Well it's only a little over an hour before I officially enter the new year. Recently I've been thinking about my future. Mainly how I can secure a stable life for myself and take steps towards being able to do what I love. And also to work on my consistency. Because I appreciate everybody who still follows me and my work after all this time. It's really a great feeling to know that so many people care about me and what I do.

So I thought I would lay out a few goals for this coming year. I don't want to say these are New Years Resolutions though because then I'll probably end up ignoring them a week into 2019.

1. Improving at drawing as much as possible. I've always enjoyed drawing, but it's only in these past few years where I have gotten to the point where I can feel somewhat satisfied with my work. Before when I was a kid I never could stick with it because I always feared that I could never become good at it. With things that I struggle with I have a bad habit of quitting them outright. This has continued to this very day.You don't know how it feels though to be making so much progress from where I first started. Finally everything is starting to click for me. By next year I'm hoping to be even better then I am now.

2. Produce more writing then ever. This page has always been lacking in terms of updates. And while I can't promise something new every single day I would like to get on a more consistent schedule. I want to be able to tackle so many projects and commission ideas. And maybe even try writing something that I personally want to. Even dabble outside of the realm of balloon stuff and try more serious projects.

3. Take and complete more commissions then ever. This one is self explanatory. This past year I posted a whopping three stories. And one was a mini-story so it's more like two and a half. Going forward I want to put alot more attention towards my writing then I have before. I've figured out a good way to be more consistent without burning myself out.

4. Start a Patreon. Honestly I've always been kind of uncomfortable with asking people for money. That's not why I do this. But with this becoming more and more common throughout our fandom I feel like maybe it's time to try and give it a shot. I have some fun stretch goals planned for this as well, including doing streams and reduced prices on commissions from me. And while it will primarily be about my writing stuff I might just do a bit of drawing stuff as well.

5. Work towards a career goal. Recently my brother suggested I look into programming. He thinks I would be good at it. So today I took the plunge and began doing some online tutorials for it. I don't know if this will be my destination or not, but at this point I'm getting a bit older. I've had some difficulties that held me back alot, socially and mentally. But now that I have a job I like where I interact all the time with people I've become much more comfortable with talking in general. I feel like I'm ready. My brother graduated this past year and now has a job where he is paid very well. I'd by lying if I said it didn't make me envious. So now I'm gonna go for it too. Better late then never.

6. I'm gonna get myself a car finally so I can put my driver's license to use. It's time. I'm gonna save up as much money as I can so I can afford one. Not much else to this one.

7. Promise to do everything I promise to do. I will confess towards the end of my doggy sketch challenge I got burnt out. It was fun, but it definitely took alot out of me. So this year I'm hoping to stick to what I saw I'm gonna do and do it in a timely fashion. No more of these six month waiting periods for finished stories.

There are other smaller things too, but these are my main focuses for 2019. Will I succeed in all of these? I don't know. But that is certainly my hope.

Hope everybody has a happy new year.

Also it shall be the year of the pig so I might have another challenge for myself lined up soon.