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So I get to decide if I need ANOTHER new battery, or if I'm just going to replace my laptop. And the printer that three companies have refused to ship to me now.

Also, my gallery script is not working as a pop-up now that I've got my site upgraded to https. I've beaten my head against it for a while this morning and last night and I'm just ready to give up.

SEND CHOCOLATE. STAT.

Art right now is very frustrating.

Beyond the general muse and brain malaise, I have no lap to sketch in, and I didn't realize how much I used it. Regular chairs, to sit at the table are decidedly not comfortable right now, and I can't sit close enough to the table to use them correctly anyway.

I have found a position of comfort in my fabulous awesome recliner - stuff a pillow under my knees and tip back and I can stay there all day if I'm foolish enough to let myself (which is way too easy, because it is relatively hard to get UP from this position). I can use my laptop on my legs, though I can't see past the belly to the nearest bits of my laptop (I touch-type, so visibility isn't a problem - and is probably one reason that typing on the iPad is so hard for me).

So, I can do a little writing, pokey bit by pokey bit. I got an article written up for Torn World today, and I've gotten a thousand words or so on the Rails storyline in the last week (not, you know, and AMAZING wordcount, but it's words. On a page). I can do some programming, fortunately, and emails.

But I have PICTURE ideas I want to work on. I did some sketching over the weekend, and it was awkward - I stopped long before I felt finished, and couldn't get a comfortable working position going on; the sketchbook digs into my belly, or wobbles on top of it (even when Elsa isn't adding percussion to the mix), or slides off the side, or I have to crook my arm so awkwardly it won't do what I want. Add to this the fact that my fingers are all fat and sausage-y, and even slightly achy... art is hard to do right now. Very frustrating.

I am so discouraged.

The husband and I went carpet shopping last night, and our choices... suck.

It costs about twice as much as we were planning to spend to get nothing like what we wanted. Where are the colors? I wanted a dark midnight blue, or a royal red, or maybe a really rich looking brown. What choices are in town? Beige. Various shades of beige and cream. Who wants to spend that kind of money on BEIGE? We went to four stores, scoured the remnants, looked at everything they had in stock, and it's just... pathetic. There was one remnant that we both loved, a gorgeous, plush, dark blue... that was several feet too short in each direction. We can break the bank and order something that we'll get in 6 weeks, but that is in every way not what I want to do. I was so looking forward to having an attractive floor for once, and now... pfff. Even if we had the money to special order something, it's more than a month off. SO discouraged.

Also, I think I'm getting a cold, my back hurts like CRAZY and I slept like crap.

And last, but not least, I was so disappointed by the carpet shopping that I spent the evening sulking - and didn't do the ONE thing that I needed to get done yesterday, which is update my Amazon listings before my professional account expired... which it did at 4:30 this morning.

ARGH.

So, I'm out another month of fees, which I will cough up in November, when maybe pre-Christmas sales will make it worthwhile, and I will actually have some of the new titles in stock.

On the topic of mixed blessings, I do have some paid work to do today; it's nice to finally have some to do, but I mostly just want to go back to bed today.

Off to do that, and see if accomplishing something makes me feel better.