I made a monster for a Deviant Art contest. He embodies all the greatness of pugs with all the magic of frogs and all the cuteness of bulgey eyes. You love him, don’t lie.

Have a look at DA.

I was meaning to post the finished version of my vector drawing. Here it is:

The holidays are coming to a close. I spent my Christmas at home in Nova Scotia this  year, and my parents visited me for a few days from Ontario. We enjoyed excessive eating, sleeping, and dog related activities. Kirby loves company, so naturally my parents automatically became his new best friends. Now that my folk’s are gone, he’s back to being rather bored:

We had a lovely white Christmas this year. We took Kirby with us to Christmas dinner with my gentleman-friend’s family, and he was surprisingly well behaved. I got an assortment of sweet gifts, including some much needed book shelves, candy, clothing, and art supplies. Speaking of, I’ve decided to take up a new hobby, with all that free time I don’t have, involving polymer clay and assorted craft supplies. My sculpting skills are atrocious at the moment, but I figure if I keep at it, they’ll eventually be mediocre.

I’ve got a head cold at the moment. I probably picked it up from my parents, or from going to the airport to get them. The symptoms are surprisingly mild, except for the constant feeling of exhaustion. Tuesday we went to the Atlantic Maritime museum, and I managed to close the car door on my pinky finger in the parking lot. The lady at the front desk had a first aid kit, luckily, so I was able to bandage it up. It looks pretty nasty. One side has a big chunk of skin peeled off, and the other side is purple. I don’t think it’s broken, and it doesn’t hurt any more, so I’ll probably just keep bandaging it until it’s better.

Anyways, I think I need a nap. Happy New Year!

The other day a coworker stopped by my desk to let me know that my right rear tire was flat. Awesome. I was able to get it filled enough to take it to the mechanic down the street to have it patched, but the tire itself was damaged and needed to be replaced. The mechanic didn’t have any in stock, so I needed to drive down to Canadian Tire to get one after work. The Canadian Tire website said that they had my size/type in stock, so naturally when I got there they didn’t have any. Luckily my lovely boyfriend was kind enough to go to the other Canadian Tire in the city to pick one up for me, and I had it put on the next day.

This week hasn’t been nearly as productive as I would’ve liked. Kirby is napping on the couch now, but I’m trying to exercise him as much as possible this weekend so that he’ll be tired out on Monday. We have Friday off this week, but he’ll be bored the rest of the week.

A Kamuro!

Wednesday was interesting. We enjoyed the year’s first snow storm, followed by the year’s first driving home from work in a snow storm. Thankfully, I survived, and made it back to get more work done on my drawing. I’m going to try and add some more characters into the background before I get bored with it.

I managed to get two more Christmas gifts out of the way today. I still have a few things to get, but for the most part, I’m all set for Christmas fun-time. Today I was shopping at Walmart for some stick-on velcro, and I was very tempted to buy up all kinds of craft supplies so I could do some crafts. I wish I had the time. One day!

I picked up Skyrim today. It’s pretty cool so far. I may have just found my new stationary bike game. I have some of my Christmas shopping done, now, and I’ve just got a few more gifts to purchase. I’ll be done extra early, this year.

Things are going smoothly with this drawing. I’m too tired to do things this weekend.

Huzzah, I have added a dude!

The blood is turning out really sexy. It’s raining far too much. My waterproof hiking shoes cannot get here fast enough. I took a nap this afternoon and just as I was drifting off, a telemarketer called. I answered the phone and thought I had hung it up. I ended up sleeping for two hours with the phone off the hook while Andrew was out and trying to call me. Go me.

It’s coming along.

Today was strange. I watched a car accident happen just a few seconds ahead of me. I pulled over so my carpool buddy could go help and he hung out with the kids from one of the cars while their dad came to get them. Their mom had to be taken in an ambulance, but it sounds like she will be okay. It’s all very surreal. I stayed in my car with the dog waiting to see if I needed to move out of the way, but I was far enough from the accident that the fire trucks could still get to it. Yeah, I didn’t really contribute, but there was already a crowd and I probably would’ve just gotten in the way.

I have some of my Christmas shopping done now. I am making a box for the Samaritan’s Purse charity. It filled up a lot quicker than I expected it to. I should ask for another one. I still have a colouring book, a notebook, and a marker pack that didn’t fit. I’m not particularly religious, but it’s a great idea for a charity so I couldn’t say no to participating. I’ll probably also get some Oxfam cards for people. Speaking of, I should order those soon… I am full of laziness. Back to work.

Around 3am this morning, we were woken up by a strange beeping noise. It sounded like the microwave. Andrew suggested that perhaps someone was trying to lure us downstairs to murder us. I suspected Kirby was making himself a hotpocket. We made our way downstairs to find the microwave was beeping and very hot. ??? We unplugged it and went back to bed worrying about the wiring in the house.

In the morning, upon further inspection, the microwave was surrounded by mouse droppings. So… so a mouse might have gotten into the microwave and cooked himself? I’m not quite sure what happened, there. The mice might have rewired the microwave to use as a weapon against us. In any case, traps are set.

Here’s something I started this weekend. If I follow it through, it should be pretty sweet and have lots of other dudes in it. Yep. It’s dark at 5:30 now. I don’t like it.

The most interesting part of having a day off to lounge at home is to hear how many telemarketers call my land line on a daily basis. I’d be impressed if I didn’t get a call from CIBC’s telemarketing department for a whole 24 hours. I guess they’re desperate.

I did more with this sketch. I like it, I suppose. I’m looking forward to being back to work, I think. Yay work?

On a side note, my site was down today. We were fiddling with some database stuff, and it broke some things. That was the technical explanation.

I’m not sure where else to go with this. Berries? A scarf? I feel like it needs some colour.