reemergance of the gloomkitty

so, this past week hasn't been all that great. for anyone really what with the economy, congress still not agreeing on a stimulus package, and everything else happening in the world. in my small corner of it, things are looking pretty grim after this past week. my work has finally been hit directly by the economic downturn, so they let some people go. thankfully i'm not one of those people, but it's all the more disturbing when i had a dream two nights before where i was at work (some people and things the same, some different...you know how dreams are) and a person who was apparently a manager walked up and told two people to get out. they then proceeded to talk to my remaining department and told us about what had happened and that we hadn't heard any of it from them as it was on the downlow. *sigh* yeah...real wonderful dream followed by real life events. thankfully the company is self-sustaining at this point and, sadly since we're in the turn-around and growing stage, we can't grow thanks to things going that are impairing the company that currently owns us from providing the funding we need. bad enough that we work with banks in various ways...now we don't know what the future will hold. the comfort in this is that i'm fairly certain that i'm okay at this point *knock on wood* as i've got a large portfolio of skills from my years at the company and my department is somewhat specialized. really, there's only four of us and no one else really knows how to do what we do. anyone coming into the work we do would have a huuuuuge amount to learn and would take months to get up to speed (this is based off of what has happened each time we've had a new hire).

*sigh* okay...enough bellyaching about work.


on the doll front, i'm completely in love with amber and was hoping to get her, but now i don't have the funds to do so thanks to someone not paying me like he should. *grumbles* i keep hoping some miracle will happen and i'll be able to get her down the road - like soom ending up getting one sent back and thus restocking her or someone getting her and deciding they really don't want her and putting her up in the doa mp for a non-exorbitant price. i'm really hoping that soom will release new editions of a few of the monthlies in the future since they list everything as "limited edition" as opposed to purely "limited". it wouldn't bother me if they released heliot in the future in another edition. even if it was the full body and heads the same as now, but with different makeup, clothing, accessories, etc. hell, i'd probably be tempted to get him myself!

speaking of heliot...i just sent my second payment in on him! :D one payment closer to him being home! now just three to go...hopefully less if i can manage...

hmm...maybe soom will do the (eastern/)chineese zodiac this year? maybe they'll release a mecha angel sized heliot...omg...my wallet is already weeping...

i can't believe it's already almost been a year since i received my first doll package...on the 21st it will have been a year since winter and azerian arrived! how things have changed in that time...i've gone pretty hardcore into the hobby since then. well, hardcore for me that is. i'll write a retrospective about it later, though, once i have year one group photos. :)

the next two saturdays are going to be pretty big days...i'm hiding away from the world on the 14th, and then there's year one anniversary and a doll meet on the 21st. i'm really hoping some certain people show up at the doll meet so i can hang out with them...and hoping that certain people bring certain dolls so that i can make patterns off of them so that my heliot has something to wear. :| aside from that...maybe i should make some stuff to sell...mind you, i can make felt messenger bags and beaded necklaces. whoo. soooo interesting and the little timid part of me is telling me that no one will buy them. yeah. i'm waaaay shy in certain situations.

case in point? thursday night. it was the first thursday art walk and i went out to visit friends. visited my buds over at stir/bartersauce/ugly baby and hung out with them for a bit, then pulled one of them off to gallery ok since she never gets out to see shows. gallery ok is now in it's second month at the old mnemonic space in 4 south at 619. so i went and visited and looked through a few of the studios on the floor open for the walk. this included studio x17. and, of course, i wanted to tell the artist that i loved her paintings of dolls (which weren't labeled as such) but felt waaaay too embarrassed to do so since, well, yeah..."hi! i love your doll paintings! they're even better in person! i can't wait to see what you do with xxx's heliots!" "uhh...who are you? how do you know this stuff?" yeeeeaaaah...social anxiety +10, fenris -2 million. -_- total art crush on her work though.

blah...long post...props to anyone who got through my inane rambling. maybe i'll post up a story bit next? meh, right now i'm gonna go cruise doa and then watch me some sukiyaki western django! :D