So....yeh...Things have been occuring recently (like for the past year) at a rate that is making my head spin.

~Applying for jobs (market is just not hiring or looking for someone with more experience.)

~Decided to forfit sanity for finacial reasons and moved back home. I am now concidered free labor to "roommates"

~Had several projects (all non art related) that have taken up a significant amount of time and have been labor intensive (like helping turn my parent's rental house around in 2 weeks)

~Getting a small studio space set up so I no longer am drawing on the couch with half a coffee table for work space.

But it's getting there. I suppose it always has to get worse before it gets better. Moving back home was a blow to the pride, and I'm still working temp jobs that are unconsistant in their work so money's been extreamly tight if it exists at all.

Otakon was good, it was great to catch up with people, even if it was only in passing. Birthday was fun, small and quiet but I got to drag my family to a vegetarian Resturant! For once I was able to order from the whole menu. ^__^

Now it's catch up with commissions and working on a big illustration project for a guy in London. He's been incredibly flexible and patient with me, I really hope I do well!

Gracious I haven't updated in a while. Things are crazy as ever but I've found a part-time job that will allow me to concentrate on my portfolio. I'm currently working on a submission for a publisher with a friend who's a writer. *Fingers crossed*

And with that I'm back to the drawing board, ever so literally.

Stuff kinda hit the proverbial fan on Wednesday and the reader’s digest version of it boils down to I packed as much as I could and left the house. Jen was awesome and let me have the fold-out couch over at her place for the evening.

I when back home after work yesterday and talked it over and things are better today. I’m not one to stay mad or hold a grudge, so leaving and calming down and then coming back to face the situation with a level head I believe was the best thing for me to do. Some others might disagree, but I did what I thought was best and it turned out ok.

I’m hoping to finish inking and scan/clean up a bunch of work tonight so I can color like the wind tomorrow. I really want to go to the L5R thing on Sunday but it’s gonna depend on the work I get done.

Things are just stressful and frustrating at the moment and I find it hard to get into a creative groove. It seems no matter where I go I’m stuck in an environment that tries it’s hardest to make things difficult.

I woke up late today, about 45 minutes worth of late, and in my rush out the door for the last day at my current temp job I forgot breakfast. No big deal, there’s a café in the building that serves breakfast.

In my still sleep influences and low blood sugared brain I ordered an omelet and toast.
Halfway through I realize it has ham.

Tiny little pieces of inconspicuous and seemingly innocent ham. I’m not the kind of vegetarian/pescetarian to freak if I eat meat, but not having eaten it in about a year now I know that I’m gonna be in severe negotiations with my stomach for the rest of the day.

Curse you ham….curse yooooou….

Oh...yesterday I was at an intersection going home and suddenly there were flames a good 15 ft tall having a blast in the 50 mph wind gusts we had yesterday. I have never in my life seen a brush fire and it was one hell of a way to get aquatinted.

Two fire trucks and an ambulance later the light turned green and I continued on my way. Luckily, no one was injured.

So I gave in and made an etsy.com page. For people who don't know, etsy.com is an online store/community for handmade things. You should definetally check it out if you're into craft stuff. It's free to join and only $0.20 to post an item.

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Eitherway I'm hoping to sell off a couple things to make a bit of money. On the plus side my ADD hobby tendancies might make a positive cash flow for once. It would be a nice change.

Downer for the day: My phone is refusing to erase any text messeges and my inbox is 94% full.

Stubborn Technology >__<;;