We still got half a month left, but I just wanted to toss a few things here for the moment!

This year was kinda rough in a lot of ways. I felt like I couldn't get a leg up financially; kept having big expenses pop up like emergency vet bills and the like. My comic has been on hiatus due to needing to take commissions and work more hours at my day job. I have been working 40 hours during holiday season like always which has just drained me creatively. It makes me really upset, but I know it's not dead. I just gotta get back up at the start of the new year.

I'd like to get better about organizing myself. I went through a period in 2020 or around that where I was making exceptionally good progress on work/life/art balance. That's been so dead lately. I want to stream commission more for side income, I want to work on the comic, I want to finish some stories I left on the backburner, and I want to keep drawing cringe art LOL I just... gotta figure out how to do it. I don't have ADHD or anything like that, but I have trouble focusing/keeping schedule on things that don't result in backlash. Like, I never fell behind in school because I'd get bad grades otherwise. I get commissions done timely because not doing so reflect poorly. But things like side stories or what-have-you, abandoning them doesn't have a repercussion so my brain files them away as unimportant and I never get them done or even started. It's so frustrating. It's a big hindrance in my creativity and always has been.

So, 2023, we will see. I want to try out new thing with scheduling and see how it goes.

Negatives aside, this year was also REALLY great socially. I met SO MANY of my online friends in person this year! I felt like throughout the year there was always someone visiting or I'm travelling somewhere (being as covid safe as possible of course). It was really really nice, and MFF just topped it off! I try not to think about MFF too much because it was so great and thinking about it gives me that post con depression LOL But it was a blast! I miss my friends already and can't wait for FWA to see some of them again.

The funniest thing about this year was seeing how I switched obsessions yet again. Like, idk what it's like to see me from a third party but it's gotta be funny as hell to my long-time followers who just know when I'm up to my shit again. Bird man obsessed since 2017 then suddenly dwagon time! And you guys don't even question it, and plenty full-fledge support it. Warms by dusty old heart. Bless you putting up with me LOL

Anyway, that's about it. At the moment I'm just trying to make it through the holiday rush at work. It's turning my brain into mush and I'm not keeping up well with anything outside of it. But fingers crossed in the new year things go back to normal and I can breath again!