Don't do as I do...

I do not recommend this style of life to anyone wishing to retain their sanity.

I've been getting up early to get some EMG done before work, and coming home from work to do EMG, and spending my lunchbreak at the post office. (Today, they returned one of my dragon*con packages because it should have shipped by dimension instead of weight, so my click-n-ship label was inaccurate... have I mentioned how much I love flat rate lately??) Last night I was literally running from end to end of my studio: heat press timer is beeping! Printer is out of paper! Paperjam in the laser printer! Three printers going! Laminator feeding! Heat press beeping again! Stack of totes fell over! Cat is eating plastic! Printer is out of paper! Heat press is beeping again, and steaming ominously! Bookmarks are curled up because I wasn't paying attention to the laminator and I have to run them through again! Heat press is beeping! Printer thinks it's out of paper when it isn't really! Drop into bed at the usual time and get up early...

Only two orders out, for all of that, but they were big ones, and I've got one less big box in the studio to trip over.

Tried installing my scanner AGAIN this morning, and failed, AGAIN. Time to call in the experts. Tomorrow, my big plans are: orders, art, chiropractic visit (if I can get ahold of the office!) and take my laptop to the shop.

But to make that happen, I have to get this project out TODAY, and the Boss just bled all over my drawings, so I'd best get drafting...

(Fortunately, this is a TEMPORARY schedule... no one can do this without burning out, trust me!)

I am glad I have an INDOOR toilet finally...

Every so often, I am reminded that I do, indeed, live in the last frontier!

Matt - our yurt-dwelling assistant - was cutting wood on our land, and Norway went nuts, so he came to investigate. And for once, Norway's nuts-ness was quite justified. There was a BEAR eating our trash!!

Matt chased him off with the chainsaw. Go Matt!

So happy to have indoor plumbing right now...

Tarot test...

You are the World

Completion, Good Reward.

The World is the final card of the Major Arcana, and as such represents saturnian energies, time, and completion.

The World card pictures a dancer in a Yoni (sometimes made of laurel leaves). The Yoni symbolizes the great Mother, the cervix through which everything is born, and also the doorway to the next life after death. It is indicative of a complete circle. Everything is finally coming together, successfully and at last. You will get that Ph.D. you've been working for years to complete, graduate at long last, marry after a long engagement, or finish that huge project. This card is not for little ends, but for big ones, important ones, ones that come with well earned cheers and acknowledgements. Your hard work, knowledge, wisdom, patience, etc, will absolutely pay-off; you've done everything right.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Oh, really? Hmmm...

Could really use a second set of eyes!

These cards have given me SO much grief. *whines* Why do they have to be in COLOR? I hate color...

Please, any advice, ideas, or just rah-rahs to get me to the finish line:

(My scanner is NOT behaving, so believe that the dragonfly is much more intense in real life. Still washed out, because I suck at colors, but better than this...)

( Card art... )