I got lazy with journals again. I've mostly been working and having fun with friends. May seemed to go by pretty quickly. I did have a 10-year class reunion for high school that I went to. In high school, I focused 110% on studying after my sophomore year, so I didn't make a ton of friends or do mu…
It's been a few months since I posted any journals. I made my usual mistake of doing too much and leaving zero nights free to actually work on art or side things like writing these journals. I recently freed up some more nights a week, so I'm planning on doing an art night and a writing night each…
I guess there's not a ton of updates this month. I got a nasty cold thing the other week, so I've still been recovering from that. The cough and congestion won't seem to go away, but I'm otherwise back to normal now. This month I'm trying once again to do Nanowrimo. Rather than write 50000 words in…
I've still been very busy, but in an effort to update my few followers, here's your journal for this month! Since last month, I did quite a few things. Most were tough but fun things like finishing my goal of hiking 16 mountains this year or running a marathon. At the very least, I've been seeing s…
Hello everyone! It's been a while. I've had a busy summer so I fell behind on updating things or doing as much online. I started a small chat room on Discord for friends and followers. It's usually just a relaxed place to share fun things or talk about interests. It's sometimes nsfw, but I try to r…
I suppose things haven't been too eventful since my last journal but will be soon. It's June so it's hot again. I worked a temp job for a while but I will hopefully get a full-time job soon since they seemed to like my application and interview. I'll hear back from that soon. This month I'll be doi…
I sort of disappeared again for a bit while finishing up school. But now I'm done with my degree and have the difficult task of applying for jobs/finding a job I actually want to do for more than a month or two. So far I've just done some temp work and other odd jobs to get enough money. When I'm l…
Things have been busy lately because I'm in the last few weeks of my final semester before I finish up with my degree. Once that's done, I'll have a lot of my free time back for things like art! This last month I did some amazing things like running my first Spartan race. 8 miles and 28 tough obsta…
Another month has come and gone quickly since I've been so busy with school. Unfortunately, that's meant that time and inspiration for working on art have been scarce, but that doesn't mean I won't keep trying. In other news, I had a great February and first week of March. I got to hear authors pit…
January seemed so long yet went by so fast now that I'm very busy with classes. This month I mostly expect to be working on university stuff but there's also an upcoming sci-fi/fantasy symposium I attend each year called LTUE. With all my classes I haven't yet had time to finish up some of the othe…
My Christmas job started so it's been taking up a lot of my time and energy lately. It's tough to work hard on art or writing when I get home exhausted and have to go to bed early to get to work at 6 am each day (and have no days off). Hopefully I can get used to things so they aren't so tiring. Or…
It's been a busy month and I'll hopefully be done with my PMDU project soon and then maybe I'll have some time to work on some other stuff before I'm busy with work. On Thanksgiving evening, I'll be doing a temp job helping out with security before/during the start of Black Friday stuff. After that…
I've decided monthly updates are probably better for most art websites I'm on. This month I don't have too much going on besides maybe one more big hike and other ordinary family stuff. I'm still looking for a job so hopefully I can find one soon. In other news, I'm trying hard to work on some ongo…
Hello everyone! It's been a while since I posted much on what I'm doing or would like to do. I'm still searching for a job and feeling a lot more motivated than last month. I went a lot of places and had a lot of family events that kept me busy and less focused on my own projects, but now that thos…
Wow, it's been a while since posting updates. Sorry if I seem like I sort of disappeared. Over the last few months, some unemployment and other issues sapped most my motivation for doing art or writing, but I'm fighting hard to get it back now. Even without progress in anything creative, I still ha…
We finally got quite a bit of snow, so me and my brother went up for some snowshoeing! I'd never been before, but it was a lot like hiking so it didn't feel too difficult. The only hard and frustrating part was dealing with the straps on the old snowshoes we borrowed from my grandparents. Renting n…
I was going to go do something but the weather wasn't right for it so I might do it next week. Since I don't have a lot to report on, I'd just like to give a shout out to all the new followers I've been getting lately. I appreciate every one of you! I used to try and thank everyone every time they…
It was a more relaxed week, which I definitely could use. It feels like there's a lot of good things I should do I've been putting off so it was nice to get some of those done. For fun, I went back to the Living Planet Aquarium. It's always so crowded but with their playful otters, penguins, a shar…
This past week I had a great time at LTUE. You can find my blog post about it on my tumblr if you want to read more. I didn't spend as long as I would have liked to at the convention because of work and other things going on, but the time I did spend there was great! When it comes to great advice,…
So, Sunday was Bald Eagle Day! I went to try and get some pictures but none of the eagles came close, even though there was a big pile of dead carp for them. Even if the eagles weren't cooperative there was the cutest little ermine that came of of its burrow. I felt like part of the paparazzi becau…
This last weekend I went to SLC Comic Con FanX and had a great time! You can read more about that here: https://bmkstories.wordpress.com/20.....omic-con-fanx/ Apart for the con, my schedule switched to the one I chose at work now that I finished training, so it will be easier to figure out things l…
Things are going well even if not too many remarkable things were going on this week. I beat Pikmin 3's story mode recently and finish up a commission so I've been working hard on other art now like my PMDU dungeon comic. This week, I'd like to make a lot of progress on the comic and maybe finish u…
It's been a good week at my new job. I finished part 1 of the training with plenty of time left over so I might be practicing with some of the normal work while the other trainees catch up. To celebrate, I went to the Bird Day party the local aviary. Andy the Condor turned 56 years old! In art, I w…
It was a good week for getting stuff done and I started orientation for a new job. With everything looking up and things getting back to normal, I hope to get plenty done and finish some long overdue things. In fact, I already began working on some of them this last week. My new job has some tough…
Well, today's my birthday, so now I'm a year older but 26 doesn't seem a whole lot different. I should be having a nice relaxing day ahead. In other news, I finished my trip to visit family so now I'm just relaxing and working hard on projects for the week I have before my new job! Personal Tumblr:…
I traded being busy with a job for being busy visiting family. It's hard to focus on getting any art done when there's constant interruptions and things to do with my family, but I'll be back home and working hard sometime in the middle of this week. Currently my priority list is to finish a commis…
Sorry if you haven't heard much from me for a while. I was laid off from my old job so I got a new job for the holidays at the USPS warehouse. Unfortunately, I work about 56 hours a week so that doesn't leave much time for art but I've still been trying to do at least a little sketching or other st…
