So for about 2 weeks I had the stomach flu. Blegh! stomach flu is the worst. Never had any vomiting or fever though just stomach issues and coughing my head off. I'm glad it's finally letting up and I feel so much better coughing is down to a minimum now not every minute. This time of year sucks! and the stomach flu is definitely going around. I have heard way too many people that have caught it. Just one day it was really bad I still went to work and I couldn't make it through the 8 hr day. I had to end up leaving early because it was that bad going to the bathroom like every hour and coughing my head off. Got a bunch of rest and drank a lot of water that day. Lost 4 lbs because I barely ate anything. The day after though I was so hungry! so the Husband and I got McDonalds and my stomach didn't do anything with eating that. Eating a solid meal after having the stomach flu is the best feeling in the world! and just that one day it was really bad. I always think it's weird that the body does that. It was mild throughout the week and decides to just one day oh hey I'm going to be worse on one day! It's just nice to feel better again and thank god my coughing is not every minute now so I don't have to annoy my co-workers with my continuous coughing on Monday. Woo hoo! Now it's time to catch up some freelance work I have on my plate.

Started coming on last Saturday morning. No vomitting or fever. Every time my tummy hurts I get the chills and can't get warm at all. Now I have a cough which I think I might have got from my niece she had a cough when my sister brought her over to Garett's birthday party I threw him on Friday night. Which I wasn't expecting her to bring my two nieces. Now I think I'm getting sick from her too. Now today after going to my youngest nieces birthday she turned 1 today I think Garett is getting sick again started feeling lightheaded, off balance, and nauseated. So I don't know if he caught something from my niece too or he's getting sick from me now but having different symptoms. Hard to know, if it persists for me though I'm going to go to the doctor about it. I'm really hoping it's just the stomach flu and will go away if its not its something else that I should get checked out. Anyway hoping for the Husband and I to get better.

It's so refreshing to be happy and have energy again! I am enjoying my new job a lot [been there 3 days now]! it's very fun. I love creating my own custom designs for t-shirts. I will definitely have to get one made for myself sometime! and I love being a Mom to my two furbabies! Wheatley and Luna! if you haven't seen them I have pictures of them uploaded in my gallery =) I love them so much! I'm so glad to be happy again I hated being laid off for two months I got so depressed and didn't feel motivated at all to do anything or even get out of bed for that matter. Now I'm going to bed early and getting up early! I'm still not all that productive after work but I definitely have more energy throughout the day. Anyway that's all I wanted to update you guys with. Hopefully I can get some art going in the next couple of days. Possibly even start streaming again soon! I miss it! I hope everyone had a nice day today!

So excited. Can't wait to learn new things! =3 I will miss my two kitties while I am away. I'm sure they'll get used to it. As far as I know they behave very well while we are away.

I just interviewed for a job today and they gave me the offer today a couple hours after the interview! I'm so happy. It's not starting out at all at the same pay rate I was making at my job I got laid off from, but after the 60 day probation period it changes based upon performance and experience. So at least I hope it increases close to what I was making. If not I'll just have to work extra hard and start doing part-time freelancing more often to make up the amount I'm not getting. =D I suppose buying kittens gave me good luck!

The Husband and I have become parents to two fur babies! They are about 3 months old. They are so adorable! I can't believe how fast they warmed up to us. We adopted them at Petsmart but they came from a shelter that fostered them =) Last night we kept them running loose around the house and they actually were pretty good. I haven't seen them destroy anything yet so I think they are pretty well house trained. They did like to attack our feet last night lol I had to take a nap earlier today because I didn't get fully rested last night worrying about them lol

Anyway the black female I named her Luna. Wheatley is the grey tuxedo male =) He's so pretty! I can't believe no one adopted him. They are so cuddly and adorable!

I figured since I'm getting unemployment and at home we would get pets for them to warm up to us and be home for them for a bit before I do find a job.

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2 months without a job......I have applied to so many places and still nothing. This is really frustrating to no end. I have been getting depressed and my anxiety has been really bad lately. I have projects to work on from people I personally know but I haven't been motivated to work on them. I have turned back into being bitter and angry like I was when I was stuck working fast food for 7 years.....I'm seriously at a loss on what to do. I am collecting unemployment but it's half of what I was making and I'm still worried about not being able to pay all my bills with it. I have been trying to get some freelancing going but it's going to take a long time to start it up and attract clients. I'm still in need of redesigning my portfolio site bad. So I made a behance account to hopefully help with that while I update my own website. I would create a free one but I already pay for my own domain, hosting and e-mail. If I could find a wordpress theme that's easy to drag and drop to get what I want no problem. I don't plan on being a web designer so I really just want to not code anything at all. The only thing that makes it tough on updating my website is that I lost all my pictures of my school projects that are currently on it right now because my external hard drive crashed on me. Doesn't read and starts clicking. I was going to get the information retrieved from it but it would of cost $500 and I didn't have that and still don't have that kind of money to spend. So I have been thinking of working on some personal projects to update it with hopefully.

Anyway yeah that's still my life right now. It's really hard to be happy at the moment.

Most of my followers know that I got laid off from my good paying full-time job so right now I am jobless and receiving my severance pay. If I don't get a full time job soon I will be only getting unemployment and its only half of what I was making. So I need to up my commission prices and make some money again to help with my bills..... Instructions to commission me are in the journal I linked to. Thanks in advance to help me out in this difficult time.


http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1003761/

Most of my followers know that I got laid off from my good paying full-time job so right now I am jobless and receiving my severance pay. If I don't get a full time job soon I will be only getting unemployment and its only half of what I was making. So I need to up my commission prices and make some money again to help with my bills..... Instructions to commission me are in the journal I linked to. Thanks in advance to help me out in this difficult time.


http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1003761/

https://picarto.tv/JenKitty20

For when I start to go back into streaming again I now have a Picarto page! <3

Well for my major followers I don't know how many I have out there anymore since I haven't been active on FA but I wanted to give an update. I decided to take my severance and do unemployment from the job that laid me off....I tried to do the other job that I thought would be interesting but they didn't give me all the details about and I just couldn't bring myself to do it. In just 3 days doing the training it was just too much and the drive was not worth the pay-cut I got either. In just those 3 days I was on a quarter of a tank so I would have been spending more money in fuel than anything else. So I decided to leave the company to give myself some time to focus on myself and figure out what to do.... I have had way too much on my mind lately and I'm freaking out how my bills are going to get paid...but I can't bring myself to work retail or fast food again. It's just not what I went to school for I absolutely refuse to do it again. I'm already under too much stress as is trying to look for another design job, but I highly doubt I'm going to find a job anytime soon so I had to apply for my unemployment. I hope I get it. I just need all the support I can get right now. It didn't hit me hard until after my last day at the job. I'm trying my best to stay positive and see it as a good thing..I can refocus on my work and get new work out there to get noticed. I don't know whether to do commissions or not I kind have lost interest in Fur Affinity over the years just because all my favorite artists who I met and inspired me are gone. I still check FA once in awhile to keep up with artists I'm watching and comment here and there when I can. I love illustrating I just don't know if I want to anymore in this kind of setting. Anyway I will still be here I wont deactivate my account or anything. I just feel I need to focus more on my graphic design work right now. Thanks for following me and keeping up to date with me.

Well I'm taking another position within the company I'm working for. It's not ideal of course but at least I'll still have some income coming in not as much as I was making.....but I don't plan on staying that long though because I'm still going to look for a design job I just really need to re-brand myself now because I wanted to go in a different direction with my design work and I never got around to doing so. Now I really need to get something done and update my website before I even try to look for something else really. They did let me take my last vacation next week so it'll be nice to relax and I can actually get some stuff done. I just wish I knew when and where I'm going for this other position. I was also maybe thinking of doing freelancing part-time if I can get some clients. I just need to get some newer work out there to get noticed. We will see.

And on top of all this happening I have sister drama again. She always has to start something and I just can't deal with her right now. I have blocked her from all my social media accounts....I don't know if I can forgive her after the crap she has said to me. I'm so tired of being turned into the bad guy. Then she has to assume all this stuff about me. She clearly can't get over the fact that we are not going to like her boyfriend I just wish she would stop posting it publicly for everyone to see not only is she destroying herself its embarrassing and pushing everyone away any of our friends to talk or hang out with her. Heaven forbid I tell her the truth she goes on and complains about it in a post. What am I supposed to do? I just have to ignore it now I guess. She has problems and she needs help and she won't bother getting help so I don't know what she expects any of us to do she blames her problems on everyone else. She has been like this ever since she has been with her said boyfriend. She's not the same sister I know anymore....and its sad. It upsets me that we aren't close anymore and just because of some douchebag guy. I'm not going to go into details about that stuff but its pretty messed up and she continues to stay. even after having two kids with the guy. I feel bad for them most of all.

Anyway still trying to get car loan situated too from my accident back in May.....its ridiculous! I wouldn't think it should take this long to care of the last of it that should be paid. Seriously if its not one thing its another. I know a lot of people who have been in similar situations and it really blows! When stuff happens at once its overwhelming. But I have my Husband and friends to get through this tough time....but I also hate faking being ok. I'm really not ok with any of this stuff happening but I just have to get through it and be confident that I will find something else.

They aren't lying when things happen in 3s. Got a house [which was a bumpy road], 3 weeks after getting the house got my car totaled by some asshole who didn't have insurance and now I'm losing my position 3 months later as a graphic artist in the retail grocery store I worked at. I haven't even been there 2 years yet and now this. I'm more shocked than anything that they would cut our positions....I don't know how to feel right now. I have to look into options on what I'm going to do. Either find another position within the company in the meantime while looking for a new job in design or take the severance and/or unemployment. I haven't figured out what I want to do yet and its stupid I have to let them know tomorrow what I'm going to do at least give me more time to think about it. So help me if I have to go back to my old shitty job. I know they would take me back in but I don't need the stress when I already have health problems right now as is with stomach issues. So probably plan on seeing me doing more commissions and such soon because I'm going to need the income I'll be losing......

https://www.instagram.com/jenkitty20/
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They will mostly show new artworks, etc! to gain some recognition! I might eventually make a patreon but I don't feel like I'm there yet to put that much work into one.

http://jenkitty20.tumblr.com/ =)

I will make an instagram account later!

I just feel that FA has become so dead lately that I need more exposure somehow. And I always seem to get a lot of likes and notice on Instagram with my personal and hobby account so why not make an art Instagram and Tumblr account. I just dont like to use Deviant Art as much I only usually post my hobby stuff on there anymore and I'm hardly active on inkybunny or weasyl either. I just hope to start doing some commissions again because I need to make extra money and no one is paying attention to my art because I'm not as active on here. So I feel I need to start posting on those with like sketches or work in progress stuff maybe?

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/20796902/

Fill out form and comment in submission. Please pass this around I really need to draw again!! =(

Well I'm trying to figure out how people get these cute chibi acrylic laser cut keychains [http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a.....sabfu3r9e.jpg] made. I was just curious if any of my fans would buy these if I made some of my character or did some fanart ones? If and where I can find out how to get them made! they are so adorable!

Thought I'd update my followers well for those who still pay attention to me on here. FA has been slowly dying I think. Anyway everything is good with the Husband and the house =) We can't wait to be pet parents next year! He's going to get a puppy I'm going to get a kitten. They will be a handful I know! but I can't wait to have pet children to be here when I get home everyday from work =)

But on to art related stuff. I'm going to start working with watercolors to see how that goes! and I want to start up paper quilling! it's so awesome and pretty. I never knew what it was called before I looked it up. So that's what I'm going to be up to I want to create a lot of stuff so I can eventually sell stuff on etsy. I really do want to try and find some time again to start drawing again and uploading here I do miss being active. I need to start making more money again for house projects too. I find its always hard to find the time in the day to do anything when I have so many hobbies >.<! sooo many hobbies!

So that's it basically =)

Hearing the news about Christina Grimmie Saturday morning....and then the deadly mass shooting Sunday morning in the same area. Its just too unreal....Its heartbreaking. It struck really hard for me to hear about Christina I watched her on youtube before she became famous and now she's gone I loved her voice and music...she had so much more life to live and a sick bastard took it away...and then 50 peoples lives are lost at a gay night club. Why has their been so many shootings? it has escalated way too much the past couple of years. Its just sickening....it makes you lose faith in humanity... I pray for the family and friends of everyone lost this weekend.... =(

So I did find a new car, 2 years newer than my blue ford focus hatchback that got totaled but in black and doesn't have as many features as my blue did. That makes me sad but the 2014 I just got handles a lot better than my 2012. Again still doesn't make me any less pissed off that an uninsured driver hit me....I got my tax reimbursement check from my car insurance company from buying a new car so that's nice, but I doubt I'm getting any more money than that from my car insurance company from the accident....I don't expect to see anything. So I probably will open up to do some themed commissions or something soon to save up some money because I'm going to need it.

Other than that still haven't been able to recover my commission account.....I have e-mailed the admins twice and still nothing....

Just found out today my car was totaled [if you read previous journals someone hit me last Thursday]...makes me so mad. I have gap coverage thank goodness to pay off my loan but it still doesn't make me any less pissed off. I know I'll have no problem finding the exact same car in the price range and same monthly payment but I know it won't be the same color I had. It still sucks. I would have enjoyed the holiday weekend more if the accident never happened....this is all just frustrating.

I'm doing better from the accident from Thursday I haven't had to take an ibuprofen or muscle relaxer since Friday night. Bruises, cuts, and burns are healing already from where the side airbag in seat hit me. No word yet about my car though. Since it was the holiday weekend I won't hear anything until tomorrow. I'm hoping my car is repairable I love my car...and I really don't want to get a new one but who knows how much I'll have to pay for to get it repaired..... even though I did have gap insurance on it to be able to get a new one if it is totaled..I really do hope the guy who hit me that had no car insurance has a lot of penalties against him.

Anyway had a good Memorial Day cook out today with the Husband and his Grandma for the first time at our House. =) Then we get to go to a bonfire and more food tonight at a friends house! I might not be hungry then lol

Well I had the right away someone at a stop sign of the left of me didn't see me after another car passed me obviously {I don't know how he didn't see me when I'm driving a bright blue car!)....thats why you pay attention more than likely he was on a phone or something I don't know.... So he t-boned me in the back driver side causing my side air bags to go off and me to be moved in the other direction of traffic. I'm alright thats the main concern, I just have abrasions/burns on the left side of me from the airbags. (Airbags hurt!) Even though I was fine I still went to the Hospital to get checked out. They gave me a tetnis shot, antibiotic ointment for abrasion/burns, prescriptions for muscle relaxer and ibuprofen. I thought I would be really sore today from whiplash, but I took the ibuprofen last night before I went to bed so I'm good. I might not need to take the muscle relaxers. Now to just find out the situation with my car today or tomorrow...I didn't even have it for 2 years yet. Thank god for getting gap insurance coverage with my loan when I got the car last year. The shittiest thing though is of course the driver that hit me had no damn car insurance.......WHO DOESN'T PAY FOR THAT?! so I don't know if my car will be able to be repaired or not....but it's not going to be cheap probably and if it comes out to be more than my car is worth I'll have to search for a new car again in just a span of a year and a half which I'm more pissed about than anything. I'm telling you guys I have no luck. When good things start to happen for me bad luck always seems to follow. Just when the Husband and I just recently moved into a house and I got credit card debt paid off now this....and who knows the expenses that comes with it! >:(