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State of the Ott- April Edition
9 years ago
I AM OPEN FOR COMMISSIONS! Take a look at my price sheet with links to examples!!
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5868382/
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5868382/
First, art wise. I am so glad that in the last few months, I have had 2 commissions and a cross stitch commission. It is really hard for me to get commissions, so I am really glad that I have had these in the fairly recent past. So thanks to my 3 commissioners and I hope to get more soon!
Also, I know I owe some trades and I feel awful about that. I swear I am gonna work on them. Its just been super busy around here lately. We are in the middle of a major spring cleaning. There is a HUGE pile of stuff in our entryway that will go to Goodwill, and a smaller pile that is just being thrown away. I know its a shitty excuse, but this is something that has needed to be done on this larger scale for years.
Personally, things are OK I guess. We just got back from a week in Fl. It was nice, a little sad at one point but mostly really nice. We did some fun family things, including a city wide thrift store crawl. We got some shelves at thrift stores which is helping in getting our house a little more organized.
Cat is doing well, she seemed to be much less stressed staying at home with someone coming to see her every day and feed her. Still a little stress grooming but it looks like less.
My Halfmoon King Betta has... changed colors. I have had a lot of Bettas, and I have seen them get brighter or duller as they get healthier or get stressed, but in the 20+ years on and off I have had Bettas, I have never one change color so dramatically. He used to be bone white around his lower jaw and face, so I named him Jaws, after the James Bond villain, but now his whole body is the same color blue. He is very healthy, eats well, very alert, so I am guessing it is a positive thing, but it puzzles me.
I do hate that I wasn't able to go to FWA this year. It is the first time in MANY years that I wasn't able to go, but because we went to Florida at the same time, but that opened me up to go to another con in May. This is the first time I have ever gone to Frolicon. Its more of a fetishy sort of con, but there will be little (babyfur) stuff there, and there will be pet play stuff there, and I am going with my puppy trainer, he is coming all the way from Indianapolis to Atlanta. So this should be really fun. I think I am gonna be doing more puppy things than little things, but we shall see.
I did get to see Deadpool. It was awesome. I wanna see it before it leaves the theater again, but I may not get to. And Paul and I are now official furries, we just saw Zootopia for the third time. I think this is prolly only the second or third movie in my life that I've seen that much.
One of the people at work left, so next week I am going to start to take on more responsibility and learn more things. Whether this will eventually lead to better pay or not, we will just have to see.
I have a couple of little art things in the pipes but now I am going to REALLY be cutting back on A LOT of things, including art and going out. We will still have our Friday Night Sushi. I just cant give that up. But Paul and I are trying to save up for the down payment on a car. We are trying to save at least $250 a month together so we can have about $2500 down. We don't want to have to pay more than $200-250 a month when we buy one.
Both Paul and I are kinda looking at a Honda Fit, but also we want to look at the Ford Focus SE Sedan (How ironic, with my ADHD), a Ford Fiesta SE Sedan, a Toyota Yaris LE, or a Honda HR-V LX. We have time to think about it, but I need to do some research on each of these.
Right now we have a 1995 Saturn SL1. This is the one that we will replace. We also have a 2007 Saturn Ion. Because we have had to use the Ion a lot more, it has about as many miles on it as the old one does. They both have about 170-180K miles on them, so getting a new car is very important, as both of our cars have a lot of wear and tear on them.
If we do get a new car like we intend to, this would be the first new car I ever owned. The 1995 Saturn is my first car ever. I got it in 1997 when I was a junior in college (yeah, I am old). So it will be REALLY hard to let it go. Considering how old it is, we will probably donate it to a local charity and use it as a write off, as it is probably worth less then $500.
Okay, well I guess that I have rambling on enough. I have some work to do, around the house, and art wise!
Wiggle at you all later!
Also, I know I owe some trades and I feel awful about that. I swear I am gonna work on them. Its just been super busy around here lately. We are in the middle of a major spring cleaning. There is a HUGE pile of stuff in our entryway that will go to Goodwill, and a smaller pile that is just being thrown away. I know its a shitty excuse, but this is something that has needed to be done on this larger scale for years.
Personally, things are OK I guess. We just got back from a week in Fl. It was nice, a little sad at one point but mostly really nice. We did some fun family things, including a city wide thrift store crawl. We got some shelves at thrift stores which is helping in getting our house a little more organized.
Cat is doing well, she seemed to be much less stressed staying at home with someone coming to see her every day and feed her. Still a little stress grooming but it looks like less.
My Halfmoon King Betta has... changed colors. I have had a lot of Bettas, and I have seen them get brighter or duller as they get healthier or get stressed, but in the 20+ years on and off I have had Bettas, I have never one change color so dramatically. He used to be bone white around his lower jaw and face, so I named him Jaws, after the James Bond villain, but now his whole body is the same color blue. He is very healthy, eats well, very alert, so I am guessing it is a positive thing, but it puzzles me.
I do hate that I wasn't able to go to FWA this year. It is the first time in MANY years that I wasn't able to go, but because we went to Florida at the same time, but that opened me up to go to another con in May. This is the first time I have ever gone to Frolicon. Its more of a fetishy sort of con, but there will be little (babyfur) stuff there, and there will be pet play stuff there, and I am going with my puppy trainer, he is coming all the way from Indianapolis to Atlanta. So this should be really fun. I think I am gonna be doing more puppy things than little things, but we shall see.
I did get to see Deadpool. It was awesome. I wanna see it before it leaves the theater again, but I may not get to. And Paul and I are now official furries, we just saw Zootopia for the third time. I think this is prolly only the second or third movie in my life that I've seen that much.
One of the people at work left, so next week I am going to start to take on more responsibility and learn more things. Whether this will eventually lead to better pay or not, we will just have to see.
I have a couple of little art things in the pipes but now I am going to REALLY be cutting back on A LOT of things, including art and going out. We will still have our Friday Night Sushi. I just cant give that up. But Paul and I are trying to save up for the down payment on a car. We are trying to save at least $250 a month together so we can have about $2500 down. We don't want to have to pay more than $200-250 a month when we buy one.
Both Paul and I are kinda looking at a Honda Fit, but also we want to look at the Ford Focus SE Sedan (How ironic, with my ADHD), a Ford Fiesta SE Sedan, a Toyota Yaris LE, or a Honda HR-V LX. We have time to think about it, but I need to do some research on each of these.
Right now we have a 1995 Saturn SL1. This is the one that we will replace. We also have a 2007 Saturn Ion. Because we have had to use the Ion a lot more, it has about as many miles on it as the old one does. They both have about 170-180K miles on them, so getting a new car is very important, as both of our cars have a lot of wear and tear on them.
If we do get a new car like we intend to, this would be the first new car I ever owned. The 1995 Saturn is my first car ever. I got it in 1997 when I was a junior in college (yeah, I am old). So it will be REALLY hard to let it go. Considering how old it is, we will probably donate it to a local charity and use it as a write off, as it is probably worth less then $500.
Okay, well I guess that I have rambling on enough. I have some work to do, around the house, and art wise!
Wiggle at you all later!
Sounds like you're busy, I need to talk about some things myself, but sending you both hugs.