Hey everyone!  I'm still alive!  I know, I've been gone for a looooong time now.  (Did anyone even miss me?  LOL)

I'm very sorry for the lack of art and updates.  For a long time I was quite busy with real life things.  I was working a lot, and then getting ready to move to the US, and then actually moving to the US.  Since the move I've been unemployed, which you'd think would be a great opportunity for creating art.  However, I left all my traditional art supplies in storage and my tablet pen isn't working very well anymore, so creating digital art is quite frustrating.  I don't have access to a good camera anymore either, so I can't do much photography.  I could do sketches and things, but I really haven't felt much inspiration.  (This has happened to me before, where the artistic impulse just seems to dry up for a while.)

The other time sink in my life is World of Warcraft.  I've never been much of a gamer, but I was bored one day and decided to try a trial account and got hooked.  It honestly eats into a lot of the free time that I could be using to create art, but it's a lot of fun.

Anyway, while I've been gone, my message stacks on dA have grown out of control.  So every time I log on there are literally thousands of unread messages staring me in the face.  It just seems so overwhelming that I navigate away from the page instead of dealing with it.  So today I'm finally going to do what I should have done a long time ago - I'm going to delete all the comments and watch notifications, whether I've read them or not.  This means that I will undoubtedly miss out on some wonderful works of art that you've all created, but I just can't browse through 3000 deviations.  So I'm very sorry!  But maybe once I've deleted everything I can stay caught up again.  Maybe.