Life Stuff 09/02/2018 (Patreon)

Some big-ish news, some boring news.  Big news is that Poid is coming to visit this week and we'll both have our birthdays together (hers is a few days after mine!).  (For those not in the know, Poid is my wife CassioBunny's long-time, long-distance girlfriend.  She lives in the UK.)  Excited about that!  And for my birthday too, birthdays are always a big deal for me.  Caaaaake.  And maybe balloons too!  Eeeee.

The other big news is that I officially hit a personal goal of losing 20 lbs!  I'm down to 230 lbs now, which is still pretty heavy, but much better than the 250 lbs I started at.  It's taken the better part of a year to get here, which feels like it went really slow, but my nutritionist has been telling me all along that I'm going at a very good and healthy pace, so I'm trying to be happy with what I've got.  I've been watching my calorie intake this whole time, and in the last month or so I've started exercising 5 days a week (a limited amount, as instructed by my pain doctor, but still).  These last few pounds have been a struggle, but then I suddenly lost them in one go, which seems to be how it goes whenever I hit a hump.

Boring stuff is that I did chores today.  Cleaned the cat box, took out the trash.  Showered too, which is still something I'm cautiously optimistic about - I spent years struggling to shower at all, but in the past two weeks I've showered more or less every other day (every third day, twice) and it seems to be going pretty well.  I'm learning how to trick myself into doing things I would normally have a hard time with, like chores and self-care, and things have improved massively since I've figured some of that out.

Maybe also big news, for the first time in a long time my commission waiting list is basically clear (there are two for my housemate, but she needs to figure out what she wants before I can do them for her, so they're on hold).  I'll have Patreon commissions to do in a few days here (provided people respond to my emails about it - glares at Garu and HP1741A) but I'm thinking of doing a growth drive this month with one of Cassio's femboi characters.  I haven't done one since the one I did with Cassio herself back in 2014, and that was really fun and I've wanted to do another pretty much ever since.  So, now that I have a clean slate (more or less) it seems like a good time to do one!

I'll also have a dakimakura for sale soon here, I'll be putting up an ad for pre-orders as soon as my printer gets everything set up.  So keep an eye out for that!

That was a long read!  Congrats on making it to the end. What are you guys up to right now?  Any plans this long weekend?  I know it's already Sunday, but today was my first day off (all Mondays are days off for me, so I get no bonuses, sob).  So tell me what you did and what you're going to do!