Boo. (Patreon)

Feel free to ignore the personal rant below. It has nothing to do with Mik, furry art, or patreon. I just need to vent without roping any of my friends into an hour long messenger tirade about first world problems that will inevitably end with talking about Star Wars or butt stuff.

So for now enjoy this sketch of Mik making herself nice and warm/ clean I am doing for Sexyfur.

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- Starting to feel pretty sick/ run down. Swollen lymph nodes/ fatigue. Whatever it is I'm developing I hope it isn't debilitating.

- 4 out of the 5 amazon deliveries I was waiting on had to be refunded in a single sitting. 2 items were damaged and are now undeliverable according to the carrier and amazon themselves. The other two were supposedly delivered but this is not true. No package was left. I do a ton of business with Amazon and this has never happened before and they refunded every item in question.... which is great, but it will take 3-5 days to receive the refund and odds of the items getting here by the holidays are next to none and I don't have enough on hand to make the purchases before the refunds reach me.

- My bank instituted some disaster relief stuff from the hurricane a few months back that I was not aware of. Automatic payments to student loans/ insurance were turned off and are all past due by several months. If I update my residence I lose my insurance and perks that took years to build so I am pretty much pretending I still live in my home state but because of that I did not receive the mail notifications and for some dumb reason I never got email notifications until right now. I had the money, I paid it all at once... but considering how some of the purchases I just made include an Ipad pro/ Apple pencil to replace my sketching device that recently died on me I am operating on less cash on hand than I had anticipated.

- I got the seasonal money call from family. This time from my brother. It was for a legit reason so I did float him the $550. He is flying across the country for the holidays to see some family but at the same time he is going there because he moonlights as a photographer... which he is pretty good at. I invested a lot of time teaching him and he invested a lot of time learning and a lot of money in equipment... but being relatively inexperienced despite his skill there are still things he is still learning as he goes along. This time the lesson was about the electronic components vs temperature. Don't take a bunch of outdoor snapshots in the blistering cold then immediately jump into to a muggy indoor environment. Electronics got fried and he asked me to help with the repairs. So I did.

- Because my brother will be across the country I have much less reason to go home for the holidays so I'm staying here. I made this fact known to a friend of mine who just moved into a giant house and for various legitimate reasons he asked me to house-sit for him and his wife. Because I am a sweet boy and overall saint I agreed to do it. It's not like work is an issue - like me he has a 27QHD and all of the peripherals/ programs I use to work so I can draw there just fine.... but it's still gonna be a bummer spending the holidays out of town alone in someone else's house for 7-8 days.