12/14/2025: It is sooooooo cold!!! Usually, where I am, our Decembers have been pretty green, but I guess this year, my state decided to go back to the good ol' days before global warming and give us MULTIPLE snow storms. Makes taking the dogs out such a hassle; and my skin has been SO dry!

Besides that, though, things have been good! I recently finished up my semester and have had my first proper break (longer than two weeks) since January! I should have only two semesters left, though the last one is gonna be soooo busy, because I have to do two classes and a portfolio. The portfolio is only one credit though, so maybe it won't be that bad!

So far, I've been spending my break mostly reading and studying Latin. I switched my desk out from the makeshift white one (it was actually an outdoor table) to a proper black desk! I'm SO much happier with it! One day, I'll switch out all this white furniture that I basically got from my sister to black and dark brown and I will truly know happiness ww Besides that, I've been preparing for an event I'm setting up: Karin Sauer Week! I love Karin a lot, but I haven't had much time to do serious drawing during school, so I wanna try to get them done while I'm on break and schedule them when the event is actually going, which is the second week of February! My headcanoned birthday for her is February 14, so I thought it would be a fitting week to have it~ I also need to work on the Everyone Lives AU. I hadn't been able to update it much since summer! There's just so much drawing to do ahaha

I also made paper snowflakes! It took a while to make proper ones that weren't accidentally cut in half, haha. But I figured it out eventually!



And finally, the Winnie update! She's been good. She did get another UTI this year. We think her heats are probably causing it. I've been saving up to get her fixed finally, but every time I got the money to afford it at our vet, she'd get another UTI and I'd have to use it for that...Luckily, our vet guided us to a cheaper option, so we're going to go to them! She's set to be spayed later this month. I'm worried leaving her...she's not the best with strangers. But the clinic we're going to regularly handles strays, so I'm sure they'll be great with her! I'll have to make sure she has her favorite treats ready during the healing process to comfort her~

2/17/2025: Long time no see! I've abandoned this for quite some time, but I'm back to poking at it randomly. Some very general updates on what I've been up to in the past year:

• I started grad school! I'm getting my Master's in Library and Information Science (focusing on archiving especially). Considering the amount of mis- and disinformation going around, I think this is going to be very important in the coming years.
• I got into a game called Fear and Hunger, particularly the Termina one. I've been OBSESSED with it for almost a year now. It's practically all I draw, haha. I'm not complaining, though! The amount of art I've done, I've improved so much. The advice that to get better at art, you need to get really, really, really into a thing/guy is absolutely true. My guys are Pavel Yudin and Karin Sauer, by the way.
• I've started doing animatics and animations! Yes, most of them are Fear and Hunger related, hahaha. Again, though, I'm not complaining, because the obsession has totally improved my animations as well! It's gotten to the point where I crave animating as much as I crave drawing--which is amazing, because while I always wanted to animate, I always got so frustrated with it that I would rarely do it. Now I do it regularly! Sometimes with full colors and effects! Wow!
• And, for a Winnie update, she has been mostly well. She did get UTIs galore over the last year and trying to figure out why they kept coming back was taxing in so many ways. But she's perfectly healthy and a-okay now!

I think that's mostly it for now! I'm not gonna promise that I'll try to keep up with this more, because as soon as I do, that will end up being a lie jfkajekfjkla

But it is nice to take a break from social media--it's so emotionally taxing, I'd like to break away from it completely one day. I personally still think the social media era might be coming to a close over the next few years, but what do I know! We'll see.

12/4/2023: I started my new job recently! It's fun and I like it a lot, but it's most DEFINITELY tiring. I usually come home and go right to bed w

I've also been playing a ton of Sims. I really need to start just recording my games somehow (whether in video format or in writing) because I get so invested and I don't wanna forget my sims stories into the void :(

As for reading, I've picked up Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews again. It's sooooooo sad, so I have to take a lotta breaks from it, just for my own mental health. Cathy's rage fueled revenge kinda slaps though.

Winnie update: Unfortunely, she's been using me being busy with work as a chance to get into the trash and she did end up eating chicken bones :( She did get sick for a bit, but she's fine now! Gonna hafta keep the trash better secured when I'm away >:/

11/14/2023: I'm feeling really sick today, but my adhd and hyperfixation is stronger, so here I am!! I'm having way more fun with this than I thought I would.

I started reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. I'm not sure if I'll continue with it—it's a good book, but the writing style isn't really my cup of tea. I wanna try to get through a hundred pages first before I totally decide to DNF it though. I'm in that weird reading slump right now where I really want to read, but I'm not sure what, so I just constantly start and abandon books, then feel guilty about it ToT

Winnie update: there's a stinkbug (I named him Scooby) that's been flying around the past few days and she's terrified of it. I don't usually let her sleep with me in bed at night (twin bed, not a lotta space), but I had to make the exception the last few nights because she'll just be crying and want to be right up against me.