FlashJasmyn

Remember that whole bit I wrote yesterday about me taking at LEAST 45 minutes to get ready? Well – today I had an 8am meeting at work. I woke up at 7:19. I left the house at an amazing 7:34 – showered, smelling good, superficially lotioned and unwrinkled. I won’t be telling Corey about that – as then I will be expected to do this on a regular basis. Not gonna happen.

I called and talked to Mommy the Nurse about the gallbladder thing. She said go to the doctor too. *sighs* I am so freaking SICK of going to the doctor. I feel like between me and the cats all I have done for the past 3 months is go to the doctor. BAH!  But, I guess I’ll be going. Shame there isn’t some sort of test I could take that would tell me if I really needed to go.  Yes – I’m being difficult. 

Hm. I finally ordered Corey’s ring.  I can’t remember if I mentioned the fact that he didn’t like the one I got him *shrugs* and hasn’t worn it since *slightly hurt shrug*  but now I am getting him a new one so THERE. It’s titanium and it’s cute – just not my style. Ah well – we can’t surprise each other with jewelry that’s for sure.

Have I mentioned my new jewelry obsession? Antique rings.  I’m considering changing the setting of my ring for the wedding rather than actually getting a separate band. Hell – I might change the setting AND get a separate band.  But anyhow – the styles that I am drawn to are the antique ones. Mostly the filigree and engraving on them more than anything else. Maybe I will get a garnet band – that would be nice. Heh.

I need to write on the latest theme – but I haven’t quite sat down and thought about it.

Once again I have less than nothing to w rite about.  And quite naturally – no work to do. *sigh*

Jasmyn

Easy - Like Sunday Morning

Ummm…..

It’s Sunday – around 1:15pm. I’m sitting on the couch watching the TLC /Lisa Lopes memorial stuff on VH1. They just got finished showing behind the music – and now they are showing their videos in order of release. *sighs* TLC is/was one of my favorite bands. Ah so…


I have absolutely nothing to write about…I just felt like writing something today so I’m spewing. I might come up with something interesting.

I haven’t heard back from my old boss yet – nor have I heard back from the friend who had a fit when I told him I was engaged. *sighs* I hven’t called back LittleOne yet either….he left me & Cor a nice little message a few days ago. I just hate calling people when I don’t really have the time or energy to totally focus on them – ya know? So…my phone communication skills suck. I need to call Nee too… I haven’t talked to her since her little sister had the baby (on my birthday nonetheless.) So yeah – duties I need to fulfill to be not a slacker. *sigh*

Jasmyn isn’t really my name (as anyone who has communicated with me from here through mail most likely knows) My real name is actually damn cool – which is why I have the whole name change issue thing going on. I actually LIKE Jasmyn Corey-Last-Name. In fact, it’s one of the pseudonyms that I love to use – it just sounds right. So – I have this issue where I use one name when I initially meet people (esp. from online) and then I forget whether or not I used Jasmyn or my real name. *grins* Well…it’s fun. Then sometime I feel goofy about using a name that’s not really mine – and I have considered changing my name to Include Jasmyn as part of it when I get married. :) So I will be making my name really really long (5 names – youch!!!) But then I can legally use any combination thereof. *grins* When (my head & heart both chimed in with IF! IF! - traitors) I get published I want to use Jasmyn Corey-Last-Name as my author name. Not sure why – maybe I think that I will just be amazingly famous, and it will be easier if I don’t use my ‘real’ name as a famous author. :) Heh. don’t I have big dreams?

Something vaguely creepy happened to me yesterday at work – I was complaining to a coworker how I have been feeling really sore and gassy and just icky about 20-30 minutes after I eat unless I ate something really light like a salad – and the lady who I was ringing up asked me if my shoulder blades hurt. I ‘checked’ and they were sore and achy feeling. She then (the customer) said that it sounds like I have a gallbladder problem and I might want to get that looked into. Then! two of my other coworkers mentioned how they had family who had a similar problem and that really! I should get that checked out. *sighs* What is UP with me?? Anyhow, I came home and checked out some info on gallbladder problems. Interestingly enough – these are the risk factors: include female sex (check!) oral contraceptive use (check!), increasing age (no- but if I remember right this was because of decreased estrogen production – and interestingly enough according to the pill popping physician that is why I have been bleeding for the past 3 freaking weeks – low estrogen. My voice isn’t getting deep or anything though), fertile (check!), obesity(check!), diabetes mellitus(no), chronic alcohol ingestion(umm –maybe – I drink every weekend – a good bit too – but what do they consider to be chronic?) , and African-American(check!) or Asian ethnicity(no).
So – out of a possible 9 risk factors – I fit into 6 maybe 7 of them. So – now I am going to start keeping a closer lookout on what causes the gas fits. Supposedly, if you have gallbladder problems they occur after every meal more or less, but they are much much worse after a fatty meal. Yesterday the meal I had that made me start complaining was a slice and a half of some rather greasy pizza. And off hand – I know that I had noticed that greasy/fatty stuff made me gassy and icky feeling. So…off to the doctor I go AGAIN. Damn.

Hm. It’s almost 1:40pm now. Corey took my car to go to work this morning – but I need to go to work at LB tonight and he said he would bring it back around 3:30…and I really need to be ready to go then. Sadly enough, it usually takes me about 45 minutes to an hour to get ready. And it’s not like I’m a primp queen (if I moisturize my face before I walk out the car that is a GOOD day) it’s just that most times I’m only half awake and besides – why rush? So…. I kinda need to go and start getting ready. Bleh. I wish I had the car cuz I would get dressed, hop in, and go driving listening to my TLC albums. Eh. Instead I guess I Will get up and figure out what I’m going to wear. Bah. I wanna wear some jeans.




Oh yeah - I'm loving these colors.




Jasmyn

Happy Friday Brain Purge

There was this very friendly gentleman who used to be a security guard here named Frank. And every Friday, Frank would be sitting at the front desk, greeting people with a very cheery “Happy Friday” as they came in. Most people would respond in kind…and it was cool cuz it sounded not the least bit cheesy when Frank said it, or when people said it back to him. I think it sounded so sincere because he truly was sincere about wishing people a Happy Day. *sighs* Frank retired, but every Friday that I come to work I hope it’s a happy one.

I’m still working on designing this ring o’mine. One of the jewelry boards that I participate in has had an ongoing debate about copyright laws surrounding jewelry design. It started when someone who wanted a Tacori imitation, with some subtle changes that they had approached Tacori about making, but Tacori refused to make the changes - approached one of the custom jewelers on the board to make this ring for her. So this lady went to another jeweler, and this bru-ha-ha came up. It’s an odd thing to wrap my mind around, considering how rabid I am about copyright when it comes to writing (I think plagiarists should be suspended by their writing hand over a pit of hot lava) but yet I quite casually wear a Tiffany knock-off on my left hand…and have not a scrap of guilt about it. I think it comes down to a matter of accident. There are only but SO many ways to make a solitaire ring – there’s a round part you stick your finger through, 3 to 8 prongs that hold the stone in and a rock of some sort. I’m sure someone who is more math friendly than me can figure out exactly how many realistic combinations that comes to, but I know it’s not infinite. So – if two people totally separate design the same thing at close to the same time – but one person is a designer for a major label and the other person is Jo Shmoe – that (to me) isn’t copyright violation. Taking the basic design of something and adding changes that the designer won’t make – and getting a single unique ring made – to me that isn’t copyright violation either. There are some jewelers on the board who think that both are – and while I can understand their concerns – I think it’s a bit much. Especially when the designers themselves don’t seem to mind much…unlike Disney. :)
Anyhow – that has ‘flavored’ my ring design process. I want something very unique, but I know that there is not that much that HASN’T been done (esp. in the non froofy band I want) so I’m hunting for ways to pull it off. I need to go back to those chi-chi jewelry stores I was in before and look around more. So far – I know that I want a band with multiple princess garnets set in it. I would like it to have filigree around it somehow, and I would like it to be somewhat openwork. I know that you have to have a base for the filigree (or a rim around it) so I’m not sure how well openwork will work with that – but I’m trying. So – I go out on the net at look at designers that I know are well known for their filigree work (like Tacori) to see how they did it, what designs they had, and so forth – just to get an idea of what is feasible. Now though, I feel vaguely guilty about it – like I’m stealing something - even though most of Tacori’s stuff is 1) way tooooo froofy and 2) waaaaayyyy too damn expensive and 3) most likely would not substitute garnets for the diamonds anyway. *sighs* Bleh.

I’m on call for work tonight – and while I expect that I will have to go in (enough to bring a change of clothes as we can’t wear jeans), I’m madly hoping that I don’t have to go in. *crosses fingers* Speaking of which – after weeks and weeks of getting Tuesday and Thursday off (so much so that I had made plans for next Thursday as I thought I wouldn’t have to work that night) of course, I have to work. It presents more of a problem for the Lilly job, as I already have to cut out of here right on time (4:30) so coming in late or running errands during the days that I do work at night is a bad thing. Next week I have my first dentist appt for the deep cleaning of me teeth (must talk about my TB later) on – you guessed it Thursday. And it’s at 10:30!! So, I think I might come to work super early – take an early & long lunch, then traipse on over to LB.
Okay – now to talk about my wonderful toothbrush. It’s an electric one (the Braun UltraDeluxe thingy) and it’s just WONDERFUL. It has a set two minute timer (it’s amazing how long of a time that is) and it has a small head (good for me small mouth) and my teeth just get soooo much cleaner! Anyhow – I like it…and Slate did a shopping comparison and voted it the best Electronic TB among them all.

Reading one of my new favorites, I saw an old note on her diary that was from one of my old favorites who vanished, and whose diary name I couldn’t fully remember. After respotting several of my old fav’s when we made the switch to FeeOD, I was hoping that I could find her too. Ah well – she is no where to be found (at least under the old name(s). ) So – if anyone knows who/where KateAAF, or *Wendy* (she changes her name so dang much!) is – I would love to ‘find’ them again.

Man – I have been hopping around on subjects today. Just doing a brain purge.

Happy Friday!

Jasmyn