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What things are you looking forward to in the new year? As difficult as things will be, are there any things you are looking forward to?

I am cautiously optimistic for next year! I have health insurance and a doctors appointment all lined up and am hoping to get my physical and mental health in order. I have bipolar and ADHD and have been unmedicated for the last 10 years and basically have just been struggling to stay alive. It has been really close some days. I feel like if I can actually get medicated things will really start looking up for me and I can start doing more than just surviving.

I've also had some pretty messed up physical health stuff over the past few years that has reached the point where it's really interfering with my quality of life, so hoping to get some answers for that too!

I'm trying to line it all up as soon as possible because my health insurance is through the ACA and I know Trump said he's going to try and get rid of it (but he said that last time too...).

Yay. So happy you have things lined up. I really hope it works out well and you get what you need.

So, we're planning a trip for my birthday this coming year, since turning 40. I think we're going to do Houston. Space-themed. See NASA and the Space Center. Do a few museums mom wants to see. Should be fun.

And a little smaller and sooner, but found out today that LOTR is playing again in a nearby theater. 3 saturdays in a row, one for each movie. Not extended, but still pretty cool.

If things go well I might be able to adopt a cat this year. I'm still very much in the planning stages(costs, food, space, etc) and it's not 100% yet, but I'm looking tentatively forward to it because it's the closest I've been to it since I lost my last job in 2021.

Oh I'm excited for you anon! I hope you get the best kitty companion in the new year.

AYRT.

I'm tentatively excited too! But I'm also holding it back a bit because I don't want to get too ahead of myself before things are sorted. I miss having cats and I shall love and cherish whichever kitty I fit with should I hopefully go visit some.

Oooo, yay, kitty. I hope the exact right kitty finds you and you become the perfect team.

AYRT.

Thank you! I hope I find a good fit. :)

Congratulations! I am so excited for you. Sending good vibes and prayers your way that the adoption works out and you get a wonderful cat friend.

AYRT.

Thank you very much! :)

getting better at drawing! i picked some courses during these last few months and a few of them finally clicked and i'm getting better and better by the day. it's very hard and i am practising a lot of fundamentals over and over again, but WOW finally i am seeing progress and having a lot of fun enjoying the process. i'm seriously having a blast just practising boxes. wild.
next year i am specifically looking forward getting better at ink drawing (I mostly sketch directly in ink) and watercolour/gouache. maybe finally get into some serious urban sketching, so combining little trips with going around drawing random stuff.

aside from that... MMMMH???? maybe my nephew growing up? He will be 3 in a couple of weeks and while we always connected, it's way more fun playing with him lately since we can do a lot more stuff together.

...damn, I'm boring. and old ahaha

That's awesome that the drawing clicked and you are seeing results! I have had a lifelong not-so-secret yearning to be an artist and I have been trying different classes and methods since I was a child, but nothing has ever clicked for me and I cannot draw (or paint, or sculpt, or art...) at all. I stop and get all depressed about it for awhile before the yearning comes back and I try another class. One of these days...

oh... i have ADHD and a lot of trauma related to my very blatant lack of artistic talent when i was a kid (seriously, my elementary teachers didn't "allow" me to touch the seasonal decoration if not to cut them up with a scissor because everything I touched became a mess), but I've always doodled all my life, especially when I was in school and I had to listen to lectures or do homework (yep, the adhd). But having never took any class I had NO IDEA how to start learning how to draw. I was convinced that you either had it or you didn't. I had no idea that observational drawing was even a thing (yeah, it was this bad) and if you looked at any reference while drawing you were a cheater!!1!
Then IDK I went to therapy a couple of years ago and let go of a lot of trauma and preconceived bias I had against myself + saw some youtube videos that explained to me that talent is actually not required to learn to draw and how to actually start learning how to draw (observation + breaking figures into simpler forms) and slowly things began moving.
I'm in my mid 30 now, I will probably become half decent in my early 40s if I keep this up. Drawing is helping me a lot with my depression. I don't care much about anything aside that and my family (I have no career aspirations and I am happily single) and this little hobby just makes me happy and motivated to wake up in the morning, because I know that come evening I get to do my messes on paper.

Some online resources that helped me were: the virtual instructor (very beginner friendly, super motivational), proko for basics and a little bit of anatomy, lovelivedrawing for figure drawing, sarah burns for drawing/painting landscapes/nature and drawabox, that I am only now doing and having a lot of fun with (this is possibly controversial because that program usually burns out people, but IDK I just like figuring out how to draw stuff with boxes and cylinders. I find it soothing)
there are also a lot of books that are pretty good. If I remember correctly r/learnart has a little bit of a list in their FAQ for beginners.

I hope some day a course or a book will click for you. If there's something I learned these last couple of years is that the yearning to be creative doesn't go away. If you don't feed it, it's going to eat you alive.
to me being an artist is not about how good you can draw/paint, it's about how much doing art is required for you to survive. Me? I can't live without my silly doodling. Hence, I'm an artist. I get to do art, whatever and however I want. even if it sucks lol

Hazbin season 2 and the 4.0 update of Clip Studio Paint mostly.

I should be getting a title bump soon (along with a possible pay increase). A title bump will make moving to a different team in my company an easier task.

Ooo, nice. had this happen recently to me too. It is a very nice feeling. And I'm sure in your case it is very well earned. I hope the pay increase is good and your new title brings great opportunities.

The concerts I have tickets to and the fics I’m going to write.

My sister going home. She's been staying since the twentieth and being around her really stresses me out. I can't wait to have a bit of peace and quiet again. Just a few more days!

My suicide.

I'm really going through it right now. And once I get all of their stuff out of the house and a restraining order in place (they fucked up and made an actual threat where a mandatory reporter documented it! yay!!) I look forward to to building my domestic and social life back up.

Gaining money. Getting into cooking and drawing (and maybe writing?). The Day the Earth Blew Up. Tasting new things.

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