Tasty Legs and Crispy Thighs on My Mind

In which Arielle comes back after a long time, but not sure she's "all there". For her, it had been a chaotic and depressing end to 2025, followed by an even more chaotic period of change in the beginning of the new year, 2026. She moved away from the condo she had lived in with Bowie his whole life, and was now somewhere bigger and nicer, but the memories of Bowie running across the floor and his little toe clacks didn't come with her - a devastating loss. Good thing Mewgenics is out....

I'll be real...I'm sick, stressed, and all I wanna do is play Mewgenics, and let the things bothering me fade into the background for a while. Many things have occurred since I was last at game gen. I had a bit of a double whammy in terms of Grief at the end of last year, as a couple days before Christmas, my father passed away...and we didn't have the best of relationships. In fact, I was in the process of trying to see my father earlier in the year, but then Bowie passed away, and I needed time to grieve him before tackling such a hard meet up. I clearly waited too long. I suppose I learned the hard way...that if you wait too long for things....then there aren't things like "next time". So I was gone for a while...the thought of my father still makes me sad, so best to just keep it here...better not to talk to me about it...trust.

So I came back about three weeks ago now....though my second week was completely away from the computer for a number of reasons. The first big one....was that somehow in like 4 days my Mom, my friend Alice, and I packed up everything in my condo and moved me into a new apartment. The actual moving day was nightmarish, as it usually is the highest stress time. I was able to enjoy it for only a short time, as that night I got food poisoning...which with the meds I've been taking...turns from a one day affair into a 3-4 day affair. So all in all, I've had about two weeks of work to present....but don't get too excited...it's nothing , in my opinion, to write home about...but something about the tortoise. Oh also...I caught a cold in the last two days...HUZZAH...sorry for all the coughing.

Before the move I was working on a painting of a Sockeye Salmon....since red and greens are some of my favorite color combos. I managed to get a decent underpainting done, with maybe one or two places where it was rendered a little more...but after the move....(perhaps due to shock and stress) I no longer had the will or want to continue working on it. So here is the underpainting in various states of completion:

This week, I didn't really want to work on the painting anymore...so I thought I'd try doing something a little more creepy....and it kinda just turned into a mess of a doodle/maybe some terrible perspective practice for eyeballs...I'll include some of the images I was referencing as well:

"Here's lookin' at you, kid."

As for what I'm going to do now.......play Mewgenics.....as for what I'm going to try working on next week....I don't really know....maybe I'll do more Project X stuff....maybe I'll do something else...Suggestions are welcome.