life of yet another weirdo

I’ve been wondering if I should post this here, or on my livejournal only, but, hey, whatever.

I saw someone else fill out a list-of-questions meme, and the first was “What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?” So here goes:

This year for the first time I got prescribed antidepressants/anti-anxiety drugs, and got therapy.

I also flew with a plane for the first time - to Austria, to visit a cousin of my father for his birthday. Over there for the first time I shared a flat with someone I’d never met before (just for two nights, and there was no cooking involved).

For the first time I went to the bank on my own for consulting service regarding what to do with my money (stuff my grandparents had saved up for me, which had been mine for 8 years already.)

I took life drawing classes for the first time, which was interesting and fun, and earlier in the year I took up brush inking.

I also opened a shop at Etsy.com and sold something I made, to someone I’d never had any contact with before, no less.

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I’ve been off the drugs for two months now, and comparing my state of mind to last year… instead of very nearly daily crying fits because I feel utterly useless, it happens just once per month (stupid hormones). I’ve got more contact with people… I still need to work on that, but sitting down with other students for lunch and chat is definitely a huge step up from skipping lectures so I don’t have to meet anyone who might know me and try to talk to me.

Art-wise, well. I moved to a new deviantART account, because I want to get away from my old nickname. I drew (relatively) many weird, cute critters, which seem to have more general appeal than character drawings - but then, even some of my character drawings now get random favs, so it might be that I’m really improving. ;)
After a decade or one and a half I took up working with Fimo polymer clay again, and I’ve been playing with watercolours more than in the previous four years combined.

I more or less keep Daily Drawing going with prompts, and the Monthly Random Character Art Exchange keeps happening thanks to people on the autosignup list. It’s a bit frustrating that the advertising I do doesn’t help, and I hope it won’t die because I’m too shy for “louder” marketing… I’ll see what I can come up with during the next month.

Next month is next year, and next year I need to concentrate on studies more, which is a shame, since I would really rather concentrate on art more. I’m feeling like I’m doing two things more or less half-arsed, which is not a good thing.

Well, I have gotten generally more organised throughout the last year, so here’s to continuing the trend.

Happy New Year, Everyone! :D

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