Am I missing her posts or is she traveling, working, playing, doing whatever? Miss you and your messages!

Haven't seen hide nor hair of our sweet Meredith either, bet shes busy creating wonderful pieces for all the fairs and selling opportunities coming up. Plus being the Poet lauriate must be a time consuming responsibility as well...Hope alls well with her after her cactus fiasco.

This is funny. I emailed her yesterday morning to see where she's been. She is busy with her craft shows and will be back in a couple days.

Do yourself a favor and check out her jewelry. I have bought quite a bit. It's beautifully created and arrives within a couple days. You can get to her site through one of her posts, or in the Women's Atrisans section on the LINKS page.

I'm here!!! I'm here!!!!

An update on the insanity that passes for my life:

1. The Yard. After 2 weeks of being jerked around by both homeowners assosiation and regular insurance, both HOA and Allstate decided that none of the damage is covered. 2 days later, HOA sent us an official letter telling us our yard was an eyesore and we had to clean it. Yeah, your yard would be an eyesore too if a 25' cactus uprooted and took with it all the landscaping on that side of the house, and all of the above was basically everywhere. We called one person about doing the work but they haven't gotten back. Husband and I put in a little time cleaning what we could get to, but still need a chainsaw to cut the cactus. Still can't get into our yard except through the garage.

2. and I have company coming Friday and Saturday, which means that we NEED to do some housecleaning.

3. and as far as the poetry programs: we're having 3 workshops this quarter as our main program, and one month ago presenter #3 cancelled, which means that I had to get someone else ASAP. I had spent three hours getting publicity together for the person who cancelled and it was all ready to go, and then I had to do everything all over again for the new person.

4. the website thingy: got the new website but NEVER got the intro letter telling me how to log into my account to edit etc. Sent several emails before I got a human reply, and all tripod said was "we already sent you that info; you should check your junk mail settings blahblah." To which I replied: "been there, done that, ain't there; can you just resend it so I can edit my account already?" to which there was no reply, so I just went in and kept pressing buttons and entering variables for about an hour until I got it to work.

6. and then there were 2 consumer products that were lemons, which translates into 3-4 hours EACH between emails and phone calls. Maybe more; or maybe it just seemed like more because of the aggravation.

7. oh and jewelry -- do I actually still make that stuff? Yeah, I think I remember... it pays the bills or something... Been spending ~12 hours each week just on DISPLAY, cleaning, replacing and whatnot, for the upcoming season. My big season starts in May, every bit as good as December for me with Mothers' Day, graduation, brides et al. So in between the rest of the insanity, I've been making up stock. Plus selling every weekend, to keep up the cash flow.

8. I've been so short on time, I didn't even have the plane tickets for the April 22-24 poetry convention until 11:57 Friday night, leaving me a whopping 2 minutes to still get the "2 weeks in advance" fare.

9. I'm sure there's more, but I'm too exhausted to remember. Getting real close to burnout here.

and THANK YOU Dianne, Chatty and Dotsie for thinking of me!

Meredit, So glad you made it back before imploding. Sounds like you've been very busy. Hope things all work out so you enjoy the poetry fest to the max.
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Geesh Meredith! "And other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"