Tagged For the 23rd post

Blue Dog Art Tagged me - but I just found this out after I was reading hers...and I am only 2 posts past that 23rd...

Here are the rules:

1. Go into your archives.
2. Find your 23rd post.
3. Find the 5th sentence (or close to it.)
4. Post that, along with these rules, in your blog.
5. Tag 5 people.

And the 5th sentence of my 23rd posting was:

"The water is only 5 small cuts, so I will take a look at it next Tuesday and see if I want to recut those before I start to wrap all of the glass up."

I was talking about the fairy window, that I just finshed with this week. I do have to say that I was much happier with the new water than I was with the first colors and shapes that I had picked...

So for the others to Tag :
1. tiny robot
2. The Hindsmers
3. Blue Dog Art (but she is the one who tagged me)
4. Glass Hole Studios ( has left a comment)
5. Sophiagrrl


In other news I just found out that the newest of the roommates has accepted a job in another state and will be moving at the end of the year - so yet again I will have to do the roommate search for Jan which is a pain in the ass cuase no one wants to move then...and its not like I can just split the house with the remaining roommate cuase as of now I dont even have a job - thanks to the lay off...another thing to add to the stress of life these days

I dont have a job but I have my glass.

Its been a full week since I was formerly "let Go" and I have had many mixed
emotions about it all - there have been some good days and then there are have
been some bad/hard days.  The hopes of the job lined up from last week did
not come through - but I am working up in the studio tonight, helping Madeline
with a new stainglass class in trade for the stainglass window of the fairy
that was completed last night.  OK so having all day Tuesday to spend in the
studio -- might be one of the highlights of having the week off.  I was really
hoping that I would have something lined up by this Friday for next week -- OK
so I have 2 days to day that -- not so sure if that is going to happen but maybe
an interview with media barn will happen.

Yesterday up in the studio I took some glass blobs that we found over the
weekend at the Maryland Renn Fair - that have eched patterns on them-and made
them into necklaces. So there might be another thing to make with the blobs,
that is if we can find some tiny stencils.  While we were there I got to see the
glass blower and I wanted so bad to be in there blowing myself again...I want
another trip out to Old Way to blow...I did get a sun disk to hang in the
window -- now which window that remains in the air for today.  They had other
glass artist - the stainglass looked like kits and the fusers need to fuse their
glass a little longer - they still have the sharp edges...but I have to say the
FOOD was unreal, the people watching excellent, and the cheap gas at wahwah
($2.45) was something we had not seen in months...to bad we had just filled up
at 2.64 and thought that was a good deal....at least we got some good coffee.

So on Tuesday I decide that I wanted to spend the afternoon in the studio
finishing the fairy...which it took me all afternoon to finish it up...I am
happy with the way it turned out.  After a lot of tweaking and grinding of the
final piece it came together. I will post a picture when I can - for now this
little mac does not even have the port for me to even plug the camera in to down
load the new ones.  Another Christmas gift off the list.

So when I went up there Tuesday afternoon I meet the lady that I have heard
was a pain in the ass (well I found out that she is another one of the crazy
cat ladies). She Talked NONE stop, and repeating things over and over, and
hogged the kilns so I was glad I was not up there to fuse.  She then got all
snippywith another one of the Fusers, Patti, who has been fusing for a much longer
time - the talked offered the kiln to Patti and when she was not ready at then
she waited about 5 min and jumped in front of her and took over the kiln that
Patti had been planning on using - so there were a few word said - OK so
patti could have taken her for sure.  But its like a list of rules need to be
posted about manners and not hogging 3 of the 4 kilns at once.

So when I was finished with the window - I came home for dinner and went back
up there for night class and to see all of my friends and I fused for the
first time in a month...trying some glass I had never seen there...it was orange
and the  funny thing is one of the pieces is very orange and the other one
looks pink...I also tested the expensive glass for color and the silver pen for
burn off - which it did not do- but the silver did  not stay very silver - so I
might have to play with that some time soon.

Not sure what I will do up there next week - but I have say that sometime you go
where everybody knows your name and there always glad you came- so for me it is not
a bar but the glass studio and I will take it.

laid off and no sleep - makes a stressed out Had

So all I can say is that it has been a sh...y week and that is all that I can say about it…ok not really…I can say a lot more, I am pissed off, I am sad, I am stressed out, I am laid off and I can’t sleep through the whole night. I really miss my Mimi right now because she would have had the perfect thing to say to me about all of this. I have to believe that there is something better out there and that job that wake up in the morning for and look forward to going to is out there. It might be the best thing that could happen 6 months down the road but for now life is a little STRESSED. Ok so it could be worse I did get a package of 2 months but that is 6 weeks away…till then I will do what I need, even if that means picking up extra hours at Gap during the week. But hopefully the connection with a former manager (who left AOL close to 2 years ago and started his own business) will get me closer to a job – when I left on Tuesday Dave was like call Jason he might have something for you as a production artist…so I called him on Wednesday morning, heard back from him on Wednesday afternoon- requested a resume…I spent the rest of the day and into the evening working on updating my resume (thanks Jackie for all of the formatting and embellishing –aka BS that a resume involves) So that I can tweak it in the morning – ok so I was not thinking of 4.30 am but here I am awake typing this out cause I really need to go for a swim or run or a bike ride…(I am waiting for the running shoes that I ordered 2.5 months ago – the tracking number says they are on the way here- should be here today) Damn it I no longer have a gym -…and the old running shoes got a good bit of paint on them at volunteer day at a local school – at least I was not in the office on Friday and left early on Monday. And why did I wear running shoes to work on Tuesday cause I don’t think I had ever worn them there in the 5.5 years that I worked in that office – bouncing all over cc1.

I was writing this in Times Roman, and had to change cause it was about to piss me off- what an over used font – (this is also a result of working on the resume) ok so you Can see the brain is working in over time Hadley – bouncing from one thing to the next – if you can keep up that means you really know me by now and if not well read it again- . I don’t work well on little sleep. So I am in the dark glow of the computer typing…maybe if I get some of this out I can sleep in the morning.

So I am flipping back and forth with the resume and this and it is almost 6 – what the hell am I doing up- STILL-there is an almost full moon over my head in the sky light- So I should say something about glass…the fairy window has had a few more adjustments but I am happier about the water change and the way it is fitting together now. I only have to grind some of the last pieces but I should have it wrapped before next Tuesday so I can put it all together. (remember stainglass is a little cheaper than fusing but no Xerox now so who knows what I will do next- but the holidays are right around the corner so maybe I can get the sales going) So on Tuesday when I walked in they all clapped and were happy to see me – they all thought that I would be out at a bar having a drink – but no Tuesday is glass night and I needed that little bit of normalcy cause I knew it was going to be the last of it for a while. We had a few strangers return from a 6 month break (welcome back girls) – they are all coming back- And then in walks Cindy and Leah – sad to see me leaving – but they had a yellow m&m shaped ice-cream cake and glitter dyed flowers for me…it felt more like my birthday than my lay off…but they just wanted to show me that they were going to miss me at work. (Remember the pond on a day when you really need a break from the office – and school store runs for chocolate) So now they are just going to have to come to Alexandria on Tuesdays to see me and the rest of the crazy glass ladies and guy.

And in the middle of all of this crazy morning hours I check my email and I have one from Cindy saying that she has designed a t-shirt in my honor and all of her sleepless hours - if you want to see it -(www.designrabbit.com/blog )…and it made me cry – but then again I have made her cry this week too by having to leave. This is not a vacation this is reality that I have to find something cause I want to be here and I want to stay here…I will make it happen and hope that things will always be a little easier than they first were when I moved to DC 6.5 years ago. Could it be worse than that 3 week job at BETv? At least I started some of my Christmas shopping earlier this fall- I think I had something telling me this might happen. And I really don’t think that I had been happy there since Marty left back in August. My job was no longer a challenge it was the same type of thing every day…that is if there was something to do – I had slipped into going in later, leaving closer to 5:30 than 6:30…I looked forward to lunch with the girls and going to the gym – how I will hate missing 20 20 20 and cardio sculpt and kick-boxing…and I will miss my Friday morning coffee from Fatima, telling her good bye was not an easy thing- I made her cry and then I teared up and she was like those stupid people (for laying me off) but said I would be fine and that I would be missed. Maybe I can send another coffee cake via Cindy and Leah to her for the holidays –since her husband ate the one I made her for her birthday. I will miss that place – maybe not the full drive out there but the simple trip over to Wegmans (does this mean I have to go back to the Giant?) the general knowledge of the area – ok so I had been there for 5.5 years – oh and that is some JUNK to haul out of the office on your last day (I can now hear the early morning planes coming in for a landing). At least Elizabeth came and found me in the parking lot and picked up the very over due table that I borrowed from her in May and had been in my trunk all summer – a slacker with that one for sure. And Marty your fridge is now at Leah’s desk, maybe she cleaned it out and defrosted it.

I played the lotto yesterday – the pot was $340 million – I did not even win $3… well I think it is now time to try and craw back into bed and try and get a few hours of sleep now- the sun is about to come up – today is polish off the resume some more…listen to my phone ring and think do I have the minutes left to talk this month…go get my haircut cause if I am doing interviews I need to at least look nice…dig in the closet and find a pair of dress pants that fit to wear to the interviews…and stop by Madeline’s Holiday Show at her house and get some of the chocolate covered peanut brittle (that stuff is SOOO GOOD) and get that run/swim/ or bike in there too. Oh and to make calls for the placement center to go on Friday afternoon if I am not meeting with Jason by then, find out about my 410k balance and if I have worry about that, stock and insurance are 2 weeks away but the list is growing and the notes by the side of the bed are too – of what I need and want to do and in between the sleep and the dreams that keep waking me up and making me talk in my sleep. Stress it is such a great thing – maybe my glasses will come in this afternoon and I can see the next time I am up at 4:30 am working on the computer.

There back and I can see clearly now.

The masses of people who were missing last week returned this week. The studio was full, not packed but with the changing weather and the holidays starting to creep up on us more people will start to show who have not been there in months.

I got a better picture of the star over the weekend, you can see all of the colors now. I finished cutting all of the glass for the fairy however now I am not crazy about the glass that I picked for the water. The water is only 5 small cuts, so I will take a look at it next Tuesday and see if I want to recut those before I start to wrap all of the glass up. I am not in a rush right now to get it finished.

The new dichroic arrived in the mail on Tuesday from PJ, I did not fire it up last night...I think that I am going to order some of the clear glass this week, but I need to wait till Friday (sat is pay day) since the money for glass went to getting new lenses for my glasses (cause the flex card would not work). I went to the eye doctor this morning to pick up the new contacts and to ask about getting the lenses replaced in my old frames ( I have some flex spending money that I need to use up) and they are like your right eye in those glasses is so off we are not sure if you would pass your drivers test with those. So the girl at the front desk made me leave them - so no glasses for the next week, at least I have new contacts. So bring the world into focus.

Stars in the air

This is the star that I stabbed my hand with while wrapping the glass...Ok so the stab mark is just now healing from 3 weeks ago, maybe it was deeper than I thought. The other star, well I did not take a picture of it before I gave it to Emily and Paul as a house warming gift. I came up with this pattern a few years ago thinking that I would make tree toppers but that never happened...I tend to give them as housewarming gifts.

So this past Tuesday it was so nice in the studio, only 5 of us were there. It was good group of people and it reminds me of why I go up there. The one night that I plan on starting a stainglass piece no one was there to fuse. With 4 open kilns, I should have fused, but I was waiting on new glass, that I ended up getting outbid on all but one in the last hour, and one in the last min. So I want to order new glass...I have been on a search for some new clear, everyone seems to be making it on black right now and it limits you to what you can do with it. So I think I will make a big order of clear from an ebay store that Madeline recommended for the holiday. I did turn some new things into Hoopla, even some Christmas trees for the season...I am happy with how they turned out. Maybe after I get some new glass I will be ready to fuse again for the last minute Christmas purchasers.

In the past few weeks I have gone back to stainglass, taking a break from fusing...I was sick of having to fight to get into the kilns and I needed to make some gifts. So it started with the very late wedding gift, which turned into the stars, and now I am doing a Christmas gift. Yeah, I know, a little early but then again it will be here before we know it and I did not want to be rushed to finish this one...And with 44 pieces I was thinking it was going to take 3 to 4 weeks to finish it up. On Tuesday I managed to get the outside pieces cut, having to recut one piece 3 times to get the grain of the glass going in the right direction. So now all I have left to cut is the fairy on the inside, her wings are going to be iridescence clear and she is going to blue...The fairy is kneeling on some rocks with her hand in the water, the background is going to be like trees and a sun set sky. I can just add it to another Christmas gift that I can cross off my list early this year...Even though it will be the end of October by the time it is finished.

Speaking of Christmas gifts, I got Carson and Parker's at Art on the Ave over the weekend. They are each getting hooded towels, Parker is getting a frog and Carson is getting Spiderman. And one of them is getting a Brazilian tree frog hat. Tiffany requested no toys since they will be moving in the spring. I also bought a new turtle necklace and mini bud vase which is magnetic from a company from NC and a new belt that says "drink beer" that I cant wait to get. I LOVE Art on the Ave...However I am glad that I did not do the show cause there was just to much glass there this year. I found out that in the spring there will be a new place to eat and see art...Someone is opening a bistro / art gallery with a dark room and studio space in the old dry cleaners, what a great idea. Delray is such a rocking place.