I know I’ve been gone for awhile, I’m sorry! Some stuff has been happening that I’ll explain later.

Anyways This week my host went down for a day and lost 3 days of information when they switched over to a 3 day old backup. When this happened I lost an important email.

I received an inquiry from an employee of Fisher-Price. I did respond to it, but a few hours later my host went down and if she tried replying back to me it would not have gone though. I’m really frustrated now because I have no way of contacting her since her email is no longer in my inbox b/c of switching over to the backup.

UGH :(

So I’ve again spent more than I had meant to haha. I’ve only just been payed and I’m down to about $300 for the next two weeks hahaha. Atleast I’ve already bought groceries. I need to pay for cable and my CC bill though. Some of it will need to go on my next pay I suppose. I’m not sure what I’ll do about rent for next month though. I won’t get payed until the 2nd and I obviously will owe rent on the 1st haha. I’ll have to call Harrold (my landlord) and ask him if waiting a day would be alright. I’m sure he’ll be fine with that though as he’s a nice guy.

 Anyways..I’ve been spending a lot and have been trading with people again so i’ve been getting more mail than I had been for the past few months. I actually don’t like trading that often..sometimes I feel bad when I say no to people hahaha. Sadly most of the stuff I have that people want..is the stuff I love the most and don’t want to get rid of xD. I’ll update with pictures of some of the stuff I’ve gotten recently when I get home (@ work right now). Right now i’m waiting for one thing from ebay, and *thinks* 2 from people on flickr.

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 I’ll probably be opening commissions on DeviantArt again sometime in the next few days. I uploaded 20+ free avatars to DA recently and holy cow the response has been amazingly good haha. I made the front page atleast 3 times within a 48 hour time span. One of the avatars I uploaded has so far recieved over 900 favorites. More than 900 people have seen and faved it. In-freakin-sane.

With popularity somes mimicry though. Lately I’ve been finding more and more people that are not only copying my style, but my basic design ideas and some even go so low as to right out trace certain parts of my images haha. Now I’m not too worried about those that are just inspired by my work/style..that’s perfectly fine :). I am however, unimpressed with those that have the audacity to trace my images, and then tell people not to steal or copy their work. Technically it’s NOT their work if they traced it from me. Thankfully so far most people are appologetic, which is good.

So yes…to do:

-open commissions on DA and restate terms
-reply to trade offers on flickr

No I’m not selling sickness. I am instead implying that selling is a sickness that one cancatch..apparently anyways.

Recently some good Kawaii collections have gone up for sale on Flickr and I know of a few more that may be aswell within the next month or so.

I have no money right now but I’m DIEING to grab up some of these things haha. I’ve sort of been creating a wishlist in my head recently I guess.

 On ebay I’ve been looking at bidding on This, and This. I like the peach one, but I just ADORE the melon one. I have no idea who has already bid on them..wouldn’t surprise me if it’s someone I know, but that won’t stop me from stealing them =p sorry LOL. I only own 2 Hannari’s right now (regular sized I mean) and would love to get my handso n the entire fruit collection.

I’ve also been looking at This. I originally found it (them actually, there are other ones aswell) on eBay Singapore.

Looks like I’ll be delving into my CreditCard funds this month LOL

Well, yesterday was interesting.

My primary source of income is working as a call centre agent doing technical support for RoadRunner. When I was hired (close to 3 months ago) the RoadRunner project was 24/7. In the past month RoadRunner has cut back on hours and will now only be open from 6am-2am. So they only took 4 hours away from Stream (the company I work for that works for RR lol), but now other things are happening that are making people wonder if maybe RR is going to be pulling out of Stream (at least at my location).

Yesterday before work one of my friends got a call from HR telling him he had been fired. Talking to him later, it turns out that -a lot- of people were suddenly culled with no reason other than their metrics were too low.

NOW Stream is pulling even -more- agents from the RR project and giving them over to HP instead.

So..as of Monday morning at 8am, I will begin training all over again on another project.

We’ll see how it goes I guess.

Overall I’m guessing that by Monday RR will have about 90-100 less agents on the floor in Belleville.

Every once and awhile I have people ask me where I buy my Statoinery (etc)  from. I figured I might aswell make an entry detailing some of my favorite stores to buy from :).

These first places are people/stores I have bought from regularily, most for over 2 years now.

Name: FunnyCastle88
Ships From: Hong Kong
Accepts: Paypal Only

Name: MyTarson
Ships From: Hong Kong
Accepts: Paypal Only

Name: All Things Kawaii
Ships From: USA
Accepts: Paypal Only

Name: JanetStore
Ships From: Hong kong
Accepts: Paypal and Concealed Cash in USD (by registered mail only)

Name: Daisuki Store
Ships From: Hong Kong
Accepts: Paypal

I’ll make another post later with other recommendations :)

So the other day I finally decided to buy myself a PRO account on Flickr. I was only off by like 4 to the limit of photos for a regular account haha.

Sicne I upgraded I’ve been uploading like crazy. I didn’t realize there was so much I had not scanned yet LOL

Check it Out

I’ve got lots of stuff up for trade :)

Mid January I came down with some sort of cold. Normally I just ignore such things any they go away. A week or so after I got sick it got to the point where I had to take days off of work and go to the hospital because I was just unable to breathe. I was diagnosed with pneumonia and they put me on some antibiotics.

Mid February after having only been ok for a week or so, I became ill…and again had to take days off work and go to the hospital. This time nothing was found in my lungs, but I was put on meds again.

Now mid March and AGAIN I am sick and have had to take days off work. I went to the hospital again last night/this morning and guess what? Pneumonia again. They gave me a double dose of ventalin and prescribed more meds.

I have NO idea what the hell is going on with me. Up until this year I have -never- had pneumonia and have never had this many problems with my health so close together.

Lately I’ve been having a really hard time eating anything too. I woke up around 4pm today (I work the night shift so that’s normal for me) and didn’t eat anything until like 11pm (some chips). I just tried making some noodles and I took 2 bites and then just wanted to hurl :/.

Too much stress lately maybe..I dunno. I’m starting to hate my job..I see no one other than my coworkers and Sean before I work some days. I guess I’m just tired of getting home at 4am and spending hours by myself. I really wish I could work a part-time job but I can’t afford it.

Today my as of yet unnamed Aquel Pullip’s wig came in the mail.

Do you know what that means? It means my mail is FINALLY getting to me haha.

The wig is a bit…POOFier than I thought it would be, but I still like it. It’s just a bit wild I guess xD.

I’ve been trying to find some clothing for her to wear and i’m fairly sure I want to get her something white and/or pink, but I’m having a hard time finding anything that I actually like. I am however pretty sure that I’d like some blue eyechips from Irene. I really do not like stock eyechips, blegh.

Anyways, now that my mail is finally reaching me, I’ve finally been able to start buying up stationery again. I’ve been pining over a lot of things these past few months, but havnt wanted to risk them getting lost on their way to me.

I bought a few things from Winnie including a freaking Nomikake-kun LetterSet, lol. Winnie recently auctioned off a Nomikake memo pad on ebay and it ended up going for $17 LOL. Insane.

Oh and I’ve been updating my flickr for the first time in months and months too.

1. Install This

2. Find Admin Sidepanel Login

3. Find out why DA Plugin is not displaying GIFs

Okay so when I got home last night I checked to see if the main page worked in IE..and it did? The text was still big but whatever, I can fix that later. Now I know that at home I have IE7, aaand at work we have IE6 so I’m wondering if that was the problem? I just dont understand why haha. I’ve fixed it now but I don’t know why the issue occured.

I had to change the paths from:

http://appleloaf.net/folder

to:

http://www.appleloaf.net/folder/index.php

So yeah..I fixed it, butI don’t understand what caused the issue to begin with really haha. Ohwell.