Well it seems that after as long a period of inactivity as I went through with DA, no one's paying attention anymore, haha. That's okay, but I feel compelled to update this thing oh, once or twice a year, just in case someone does come across it.

I'm now living in a nice old neighborhood about 2 miles from downtown houston. This place was the outskirts of houston back in the days when people built houses with integrity and let the trees that weren't directly in the way stay there for shade. It's a gorgeous neighborhood, very inspiring and scenic. I've been having good times here as I always have wanted to, riding my bike and spending time with old buildings and in parks etc. I work at an upscale bakery in the neighborhood and deal with rich moms and business people and give them really fattening (but orgasmicly delicious) cupcakes.

My apartment is awesome and THIS PLACE IS ACTUALLY TWO BEDROOM *gasp*. I have my very own room, and the living room is an actual living room with not one, BUT TWO couches. TWO COUCHES. I feel like a queen.

I've been thinking lately (seriously, I mean for real, really) about getting back into DA. I've met a friend to go on photographic explorations with so I've actually got a healthy backlog of stuff that needs to be groomed and posted. Obviously, putting in on my site is top priority, but I do miss a lot of the socializing I did here.

I just wonder if anyone is paying attention anymore.

The last comment to my profile was almost a year ago. I've posted two little things with no response.

So I really don't want to put a lot of time and effort into sizing pictures for DA and posting them if they're just going to be ignored. I can put them on my website to be ignored.

So just let me know if you'd actually pay attention to stuff if I started posting again. Obviously, if you've read this far, you probably would SINCE YOU READ THIS (haha, I trapped you). So just leave me a comment, yo.

Thought I should keep this journal semi-current with my current situation, etc.

I'm now living in North Houston with my good friend Ian. We're sharing a little one bedroom apartment but, as far as little one bedroom apartments go, it's pretty spacious. I've got plenty of personal space, at least enough to stay mostly sane.

I'm working as a hostess at Bennigan's, riding my bike to work.
Weather's good for it, it's pretty convenient.

My computer's working again though she took a serious blow from her illness. Her current CPU is much slower and so she has a hard time dealing with heavy process load. And ya gotta be careful not to freeze her too badly, because if you turn her off by the power button, she won't come back on for a while.

Otherwise, things are generally ok. Sometimes boring, work A LOT. I'm *very* important around there, they recently gave me a 75 cent raise. Into a lot of new stuff since when I was last around internet land.

Mostly, I just wish life had a random button.

Well, I can't believe it-- it's been just a few days shy of a year since I've posted a journal.

For a while that was because my paid account ran out and I wanted to keep my pictures :B

But where ever the pictures were hosted, apparently something went wrong with that and they stoped displaying, so I figured-- hey, why not go ahead and update my journal.

Well, long, long ago not long after when I posted the last journal post, my computer broke. And it's been broken ever since. I haven't had the money or quite the motivation to get it fixed since apparently none of my non-professional computer doctor friends know what's wrong with it, and professional computer doctors, while friendly charge much $$ just to figure out what's wrong.

In this last year, I have had several jobs-- from Domino's Pizza, to EZ Wireless (or as it came to be known among my acquaintances: the cellphone shack, located inside a grocery store), to LIT Group working as a coding clerk at a legal coding firm... that fired me because I overslept one day and called to say I'd be there soon ten minutes after I was supposed to be there, and now in a few days I'll start as a sacker at Kroger Grocery store. Hopefully I'll end up finding something back in the skilled labor or at least in high paid, full-time unskilled labor.

I've also managed (for those of you who knew of the evil of my mother) to move out. I'm now living on the north side of Houston with my boyfriend. We're renting a room in a very nice townhome.

I've been separated from my art excepting a very few occasions of what we here call 'traditonal art' since my computer gave out on me. It's been very taxing on me emotionally. I hope in the next few months to get the old workhorse up and running again and get the creative wheels turning some more. I'm currently in a very nice, very large library and I think I will now go and explore its textual attributes.

Mood: full o snot & phlegm
Listening to: Flaming Lips - Slow Nerve Action
Reading: need a new good one...

So, at the prompting of *stupidstan (who can usually convince me to do just about anything ) I'm going to at least put in partial participation here at DA, as you may have noticed I have been. I don't know how much feedback I'll give. I could try to be optimistic and say I might do some here and there, etc... but really I doubt I'll even touch my devWatch. I'm just going to keep submitting stuff. Summer's coming up so hopefully I'll have some time to expand my creative horizons and start on some projects?

Anyway... hehe part ot the reason I'm making a new journal entry is just that I was given a one week free subscription, and want to get my journal header and footer back on here, haha. I'm silly, I know. In a few days... I probably won't update my journal again until I can afford a paid account.