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6 years ago
Edit: There are so many typos, please forgive. I'm fixing them as I see them.
You might have seen on Twitter if you follow me there, that I had a family emergency (grandmother had a stroke) and I had to interrupt my plans in Europe (including missing EF, which is a bit of a blow business wise) to fly halfway across the world back to NZ. The good news is my grandmother didn't die, the bad news is she is hospitalized at this stage, with still not much idea of how much, if any, she'll recover. All I can say is thank god for socialized medicine.
The fallout of that is I had to get her house ready to rent to cover the sustained hospital bills (mostly packing her stuff up and storing it). Needless to say between that and the unnecessary family drama on my mother's side, I hadn't have much time to work on art. I did get some done, but I'm still about a month behind on commissions.
I'm now back in CO with my boyfriend, so now that my jetlag seems to have passed, I'm back in the groove and working to up my normal output a little to make up the discrepancy.
Another thing is I found out I probably have ADHD, undiagnosed my whole life :'D I'm going to be getting an evaluation and see what other help/resourcing/etc I can get. I've already been researching and applying a few methods to my work flow that should help work with rather than against the tendencies, while working on finding a set of habits that work. I do need to pay for the eval though, along with normal living expenses, so I will be opening for commissions publicly here soon (if you are a follower on Patreon, the next queue has been open to them for a few weeks).
(Also if you don't believe it exists or isn't a real issue for functioning in the current world, kindly keep your mouth shut, I've had enough of it already).
I guess that's all for now. I'm relieved to be back in CO (everything is so pretty!) And I'm really happy to just be able to work on art again, instead of being the worlds grumpiest handyman/packer/cleaner person. I'm really looking forward to catching up on all the arts and getting a more substantial savings in place after this so that an emergency like this doesn't knock me back so hard financially.
September and October are going to be pretty nuts, I'm staffing a couple of events late Sept and first half of Oct (which is why I came to CO when I did), and I'll just be plugging art in as much as I can until then.
You might have seen on Twitter if you follow me there, that I had a family emergency (grandmother had a stroke) and I had to interrupt my plans in Europe (including missing EF, which is a bit of a blow business wise) to fly halfway across the world back to NZ. The good news is my grandmother didn't die, the bad news is she is hospitalized at this stage, with still not much idea of how much, if any, she'll recover. All I can say is thank god for socialized medicine.
The fallout of that is I had to get her house ready to rent to cover the sustained hospital bills (mostly packing her stuff up and storing it). Needless to say between that and the unnecessary family drama on my mother's side, I hadn't have much time to work on art. I did get some done, but I'm still about a month behind on commissions.
I'm now back in CO with my boyfriend, so now that my jetlag seems to have passed, I'm back in the groove and working to up my normal output a little to make up the discrepancy.
Another thing is I found out I probably have ADHD, undiagnosed my whole life :'D I'm going to be getting an evaluation and see what other help/resourcing/etc I can get. I've already been researching and applying a few methods to my work flow that should help work with rather than against the tendencies, while working on finding a set of habits that work. I do need to pay for the eval though, along with normal living expenses, so I will be opening for commissions publicly here soon (if you are a follower on Patreon, the next queue has been open to them for a few weeks).
(Also if you don't believe it exists or isn't a real issue for functioning in the current world, kindly keep your mouth shut, I've had enough of it already).
I guess that's all for now. I'm relieved to be back in CO (everything is so pretty!) And I'm really happy to just be able to work on art again, instead of being the worlds grumpiest handyman/packer/cleaner person. I'm really looking forward to catching up on all the arts and getting a more substantial savings in place after this so that an emergency like this doesn't knock me back so hard financially.
September and October are going to be pretty nuts, I'm staffing a couple of events late Sept and first half of Oct (which is why I came to CO when I did), and I'll just be plugging art in as much as I can until then.
Other than the getting stuff done part. But that's where time blocking and the like come in.
If you need any help with some ways to stay focused i might be able to give a few ideas
Most of my problems seem to come from expecting to be able to do things in an NT way when I really really can't (or can't easily). I have pretty high emotional dysregulation and never got taught/told how to deal with that, so I used to end up in really bad self-hate/anxiety spirals. Mostly I just want to make art or do physical activities, and when I can orient my life around that, I'm pretty high functioning. And I've learnt how to deal with admin stuff now mostly (although taxes, hissssss).
Take care, be safe & have fun!