Belladonna and Absinthe

Frittering away time making these links.

Making this cool chainmail bracelet, brass, copper, and silver wire. Tiny tiny loops.
I can't believe I cut all these links. I must be insane. But it will be SHINY.

Since I dropped out of college, I have been mostly alone. I see friends a bit, and there's the weekly game.. There's Steve, Nathan, Gwen, Arwynn. We hang out from time to time. And the occasional SCA event. My only family really is my mom. I guess I should put forth more of an effort

I wonder if I should open an OK Cupid account. Of course there are 4 people in salem I'd meet. Probably those four. Who knows.

Spent a lot of the afternoon in the graveyard again this afternoon, under my tree. It's my tree now by the way, I have claimed it. No one else can have it. It really is my peaceful place.

Going to be doing some more workings, to try to reduce my mothers stress. It's not selfish if it is mainly to help someone else out? is it? I can totally see this backlashing, but she seems so stressed about things. There's no need for her to be so stressed.

Mom was unhappy about the job that I failed to get. Yay for more demoralizing insults.

Oh yes, and you WANT me to come home for thanksgiving. Way to entice a girl there mom.

I'm not sure what she is thinking, being insulting, telling me that EVERYTHING about me is wrong, and then say "come home!"

I don't know what's worse. That, or the realization that she is the only family I have.

They want to phone interview me tomorrow for the Secretary job.

I had forgotten about that job, perhaps the workings I had been doing for positive energy are paying off. And being a good person in general. Three Times Three, what I send out it comes back to me... I scrape by living this life, I must have a hella karmic debt.

Of course, the point is to satisfy the parental unit. She means well, I suppose.
If she weren't so damned controlling. I think i'll wait to send her an email about it tomorrow.

There's something appealing about a regular paycheck and not having to hope and pray that crafts will sell in order to make the rent.

Happy Samhain! Happy New Year!

Ritual tonight, finally got everything I need. I have a feeling this new year is going to be great!

New boots = Awesome! Need to find a link to the picture.

I can really stomp on some faces in these. YOU! STEAMPUNK! You did not buy my stuff! BAD STEAMPUNK! *stomp stomp stomp* hehehe..

In other news, my mom was made mostly happy by me putting in another resume. One would think that she would have something more to do with her life other than manage me. Ah, the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

life is reasonable I suppose.

The earrings I was working out turned out well. I found some of these little locks, made an interesting mechanical locking set..

But that lead to a commission! Of course, this guy wanted a necklace that incorporates them for his girlfriend. Yeah... Uh.. Right.. Of course he wants steel wire and links in it, and I haven't worked with steel before. So this should be interesting.

I got called for a phone interview with the lawyers office. I kind of suspect that they won't want me, they have this dress code that I am totally not into. But we'll see. We're doing this to humor mom anyhow.

I'm really really excited about this steampunk fad. It's actually making me a bunch of money.
That keeps me fed, and housed - which is very good.

I was at a junk store, and I found a whole box of old broken watches. Major Score!!
I got them for $4!!! The owner was so confused as to why I was excited.

I've ordered some brass wire and brass sheet, that I expect are going to be here in a week.
I already have some ideas for some new pieces up on etsy by the end of next week.

I heard someone say "steampunk is when goths discovered brown". I like that.
However, I still prefer black. Perhaps I should order a corset at some point though...

Heard from mom again, "I only care about you, blah blah". Yeah, right. That's why I'm living in this hole, and they drive a mercedes. To silence my parents, I have applied to two respectable positions in town. Administrative Assistant type jobs. We'll see if they even call me bac. I should finish my degree, but, losing all those credits when I switched majors set me back big time.

Stupid car is acting up again, I expect I'll call Steve and have him look at it. Perhaps I'll buy him dinner. We haven't hung out in a while. That could be fun.