kiri-catastrophe

I'm late in welcoming the new year, eight days late, in fact! However, with a new year comes new goals and resolutions, so here's hoping 2012 will be more productive than 2011. I've got a lot of writing projects I want to work on —  especially PRIDEA, the poor, neglected thing — but this year I'm going to be focusing on writing, writing and writing. It doesn't matter what I'm writing as long as I'm writing something (and no, roleplaying posts don't count, not really). I've made it a goal to write 200,000 words this year — either in short stories or in Pridea — which will, hopefully, get my butt in gear! I've also made it

I'm not here to talk about myself today. I wanted to  bring attention to the fact that my best friend, penguinpuffypants (https://www.deviantart.com/penguinpuffypants) is opening up commissions! She's doing them for relatively cheap too - prices are negotiable, so you can always work something out. Money from the commissions are going toward raising funds for a friend's family member who has just passed on, so all the proceeds will really be helping this family out. She's a fantastic artist as well, she can do some really great stuff! If you can't commissions from her (no money, etc), I humbly ask that you pass along the news. Getting the word out would be very much appreciated! H

Things never work out as you plan, do they? For the whole month of January, I was devastatingly ill, to the point where I was pretty sure that I was going to die, and didn't really have any qualms about it. I'm still not sure what happened - apparently my lungs... failed on me, making it ridiculously hard for me to breathe, or something... I won't go into the details, because, to be frank, I was too out of it when the doctor gave me her briefing to even know the details myself, but the good news is, in a nutshell: I'm back! I'm a little ticked off - okay, very ticked off - about the horrible timing of the illness, mainly because my biggest