As 2018 starts to get into the rear view mirror as the hours count down to the fresh, shiny new year of 2019 I figured why not and finally update my journal XD. So 2018, a year of ups and downs as most years are. Ups: I graduated from school had a blast with my close friends and fellow classmates before I left the city of Chicago to move back home, I made my FA account finally after finally doing a picture of anthro Sonya that I finally wanted to do for like more than a year with special thanks to my bud Crosis for wanting me to do it. Speaking of Cro, I managed to meet him in Chicago and it was a blast meeting one of my closest online friends :). Overall the good side of 2018 was meeting all sorts of new friends and getting closer to the ones I already have. There's a secret up that I can't quite talk about yet but that'll get it's own journal as the time comes around.

The downs in 2018 were well, coming back home and leaving my close friends behind and the big city that I still miss so much for a variety of reasons. Starting my job hunt that proved rather tedious, mind numbing, and unsuccessful for 6 months taking up all my grace period for loans. Before I graduated I was knee deep in a senior project, having to work closely with a rather toxic teammate who brought our whole team and my enthusiasm down until the project ended. As I mentioned before my job hunt took a toll on me, dealing with constant rejection left me saddened, moody, snappy, and just not too enthusiastic about my own skill set or me as a person. I apologize to any friends who caught me on these days and had to put up with my rambling XD.

Those were the ups and downs of my 2018, started great but as time went on only got more and more poor. But 2019 is already looking great and I'll be happy when I announce why after a month or so. Until then I'm thankful for all the new friends I made this year and I love all my friends who are kind of enough to share their support with me and I hope to return more support in kind during 2019 :)