Shaylie Jade

Story time: This is Shaylie, she’s been in my life about two years. How I got her was quite the miracle. (Maybe that’s not the correct word for it) I saw some photos of her as a completed baby on the Instagram of  @little_leela I immediately fell in love with her. I’ve never really fallen in love with any other reborns, even most that I have ever had in my collection. I would always ogle over every photo that was posted of her, to me she was perfect! Then one day when I was babysitting, I saw that she was for sale, but I think she was pending at the time. I was disappointed, but I just thought it wasn’t meant to be. Then a few days later I saw she was back up for sale! I thought about it for an hour or so before taking the leap. I was making small payments every other week. I was waiting for a check, so I could finally pay her off. I remember that she wanted her to be paid in full by a certain date. The check still wasn’t to me. I was freaking out, big time!!! Then it finally came a couple weeks before the money was due. Whew! I really think that she’s my forever baby 😍 She is a Saskia by Bonnie Brown, I believe she was in the first kit batch made. I don’t have her documentation, but it’s not too big of a deal! 

What’s Wrong With You??? :)

Did you see what I did there? I asked something rude, but I added a smiley face, so that means that it’s not offensive. That’s something that has been happening a lot to me the past 5 years. As some of you may know, I have nerve damage and lumbar spondylosis. Which pretty much means that I’m in pain 99.999% of the time.  It’s pretty expensive too, I got dropped from Insurance a few months back. Which makes it all the more expensive. I have to pay $75 just to step foot in the office.

Speaking of my Neurologist, we have some big plans when I get back on insurance. We are going to schedule an MRI, then go to a surgeon to get a second opinion. I saw a surgeon about 4 years ago, but they didn’t want to do surgery. Now I’m pretty sure my back is doing worse. Plus, I’m getting weaker so something has to be done. The pain is starting to become unbearable.

That’s just part of “What’s Wrong With Me???? :)”

4 years into the Future

It’s the middle of 2019, it’s been 4 years since my last blog entry. I have been through a lot of changes since then.  I was let go of my job, December 24, 2015. Yes, I was let go on Christmas Eve. Doesn’t that just Suck! I was let go due to having a disability, lumbar spondylosis and neuropathy.

Since then it’s been hardship after hardship.  I bought a house only a few months before being let go. Soooo, yeah, my house was foreclosed on. My mom and I got an apartment together and lived together for about a year. We chose not to renew our lease because rent was going up another $100-$200.  My mom moved in with her boyfriend, I got a little on bedroom house to rent. While all this was happening my body has increasingly gotten weaker. I needed to find an apartment that was handicapped accessible. Luckily, I was able to find something realitively quick! They work with people who are like me and need extra help.

While all this was going on my mental health has taken quite the dive. I am on medication and go to a behavioral health therapist. We are working on coping and trying to find something that makes some money while I wait on disability. I’ve been diagnosed with stress and anxiety. I’m losing my vision do to this. I have seen an eye and retina specialist, we know my eye pressure and optic nerves are still doing great. I started going back to church 6 months ago and doing volunteer work once a week. That’s helped me mentally, I think.

Last year in May I started to sell Scentsy. It was great meeting new people and being excited by something. Unfortunately, this might be my last month because I haven’t been able to hit my numbers the past few months. It’s tearing me up inside! I like being an Independent Scentsy Consultant, it was awesome to have a little extra money for groceries and toiletries. I don’t know what to do. I’ve tried really hard to become the best Scentsy Consultant I could be, but unfortunately it wasn’t enough.

I’m also getting my reborn business back up and running, I even re opened my Etsy store a couple weeks ago. I currently have one reborn on there, and I’m working on two more.

Reborn dolls

Hi guys,

I just received my first custom reborn doll.  She's the Arianna kit by Reva Schick, and was made by Kimberli Wingard of Angel Baby Maker Nursery.  She was not cheap by any means, but she was definitely worth it!    Since she was a custom I got to pick out her details; skin tone, eye color, and hair color.  It took me about three months to get her paid off.   I did a box opening of her on my YouTube Channel.  I named her Mabelynn, I haven't decided on a middle name yet.  

AMIIBO

Hi, guys!

It started out with me just wanting to get the Link Amiibo that I saw at Target.  He looked amazing!  Now just a few short months later I became addicted.   Here is my Amiibo story...

I had the Link Amiibo and I kept him up on a shelf, and I was pretty happy with just having him.  Then I heard the news that the Villager and Wii Fit Trainer Amiibo's were going to be discontinued.  So I wisely said to myself,  "I should go pick those up before they were gone.  I just saw them at Target a few months ago!"  Well, as you might've guessed they were sold out!  Oh, well! Then I heard from a YouTuber that Rosalina and Luma were going to be a Target exclusive.  Unfortunately, I heard this news the day after they came out.  I ran to Target and they were already sold out!  I still kept my eye out just in case they find one in the back or something.  Now, Rosalina is my favorite out of the Mario franchise princesses, so that one burned a little bit.  I just got it into my mind that I would never get any of the cool/ rare Amiibo figurines. Needless to say that I have a lot of commons and all of the Super Mario Line, except for silver Mario.  I saw a bunch silver Mario's at Best Buy, but I didn't have the funds to purchase.  Besides, I have the gold Mario and regular Mario from that line.  I wasn't going to get an overdraft fee for that one.

On May 29, 2015 wave 4 Amiibo's and Splatoon came out!  Since my funds were extremely limited I only grabbed what I really wanted.  I did a review of it on my YouTube channel.




I'm not going to get to the whole shortage ordeal,  I think that would be it's own entry.

Christmas 2014

Happy 2015!  I hope everybody survived and had a wonderful Holiday season.  This past year really went by so fast, so much has changed this past year.  The goals for the new year is to get a new job, one which doesn't treat me like total shit.  (That would be nice!)  I'm also hoping to close on my house soon,  my original closing date was November 1st, so this is being a long drawn out process.

Just like last year I made a video from our Christmas.  It was really short since I had to use my phone.

Here is to the year of success!

Job Search and Subscription boxes

Hi guys,

I know that it has been a long while since I've written.  I hope to have a new job soon, I've been sending my resume out frequently.  I've only had one phone interview so far, I'm hoping that they call this week for an in person interview.

If you've been following my YouTube channel, you'll notice that I've been doing a lot of unboxing as of late.  I've mainly been doing Loot Crate and Nerd Block.  I only have a couple of Loot Crate's left, I'm thinking of getting the 1 Up box instead.  All of these are gaming, nerdy, and geeky things. Which  I love!!!  I've always been a closet nerd, at least I thought I was being secretive, so these products are wonderful for me.   Here's an example of one of my unboxings!

I hope you all have a wonderful day and Christmas too!!!!