Had an amazing birthday today. Spent a lot of time with friends, had one of the best dinners in a long long while, and now been relaxing for the night. Went a little crazy with the dinner since they mentioned could get absolutely anything, so probably what people feel like when they put it on the tab of business card XD. Bread with a herb and oil sauce, bang bang shrimp (which is basically a bunch of breaded shrimp over a salad with a sauce on them that makes the mouth orgasm), two crabcakes with a red remoulade sauce, a bowl of a lump crab meat chowder, lobster ravioli with a truffle and white wine sauce with sauteed spinach and mushrooms, garlic mashed potato, potatoes au gratin, and one of those root beers in the glass bottle. Even chatted with a manager there and the topic of my birthday came up, so he gave me a set of 24 of the shrimp with the sauce to go that I am eating as I type this XD. Feels weird to eat so much when my average food budget tends to be under $10 a day.

Mostly wanted to mention some life updates here as have been mentioning it in some areas, but believe I haven't on Furaffinity yet.

My mom ended up getting in a bad work accident about a month ago that has left her unable to walk for some time. Been helping take care of her as she cannot do a lot of things on her own, but slowly she has been recovering and should be able to walk again properly in a few months. Due to time associated with this, household income going down, and a couple $1,000s in extra unexpected medical expenses that I also had this summer (nothing major, mostly a lot of small things), time allocation has been all over the place the later half of this year with the increased amount of things I have been needing to do as well as extra funds needed throughout it all. Hopefully within the next few months should be getting back to normal.

In regard to furry things, should hopefully be back to writing a lot more by the end of this year, possibly getting the 100s of backlogged commissioned artwork uploaded as they are spread across like 5 different save drives, and have what may be my first proper trip out of the country planned for later next year. Normally my average vacation budget has been $200-300, but as long as nothing more out there happens between now and then, this one should be around 10x that at $2000-$3000 for a multi month duration. Technically still the same ratio of cost compared to a 1 week break, but spread across multiple months. Prior the longest I ever did was about 2 weeks.

As far as hobbies, have cut a lot of the more expensive ones lately for financial reasons (mostly cutting gaming/subscription services by around 90%), and given that most of them I will not continue even after recovering over recent financial events, that is going to be a bit of extra cash building up starting early next year. While some of this would be allocated for this trip, might start commissioning art again a bit more regularly. One of the main reasons there has been so little uploads since 2019 is in part because I have commissioned rather little since the pandemic due to all the financial uncertainty during and after it with most of my unuploaded backlog being prior to that. Since 2020, in the last 5 years, have spent a little under $1,000 in 5 years averaging around $200 a year, whereas 2015-2019 was around $1000-$2000 a year. Considering going back to these levels of $200ish a month starting next year. My lifetime art spending on furry stuff up to this point is around $6000-$7000 in 10 years (oh no, 6 7). This number could go up to about $10,000 over the next 2 years as long as unexpected bad things would stop happening. XD

For anyone interested in kinky writing commissions, let me know! Still finishing my current backlog SOONtm, but really want to go into next year writing minimum 2k+ words a day regardless of if it is for a commission or not. Obviously more ideal if it is for a commission as makes things more financially stable and eventually more commissioned art of things, but there are a looooot of various topics I have been meaning to write about that up to this point have never had the spare time or recent writing habit to do so. But I do want to get back to the kind of writing habits I had from around 2007-2015 that was easily 3k+ words a day while still doing full time college and full time job on top of it back during some of that.

Anyways, hope all of you have a good rest of your year!