The Joy of Glass

Sitting in the chemo room with Aaron while he gets injected with poisons. Platelets were low today so he's only getting 1/2 the medication. Our friend Bob stopped by to say hi before Aaron went in to the Benedryl sleep. Right now I'm glad I was layed off. The whole no paycheck thing sucks but I'm getting unemployment and I get to spend the time with Aaron which is more important to me. It's also less stressful for me since I'm not exhausted with a list of things that still need to be done after getting home at 6 or 6:30. I'm torn between wanting to look for a job because I feel like I need to be working since I always have. BUT every time I think about looking I start to have anxiety about not being with Aaron. I feel like time is so precious right now.
We checked into me getting payed to be Aaron's care giver but he has to be receiving Medicaid for that to happen, but there's a another year wait before he qualifies to get on it. Man the system is screwed up. We will be submitting paperwork to see if we finally qualify for government assistance. We've always fallen into the category of make too much to qualify but don't make enough to get what we need. Plus I'll need some type of insurance for my prescriptions. I've never been one who was willing to or wanted to "live off the government" but I kinda feel at this point that I've payed into it for about 10 years now and 6 or 7 months isn't going to drain the system. Plus I'll never actually get to collect the social security I've paid into either. So I'll take that now please Uncle Sam.
Last week I went to do glass fusing. It's both a method of stress relief and hopefully a way to bring in some extra money. I set up a shop on Etsy.com and Aaron registered the name joyofglass.us for me. I'm really hoping this takes off and I'm able to do jewelry and glass work enough to have an income.
Thanks to some friends who let have the use of they're beach house we were able to get away to Lincoln City this last weekend. It was beautiful weather. I walked from the house down to the beach at one point to see the tide pools. This consisted of walking up and down two fairly steep hills and down 125 stairs to reach the beach where I then walked out a ways to get to the tide pools. Of course this was followed by the return trip UP 125 stairs and up and down the same two steep hills to get back. I claim brief insanity for thinking this was a good idea. The tide pools were beautiful. I was able to see so many star fish and sea anemones, which I have never seen outside the aquarium. There were huge rocks covered in muscles and barnacles as well. So amazing. Of course it's three days later and I still can't flex my calf muscles without wincing. I guess I can claim that as equivalent to three days on the wii fit.
So the rest of this week I plan on working around the house and making jewelry to put on the website. I'm excited about the new beads I got at a shop on the coast. Please tell your friends about my jewelry and new website www.joyofglass.us. I'd love to have to make more to replace what's sold.