With the exception of one recent submission I haven't been doing - or even experiencing anything of significance to my life here on dA or even that much in the real world for that matter. But I felt obligated to post a new journal anyway, I suppose no news is good news, and everytime I have something worth journalling about it's something bad. Not this time, it's neutral, and that's as close to good as I usually get

But it's not out of lost interest. I still spend more time a day logged into here than I should. It's a combination of other things leeching away the precious hours of my day. More work shifts, commissions and other large-scale projects such as building gardens around the house are hogging my time that I could be putting into making regular uploads here. So to give a little promise of things to come and my undying interest in pulling out only my best material - I have decided this year is going to be the year I make a new calendar. It's about time I say, can't keep pushing that old one forever even though t'ill this day it's one of my personal favourite artistic achievements. I've started recently but I suppose no-one would be seeing any of this new one until near the end of this year in preparation for the next. If you have a feeling you might want it, here's an early warning to start saving, and if the time comes and you don't - then you'll just have some extra Christmas spending money

This usually is a rather quiet time of the year. In a way it's boring, but I like it. With no major holidays nearby, and my birthday still being a few months away - I feel like this time of the year is a brief window where everything and everyone seems...normal, the way it should be. So it's not unusual for nothing to be going on at this time of the year. And for some reason I see that as a good thing, since that means nothing bad is happening