I'm really not down with the government's decision to filter my internet.
I think I'm capable of deciding what I will and won't look at, thankyou very much.

I could use some anonymous holiday love too, darn it.Would y'all?

Just go here to this link to share some with me. Comment anonymously on the comment...

If you want to participate?

The rules: "You comment with your username, and people will comment ANONYMOUSLY with things they love and cherish about you. I say anonymously because it makes the atmosphere lighter and more mysterious, kind of like a Secret Santa only with love and holiday cheer! People will wonder who these caring people are and appreciate the fact that they exist, not only the fact that they may be best friends with them."

Turns out I'm the most spoilt person in the universe.

My computer has been a MAJOR problem for me for some time. I've been trying to do digital art work on a computer that is pretty damned old for some time now, and recently it's become almost impossible. I was in tears the other night out of pure frustration.

Turns out that AGES ago, Seth came up with the idea to buy me a new computer, and he and my dad put in together to get a new one for me.
Which I had NO IDEA was coming. They gave it to me this afternoon. I've been crying my eyes out ever since.

I feel so incredibly lucky. Especially since it's not like either of them have money to just throw away, so for them to have gone to so much effort and expense for me for something I've so badly needed means so much to me...
I think I'm going to be crying for days!
I just can't believe it...

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Edit: fixed some typos. I couldn't see what I was typing from tears before! I'm ok now though. I'm only bursting into happy tears every 20 minutes or so. Major improvement!

...that little things make my day. Sure, it'd make my day if I won the lotto (I'd have to play lotto first though, which I don't fancy), but generally it's the smaller things that do it.

Today:

- 'Mini things' section at the supermarket. Seth and I are trying now to do as little food shopping at the supermarket as possible, but I needed a toothbrush and some particular shampoo, so I went to Coles.
And there's this section of itty-bitty travel items, same is their larger counterparts but just scaled down. Mini shampoo in mini (but the same!) bottles, itty bitty deodorants, tiny sunscreen, little toothpaste, mini bars of soap in scaled down boxes.
I have no idea why I love this so much, but I do.

- Beans. Our 'Purple King' bean plants are growing beans like crazy. The ones we ate for dinner last night were super tasty, and today I tied up a little bunch to dry so I can re-plant when these plants are done.
The little hanging purple parcel makes me happy.

- Pia, a fellow artist and awesome photographer, offered to let me use some of her amazing photos as reference in paintings. I struggle SO MUCH to find reference photos, let alone ones of such excellent quality. Exciting exciting!

- Star Trek Deep Space 9. I'm enjoying these even more than Next Generation (never thought this could happen, I'm TNG all the way. Or...was...I guess), and we have an episode lined up to watch this evening.

- Website I'm designing for a current client is going well. She's happy, I'm happy, everyhting is good. I LOVE it when projects go well.


The really bad thing today?
For WEEKS now, the area around my computer desk has smelt of skunk. I have NO IDEA what I'm smelling. I've cleaned the area, put drops of scented oil on my computer chair, etc etc etc to no avail.
Where the hell could it being coming from? What could it even BE? This is alarming.

The dexter season finale...

Holy shit. I'm shocked out of my brain.

Screening comments so there are no spoilers in my journal. But just had to say - holy shit.

Athena
8x10 watercolor Dec 2009

Athena was commissioned at a convention this fall. The description was simple, with just the owl and aegis (her breastplate with medusa). I used olive trees in the background, since it said the olive tree was Athena's gift to the city of Athens.

oof...my jaws ache and my head hurts today. i'm congested, have been for about three weeks. don't feel very tip-top...p'haps i need to just lay back down and sleep it off, hehe. it's getting harder for me to sleep at the moment, well...for obvious reasons, of course, but add on top of that i am nearly finished with spring. drives me nuts to leave a drawing alone when it is so close to being knocked out...

but, my body is tired and is telling me to chill right now...so i shall. hope you's guys is good. ;)

Went out to a performance of Royal Crown Revue last night with my mum and Laurie.
Laurie bought me my ticket for my birthday, mum bought Laurie her ticket for Christmas, and a whole bunch of us who put it together to buy for mum bought her her ticket for Christmas.

The upshot? The three of us got to go without spending our own money on ourselves, something we can't really afford at Christmas time.

I also ate a Krispy Kreme from the train station. They don't sell any anywhere in Wollongong. So terrible and full of stuff that makes me sick, but so worth it. Omnomnomn!

Got back from Sydney really late though, and didn't wake up until midday. Now I've walked to the corner shop for some coffee and eaten some eggs, but I'm still feeling really beat. Time for a meme before I get into my work.

( Taken from Oubliette )

So... I haven't been posting lately, because I haven't had much positive to post about. Its been a rough few weeks.

This will be the first Christmas since my parents died. The first Christmas I will spend without my children and without any family close by. I will wake up on the 25th alone. And the fact that I am monetarily hurting doesn't help the situation. Its a deep depression waiting to happen.

However, I found out today I won't be spending the holiday alone. nursechrissy has invited me to spend the day with her and her partner, traveling with her family to her aunt's house for dinner and merriment.

It makes the approaching holiday suddenly seem a bit brighter.

I am bessed with wonderful friends around me. It helps to be reminded of that.

...how much has changed in 5 years...

Which means I am almost done, and ya gotta realize: less than 20 hours to me is a "short" project or is nearly finished for the long-houred projects. P'haps I am nuts for spending over 50 hours on an 8"x10", but that is just how I roll, nobuddy else will brave what I do to the extent I do it, even though I always invite the ones who ask me how I do what I do in colored pencil to give it a try. That sounds cocky, don't mean it that way. But, I do realize I'm the only one that does use my technique, so damnit...I can be a little cocky. But, it's really gotten me nowhere...and I realize that too, lol!

Not sure I'm gonna draw much tonight, gotta take something for sinuses (no worries, I got a safe one!) and I may call it an early night. Kinda tired. I haven't been sleeping too well. When baby hears Nate, she wakes up and starts kicking my bladder and it makes it a bit hard to sleep, lol. I think she likes her daddy. But that is cool, 'cause I like him a lot, too. ;)

Originally posted at my blog.

So, here’s the clip with me from Förkväll. I think my voice sounds incredibly weird (I’m not sure it’s quite that nasal usually) and my smile looks silly, but anyway!

You can comment at my blog or here.

Soooo, it's a GIRL! Lena Faye-Ann :) Yep, we are nuthin' but summadem redneck hicks! LOL! Lena was my great-aunt (which I have raved about before, the one that encouraged me to become an artist and wanted me to go to college for it in the first place), Faye is Nate's mother's middle name, and Ann is my mama's middle name. Sooo, the most influential women in our lives make baby's name. :) I like it because it's rather old-fashioned...I'll leave the fancy, frilly names to the people that are fancy and frilly, lol. I am, needless to say, kinda plain, myself. Hehe, but I yam what I yam.

Anywho, been drawing again, people! Yay, makes me happy. I know another hiatus is on it's way, but after baby is born and is a few months old, my mom said she'd come over and help watch baby while I draw. Few extra bucks for her, and I will be able to get my fix. Yes, I plan on selling again...I owe eBay again, so it'll be a minute...got my tax return monies set on getting things caught up and putting a positive balance on there so I don't have to worry. I probably won't open a store again (unless by some odd chance my art takes off in the new year), but I do plan to sell originals on eBay, sell prints on my website, and offer print sells on eBay from time to time...we shall see how it all pans out, though.

The work of art is Spring, which Kayti is the model for. I'm pretty close to finishing (which means about 20 more hours to put in, lol), working on the skin now...the last touch is the make-up I put on them, which takes no time at all. So, trying to finish by the end of the month...bringing in new projects in the new year. So, stayed tuned.

Take care, everyone, hope all is well! :) *huggles*