Wow it's definitely been a while. Let's see where to start...my four year old started preschool! I have to say dropping him off and leaving him somewhere for 3.5 hours is actually pretty difficult. He's my one and only and basically haven't really been apart from him ever so the first day was rough. It's getting easier, but definitely harder for me than for him. It's just weird having my house so oddly quiet!
In other news I got a HiDive account to access of course more anime. A friend came to visit and got me addicted to Oshi no Ko and HiDive is the only place you can watch it. I went into the show having no idea what it was about and I was pleasantly surprised to find out it was a murder mystery and not a cute show about idols XD. I'm very much addicted to it and looking forward to the next season. I have seen a bit of the manga and there are a few things that worry me going forward in the plot that I hope don't happen, but I'm not going to ruin anything for you! Another one on there that I've really enjoyed called The Eminence in Shadow. It has a bit of fan service so if that's not your thing it might not be for you, but the humor of the show actually had me laughing out loud a few times. The plot was genuinely amusing to me and I had a good time watching it. I'm looking forward to season 2 of that one as well which from what I've see should be coming out soon. Something I'm really looking forward to next month is The Apothecary Diaries!!! I adore the manga soooo much. If you haven't read it, it's about a girl named Maomao who lived with her adoptive father and studied being an apothecary under his tutelage. She also has an extreme obsession with poisons. While out gathering herbs she gets abducted by people who sell "relatives" to the palace as servants and then collect a percentage of their pay. She ends up working in the palace and gaining the attention of various people becomes a food tester for poison. While there she solves various mysteries that arise. The anime of this manga is coming to crunchyroll sometime in October! I can't wait to watch it! I love manga, but it's always fun to see it adapted to the characters "living" on screen.
Art wise I think I burned myself out a bit during artfight in July. I'm hoping to get back to things in October if I can find a good challenge sheet. Nothing like OCtober or inktober to help get back into the creative realm. I do have a few pieces that I'd like to post here when I get a moment. I feel like I've just had a lot going on. We just spent the last week or so being sick and finally recovered from it. (Yay exposure due to preschool). I hope you're all staying healthy and thanks for reading!!
Just got books 43 and 44 of Skip Beat! Not sure if there are many Skip Beat fans here, but I have to say it's currently one of my favorites. As outrageous and crazy as Kyoko can be I feel like she's pretty relatable and her mysterious hate powers could have some serious real life advantages. **Warning Spoiler Ahead**
For those of you who might read this and are fairly up to date... How could she think Ren has a thing for the nasty girl who nearly tries to kill Kyoko after she realizes there's no way she can win the role? Kyoko is also a bit too self sacrificing at times while noble she is somewhat dense, but this is why we love her no? I'm always impressed that the author does not shy away from making nasty "villains". I feel though she may pop up in the future as others have in the past to be "fixed" inadvertently by Kyoko. As I've already given away a little bit of main plot I think I'll end on that note.
Real Life Junk-
Today my kiddo is officially a year and a half old. People aren't kidding when they say it goes by fast. Lately we've been cutting nap time to one a day (which is rough in more way than one). This is my first child and he's both amazing and exhausting at the same time. As a first time parent learning to divide my time between him and what I want to do has been a hard lesson. It's a rough balancing act between giving him enough time and myself enough time to keep my sanity. I chose to be a stay at home mom after careful consideration. Before this I worked 12 hour shifts in an ER as a registration person. I was around a lot of chaos and crazy. I worried about bringing home germs and nastiness to a brand new baby. The change from that to being at home full time has not been easy. It's still crazy, but definitely a different brand and I feel I'm not as good at coping with it as I wish I was. It's weird that I was more comfortable dealing with strung out meth heads and people bleeding profusely from random injuries than I am sometimes with a tantruming one year old. I feel like I've learned a lot about myself over the last year and a half both good and bad. Other things I've learned...even if your cell phone is locked it is not safe to leave with your child! Also screen lock apps can help to alleviate this problem a little bit. Anyone else have their child call the police using the In Case of Emergency number button on their lock screen? After the second time of me explaining to a very nice lady that no one was dying or in trouble and that my one year old merely stole my phone we installed a lock screen app on my phone that doesn't have said button. Now he just goes through and changes all my settings. Are kids programmed now in the womb to come out knowing how to use smart phones?
Art Projects-
I have a few things that I'm currently working on at the moment. I had a request on my deviant art page to do a Mako-chan picture of her in her gi beating someone's OC. Seems like a fun little request and so far it's going pretty well. I have a friend that is working on making a game and has asked me to do some concept art for one of his characters. The setting is steam punk victorian and the character is a magician. This one I'm really looking forward to...the character is really easy to visualize in my mind I just hope I can translate it to paper as well as I see it in my head. I have another request waiting in the wings for some Princess Peach fanart. Once they're finished if I feel they're worthy (I hope they are D:) I'll try and post them here.
Ok! Well that's the end of my blah, blah, blah for the moment. Until next time!
