Daily Life

Quick Survey!

Posted by Merrow on Apr 15, 2011 in Blog, Daily Life | 2 comments

As part of my “Action Research Project” in my school program I’m researching some of the buying habits of Anime and Manga fans. The below survey is one way I’m collecting information. It’s a quick, less than 10 questions, and very simple. Would you mind filling it out?

How I spent my day:

Posted by Merrow on Jan 13, 2011 in Blog, Craft, Daily Life | 0 comments

This isn’t completely accurate. I made a difficult phone call today, which since I pretty much hate the phone was a major accomplishment. The phone call was to the state of Massachusetts department of revenue. I’d forgotten to e-file my sales tax return for a couple of months and got a bill for an estimated $3,000. ACK! Since I haven’t done business in Massachusetts since April of last year, I was a bit puzzled. But when I called they said I just had to file my zero returns and “that bill will go away.” According to the nice operator I spoke to “That was just to get your attention.” It worked!

I also did manage to clean a bit more in my craft room (after I drew this), one of the two tables in there is now mostly cleared off and about half the floor. I really want to get it done so I can get all the craft stuff that’s downstairs up in the craft room where it belongs. Then I have to go back to my parents’ place and get all my other craft stuff out.

This all makes me really want to make something, because I keep finding supplies I forgot I had, but since my craft room is still a mess and I don’t want to work downstairs and mess it up again it’ll have to wait. (Once all my supplies are put away so I can’t see them, then I’ll be moaning that I don’t know what I want to doooooo.)

I also uploaded some of my drawings to DeviantArt. I’ve been trying to draw something every day, which is something I’ve tried before at and failed. This time I’m determined not to quit if I miss a few days here and there (which I’ve already done. =/) I also didn’t want to clutter up my journal with every doodle I do (as most are really just more bunnies in aviator glasses).  But if you’re interested you can go to my deviant art profile and take a look. Most of what I’ve drawn is under the scraps section.

I Feel So Accomplished!

Posted by Merrow on Jan 7, 2011 in Blog, Daily Drawing, Daily Life | 0 comments

My office has a floor! This is an amazing accomplishment, as the entire second floor has been a disaster since about August. The second floor houses my office and my studio/craft room and long hallway connecting them. Of course, I haven’t used the room or the hallway (or the stairs leading to them) for their original purpose for months. Unfortunately the upstairs gets really hot in summer, and even with air conditioning I couldn’t stand to be up there. So every time I had to make buttons or work on something I’d drag it down stairs and mess up my living room or kitchen, and then when I was done throw it upstairs as quickly as possible. Usually on the floor and not where it belonged.

And there it sat, with a million excuses why I couldn’t get it together. (Too busy! Too tired! Too hard!) But I’m finally making progress. I’ve got my floor cleaned up, and my computer desk is even mostly clear. I have compulsion to fill any flat space with as much clutter and paper as possible and my desk had become practically unusable. But I got rid of the trash and art supplies cluttering the desk and most of the paper.

The battle isn’t won yet. My filing cabinet has a ton of paper on top of it, but none in it. And the worktable/sewing table is covered with “stuff I didn’t know what to do with.” But much progress has been made, and I’m pretty happy. Two spots of chaos is pretty manageable. And since I found my box of hanging folders, I can actually start sorting paper and putting it into my filing cabinet instead of adding to the tower o’ paper. The table doesn’t have too much stuff on it, I shoudl be able to get at least half of it put away tomorrow.

The temptation is to start on the craft room or hallway now (and the stairwell, where I like to put stuff that belongs upstairs but I’m too lazy to go all the way up), since some of the stuff that’s on the table belongs in the craft room and a lot of the stuff in the hall does too. But I know if I don’t completely finish this room it’ll be months before I get back to it.

Besides cleaning, I also finished up a button commission, worked on my fanfiction, and even did two drawings today instead of just one!