It was a long, short weekend

This weekend was only a two day weekend for me. But it was pretty arduous none the less. Jeff and I spent yesterday and today clearing out the rest of Floral Dr. It's a 50 something year old house, and it shows. The electricity and water had been turned off, making it especially challenging to clean up.

I also still had some sinus issues, even though I had thought it was all clearing up. Yesterday, I had a striking pain in my ear when I was blowing my nose. This later led to a nose bleed. I am hoping it was just from my sinuses being dry or something. I'm glad to be out of the old place.

And I did have a chance to go out. Last night we went to Uberbot. I bought a World War Robot art book there. Then we ate sushi and went bar hopping. Now it is already Monday and work is anxiously awaiting my return.

What's Happening

Where to start? I don't know. I guess at home. Everyone's getting used to the new space and each other. Tonight we had some issue with the plumbing and the toilet downstairs overflowed like, "Woah!" Someone should be out tomorrow to fix it. I drove over to Floral Dr. to shower since we can't really run any water here for now.

Work has been going well. I talked to someone who had a review of our material with the customer. They were unhappy with some really old illustrations in the training. So, I was asked to create some new illustrations. Apparently, the customer had doctored up some stuff they were going to show us as suggestions on how to improve. But then they saw mine and liked them even better than what they'd come up with. It's really nice to hear such positive feedback.

I need to nail down my reservations to Peru. Every week I keep putting it off until the next payday. I am semi-excited about going. I looked up some photos and Macchu Pichu looks amazing. I am hoping to get some time to sit down and sketch while I am there.

It has been kind of cold the past couple of days. So, I got the chance to wear my awesome new sweater. By the way, the iPhone cover is houndstooth...

Drained

Lots of things are changing in my life right now. I can't tell where it's all going. My allergies have been making me miserable for the past couple of weeks. Bad enough I feel physically tired from not being able to breathe very well. I have also been emotionally stressed out over work, relationships, moving, and freelance work. Luckily my family was around and I got to spend a lot of great time with them. Hopefully, things will stabilize once the move is complete. I am still anxious to find out what the status is on the freelance work.

Here is a test render I did last night (just using final gather nothing fancy). I have brought my Mac Book to a couple of different coffee shops the past few days (one of the perks of getting a laptop. It's been nice to finally put some real time into a project. My portfolio hasn't been updated since college really. And now that I have over 6 years of experience, I certainly can create nicer pieces.