a quote from arthur brisbane:

“happy the child that has for friend an old, sympathetic, encouraging mind, one eager to develop, slow to rebue or discourage.”

the following quote is attributed to the man mentioned above.

“beautiful is the activity that works for good, and the stillness that waits for good; blessed the self-sacrifice of the one, and the self-forgetfulness of the other.”

the bleeding is finally subsiding, turning color like it normally does. i’d say it lasted 7 days. what a relief! my skin was getting very irritated wearing only pads for the duration.

i read on a forum that some women’s bleeding were lasting for longer than mine, anywhere from 10 days to several weeks. yuck.

so, no dr. says to what a cycle before trying to conceive. being that i’m irregular, that might be a few months. oh well. maybe i should try to plan out the conception so that we will concieve a boy, at least according to the chinese pregnancy calendar.

i thought i had posted an entry about my pregnancy, but it’s not showing, so maybe it got lost in cyberspace.  anyway, it was discovered through an ultrasound that i had a ‘miscarriage.’  technically a blighted ovum, where the embryo doesn’t develop into a fetus most likely due to chromosomal problems.  so nature took its course and ‘aborted’ the pregnancy by destroying the ovum, but left the gestational sac.  so the dr. suggested and i agreed the best thing to do would be the d&c.  i didn’t want to wait for my body to expel the sac on its own, who know when that might happen, and the longer that was inside, the higher risk for infection.

so today i had the d&c (dilation and curettage) done at the dr’s office.  it wasn’t as bad as i thought it would be, and it was all over within 45 min.

there wasn’t any pain, just a slight discomfort.  the dr. had me take 800mg of ibuprofen 1 hr before the procedure and an antibiotic when i got to the office.  he did a very good job at numbing, didn’t feel the needle at all.  when he started the curettage, there was no pain, but i could feel the suction pulling at my insides, that’s where most of the discomfort was.  after it was done, i cleaned up and walked out the door.  so far there’s very little bleeding, which is good in my opinion.

so i’m feeling fine right now, just some very minor discomfort now and then.  dr. says to wait one menstrual cycle before trying again to conceive.

my attitude towards cops.  i got a speeding ticket on monday 11/26/07.

i’m back…but will it be for good this time?  it’s been almost 6 months since i posted my last entry…where has the time gone?  i’ve been so busy at work and then i come home, and still busy with family stuff that i haven’t had much quality time to spend with my hobbies.

today i’m ‘lucky’ to be home instead of work, but that means i’m home with the little girl, who’s not feeling well, which means not enough time to work on my hobbies.  right now she’s off napping, so that’s why i have the chance to post something today.

after i post this i’m gonna start working on a couple of custom orders for earrings and bracelets.  they’re from someone working in the same office…she saw my Glimmers of Color bracelet and liked it so much she asked for one, which led to another order from her friend, who also asked for earrings, which then led to my office worker to also ask for earrings.

talk about busy!  i better get outta here so that i can start on those orders since the little one is still asleep.

until i post again…

as some of you know i sell my wares on etsy.com.  my first store, sparklechic.etsy.com, has gone thru several name changes, but the url remains the same.  the name right now is bella lotus by leighbeads.  in this shop i now only sell my finished jewelry items.  at first i was selling both my finished items as well as my extra materials.  although i did sell a couple of my finished items i found that my extras were successful at being sold.

so, i opened a second store, leighbeads.etsy.com aka leighbeads, and from here i now sell all my extras or unwanted supplies and materials.  and although i’ve only sold 6 items and have only 2 feedback so far, i’ve had more interest for my items in this store than i ever had in my bella lotus store.  i’ve sold more items in leighbeads at a faster rate than bella lotus.  i think people are more interested in buying supplies and materials than finished products.  of course i think these are people like me who like to make their own jewelry or who have their own business making beaded jewelry for sale.

so far, all my business at leighbeads have been from international customers.  one from scotland, one from singapore and the most recent one from australia.  so far i’ve only received feedback from my singapore customer.  i’m wondering where my scottish customer is?  did she receive her items?  did she like or hate them?  no word whatsoever, not even to tell me whether she got it or not.  i think i’ll go convo her and ask if she received it.

 anyway, i’m slowly adding more items to my store as i have time.  it’s been very busy at home and at work that i’m so exhausted by the time i have any to do any etsy business, i’d rather just catch some zzzz’s than deal with my stores.  hope to get back to it soon!

hasta luego…