The year of the ox is supposed to be pretty terrible for the horse, sheep, and tiger.
Which would be me, boys and girls.

And I plan on making it the best year I've lived so far.

That's the lowest it's been for about two years now. And I'm still working on it. From 256 Deviations, 171 Messages, to 94 Messages.
It's just so hard to get back to those faves and watches. I've just let them accumulate over the years.

I want to spotlight an artist.
= Amazing. Breathtaking amazing.

That is all, good night and good luck.

Welcome back, irregular sleeping habits.
Just want to update a few things. Or bring to light some updates. I don't know. I can't..words.

First of all I've met a lot of new people, made some awesome new friends. So I don't know how you guys utilize dA but I more than often do not. So find it in your hearts not to hold it against me if I don't reply or comment or what have you, please. I'm crossing my fingers for future collaborations with ~Koshou and ~LordOfTheMimes. :3

iScribble all day and night my peoples. Hence the ridiculous upload of oekaki-ish drawings. I love finally being able to use some of my characters in roleplays on there. [Finally]

Speaking of characters, I've got a new character design for Marus. I gave him accurate horns and I like him better than way. And speaking of Marus, I'm hoping to feature him in a comic. I just finished reading ~Koshou's Kimeral: [link] It's adorable and I have to draw panel art anyway SO WHY NOT.

Trouble is, I can't think of a story line. I can't start something without an end in mind. Aaah here goes nothing.

In other news. I just painted my nails a fabulous pink. It's called "Rock n' Rose". I think the last time I did my nails I went with a purple. I think the pink is really cute though. Oh and i won a Merit Award for some piece I put in my school art show. *Shrug* I don't know what to say about it except everyone there was dressed really nice and I wasn't. In high school, I had my heart set on an award that I didn't win, but that I deserved. Since then, school art awards really don't mean much to me. I mean I suppose these awards will look better on resumes? I couldn't tell you. Honestly I'm not sure how I'm supposed to receive that sort of news. It just happened, but I don't feel any different. That's that.

God has been working great things in my life. I'm finally making friends with the right kind of people who keep me accountable. The sort of friends I've been looking for for the past four, maybe five years. My artistic life is going great and again I just thank God. What else can I say? All I need is Jesus in my life. The air I breathe and the life I lead. Euphoria, where've you been all my life?

[link] <-Enlighten your art brain.

One new picture, one new scrap. Hit 'em both up! Show 'em some love!

Most of you have noticed that with DA's new updates, I've been commenting back to a lot of yas. I hope to keep this up. I may be slow getting back to the watches and faves, but comments and replies and deviations will face total ownage from Ms CJ over here! You betta believe it!

Hm I don't have anything else to say.

Actually, as it seems, I have a lot of scraps that could satisfy my scrap book's need for company, warmth and love. So check back! I've been lovin' all on MS Paint. So yeah. I will probably jumble them into one piece and scrap them. For those of you who think that is art cruelty, some of them never made it out of my files! Gosh, all the unfinished files that are doomed to never being seen from all of my crashed computers. How sad. A moment of silence for them.





Good night and God Bless.

Guys, I promise I am happy and exciting and bubbly as ever, but I went to bed at 5 in the morning last night, I am exhausted. I'll maybe update with a happier journal later! <3

Beat.

I joined DA in 2004. It's been 4 years. I used to come on here and not know anyone. Back when Vincent was just a doodle on lined paper. I remember my first friends. Through DA I joined my first RP group, Vanilla Obsession. I wish I could go back and surprise everyone with my better RP skills, haha. No one would remember the VO veterans, especially not old Amou-kun. Ishikawa-kun, Kusakabe-kun, Ryuichi-kun, it was a birth of new male characters for me.

Because I brought Vincent to life, then branched more characters to give my Vincent a soul. Akina, Alphonse, Theo, Ilaria. Remember when Vincent was in politics? Always in a sharp suit to bring home the bacon.

Then came my own Reject. We've come a long way in these three paragraphs.

And finally, I went to Japan. The manifestation of all my dreams and aspirations coming to life. I left you guys but never forgot you, or stopped thinking about you.

I'm so tired right now.

Beat.

Now, I came back, and DA has changed over the past 4 years. As an old fashioned deviant, I'm not sure what to think. I love that DA is flourishing, I just wish I had the time to figure out all the new changes. But I do want to use this sentence to congradulate DA on how far it's come, really, good job.

DA has become so popular, I feel I've lost my privacy in a way. Now my friends at school know about DA and we share each other's accounts and view each other. And you know, I personally love being able to see the people who leave me the comments. I wish I could express how much it means to me to have you guys visiting my page and leaving your love. I'm sorry I'm terrible with comments, for what it's worth, this journal is for all you guys who keep checking back and pestering me wondering when I'll be posting another journal. This one goes out to you lovelies.

I want to shout out to the new members of my DA family:


For all the passer byers, go check them out.
featured me in a something. ;o; She is absolutely lovely and I love her and today she wore her hair in a bun and it looks like a door knob and I asked her if everyone gets a turn but maybe I'll become posessive and not LET anyone turn it. ):< So there.

Beat.

At the same time, I do feel as though to some extent my privacy is gone. Where I could run to DA and vent a load onto the journals, now I'm worried what names I use, what I say. I just don't want you guys to worry about me, that's all. You know me, I'm always happy! But I do always vent a load to DA, so now I'll have to get a livejournal or xanga or something, haha. Those aren't popular right? Haha.

Also, I want to shout out to who has stuck with me for the longest time. And who is the awesomest person in the world ever. Ever.

Jeez this journal updating thing is quite liberating. Don't get your hopes up, I still avoid the message centre like the plague. Haha.

I love you guys! I hope I can be as good to you guys as you've been to me. <3

Mata, ne!

Siege