today's weather: S L I G H T D E P R E S S I O N anxiety : 1
agitation : 1
Feeling better today. I mean I no longer feel moderately depressed but feel merely slightly depressed. Slightly is better than moderately. I've at least become a bit more energetic - without having to ingest those happy yellow pills I love so much. I've been able to get myself out of bed and eat.
I've been able to answer crossword puzzles in twenty minutes or less (Yay, me! But of course, I cheated :p ), and my appetite for reading has returned. I still have a dislike for the e-book I've been stuck on for the past few weeks (the dislike is not due to the contents, but to the impersonality of the e-ness of it), but what the heck, I can't not finish it.
I made another lovely piece of costume jewelry today. I'm low on materials again but I once more challenged my creativity to come up with something wearable and sellable.
After finishing the piece, I started computing for the selling price. This particular item required a bit more math since I used around twenty different kinds of beads, and they were all tiny, and I had to count them all one by one. The basic formula is
bpx
in which b is a specific kind of bead or material, p is its price, and x is the number of times that particular item was used. Now since there is more than one kind of b, there has to be ...
b1p1x1
+
b2p2x2
+
b3p3x3
+
b2p2x2
+
b3p3x3
and so on. The sum is added to what I charge for labor plus miscellaneous materials, and all multiplied by two. The product is then marked up, and I have my selling price.
I was doing the math earlier in bed this evening, and I found joy in computing things mentally. That's a good, geeky sign that I'm doing well and am likely to be doing well tomorrow.
