ASPARAGOOSE

:P

At a blistering pace...

U-Verse installed.
HD Youtube videos now take like 3 seconds to load.
Watched Arsenal vs. Everton this morning on the new HD channel.
G.L.O.R.I.O.U.S.

I'm shitting bricks here.
Oh, and Mesut scored again, though Arsenal drew. Everton is very strong right now.
Two goals in two games. Whew! Get it, MÖ!

Eventually, I'll be up on Society6, but I've heard better things about Fine Art America for quality. Giving them a try while I'm green to the Print On Demand kind of shops. Learning the ropes.
First two prints I've put up are the old Calla Lilies print I did in silkscreening and the piece I've been working on for the last month. I'mma try these links they provide...

Asparagoose!

Pretty jazzed with how he turned out. Had a nice test-print done at Costco last week and it looks so goooood! Joy! Still figuring out the pricing over there. You set your own markup and there's kind of a learning curve. I set everything pretty low compared to the general averages on the site, but I might lower some of the smaller size prints. We'll see. Exciting regardless
I'd like to make the asparagoose a part of a series. I just have to think of more mash-ups. Lol.
He makes me giggle.

KPOPPY 2.0 is almost complete. A couple more graphics and updates.

Junsu is singing with Lyn on a forthcoming track. DREAM COLLABO FOR THE WIN!
I love Lyn and I love her love for Junsu. Haha. She's adorable.

We've had freezing temperatures and rain here for the last few days. I'm fretting about the birds. :\

And good lord... my nephew is THE cutest. MOST cutest. Starting to make lots of noise and trills. He's like a blackhole of cute... gravitating all things to him to gaze in awe... at the cute.

>.<

Disconnected...

I've had no internet for more than four days. The modem died... or the DSL... or something.
We'll be switching to U-verse on the 6th or 7th, but it was looking like I'd be internetless for a week and a half. First-world problems.

I was starting to feel like a raving lunatic.
I know how unhealthy it is to be dependent on any one thing. Especially a technology thing.
But when I'm disconnected I realize just how intertwined it is with my daily life. It's all my work. All my social connections. All my reference. All my understanding of what is happening in the world.

And currently, while I'm still very much a hermit and working through severe anxiety problems... it really is my whole life.
Outside of the net, I eat, sleep, exercise, do chores, shower occasionally, and feed the neighborhood birds. That's it. It's all important and necessary, but when you have chronic depression, it might as well be death. Listlessness and duty and anxiety. All the things I'm passionately involved with, whether it's art or education or soccer or music, they're what keep me going day-to-day, and they're all on the net.

Healthy? Not really.
Reality? Very much yes.

It turned me into a detached asshole who couldn't sleep and wasn't motivated to do anything.
Well, I'm a detached asshole anyway, but it's the stuff on the net that charges my battery enough to not behave like an asshole outwardly.

A couple days I could stand.
A few more days of withering and worrying and I got quiet and tired.
Earlier tonight, my pops plugged the modem in elsewhere and it worked. My mom used it for like 15 minutes. When I tried to reconnect my computer. It died. And I snapped. Asshole.

My pops spent a few hours setting up a cheap netgear router for the interim and after a lot of frustration, got it going. It's weak, and every time I see the network zero out I get nervous, but I'll take it.
Quickly trying to get through a bunch of things in case it goes out again. Including this.

Yada fritada.
Read a couple of books in the meantime. Watched like eight movies. Lol. Finished some art pieces I'll be putting up as prints. And played with some new pens I stocked up on last week.

Found a white pen that's pretty brilliant. Giddyup.

Hopefully I can get back into that great groove I was in. Very productive.

Internet, ganbatte!

Productivity...

I hit a proper art phase. That hasn't happened in... well, at least two years probably. Strong ideas for pieces popping in all sparkly and fully-formed. Some new. Some updates of older inklings. It's a bit torturous since I'm seemingly always going to be babying my fingers, but I've been drawing more and more and they still hold up with only the lightest swelling and sensitivity, so I'm ramping things up.

Steadily dumping these Mesut-y sketches onto my Tumblr after every game (or two). Saturday's game against Crystal Palace still needs to go up, but I have a feeling he won't be playing until next Saturday. All of the starters should be taking a much-needed break for the mid-week Cup game. Frankly, it has been quite the ride. I had no great expectations of success at Arsenal, but these boys have been Top of the League since Mes joined and maintaining their momentum despite injuries/exhaustion. I feel spoiled. The Norwich game alone was the stuff of fairy tales. Meanwhile, Real Madrid is struggling. Ancelotti's 'system' is not clicking. Makes me wish Khedira and Benzema would bail and join Arsenal in January.

Bring on the compilations, Gooners! (Nice song, btw)

Got to meet my 3-month old #1 favorite nephew. Just so happens that he is the cutest baby I've ever seen. Seriously. I'm not much of a baby fan, whether family or not, but sweet tapdancing Odin... the little tyke is so cute it makes you squirm and squee involuntarily.

Anyway, back to art and productivity. If I can get a few pieces finished I might do the typical print-shop thing. Like Society6 or something. Perhaps by the end of the year. Not long off, but I have some stuff well in-progress. Still too timid to actually paint with actual paint. Too much going well right now to risk the use of my hand. So, just digital. Then I'd like to refurbish Kpoppy for it's first birthday. I've already coded all the structure for that. Just need to update a bunch of content. Aaaaand, what else? Oh gosh, I might try to do NaNoWriMo this year. Likely setting myself up for total failure there. Hahaha. Especially with all the art stuff. But there's this story my brain is fixated on that I want to just get down. I'm a shit writer, but I want to challenge myself to go for it. Typing extensively can irritate my fingers though, so I'll stop if anything threatens.

Still playing with those paisleys...

Off to bed!