Hey all!
How are you doing? What's up in your lives?
I have a few things on my mind:

~*~KIRIBAN AT 20.000 PAGEVIEWS~*~
Just upload a screencap of my 20,000 pageview to your scraps and send me a note. I'll give you a free medium-sized graphite commission.

~*~COMMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN~*~
I just wanted to remind everyone that I do take commissions. I can draw your WoW or other game/rp/dnd/etc character, or anything else you may fancy (your pets, scenery, etc). You may see all the details at my journal at [link] . Prices range from $5 for a sketch to $50 and up for something like my master chief. Thank you in advance for your consideration!

~*~IN OTHER NEWS~*~
Thanks to a lot of real life distractions, I haven't written for my novels in a few weeks. I'm having a hard time convincing myself to just sit down and work on anything. Thus, I tried drawing something. I'm really happy with my newest deviation "For Love, for Keep" [link] and hope to do a few more pictures involving these two characters.

It's almost renfaire season again, and I'll hopefully soon be starting on my next rendress. Last year's dress, [link] , was my first major project (Brian's costume was my second) and I feel I've learned a lot about sewing thanks to those projects, and will be able to make this year's dress even better.

In the past three months I've lost almost 20 pounds. My weight has fluctuated very predictably since the beginning of college, following an upward-sloping sinusoidal path of failed attempts at half-assed diets that end in binging and further weight gain. By march, I was just at the beginnings of the "obese" range for my height (which by the way, is absolutely absurd, I've never been larger than a size 15, how the hell is that obese) but now I am well within the ranges of simply "overweight". My target weight, which will be 10 pounds lighter, puts me at the uppermost edge of a "normal" weight. But even now, 20 pounds lighter than I was in march, I see a huge difference. For the first time in I think my whole life I'm starting to become truly happy with how I look. I used to be a very normal weight in high school yet I always thought I was a cow (though what teenage girl didn't?) And after gaining so much weight during college, I feel I didn't get to enjoy my "skinny" days. Maybe now I'll be able to.
And how did I lose it? My job at IKEA has worked wonders. I am constantly running around, lifting heavy things, going up and down stairs, and generally being active. I hardly ever drink anything but water. I try very hard to keep the snacking at a minimum. And honestly, I think being out of school has helped tremendously as well, since I no longer have "study binges" where I would plop down on the couch with my textbooks and a box of cheez-its, and not stop eating them till I felt sick or the box was empty. If I didn't eat while I studied I would fall asleep... God I'm glad that's over.
I'm glad that the effort and the hunger has really begun to pay off. I just have to keep it up... and maintain it...

I'll be working all weekend, but hopefully next week I'll get some writing done. Or some more drawing. Or maybe fabric for my rendress. Ooh, the possibilities are endless... if I can only get my lazy butt in gear