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Mood:
Listening to: Silence
Watching: Star Trek The Original Series


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Just wanted to wish everyone well for their holiday (even though it's late). So to anyone who did celebrate the holiday I hope you enjoyed it. ^^

On another note I apologize for my sudden absence. My dad came to drop a huge bomb on the family a short while ago and it threw me into a depression I was not prepared to handle. Seeing as how I am not medicated or seeing any sort of doctor for my various instabilities I have to pull myself out of these things. My two best friends try and help me but sometimes I know it gets really frustrating for them when I don't respond all that well to their encouragements for me to get back up on my feet. My dad has given my brother and I about 6 months (or less, depending on how things go at his job) to find financial security. For me this means getting my license (not that I was ever opposed to this but my family sucks at encouraging and helping one another out) and getting a full time job IF I can't prove to him I can support myself on my art which means through commissions and selling my jewelry. To him, through his eyes, he feels I never "grew up".

Also the blatant disregard for my coming out of the closet (so to speak) to my parents has been utterly annoying and very draining on my mental state. So art pretty much took a back seat when my depression kicked in.

I am still open for commissions though. I have Thursday, Friday, and Saturday off from work this week so I'm going to see about kicking Threaded Chains (my jewelry, vintage, artisan craft shop) back into shape and re-launching. It's been uber windy here so I'm hoping it calms the fuck down so I can possibly get outside and take pictures of my products again.

That's all I really have. I don't want to go into huge detail about what my dad said. You guys hear enough sad journals from me as it is. Just know I am starting to feel a little better. I'm working on cleaning up my room (bit by bit and it's coming along great!) and I should be able to set up some kind of space for me to work on my jewelry and art again where I won't be disturbed. My inbox is out of control again so bear with me as I go through it. Journals, polls, and a few miscellaneous things have been cleared out. Comments are still there however, so bear with me as I work on getting to them.

The only other thing that's happened recently is that I finished my taxes and should be getting my money from them soon as both state and federal were accepted. I was hoping to use the money to buy a new laptop so I could get back into digital art again and to bring myself up to speed as far as technology goes, but now I am reconsidering. I'll probably use the money to pay off as many bills as I can (at least one of them and part of another) and begin to get back on track. If things go well for me over the coming months I am hoping that by this time next year (and maybe by some miracle maybe sooner) I can finally get a new laptop. In the meantime I am going to see about fixing Sheridan, my PC that crapped out a few months back.

Thanks for reading this far.


~Ja ne