Saturday Update! (Patreon)

Good morning! Saturday is here! It's a dark morning with sloppy wet snow here, bleh!

I had a pretty productive week though! I just about hit quota on every workday, except Friday [ but I had to go for my pelvic ultrasound so I'm giving myself some slack on that one ]

We're now sitting at 981 Sprite images, 49 background images [ many of these are buttons or variants, not full new backgrounds- but there's still a lot of backgrounds ] And I've finished the placeholders for all of Day 2. I'm now moving into Night 2 [ the final night for this story ] with some jumping around here and there to other content to keep myself more entertained.

My health is better and more stable, though I still have some concerns. Mainly my diastolic blood pressure which remains quite high [ clocking in at around 85-90 usually ] despite my systolic now being quite controlled with the new medication [ 110-125 usually ]. I'll bring that up with my doc at my next appointment of course. Overall though, I am generally feeling better and free from the headaches that were plaguing me. The medication side effects seem to be pretty much entirely gone now too, which is great!

I'm putting in a serious effort to improve my lifestyle as well. I've started doing slightly more rigorous yoga for 30 mins instead of 20 [ I've started getting a bit more energy so this hasn't been too rough thankfully ], and I've been cooking all my dinners and watching my sodium.

My latest meal prep dinner: Breakfast burritos with potato shreds, eggs, lots of mushrooms, bell peppers, green onions, butter beans, salsa, and cheddar cheese.

I'm glad I'm all done the invasive tests for a while 😅 The nerve injury the last blood tech gave me lasted for like 6 days and it was REALLY PAINFUL 😂 But that seems to be over now too thank god.

I'm taking my iron, I'm taking my meds, sleeping well, eating well, exercising. I'm giving it my all!

Anyway, let's get into the previews:

[ Please don't repost my stuff to social media | Пожалуйста, не публикуйте мои работы в TikTok. ]

Willow Corner! Found a cute fake flower branch to keep until spring [ I like fake plants so much I put a bouquet in the apartment's lobby that I change each season LMAO the other residents seem to like it ]

OH I ALMOST FORGOT I also streamed for a bit on Sunday and did some extra art.

I drew this pic of my friend's characters for her birthday:

That's Damior on the left and Wisteria on the right. She's currently writing their story over at https://archiveofourown.org/works/91928591/chapters/244854391

And I also did another really quick colour test on a Lawrence sprite, just to see where my head's at now after drawing a lot of placeholders [ his design has been refined more by now ]

This is still not an official finished sprite of course, but it's probably closer to what they'll eventually look like.

Okay I think I remembered everything now 😂

Thank you all so much for your support! Take care and have a pleasant weekend!