Kittycara

So apparently my dad finally decided on what to do for his retirement finally.  His bike trip up to Oregon really reignited his passion to open a pub, and amazingly enough my mom found a possible place here in town.  I'd wondered if he was being serious, but he actually sat down with everyone while we were in DC and started working out a menu and everything.  More changes, but I think these are going to be positive.  Here's to hoping.

Edit: I had some IRL friends ask me and yes, I'm in charge of desserts.  Good luck to me.

Ok, so I said I'd update more, but BLARG.

I started looking for a job in January, and I was being pretty casual about because of home circumstances (my mom in school, me taking over most of the chores, me not having a car, ect.) but I thought I'd be ok.  I had one interview but I wasn't a good fit for a job.  Long story short, my birthday passed mid-March and I'd only had one other interview (which I though I'd nailed but the whole thing was unprofessional ANYWAYS) so I started scrambling for anything I could find.  I finally got an interview at Walmart for a cashier job, and somehow I made it!  Right now my schedule is all over the place, but I'm finally starting to get used to the schedule, so I'm just about back in action!

Unfortunately, my parents' vacation season is about to start, and due to my work schedule, I'll probably end up staying home most weekends.

But hey, I get to visit my sister next week in DC!  She having her last concert before switching to some new formatting thing.

Ahahaha, sorry for the sudden hiatus, but real life (mostly school) decided to hit hard and things needed my attention.  I'm mostly back, but this is going to be a long post, so skip to the bottom if you wish.

Long story short, I was supposed to finish school this summer, but the teacher of one of the classes decided to move his class farther up the schedule, and both classes in an 8-week period was too much, so I had to put off my last class until this semester, and it had to happen on campus which sucked since I can't get to school by car and it's a two-hour PT trip from where I live.  But I managed to survive, and I am officially done with school! (At least for now, since there's talk of expanding the culinary program.) 

I have both my AA and certificate, so I've started looking for a job.  Some writing things still need to be done, but the relatively consistent stuff (i.e. the resume) are finished, and I've taken a career workshop to practice things like interview.  Also, I found out I look a lot like my mom when I'm dressed up.  o.O

As far as art goes, I haven't had a lot of time to draw but I have some sketches.  I'm taking my comics and nuzlocke things more seriously, so I've created things like outline, scripts and thumbnails, so I'm hoping the quality goes up.

I fully intended to get right back into things as soon as school was done, but a couple of things happened.

First, my dad wanted me to set up a Quickbooks file for his business (one of my school classes) but he had no idea what he wanted and I've literally spent days working out what he wanted.  Then he thought maybe he didn't want to switch and I nearly kicked him HARD, but I convinced him not to let my hard work go to waste.

Second, almost as soon I was done with that, I discovered my laptop probably has a virus.  A little weird, since I'm careful and almost don't download anything, but I don't password protect my laptop and I had cousins over for all the holidays, so maybe something happened then.  I've decided to stay off my laptop as much as possible until someone looks at it, and truthfully it will probably need to be wiped.  Luckily I backed up and transferred a bunch of my work before everything happened, so no lost work this time, but I can't use any art programs or scan anything in until later.

EDIT: Oh, I'm borrowing my mom's laptop for this, by the way.

Also kind of a side note, I've created some Tumblr blogs and may be creating a LinkedIn and professional-type Facebook account sometime soon. (I know, most of you know my views on WastebookFacebook, but social media is the new business tool and I need practice/a way of getting my goods out there.)  Here's some like for those who want:

Kittycara's Sketches 'n' Shit (Main Blog, updates most often; contains sketches, reblogs and random stuff) 
Kittycara's Art and Stories (Currently nothing, will fix later,;will have profiles, full art pieces and page and chapter updates)
Kittycara's Baking and Recipe Blog (Nearly all recipes, pictures of step by step instructions [hopefully] and tags to help sort everything)

God, Holy Week is finally over.

So yeah, I've been trying to get my first BLIND nuzlocke page done, but I've been getting rather distracted.  I'm hoping that Livestreaming my work will help me keep on track, so feel free to drop on by (a possibly give some tips, I need all I can get).  The livestream will last only 30-45 minutes, assuming I can get my channel to work properly.  (I'm having a little bit of trouble.)

EDIT: Okay, I got the video to work, but all I can get is my camera to see me.  (I'll try and spare everybody.)  How do I put my computer screen on the stream?

www.livestream.com/kittycarasa…