Creamy Arty

@Love, I voted for you and Seb, but I think he needs to be Cadance and you should be Shining Armor.

All I want is some time off and to spend a quiet day at home with my family, eating a delicious breakfast and chilling out. There's no greater gift than some peace of mind. xD

As is the case with most people, all of them come into play at some point or another. Most of the time though, it's instinct. Whether or not I project this very often, I'm actually a very empathetic person and typically know people's motivations and can predict what they're going to do. I've also been through a lot throughout my life so far and most situations I face are old news or similar enough to something from the past that making a decision (typically the right one) is rather natural and easy, things just come to me. When confronting something new, it begins with the heart for moral direction and an determination to see something accomplished, then filtered through the head for a practical approach and so my altruistic nature doesn't cause cause me to get myself in over my head, which has happened before. An oversimplification of how I operate, obviously, as compressing the underpinnings of nearly anyone's conscience or consciousness to a single, short paragraph is only going to be accurate in a very broad sense. But there you have a general idea of how things work.

Cropped it down from a much larger piece that I had commissioned. I just liked his expression here.

The official chat was terminated due to being a spamfest with people posting abusive and offensive things often enough that moderating it effectively became impossible.

I know how it works, I was actually an electronics engineering major. These aren't my lights though. These are some shitty old light strings that were laying about and work and I was trying to make the place look a little more festive. ;_; Maybe I can buy new lights and fill out an expense report for them...

You know what else isn't working? These Christmas lights. There's probably one light on the string that died.

Not as stressed as I've been for a long time, honestly. Been feeling much better in recent days. Until not too long ago, I didn't realize just how stressed I actually was. Early last year is when my stress really started to set in, and while I thought it got better a couple of times, I was really substituting one form of stress for another without realizing it. Last March is when I became a moderator here, and not long before that my grandfather had died, which wore on everyone. A couple of sinus infections occurred not long afterwards, and I also began taking care of a cousin of mine who was barely holding on to life due to cancer (and his wife walked out on him during this ordeal). About two months after that I became an administrator here, and the following month I got a job to end a 10-month unemployment streak. Not having a job (and therefore income) was distressing enough, but then the job I procured was extremely active, has a hostile environment, and dumped plenty of its own stress on me. Lots of travel was involved too, so I was constantly on the road. Considering I hadn't worked for so long, I was living with my parents to amass sufficient funds for an apartment. My mother had always been very overbearing and shrill, which frayed my nerves at home constantly. Whether I was at work or at home, I was in constant conflict and restless, not to mention the work and shit I had to deal with as an administrator here. Eventually 2014 arrived, and I hit a deer (yay, car damage) and then lost a tooth from a failed root canal... Work continued, my horrible home life continued, et cetera. Come this July I finally had the funds to get an apartment close to work, and soon thereafter I resigned my position here. Now it's just work and house chores for me to contend with. I hadn't realized just how much I had been put through and had even put myself through. I must admit though that I've even blamed circumstances and people that weren't culpable. However, in the past couple of weeks, all of that bottled stress has finally started to melt away, and I'm seeing almost everything in a new light, and generally feel better than I have in a long time. This is thanks in no small part to things slowing down tremendously at work as well as my resignation here. Helps to step back from everything and get a wider view. Lots of things don't even seem so bad in retrospect. Just needed to give myself time to rest.

Aquila and Spoon have yet to have the spotlight, so I voted for them. I think their voices would compliment one another anyway.

So disappointed by all of these people who don't like coffee. ;( Eggs! Egg washes on bread are fine, French toast is delightful, etc. Plain eggs (regardless of how they're cooked) or omelettes? Revolting. I've hated eggs since I was a baby. Still can't touch them.

I'll be high as a kite if you do. xD