Or... takin' a break!  Sort of.  I never really stop drawing, I just stop making finished paintings that I feel are worthy of my DA gallery. Sometimes it happens.  Ideas dry up and other things grab my interest. Jim and I bought a house in November '10 and got into DIY repair and home upgrading.  My new blog, leveluphouse.com, shows off some of our efforts.   We also took on a few side projects, like a new plush website and investigating some two-person-team game dev ideas to pursue in our free time.  We're also swamped with entertainment:  I'm hooked on Tiny Tower and reading A Dance With Dragons. And we're traveling!  I'll be in Illinois

In two weeks it'll be two years since Jim and I made the move to Washington state!  We still love it here, and commemorate this "occasion" we've bought a house!  I've been kind of quiet on DA for the last couple months as we filled out paperwork, gathered supplies for some up-front renovations, and packed up our apartment for the big move. Of course, Seattle's weather system had some other ideas and dumped a giant load of snow and ice on us. This city totally shuts down when there's snow!  It's still weird to me, being from Chicago where school NEVER gets canceled even if there's like two feet of snow on the ground.  It's starting to melt no