Whoosh

My work is beginning in earnest in about, oh, 9 hours, so I kind of (really) need to sleep, but I just wanted to post an update so all three of you guys know I'm still here. :]

So, I'm now about 4(? 5?) weeks behind on...oh, pretty much everything related to Letterbox Lion. Including the Year of Jewelry Project...this could take some effort to recover, but I'm sure I'll manage. (GOT SOME STUFF UP MY SLEEVE.)
This is for a few very specific reasons: travel, work, and SLACKING OFF. I spent a lot of time packing up and moving stuff (while taking exams) and then immediately went home for a week's vacation, not taking any of my jewelry-making supplies. I came back for about two days and then went off to my lovely boyfriend's house for another week-and-change...and I've been trying to figure out how to live in a place with a kitchen since then. Buying for oneself is very...fulfilling, in some ways, but scary in the way that I don't know anything about nutrition. To be safe I'm eating as much protein as I can because I still doubt that I'll end up getting enough. Also, I learned to play Settlers of Catan. It's great! Enough about that, though! Jewelry!

I'll be starting up again soon. I have two custom pieces in the works...one for a housemate, a very manly soccer player who likes shiny things (oh man, I love my housemates) and one for the review/giveaway I did at http://babesrockinmami.com/ - (Congratulations Daffy!) - so hopefully that will be the kick-in-the-pants I need to get me back on the beadin' path, as they say. They do, I swear. Oh, man, I need sleep.

....And I just realized I never posted here about the review/giveaway. OOPS. That was a full day, I'll blame it on that...it was my 20th birthday. Oh yes, I turned 20. I know, I know, don't tell me I'm young, I already heard it from about 20 people.

Also, this place I'm living: I'm not religious, but now that I'm staying in a Jewish neighborhood, the food is all amazing. Cheese blintzes, the taste of my childhood! Kichel, ruggulah (sp?) and every kind of bagel! Matzah ball soup just like mom used to make, quite literally! I'm hoping to drag my boyfriend over for visits as often as possible so I can expose him to all the foods I loved (and hated...gefilte fish? blech.) growing up. I LOVE this town!

Bed time for Leo. Please forgive her her incomprehensibility.