Tag: state of the gab

Back in September, the building that I work in had a “tenant appreciation party,” where they fed us all a delicious catered lunch, had prize drawings, and made everyone take a water infuser emblazoned with the building’s logo on it. 

I mean don’t get me wrong, it’s an awesome as heck logo. I was just really surprised. But then, they really take care of that building. I have probably never worked in a place this nicely maintained. 

Anyway, I finally decided to use the infuser tonight because I FINALLY remembered to buy lemons the other day, and hot damn it’s amazing. Ice cold lemon water.

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Thank you, building people. Thank you, best job ever. I still love you even though I worked for 10 hours today with only a 10 minute break to finish the 119 page package rush job for some of our brokers. 

…they’re going to start letting us have ‘wear nice jeans on fridays instead of dress slacks’ since everyone rocked so many socks last year. ;~; Not that I own any nice jeans but STILL… 

And they’ve started keeping the lounge stocked with yogurt and fruit and stuff so we can eat breakfast even though we’re all so busy. ;A; 

yaaaaayy ~<3

I typed/wrote 1,400 words today, and looked up my focusbooster stats… since July, I have spent 33 hrs actively writing/revising Fishsticks. Crazy.

Productive day, even though I spent most of it being asleep and/or coughing. 

BACK TO WORK TOMORROW! They need me! There are many custom emails to be designed and coded! 

Goodnight!

Cold got much worse overnight; I now have no voice and my head is killing me… so! I’m going to wake Aaron up and send him off to work… and go back to bed.

ha ha!

Saw Star Wars and enjoyed it thoroughly. Now I can return to work tomorrow, unashamed. I also seem to have caught my brother’s cold, which has manifested in extreme sleepiness and vaguely itchy cotton in my throat. Not productive, but not terrible– yet. 

Finished the chapter of Fishsticks that I was working on earlier and am looking forward to moving on… writing set in hospitals always seems to drag. Probably because hospitals are horrible places to spend time in. 

Speaking of, my grandma is in the hospital with pneumonia now, so my mom won’t be coming back from Kansas quite yet. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. 🙁 

Here’s an update on the spray painting project! I took the My Little Pony wedding castle that I had and spray painted it to look sorta like the Disneyland castle. I’ve never spray painted anything before, so there are lots of touch-ups that I need to do, obviously (esp on those flag poles)… but I think it’s a VAST improvement so far! 

There’s still a bunch of time before my desk is totally set up, anyway, but yeah! It’ll be great for all of my little toys to play on. 😀 

Our insurance plan is changing in January, and I’ve got my fingers crossed that the lymphedema clinic near my apartment will be covered this time around. The bands will help, but the therapy will do even more. I’m excited. Soon, soon, soon…

We’ve also going to start saving so I can get a cintiq (companion 2) in the next year so I can do a LOT more (digital) art without the risk associated with desk-sitting. Which also means more comic, because I can prepare the art ahead of time and use my lunch break at work for the text stuff! Yay!

Just gotta be patient and hope things keep looking up. More art! More art! Woo!

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FAVORITE ANIME: HMMMmm… Ouran High School Host Club is first, then it’s a tie between Cowboy Bebop/Detective Conan/Neon Genesis Evangelion/Excel Saga/Pokemon/FREE!… 

FAVORITE MANGA: Detective Conan is the only one I’ve ever really kept up on, so that I guess.

VIDEO GAMES: Hamtaro Ham-ham Heartbreak and Pokemon: Fire Red! Best games. Then Smash Bros. I also like Minecraft and Little Big Planet on occasion.

SPORTS: I liked playing tennis, oddly enough… In all sports I did in school, I was usually pretty good at the point of the game (making baskets, hitting/kicking the ball, etc), but terrible at running, which made me awful at every sport but, like, bowling.

LAST SONG I LISTENED TO: The Teen Titans theme song.

FIRST LANGUAGE: English.

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My NaNo is now at 22k… which isn’t 50k, but still excellent progress. Many thanks to my writing buddies who helped me with sprints and word wars. <3 ;-;

And now I will work a little more on my million novel/au playlists before bed. 

I sketched a shirtless Hakuba earlier today… but it’s not finished so idk if I’ll post it, and I ran out of paper again in my clipboard so I’ll probs leave it at home when I refill it tonight…

Speaking of AUs, when I scrub off Bunnichi’s serial number, I think I’ll call him Adder. Cap’n can sweet talk him with Addy or Addie~ aww.

  • My follower count is 598.
  • I remembered all of the chords on my ukulele that I’d learned even though I haven’t played in like 2 months (ow my fingers)
  • Benji stole one of my lobster plushes and loves it
  • there is SNOW OUTSIDE

Are you taking commissions? ヽ(=^･ω･^=)丿

ALAS… no, I am not at the moment. I have a very long post here explaining why, but the “short version” is this:

  • I owe too many people art already 
  • I’m very behind on my personal projects (DANGEROUS CUTE!!!)

And… I can’t really work on either of those right now because I have lymphedema as a side effect of cancer treatments years ago, and have been unable to afford the stuff I need to manage it. Sitting at a desk to do digital art aggravates the condition and puts me more at risk for things like micro tears and blood clots, which could result in death. It’s also really painful, especially after I work an office job for 8 hrs a day, 5 days a week, and usually have to stand for the 30min train ride home. 

But hopefully I will be able to afford treatments in the next couple of months, and that will enable me to get back to work on these things, get caught up, start preparing for conventions again, livestream sessions, etc. 

This is also why all of my art lately has been really crappy cell phone photos of sketches on paper… because I would have to sit at my desk to use my scanner. Whew. 

Thank you for asking, though! When/if I am open for commissions in the future, I will be sure to post here and let you know! 😀