...-screams at the inhumane amount of messages-

Hey guys, I'm finally alive again! Sorry for pulling a disappearing act on all of you. >: School time kind of keeps me away from any major internet activity. As of lately, I've only been majorly active on Twitter or on LJ, so if you want to keep up with me it's highly reccommended that you add me on those accounts if you need me for any sort of reason!

My Twitter account: http://twitter.com/AshKetchumSays

I also got a brand new LJ, so please add me here if you haven't yet!

http://stripesandteeth.livejournal.com/ <--- I do a lot of updating on any issues that come up that infringe on any art making. If you're currently waiting on a commission, it would be in your best interests to keep up with me here. I know right now a lot of my entries are about issues that held up my loan on coming through.

Also, if you really REALLY need to get a hold of me, please email me at my school email. It's ajeffers[at]c.ringling.edu

I check that email every day, so I will definitely see your email. It's a lot better than noting me here.

Now onto what's been going on as of late. Pretty much, I've been having a lot of drama going on in my life right now. School, some personal issues, and my parents again. :/ Mostly my parents though, they've been threatening me again as of late with being cut off from them again if I don't hold up to their demands or whatever. They've been putting ALOT of pressure on me, and no matter how much I tell them this, they still won't let up at all and it's caused me to fall into this..sort of depression again. I think it was around mid September where I just began to withdraw from EVERYTHING and everyone pretty much. I stopped going out as much, I stopped checking my emails, stopped checking my major sites online...skipped class, skipped out on a few assignments. It got pretty bad. All of this was mostly due to the drama I've been having with my parents, but there was also a personal issue involved as well that just made me feel like the most worthless thing ever. So I just kind of...withdrew. If that makes any sense. It's not until recently that I've been feeling better and getting back on track with everything.

I'm mostly updating to say though that my loan finally came though. q_q; There was a HUGE delay on my account. Let me show you.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v.....foreverWHY.jpg

See that? That's how my account was for an entirety of two months, which was fucking ridiculous. Normally my money is ready the 2nd week of school. :/ But because Ringling decided to have a new loan process this year, it totally screwed up everything and pretty much everyone who was waiting on money to come though. This kind of contributes to the drama I was having with my parents. Because the money wasn't coming through, I had to constantly ask them for money for supplies and things I still needed that the loan was supposed to cover. So, eventually they got sick of me asking for things all the time and got a little fed up. They began to assume I was lying to them again...and that's when shit started flying again. So now they're not speaking to me right now until they get half of the loan money that I have...which was pretty much only half of the amount shown in the link. :/

I also had a little fight with my mom about how I needed to give out refunds and I told her I needed a good chunk of what I was getting back. My mom assumed I was lying again and got really angry with me, saying how she doesn't believe that I have so many commissions that I owe people. She was pretty much just like "Oh well, that's too bad, this is OUR money, not their's!!!" and I was doing my BEST to explain to her that I really need to fix this problem and I have people that I owe money to and she just...wouldn't let up at all. I got so angry that I pretty much had this..huge fit of rage after I got off the phone and cried myself to sleep.

So, pretty much, that plan to give out refunds is going to run rather slowly now. My parents have a hold of the money now and they're only going to be giving me SO much every month. :/ So that means I can only give out a maximum of 3 to 5 refunds every month, depending on how much your commission cost. If I start now, things should be fixed in no time. My mom suggested that if this is such a problem, that I should start doing AT least one per week, which is probably the only thing I can agree with her on. So, either way, if you're waiting on something from me, you'll be getting either your art or money.

As of now, I have about $150 in my paypal that I can use on refunds. I did have $250, but I had an emergency art supply shopping spree I had to do today thanks to a new assignment my painting teacher gave us. So I'll be giving out refunds in order of priority. If you really want one, you will be higher up on the list. If you can wait, that would be amazing and there's always next month to either get your art or money back. I guess, once all the money's gone, I'll start up a new refund list.

Um, and that's about it. I have... a lot of messages to go through because I haven't been on here in literally over a month. q__q; I also have 28 notes, uhhh, so I'll be going through those when I get the chance to sit down this weekend. Right now I really have to get to work on my concept homework! Which I will be livestreaming soon, I'll update and let you guys know when it starts. If you add me on Twitter, I'll be updating there first.

Reallyyyy sorry about the lack of art. D: I don't have anything at all to upload! My next upload will be probably be this concept painting for class and then maybe...just maybe I can get a sketchdump together this weekend. It really depends on if my teachers don't assign us something crazy this weekend.. ;_;


Once again, I'm sorry about my lack of activity. ;; I just wanted to give out my contact info so you guys can get in touch with me if you really need to.