Sorry I havent written in a while. I've been really busy here lately. To catch everyone up on things going on in my world lately....
Talked to my mom the other day and there's no news on my gramma. Definitely lung cancer, but they're going to do one of those tests where they shove a tube down your throat to check the bronchi plus they're supposed to be biopsying the spot on the liver. Mom also said that gramma will be having the chemo but is of the theory if it works great, if not no worries...she says she's had a nice long life and is ready to go anytime God's ready to have her come home.
My friend in South Carolina had good news. The intestine and kidney problems are an easy fix with diet. Seems she has the same prob as my dad and certain foods with small seeds get lodged in the intestines so she's in the process of flushing it all out. The nodules in her lungs turned out to be old scar tissue and they're lookin into that, but it's nothing to really worry about.
My friend from Frisco (the friend 16 miles north of me) has been back to visit her father for a couple weeks now. I havent heard from her NOR her "brother" up that way in about a week and I've dropped a couple emails (one to each of them). I'm sure if things were lookin up she woulda written by now so I can only fear for the worst at this point. I hate the idea of calling and interrupting anything important up there. Worse case, I'll drop her hubby a note and see if he's heard anything lately as Im sure she prolly has been calling him at least.
Been busy the last several weeks with this huge upswing in banner requests...and not all for AckcessDenied either. I really should write Ruby and thank her for the fit she threw 18 months or so ago. I think her exact words were that my banners were everywhere on her site (a site which has since been sold...). Thanks to that little hissy fit...my banners really are everywhere. I have work on 3 different sites now and I dont even chat at them all. In the last 3 weeks I've done banners for 9 different streamers. I want to thank y'all for the work you've sent my way...it's been a pleasure to see if I could come up with something you'd be happy with. Well thanks to everyone but the one....you know who ya are. Nothing I hate more than a person that wastes my time. Let me tell y'all...I've had to retweak my qualifications for making banners. No longer will I be taking the "so n so needs a banner made". If the streamer doesnt have the balls to write and ask by themselves, they dont deserve my work. I was doing a set of banners for this one galfriend of mine and she'd said so n so needed a banner would I mind. Of course not, I dont turn anyone away...just email me the stats what ya want on the banner. Well she sends me the stats for this other guy's banner. After looking for stuff for this banner and then making a nice selection....I tell her he's gotta get ahold of me. So of course she passes the message (I have no doubt that she told him). Meanwhile I have 3 streamers on my own site who need banners and I cant do anything with them until I get closure on this set Im on now (this is the way I work...one set all the way through to closure and copies sent to the site manager...no other banners til Im done all the way through). A few days later I contact her again and ask if he's still wanting these banners or what. Of course this pisses her off because it's making her look bad that he dont have the guts to write me. Well I got ahold of her yesterday in MSN and she asked and of course he aint written me and I feel my time's been wasted so I pitch the work out...shred it in my McAfees. As we're talking she checks out my Photobucket wip file and notices them in there so I rip them outta there and outta my Yahoo....meantime she's ripping into him in chat. An hour after I ripped everything out....I get an email from him...a one line email "sorry I havent written, thanks for making my banners." *shakes head* No excuse, no nothing, not even a I really still want them...not even an "Ive decided to go with someone else.."...She was telling me he was giving excuse after excuse in chat....but yet he didnt put the excuses in an email where they needed to be. *shakes head* All I can think is "Damn, all this going on in my life, plus my own medical problems (Im fallin apart Im tellin ya) ...and I managed to do these banners for this dude. Is this all the respect Im going to be given??" Well, now I gotta decide if I ~really~ want to redo all that work...I mean it took several days to get those pieced together. Now if that email had really expressed how sorry he was, I could have managed to feel a bit of sympathy for him. Right now, however, I just feel like my time was wasted on that project. I dont mind time wasted when the person simply dont like the work (the last set I did was this way and I'm still waitin on him to get back with me on what he really wants on those banners instead of me guessing again...aint a mind reader ya know)....but a lack of communication and worse yet a lack of remorse....If it had been me you'd know for damn sure I'd have been spillin my guts with every excuse in the book and not just a one line email...*insert eye roll here*. At this point, as far as Im concerned he can KMA....although I have been known to change my mind if the excuses are good enough. To be honest...at this point even if he was to show up and need one for my chathome I'd say no.
Other than that I been busy getting decorations done for my wedding and doing some price checking on caterers as I really dont want to have anyone to have to work on my wedding day. Got a minister (at least a site with ministers that will travel) picked out....just waitin on my babe to get the dude (or chick) paid off. I'll get some pictures of the decorations I have been workin on. Hardest part is getting the bows on because of the trim on them...and deciding if I want to use cream or burgandy candles. Im thinking burgandy because it looks more pulled together.
Well, Im gonna scoot. Got a few things to do around here.
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