Product Information – Anticipating Procrastination by Chrys Albarado

Breakdown in Logistics: AKA “Omg this sucks.”

I have been super sick for about a week. I take a medication called Ozempic. I have diabetes, with lots of comorbidities. Keeping my A1C in check is VITAL. Ozempic works wonders for me. On a very low dose of a weekly injection, and the removal of sugar from my coffee, it took my A1C from 11.6 to 5.9 between June 2019 and March 2020. It has stayed there.

Except for those times when it is on back order for weeks at a time. When I have to go off of it because I cannot get any, it makes me sick. The longer I am off it, the more sick I get when I go back on it. This go round, I was off it for a few weeks, and even though I only did half the dose, it made me very ill. For several days, I was “grounded” to my bed. Anytime I am bed bound, it takes me a while after I can get up again to be able to move as freely as I was before I got confined.

I do always get out of bed as soon as I can, or sooner than I should, if you ask those who love me would tell you. My body has a lot of issues that are relapsing and remitting and for the most part, it is out of my control. That’s a hard thing to deal with in life, and takes a lot of patience and acceptance from myself of my limitations. Something a lot of people don’t understand. We could talk about that at length. I’m sure we will along the way.

Point is, I had a logistics breakdown in the ability to move myself to my workspace and was busy gathering spoons. 🥄 🥄 🥄

No. Just No. Today sucks. I couldn’t even keep my Princess crown on my head. Just NO!

Technical Difficulties: AKA “This Too Shall Glitch”.

My filming device is being ridiculous with me. I have plenty of cloud storage and enough space on the device to record and keep those recordings on that device. However, I do not have enough space to keep everything on the particular device. So I spend several hours this weekend, disconnecting that device from the cloud. I simply wanted to upload items from the device to the cloud. I don’t want it to download anything on the cloud from my other devices at all, because that device just doesn’t have enough room.

I’m pretty tech savvy. Yes, I turned it off and back on. 😏 In my previous life, tech was my career. I’m not completely newb status on this. However, I could not find a sufficient means of doing the only upload version of what I wanted.

So, I changed tactics. With trembling fingers, in abject fear of LOSING PHOTOS AND VIDEOS, I disconnected that one device from the cloud. Something went wrong. What? I do not know yet. But, it froze for the whole day doing its thing. I would unlock the screen and it would yell at me like someone in a bathroom stall I just accidentally tried to invade saying “BUSY HERE! I’ll be done tomorrow. Keep this app open and lock the screen behind you.” Catty wench. But, sometimes, technology has a bitchy day. Whatever. (Yes, I talk to my devices as if they are human, also my animals, myself and pretty much everything. I spend a lot of time by myself. lol.)

The next morning, hooray it finished whatever it was doing. So I then spent hours of that day and the next, deleting everything I didn’t need from only THAT PHONE. I checked and checked and double triple chocolate checked, that as I deleted items they were NOT being deleted from other devices. All was fine. Though it took forever for it to finish that process.

Monday, all seemed fine. But, I didn’t record much. Still a bit tired from being sick, I worked on redrawing the design for the coffee sign I’m DIY redoing and recorded some timelapses of that. I got some work done around the house. Took my shot again. I do them on Monday nights. Tuesday mornings my tummy is a wreck. Had some McDonald’s and watched Bourne Supremacy with the Hubs, and we had a nice evening of me being as still as possible while holding a small trash bucket on the bed. Just in case of …. Well. Being sick. We’ll leave it there.

I woke up Tuesday morning, feeling not so bad in the tummy, but a bit cruddy from the weather. I wanted to do a little recording. However, when I got to my device, I saw that it has photos on it I took the day before. That is not supposed to be occurring. Then, I panicked. Because everything I deleted from that phone was NOT stuff I want to lose. I just don’t want it taking up room on that device. Why is this so hard? I check my main device and sure enough, everything I have deleted from that device is now sitting in the recently deleted folder on it as well.

I thought perhaps I could go to the cloud, and simply download everything in the recently deleted folder onto my external drive. Nope! No. Of course not. I have to restore everything before it gets deleted after 30 days. Then try this entire process again. Technical difficulties, friends. It can take up some serious time.

Art Supply Deficiencies: AKA “Chrys needs to Amazon!”

I have been trying to determine WHAT to use to paint this glass. So, I did some experimenting:

There is acrylic paint, chalk marker, sharpie, watercolor, and gallery glass paint on this. I will all come back off, so I just tried to see what I have that will give me the result I want.

My result is : I have an ART SUPPLY DEFICIENCY and I need to solve it. Lol. I DO have other glass projects I want to do, so I need to buy some. I’m not buying them for just one project. Though, it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve done that. Lol.

Anyway, I discovered that I actually have the old formulation and packaging of gallery glass, that came in little pots just like you would get for kids stained glass art (though I do those too.)

This is a thick formula and it is VERY difficult to apply correctly with a brush (or anything else, including my fingers.)

The new formula comes in bottles that you apply the paint from directly. Thats why it is not working how I want. So, solution? Buy the new formula. I had to wait to get my allowance, so I can buy Gallery Glass paint. I will order that today.

In the meantime, I decided to remove the masking film that got messed up and start over. I traced the design on paper and using my cricut bright pad. Then, I flipped the paper over and retraced it on the back after smacking my forehead for not tracing it reversed in the first place.

Tracing the image from the glass to the paper.

At this point, I wasn’t feeling well, and started to doodle. And before I knew it I had added to the design. When I was satisfied, I placed that under a piece of masking film and using the bright pad, traced the new design onto the masking film. I really love it.

Flipped image. Plus, some cleaner details and additional prettiness. Also, my hubs name is Joe and he has made sure I have a cup of coffee every morning, since he met me, and these days, I wake up to it on the warmer by my bed. Every morning, my Joe gives me a Cuppa Joe. So, I thought that would be cute.

Today, I will finish removing the paint from the glass and place the film on it and begin to carefully “fussy cut” out the design. When the paint arrives, I can move forward on this.

Just an interesting aside, I started this project on August 1st, 2018. This is how the item looked when I bought it.

Brown background, black frame, semi-transparent white paint, that was scratched in several places. Boring!!!

In the meantime, I’m also working on a Valentine’s Day gift for my wonderful Husband of a quarter century. As an artist, my husband pretty much expects that my gifts to him will ALMOST NEVER be on time. You cannot rush art. So, unless I’m buying him something, which is rare because what do you get the man who just buys what he wants? It’s become harder. You figure out 25 years of gifts for the same person and tell me you don’t start to run out of ideas!! I think he prefers my artsy gifts anyway.

Am I doing other stuff? Absolutely! Always! But, this is all the time I have for posting today as it IS Valentine’s Day. I hope everyone gives and receives love today. Like every other day, just with yummy chocolates! Wait. That’s every day for me… well, just ya know, have a good day!

To All of You, From All of Us, here at:

~ Chrys’ NeighborHead ~

Have a Beautiful Day!!!