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( Depressing nonsense. )

To completely deviate from that, I've made a Facebook now. I honestly only joined so I could listen to my co-workers' podcast/radio show. The show's a bit long, but they're really funny. I hope their show becomes more streamlined in the future so I can start shoving it in everyone's faces.

I'll try posting some art tomorrow. Maybe I'll post some photos too, as embarrassing as that'll be. And...

I'm going to do my best to be happy.

Stephen and I are starting an anime club! We've actually been talking about this for about a month, and are currently waiting on approval to hold it at the Bedford Public Library. I have all sorts of little projects that we can do for it, although at the moment it's being planned to revolve around the actual viewing of anime.

B-but... Manga reading discussions! Drawing! Gothic Lolita paper dolls! Karaoke!!

Although I guess just managing the clubs will be difficult enough, since it'll technically be two clubs. One for teens, and one for adults. I remember distinctly hearing about a middle-aged man who tried to attend an anime club at his local library, only to find out that it was for teens only. He was treated badly, kicked out, and pegged as a pedophile. So I definently rebelled against the idea of excluding old fogeys who know much more about what we're watching than I would. But then, we would have to make it adults only, or restrict the type of anime we watched based on violence or sexually suggestive scenes. But to kick out teens would kick out the majority of people interested, especially considering that the library had a popular manga club for teens before the city temporarily shut it down due to lack of funds.

We want to show Ouran High School Host Club for the first teen meeting, and Emma for the first adult meeting. Although it's still not official that this will actually happen. I hope I'm not getting excited for nothing.

Honestly, I wouldn't have thought to post tonight if Stephen hadn't told me to. This is the first time I've actually sat in front of my computer in months. A lot has happened since my last post... I'll try to make it short.

I moved out of my mom's house in September. Stephen's grandmother was in a bit of trouble, stuck in a lease for a two-bedroom apartment she couldn't afford. Her former roommate, one of her own daughter's actually, decided to move in with one of her son's fathers despite protests from pretty much everyone who was related to her. But I won't go into that situation...

Stephen was asked to move in with her to help her pay out, and he asked me to move in with him. A week before I moved in with him, he proposed. Although nothing official has been decided, we want the wedding to be two years from now at Animefest, where we met. We won't be getting married in cosplay. Everyone we've told about our wedding plans expects us to cosplay. Ugh.

( A lot of complaining... )

So we decided to move out on our own. It took us a while, but we're finally in a really amazing apartment that's all our own. Unfortunately, Stephen lost his main job a couple of days after we moved in, but he already has two extremely promising job prospects. He should be working full-time again this time next week. As for me, I'm still working at Brightroom. I actually work in their print department now, and have become something of a valuable employee to the company. Work has been pretty grueling, this week especially, but I'm happy there.

As for drawing comics... I haven't done any of that in the last few months. Every so often, I'll get a good idea and try to write it down, but usually can't find the time or a notebook to do it in. I mentioned before, this is the first time in months since I've sat in front of my computer, and that's because it hasn't been set up since I moved out of my mom's house. We never had a chance to set it up at the last apartment, because we were never able to even move the desk into the room. It sat in the "dining room", which was covered in Stephen's grandmother's craft projects shortly after we moved it in.

But right now, things are good. After I finish this post, and a couple of other things here and there, I'm going to get back to work on my comics. And after we unpack my art supplies and clear out the dining room table, I'll start painting again.

By the way, we have free internet now! No more long extensions of non-communication! Hopefully!

After I went to the zoo last Saturday, I really wanted to post about the experience. Eight days later, I barely remember what I wanted to talk about. Well, I still remember the Penguin exhibit. And all the penguin toys me and Stephen bought. And that mysterious excrement that ended up on my shorts, from two different animals I'm suspecting.

Friday is A-kon, which I will be attending. I don't know how I managed to find someone to room without hardly trying, but it seems that everything worked out. I don't plan on buying many things, outside mega cheap DVDs and a birthday present for Stephen. I have a whole paycheck I could devote to the experience, but I need to save up money for something else.

( On a serious note... )

( On a much lighter topic... )

It's Tuesday and I've already put in 28 hours into work this week. Mandatory overtime didn't seem so terrible until I actually had to do it. And my managers, with their crappy attitudes, really aren't helping.

( Random art? )

I've been thinking of renaming Lucky Lottery before I post it back up, which I'm going to try to do by the end of the month. So far, I haven't been able to think of a new name, but I've only been thinking about it for the past hour. I should be thinking about other things. Like going to sleep.

I'm slowly coming to the realization how little free time I have now. I'm no longer able to draw during work hours, stay up until early morning browsing the web or even spend a week without seeing anyone outside of work or school. I'm starting to get into dungeons and Dragons, spending tons of time at Kingdom of Loathing, and catching up on all of my unread novels. It's no wonder I have little time for journaling and drawing comics.

But they're important to me, and I'm willing to make some small sacrifices to be able to do both. So expect more from me soon.

I also got a haircut last night. So expect pictures soon.

Maybe...

Yesterday, one of my cats had babies and I saw a National Treasure 2. I spent most of my afternoon/evening with Stephen, and I'm going to do the same tonight.

Exactly why I never have time for this thing.

( Quickie! )

Now that my love life and work life are somewhat stable, I'm going to start focusing more on my online and comic life. Which I've been completely neglecting lately.

As for Lucky Lottery... Well, that's going to happen, as soon I can actually finish building the website for it. I didn't take into account just how terrible I am at HTML, or my indecisiveness in layouts. Speaking of which-

( This is going to be in color...? )

I've said this before but I'm going to start posting more often. Let's see if I can actually keep my word this time.

Also, I will reply to all of your old comments. I know I'm terrible, but I'm going to do my best to make up for it!

I'm made of failure. However, I am beginning to change that. I'll post again later today.

Lucky Lottery will relaunch on its own seperate website on April 15th. It'll start with 20 comics, and update two-three times a week.

Now that that's out of the way, I have a confession to make. I haven't really been drawing the last few days. Not because I haven't wanted to, but because I haven't had time for it. Either I'm at work, or I'm trying to sleep, or I'm trying to sleep at work. Sunday was the exception, because I was at Stephen's house, again attempting to sleep. I've been getting even less sleep than usual.

My first day of work at Brightroom, I almost passed out sitting at the computer. Luckily, no one noticed, and I was somehow able to drive home from work accident-free when I just collapsed and slept through the rest of the day into the morning. Somewhere in there I managed to call in sick to work, even though I really don't remember anything past my training at my new job, which was surprisingly easy to pick up.

Next time, I'll talk about more interesting things and maybe even put up a sketch or two!