life update:

thanks for the kind words on my Coat of Arms!

Sunday, I'll be leaving for a ten day trip to my hometown of Houston, Texas. Because I didn't get to visit for the winter holidays, I'm going now and am so excited to see my much missed friends and family.

I still don't have any days off in the week between my tow jobs, hopefully Ricky's will hire some more people and give me another day off, besides the two I use to work at M+S.

I took my laptop in to do a data recovery, unfortunately in my case it would cost $600, and there's no guarantee anything would be recovered. that means my entire college career is lost, as well as the book I was working on. I'm most upset about the book, because I put a lot of work into it and was excited to eventually get it published. However, I realize there's no point in feeling sorry for myself- now it's time to start over and to do all new illustrations.

I hope everyone is well!