It's been a while again

It's been a while since I've done a blog post, 10 days to be exact, so a while but not a long time. I really like to write more, but just haven't had the energy lately. You see, I've been sick since shortly before Thanksgiving.

It started with just a headache and slowly that sometimes headache went to an all the time headache and I had a whole host of other health difficulties thrown in there for good measure. I ended up at the doctor a week ago and he basically thought I had "the crud" and a sinus infection. Thus I got an antibiotic. I kind of hate meds of all kinds, but especially I hate antibiotics. They always upset my stomach any more.

So anyhow, it's a week later and tonight I take the last of my antibiotic so you'd think I'd be feeling better. I am mostly, but not completely. I'm still running a low grade fever (in the 99s mostly but sometimes creeping up just over 100) and I just feel blah in general. I don't have too many specific symptoms I can put a finger on anymore, just the general not well feeling. I think I'll give things a few more days and see how they go before calling back to see if I need to be seen again and/or another round of antibiotics. You'd think though that if this was some sort of bacterial infection the antibiotics would be helping more. I'm leaning toward some type of virus, which an antibiotic won't help anyhow.

Yep that's pretty much been my life for the last few weeks. It takes all of my energy to get out of bed, play stupid Facebook games, sometimes nap and cook dinner. By 9 or so I'm exhausted. Also I ended up giving it to my mom. She's on the same antibiotics as I am, but she got hers about 2 weeks sooner into her illness than I did. Hopefully hers doesn't hang on as long.

Thanksgiving 2011 911

Yes, we haven't even had a full week of November yet and I'm already planning one very specific meal I will eat in about 3 weeks. I'm a firm believer in planning ahead. PLUS, we always cook for about 40 and rarely, if ever, have fed more than 10 at once. We can't help cooking so much, the leftovers are just too yummy!

Goodbye October, Hello November

I've decided that this will be a monthly post about what goals I have for the current month and how I did with goals from the past month. I will choose about 5 goals for each month. Sometimes these will be large goals and sometimes they will be smaller goals, but they'll all be things that should be achievable in each month.

So here goes for October/November.

I started October with the following Etsy goals:

• 4 sales
• 100 items in my shop
• 200 FB fans (http://www.facebook.com/HandmadeCreativity if you're interested)
• Get a decent stock pile of paper products printed (~25 of each should do)
• Organize my craft area a little better 

And how did I do?

• 3 sales
• At max I had 86 items in my shop
• 159 FB fans
• Still only have less than 10 of my paper products (business cards, labels, etc.) printed
• My craft area was organized better, but it has since exploded again

So what do I want for November?

• 5 sales
• 100 items in my shop
• 175 FB fans
• Get more storage for craft area
• Come up with 2 new products or 2 new uses for existing products, even if they can't be implemented just yet