Well guys and gals, the time has come for me to face some real truths in my life, and to update you all of what has been going on. Just bear with me and we'll get through this.

I haven't been gone per se but busy drawing and improving my skills with sai. I had about 4 Full colored pics done and was going to do a mass upload to surprise all you guys. Then I got shafted by Toshiba.

I have had a laptop that I do my work on for under a year and the hinges on the monitor shredded the plastic inside the case from normal wear and tear, but that's not a big deal since I can fix it. (I used to build computers and fix laptops all the time) The stuff was fixed and I reassembled it and then tried to boot back up. When I did, I was greeted by Toshiba's custom boot loader which that in itself is redundant, but it then proceeded to wipe the file system to my drive and fry everything else!

Now I am stuck with a 5 pound paper weight and a drive with files that I know are on there but can't be accessed, and yes I have done it all. Remounted the drive in my roommates laptop, tried using things like recuva and other recovery, etc. and more, all to no avail. I did, just for giggles get a quote from a recovery specialist and they said it would be a a charge between 700 and 1200 dollars.. HELL NO!!! I do make backups all the time but The computer wouldn't boot when the hinges shredded,(broken circuit due to loose connection to monitor) and I had gotten a chance to backup all the new stuff..

With everything else in my life going on, this was honestly Murphy's attempt to put me in the loony bin. But I have learned some lessons in the process. In the meantime I am left with a situation that I need to get out of, mainly that I NEED to get a new computer, tho this time I am gonna do things right.

I am gonna build one, and it IS going to be powerful. I have no doubt that if not limited by speed or memory issues, the sky's the limit of what I could do. So I will be announcing in my next journal and in a pic that I will be uploading, (the only pic out of the several I had to upload that I had saved a copy to my tablet to surprise Kalixta with) a special that I will be switching exclusively to!

What this means is that I will be giving you the same high quality that you have come to expect of me in my colored pencils and that I will be dropping my prices dramatically to attempt to deal with this personal crisis. I am still debating holding auctions for some works, but I want you all to have the chance to commission me and I know we are ALL broke as hell right now. It's rare when I bring my woes out there and burden you all with them, but I think now is a good time ^///^