What's Going On ...

my experiment didn't turn out too well...the first bead I pulled out, I tried to re-reduce and it just got muddy and uglier, so I just moved all the beads off the metal fence and started making new ones...which turned out SO nicely that I pulled them from the kiln as soon as I could and strung them up (yes, they were annealed and cooled, I don't have ovenmitt hands)...So my experiment was a bomb, but the new beads are rockin', so its all good...I've already got someone who's asked for the ugly beads, so they are living on in a new home...Even Brian said he didn't think they were bad, he couldn't see the problem with them...when I set down the shiny new beads next to the unshiny beads, then he saw the difference...but I guess the unshiny ones aren't all that bad, they just aren't what I was going for...

I've been hankering for a new vacuum cleaner for months...months and months...and I might just get one today...i need something that works on animal hair and has high extension capability and I think that purple or yellow Dyson would do it...one of them is especially made for pet hair..I dunno if its a gimmick or worthwhile, but with 7 indoor cats and one dog, I need something...my poor old regular vacuum just doesn't cut it anymore...when I had 2 cats and an apartment, it was fine...

I'm having a war with my newspaper delivery guy, who can't find my house and can't deliver my papers properly...its been ongoing and I just can't take it anymore, so I cancelled my subscription, but the paper wants to know what it can do to make things right...I'm so far gone right now that nothing can fix the problem seeing as how I've been alerting them to the problem constantly and its not resolved itself (they can't find my house, so I don't get most of the papers I pay for..ok, so I won't pay for them anymore- problem solved)...i'm not in the mood to fight this anymore...I have been patient, I've notified them, I've received the standard form letter of apology, and yet nothing changes...move on...