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Vacations are exhausting

7/22/2022

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I got back from visiting family in Vancouver, British Columbia, under a week ago. Family visits are not so much vacation as eating lots of good food and returning to my old haunts while enduring stress. My dad, sister, and cousins live far away enough that I only visit but once a year. And every year, the schedule goes like this:
  1. spend the first couple of days gorging on dim sum while being lazy and getting over jet-lag
  2. do a few things things while trying not to be annoyed with my father
  3. at the one week mark, I wonder if the whole trip was worth it and vow I won't return next year
  4. spend the last few days trying to cram in everything we didn't get to do for the first 1.5 weeks
Rinse; repeat.
Anyway, I'm wiped from vacation and then wiped from trying to catch up this week, so I'll leave you with a resting squirrel (pretend it's me) and will be back next with with Vancouver photos. 
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Hope your July is going well!
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In like a badger; out like a viscacha

7/15/2022

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Forget being nibbled to death by ducks, right before I took off for vacation, I was feeling I was being badgered to death.
badger drawing
So, thank goodness I got to visit my family and friends in Vancouver. Hanging out with my sister/BFF and venting to her helped a lot...as did good food...and I'm feeling a lot more calm. Not quite the zen of this viscacha, but less like I want to rip someone a new one anyway.
viscacha drawing in watercolor
You ever have one of those months (years)? What did you do to not let your annoyance get the best of you?
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Things that make my life easier

7/8/2022

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Besides consolidating my social media life, other things that make my life easier are:
  • NOT volunteering for things.
  • Getting rid of stuff so I have less cleaning to do.
  • Putting certain necessary items on a subscription. Ever since I've signed up for Grove, I've not run out of toilet paper, dishwashing detergent and other things I don't enjoy shopping for. So handy to them delivered once a month (or whenever I set the schedule for). Click here if you want to give Grove a try.
  • A simplified wardrobe so I don't spend time thinking about what to wear.
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What about you? How do you go about making your life easier?
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My first ever graphic novel pitch

7/1/2022

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I've spent the past 16 weeks in the 20-week Kids Comics Intensive (the link is for you to find out more about the one coming next year). The first 10 weeks are on the craft of creating a graphic novel. We were promised that if we did the work, we'd come out of it with a fully fleshed idea and pitch, and, wow, did it deliver!

Taught by the very talented and approachable Rivkah LaFille, the craft section had me working harder than I've ever done on a project before (outside of school anyway). But in the end, it was worth it, and I'm quite happy with the idea I came up with, which is a science-themed easy reader graphic novel. 

Here is the opening page of the story for your viewing pleasure...
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I still have to edit my pitch some more but I'm hoping my agent will think it's a worthwhile project and send it out come September (because publishing has closed its doors for the summer siesta already). 
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Guess what's I'm hatching?

6/26/2022

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No, not eggs...though that might be better. 

It's a new blog! I'm going to wind down the WordPress blog so I can consolidate my blog with my website, keeping it all in the family, so to speak.

​It's a bit disappointing that I can't get RSS Feed to work here on Weebly though, so I can't beg you to follow me.
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