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11 years ago
Hey FA. Gods it's been a while since I put something up. I hope you have all been doin well. Since I've been so absent these past few months, wanted to give ya'll the run down. Hopefully it will explain something.
January 2014: This started off slow enough. Work was busy but not crazy. However my parents' house was broken into around this time and it kinda completely threw me off. I couldn't focus on much of anything then except their safety. That coupled with the frequent ice storms and my car breaking down kinda had my mind occupied. That was until our companies website slowed to a crawl on the day of our largest program deadline. This generated, no joke, over 10,000 inquiries between phone calls and e-mails that the THREE of us in Customer Care had to handle. We were buried, and it didn't stop.
February 2014: This was mostly a result of January. I worked tons and tons of extra hours just trying to keep our e-mail and call volume anywhere close to a manageable level. All of us were skipping lunches and working till 6 or 7 at night. I did get my cool new glasses then, and was permitted to flee the madness briefly to spend Valentine's with a special bat up in Wisconsin. It was a greatly appreciated, if brief reprieve. But mostly, I just slogged through February, looking to March for relief.
March 2014: The call volume persisted until about the second week of March and we finally slowed back down to a reasonable amount of work. Lunch breaks and 5:00 PM clock outs resumed and a great sigh of relief was felt. FWA and BLFC were just around the corner too, both of which I enjoyed immensely. I don't usually back to back vaca, but I felt like I deserved it after the shenanigans of Jan and Feb. FWA was spent mostly with my fur fam and hanging with a few others both local and from afar. BLFC was pretty much all to hang out with one of my best friends
since he wasn't able to make FWA. Still I met plenty of new people while in both Santa Barbara and Reno.
The true trial of March was house hunting. I had a bunch lined up for us to view after FWA... and then they were all gone. Now I've been scrambling to find options that fit what we need and also won't kill our wallets. It's been rough. We want to move by the 12th, but that looks more and more bleak as the days tick by. Hopefully this will clear up soon.
Looking forward, April and May are straight up booked. I have something to do every weekend without fail. I'm kind of dreading my schedule, but all of them are necessary. Hopefully June will be a bit nicer.
For those who have tried to contact me unsuccessfully, I am sorry. I have mostly been talking with my fur fam and real fam only. They've been keeping me grounded and in control. I don't hate you guys, really. Life has just been killer and I'm hoping that once we move and I go to ALL THE WEDDINGS, normalcy will be a bit more of a realistic expectation.
For those I owe commissions, the only ones I have on record are those who have not paid yet and are currently in the sketching (or thumbnailing stage). If you are concerned about your order please contact me here and I will make sure we get your order made. I have one comic commission currently, and I will be sending the info on the thumbnails to the commissioner later this month.
Take care you guys. I really appreciate yall's patience with me~
January 2014: This started off slow enough. Work was busy but not crazy. However my parents' house was broken into around this time and it kinda completely threw me off. I couldn't focus on much of anything then except their safety. That coupled with the frequent ice storms and my car breaking down kinda had my mind occupied. That was until our companies website slowed to a crawl on the day of our largest program deadline. This generated, no joke, over 10,000 inquiries between phone calls and e-mails that the THREE of us in Customer Care had to handle. We were buried, and it didn't stop.
February 2014: This was mostly a result of January. I worked tons and tons of extra hours just trying to keep our e-mail and call volume anywhere close to a manageable level. All of us were skipping lunches and working till 6 or 7 at night. I did get my cool new glasses then, and was permitted to flee the madness briefly to spend Valentine's with a special bat up in Wisconsin. It was a greatly appreciated, if brief reprieve. But mostly, I just slogged through February, looking to March for relief.
March 2014: The call volume persisted until about the second week of March and we finally slowed back down to a reasonable amount of work. Lunch breaks and 5:00 PM clock outs resumed and a great sigh of relief was felt. FWA and BLFC were just around the corner too, both of which I enjoyed immensely. I don't usually back to back vaca, but I felt like I deserved it after the shenanigans of Jan and Feb. FWA was spent mostly with my fur fam and hanging with a few others both local and from afar. BLFC was pretty much all to hang out with one of my best friends
since he wasn't able to make FWA. Still I met plenty of new people while in both Santa Barbara and Reno. The true trial of March was house hunting. I had a bunch lined up for us to view after FWA... and then they were all gone. Now I've been scrambling to find options that fit what we need and also won't kill our wallets. It's been rough. We want to move by the 12th, but that looks more and more bleak as the days tick by. Hopefully this will clear up soon.
Looking forward, April and May are straight up booked. I have something to do every weekend without fail. I'm kind of dreading my schedule, but all of them are necessary. Hopefully June will be a bit nicer.
For those who have tried to contact me unsuccessfully, I am sorry. I have mostly been talking with my fur fam and real fam only. They've been keeping me grounded and in control. I don't hate you guys, really. Life has just been killer and I'm hoping that once we move and I go to ALL THE WEDDINGS, normalcy will be a bit more of a realistic expectation.
For those I owe commissions, the only ones I have on record are those who have not paid yet and are currently in the sketching (or thumbnailing stage). If you are concerned about your order please contact me here and I will make sure we get your order made. I have one comic commission currently, and I will be sending the info on the thumbnails to the commissioner later this month.
Take care you guys. I really appreciate yall's patience with me~
sucks about break in and the house hunting.
HIt me up sometime when you get a breather, love to hang out with you again after so long, haven't heard from you since december
But yeah, I'm practically badgering these realtors for walk-throughs.