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Wow, I haven't done art, or... well, much of anything in quite some time. To be perfectly honest, I've been spending quite a bit more time lately trying to get my life a bit more on track, in order to avoid becoming one of those weird hermit people that... quite frankly, scare the bejesus out of me.

This seems to happen quite a bit, eh? I seem to have a habit of going through phases of pouring out a ton of art in a few weeks, and then go for months without any. I'm like... a camel. An art camel. With humps filled with... um. Okay. Bad analogy. Moving on.



Temporarily using this layout until I get off the lazy-train long enough to whip up a new one. (My current/last one was making me feel annoyed.) Currently, I've got at least 5 or 6 things on my To-Do list for once I get enthusiastic again. Counting on that 'relapse' happening any day now. Really. Really!

Outside of that QUITE exciting and EXHILARATING news, I've been keeping my brain occupied with re-reading my philosophy books, trying to re-teach myself how to cross-stitch, doings looots of baking/cooking, and lots of other boring things I won't... bore you with. See, I'm so boring, I can't come up with another word for boring. WOE!

So now that I've taken part of your life away that you will NEVER GET BACK, I want to encourage everyone to stop for a minute... an hour... Maybe even a whole day, and reflect on how amazing it is to be alive, all the wondrous things you have in your life -- be it talent, friends, family, a career, or any other number of things -- and how cool it is to look up at the sky and know we have an unending supply of mysteries to solve.

You don't even have to be drunk, high, or insane to realize how freaking amazing it is.

Ciao!

So, a couple of weeks later: I'm married, and my sister is married! I wasn't sure what could make a sister's wedding more amazing, but I think being able to share that weekend with her takes the cake. Even though technically my 'wedding' was a 'vow renewal' since I was already married at that point, being able to experience two of the happiest days of my life back-to-back made it all the more memorable. I don't think I can ever thank my sister enough for sharing that with me. I have such an amazing family... I love them so much!

I'm getting married on Tuesday.

Beat THOSE bees with your bonnet.








... omg *freakout*

... Apparently since before I started High School, but forgot the moment I graduated and never had to wake up early again.

Well, life is doing pretty good, now, I'd say. Now that we finally got around to getting our marriage license, I'll be off to be a married woman relatively soon (I find this very, very strange feeling... But can't be worse than both my sister and mother than got married BEFORE 20). House is still a disaster, but manageable. Can't do much today because I've got this birthday party to go to for a cousin's son, who's turning 2. And I forgot to buy wrapping paper for his gift... *loser*

Thus, I can probably safely say that I'll be doing more art, soon. I've lined several ideas up to take a swipe at when I get the time, and those will hopefully start appearing sooner than later.

But, since I'm going to be cool like other people and use my journal as a shoutbox to all the cool homies out there that draw my characters (*^%!(*^%!!!!!), today's feature and hug swarm is for ramothhe, who decided that not only would she draw Dex, but Dex with her two closest friends... That happen to annoy her as much as make her <3. (Don't tell them! I said NOTHING!)

Anyways.... ! :



Always, free art for anyone that decides to draw Dex. Well. All my art is free, but free...ER art? More quickly drawn art? ... Easier time requesting art! That makes sense. See, it's too early. I don't function at these hours.

Time for a boring day that hopefully ends with me at my computer. Like always. But they say, hope for the simple, and your wishes always come true. ^^

That is, 81 because it's the first number that popped into my head.
Journal titles are lame. Just lame.

Anyways, I have come to the conclusion that I undoubtedly and unmercifully suck. At getting things done, that is. My inspiration seems pretty dead as it goes lately, and the only time I feel inspired to draw is when I really get INSPIRED. Like, suddenly get hit with a ton of bricks and BAM. A drawing is resulted.

The more I sit down and try to draw when I'm not able and unmotivated, the more shoddy the stuff gets. So, to make this short and probably not that sweet, I'm going to wipe the drawing board clean again (mostly, anyways), and this time, I'm not going to send out a mass request for requests. One drawing at a time, as I can do them, without causing myself any unnecessary stress (over nothing, really) -- until I can at least get back on my meds and stop downing rum&cokes like water every night.

To prevent this from sounding like a mopefest -- because I'm actually feeling pretty good! -- I do want to say I feel pretty positive about the direction I'm going art-wise, and look forward to taking on more requests as I can handle them. I just need to learn some focus and patience, and stop procrastinating. XD

SOOO. First things first, I'm going to start working on a new Journal CSS.

After that... Who knows.