My header. Mine mine mine mine! 0.o o.0

I have spent the last three holiday seasons alone, so I'm used to 'celebrating' without a tree, lights, fancy dinner, etc. But this year takes the cake. It also takes said cake and eats it in front of a Jenny Craig.

First of all, some good things happened. Kerro finally moved in, like she's always wanted to. Good luck was coming back and I think Kerro and Nova finally started calming down around one another (they 'disagree' a lot) when something happened. Dennis, our landlord here, turned off our heat. He claims none of us had been paying utilities, which is a complete lie. I had given him $160 just a few days before to cover for the past few months' bills. Appearantly he didn't care about this act of human indecency, or the fact it is completely illegal. The weather was a chilly 30*F during the day and dropped to below 20*F at night. The fireplace here does not warm the house (its tiny). We had to leave the house to stay warm.

I am also suspect that he has lied to me in the past concerning how much money I owed. At most it was a little under $600, yet I have paid him well over a thousand in back rent and bills. Foolish me, I thought I could actually trust him since he is the father of my closest friend. I didn't keep records (I know this was a dumb move on my part - shoot me), and he took advantage of that.

At that point we all decided to get our own place here. I started looking at home loans, and was approved for quite a few. Plans changed a dozen times in as many minutes, but we finally settled on moving to Florida. My dad has a studio apartment we could rent until getting jobs and finding a bigger place. The job market (for tech, at least) in exploding only an hour from there. Nova has a car, and we could easily drive there once gas money was found.

Kerro panicked. Originally she didn't want to go because she "couldn't leave work". She had been promoted to shift manager at Wendy's, and was proud of that. I was, too. Then she started looking at apartments locally, despite the fact she knew Nova and I couldnt go. We took her in after a bad situation between her and a good friend, and she was leaving like that. Then she said she didn't feel safe in the house, and moved back home. To Minnesota. No thanks, no wishes of better luck, and she ran out on the cable, satellite, rent, utility and grocery bills. Once home she said she used the excuse of moving to "get away from Wendy's". That was a few days ago, and she hasn't been online or called since. I have no way to contact her. She's probably forgotton about that.

As a result, Nova and I have decided to split for a while. I am going down to Florida the day after Christmas via bus (what I wouldn't give for a sand steamer!) to find a job and a place to live. The average technical support position down there rakes in about $56,000/year. After a month or so Nova will follow, and everything will be grand.

No, I'm not a lesbian. I simply value her friendship, and wouldn't give it up for the world.

Dennis eventually turned the heat back on ocne I threatened to go to the housing commission and speak to one of their attorneys. A blizzard hit, yada yada. So, here I am, typing away in an empty house. My 'sister' abandoned me, Nova is spending time with her family, and its too late at night to call my family in Florida. They are all at parties or gatherings, anyway. *sigh*

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On a completely different note, I now have a computer that is capable of rendering anything I can throw at it. I am still doing a lot of sketching during free time, as well. So, I am opening myself up to requests. Nothing will be asked for in turn, I simply need ideas. If anyone wants a sketch or render, PM me the idea and I'll get to work on it.

Happy holidays.

Projects
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Skeeter: 10% Done - Superstructure Design
Desktop Mod: Done
Cross Punisher: 10% Done - Multi-trigger mechanism test, fingers bandaged - HOLD

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Models
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SEEDS Ship: 30% done - Wireframe, no renders - HOLD
Sand Steamer: 5% done - Starting over, model file lost
Heavy Artillery Vehicle: 0% done - starting over, model file lost
Sandworm: 0% done - starting over, model file lost
Trigun Weapons: 0% done - HOLD
Cowboy BeBop: Bounty Ship 'Vulture' - DONE
Dream - The Church: 90% - Finishing cathedral and texturing

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