I'm home sick from work today. I've been having trouble with my sinuses for several months. Last week, though, it got worse and my head has been killing me with the pressure behind my eyes. Been taking Actifed which has helped the drainage but hasn't done much for my headache. Probably should go to the walk-in clinic but I feel really stupid going there when other than my head feeling like it's about three sizes bigger than usual, I feel fine. But I felt that I shouldn't pass it around work so took today off. Plus with how my head feels I don't really have the patience that I need at work. Maybe I can putz around here today and organize my craft room some. I've been trying to work on it a little bit each day. I need some supplies to completely organize it and that takes green stuff. But there again, gradually, I'll get it all organized. In the meantime, I've been sorting through things, scanning anything I want to keep and giving away the magazines and pattern books that I don't want to keep.

I wish there were more hours in the day. I have so much I want to do and I run out of day before I run out of projects. If I didn't have to work so much or at all, I'd have more time but even then I don't think there'd be enough hours in each day. I know I need to exercise more but that would mean giving up more of the little time that I have for my projects as it is. If I didn't like to so as much variety as I do, it probably wouldn't be a problem either but I want to do everything. I'm sure this is a common feeling for those of us who enjoy crafts. A few weeks back one of the male nurses at work asked me if there was anything that I didn't do. I thought for a moment and realized that the only things that I don't do are because I don't want to do them. Now there is some limit to my ability to draw. Partly because I haven't pursued it and partly because there is a limit to my talent and I would like to be able to do more with that. For many years it didn't bother me that I couldn't do it... now it does. Now that I'm into making note cards from my photos, I wish I could draw enough to make them into cards. I think I could sell them better than my photos. Now finding time to train myself in that direction is difficult.

I want to be constantly stretching myself. I want to learn more. Either new crafts, more about health and weight control or something to make me more intelligent. I need to be exercising my brain. I don't want to lose any ability to think, reason, or remember because I got lazy and didn't use my brain. I don't think that it will become a problem as I like mysteries, puzzles and such and they are good for keeping the mind alert. I think that is part of why I don't like reality TV. It is mindless. You don't have to think. I know that I'm going to offend someone with this statement but I feel that the producers of shows like that think that people watching TV don't know how to think. The only people who like shows like that are those who are not very intelligent. Now I know that that isn't true because my in-laws like the show "Survivor" and my mother-in-law is very intelligent. I just feel that shows put us down as the consumer of TV programming. I realize that not everyone like mysteries. But why such mindless TV. I'm offended by a lot of the programs that are being aired now a days. I also have the same problem when there's a special news broadcast and when we're all done watching the broadcast, the announcer comes on and for another 15 to 30 minutes tells us what we just saw. Are we too stupid to understand what was just said to us? I'm so insulted that this last time I watched one, I signed on to the station's website and complained. If we don't, they aren't going to know that we're not happy with it.

Guess I've rambled and complained enough for one day. The weather is beautiful today even if I'm not up to getting out in it.

Things have been pretty good with my hubby and I lately. When I have to clean off the stove and it's a filthy mess from him not cleaning up behind himself, I dream of living alone but right now we're doing much better. For so much of last year I just wanted him gone. I could take the messy house and as I wasn't home much, it certainly wasn't me making the mess. Right now things aren't too bad cause we cleaned thoroughly before putting up Christmas decorations and we had a New Year's Eve party so we had to make sure the house was clean for that. I've decided that I'm going to have to have a party more frequently throughout the year so that the place stays clean.

I wish that work was going so well. We have so many behavioral patients right now that it is all I can do to make myself go to work. The stress level is so high because they push the limits so much. It's worse than raising teenagers because they can be punished. These people are adults and should know better but have learned to deal with people in a manipulative way. I just keep reminding myself that I love my house and that is why I'm working this much. I wish my ebay sales would bring in enough that I wouldn't have to put in so many hours at the hospital. Hopefully down the road they will.

When I got home from work the other night a lady had bought both of my collections of six hardanger kits. I didn't have that many made up so I had to put together most of them. I hadn't realized that the assembled kits were getting so low. It was cool to have them sell, though. I have to mail them tomorrow. I couldn't get them all assembled before the post office closed on Saturday. It's just a little thing really but I get so excited when there's a sale like that. I really hope that the people buying them are really enjoying them and happy with their purchases. Since they are my designs, it's so important that people like them. I put a new design on their on Thursday and on Friday morning it already had a bid on it. So cool!

I have some of my photos on display at a local eatery here. It really wouldn't break my heart if some of them sold. I haven't had good luck selling my photos. I think I need to start framing them myself so that I don't have to charge so much. Don't really have the room to put that set up to do that. It's so weird how things all tie together. Didn't do very well at the craft fair at the dome but that's where I made the connection to show my pictures at the eartery. The more people see my photos and my name, the more they will think of me if they need something for the wall. Maybe I should make a hardanger to put in a frame and display it. Maybe for another time.