Even though it was in the works to happen eventually, I've been forced to play my hand prematurely, so to speak, and I am now in the process of moving out of Florida and heading to South Carolina.

Long story short, I got into a huge fight with my mother, and she threw me and my boyfriend of almost 4 years out on the street.
I'm well past due on the moving-out thing, I know. All attempts to save up and move out on my own time and terms in the past have failed, but this time I have no choice in the matter, and I'm making the best of it.

It's gone surprisingly smoothly, which I was not expecting in the least, despite Mom confiscating both our cell phones before giving us the boot.

Thankfully, a good friend and his wife offered to take us in to their spare room in their condo in SC. They paid for an airline ticket for my boyfriend to get him up there ASAP to start looking for a new job, since he had to quit his old one at Winn-Dixie once he new where we were headed since Winn-Dixie doesn't exist that far north anymore.

And that leaves me here in Florida still, crashing at my best friend's place for the time being. I've been driving back and forth to my parents' place to pack up my stuff. My managers at MY job have been absolute angels through all this, and gave my shifts to other people so I'd have time to get things in order, and helped me find a new store to transfer to up north and finish all the related paperwork that goes with the transfer process.

Now I can focus on getting all my things in boxes. Once I'm done with that, hopefully by this coming Friday, our new roommates will send my boyfriend back down here, we'll rent a U-Haul van, load it up, he'll drive the van and I'll hop in my car, and we'll get on our way.

I'm still quite a bit nervous about the drive, though. I've never driven that much of a distance from home in ANY vehicle, and my poor Buick... I'm afraid it may not make the journey. The poor thing's falling apart. D: Not much I can do about it now though. Here's hoping it's tougher than I think it is.

I'm just amassing a collection of my favorite "plz" accounts for quick and easy reference. And my amusement.

Ok, so I changed my mind about storing my deviations. XD Yeah, I can be fickle.
Anyway, everything is back up, not that anyone really watches me anymore, but whatever.

I may actually update my gallery in the near future. Who knows? I've had a few drawing ideas bouncing around in my head lately. If I ever manage to find the time to actually DRAW them, dig out my scanner, and post them, I will.

Oh, and Happy Valentine's Day.

Well... It's been nearly three years since I've submitted anything to my gallery, and it's also been about that long since I drew anything worthwhile. Not that I was ever that good anyway...
Three years of tedious college art classes have done little for me except to convince me that a career or hobby in art just isn't for me after all, and to more or less beat my creativity to death.
Life is just pushing me in a different direction. Not one I particularly want to go in, but where drawing and creating art is a luxury I can't afford in a world where my every move dictates whether I get to eat or have a place to sleep at the end of the day.
There's no room for recreational artwork in my life anymore. I simply do not have the time, or the desire, really, to waste my time doodling when I could be doing something more productive that has a direct impact on my daily survival. Which I only barely manage to do at all, at the moment.
Not to say I look down on anyone who does. If you have the time, resources, and spare cash to spend on art supplies and creating things, by all means do so. It's just not my lot in life, as I'd once hoped it would be. This has largely led me to believe that if there is a God, he's an asshole.
Anyway, my point is, I'm quitting the artistic lifestyle and moving on. I'm not leaving deviantART; I'll still be lurking in the forums and adding things to my favorites, since my appreciation for art has not dissipated, but I will be moving all my pieces into storage, and they will no longer be viewable.
Mostly due to some instances of theft, particularly of my character NaJa, which have been brought to my attention.
So I'll still be around, just not as visible, so those that still care, feel free to pop in and say hello from time to time.

Hello! Long time no update...

I feel kinda bad, it's been almost two years since I've actually submitted anything worthwhile to my page...
It's partially because I haven't drawn much of anything (funny how life runs away with you, isn't it?), and also partly because my scanner is STILL tucked away in storage thanks to my overbearing, neurotic, bitch of a mother.

Matthew and I are working on getting our own apartment before the spring semester of school starts to get away from my aforementioned mom. Yes, she really is THAT bad. It's time to leave, oh yes.

Anyway, I'm finally pretty much done with my College Gen. Ed. classes and have plunged full steam ahead into the Digital Media and Graphic Design program's core classes.
I have three, 3-hour classes all on Wednesdays this semester. I'm at school from 8am-9pm. Two are studio classes, and the other is a crash course in Photoshop CS3 on the Mac. Fun times.
That being said, I will, hopefully, soon know how to color my drawings digitally and I'll actually have something to display here. Not to mention any interesting pieces I do for my other classes. So wait and see.

So that's about it for now. I'll catch up with y'all later