glass cabs to play with and I&#8217;m in the mood to create for like the first time in three weeks&#8230;
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Commissioned by my aunt, for my grandmother’s birthday. Will get a proper “product photo” pic tomorrow. Cannot be arsed today.

Someone tell me to set my shit aside and rest my damn hand for at least half an hour before I start experimenting with cabochon wrapping. I have a bag of silver, charcoal, cobalt, aqua, and green cat’s-eye glass cabs to play with and I’m in the mood to create for like the first time in three weeks…

Out of curiosity, anyone wanna buy me a $56 wireless touchpad to replace my mouse?  

Didn’t think so, but hey, worth asking, right? ;-)

Cleaned up three of the four existing listings.  Added five more.  Have photos of eight more items to go up tomorrow.  Completely forgot that I had an IFTTT script set up to auto-post links from my shop to tumblr.  Sorry not sorry y’all.  Main shop link is here.  I’m super proud of these listing photos tbh.  Lightyears better than what I had before.

Hand hurts.  Back hurts.  Tired.  Time to watch attractive people and then sleep.  And if my brain cooperates, maybe watch attractive people some more while I sleep.  

G’night kittens.

Went on a bit of a photography binge. I’m not doing the craft fair - short version, I got hit with some nasty depression over the last 3 weeks or so and basically stopped doing everything except watching Netflix in bed, and I’m still not really up for anything like a craft fair - so I’m going to be listing a bunch of the stuff I made for that up in my Etsy shop, as well as some older pieces that I’d intended to keep because, well. Unemployed. Need money. So today was a day to get listing photos. These are just my favorites from that. I’ll post a link to my shop once everything is up later tonight.

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