It's safe to dance

I am bored.  Have you ever promised to make some things for people, and had the time...but didn't feel like doing it?  My brother's girlfriend 'commissioned' me to make her a hemp necklace, complete with handmade clay cupcake charm, back in January.  It was almost finished way back then...but I never felt like completing it until tonight.  The thing is, I use the term commission very lightly, because she didn't offer to pay for it, just asked if I'd make it for her.  Sure, fine, I don't mind...right??  Well, I didn't mind until she started harassing me about it.  I don't see her very often, but she would ask, like every time I saw her, had I finished it yet.  I just moved, OK?  I didn't even know where it was!  Whatever.  I just didn't like it that she was kind of pushing me to do it, when I'm kinda broke most of the time, and she's got a job, and rich parents, and isn't even paying for it.  It's like $8 or so worth of work, in my opinion, and to me(who grew up sort of poor, and learned to make money and supplies stretch and last), that's a good amount.  I don't like to waste my money.  So, anyway, that's a pet peeve of mine, and now we'll move on from the subject, 'kay?

I've been crafting again!!!  I hit a slump for a couple weeks, and didn't want to do anything.  Not sure what kicked me back into gear, but here I am...makin' cute and pretty things, like I do.  I'm SO excited.  People are showing interest in my pieces, like never before, and it's heavily encouraging me to get my Zibbet shop off the ground \o/  Most inspiring, lately, is my fabulous ferret.  He and I have been bonding quite nicely.  Daniel says Puck is using me as a bookmark, basically, since he doesn't get to spend time with him as much, anymore.  I don't think so...I think he luuurves me.  I ordered him a cool new harness, last week, recommended to me by a friend who's had a few ferrets(among many other pets), and knows her stuff.  We got it today, and it's AWESOME!  He can't get out of it, and the lead portion only puts pressure under his elbow, so it's not ever going to choke him.  And get this...it's BLUE, Sofi's obsessively favorite color.  She was highly pleased(the listing didn't specify a color, I assumed it would be random).  As I expected, Puck didn't like it at first, and wallowed around on the floor for a few minutes.  Then I opened the door, and actually LET HIM GO OUT, and didn't pick him up...and he was all for this new thing.  We just walked around on the balcony/breezeway for a while, didn't go downstairs.  Tomorrow maybe we'll take him out in the grass.  Oh!  I was saying how inspirational he is.  I made a little felt version of him, and it's a hit. 

He played with it, thankfully didn't sneak off with it.  I have at least one person who wants to either buy or trade for one like it!  I am so excited.  I feel like I'm finally coming into my own.  All my life I've felt like I didn't quite belong, no matter where I was.  Since discovering my fabulous crafting friends, the League of Extraordinary Crafters, and making tight bonds with them...I've found that there's a lovely little niche right there, waiting for me to join in.  To my League sisters and brothers, who follow my blog---I LOVE Y'ALL SO MUCH!!  You make me feel human :D

Our slapdash scrunched little apartment is starting to look and feel like a home, and I'm very happy about that.  But our finances are not so hot, and we're both planning on applying around town, starting tomorrow.  I'm so completely terrified that the stigma of having been fired(over 3 years ago), will still keep me unemployed, which I know will stress Daniel out even more than he already is. 

I haven't been reading ANYTHING...well, not committing to any books, anyway.  I'll read a few pages of something and never pick it back up *facepalm*.  I hate that.  I always have a book.  It's probably because I don't have any of the books in the several series I read, at the moment.  Waiting on Clockwork Angel(Cassandra Clare, Infernal Devices series), from the library...And I'm about to start reading a new(to me) series, the Dresden Files.  I've been watching the TV show on Netflix, and I love it, I'm hoping it's like most book to tv/movie situations----the books will be better.  Plus there's a ton of them, it's a very popular series, so I'll have plenty to read this summer.  I'm very excited to read City of Fallen Angels(also Cassandra Clare, this one is in the Mortal Instruments series), as soon as I can get my paws on a copy.  AND next month Dead Reckoning, the next Sookie Stackhouse book comes out!!!!  I bought the previous one on Mother's Day, last year :D  I think there's a Patricia Briggs book coming out soon, too...in the Alpha and Omega series....but I digress, since I'm starting to sound like my book obsessed friend Rebecca :D
Things I'm looking forward to in real life: Not doing yardwork this Summer, the pool opening up(it's practically right outside our door), losing weight, getting my shop started, getting a 'real' job, getting my driver's license(yep, I'm a bum).....having enough money coming in to breathe easier.  Oh, and getting pregnant, I hope! 
Love y'all, kisses and hugs <3
Heather-Feather

I'm a slacker...but we've been moving, so I have an excuse = P

We finally moved out of my parents' house, into our very own spankin' new apartment.  It's ~tiny~.  But it's OURS!!  And no one gets to kick me out of the bathroom anymore, on the basis of seniority(I'm talking about YOU, Mom).  My friend Rachel, who is awesome, is giving Sofi her old dresser and chest of drawers, from when she was a little girl(it's white/cream, with little flowers painted on...kind of old fashioned, but free is free!), as well as giving us a great big white book shelf, which we NEED.  But we have yet to have a good day/time to go retrieve said items and lug them up the stairs to our house, because of several different issues.  So...Sofi's room is a bed, a gajillion toys, and plastic storage totes full of clothes, books, etc.  But she has room to play. 

Two weeks ago, my husband brought our ferret home, for the first time.  He was staying with my in-laws, while Daniel was having to crash there, and had been confined to one room for the whole time we'd had him(since last fall).  He LOVES our house.  He stays in the bathroom at night, and when we're gone, so he doesn't get into mischief, and because of this, he's claimed it as his property.  If he's been wandering around the house, and I can't find him, all I have to do is go in the bathroom and make 'bathroom' sounds--clank the toilet seat, etc., and especially if I shut the door--he comes hurrying in, and sniffing everything.  It's like he's saying, "Hey, you're in my room.  Did you touch my stuff?  Don't touch my stuff.  Hi!  Pet me."  He's very congenial.  By the way, his name is Puck, after the character in A Midsummer Night's Dream, who is a fairy/sprite with a strong sense of mischief, but who is also compassionate.  My Puck is very like that.  He's into everything, loves to rough-house(which is like a kitten's play, only his claws and teeth are more blunt and gentle), etc., but he also wants to be held, sometimes, and cuddled.  He prefers to sleep inside an article of clothing- mine, my husband's, or Sofi's.  We think it's for the smell. 

Sofi has been naming some of his actions; she calls his habit of sniffing our faces and feet "whiskering", because his whiskers brush the skin before his cold nose does.  She made me laugh so hard, one night this past week, when she exclaimed, "He's so puckish!"  She thought she was just referring to him having his own cute personality, but I told her that's a real word, and it a good description of him.  They get along well, most of the time, but she has this urge to turn into Elmira from Tiny Toon Adventures, sometimes, and I have to separate them for a while.

So, needless to say, I have to get house work done, and computer fun, at night or on the weekends, when she's with her dad. 
Yesterday, we had a blast, and all we were doing was the laundry!  Our apartments don't have washer/dryer capabilities, the complex just has a laundry 'room', which is like a laundromat that's just for the residents.  Unfortunately, our building is in the VERY back of the complex(it's U shaped, and we're the bottom), and the laundry room is waaaay up at the front.  Yay us.  But Sofi likes helping me do it, and my mom gave us a hamper on wheels, with an extending handle, which she was so conveniently hoarding, LOL.  So we walked down there, checked our mail on the way, she picked a washer, helped me load it, then put the quarters in for me.  Then we walked home, and when we got there, her buddy, Karra, who lives 2 doors over from us, wanted to hang out.  So they went back with us when we put the wet clothes in the dryer, then back again when we got them and brought them home.  I forgot to mention-Sofi rode her bike to and from the laundry room every time.  So she got NICE and worn out, and had a great appetite, when we got back the final time.  I cooked her a chicken leg, and heated up left over macaroni and a biscuit for her, and I ate a microwave steam pack meal thing, with whole wheat bow-tie pasta, some veggies, and shrimp scampi.  She wolfed down her entire meal!!  Most days she nibbles, then runs off to play, and I'm lucky if she comes back 2 or 3 more times and finishes it.  I believe we have found the solution to this problem. :D