You've probably noticed that this journal isn't as fancy as some of my past ones. That's because I no longer have a subscription. I didn't really find it necessary to renew my subscription, besides the fancy journals there's not much I find necessary to pay for anymore. The newest version of dA is really nice on its own.

I know I haven't been on here much in the past couple months. That's due to a lot of things, but mostly classes have started up again. In addition to classes I've been hanging out with my boyfriend, my sister recently got married, and I have a parttime job. I haven't been doing much with my photography as of late, and most of my artsy/creative side has been going into other projects. Like painting cute little adorable plaster figurines I buy at Michaels I need to start signing up for more catalogs so I can keep making collage bookmarks. Ever since I moved home I haven't been getting many catalogs. Mostly because I don't want to spam my parents snail mail. But, thrift store catalogs and magazine selections around here are pretty lame. I've also been making a lot of cards, just blank ones, but don't have that many uses for them so they've been piling up. Maybe I should sell them? I don't know, but they are fun to make. On a random art note, you should all tell me what kind of awesome art projects there are for used CDs. I've been reorganizing all of my photos into a way where I can actually find what I'm looking for and have a ton of old CD-Rs that I no longer have any use for.

Another reason I haven't been on here much is I haven't been out and about as much as I'd like to be for the summer because I've been pretty sick lately. I was feeling better this weekend but now my fever is back. I have mono at the moment along with an ovarian cyst, I'm finally over a bacterial infection I had a couple weeks ago. And done with the antibiotics taht made me photosensitive. I am going to rest as much as possible this week (except for class) so that I can feel better before my birthday (the 24th) and so I can go to some parks this fall and get some beautiful photos of the fall leaves.

Well, I just wanted to update you on what's been going on with me as related to the dA world, if you have any questions or comments just leave me a comment below I might do a feature journal or another news article soon if I find the time. My current project is to finish sorting through my thousands, possibly tens of thousands, of photos I've taken over the past seven or so years. It's incredibly time consuming. I have also been having to do it on my parents computer since my cd drive is going insane. I think I might also take all the pritns on here down from the store since I've never sold one and consider making an etsy store for photo products, my bookmarks, and the like. That is a project not arriving any time soon though.

On a dA related side note: I do like being given ideas for photography or 'requests' and I do not regularly check my stock account so if you have any random ideas for me or would like stock images of something leave me a note or comment on here

Happy Birthday, Shay! You should check out the bday girl's gallery:

Deviants who have featured me or one of my pieces at one point in time in some way:


DeviantArt Gallery: [link]
DeviantArt Stock Gallery: [link]
Neopets: [link]
Webkinz: SiberianClover
WoW: Vashj, Alliance, Sabiah

Clubs that I am a member of:

<div class="title"> Hello, DeviantArt!</div>
Wow! I bet you weren't expecting a journal from me. It's 2 am and I can't sleep and I was bored as well. So I decided to check my deviantart. I've been away for so long I was somewhat dreading it. I know I had plans in the past on here to become more involved, post more journals, update my gallery more, make more prints available, post more news articles. But, I have definitely become the opposite of more active. In fact, deviantart in general looks a lot different from the last time I checked it. I was extremely ill from September til February.

I left you off on the last update with me feeling somewhat better and trying to catch up with classes. Well, to sum things up: I became ill again/worse in December, ended up taking late withdrawals from school, moving home to my parents, and taking a break. I am feeling better now, they never figured out what was wrong, and I will be starting school again this coming Thursday. I haven't really been out and about much and Nebraska's winter this year hasn't been very photogenic anyways so I don't feel as if you're missing out on much in my lack of gallery updates.

It is totally not an understatement that I haven't been out much. I seriously haven't been interacting with people and I kind of have grown to like it. I seem to get more things done this way, and spend way less money. Haha. Kinda sad, I know, but whatever. As I said, I'll be starting classes this coming Thursday. Just three classes two days a week. They're back to back though (five minutes apart) for eight hours. So it'll be an intense two days.

I'm sure many of you know how much fun finding a job is right now. I've basically given up for the time being and will just concentrate on these classes. Maybe some nice opportunity will spring up by summer. Yes, I know 20 hour a week minimum wage jobs aren't hard to find, but I'm looking for something full time that would allow me to afford a car and some savings. Considering that in this job market I'm competing against people with more years of experience than years I've been alive, my prospects look pretty grim.

In relation to deviantart though, since I'll be getting out more and the weather will hopefully be warming up at least in little bouts (I took my dog for a walk this week when it was sixty degrees. Too bad it's gonna be cold and snowing tomorrow) I might pull out my camera again. It's been a while. Unless you count my self-portraits. Might upload one or two for you tonight just because I haven't updated in a while. I might be going on a jaunt outdoors next weekend as well and I"ll definitely bring my camera with me.

Also, since I've been away from dA, I've acquired over 3000 messages and 2000 deviations in my watchlist. I'm sorry but I'd prefer to try to check this from here on out instead of catching up so I won't be viewing everything that's just overwhelming. If there's something in particular that you've posted in the last few months that you are proud of or would like me to check out (news article, journal, deviation, whatever) link it here please.

I've gotten into more hands-on arts and crafts as of late. Sadly, I have not been taking photos of them. Been doing some painting of cute little ceramics and making some collage booksmarks. They aren't very remarkable but they are fun for me I've also seriously considered picking up my cornet again. I dont' think it's left it's case in over a year. That might be an adventure to wait on. There's just so much stuff I'd like to do or work on I end up getting overwhelmed when I think about it or so indecisive or so overcome by the amount of things to do and the lack of time to do it I just wish I could do more things at once. I love sleep too, so there's no way I'm gonna give up sleep to work on other things. Haha. I also love computer games, whether just like on msn games and simple or world of warcraft. I just have too many hobbies I guess. I promise this year I'll finish something though. Some sort of project. Don't know what though, but I just want to feel like I've done something or completed something on my massive to do list. The to do list in my head that is, if I wrote it down I think I'd be too boggled by it.

Well this was kind of a rambling journal that was just meant to be a little shout out to let you know that I'm still here. So hello again, deviantart!

<div class="title">About My Gallery</div>
If you go to my gallery and view the 'featured' it is arranged in such a way that my personal favorites are first. Browse is, of course, most recently first (the way I prefer to view galleries). And if you go to my categories, they are a bit random. No particular order, really. But they are sorted and include all my pieces, not just my favorites.

Deviants who have featured me or one of my pieces at one point in time in some way:


DeviantArt Gallery: [link]
DeviantArt Prints: [link]
DeviantArt Stock Gallery: [link]
Facebook: [link]
Neopets: [link]
Webkinz: SiberianClover
MLP Arena: [link]
Blogger: [link]
WoW: Vashj, Alliance, Sabiah

Clubs that I am a member of:


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