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I'm semi-not-adulting by making buttered noodles instead of cooking something proper tonight :D

Oh, but there are actual snacks that are like what you describe. They're soooooooo tasty!


Posted in Behold Posted 3 years ago


@blue:
Yeah I'm learning that now. I've had a TON of cats in my childhood, but never from a shelter so I didn't experience their sickness as much.
I guess its something with having a bunch of cats in a room together, they can catch airborne virus/bacteria from each other or from the kennels

Posted in O LAWD NO Posted 3 years ago


@Sunny:
I hope so too :'D
To make things harder we have a remodel going on simultaneously so we cant hear anything
I dont exactly blame the guy for quitting, just wish there was at least a week of notice

Posted in O LAWD NO Posted 3 years ago


@sunny:
We've been trying to hire someone for months!!
There's a process where we'll interview a ton of people, pick out a handful to do a second audit-style interview with our regional manager. But then he would reject all of them. He's rejecting SO MANY people that we like and then he blames us because no one's been hired yet.
Our regional manager is a great guy but I think he might be setting the bar way too high for his standards... That, or it might be the drug policy getting in the way. Our company goes off of federal standards, where things like pot are still not legal on federal level. So employees cant use it at all or risk their job if ever given a drug test and fail. Many candidates get turned away by this cause its kinda stupid. People should be judged by performance... >>

Posted in Eastward chucklefish game Posted 3 years ago


I wanna talk about this game here to distract myself from buying it yet
waiting for some bills to pass
Any of you heard of it? :D Just came out last week. I hear good feedbacks from it but I'm still curious if its something that'll like... entertain me for a couple hours and then never touch it again. Or if I'll step into it and then emerge again in 3 months cause its gooooooood
Like what stardew was like for me.

There are some art directions with this that are a bit odd to me, like I'm not sure I particularly like the style of the cover art and feel like it clashes with what the pixel sprites look like. A little jarring I guess, but thats just personal preference O:

Other than that I mean... I wonder how much depth the game has! Looks pretty sweet



Posted in O LAWD NO Posted 3 years ago


My job is already under staffed. We have 2 women on maternity leave (one week apart from each other xD ), one of them is highly unlikely to ever come back. The other one visits us often and communicates a lot so I know she's coming back, but not yet cause her husband also deployed rn.

So there's been 4 of us. Store manager, asst manager, me and this dude who just quit on the spot yesterday.
So now there's 3 of us. I'm not in a key holding position so that means one of the 2 managers needs to be there open and close. We all normally work open-close shifts anyways, myself included. Just normal practice cause we're on commission. But now there's more pressure cause we lose days off, and normally we would get 1 half-day shift and 1 short (but not half) shift every week, with 2 days off. Now we lose all short/half days D: and one week we lose days off too

Its not too terrible, 45 hour weeks (and a 50 hour one coming up, cause one of the managers is required to go on a business related trip for a week so we'll be down to 1 keyholder and me sdjhfgsdj)
BUT IT STILL SUCKS

LAWD GIVE ME STRENGTH until that maternity leave ends and we get another set of hands back in!
and big ass sales to put more funds in my pocket over this >:0
thats almost a given though

Posted in New Addition Posted 3 years ago


Oh so precious <33

Posted in Behold Posted 3 years ago


@merynia:
Thanks!! SHe's doing a lot better now :D
She's been super happy, but that also means she's been extremely crazy and hyper too lmao I love her to bits

Posted in Seasonal Exchanges Posted 3 years ago


@totalanimefan:
Yeah hopefully! I get overwhelmed pretty easily lately so we'll see where I'm at by then :D
Things are gradually getting better and more stable (sort of--I did just end up with extra hours at work starting yesterday when a coworker walked out on the job sdkjfh) so I feel like I'm able to relax a bit more and draw things properly <3

Last week I managed to finish two arts in one day and I was like daaaaaaaang I'm comin back XD

@ruby:
Ah, yeah that makes sense! It can be a lot of pressure, especially when you talk to the community sometimes. Its meant to be a lowkey art gifting game where you aren't obligated to draw anything, but some do put a lot of pressure to draw back or "revenge" and stuff so >> I get intimidated sometimes too.
tbh this year's season was kinda lame compared to normal. I think life has everyone so stressed as a default, that everyone got massive burnout very quickly from drawing o:

Posted in The Surge: Fall Plasma Orbs! Posted 3 years ago


OH MY
I NEED GHOST

Posted in Oh Posted 3 years ago


@totalanimefan:
i have 53 cause i forgot to come back :,,,,,,D
200 work hours later here i am again, recalling my desire for these sunflowers lmaoo

@kda drew:
well now that you say that, I wanna see the other attempts xD
but i love how it turned out ♡♡ we're always learning and improving as artists

Posted in Seasonal Exchanges Posted 3 years ago


@sunny:
That sounds really cool <33 how does it work with the writing? Are you given a prompt or something? O:

@totalanimefan:
Thank you! Yeah I think I've heard about that one before, but hadn't joined it.
Could be fun if its active this winter <3

@ruby:
Thank you <3
Do you by chance go on artfight? (I feel like I've asked before, but I've been gone so long i forget!) thats a big exchange concept that doesnt matter what drawing level you feel you're at--everyone is accepted! It's so much fun to use as a motivation for practice ;v; or in my case, to shake off rust when I dont draw enough.

and yeah I MIGHT end up with one more move. I have an audit style interview with a regional manager to be promoted at my job. If she chooses me over the other 2 candidates, that means I'd be moving to san antonio :> only 2 hours away.

@jessamine:
Traditional art is so satisfying imo <3 its how I started and spent half of my artsy career XD
I didn't go digital until after I was already 20.

@vixen:
Its a ton of fun and the mods are very sweet <3
they take a break for winter this year so if you did join it, you'd still be free for Hachi's :D

Posted in Hangout with me here! Posted 3 years ago


Hello hello
\o/

Posted in Oh Posted 3 years ago


that sunflower hat
I must obtain it
;;o;