I did not mean for commissions to take this long, I really didn't, and I know I keep making journals explaining why and when and how I'm gonna get them done, but this is getting insane, and I'm tired.
Lemme explain why:

There are 168 hours in a week. 120 in a "work week". I spend anywhere from eight to twelve of those every day of the work week out doing things to help my mom, so 40-60 hours, every week, gone. I sleep from about 2 to whenever my mom needs me up. (Usually 9-10) When I get the chance to sleep in, like on weekends, I do. I sleep in until 1 or 2.
So on a normal week, I get about 8 hours of sleep, which is another 40 hours a week. I get a couple hours with my partner every night. (From about 12-2) Ten hours.
In the hours I get to spare, I'm sleeping.
Sometimes, when my mom is feeling particularly generous, she'll give me a day off. A single day a week to do whatever I want, and I'm usually asleep, or, if I can motivate myself to do it, drawing for myself, because I do not have time to draw for myself.

What about weekends, you say? Boyfriend is home on weekends, and we can actually do things, and spend time together when things aren't closed. We can be a normal couple and our options aren't limited to walmart for once.
It also doesn't help that even on weekends, we have a desktop computer, in the "central" room in the house, sitting in the corner, with the screen facing the room, and I don't really like people watching over my shoulder, so I get too uncomfy to draw, but I can't justify making him leave the room for such long spans of time as it would take me to finish a commission.

If I had a laptop, it would be easier to not be confined to a corner, and not feel like I'm being watched, and still be able to spend time with Ross, but that's nowhere in the budget anytime soon, so... i dunno what to do, other than to ask your continued patience while I try to figure out how to manage... this.