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Hey!

I listed our first eight polish colors on Etsy!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/BlueMeconopsisShop

We're planning on adding four more colors once our shipment of bottles arrives!

Lauren and I are busily bottling mini bottles of nail polish to start our own polish line to sell on Etsy. We named our line Libra&Gemini, and I wonder if anybody will guess why, LOL! There are still few more colors we'd like to add to our starting lineup but our label maker ran out of tape. ^^;;;; So far, we have:

Galaxy Pearl: medium plum with a gold shift
Wakaba: spring green with green/gold flakes
Sky World: Sky blue jelly polish with a mix of blue, white and rainbow matte and holographic glitter and a gold shift
Ajisai: light purple with a multichrome aqua shift
Botan: coral pink with purple sparks
Benibara: rose red jelly polish with a mix of red, purple and pink crystal and holographic glitter and purple sparks
St. Elles: pale purple jelly polish with purple and sky blue metallic and matte glitter and aqua sparks with a green shift

From the polishes I've made, I'm hoping to add Luna(mint green with a pink shift) and possibly Sugilite(red-violet jelly polish with purple, pink and white glitter and a blue shift) but we will see.

Here's a nail polish I made that I trialed a few weeks ago. I'm actually pretty happy with it. It's more chip resistant than the other glitter polishes I've made(save a red-violet one that I haven't photographed)and since the glitter is on the small side, it's not so ridiculously textured. I still put two coats of top coat on it(one Essie Gel-Setter and one Essie Speed-setter) to smooth it out and enhance its beauty. ^^

Here is a secret--even though it is a silver(actually pearly gray) polish I did not use gray, black, or white pigment powder to make it. I did put a drop of white liquid pigment to lighten the color, but still... I wonder if anybody can guess how I made it silver. ^^;;;

Lauren and I are watching Space Runaway Ideon. Again. Honestly the series is really slow and Be Invoked is much better than the bulk of it but there are a few things that the TV series handled better than the movies.

Thanksgiving came and went with very little fanfare. I guess I shouldn't be saying that, considering all the cooking I did, ha ha! We didn't have any guests this year, which suited me just fine because I always get really stressed when there's a lot of commotion in the kitchen when I'm trying to cook.

I guess it was the phone line the tree trimmers knocked down. They did a really crappy job of putting it back up.

I have been on the phone with these bastards for five hours and nobody will help me.

I signed up for one of their plans on December 23rd of last year. Naturally, because of their backlog they didn't send me any correspondence about paying my first premium until the middle of January, even though they promised me retroactive coverage until Jan. 1. I paid my first premium via their one-time payment form that they created specifically for new applicants on January 17th, right when I got it in the mail. Unfortunately, with this form, there is no way to edit your payment information once you submit it. I realized that once I submitted my payment information that I might have made a typo in my bank account number. I decided to wait a bit and if the payment hadn't posted in 10 days to call their helpline and get it straightened out. The due date was January 31st.

I called their customer service line on January 28th and told the lady on the other end that I may have made an error in my bank account information. I said that I knew they were backlogged but I wanted to make sure that my payment wasn't being held up because of my error. The lady seemed a bit annoyed and assured me that my payment had been processed just fine, and to not worry about it not posting right away because they were backlogged. I took her words as a reason to stop worrying and my insurance card arrived in the mail the next day.

A few weeks later, I got a rather hefty bill in the mail for February to March. They put me on a bimonthly plan without my knowledge...! But no matter, I sat down and tried to sign up on their website to pay it last night. I couldn't sign up. They said I wasn't in their database. I started to panic, knowing my payment was due in a week, and tried to pay over the phone. It was then that I found out that my insurance had been cancelled.

I called their help line this morning and found out that my coverage was terminated due to non-payment of my January premium. They said there was an error in my bank account information and the payment was returned as "not found". The person I talked to seemed sympathetic when I told her that I had contacted Anthem a month ago and asked them to fix my bank account information only to be told that there was no error, that everything was fine and my payment had been processed. She said she would forward me to a health plan adviser and they would see if they could reinstate my plan, as it wasn't like I had been delinquent on purpose. She also said there was a note on my file proving that I had in fact called them a month ago to fix the error.

I was put on hold for 2 hours and then disconnected.

I tried calling the first number and there was a new person on the line who seemed to not even understand what I was talking about. She kept thinking I was from Mexico even though I told her I was from CT, and I have an Irish name and don't have the faintest trace of an accent so why the hell did she think I was from Mexico? She put me on hold for a half hour and I hung up on her because I couldn't even communicate my personal information to her without her messing it up, let alone get help. I tried the health plan adviser line again and prepared myself for a long wait. I was put on hold for 90 minutes. When I finally got through, the person on the other end said she would see if I could just pay my January premium over the phone to get my plan reinstated. She put me on hold, but when she came back she had forgotten what state I was from or even what I was calling for. She said she was sending me back to their CT hotline. And back I go to the first call center!

I got a man on the line this time...who informed me that the lady who just forwarded me to him was, in fact, the only person who could help me and she had passed the buck to him because she didn't want to do the work. He said that she WAS the CT number, and his call center was not in CT! He said he would reconnect me to her and I told him I had been on the phone for five hours. The signal started to break up and I knew I would just be put on hold for another 2 hours, so I hung up and had a good cry.

What the hell is the matter with these people?!

Animal Crossing is like a disease, I tell you.

( Here's my merry band of villagers: )

I had heard she wouldn't sell it, ever, because it's a Club Tortimer exclusive item, but I decided to give it a try. I'm putting it in my cityscape room!

I seem to be somewhat blessed with villagers and I can't see myself letting anybody go. Is that weird? I might consider losing Shari...I'm not 100% in love with Rori but I might get a worse jock if I send him away. Yesterday was Fang's birthday and I was somewhat traumatized when after the party was over, Rori said Fang was thinking of moving, because Fang refused to leave his house so I could tell him to stay! Maybe the villagers hole up inside their houses for the rest of the day after their birthday party? He did tell me this morning and I told him hell no I am not letting you leave. It's stressful to have to keep an eye on all your villagers to make sure nobody is hiding anything! Cheri is an annoying peppy villager but she is still cute so I don't want to let her go. Aurora, like all "normal" villagers, is kind of dull but she's a cute innocuous penguin and her eyes go all scary and red when she's surprised, so I want her to stay. Also, she might be replaced by some hideous freak. I know that Marcel is no prize but I have a soft spot for the lazy villagers and he's just a green dog, he's got some weird stuff in his house and I know there is no way I'll get Punchy, since he's Lauren's villager and I've been to her town many times. No way I'll let Broffina leave, I think she's hilarious. And Marshal...if he manages to give me the slip I will throw my 3DS through the window. He's so freaking cute, I can only tolerate smug villager antics from him! I just have to make sure I don't accidentally clock him over the head with anything and make him sad because he's very hard to see sometimes!

Anybody ever have this happen before with own root roses?

We got a bunch of David Austin roses from Chamblee's(the ones they actually remembered to send). I understand that Chamblee's often puts multiple cuttings of the same rose in one pot, but something very weird is going on here! Among others, we got Tamora, Ambridge Rose, and Heritage. The first to bloom was Tamora, then Heritage. All was well. Then Tamora bloomed again, producing a flower that looked an awful lot like Ambridge Rose! On close inspection, the middle cutting looked like the foliage was slightly larger...

Then Ambridge Rose, which I planted at the front of a border because of its size, popped its first flower and it looked just like Heritage! I was pissed! Why do we need two Heritages? Heritage is not small! One side of the rose grew strangely tall and leggy. Then it popped another flower that looked like Ambridge Rose. All was well. Then it bloomed again today on the leggy side and looked like Heritage!

Tamora has also bloomed again, producing two Tamoras and one Ambridge Rose. LOL...

I wonder what is going to happen to these roses...Chamblee's has a policy that they'll only replace roses after 30 days, which is tough if they take longer than that to bloom. I hope they don't have a fight to the death or something...

Also, I think my Griff's Red is really Don Juan, because it is now taller than I am.

Since Coralie's Etsy listing expired, I listed her on eBay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/330971093318?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

I didn't want to have to resort to using eBay, but I've got an Etsy shop full of dolls that aren't selling, so I'm planning on putting them up on eBay one by one as their listings expire, with the exception of Phoebe, the brown-haired Frankie, since Lauren asked to keep her if she doesn't sell.