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It was the most one-on-one time we ever had, got to go to a fancy dinner together and everything!

We got to do the most intense special interest rambling I’ve ever been able to do with anyone else since I was like 15 years old. Time really flew by. Also, she almost had to give me the Heimlich at the restaurant. 😬

(Actually a terrifying if very short-lived moment. I was ultimately fine, but it was very frightening, and been on my mind basically every time I’ve eaten any food since).

*sees that my last post was a month ago* uuuh 💀 I guess it’s time for an update!!

I AM ALIVE but here’s a super short summary because life has been nuts and just ridiculous:

🌈 We had multiple/pet health scares, some serious, but everything is OK now 🌈 Our 10 year wedding anniversary was a few days ago, but we were too burnt out to do anything unusual for it (I am so burn out that I didn’t even give Christopher a card…) 💔 That should tell you a lot if you know me well.

Right about the time I went totally inactive, we found this guy on the street, and while I will post a very detailed story at some point, the end of it is that he is ours now. And we are in love, but my life did get inevitably harder as a result.

When we picked him up, I was 100% sure he had to have an owner. When it became apparent he’d beeen abandoned, I was determined to find a rescue with space. Turns out around Easter time, rabbit rescues are pretty full. Several months of wait.

I really didn’t want another pet. I want less pets. You guys know that. I don’t actually pick up every animal I see on the street. Believe it or not, painfully, I do walk away a lot, because otherwise I’m going to die from stress, quite literally.

But sometimes a specific situation presents itself and walking away isn’t the right option. This was one of those cases. In my defense, I didn’t expect I’d have to keep him, let alone want to. I had more than one evening of tearing up at my desk, thinking “I just can’t do this. I can’t.”

This is especially because a few years ago, before the rats (that’s a long time I guess) I’d looked into rabbits as pets. As you know, I do my research pretty well. After a couple of hours, I was very firmly convinced that rabbits were not for me at all.

In a situation in which I felt I had a choice, I would not have kept him. But as the days passed, it started to feel worth it (I’ll go into the why later, but the short version is that he is not a normal rabbit at all.)

However, his arrival meant incredibly high immediate expenses and major changes to things around the house. I am super tired. But I am ultimately glad he is ours. This is probably the one circumstance in which I would end up with a pet bunny because these are not easy pets at all.

Of “common” pets I personally feel it’s one of the most complex you can keep. It should be seen as a proper exotic and not an Easter gift for little children. It’s also not the right pet for someone who stresses so much about the health of pets as I do. So I’m just doing my best.

I promise I haven’t forgotten commissions. I’m so stressed out about getting them done, it’s the first and last thing I think about. I have been able to draw here and there. I miss drawing, desperately. Progress is happening but it is ridiculously slow and I am so sorry.

To be clear, I basically have spent no time on hobbies. No “real” video games, no blogging, no reading, pretty much nothing of the things I enjoy, it’s actually really depressing to write this now that I think of it. If I have free time, it’s for commissions. But I haven’t had free time in a while.

The bunny has been named Domino (intact male, does mark a little, which is possibly why he was dumped). Age unknown. What makes him special is that he is incredible tame and affectionate. He did a flop like you see below on the night we caught him. Loves pets more than food.

He is so friendly, loving, playful. Does things that I see other rabbit owners wait years to experience with their buns. It’s part of why I was so sure that he had to have an owner, but it seems not to be the case. One of the rescues told me they have seen wonderful rabbits like him, dumped anyway.

Anyway I hope everyone has been doing ok. To be honest, going forward I’m probably going to slip back into my old way of doing things (little social media activity and blog posts instead). At least that’s the goal.

Even when it’s mostly positive, anything short form destroys my brain cells. That includes social media feeds. It actually did me good to have no time for it for a while. Made me remember it was much better for me.

I tried Transparent Grape Jelly by Sunlu and it was way too light. With the LEDs behind it, it basically appeared white. The sample leads me to think only transparent white was used, everything else solid, but the purple still seems to be letting some light through.

Maybe it’s something like Sunlu fluorescent purple? Does fluorescent PLA filament let any light through?

EDIT: Got a reply from Shadowmeld! The "purple" filament is "Witches Blue" PLA from CookieCAD, pink is Bambu PLA Basic in "Magenta" and the white seems to be "Milky White Translucent" from Dikale. Figured I'd update this post too in case anyone else was curious!

The model itself: https://makerworld.com/en/models/399304-ozzie-s-sign-lightbox-helluva-boss#profileId-300822

The model, for anyone interested: https://thangs.com/designer/Kelcy%27s%20Kreatures/3d-model/Stolas%20Duckie%20-%20Helluva%20Boss%20Rubber%20Duck-1440052

I'm giddy, excited, even a tad apprehensive, it's hard to put into words.

It all happened so fast, and unexpectedly. After kitty's visit, I floated the idea by Christopher, and did not expect AT ALL for him to say yes. Frankly, I'm still processing that he did, given that we've spent too much money this year as it is. But he did!! He really did.

To be honest, cons gradually kinda just... stopped being fun for me. It's why I stopped attending them (well, that and other stuff). But this time, I'll be rooming with one of my best friends in the entire world, @babyblankit. So no matter what happens, I know I will have a good time!

With that said, precisely because I feel a tad anxious, please, PLEASE don't ask me to commit to any plans/dinners/hanging outs/etc. until the weekend of the con. My main goal this con is actually to spend quality time with Kitty.

For some reason, being asked to promise potential hanging-outs or meals before the con even happens often filled me with anxiety in the past. I actually feel like I can't say no when I am asked. So, I prefer to make plans DURING the con, spontaneously. I won't make any plans beforehand --sorry!

Naturally, it figures that my return should be for a Jurassic Park themed con! 😁 I likely will offer badges for at-con delivery, but I don't think they will match the con theme. Rather, I'd like to try selling 3D printed badges. I still have to play around with that, but there's plenty of time.

My tween ass proceeded to send said art to the author, with the bold suggestion to make a movie of her book together. What can I say, I was an ambitious 13 year old (or thereabouts). I do remember her response being pretty terse, lmao.

Even now at 42, I feel that she could have turned a young fan down with a little more kindness… I don’t remember the exact words, other than they stung. But I also don’t blame her, my message must have been cringe beyond belief! 😅

To put it very simply, Otroso is about a group of teens (maybe tweens?) that one day decide to move a tile in the kitchen floor of one of their homes and start digging down to make a secret base, and it escalates from there.

“Otro” means “other”, so “Otroso” is a word referencing something “other”, as in another world/place (it’s not a real word).

The book is told from the perspective of a journalist from the neighborhood, putting together a story for a special issue of the local newspaper. It’s short, but really neat.

I swear I’m not joking, I legit do not know, is it just a word for sex? When I saw it used in context it didn’t always seem to mean that 🫠