Moonstar-Legand

Happy new years, guys. c: <3
2011! I hope it's fun and exciting. 8D

I really don't do anything on dA anymore except for lurk, so.
I'LL BE SEEIN' YOU AROUND... LIKE A CREEP.

<3 laina

WELL. HI.

It's been, what, three months since my last journal update? |: derpderp.
lololol lifetime of changes since then and now.

THINGS TO START WITH, I GUESS:
- AX was wonderful and amazing and the Hanna fandom is wonderfully awesome. I made about 290182302983+ new friends from it and they're all wonderful people (you all know who you are ) and I got to meet Tessa Stone at the convention and she gave me stuff and I gave her stuff AND IT WAS FUN AND AWESOME AND YEAH.

- at NDK I cosplayed as Toni from Hanna (and that was it from what I remember |: ) and I had a pretty good time. It was enjoyable and I met some pretty cool people. c:

I've been having a lot of trouble keeping up with art and things (really, I haven't gotten the chance to honestly work on a personal piece in months now) mostly because of the fact that in August I was diagnosed with narcolepsy.

...HAHA, SURPRIIIISE.

Most of you know this already, and I'm pretty sure no one comes to my dA anymore except for the people I know |: So this is old news for the lot of you, but I figured I'd ~let the masses know~
Over the summer I got a sleep study done (basically they stick a bunch of wires on you and see how you sleep) and from it, it was determined that BOTH my brother and I have narcolepsy. It was pretty shocking, and surprising, but it answers all of that shit that happened during the 8th grade and it was nice to have a diagnoses.

HOWEVER, because I have narcolepsy we're obviously trying to treat it. There's no cure for narcolepsy, but there are several medications that can help decrease its effects on me. (For those of you who don't know, and I've found that there's a surprising amount of people who don't know what it is, narcolepsy is a sleeping disorder/disease/whatever.  Basically, I don't get enough REM sleep at night so my body randomly puts me to sleep during the day, so, yes, I randomly fall asleep during the day. No it doesn't happen automatically, no I don't have cataplexy, yes I know when I'm falling asleep it's easy to tell, yes I've fallen asleep standing up before, yes I've fallen asleep during class, yes it's a 'good excuse' to fall asleep during class but DESPITE IT BEING A "GOOD EXCUSE" IT STILL SUCKS, and no it doesn't always happen every day which is probably why you haven't seen me fall asleep before, if you haven't.)

ALL OF THAT ASIDE, NOW.
I've been trying new medications for my narcolepsy and it's been a fucking roller coaster, to say the least. It's really been unpleasant and I've missed almost three weeks of school now (I stayed home today, too) and the side effects of all these meds has really put me through the shitter. If I seem different to you lately, then it's PROBABLY BECAUSE OF ALL THIS. |: My mood has been up and down, so if I snap at you I'm really sorry.

I won't go in depth about any of the meds or side effects, but it's basically been screwing me over as we try to find the right dose/medicine/etc. Hopefully we get things sorted out soon. My mom has been discussing the possibility of changing my schedule (so I go every other day, or only go in the mornings or only go at night), but hopefully it doesn't get to that point and hopefully things sort themselves out before any of that has to happen.

SO, LIKE I SAID BEFORE.
It's been really hard for me to keep up doing art as of late. I'm going to try and get some photoshop-y things done today (going to draw some portraits of Ludo to give to them at their concert on the 9th! >8D), and if I get them done then I will def post them here. c: I HAD A POINT BUT I KIND OF LOST IT. I'm pretty scattered right now because I'm on a new-new med that we just tried today and it's definitely not working for me, pffff. It's got me all shaky and scatterbrained and whatnot, so it's a bit hard to concentrate >_>

TL;DR I HAVE NARCOLEPSY AND THE MEDS HAVE BEEN A BIT SCREWY SO I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DO A LOT OF ART.
I'll be back to my normal whatever soon, and POSTING ART WILL BE A GOOOO.

If you read all of this, I congratulate you. |: If you understood any of this, you deserve a prize. Really. ||:

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OH ALSO
This last weekend I went to National Portfolio Day at the local art college and it was pretty awesome. I got my "portfolio" looked at by Ringling, MICA, and RMCAD. The feedback was surprisingly more positive than I expected (well, my expectations were kind of: THIS IS HORRIBLE GO PUT IT THROUGH THE SHREDDER AND TRY AGAIN, but yanno. whatevs. |: ) and the critique I got was wonderful. There are lots of things on my list to start working on improving and I'm pretty excited. c:

I'd really love to get into concept art/illustration so I'm definitely going to start posting more things towards that... area of art, I suppose. BTW, NO MORE ANIME FOR ME;; I mean I guess the occasional anime thing, but really not a lot at all... i was going to say something but definitely forgot. okay. I'm done.

OH ALSO ALSO!
ALL OF YOU FOOLS ON TUMBLR, FOLLOW ME.
MY ENTIRE LIFE = TUMBLR NOW. IF YOU WANT ACTUAL UPDATES FROM ME, GO THERE. REALLY.
CLICK HERE, FUCKIN' DO IT.
I'm also starting an art blog SO FOLLOW THAT ONE TOO. I haven't actually DONE anything on it yet because, haha, no art time lately |;;; but ART WILL BE UP SOON, SO FOLLOW IT. AND STUFF. AND THINGS.
it's here, click it.

OKAY. THAT'S IT.

YOU DESERVE KUDOS IF YOU READ ALL OF THAT. AS I REPEAT MYSELF. AND STUFF. AND THINGS.

okay i'm going to go now.

BYE ILUALL.