My older sister just announced to the family that she is 5 months pregnant!


She just had all the tests done and its a healthy baby girl! <3 She is due at the end of this January and shes going for a natural child birth with a mid-wife (no doctor). She isn't showing yet, and she has put on about 10 pounds. The child is so far unnamed (she says she wants a rare/unusual name). The family couldn't be happier


In other news, I couldn't be angrier at Corel Painter X. I just finished uninstalling/re-installing the program. Last week I updated to the newest version since it was crashing every so often on me. After the update Painter became the worst system hog imaginable. Every time I'd flip my stylus to the eraser, my interface would become white boxes and my pointer would be trapped in an invisible 500x500 box in the center of the screen for 30 seconds to a minute. Then making a single eraser stroke would do the same thing for another 10 seconds+. Heaven forbid I change layers...back to my invisible box for 20 seconds. The pauses were unbearable. I'm not going to rant further about all the things wrong with Corel's idea of an 'update' suffice to say I had to downgrade back to the way it was to be productive again.



Three weeks ago I got a paid freelance web design gig (Flash, coding HTML and Javascript for a medical web site), so art has been on the side for a bit, now that job is done and I'm paid in full.

I'm right now working on a VERY ambitious fully painted Tzardz™ poster (4600x8000) which will be 23inches X 35inches. Hopefully by the end of the week I'll be finishing that up and posting it for sale. Tomorrow is dedicated to 3 friends, plenty of beer, and Ultimate Alliance 2 for the entire day.


I participated in a meme feature of another artist, I am not continuing the meme here, but I will do a return feature for her as an artist. By all means, go check her out.


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