Hello there guys,

I was going to work on this update yesterday, but stuff happened and I wasn´t able to get anything done.
So this is my kinda "late" August preview on what will happen during the month, without further do, let´s get started!


4th of August
It´s that time of the year again, meaning in 2 days it´s my another year anniversary of when I found FA and the furry fandom. Can´t believe that it is already 7 years of being in fandom overall, time flies so fast ^^
I´m not sure will I able to draw something special for the special day, but hopefully not long after that at least, I´m sure there will be something to celebrate the one mile stone of 7th furryversary x3

Eurofurence 22
As you noticed from my previous journal, I´ll be at Eurofurence this year.
But unfortunately it will be a really quick visit, because the hotel room is for the Friday-Sunday parts of the con.
Thanks for  cabro to help me out with room share once again ^^
Even though my con visit will be short, I hope to make my best to get an great weekend and catch up with friends plus meet new people as well ^^
If you see me walking around con space as a fluffy lion, come say hi ^^


Behind the scenes on general
(This next part will be a bit long, cause of quite a lot of thought releasing stuff and personal stuff, so if you´re not a fan of that kind of stuff you can skip that)
First of all, I´m hugely sorry for lack of the new arts during this year. I´m slowly getting back with drawing, because I really feel like I need that with all the stuff that is happening behind the scenes of this lion´s life.
There´s one commission for  leonardliono coming up, something for the 4th of August and I really want to give a try for UTGP2017 aka Nintendo´s and Uniqlo´s t-shirt design contest, also I really want to get back with drawing in general.

Over an half of the year, I have been stressing myself A LOT with finding a job and worrying about when I find one interesting, I start to think "Am I good enough for this job?" or find somethings that I have no profession for it or some other reasons (like for example, I don´t own a car and drivers licence, so jobs with need of car -> I unfortunately skip it).
I know that people say that I would narrow my options and chances to get a job by doing this, but sometimes I feel like I´m doing that because I´m really careful of my choices.
I admit that I want things has to go well and without something failing, last year from fall 2015 to January 2016 I was in a trainee period and I loved that a lot to be back on work life again (even though it was a trainee period, but still).

After trainee period was ended, I was having a huge boost to look for a job so I could get some work experience and it would help financially as well.
But as the weeks went on and I got either no replies or just nothing from the jobs I applied, that boost started to turn against me.
Yesterday when I was in a last meeting with my trainee period instructor, I got a slight stress attack when I was trying look for open jobs list with my instructor.
After the meeting, I was feeling so ashamed and worried about how I acted that way and it effected on rest of the day and I slowly recovered from that.

I know that I should keep on looking for new jobs and apply for those, and if they say no or just don´t reply with any matter, just ignore that and move on since the situation on job market is what it is currently in Finland... but the problem is that I´m still learning to not take the turn downs as a personal attack or something like that.
I can prove that I´m hard-working, trustworthy guy at work, who does everything I need to do. Just that it´s bit difficult to me to get the boss of the workplace consider hiring me amount of many others.
Like I get stomped under the more bigger and "louder" persons, I more want my work and efford in rl situations showcase what I can do instead saying "I can do this, this and that ect.".
Even though, this will be a quite a rocky road to walk on, I´m hoping that I could learn to become a better person and overcome the doubts and worries which controls me atm for getting a job.
And I personally want to thank for all people who has there for me while I have felt really bad, because I really don´t know that I would do without you guys.

I´m having my hopes high that things will get better with work hunting aspect soon.

Now that the emotional part is now passed from this journal, I have been playing Pokemon Go a lot since it was officially released 16th of July in Finland and so far I got my trainer level 24, there´s 94 Pokemon on my Pokedex and as I had a Twitter poll about asking which team I would join in Pokemon Go, I became as member of Team Mystic.
So far, I like the game a lot, it got me go outside and walk more plus making my daily goal for 10k steps even more possible to do (depending how long walks I will make and I´m mood for, of course). And even though it seems like the other teams (Valor and Instinct) seem to be more active, when comes to claim gyms from Mystic (like the gym I hold on is gone to other team almost instantly)...that doesn´t bother me as much as it was while I was playing Ingress (the previous game from Niantic).
While playing Pokemon Go, I could see a lot of local Pokemon Go players gathering around in neighbour city´s playground which has 4 Pokestops and I got chance to talk a little with other players too.
I definitely can say that game does help to gather people together and make friends even better ^^
(I´m sure that Ingress made the same thing based on all those event photos around the world I saw, but I could experience that with Pokemon Go by myself)

I´m definitely looking forward to see how this game will come along as well as Pokemon Sun and Moon, which starts to make my hype levels going overdrive with each new bits Game Freak shares.
It´s now obviously confirmed that Donald Trump Jr. and Donald Trump has turned into Alola region pokemons (I´m looking at you, Yangoos and Gumshoos) and I start to think all the Wonder Trades with Trump named pokemons x3 *facepalms and chuckles*
After all of the info which was released yesterday, I can´t wait to see what will come up next. Next news bit will come at 12th of August and usually there might be something for Pokemon World Championships (like in 2013, they showcased Mega Kangaskhan for X and Y, in 2014, Mega Slowbro for ORAS and 2015 they announced Pokken Tournament coming to Wii U), so this autumn will be interesting time to be a Pokemon fan.

Well anyways, I think it´s time to end this month journal right here.
I´ll see you guys on next journal ^^