UPDATE! i am REALLY overwhelmed now - grover purchased one of my necklaces on etsy - she chose the lavender one which allows me to repost the green and lavender one here! this really IS going to be a great christmas now! and i'm off to work all night and day to add more jewelry - inspired by you all! thank you again...
today, after fighting with my senior advantage plan for cutting me off without giving me time to re-enroll in another plan (meaning a 20% increase in premiums for the rest of my life), i was put back in through a special program called "five star" - it gives seniors a once in a year chance to re-enroll if coverage was dropped due to lagging payments. my back hurt because i wasn't getting the chiropractic treatments that added over an inch to my height.
my unemployment had been screwed up for months because they had to re-calculate my weekly benefit due to a change in my 09 earnings - that meant everything stopped as they paid me the difference owed for each extension. money was/is sketchy and tight.
i dropped my air card (land line isn't available in the cottage i rent - comcast won't run a cable, either) because i just couldn't afford it and my neighbor now graciously lets me tag onto theirs. (they were wired, for some reason, my cottage wasn't).
oh, and i am on week 98 of my unemployment. uh oh.
i was embarrassed to openly ask for consideration for a subscription - i have always taken care of myself (mostly, but sometimes with the help of a few good friends).
so, today was a GOOD day - i get to try to keep the healthcare until i can get assistance since my social security is so low (the 3.5 increase in benefits puts me $2 over the limit to allow free coverage, so i'll still have to pay something).
if you're still with me, hop across the squiggle - i promise you a happy ending! really!
so, today was a GOOD day - i get to keep my healthcare until i can get assistance since my social security is so low (but it is $2 over the lowest limit to allow free coverage, so i'll still have to pay something). i just have to be sure not to fall off sani before jan. 1. ;D and, yes, after years of not riding, we are at it again - it helps BOTH our aches from arthritis. (yes, horses get arthritis, too.)
times are hard. i've started offering to video riding lessons for a small fee, i'm selling "magic scarves" again, i'm making jewelry AND i put up flyers for animal communication services - i am an intuitive and have been a "whisperer" my whole life. as a kid, i thought everybody walked around with wild birds sitting on their fingers or head.
today at the barn i saw someone had taken down two of the laminated flyers a friend put together for me... a petty, thoughtless, ugly act. funny, tho', as an "intuitive", i know who did it and why. i am very sorry for her inner unhappiness that makes her act in such a way.
i FINALLY got around to setting up an etsy account and am starting to put up some of my original jewelry and works, but it's been really hard to work through the depression.
so, i've been going through some ups and downs these days - coupled with the extreme sadness over the loss of my mother in february and the distance between my sister and myself.
then, tonite, i came home and logged on to catch up on the OTHER thing that keeps me going - the great orange satan. the first things i've already done all day - cooked for my diabetic sammy and then played with my 23 year old pony, but the orange is where i get my adrenalin going so i can move forward.
i was feeling somewhat down - until i logged on and the screen looked weird. it looked... smaller.
then, i realized...
the ads were missing.
someone has gifted me a lifetime subscription...
wow.
thank you - to the person who gave this gift - thank you so very much. this is so much more than faster internet. you have reached out and touched another person - you have made me feel a part of this community in a way i never have before.
i was cutting back on logging on because i am on my neighbor's service - now, i can come here without worry.
this is the bestest christmas gift ever! and, i suddenly am not embarrassed any more. i am among friends!