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.