Renilicious

Well... four years later...

Still alive.

Have no idea if people who used to follow me are still following me. But *wavey-wave* if you are.

Major life updatery...

Still working at the fishy job. Still love it most days.

Broke up with hubby, sold house, moved into my mum's place. It's a great feeling being a 38 year-old living at home again. :/

THERE IS NO INTERNET HERE.  It sucks.

I am having a hysterectomy in a little over a month, this both scares me and pisses me off at the same time as it was NEVER something I intended to do but because of the hellish little devices known as "Essure", I have to get the whole kit and kaboodle removed.

What else?  Oh... have new boyfriend. He's awesome.

I sort of lost my art mojo for a little while but colouring books have taken over.  It's fun.  I'm not the greatest but what I do is ok.

How are you?  Tell me what you're up to.

I miss the old DA stuff and trawling the depths of the galleries for pretty stock photography.

PS - have moved all of my stuff into storage until when/if I become regularly active here again.

I browse DA every day but I often forget to update my own journal.  Quell annoyance.

Anyway - a few factoids:

I got a job!  I've been working for the past 2.5 months and I LOVE it.  Not being paid nearly as much as I was in my old job (there's a $20,000 difference, yeesh) so getting used to budgeting again is interesting.  I don't care, I love it. The job is simple, structured and quick. The people I work with are psychotic by their own admission. It's fantastic. 

The only drawback is smelling like old fish.  It's at a seafood distributor in the next suburb from where I live. Worlds apart from my high-flying corporate job as a senior administrator in a superannuation fund in the city. NEVER have to take a train again. This makes me so. damned. happy. I am 25 minutes drive from my work and even less when it's school holidays and I don't have to worry about school traffic.

Anyway, aside from job things, I also won a pretty awesome competition!

Without... really... trying to. LOL  It still blows my mind.

For those of you who follow (aka Dean)  and his awesome website, surrealPSD , you would also know that he has a new learning system available called Art System Photoshop!

Dudes! And Dudettes!  This thing is worth every single cent I didn't have to pay for it.... because I won it.  I was going to buy it anyway but I won my access and OMG, the inspirationz!  If you're a serious 'manipper, get your arses over to the site, buy into it, INVEST IN YOUR SKILLS, and start learning.  Truly.  I'm practising but I can't wait to start putting up some new and improved stuff of my own.  I never thought to have an artistic career beyond my photography and photomanipulation is something I always did for shits and giggles but this system gives solid tools with which to build some serious skills.

Go buy.  Now. It's actually for sale on a massive discount.

I'll be right here.