So how's everyone been? I hope everyone is feeling okay and able to step into this new year with wide eyes and at least a bit of excitement.

The last few years have been....to be frank, utter shit for me. Lost my job at the end of 2021 and had to suffer through a demanding-but-poorly-paying job for nearly two years, stuck on the razor's edge between just scraping by and crashing spectacularly. It was an incredibly depressing and mind altering time for me and after a while I ended up just being stuck in "Survival Mode" not doing anything, no energy or motivation, just waking up, going to work, going home and trying desperately to not incur any sort of spending with maybe a flash of inspiration here and there and with Sometober as something of a mini-reprieve. I ended up curling into myself and only keeping consistent contact with just a handful of people.

This October however, I was finally able to get a new job that paid worth a damn and while it was a major transition, I was finally able to get back into the green with all of my expenses and debts. I didn't have that many but the previous job paid so shittily that I couldn't make any progress on them.

Now, going into this new year, I'm going to focus on finding my legs again and reconnecting with both people and pastimes that I let burn out while in that fog. I'm also going to work on being healthier in general. Both in body and in general mentality. There's lots of bullets concerning my mental health that I've avoided biting for decades now that I'm going to work on so that I can hopefully become a more consistent and reliable artist and person.