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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.

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I have a new project. Well an old project that got put on hold due to the rioting in Kenya (seriously!) and now we are back on a timeline. The project is for the KeFA: A Kenya Free of AIDS project. I love the client (who is so incredibly active doing good stuff in the world that I get lots of work from her), I love the cause, I love the design that we hammered out, and I’m in heaven.

This is what I went back to school at 40 to do. What I moved in with my parents, at the age of 40, to do.

I love the code. I love the art. I love working on projects that matter in the world, I could never work for say, amazon or microsoft, I love being busy.

So here I am, coding up some new pages, working with style sheets, basically have a really great time.

Oh Happy Day…

Facilitated meeting finally scheduled

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I am soliciting ideas from you all… ( MAGICAL IDEAS only.  My bad, I didn’t specify… )

I’ve written up my issues and goals for resolution. I’ve sent it off for review with God’s Rottweiler. I’m registered for classes on Emotional Intelligence and Project Management and have two communication classes in the queue for Autumn. I’ve got my ducks in a row.

The meeting is scheduled for June 19th, the day after the full moon. I really want to do some kind of working the night before.

Wish list for the meeting:

  • Clearly able to communicate
  • Stay calm and don’t let him get to me, let him show his true colors without me reacting to him
  • Validation

I know that I have to let go of the outcome. I’ve irons in fires. Things are finally moving after a very sluggish spring (lovely weather predicted this weekend after the coldest spring on record since 1891). I need to have solutions to work with whether he owns his behavior and responsibility of not.

I’ve got some ideas, the first of which was creating the Blue Star button on my third eye.

What have y’all got that is positive and for the greater good? To help me stay sane while I work through this challenge?

Where am I going?

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I spent the last four days, when not wrapped up in family stuff, playing with the idea of cutting my hours at work to 90%. I figured taking every other Friday off would feel absolutely amazing… And it would. But due to some things beyond my control it’s just too much to lose financially at the moment. And that is why, I think at least to some degree, I am depressed today.

I do have new website I’m working on for a client and it feels good to be back doing what it is I love doing. Populating the eNews is so frikking boring I can’t begin to tell you how much I hate being back at administrative stuff again.

There just isn’t enough actual web work to keep me interested.

I received two emails today.

One from a local temporary head hunter outfit that is requesting my resume and portfolio. I can do that this week. They never know from one day to the next what they will have to offer so it’s a pretty risky deal… Especially since I would probably end up getting jobs that were full time for maybe six weeks, instead of regular part time work at say 15/20 hours per week.

The second email is from a friend who is a publicist working with authors. Who are evidently clamoring for websites. We were already planning on getting together this week and she informed me that she plans on talking about this a lot.

And I’m back on track considering cutting back my hours.

What I have to do this

  • The software
  • The skillz
  • The inclination
  • Great part time benefits at my current employer, full benefits in fact if I work 50% or more.

What I would need to be able to do this

  • I need to manifest a new laptop if I’m going to do this. When my old clunker at home got just too darned old I gave it away and haven’t missed having a computer at home. Not one jot.
  • I would need to manifest 40% of my post tax salary to do this, more would be better
  • Get that resume up to date
  • Courage and deep breathing exercises

I don’t think I could do option 1 and I don’t know if I would like it.  But I think that perhaps option 2 just might be possible.  Need to muse on this some more…