So I managed to clear a bunch of stuff out of my room and I uncovered both of my comic collections. I don’t think I’ve really looked at it in a few years, which is pretty crazy. I’ve been going through it all weekend. I’m sorting it into piles of comics I worked on(8 boxes), comics I read/collected(5 boxes), things I like or are worth something that I can feel comfortable selling to people(6 boxes), and things I want to set on fire(3 and half boxes).

Gah I think it says something about why I have so many comics in the first place that the smallest pile of comics just happens to be the pile that I can sell RIGHT away. Rolls eyes. I feel like I’m getting better about this though because the actually amount of comics that I want to hold on to should shake out to be around 6 or 7 boxes once I get done selling as many of them as I can.

I just took the 3 and half boxes of “things I want to set on fire” to Half Price books today along with a collection of random textbooks I used in college 11 years ago, classroom books for programs that are 5 years out of date/I don’t own anymore, and books that fit on high school required reading lists… I got 45.50 for the whole lot. Also I took my old 1955 Encyclopedia set that use to use to flatten posters. I didn’t get anything for those it’s just easier to let Half Price recycle them then to try it myself.

It is interesting looking at my collection. The further back I go the more destroyed the comics get. I really read the tar out of some of those poor comics. I have a lot of good memories attached to my collection.

Tomorrow I’m hoping to stop using cleaning as an excuse to avoid work and actually get some art work started. It could happen right?

Man, the Christmas drivers are out today with their helpful middle fingers extended for anyone that doesn’t want to drive at 20 mph. I’m not sure if it helps or hurts that my responses is “yeah, yeah, don’t care, get out of the way.” =D I should probably not tailgate but dude 20? Really?

Put up my “Circle of Cute” shirts at Blue Genie. Things are going really well over there so I keep putting in new art and products. I’m still behind on some of my stuff though. I need to get the pendants/pathtags out. I’d suggest if you want Christmas cards to get them now because I think I may sell out. I still have some for now but I’m watching them.

Looks like my parent’s computers are infected with some sort of spam/virus thing. We were just searching for maps of Mesopotamia and hit the wrong website. It didn’t help that I didn’t realize we were using Internet Exploder. =/ I got a packet sniffer for my Mac to see if they were still infected after we scanned them and yeah… they keep doing suspicious things. I took them off the internet after that. No idea what’s infected them. So far I’ve tried Ad-aware and Microsoft security essentials. Spybot search and destroy won’t install without connecting to the internet, which I’m not willing to do currently.

So that’s been fun. I’m writing this from my Mac which is pretty much laughing but my PC laptop got something I’m not sure how since none of the computers are connected. I don’t know. It’s been sucking.

Everything else has been okay. It’s really weird though, I mean life… in general. I’m not sure what to make of this year or how I feel about my art stuff. I’ve done more art this year then the last few years put together but I’ve also shifted my focus quite a lot. So I feel a bit adrift. Still change has been good in a lot of ways. Would like to do something with more story at some point. I really miss crafting a narrative.

Not sure, things have been weird.

I bought some awesome shoes last weekend. They look like shoes a witch would wear and they have a 3 inch heel. I have no idea how to walk in them but they are so cute. I’ve been wearing them on and off trying to break them or my foot in. One of the two has to give at some point. They make my right foot feel really weird after a little bit.

I should talk about New York Comic Con and the 2 weeks a hung around my friend’s place in New York but later. Now I’m going to make me some bright yellow soup. Nom nom. Soup.

So, one of the things I managed to fix, before I fixed the titles not showing up under the product images, was the links at the bottom of the page that showed more “new items” on my shop. They use to mess up and show only 4 items instead of 12 items if you clicked on page 2. Well, while searching around I found a fix for that and low and behold it worked! Oh yeah! Finally! Finally you could click in the numbers and get the right items showing out. Neat…

Then I spent 5 hours looking for the problem with the stupid titles and images and now that I FINALLY, FINALLY found a fix for that… the fucking links at the bottom are completely broken. Not only does it not show 4 items or 12 items it shows a big 404 fuck you aren’t you tired and frustrated. Yay, whee. Even resetting the code I just fixed isn’t fixing the problem.

You too can feel my pain by clicking this link and scrolling to the bottom to click on the number 2. Isn’t that fun? =[

http://www.ghostcircles.com/store/

To be honest I have no idea what could have broke them since the CSS I was messing with shouldn’t effect THAT CODING STUFF. But if I’ve learned anything it’s that the shortcode coding for this plug-in is made of tissue paper and cotton candy and never stays fixed and always stabs me right in the eye when it’s 6 AM and I stayed up all night fixing some other bullshit.

I am flying some birds right now.

I’m at the point where starting over is looking better and better.

I may or may not be having a hard time sleeping… my computer also may or may not be blue screen of death-ing on me. Neither of us can make up our mind and I’m blaming Window’s new update for the strange computer stuff.

My Schrodinger’s Cat shirt has done rather well at Woot. I’m currently hanging out in 10 place on their top 20 chart and selling fairly good. Nothing like some of the top sellers do but I did sell 3000 shirts the first day so I’m good. There’s this idea at Woot that some people are only in it for the money and I hate to tell people but we artists are an incredibly fragile and egotistical lot. We want people to want what we make. The money is good and all but having people buy and desire and talk about our stuff is also super important. Basically even getting paid won’t take the sting away from super low sales. Ouch.

In keeping with this talk of shirts I’ve just learned that shirt.woot will be running one of my shirts as an upcoming daily (that means sometime Monday-Thursday). No voting or derby required. One fine night at midnight a new design of mine will pop up on woot ready for purchase. Some of you guys may have seen the design at A-kon, I made it into my business cards. =D This was like um… number 6 of the designs I’ve been sending them so I’m happy I made one that they liked.

Okay now I’m tired. Sleep now for a bit then I have to get up and help put down the flat colors on some images for Mike.

YAY, the new paper I used for my bookmark test totally works and it bleeds to create that old fashioned effect that showed up on the green stripe cats. Pumps fist in the air.

I will scan it when it dries. HEH!

After a restart of my iMac computer, Illustrator is now behaving and when I hold down the space bar it gives me the blessed hand icon. YAY! Now I can make me some more twinkling stars.

I took a ton of old anime magazines, teen magazines and some old VHS tapes down to Half Price Books and got a whole 7.00 for them. I’m just happy to get more space in my room, which is still far, far, far from being clean. I don’t know what I’m going to do when I make it to my comic collection. >:[ I fear a lot of it may get cut down.

-Diana