Well, on my way home last night from work, someone in a PT cruiser decided at 50mph to smash into my passenger side while trying to merge into my lane on the highway.
Both cars spun 360 and thankfully I managed to not get my car flipped over and ended up near the entrance of an exit ramp. I am physically ok. Was shaken up and in shock but ok.
I don't know if they had warrants or were under the influence but they ended up smashing their car into the guard rail and fleeing the scene, leaving their car behind. Temp tags, no idea if stolen or not. Waiting for the end of the week to see what the police find.
My poor Bat car. (yes, I nicknamed it..) Pics are in the Gdrive folder if you want to check out the damage. https://drive.google.com/drive/fold.....dt?usp=sharing

I hate, loathe even, asking this but I'm out of resources and money at this point.
This happened at the worst time (cause of course life would) and I'm already struggling with making my rent for September.
I have full coverage, they are paying for a rental while everything is being assessed but I won't get that till Wednesday and in that time I've got to get registration done for the now deceased car or they won't pay me out for my car. I've been putting it off because we're literally in a, use money for food or pay taxes on the car situation.
Anything at this point would be much appreciated. I'm desperate and I don't know what to do. I don't want to be homeless again.

I'll drop links to my store, content, donation here:
https://www.redbubble.com/people/cyiakanami/shop
https://linktr.ee/Hexnbeast
Pp: anjerial[at]yahoo.com
Venmo: Hex-n-BeasT
Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/hexdarkwood
Cashapp: https://cash.app/$HexnBeast

I've also got a YCH currently going on as well that is at starting bid right now:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/48654151/

If anyone has any resources of places that can help for rental assistance (that doesn't require you to be on state assistance or 40times below the poverty lvl) I'm in need of them.
Thank you for reading if you've made it here. I appreciate you <3

Feel free to skip. I'm just dumping cause I haven't had an outlet to do so.

My Ex who I live with is currently in the hospital due to internal bleeding and iron deficiency issues. Drs can't figure out what's causing it and he's been there since last Saturday.
I've been running to the hospital to help take care of him, seeing my kids about an hour a day and working nights. I'm so exhausted v.v
I do plan to try and find time still on my days off to work cause he's now unemployed and since being in the hospital, hasn't gotten unemployment figured out yet and there's zero chance for me to pay everything on my paycheck.
I'm scared and tired and depressed. My usual circle of friends haven't talked to me in about a month and it hurts.
I've not eaten well in weeks. Lost about 10lbs so far. Idk what I'm going to do. I just feel terrible. I can't find the energy to take care of myself.
Also just living in fear and hoarding my medication in case they start denying it to me. I can't go a day without fearing for something to happen. Be it a car accident, someone just slaughtering me, or stripping more of my rights away.
I have no answers. I'm sorry for the rant. I'm just isolated, lost, and scared.

I've been waiting since March 18th to get processed and hopefully accepted for a position at the IRS, and I got my email from the IRS yesterday and start on the 23rd of this month!
I'll be going in as a Tax Examining Techniction. My schedule will flip flop to the night shift, 6pm-2:30am.

As for what this means for commissions; I do still plan to keep taking them. So if you're looking for some art, I should have the next spot open sometime this weekend.
I also wanted to point out quickly, since I suck at marketing lol, I've got a Linktree active that has my shops/sites that I post various things to if you'd like to go check it out: https://linktr.ee/Hexnbeast
I hope everyone has/had a great day!

Hello to those who still read these lol

I just wanted to touch base and kinda leave my thoughts here for future projects, commissions, life in general, etc.

As some of you know, I've recently refunded back current customers and closed my commissions for the foreseeable future.
While this was a tough choice to make, I feel it was the correct one. I did what I never wanted to do, which was keep people waiting for far too long, and I feel that it is unfair to pay for services without a timely turnaround, and with the way my life has been, it was for the best for both parties involved.

I've been dealing with increased anxiety and generalized depression as this pandemic has gone on, as I'm sure many have and still are, and I'm just not in a headspace anymore where I feel it would be beneficial to continue commissions. I've barely been able to spit out anything of quality that I've really enjoyed over the past year and it hurts quite a lot to feel like your imagination has just up and left you. Time feels altered and skewed and days melt into one another. I've struggled for the last 6 months particularly, trying to get a solid schedule and routine down to alleviate some of the anxiety, but I'm still struggling with it.
I'm working on practicing the basics as of late to see if working on my art in different ways moves some sort of motivation and imagination inside me, but it's slow. I feel.. just dead and boring inside. I think of all my stories and characters and nothing comes to mind anymore. I've gone blank inside and I'm unsure if I'll move on from this. Do I plan to open up commissions again someday? I honestly don't know.

What little art I have made or will make, I still plan to upload here. It won't be crazy uploads or anything, but I don't want to let this account die. I've made some incredible friends through the 11 years I've been on this site and I'm not going to just let it fade out as long as ya all still want me here lol.

As for rl work, my job is going well. It's a bit of a rollercoaster as far as workloads go, but I am digging the work I do, (administrative for a critical communications technology firm). Kids are doing well for the most part. They're fatigued just the same as me with all of this crap going on but they're keeping their witts about them.

That's pretty much it from my end. I know it's not the most exciting journal lol but it's a bit better of an explanation than being blind-sighted by me a couple of weeks ago.

Also, footnote: I'll shut you down realllllyyy quickly if you want to bring that anti-vax/trump/Q/bullshit to my page/journal. It's not welcome here.

Heya,

Wanted to keep people in the loop. Last week was a lot busier for me as far as Dr. Appts go. Between the kids and I, we've got a few more within the next 3 weeks or so, and just wanted to be realistic in my available time to everyone. Art may go a little slower as I'm attempting to go to hours long appointments and still getting my 20 hours in at my other job and help my kids with homeschooling.
Just didn't want anyone getting worried if things lul a little here and there.

As far as future things I might do here soon, I'll probably chuck out a Halloween themed ych or just open a spot specifically for that theme. Feeling spooky lately with the weather here changing.

I hope everyone has had a good past week and has a great one moving forward! <3

Hellos again!

I thought I'd let everyone know something finally panned out for me! At least I hope it does. I've held my breath for a week now to make sure it looked like things were going smoothly before I said something.
As it turns out, the interview I had 2 weeks ago was a good one. I had to take a computer assessment and after the temp agency put me in a good light I was hired for the job I was hoping to get!

I'll be working through the temp agency for the next several weeks for a consulting firm doing administrative/research stuff. It's a complete work from home position making thankfully over a living wage.
It'll be 20 hours for those several weeks until the Firm hires me on full time. The owner explained it to me as being a paid intern position and in 6 months they do an evaluation and if I'm still good and hanging in well then I'll go to working 40 hours a week at a very steep pay increase and be hired on.

So cross fingers for me! I'm actually really excited and nervous about this one. Not to mention, no commute, no gas money wasted weekly and I'm making a living wage finally.
It's why I've been so hesitant to say anything. It feels like it's almost too good to be true but the company has been vetted and have been in business for many years so I'm not /terribly/ worried but I am a bit nervous lol.

I wanted to talk a minute about how I'd like to see my commission work go on from this point.
Work starts on August 31st. I'll only be working the 20 hours as far as I know. I've been told that part a load of times so it's what I'm going on. With 20 hours, I'll still have a really good chunk of time to keep working on commissions.
I'd like to realistically see my active commissions completed by the end of next week if possible. Once that happens I'd like to start taking on a few small commissions to test the waters pretty much.
So if you're interested in nabbing something from me, look around by mid to end of next week for an update on that.

Anywho, I'm going to get back to drawing. Have a good day!

Well, it's that time again for another update journal.

Still alive and kicking as of right now. Currently unemployed and have time again so expect to see some commissions popping out hopefully within the next few days.


For anyone curious about my demise, of life bending me over and throwing me into the dumpster without a reach around, please see below lol. TLDR@bottom.

-For those who care or didn't know, I was working at a furniture store as an Admin. I was basically sitting at a dead-end job for the last two years. I'd tried showing multiple times and even expressing I was interested in a leadership position and was constantly turned down for having anxiety. (No I was unable to get solid proof of them denying me for a promotion due to a mental illness).
So, que me looking for work elsewhere. I had run into a few listings back in March and then the quarantine happened and I didn't hear anything back but I had applied so I just waited.
Come beginning of July, I get a call from this recruiter from a company called Aerotek. They offer me a remote work from home position doing call center for the North Carolina Unemployment Division. Offered $2.50 above the pay that I was making and I jumped at it. I was barely making enough to cover bills let alone living expenses on my current wage so I took the leap.

This, in hindsight, was a bad idea.
The start date moves from the 13th to the 20th and I'm not notified until that previous Friday before the 13th that this was happening and I had already placed my two-week notice in. So I said, ok I'll wait.

20th rolls around, it's pouring its ass off outside and my umbrella is nowhere to be seen so I come into the building soaked, no mask (because I left it behind while panicking and screeching my way to the front doors of this large office building) and I start to check-in for my security badge. A lady pulls up with a laptop and states they were unable to get my high school diploma/GED credentials. I advise I have neither and put that on my information when applying. I was never told one was mandatory for the job. I advised the lady I had just quit my 2-year long job to be here and so she wanders off to speak to a manager. She comes back and tells me that I can continue working that day and that my recruiter will be in contact with me. Ok... so I go in and start training.

All of Monday goes by without a call or email from my recruiter. So after work, I shoot an email out to try and figure out wtf is going on with my employment. She gets back to me Tuesday, all pissed off because of a copy/paste I did in one of the many emails they sent me and she didn't ask if I had graduated or not and just assumed I had. So she advises me to keep working there until my background check comes back and the company I'm contracted through terminates me. You can imagine my anxiety/stress the whole freaking week because I'm in employment limbo at this point. It's great getting a paycheck but the company starts talking about taking the computers home come Friday and all that was racing through my head all week was, If I take home their equipment, and then find out I'm not qualified, I could really be screwed or held liable.
On Friday morning, I advise the company I'm contracted through what's going on. I'm getting nervous and I'd not heard anything from Aerotek. 2 hours later I receive a phone call from my recruiter about how she got an email from the CEO of the company and were requiring my termination (and apparently scalding Aerotek for not communicating this issue at the start of the week). So I grab my stuff and leave and filed unemployment that afternoon.

Oddly enough, I thought that was the last I'd hear of Aerotek. I got a call Wednesday this week advising there's another position that's work from home entirely that would pay quite a bit more, and doesn't require the diploma/GED. I'm now currently waiting to hear back about an interview for that.

I do want to point out that I am seeking employment from home more than anything at this point. I am considered high risk due to a cyst on my vocal cords that prevents ventilation if needed and my hormone therapy places me also in that category. I also can't do much physical work like I used to. With my bad back/knees and now a recovering broken ankle, I can't be standing 8+ hours a day or lifting over 40lbs for very long. I know, I'm practically useless at this point.

TLDR; Left 2 year job for another that paid more, got screwed over by hiring agency, now unemployed and waiting on interviews.

Because my state is run by a giant asshole and my bosses are equally asshats for putting their employees at risk -_-;

Can you tell I'm pretty freaking pissed and scared I have to go back so soon to sell furniture to the idiot masses?
Yeah, I have a job. One that got approved for the loans to help KEEP their doors closed but obviously don't want to.
I need a new job soon.

Anyways, I'll be going back full time come the 1st unless otherwise noted. (the MO gov is super boner strong about opening up the state asap because he doesn't want to keep paying unemployment so very highly doubt he'll extend it).

I've made a little progress on commissions. I'll continue to work on them as I'm able.

Also, I totally forgot to mention earlier, I broke my ankle in January from falling on ice in my work's parking lot. @_@;

Well, I hope everyone is staying safe. I've had one relative already die from Covid-19 and I'm not looking forward to sacrificing my family's health but money is money I guess.

Hello there.

Sooooooooooooooooo, my life is a sitcom I swear. Shit changes as fast as the 1st season of GOT.
I'm not going to of course go apeshit on explaining wtf went on. But I'll give you the current situation and plans for this moment.

Basically, we've all moved in with my soon to be ex-husband in his 2 bdrm apartment and will be here until around the end of April if not a little longer depending on how long things take.
I've started quarantine last Monday as my job finally closed down due to the order to stay at home issued by Jackson county in my state (Because the governor is a piece of shit).
I'm currently finishing up cleaning out the old house and should have this all done by Tuesday this week so I can turn the keys in.
I then plan on tackling my commissions since I'll finally have all the time in the world for the next month unless the nasty orange thing declares something else and I'm forced to go back.
And that's about it.


I will clarify: Ex-husband and I have come to a good set of terms and are doing better. No, we're not getting back together, and honestly waiting for the courts to open again to finalize our divorce paperwork.
Kids are doing ok besides being stir crazy with the rest of us.
The reason we moved into where we are now is that one of my credit scores is too low for the renting community and my roommate has no credit scores so they want from 60% to 100% triple the deposit amount. (Basically 1st month's rent, the down deposit (equal to rent) and a 2nd deposit (equalling the rent amount). I just can't afford that right now.
So we're all here crammed into this tiny place until we can save enough to meet the requirements and move again.
I also am waiting back from my employer to see if they're going to help cover my pay while we're closed or if I need to sign up for unemployment. Currently in financial limbo, if you will.
Roomie is considered essential so she's still working and Dustin is working from home. Basically, I'm odd man out.

So, expect some artwork to start turning out next week once I get that set up figured out. My computer is currently sharing the kitchen table with Dustin's work computer and it's a bit crammed around. But I shall figure it out none the less. I also won't be taking any commissions at this time until I can safely say I've caught up on my others. I am lucky at this time that we still have incomes coming in to help.

I hope everyone is being safe and doing well.

Now that it's been over a month, I feel I can share a little bit of my situation.

Long story short, I'm going through a divorce.
I'm currently staying in the home we'd been renting with our children. I'm still working and our roommate is still here as well.
It's not going to be a quick process by any means. And once I feel I'm in a better headspace I do plan on picking up commissions and working on the backlog.
Currently, my days off are spent running errands, attending appointments and making sure there's food in the house. So I just haven't had the time to sit down for more than an hour at a time before I've got something else going on.
I'm not going to go into details of why I'm currently going through a divorce. I feel that is something I don't think needs to be disclosed at this time. Maybe someday.
I apologize for still being pretty vague. The other half of this hasn't been and I feel that's not the correct way to go about things. I don't like airing my "dirty laundry" for everyone to see.
I'm hoping in the coming months I'll be able to have more time to sit down and maybe stream again. At least widdle away at my list.

Anyways, I hope everyone is doing well and has a good thanksgiving in the states.

I can't say much per pending court dates so I have to keep this short and I apologise ahead of time.
My husband and I have seperated pending an investigation. I'm currently waiting to speak to an attorney. My children and I are safe right now. My computer, tablet and electronics have been moved to a safe location for storage right now pending what's going on with our housing situation.
I will know more come after November 5th and will try to update a little more once my attorney has given me the green light to do so.
I'm sorry as well, I can't not speak in private as well at this time for fear it would reach him as he monitors my social media.
Again, I'm sorry. But this is the best thing I can do for my children and I right now.
Thank you.

Finally have some breathing time on my day off today so here I am.
Promise I'm not dead just yet.

We've been understaffed at my job for months now. So I'm working over 40 hours a week. My days off are spent running errands and honestly, I'm so worn out from everything I plop my ass on my couch space off for a few hours and go to bed and repeat. I barely see my computer most weeks. So I do apologize for stalking off into the depths of rl.

Not much else really has gone on. Milestones would be my 32nd birthday last month, my 5 year manniversry that just past last week and I finally have some dental/vision insurance. Couldn't afford the health insurance this year so woo I guess -_-;?

I mean I'm a typical 32 year old parent at this point. I work, pay bills and try not to rip what remaining hair I have, out, due to stress and lack of sleep.

As far as commissions go, I can't say much more than I'm sorry. I work full time and between everything I have going on, there just isn't time for me to invest sitting at my computer for 5 hours a day at this moment in my life.
When I transitioned I lost so many clients I had to make money elsewhere. I know the wait isn't fair to anyone. Hell, I'd love nothing more than to have 3-4 days off a week, get art done and still making a living wage. But that just isn't going to happen anytime in the near future.
I'm still offering refunds. I won't say I won't ever get to it but at this time and place in my life, I barely have time to watch a movie. If you're still adamant in waiting, I will take note and attempt to work on things when I get the time. But I am openingly offering refunds to those who wish not to wait any longer. No questions asked, no explanation needed. Just PM me asking and I'll notate how much and how frequently I can toss back your money to you.

Aside from that, I'm going to drop back into the void. I hope everyone is doing well. <3

So I've been working a lot lately which is fine. Money is awesome and all.

TL;DR at bottom

But Saturday night came around, I was headed home and got detoured from my normal route because there was a concert at the stadiums in my area.
I normally would get off 435 N and route to stadium dr and take that the back way to my home. But I was forced to take a right and follow up again towards Stadium Dr to do a roundabout way to try and reach 40 hwy to head home instead because of all the concert traffic.
Well.. as I was approaching the left turn lanes to head to 435 S from Stadium Dr, traffic was incredibly heavy and everyone was trying to make a mad dash to turn left to get onto the highway.
In that "intersection" there are no stop signs, no yields (unless you're taking a right to 435 S hwy) and there's no traffic lights. There's 2 left lanes that HAVE to yield to oncoming traffic but at that moment apparently everyone thought differently.
As I'm approaching that junction of traffic, I let off my accelerator, to see if people would stop turning left but one guy on a bike didn't and he hit me as I was going through.
If I had not been going 30 mph at that point and slammed my brakes on, he probably wouldn't of gotten up. He deployed my air bag, I slammed my right arm into it, his bike smashed into the front of my car and he rolled onto my windshield which caused it to cave in and glass go everywhere.
Thankfully he got up and by the time the emt and fire trucks arrived he denied a ride to the hospital, citing only a bleeding scratch on his arm. Unfortunately he was a complete ass to me saying it was my fault. At this point I sit in my car, my right arm hurts like hell and I do take an ambulance to the hospital. (again, thankfully, nothing was deemed broken as far as bones go).
My car is totalled at this point. He's been charged with a failure to yield to oncoming traffic and I'm just waiting on an insurance claims adjuster to get a hold of me.

My right hand/arm is still in a good amount of pain. The underside, by my pinky hurts and around the crook of my elbow does too. I'm not sure if I screwed up a ligament or something, but holding things is kind of hard, can't apply pressure to that area because it hurts and grabbing is also hard.
Plus the seatbelt dug into my chest so my ribs and chest hurt on the right side.

At this point, I'm hoping for medical, my back wages on a missed day of work and a new car. I'd like to get my hand looked at to make sure nothing tore. And obviously I need a car. ;w; my poor Prius. Was a damn good car to me.

TL;DR: Got into a car wreck Saturday night. My car is totalled. Everyone is alive. My right hand is kinda fucked up atm.

Pics of the car my husband got that night before the city towed it and some google map pics of the area I crashed in. (Mind you. 2 of those pics are from 2015 and 1 from 2017.. that area is finished with construction. It's layout is still very close to what it is now.
https://drive.google.com/drive/fold.....QM?usp=sharing

Two weeks ago I started a new job with a family run place called Furniture Deals here around the kcmo/ks area.
I am an administrative assistant (basically I do a fuck ton of stuff lol) but it's clerical work which is super awesome!
Hours are M-Sa 10-8 and Sun 12-5 (though hours from what I work vary obviously but it is a 40+ hour a week job.)

It LOOKS like I'll be working Wed-Sun with Mon-Tues off unless of holidays etc.
So I'll be able to space in some art on my days off now that I'm not bouncing around physically being exhausted to hell and back.

I might pop in a stream at some point either today or tomorrow to work on some commissions and maybe another sketch page if anyone wants one.

We're still waiting on Dustin's unemployment to come through.. they are fucking us over a lot. -_-;

Anywho, just thought I'd give everyone a heads up on what's been going on. <3

So I got the job I was trying for! I start Monday and my first week will be training so hours are going to be about 20. Then it'll amp from there. This will give me time to belt out some art again.
The shitty part is, we're broke af right now and scraping the bottom of the barrel because of the job changes through my house.
While this new job will be 40 a week after the first two weeks I'm going to need to try and sell my soul while working on my back log.
So adopts if I can or sketch pages will probably be available. Anything at this point besides trying to put my ass on the street corner.
I'm heading into my last day at Target here soon. But I thought I'd give a heads up to anyone wanting something from me. If you're ever so kind and can help, I have a donate coffee link on my profile and my shop links in my submissions descriptions. Or at this point, my pp is anjerial[at]yahoo.com
I'm not asking for hand outs but anything at this point helps. I'm in need of getting both my cars tagged again and new work clothes. Just a big bundle of stress atm.
Anyways, I'll catch you guys tomorrow!

Thought I'd update everyone on things going on and why I'm so inactive etc.

Celesti (her furry form. This one: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9055289/ ) has been sold to
I no longer own the rights to her. If you'd like fanart with her you will have to go over to him.

As far as my life at this point, I'm in a stressed out and depressed rut. I'm waiting to hear back on a job I had an interview with on Tuesday to see if things change for me or not.
But at this point, I'm lucky to not get suicidal thoughts daily.
I'm so sorry. I'm a walking piece of shit at this point who feels like the weight of the world is crushing me and I can't get out.
I know it'll get better.. just not happening soon enough.
I'll try and update again on my next day off that I have time to sit at home.
Sorry again guys.

Hello fa!

This will probably be my last post-op official update as it's been about 2.5 weeks now and honestly unless some super unforseen thing happens, I should be in the clear to continue to heal and be completely cleared in the next 4 weeks.
I did start back at work on light duty and weight restriction with a sparse schedule this week.
Also have been branching out a little more here and there as pain is less frequent and mobility is doing better.

Drawing should also resume next week. I thought I'd be at a place to do so this week but pain and keeping my arms extending from me for longer periods of time wasn't ideal.
Thank you again to everyone for being so patient with me. Have a good weekend!

Hello again FA!

Poking my head back in to give everyone a quick update. Went to my one week post-op visit to have the bandages replaced and the drains taken out. All is doing really really well. Dr and I are super pleased with how everything came out.
Having the drains removed has also been awesome feeling.
I'm super in love with how it came out :)

For those curious about the outcome: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1u.....qAJBIILM1r_FL9

(I was cleared by my dr on everything. Nipples are ok to be that dark, it's only been a week. Sorry for potato face)

Anywho, I've been cleared to finally take a shower tomorrow! So going to fiddle around with how I'm feeling this week and see about getting back to drawing.

I do return to work Monday the 30th on weight restricted work.

Hey!
I made it out ok!
Had surgery this morning at 9am and was out right before 1pm. Been home since 3pm.
Sore as a mother fucker right now but doing ok otherwise.
My surgeon said everything came out great.
Going to get some more sleep. Take care!

Hospital called this morning and told me I'll need to be there at 8am cst.

The reality of it all has finally started to slowly sink in. I keep having waves of nervousness/excited going on lol.

While I intended to do more drawing this past weekend, I ended up running a ton of errands and getting my house ready instead ><
I'll be fairly immobile for this week and needed to set it up to where if left alone I could manage.

I'm going to spend the remainder of today getting the last bit of things set up and done and I'll catch everyone sometime after Tuesday :)

I had to share. This cartoon is so cute!
https://www.facebook.com/INAZMADELI.....fhSilmB2Tkf6qc

Hello!
TLDR;
Surgery is 4/17. Need help with after surgery costs of things. Offering headshot sketches this weekend at $10 a piece.
I then ramble about what to expect in the next 2 weeks from me. (aka emptying my brain. Sorry.)


So sitting here before I head into my last day of work before my surgery leave time sets in, and thought I'd send an update out there for everyone interested.

I've got my pre-op appointment with my surgeon tomorrow at about 9:30am.
This is where she checks me over again, makes sure all the details are hashed out and are taken care of and then I get to sit back and wait nervously for 3 days lol.

What I know so far is that insurance/cost wise everything is covered under my 80/20 plan except my post-op compression binder which runs $150. That has to be paid on Tuesday I believe. (that or tomorrow)

Then I will be off for at least 2 weeks time from work. As you can imagine, I'm missing a whole paychecks worth while I'll be recouping.
I don't want to ask for handouts. I understand that while this is a needed surgery, it's not necessarily an emergency and I don't like free money.

I would ideally like to spend 2 hours per day after tomorrow, offering sketched headshots for those who might be interested.
They'd probably run $10 flat (unless you have a lot piercings/tats).
I will be working on commissions already on my list as well so looking at 8 hours of art Saturday/Sun/Mon.

If you don't want a headshot but would like to help ease the cost of items I need to get for post op care such as bath items, scar gel strips, a grabby arm thing so I can reach stuff, etc..
You can send a few $ to my coffee fund page https://ko-fi.com/406GSZ10X0EB
Any help is greatly appreciated from the bottom of my heart.

I will be streaming most of the time this weekend while I draw. Most likely during either early morning to afternoon or afternoon into the night. (just depends on how my cards fall)
After surgery, looking about a week into my leave, I'll probably offer some hand drawn headshot sketches that can be mailed out to those who'd like it.

I will send out another update probably Monday on time I'm going in and so on.

Hope everyone has a great rest of the week/weekend and I'll see you all later!

Heya everyone!

Thought I'd throw out a quick update since a few things will be happening within the next month.

I have finally scheduled my top surgery date! April 17th is when I will be going under and taking a huge step in my transition.
My insurance approved it and so off we go!
I will be down and out for about a solid week or so as I recover.
Around a week later I will have drains and bandages removed and should be cleared to relax for another week.
In that second week, if I'm feeling well enough, I will spend that time working on commissions.

I've got a few appointments in between now and then along with work, etc. But here soon I should be able to start pushing a few comms through the door which I'm happy about.

I am still hoping by May to have most if not all of my que done with.
I want to apply to a new job come May that has better pay/hours and don't want to leave anyone behind if I go back to 40hrs a week.

That's all that I can think about for the moment. Hope everyone is doing well!

So I'm messing around with Discord and I think.. man that'd be an awesome way to update people about art if needed.
Naturally I created a server to do just that!

Now.. bear with me but I am still userface kinda new to discord. I don't know all the ins and outs and such for it but I'm learning so don't expect anything fancy atm lol
I'm also trying to figure out how to connect Trello to it so I can push update people as well.

Feel free to join even if you don't have any current commissions with me.
We can still chat about random things or art in general etc.
Just a heads up tho, I loathe any mention of politics at this point >> so keep that to that channel. (Yes I made one just for those oh so tender topics)

https://discord.gg/5Um6sAy

P.S. If I don't reply for a while it's because I'm busy/working/sleeping. I'm a natural lurker by nature so replies might come slow and far apart at times.

So here we are. I tried but I'm not going to keep dragging everyone along. I AM working on art when I can. But I'm slow. It's been a long time.
It's unfair to make people wait much longer than they already have.
I will work on as much as I can from now till May.
Come May, if your commission isn't done, you'll be placed on a refund list and I will initiate refund payments to you until you've been paid back in full.

I have plenty of excuses to give. I work a job outside of my home. I have kids and a family to take care of. Some days I come home and I'm so tired I'm out by 10pm.
They are excuses though. Be what it may be. It's taken me this long on commissions because I don't have time for them anymore. It's 110% my fault. I never thought in a million years I'd get this far behind but here I am.

SO in May, expect a note from me asking for details for refunds.
I'll also be sending this notice to everyone on my list so I don't miss anyone. But figure I'd blast here as well.