TLDR: furfright, commission update, busy-ness reasons, studio status and pets

Welcome new watchers from Furfright! It was great to meet you all =D I saw a lot of old friends and made some new ones.

Sorry for the delay in postings! I ended up sick during and after Furfright, but I’m recovered now =D I’ll be chugging away at commissions in my spare time. Due to my working full-time expect it will take a little over month to get through everything.

I feel bad for not posting more journals—to be honest my schedule has me out for 11 hours a day, and by the time I come home all I want to do is relax before bed. I now work for the department of Journalism where I watch CNN for 5 hours a day. By the time I get home I want nothing to do with TV, Internet or any other “media.” It’s why I’ve nearly disappeared from the LJ communities, etc. Hopefully the situation is only temporary; I’m planning on dropping the second job at the Flow Cytometry Facility sometime in the next couple months as it’s too much for too little pay.

The new art-studio space is very nearly complete, and I will soon have a dedicated work environment. I’m really excited about this! It makes me feel much more professional and less like an amateur. I’ll take photos. We’ll be setting up a bird-haven in front of the large picture windows so that I can birdwatch while I work. How awesome is that? I’m looking into energy efficient heated birdbaths—we can’t afford to run something too expensive, but I do want a water-source for the winter, as it attracts more birds than any seed you can use. I already miss my rose-breasted grosbeaks which have moved on for the winter, but who knows what woodland birds may drop by? We’re in the middle of deep woods in the hills/mountainy area of MA rather than the typical suburb so it might be interesting what we see.

Rico is doing fantastic with training, and I’m hoping to get him evaluated for his canine good-citizenship test soon. Our fosters got adopted at the recent Ratfest in Connecticut, so we took on 4 more. Two are gorgeous platinum girlies, and our first ever dumbo. Two are…well…some will call them squishes. I’ll say it: they’re FAT. They’re of great character though =D