Productive days are the best days...

With my lungs trying to play their tricks on me again and the fact that I was running around like a headless chicken the last few days, I finally got around to doing some work for a change. I managed to mostly finish a project I was given just before Christmas by John from LABAS! Again, I can't really say a lot here and now, but I hope they like what I came up with for them. So there we go, another project a lot more complete and a few others that have yet to be started and even more UFP's (Un - Finished Projects) to go.

Where has the time gone, I wonder? Well theres been there madness of Christmas (which I gave myself off) and New Year. The fact that I rediscovered some old games that I used to play and they always made me laugh. Particularly the game "Abe's Odyssey". I used to play this as a kid and it was a kind of puzzler game where you had to work around puzzles and rescue the Mudoken's from becoming entree's. Its a logic game, but it is just insane, but I love it. Lets face it, anything that has me asking "hmm what does this lever do..." and as I pull the lever and something drops, I answered "ah, thats what...". How can that be a bad thing?

Tomorrow is shopping and other domestic tasks, paying bills and generally organizing the general stuff that needs doing, schedule a doctor's appointment for more meds and stuff like that. By the end of next week, I should have it all sorted. Although knowing the way it works sometimes, a spanner is never that far away from the works is it?

Loves
Wendy x

Taking the piss...

Lovely name for a blog, but right now there really is nothing more to say than my neighbor is really starting to take the piss. After a rather abrupt and rude awakening early this morning, Steve confronting him (not so much as a "Sorry" but a "I can do what I want") and me having to listen to this tripe all day long at horrific levels. It is safe to say we will be contacting the council and YMCA and we will make someone do something as this is really affecting my health adversely. Loud music = stress, lack of rest and ultimately my asthma will flare up and I will end up in hospital as a result of one person's selfishness. I don't expect him to live in silence, I just wish he would be a little more considerate towards those around him.

As you can imagine, my lungs are wreaking havoc and I have spent my day nebbing often, which has left me a little less than chuffed. Not to mention that I have to have a blood test tomorrow to see how my liver is as 2 of my regular meds can cause problems and diabetes. Fun... NOT!

On the plus I have been working on some ADIM concept art today and have been looking at Sephiroth as he grows up from a little kid to the homicidal nut-job that we all know and love. That has been fun, as it was interesting to see him at different ages and different stages of his career. The young boy in the Infantry uniform looks so cute! I promise to post these when I am done!

Loves ya
Wendy x 

I can't wait for you to shut me up...

Living with a lung disease can be very tiresome at times indeed, but I never was one to stop and do nothing because of it. Heck, I always believed in living my life and doing whatever I wanted in spite of my problems, more proof that, as a friend of mine says, Life is what you make it.

Today was a good day. A friend of mine introduced me to a guy called Josh. Josh is young, vibrant and has a fiery passion for music and the arts. Something I can relate to very well. He came with his guitar, amp, pedal and other equipment. We had a good guitar session, I even tried singing (although I confess, I am a little rusty as I haven't sung for quiet some time). It was great fun. Until about 3 when my lungs decided that they really REALLY didn't want to play anymore and they did, as asthmatic lungs do, begin to tighten and become wheezy and breathing became difficult and painful. It took me about 2 nebs again to calm it down and get things back under my control.

It left me tired and weak unfortunately, as those of us who live with asthma know it can. So I decided to recount my thoughts for today and how I was feeling about things. Interestingly it seemed like the right time to do this, as I had merged and coloured 2 separate pieces of work and making them in to one image. I'd never tried this before and it actually worked out well, the 2 images solo didn't fill the page, so the 2 put together made the picture complete.

I guess today's lesson is to push back when your body wants to rebel, its not a bad thing to challenge whatever is going on inside you, just as long as your sensible obviously.

Carpe Diem!

Wendy x

HEHE!

Sephiroth riding a chocobo.

This is something I did this weekend just because I was a little bored and wanted to work on my Final Fantasy sleeve. I looked all over the web for an image to go with one I found of Cloud on a chocobo. I wasn't sure what until I was thinking about it and thought "Hey, why not have Sephiroth on a black chocobo!" So I set out at once to find the perfect image, but couldn't find one exactly how I wanted it, so instead, I got my pencils out and drew my own.