Man...it's already been almost a month since my last post. The months seem to be going by pretty quickly. Given everything going on in the world, I can't say that I'm disappointed about that.
Now that the kids are older, we don't really do much for Easter. We just have dinner at my grandparents' house. My nieces are the youngest from the immediate family, so we don't do any egg hunts or anything anymore. It's just nice to be able to spend some quality time with the family. :)
I've been feeling pretty blah lately. I've still been dealing with a lot of pain in my back and shoulder. It's making sleep difficult. I've also been dealing with a lot more stomach pain. I've had pelvic adhesive disease as a result of abdominal surgery that I had to have in 2010. When I went to have my tubes tied about a year later, they couldn't even find one of my fallopian tubes because there was so much scar tissue. While subsequent surgeries aren't recommended...I think I'm going to talk to my family doctor about having a total hysterectomy and doing what they can about the existing scar tissue. So we'll see how that goes. I'm not excited about the idea of more abdominal surgery...but 15 years is a long time to deal with issues that seem to just keep getting worse. And it's not like I'm using my uterus anymore or anything. :P
With how crappy I've been feeling, I'm glad that work has been slow. It was slower last April, too. It's just that time of year. But the number of orders I've had so far this month is still 20% higher than this point last year, and my revenue so far this month is 86% higher. If it continues to be slow this week, I think I'm going to work on uploading designs to my Faire site. I haven't kept up with uploading my designs over there...so I want to work on that. I really need to work on my eBay listings as well.
We took the dogs to the vet last week to get their annual vaccines. They were such good puppies. Nova was excited to see all the people but Boz was nervous, of course. He basically didn't leave my side the whole time. But we got all their shots and everything went smoothly. We also got Nova an allergy shot. In addition to being allergic to chicken...she seems to have seasonal allergies as well. Each spring she starts getting itchy and ends up with hot spots. So far she seems to be doing better than she has the last few years...so hopefully the shot continues to help her. Next we have to schedule Bozley's neuter surgery. Every time we've tried to schedule it in the past...something around the house ends up breaking that we have to pay to fix/replace. :P So...hopefully we can get it scheduled soon. Bozzy still weighs the same...about 65lbs. Chunky Nova needs to lose some weight though. ;) She was up quite a bit from when she got her shots last year.
Well...I'm going to package orders to go out tomorrow and then might go to bed early (well...earlier than normal).