First painting in my new city, and oh how liberating it was.
Hi. It’s been awhile.
Things I have been up to in my absence:
- I was rehired by my former employer at the corporate level.
- I moved five hours away from where I have lived all my life (in one day mind you)
- …into a cute apartment with my beloved best friend since forever
- …and her equally cute (and energetic troublemaker) dog/child
- Adjusting to city traffic/life
- Not buying any transformers (insert sad face here)
- Dealing with mother nature and her snow fetish of late
- Learning that Heatwave does really well in the snow
- Learning to hate plaster and lath walls
- Giggling at my family, who loves/misses me enough to have sent me a webcam
There is more, I am sure, but we’ll save the rest for another day. What an adventure.
Official count:
- 2 apple pies
- 40+ huge milk/white chocolate chip cookies
- 30 sugar cookies
- 3 loaves of cinnamon raisin bread
- 150-ish chocolate and/or vanilla covered pretzels
- Truffles
Rather productive Christmas, I think.
I’ve been distracting myself with the cassettes that came in yesterday. While I should have taken them off preorder long ago, I’m glad I didn’t. More childhood nostalgia, blahblahblah. Extra Laserbeak in my collection now, but I ain’t complaining. As long as Papa Soundwave is happy, so am I. Few more, and I’ll have a complete set. Except for Enemy. I don’t think that’s ever going to happen. Sorry Papa Soundwave.
New ROTF deluxes are out, thus I’ve been avoiding department stores like the plague. Despite how cheap they may be at Walmart ($8 if I am not mistaken), the cassettes pushed me way over my toy budget for awhile. Doubly troubling that I am most certainly going to have to take Heatwav to the shop. Apparently he has yet to forgive me over the Honda Fit incident and is using lack of oil pressure to make his point.. Stubborn ‘con fool. If I had a job, I’d trade his ungrateful ass in a heartbeat. Had it up to my chin with his antics, I have.
My muse knows there is an H frame easel in the house and oh my, is she being ever pushy. I can’t get her to understand that we can’t defile it until Friday. I’ve been trying to distract her with other things to without a large amount of success. Oh well.
I’ve had my mouth in a coffee cup all day and it’s not really helping.
I never see fluffy white stuff before February/March, and only every couple years. This is a conspiracy.
And now the house will forever smell like gingerbread, due to the insane amount of these that were made. We will nomnomnom for days.
I love the holiday card season.
A friend of mine has her series, Self, up at the Creative Divergents Winter Competition. I adore Maggie’s circular works and it’s not something you see done very often.
Finally shipped off the wife’s birthday present. I find it hilarious how the poor boy behind the counter cocked his head to the side and just stared at me when I asked if he had a box big enough for my painting, and then proceeded to try to shove it in without the box being unfolded. I do believe I am going to be alone in my shipping adventures when I start selling come the first of the year, because apparently no one at the USPS or UPS know what they are doing. The responsibility is better off in my own hands anyways. I’m sure I’ll find the right boxes for me somewhere…
When is my tripod going to get here? *pokes UPS tracking page* It’s been in transit for a week. Is it walking from Kentucky to here, or what? I have a portfolio to finish here. My Henkei Bumblebee is gonna get here faster at this rate, and I ordered him Friday.
