Still fighting to catch up with...

oh, everything. Damn.

I just spent two full days working on jewellery, actually finishing or near-finishing four pieces, which reduces my To Do list in that area quite a bit. It feels good, but there's still so much old stuff I never finished... most frustratingly, a pair of earrings I promised my mother for Christmas... years ago. I gave her the design and promised I'd make two pairs of earrings from it, one pair from silver and one from gold. (I really liked that design, and she's always having trouble deciding what to wear with what, so I figured making two pairs, in different materials so she could wear them with everything, would be nifty.) Well, and I started on the silver pair, and they turned into a nightmare. And now, years later, they're still a nightmare, still far from finished - in fact, they're so ruined by now, from my repeated attempts to fix some problem or another, that I will have to start over from scratch. Only, the problem that caused them to turn into such a nightmare persists, and so the next attempt will probably end up a nightmare, too. Maybe I should start on the gold pair instead - gold is said to be easier to work with, especially in cases like this (pieces that require lots of very precise soldering), and I actually bought the gold back when I gave my mother the design for Christmas. Maybe I should give up on the silver pair altogether, and make something different from silver for her instead.

But I really *love* that design. Especially in silver!

I'm just not sure I have the patience and persistence to embark on that trip through hell once more. I just spent some twenty minutes just *looking* at the ruined pair, and arrrgh, so much frustration!

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Here's one thing I need to push to the top of my To Do list for 2010:

*Really* get back in touch with people.

Three fannish projects I have not forgotten about:

- The Collators' Den. (I promised I'd set up a backup archive when we were hacked, but ran into a combination of computer trouble and just plain old RL busy-ness before I could get to it.)
- fs_10percent. (Turns out starting a big vid reccing project in the middle of your M.A. is not such a good idea after all.)
- Collective alphabetical LoM fic reccing... thing. (Just too much stuff going on in RL recently to do the necessary amount of reading; plus, I didn't want the reccing thing to start before the archive was back and safe to use again.)

Heh.

When I went looking for live footage of Phideaux, on whom I have a kind of huge, intellectual/non-sexual crush at the moment, this is *so* not what I expected...

Apparently for a while this was the *only* live video of Phideaux on youtube. Way to build your public image... :D

(Not that there's *many* live videos of him and the band now. And what there is looks painfully awkward. Clearly, not a band used to playing live.)

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Merry Christmas, people! (Anyone want to give me a present, consider one of the last two Phideaux albums I still don't have, Doomsday Afternoon and Chupacabras.... Hey, I can try, right? *g*)