kitsune2022

Well I've been pretty half past dead around here, haven't I? Seems to be the running theme, I vanish for a while, then come back and post a bunch of things and disappear again. I think I just get it in my head that once I finish this one thing that I think is cool I'll post it and then everything else. And then the one thing starts to take forever to finish and other side art piles up and I end up facing a wall of things that I now need to upload, write descriptions for, etc.

Alas, the cycle continues. I’ll try to be a little less dead in the future. lD; In the meantime I GOT SO MUCH ART I’M GONNA POST, HOO BOY.

So updates updates updates, good golly. First off, thanks so much you guys for the concern, you're all beautiful souls. ;v; I got my blood tested and after a couple days they called me back and said that no, I do not, in fact, have any forms of arthritis. And frankly I'm about 90% sure that most of the pain I was feeling near the end there was psychological since I was freaking out about it so bad. So yes, the cause my hand pains likely carried over from general non-ergonomic desk situation pain from my arms and shoulders. I never gave anything time to heal so it just kept on going till everything was a massive ball of oh dear lord would you just take two seconds to not do things. x_x So I've instated a self imposed every-other-day rule wherein every other day after I get done with my freelancing work I come home and do nothing that requires the extensive use of my hands. They don't hurt anymore at this point but I'm aiming to keep it that way.

I meant to write up the good news earlier but then holidays happened and then directly afterward my right tonsil swelled up and tried to choke me because it is made of pure evil. I slept through most of the turmoil, but it did wonders for my diet as swallowing anything at all was horribly painful so eating was discouraged. Luckily, I have an immune system worthy of song so the worst of it has past. BUT HO MAN if it's not one thing it's another, jeez.

But on a higher note, I got my contract renewed for January at my freelance job so WOO I will have a paycheck for at least another month! It's good news, but I freaking haaate freelancing. @_@ It's nerve wracking not knowing if I'll have a job next month or the month after. I've been fishing for a normal, full time job, but I keep picking up temporary employment. Again--it's good, it really is good that I have work at all, doing what I went to college for no less--but I would just really really like some measure of job security. OTL I want to buy a house and it's hard to plan that far in the future when I don't know what I'm doing in 3 weeks.

So that's pretty much my life right now, I'm finally getting some steady art done, just at a slower pace than I had pre-hand pain just so I can continue to avoid future hand pain. Job things are stressful and I am still currently getting over my hulk-ed out tonsil episode, but overall, at least things are functioning.

Hope you all had good times over the holidays and have a happy new year and all that jazz. :]

So the past several months have been a challenge. My arms were in pain and it was pretty bad, but after a while it seemed to get better. My wrists kept up with the pain after my arms. I was worried I had carpal tunnel, but the doctor said my pains weren't in the right places for it to be that and gave me a brace. Made my wrist feel better though it was a bit of an issue getting anything done with that thing on. But then my hands started hurting. It was pretty manageable at first, but it persisted and got worse. My fingers got so sore I spent the last 2 weeks doing exactly nothing to give them a break. Well, that's not totally true, I had to be at work doing my graphic design stuff so I'd be popping pills all day to get through work, then have nothing left to actually DO anything when I got home. Seriously, the only things I do when I'm not working require extensive use of my precisely controlled fingers and they were noooot having it.

So my productivity has successfully come to a grinding halt, with an hour or two to squeeze out on weekends before my hands died. I'm going to the doctor for the third time (already been back for x rays) to get blood work done to see if I have some form of arthritis WHICH WOULD BE SUPER COOL AMIRITE? Not like I'm only 24 or anything but heeeeey what're you gonna do?

BUT GOOD NEWS they are feeling a lot better than they were before. They still hurt, and I have a prescription, but I'm trying to be positive. I don't know how much I can manage though, I still pretty much only have a couple hours after work to be functional with. Hell, typing makes them sore. I feel like I'm falling behind on everything. @_@ I'm looking for more permanent full time work (I'm doing a lot of freelancing on a contract basis, ie. only guaranteed to have a job for a couple months then I have to find new work) on top of various life madness PLUS I have commissions that are in desperate need of attention. OTL

So this time, I'm not secretly doodling up a storm with another impending art bomb--I'm just mostly incapacitated. I'm trying to make the best of my hands starting to feel a bit better, but I'm trying not to over do it so they end up right back where they were. I'm pretty sure not letting up even while the rest of my arm/wrists were in pain contributed to the deterioration of my hands. Which, as you may have guessed, are kind of sort of extremely important.

Can't say I didn't warn you. I've now posted most everything digital I've accumulated over the course of the past 2 or 3 months, I just have a few random things I need to get around to scanning. In short, it's not over yet. I've been doing my comic commissions and my day job on top of stuff so everything is pretty much in between things I did for sanity breaks. Especially since I'm only freelancing at my job so come December I will be again unemployed. So I need to find something else before then. Good times. But alas! There will always be art.

...Oh right, I've also got a back log of like 8 title cards I never posted WELP looks like the art spam will continueth.