WitTea

Hello everybody (aka all 2 of my active watchers ) Hope you survived 2017 and that 2018 gives back everything the last year took and then some! It was a rough year for me personally (and really everyone honestly) but we pushed through and here we are on the other side.

Alright, lets get down to business and roast myself. Here were my 2017 goals:

1) Become 'fluent' in Spanish. (Duolingo has me currently at 10%) - Hahahaha... I quit duolingo and I can speak messy spanglish but that's it. So... like... 1/4 a point.

2) Finish the whole bible. - Read about half... so another 1/4

3) Read 30-40 books, 3 a month minimum. - Yeah so I ended up working  40-50 hours a week and read maybe 8 books all year...

4) Plan/Save towards a trip to another country for 2018. - Lol. No.

5) Continue focusing on healthy eating/drinking enough water/etc. - Actually think I did ok on this? So 1 point to gryphindor.

6) Do lots of light/figure/tone/expression studies and speedpaints. Its level up art year. Do a 365 art a day. Ha.

7) Do work towards starting a webcomic (character sheets and such) - Haha.

8) Continue battling against depression/anxiety and get more stable. - Actually got kinda worse? But trying.

9) Be like Carrie Fisher. Compile all her awesome traits and absorb them. - I'll give myself 1/2 a point on this one.

10) Learn the Ukulele. - Roommate disliked the sound so I rarely practiced...

11) Do a resolution/trait a week 52 journal. - Ok so I actually filled out 38/52 weeks? So I'm gunna go a full point because my commitment sucks but I did this fairly consistently.

That's... 3/11. I mean could be worse.

Hopefully this year will go better. 2016 I managed to do really well, this past year just kinda whooped me and spit me out on the other side. So with no further adue, here's 20k18 goals:

1) Kick mental ilness's butt.
2) Do the 52 week savings challenge (save 1k minimum).
3) Take a Polaroid a week.
4) Keep memory journal for 30/52 weeks at least.
5) Re-open etsy shop.
6) Start a youtube channel.
7) Reach 500 Instagram followers (its @wanderingwittea *shameless plug).
8) Draw at least once a week/Draw my OC's more.
9) Read 15 books minimum.
10) Get my own apartment.
11) Plan and save for a 2019 international trip.
12) Join club(s), make friends, go out more.
13) Keep in touch with friends and family more.
14) Keep up self discovery, self care and growth.
15) Revise an old novel draft.

Nyeh I was gunna try to write 18 but I think this is already too many. Here's to 2018, share your goals if you have any and good luck!

WitTea

Hey peeps,

Wow its been pretty much 6 months of little to no activity. Where has the year gone

So update I guess, I've been living in California since November and moved here after a stalking/harassment issue went really bad in North Carolina. It was to the point where I had to flee and move out in less than a week for my safety and my roomate's and her brother's. It was a mess, I'm in therapy over it and it wasn't fun. But I'm safe, they're safe, so overall it's ok.

Here in Cali I got a good job. It can be stressful and have long hours (my day starts at 7am and can end anywhere between 5-10pm Monday-Friday so I'm rarely home and rarely have down time) but I learn lots and I like it. It's a technical hands on construction-esque job with lots of variability and different types of jobs so it can be really physical and I get covered in lots of dust and dirt but I find it pretty fun and enjoy learning on the job and it's good. It keeps me busy and is 80% of my inactivity.

The other 20% involves sleep, Overwatch and health problems. Mostly I just lurk on DA, read the Mias and Elle comic by StresedJenny, glance at cool people's art in my messages and then get off for several days in a row. I have been doodling a bit once a week and uploading that to my art tumblr (witteadraws.tumblr.com/). I don't know if or when I'll get back to bigger pieces but I'll try. I miss art, I miss you guys and I miss being creative.

If you're still around/active and read this feel free to comment with your own life update, any art pieces you want me to see (I got a lot of dA messages and things are buried), etc. I may comment back slowly but I love to hear from anyone and everyone and I miss being interactive with cool people on dA.

Love yall,
WitTea