Bouncing Back 
dA Love
My body just doesn't like me very much. My latest bouncing act 
(lol I saw your chat there ^
) is just from my uncooperative body. As most of you know I have MS but ironically that hasn't been the major problem as of late. I had most of my large intestine taken out about a year and a half ago and after than was doing great, digestively speaking 
. But then, late last winter I started losing weight and losing my appetite. For a while, I ignored it as I am prone to do, but it got bad enough and I got so weak that I begrudgingly went to the doctor (I've seen waaay too many doctors to want to rush out and go see one for yet another problem. I'm a naughty patient) . Apparently I had been walking around with an infected gallbladder so that had to be taken out, too. I've wondered if the immune-suppressants caused that, but there's no way to really tell so I'm still taking them. Anyway, because of that I haven't been able to do much of anything for quite some time. Right now I weight 89 lbs. which is really gross. It's also hard to have much energy being so underweight but I'm hoping it will get better soon. That old saying "You can never be too rich or too thin" is a load of bullshit 
. Well, at least the thin part is. 
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I will do my best to reply to my heinously backlogged inbox/comments/favorites/watchers, but there's a lot there and I can't do too much at once yet so I apologize in advance if I don't (or haven't) answered anyone in a timely manner. I will try but I don't want anyone to think they went unappreciated.
. After all, there's a bright side to (almost) everything. (I'm not naïve enough to say EVERYTHING; I can think of things that there wouldn't be a bright side to. Not related to me, but in general) however, this definitely has some perks!
<-- proof
that was a lot of "so"s in one sentence. Sorry for the redundancy). Anyway, some of these may not seem like traditional art. Some look like photographs, manips, or digital work but this is all bona fide traditional art! But whether they look like what you expect traditional art to look like or whether you can't believe it's not digital, they are all amazing. Go out there and give these talented people some 
!
w00t Spook!)
PLEASE NOTE THE LINK BELOW 
Petition to get dA to add a seller's interface to allow us to sell originals similar to Etsy and eBay
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So Valentine's Day is looming around the corner and ,as with every other holiday, it is whatever you want it to be. It can be sweet and sentimental, it can be just another commercial holiday to jam down our throats so we feel compelled to spend more money, it can be nothing at all, or it could be something else entirely. But how we see a holiday will affect our response to it. I know, at least in this country and culture, that if you're single, Valentine's Day can be a bummer. Or if you're in a crappy relationship or if your significant other just isn't good at this sort of thing.
Whatever Valentine's Day is or isn't, it is supposed to be a day to show your love. It's kind of weird that we need some reminder for that sort of thing, but it sells a lot of flowers
. But here's the thing...where I think love is really lacking and a reminder holiday would be in order is for self-love. Now get your minds out of the gutter...Perverts! 
What I mean is that we are taught not to like ourselves very much. We should not be too proud of our accomplishments, to never say we're pretty or handsome, intelligent or talented. We can extol the virtues of everyone around us, and are encouraged to do so, but if we say a peep that is positive about ourselves, one is immediately labeled a "narcissist" or an "egotist". So, if you don't have plans (or even if you do), make this Valentine's Day a day to acknowledge the outstanding person YOU are. 
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Happily a member of:
and the fun project 
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OMG! I have finally caved and started collecting up stamps.
I have several other wip's of it and I wanted to post them all together into one submission...a sort of step-by-step thing, but when I try to put them together and type out descriptions of each (which I've seen some of you guys successfully do on here) the file is HUGE. If any of you could advise me on how to do that I would be most grateful.
