2024 was a year of major changes for me. After spending most of my life in California, I moved cross-country to Upstate New York.

So far, I've been doing fairly well with the cold weather and snow. I recently experienced my first "White Christmas" since I was a baby. It's very pretty. The other day I walked to work when it was 14 degrees out.

I went to Walt Disney World for the first time. (I also went to Universal Studios Hollywood, Disneyland and Walt Disney World all in the same year.)

My stepfather passed away after years of health issues following a stroke. He passed the day before I left for Disney World. He had been married to my mother for 28 years. Mom is doing fairly well but is understandably still very upset. He was the main father figure in my life, but I had a somewhat difficult relationship with him, especially when I was younger, so I still don't know exactly how to feel.

I've been visiting with my birth father, a local rock and blues musician, once a week, the most I've ever seen him. Recently, I got to see my half-brother for the first time in years and meet his boyfriend. We have a lot of geeky interests in common and I'm hoping to go to Anthrocon with him next year. I gave him a Lucario plushie for Christmas and he put it in his toy display.

At one point, I was so frustrated with computer updates that I hysterically posted I was permanently quitting digital art after my current projects were done. Here's a...well, update on that. I believe the universe has a sense of irony, so I don't want to say the situation has been resolved, but if it continues as it has been, I should be able to produce more digital art. I've been doing the updates in a more timely manner. Also, I used to toggle back and forth between Photoshop and Chrome, which apparently my laptop can't handle. So I now draw on Photoshop, go online on my phone and play YouTube videos on my old phone and this seems to help. I have been doing some traditional acrylic on canvas paintings as well. They are mostly scenery, not furry, so I'm posting then on my deviantART.

I finished most of the large projects I had been working on when I left California. I'm continuing to work on the Diminisher the lioness growth/possession comic commission -- currently working on lineart for Page 4. Thank you to the commissioner and the readers for your patience.

In the new year, surprise surprise, I want to visit Walt Disney World again. This time without 30+ of buildup :D. I'd also like to go to Universal Florida for the first time and see their new park Epic Universe once the hype dies down. I'd also like to travel more locally and see places like New York City, which I still haven't been to yet. And hopefully maybe finish the children's book I've been working on for years and years!