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About Cynthia

I am a textile artist, embroiderer, wood burner, costumer, painter, and weaver who sees magic and change in the chain stitch and a well done Palestrina knot. I wish I had more control over the ways of the human world but alas, all I can control are my actions and my attitude in life and the consistency of my stitches. And sometimes even that doesn’t pan out as hoped and I must rip rip rip.

Cancer for the Week

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One of the most famous pop culture icons in Indonesia died last July. Mak Erot, who was over a hundred years old, was renowned for her skill in helping men develop more sizable reproductive organs. The official story was that she used nothing more than prayers and herbs, but there are hints that she also had supernatural powers. She’s your patron saint this week, Cancerian, even if you’re a woman. I am calling on her inspiration, and I hope you will too, to help you lengthen and strengthen your inner, metaphorical phallus, by which I mean your will to accomplish your dreams.

Not much to say except that “It’s a keeper!”

And that I have updated my mantra for work to:

$50 per hour
20 hours per week
Flexible location and hours
Lovely people

Just applied for what looks like the perfect job.  It appeared, just like that, on a Saturday.  Right down the road.  Exactly what the mantra says, every point was in the ad.

Bucky Duo Bed Pillow

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After months of pain, neck pain, occipital pain, migraines, acupuncture, tears, neck rolls, pain meds, the works I bit the bullet and bought a Bucky Duo Bed Pillow.   Some things have worked for a little while, most didn’t work at all.  Last night I tried my buckwheat bolster and while it wasn’t great, there were some size problems, I knew I was on the right track.  Even so, I had to revert back to my regular pillow simply because the bolster wasn’t large enough to support my head AND neck.  And I was awake, AGAIN, at 5:30 in such pain I couldn’t get back to sleep.

Spoke with my acupuncturist and she suggested that because it’s waking me up that it must be a sleep or pillow issue.

I went out immediately and got the Duo pillow.  It is buckwheat hulls on one side and millet hulls on the other. The millet is very quiet, the buckwheat not so much. But they both adjust completely to whatever form I need.  Hollows here, mounds there.  I lay down for about an hour and while my lower neck and shoulders ache my occipital pain is mostly gone and so is the headache.  I think the lower neck and shoulder ache is most likely attributable to the release of tension as it filters down.

Still a lot of pain and tonight I’m going to take a pain pill (thank god for the refill) to take care of this last bit of pain and see how I feel in the morning.  I suspect I’m going to feel better than I have in a long time.

The pillow I’ve been using?  I bought last winter when I replaced all the bedding after The Breakup. And that pillow just wasn’t punching down or getting comfortable. Now that I think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever had a pillow that really worked for me.

The best thing?  This pillow isn’t likely to wear out or get hard and flat. Its’ going to last a very long time and since I sew, when the case wears out I can make another one. Yeah Baby.

I Think You’re Rad

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Yup. That’s what the search engine specialist just said to me. He took a look at my website and that’s what he thinks.

It’s a long story and involve some silliness on the part of a client but…  It forced me to contact this fella to talk about SEO’s.  It’s good because turns out I’m doing just fine. *whew*  But he loved my personal website and said that he couldn’t wait to see the new site I’m working on because my stuff is “rad.”

I needed that today.

While I’m super glad to have the clients I have and the work I have it is still ultra imperative that I find reliable part time work to cover expenses between clients.  And that is taking a little longer than I wish.  But I’m working on visualizing that, getting my ducks in a row.  But some kind of steady employment needs to be in place by the first of the month if I can at all manage this.  Or it’s some kind of holiday retail job for me to fill in until something better comes along.

So.  I’m rad.  My design work is rad.  My code skills are rad.  Thank God.