Just thought I'd share some updates on what's been going on with me.

In a nutshell, the second half of 2014 went downhill for me, and the beginning of 2015 sucked. Things have been improving since after Anthro New England, however. Now, for the long version...

For those that don't know, last July at work, I got moved from one department to another, after the supervisor of that department finagled her way out of trouble and used me as a scapegoat. The assistant manager at the time, who received the request from that supervisor to boot me out of that department thought it would be a good idea to move me on to the front end of the store. Unfortunately, it wasn't. For the majority of the time I was in the front end, I had to do carriages. It's not the concept of the job that's bad for me, or even the weather we had lately, but the fact that I have a medical condition with my legs and feet where I can't do too many carriages at a time, or do carriages non-stop for too long, without straining them. This was especially bad for Saturdays when it was even more busy at the store - more customers coming in, more customers using carriages. Does this asshat of an assistant manager realize that the decision he made here was in really bad logic? Does he care? In addition, the pain from doing this job generated the worst depression I had in nearly two decades. I would've quit, but I wasn't in any position to do so because of this credit card debt I had to pay off. (It's gone now, though.) It wasn't until my current supervisor for the front end got transferred to the Stop & Shop I'm working at, that things were gradually getting better, but very slowly.

I explained to that supervisor abut my medical condition, and she's doing whatever she can to keep me inside the store longer. And last month, that assistant manager got transferred out of the S&S I work at. The new assistant manager we got appears so much nicer. I'm in a less depressive state than before. That being said, though, I still need to save up more money to put aside just to be safe. I am also saving up for something special. (More details on what I'm saving up later when I have the funds for it... )

Now, starting on June 17th, I'll be taking an online course in Medical Coding. The course will go for six weeks. I would still be at Stop & Shop during that time, but once the course is over, I expect to begin job searching again, hopefully getting a job in Medical Coding.

As for conventions, I'll be at Maltese Fur Con in August (It's in my hometown, BTW! It's like a five minute drive from where I live!), Furpocalypse in the fall, and I also have plans for Anthro New England 2016, a possible trip to Texas Furry Fiesta next March, Anthrocon 2016 summer of next year, and get this...another Massachusetts-based fur con starting up! This one in West Springfield called "Fur Xoticon", taking place from May 27th through the 29th. More info can be found at their FA page.  wxcevents

I also might start doing "Cyan Asks" contests again! One of the reasons I put that on hiatus was because there were other projects I wanted to finish. One in particular, unfortunately, I didn't get to finish in time. It was related to the AHL. the project was having my character star in these illustrations, each of them with different AHL mascots in them as well. Because the regular season ended before I even had a chance to color these illustrations in, and that a good portion of the teams are relocating (I have a feeling this relocation experiment will fail, however), I would have to put that off aside till the next AHL season begins. I might post a journal on doing CA again soon!

That's all I have for updates. If anything else happens that might affect things for me, that might be needed to be posted here, I'll post it.