Health issues

Picture by Jolene Hardy

They suck. I have to get a cardiac stress test done. Bad hearts both sides of the family and my EKG was a bit off. My provider is awesome getting this type of stuff done so we I get older, they have something to compare to:)

Took a break from posting/editng pictures, stress break as I call it. On top of day job issues, Tom & I broke up.

I am frustated and stressed out but thru the grace of God, I will perverse. Mom bought a kick butt camera for the business so I can continue taking great pictures without relaying on other people's camera. I am really excited about it.

A cold and kind of rainy day at good old Tucson.....where or where has our summer time gone?

news!!!

The Forever Silver place that copied Green Girls Studio designs, no longer have their work posted on their website. Hooray!!!

I am in agony today. Left shoulder trigger point, which I have already had a couple of injections in it decieded to be evil today!!!!!!! Right before I am flying to Minnesota to see a bunch of friends at MarsCon www.marscon.com

DARN it anyway!!!!! sigh.....Nope, no new pictures thus no work on website. The weather gets nice, then yucky, then nice then yucky. oh it sucks!

What is WRONG with people....

Now I just read Gae's blog & her skull design(which is awesome & we use a lot of her designs in our work) was ripped off and actually featured in the back of the Fire Mountain Gem catalog! I would think that the magazines/catalogs etc would double check their sources of items to be sure that they are the orignal designers...

Mom teaches on-line and she has noticed that her students have being plagism everything!! She flunks them...........Is this the "new" thing????

I feel a lot for these people, they make a living from selling their product. This is plain WRONG.

Pain clinic & RAIN!

Okay I went to my group pain clinic appointment today. Filled out more paperwork and then she discussed pain clinic etc. I have an appointment to meet with the nurse/pharmacist to discuss my individual pain issues 10/13. I also asked if I could get my pain care from someone other that my main provider. I love my doctor BUT I also work with my doctor so it is hard for me to be aggressive in my pain care when I have to have a professional relationship with him as well.

GREAT NEWS...IT RAINED, THE BAD NEWS.........I HURT LIKE HECK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tom, the love of my life, bought me a pre paid cell phone so my next cell phone bill won't be $400.00. He rocks my world and I love him dearly.

WE GOT THE CHAPEL AT THE GALLERY OF THE SUN! We are planning a very intimate wedding, around 20 people and then a bigger reception. I don't want anything huge but I still want the wedding and my dad bringing me down the aisle. :) First time getting married and I will be 45 then. I am finally ready....:)

No win for monkeys this Tuesday

Oh well, keep on trying:) I will list that piece in my shop on Etsy, maybe, I really love it and it is so comfortable to wear, very light. Rome wasn't built in a day, neither will this monkeys empire!! (please read to the sounds of the dark side of the force in star wars...LOLOLO)

It has been a crummy awful evil morning at day job. I am going to pray that God will switch that around and give me the wisdom when I am in a meeting this afternoon to be postive and try to offer up different soluctions...amen!

I will survive!!!!!!!!

FRIDAY

Praise God it is Friday and payday. hooray! I am waiting to talk to my doctor about uping my pain medicaiton to something a bit stronger so I can keep sleeping. I feel great when I first wake up and then it goes down hill, sigh.

I didn't create last night but did update Funky Monkey Girls Etsy shoppe with a few more things. I am so loving Tom's camera that I may keep it forever, of course he is not aware of it yet LOLOLOL

He is coming over tomorrow and the first thing he is going to do, is rub my back, you can't imagine how I am SO looking forward to that:)

today.......I am at day job...

**This is a mission in San Antonio TX** Pic by Jolene.

Well, I SLEPT THRU THE WHOLE NIGHT!!!!!!!!! Praise God! I was on the phone with mom last night & we are believing in reflexalogy so she looked up shoulder pain and I pressed and rub the heck of the ouchiness that was my little toe! That and the fact that I took a super hot tub soak plus with perocet help me sleep all night. It was wonderful!

I am feeling the urge to create believe it or not! I wonder if I am going to make jewelery that is full of spikes and other things to reflect the pain that I am still in? Wouldn't that be interesting?

I am so wishing it was Friday today but it isn't :( At least I am getting work done at the day job so that is a good thing, sometimes LOLOLOL

Pain..................SUCKS!

I have been having loads of problems with my left shoulder. I have a very bad back spasm/strain and nothing I am doing is helping with the pain nor can I sleep. I finally went to the ER last night because I could NOT take the amount of pain that I was in. They checked to make sure that I wan't having a heart attack, woman display heart attack symtons totally different than men, and my doctor gave me some perocet. Mind you, my t4 came in that mail yesterday and weren't touching it. I got back home around 0530 and fell asleep finally.

I am still really hurting now but at least with the perocet, I will be able to sleep. This sucks and now, back to the regular beading portion of this show. The etsy shoppes are totally updated and I will put some pics up on the pics that I got from using Tom's camera...

PS Please pray for me that they will be able to do something to help me out with this pain issue. I haven't had pain like this EVER!

Updated on Etsy

Finally, got some update on Etsy in both Funky Monkey Girls and Vivamexico etsy shoppes:) Tom's camera takes really awesome pictures:) hooray! I have some more to edit which hopefully I will get to tonight.

In TONS of pain today so I am wearing my TENS unit, kind of helping and waiting for my pain meds, sigh.....I am so relating to Frida Kahlo right now.

weekend

I must apologize for not answering back posts right away....work computer won't let me on some people, strange. I forget to check this at home but I will start:)

I had a pretty good weekend despite the fact that I could hardly sleep due to my severe shoulder pain due to Fibromyglia....I just asked my doctor to write a consult so I can be seen in pain clinic, what I am doing now isn't working all that well.

The man aka Tom was over this weekend w/the full of seperation anxiety doggie Sadie, we are working on that, so it was stay home weekend. We went for walkies and washed cars, I thought Precious was going to die of "Oh my ghosh, she is actually cleaning the outside of me?" Precious is my 2005 mustang, whom I must get my oil changed today. His car got nice & cleaned as well. We played Scrabble and after I won, I had to promise not to use his scrabble tiles for jewelery, but I did find a place where I can order them (hee,heee). We took a bunch of jewelery pictures using his camera so tonight, I call the monkey mom to remind me how to get them cropped etc so I can list them in our Etsy stores. Loads of Day of the Dead jewelery will be posted soon:)

I am hurting mightly today so I smell like Icey Hot, sigh, luckily for me, I don't mind that smell.

Work

I am at work and taking drugs....I am hoping that I can get more relaxed so this shoulder will quit binging me. bleck.

Must make some more bracelets for our jewelery that I finally got up in Copper Country! I need to find the stick thing mom had that allows me to put my picture disk in it and upload to the computer right away:)

I had bunnies and quail in my backyard last night. I do believe the bobcats have moved on to something cooler. I also found out that we do have a mountain lion living in our wash here!!! WOW, I definately don't want to run into her/him!

This 3 day weekend, I am going to relax, buy some beads, go to pool and start beading!

funky and not in a good way either

I haven't been feeling too hot these past couple of days. I have fibromyglia and arthitis so everytime the weather changes, my pain rating shoot up and I am miserable. Since the monsoons are finally hitting now, this monkey girl is miserable.

Everyone have a safe and blessed 4th of July weekend and always remember those who fought for our freedom!

Monkey dad

The monkey dad arrived yesterday safe and sound. He likes my house;) So that is good news...if he didn't like it, he can sleep in the shed LOLOL.

I did way too much stuff yesterday!! Unpacked the kitchen, lifted some boxes, went to the old apartment and cleaned some more there....I am a hurting person right now.

We are going to church later...drinking much needed coffee right now!

Etsy shoppes

Okay, Viva Mexico and Funky Monkey Girls are both marked on vacation. I can ship stuff out but I need to get the shoppes updated and this break should assist with that.

Almost done with the linen closet packing. Now, I am going to pack the stuff in the bathroom we don't use on a daily basis and get that out of the way. I am still trying to get sick but fighting it thru prayer and medications. Dayquil, cough drops and next loads of OJ. I can't drink too much OJ cause it bugs my tummy but I prefer it over vitamin C pills.

I am really tired today...went to bed late so my went to bed meds are still hanging on plus I missed my coffee this morning at home. Got up late but took my shower and still got to day job on time:)

Happy Memorial Day

May God bless our troops and to fellow veterans out there, thank you!

I am a Gulf War Veteran from the first war. Only ONE MORE WEEK until I sign for my house!! Back is still pinging but I am packing boxes. I am NOT moving the boxes however, I think that is what pinged my back out again on Saturday. It is in my lower back so I can't sit nor stand in one position too long. It gets old, let me tell you.

I just read the first 4 books in the Left Behind series....I HIGHLY reccomend that everyone should read them. It is amazing the power of our Lord!

We got our beads from Gaea..........oh her skulls are so beautiful!!!! Can't wait to make them into beautiful jewelery! wheewwwww.............

I am going to start packing the extra stuff in the kitchen in a second after I stretch out my back. Fun weekend huh?

Beads...

I got the beading stuff and tables all packed away yesterday! Mom bought a bed for her use while she is here and then for my use once she leaves. Of course, I over did it so the back is rather sore! sigh....

Honestly, I just want to be healthy...sigh.

Mom will be doing some packing in the kitchen for me and I will wrap up the stuff. Today, I am hoping we can get our Etsy sites updated with new pics, we have them done but haven't done the editing etc so that is definately on the agenda espically since I can't do much lifting'/packing etc.

Lord willing my back will feel better!

Monday monday....

Well, we tried to go to Ikea again and my back got in the way like usual! ergh. Mom and I went to a few stores here in Tucson and delibrately got lost to look at cute neighborhoods like I enjoy doing.

Got to church on Sunday, it was a good sermon. Read a bunch of Harqulian type romances so now I really want a guy...sigh.

I have to get off my butt and pack! I have just been too immobile about it and it still hasn't hit me totally that I have a HOUSE that I am moving into. What is my problem? sheesh.

No creating anything but we did buy a cutest make up table and I showed mom what I want my bedroom to look like. I love shabby chic but only want it in my bedroom. We went looking at some second hand furniture stores for things. We bought a make up table. I finally have room for a make up table so that it rather cool:)

The back is feeling better and I am in regular shoes. It is too cold at the day work to wear sandals all the time! I swear my feet turn blue...brrrrrr.

Mom is in the same mood I am in, nothing new to do. We ate at a horrible Mexican resturant. bleck. I miss San Antonio for the great Mexican resturants! I am still looking for one here. If I find one, I will be a a faithful person, I promise!! LOL!

If you haven't guessed, I am a Christian but being a former pagan/wiccan, I don't believe in shoving my faith down people's throats. I will make comments etc but I won't shove my faith down your throat, I have HUGE problems with that.

Back

The back issue is getting better, praise the Lord! I still feel like I am 60 but at least it no longer feels like I am 90! LOL

I did a quick stop in the grocery store and the guy had to help run my 2 bags, mind you that they had heavy things of tea in them, but I felt and looked pathic!

Praise God that a friend is going to come over to help us pack more stuff. It still hurts to bend over but it is getting better everyday. Soon, I will be back to normal pain instead of normal AND extra pain which is a pain. Okay...I will quit now, promise!

back strain

That is what they say I have, I strained my back. Who knows how but I have been dealing with pain, spasms and more pain since Saturday. This is my first day back at work and it is going okay.

The spine is fine which is good, I have to shape up the muscles or something like that. My doctor says swimming is a good thing. Which I will do every night at my new place, here, not good too many screaming out of control children, sigh.

I used to do water exercises all the time in Texas but not here because we only have the one pool. At my Texas apartment building, they had 2, the new house, has 3 pools and what is better, I don't have to clean them or anything :) Praise God.

New jewelery hasn't been made in fact, the beads etc, will be packed up this week or next. We have movers coming but I will have them move all the heavy stuff/boxes and then mom & I can move a bunch of boxes when we can. I am also going to get someone who can clean cause I know I nor mom can. Stupid back!!

tooth infection

That is what I have a tooth infection so here is a script for antibotics and we will see you later to yank out that tooth. blerg. I am at home typing away on my computer too coolest!!