Hello 2010 I am so glad you're here. 2009 flew by in a rain of horror, so gotta say I won't miss it. I am so ready to start this new decade. Of course what did I do at the very beginning of the new year and the new decade... I dropped a can on my toe and jacked it up just enough that my fiance put me under strict orders to stay off the foot and play video games. Now while that made me feel very loved, it was not the way I'd hoped to start this year.
   In an effort to clear myself of the old year and ring in the new year I am going to, off the top of my head come up with and fill out a little survey on the subject (I haven't seen any good ones run through the bulletins).
Here I go to interview myself about this:

2009:

What do you regret most about 2009?
That despite my best efforts and much improvement in this area that at the end of the year I would still say that stress both got the better of me in 2009 and consumed the majority of my time.

What was the best part of the year?
My fiance Chris, and our love, being there with me through thick and thin, giving me a reason to wake up and face each day...which I gotta say is so much nicer than just going through the motions feeling empty like what I had before he came along.

Where there any major changes? And what were they?
Two immediately come to mind: I lost my income and Chris got a promotion and was transferred - so we moved from the desert of El Centro, CA to the much much colder North Chicago, IL.

2010:

What do you you look forward to most in the new year?
Hopefully having a much better year in general, and doing lots more art and writing, and with some luck, hopefully becoming a mom.

What are some major goals or resolutions for the year?
Well what I look forward to are technically goals, but additionally I aim to be less consumed by the evil stress monster and to accomplish more things, oh and to try and take better care of myself etc. With some luck maybe I'll have a pen & tablet before the end of the year.

What are some art & writing plans for the year?
To bring Decadent Angels out of hiatus, to release lots of art, start releasing issues of one of my comic book series in the works. To be prolific in my output. And yes I do realize much of my plans hinge on us getting a new scanner soon.


I know there weren't many questions there but at least they were relevant.

Wishing everyone the best this year,
Aurey Sorrow

It is such sweet relief to have finished the house painting. I finished a week ago and the pain in my right hand (my drawing and writing hand without which I would be a brutal wreck) is finally subsiding enough for me to properly hope that no permanent damage has been done to it. It took about 3 weeks to get it all done but I'm sure I would have been better off had I been able to paint it in four or five instead, but my timeline didn't permit that. Which reminds me, I still get random pain from my left ankle which I jacked up at the end of July, which makes me wonder if it might have been more than just a sprain, damn thing will probably give me crap for the rest of my life, if I know my luck.
     Today after I've slept, I hope to toss myself in to an art and writing schedule. I should begin putting out new Decadent Angels installments soon, assuming the world doesn't blow up in my face. I'm leaning towards that being unlikely. I have already 4 more installments of Decadent Angels roughly plotted out. I'm bummed that my hiatus from writing it turned out to be far longer than I'd wanted. Especially since it has been expanding in my mind the entire time.
    Also on my plate within that schedule are: art commission work (if you'd like to commission some art please let me know), other stories I have in the works, designs for t-shirts posters stickers and more, and also I'll be starting work on some sequential art (comics, woohoo). Some of my art won't be able to be scanned in until we get a new scanner, but some new digital work should be done in the mean time.
    The other day my fiance took me to Gurnee Mills Mall for the first time. It's freaking huge. At any rate there was this one really great shop that had figurines, statues, collectibles, and other various decorative items, even katanas and knives. Aside from making me drool and desparate to own a katana, the shop also made me seriously want to draw more dragons. I've drawn a few that turned out pretty good, and though I haven't thought about it a lot lately I truly loved drawing them. So I should have me some dragons done up before too long as well.
     Off I go now, much to do.
~Aurey Sorrow

Last month my fiance and I moved to North Chicago, Illinois. The first month was tricky as I had the damnedest time with my sleeping schedule, for the life of me I could not get it to where I was awake days and asleep at nights. I'm no stranger to being nocturnal and have been most of my life but with Chris working days, days are the best time to accomplish stuff around the house, from the cleaning and meal prep to the art and writing.
   I gotta say already I wish that whatever jackhole named this little city would have come up with it's own name for it. You would not believe how freaking hard it is trying to explain to people, "no, no I'm not in Chicago I haven't even really been to Chicago except on the drive here when we moved, no seriously it's separte town a suburb kinda thing  north of Chicago, no it's not part of Chicago, oh for #@*%'s sake it has it's own freaking dot on a map several miles north of Chicago's border!!! Ya know what I'm done talking to you I have to go take preventative measures to keep my head from exploding..." My Gramma still don't believe me that it's a different city.
   The majority of this month I will be spending on painting the interior of our new house, which has three floors at 600 sq feet each including the basement. I will not even attempt to paint the basement. Since they only brought over white paint and said don't bother painting the baseboards which are a different color I'm going to assume the basement which has no white paint in there is not expected to be done. So only about 1200 sq. feet to paint. If I get it done before December hits we don't have to pay rent that month. I'd like to say we get to use that money for the purposes of awesomeness, but no tragically it'll have to be used to catch up on some random bill paying. Lame.
   I asked Chris how long he thinks we should be in this house, he said probably 5 years or more. I will refrain from doing retarded happy dances in light of that. The longest I have lived in one place consecutively was two and a half years, having only just broken the 2 year mark at our last address. I am severely sick of moving around.
   I had wanted to try my hand at NaNoWriMo this year. For those who don't know what that is, it's National Novel Writing Month, an annual event in which people try and hash out a 50,000 word novel in 30 days (the month of November). Of course the first week I forgot to write for it. And the rest of the month I have to paint the house. So there goes that plan. It's just as well I think I need to warm-up to that sort of thing anyhow, or just take a more relaxed approach to that. I need to avoid stress for the sake of my sanity. It's pretty crucial. Never take your sanity for granted people.

~ Aurey Sorrow
   

I meant to do a great deal of blogging and such this month but I have been excessively stressed out by all the evil financial stress horrors thrown my way this month, and it didn't help at all I twisted my ankle at the beginning of the month. That wretched ankle injury had me messed up for most of the month, I gotta say it is not easy staying off your ankle when you have lots of things to do. Oh and never walk around for nine plus hours on an injury like that, just don't, it's bad. I was semi-surprised to realize how much harder such a thing is to stay off of with out cable. I think the ankle is now much on the mend should be totally fine soon, so long as I don't spend more than a couple of hours on it at a time. Suppose I should ice it in the evenings, for now. Meanwhile I guess I'll have to settle for doing a bit more blogging and what nots in the end of the month. Eh, better than waiting til a new month comes.
         Stress continues to pile on with the end not yet in sight. But all I can do is try and focus on the good stuff, though that's tricky and my brain likes to be a damned disobedient rebel, I am genuinely trying to hang onto my mellow. Well that and seeking ways to decimate the stress monsters....muwhahahaha die, stress die!
        I'm still pretty floored by how fast this year is just flying by! It feels like 2009 barely started yet here we are and September comes in just a few days. Months some how feel so insanely short this year.
        I have an art commission right now that I'm very excited to be working on. It's coming along decently so far, and I hope to wind up doing more soon. If anyone is interested in asking about art commissions let me know, ask away. I so love working on art.
       Trying to organize my writing. What I'm finding now that I've lived in this place for 2 &1/2 whole years now (again longest I've ever lived in any one spot without moving), is that I seem to have started putting my specific notebooks back in different spots. I guess my spring cleaning endeavor has had some unintended side effects, like randomly deciding to plop notebooks down in stacks thinking I'll put them away later and then ending up hunting for specific ones before remembering to put them where they go. I truly must be my own worst enemy.
   And in case anyone wonders, yes, Decadent Angels is still on a bit of a hiatus, but I am not abandoning it, just sorting some stuffs out. So much to do and so little time. One of the things I'm sorting is what I want to put up in the Decadent Angels blog. In theory this hiatus should be over soon...unless something really bad happens.
   Oh and among the cruelest tidbits of this month? My scanner freaking keeled over on me. The traitorous fiend! That's disobedience of the highest order and I must find a way to expel the resulting rage. Has to be something specific and releasing to get it out of my system properly...though it probably would just come back again once squishified. Stupid crankiness. If the scanner were a competitor on Survivor they would kick it's lame ass offa the island. Oh right and the ink I got for it dried and died before being all used up, that is just...gooberful! Um yeah this printer/scanner is just begging me to obtain a hatchet to give it a special burial. Ah, there's nothing quite like expressing  my anger with my inanimate objects, as though the miserable fur-monger could have done anything to avoid pissing me off. Personification is too much fun. Really does take the edge off.
      I had best skedaddle now. Oooohhh did the use of skedaddle just date me? I don't think that word is used so much.... eh C'est la vie.
Skittles,
Aurey Sorrow

This video was on my profile for awhile. I like to change some of the videos on there out regularly but this one ended up being on there for months. so I thought I'd put it in here, as I continue spring cleaning my profile. I don't have much time to spend on this otherwise it would have been finished already.




Indestructible by Disturbed



Hope you enjoyed that as much as I do.

George W. Gremlin from Robot Chicken on Adult Swim



This video used to be on my profile.

This used to be on my profile. It was on there for about 4 years. Since I'm spring cleaning my profile this is moving to the blog. I re-wrote the answers myself and have been toying with the idea of starting some kind of Kindred of the Insanities project.

What creature of darkness are you?by romulus_lupin(originally, but the answers that came out were so not me so I completely rewrote the answers ~ Aurey Sorrow)
First of all, what is your name?
What would you LIKE to be called?
You were born:	October 13, in the year of creation, near a river
Your clan:	You were born to the clan of the Insanities, but they are indifferent to you, believing you to be unnatural.
Your mission for today:	To seek out the Circle K in the 12th level of Hell, to claim the cherry Icee of yumminess.
Do you get along with the other clan members?	No! They are plotting to steal your soul- they were told they could get fifty bucks for it on e-bay.
You are most known for:	Stubbing your toe so bad your foot swelled up about two days ago, it was seen as a mark of the devil by the neighboring clan, Elbow-flavored-Q-Tips, who then declared war on your clan, so yeah you started a war, but your not too upset about that cuz now you are officially sanctioned to kill.
You are a:	warrior goddess and sorceress. Other than your vast array of weaponry and magicks, you are also able to stop others dead in their tracks with really deep thoughts they become confused disoriented and are out of the way for days.
Quiz created with MemeGen!

Here are some images I found around the net that give a hint about my tastes. I found them when I first got my myspace about 4 years ago. I'm spring cleaning my profile and these will no longer be on there.


I just like them!

So I've gotten hooked on my Blogger account [ my Blogger profile ] and have started up a bunch of new blogs in there, very recently. That's the host where Decadent Angels is in the process of transferring to.

I've also recently discovered what fun making widgets is.

So I made a widget for one of those newer blogs. It's called Sorrow's Sagas.

Blog Description - All things Aurey Sorrow. I'm Aurey Sorrow, writer, artist, gamer, owner of Bent Realm Studios. I dream of creating a prolific body of work. Follow my journey as a creator.

What I'm doing with it - Basically it's a creative journal. I'll also put in creative writing exercises, art ideas and exercises, that sort of thing, it's a creativity blog and artist's journal.

Here's the feed widget for it (in theory)-

Sorry I've been on hiatus from writing Decadent Angels since the last post in January! I just had a lot going on in my life lately, had brutal stress and loss of income. Anyhow I have been very busy setting up all manner of things the past two weeks or so, just many things starting to come together in my head. One of those things is I have finally gotten used to my Blogger account, and figured out how best to use it. As such it has great potential to really help Decadent Angels grow, which will also help me put it out more regularly. So I created a blog there just for Decadent Angels, I will add the link to that {here} once I have transferred the full installments over there. The posts already made will be shortened to a lead in with a link to read more at the end of each. I'm as yet unsure of whether or not I will put future installment lead-ins here or not. I don't intend to abandon this blog, however. Simply re-tool it, and post more frequently. And to give Decadent Angels it's own space entirely.
One of the things I'll likely do here is put the My Current News feature that I used to post directly on my page. It was too tedious posting it directly there and once I got a blog for it, it and a widget that turned into something else entirely.
I am constantly looking all over the internet for resources to actual do the things I've wanted to do since high school, before the means to do them existed. Wish me luck.

Well I gotta go, my angry stomach beastie commands me,
Aurey Sorrow