So I finally moved out. I'm out of Chicago. All my stuff is gone, in storage, and I'm here in North Carolina with my parents and staying in the NEW guest house! This place is amazing. And to top it all off, my family and I went to the big art supply store over in Hickory, NC, and picked up aroudn 500 dollars worth of paints, canvases, pastels, oil pastels, watercolors, brushes, pencils, etc. You name it. The world is my oyster for art over here. Except one thing.... MY TABLET PEN IS STILL IN CHICAGO!

Granted, I was EXHAUSTED this morning... I only had 1 1/2 hours of sleep, and 3 hours of sleep the night before that, and a 2 hour nap the day before that, and god, I can't remember the last time I actually had a full night's sleep... It must have been 4 or 5 days ago. I've been running on empty lately because I've been packing so much, and my body is so sore.

This morning I woke up and was so groggy, I didn't even notice I left my toothbrush, some CDs, AND my tablet pen at my friend's apartment before I left. And he won't be able to ship it out to me for another 2 days! 2 DAYS till he can SHIP my pen! That means I'm not gonna get my tablet pen for a WEEK! I wanted to work on my doujinshi while here in the forests of North Carolina, and now that option's thrown out the window! ARGH. But I do have lots of traditional art stuffs. The world hasn't completely ended for me... but it sure is a bummer not having my tablet pen. I have TWO tablets here, and no pen... God they are such teases DDDDD:

That means no digital art for a week, that's all. And sorry, no doujinshi. I guess this is a good excuse to whip out the acrylics and have my way with a canvas or two while poorly attempting to paint nature. Believe it or not, I graduated art school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago without ever even ONCE.. not even ONCE taking a painting class XD;;; And I totally phail at watercolors. I miss my markers!!! I wish I had brought my markers, but I know I would never have had the room to bring them. but I miss them anyway ;___;

Okay time to think positive:

Even though I can't draw my doujinshi, and I'm unable to paintchat, I have to think back to my roots here... I didn't start off with a tablet. Very few of us here did. I can draw perfectly well without the digital pen... But I'm just so USED to it.... I'm so incredibly spoiled by it, too, and its "Undo" / "History" function. And layers. Yes. Layers.

I hope Josh mails my pen out in 2 days and doesn't forget. I may be able to hold out for a little while without it, but I'm going to start getting very antsy very fast about not having my most prized possession with me.

Woe is me DDD:

But this is NOT a pity journal. This is just me lamenting how I can't work on what I had originally planned to work on... But I still have a scanner here! It's not like I can't draw anything at all. Oi I'm such a kvecher D: ([link] for those who dont know Yiddish). I knew I should have packed an emergency (semi-broken) tablet pen spare for this trip, just in case. Now all I have is a touchpad. Not even a mouse. My paintchats sure would be interesting to behold in this state XD;

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