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Well spring is finally over, and I've moved on to summer flowers.  I must admit, I'm partial to these flower beads (just in case you couldn't tell that!).  This set was created by rufusandroxy.  These earrings are available for purchase in my Etsy shop. 

Summer Flowers Earrings

Ok, I can't help it, I just can't!  I'm addicted to lampwork beads.  Oh I have my favorite lampwork bead makers, and I'm sure there are many more out there waiting for me to discover them....Here's a set of earrings I made today with beads from imakebeads.  They're so luscious you could just pop them in your mouth and eat them.

Luscious Lampwork Earrings

I want to have a bathtub full of lampwork beads.  I want to fill a room with them. A semi truck even!  The colors, techniques, sizes (although I'm very partial to the lentil!)..they're all so amazing!  If you get a chance, visit some of my favorite lampwork bead sellers, and don't forget to check out my Etsy shop for amazing creations made from my lampwork bead addiction! :)

rufusandroxy

imakebeads

avenuebeads

oh my.

Colby got loose last week; i came home one morning & noticed his cage was kind of askew, so i looked inside & he was gone. this is the second or third time the little bugger has gotten out ( i had definitely known that they're great escape artists; i just didn't realize how good) i ripped my entire room apart for a a few hours, them laid down hoping once it was quiet he'd show up, but apparently good manners are lost on pythons.

eric covered corners of the floor of the bungalow with flour so we could see if he was traveling around, but no go. then last night i was looing through my shirts (he'd thrown all my clothes onto my bed so he could put flour in my closet) & low & behold, the little bastard was hanging out on a pair of my jeans. so back into a clean cage & covered with the heaviest books are we. (+ a couple mice so he can hibernate for a while, a 4-day jaunt is enough for a little baby like him)

SO:

i've been reading quite a bit about juice fasting & juicing & all that. mainly because i was interested in doing a detox diet to see if i feel any different. as i don't have a juicer & am not willing to pay 3-400 $ for one, i am going to have to use store bought organic juice, which alllllll juicers say DON'T DO! except i'm not doing this to lose weight or anything like that; i want to detox from solid food to give my digestive system a rest. so i decided to start this morrning & see how i make it through the day. i have a meeting with our Daxco Server reps today & they're bringing lunch so i'm going to have to see what i can do. for now, since i've gotten up (7-ish) i've had a glass of water, a glass of cranberry/pomegrante juice & a half a glass of green goodness from bolthouse farms - seriously, who would think broccoli & garlic could make drinkable juice - apparently when you combine it with apple juice you can make anything palatable. i draw the line at beets, cabbage & of course, tomatoes. i most def. hate tomatoes & only if you remove all my taste buds would i ever think of even sniffing in its direction.

so i have about 2 quarts of the cran/pom juice & one bottle of the green goodness & we'll see how i pass the day. i took 2 psyllium pills this morning since, drinking just juice, my fiber intake will be all of 0 pretty much. if i feel okay by the end of today i'm going to do an oral salt-water enema tomorrow to see if it's everything people have claimed it to be. kep your fingers crossed; i'll update if i break down& eat any food.

i don't know what the hay it is, but i get a sharp pain in my left side, right where people put their "hands over their hearts" under my ribcage. it actually feels like it's my heart but it comes & goes & sometimes it's only when i breathe in & sometimes it just starts up randomly. i've been looking it up online & so far it appears to be something that others get & is normal. but it's freaking me out a lot & i don't have any medical insurance so i can't really see a doctor about it. my mother had said it was stress pains but i'm really not stressed about anything right now - that i know of, anyways. all the things on the web say it's a strained or torn oblique muscle, but i can't figure how exactly i could have gotten that. i had it all day yesterday & i woke up & thought it was gone but it's not. in fact, i bent over to pick something up off the floor & it reappeared with a vengence. when it doesn't hurt, there is no pain, but this expectation of pain. honestly, i'm not sure which is worse.

i don't want to be sick again. i don't want to be sick at all.

i've come to the conclusion that everyone in the known world somehow was brought up with the ability to think of themselves first no matter what. like, if they don't like something, or don't want to deal with something, they just don't. i'm apparently completely deficient in this quality & i wish i wasn't. i would never compromose my morals for someone else, but i also always try to at least make other people happy & i never get anything out of it. like, i'll keep silent if someone wants to go somewhere i don't to eat. i always defer to other people out of, what i was taught, was respect for their opinions & also if i want them to be happy. but i noticed this morning that isn't even appreciated anymore. because the less decisions you make, the more likely people are going to think badly of you. & when you try to explain that you just wanted to make them happy, they get disgusted with you for not speaking your own mind. but when i try to speak my own mind, i'm a bitch. i'm so unbelievably frustrated & i can't find a middle ground. when is someone going to care what i think? when will someone want to hear my opinon - & actually want to hear it?

i can't do anything right anymore, apparently