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Yes, that's right, while I know I'm perfectly capable of procrastinating my devwatch and forgetting to respond to comments and notes quickly without any help, for the past half a year at least I've been having one loooooong ongoing battle with internet/deviantart.  I really don't know what's going on, except that DA support suggested that our internet provider is for some reason having difficulty connecting to their servers, but whatever the case may be I've just HAD IT!  Of course I'm not leaving DA or anything like that, and I haven't stopped checking, but every time I try to come here to check things I encounter a wide variety of not-loading-ness and at last become disgusted and just say 'forget it!'   I get so sick of reloading and reloading and reloading pages hoping to actually See something or be able to Do something, but most of the time it just sits there pretending to load for hours without doing anything at all.  It's like dealing with a stubborn toddler, impossible and it can't even tell you what its problem is.  And the issues happen in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox at every time of day or night, even when my computer isn't doing anything else but loading one single page.  Mark has been having trouble as well, though perhaps not as severe as mine.  I cannot tell you how infuriating it is sometimes, I just have to step away before I get the urge to throw the computer - I'm sure it's not it's fault (it better not be it's fault!)  I have had some issues with other pages being slow to load, or not loading right (amazon mostly) but not to the extent of DA which is constant, not just hit and miss like the other pages.  Sigh.... I'm just... I don't even know.... so yeah, I'm sorry for ignoring you on here.  

Just to share the joy I have uploaded to my scraps some examples of what I'm dealing with, Behold the Horror:

Wow it's been almost a year since I updated my journal... I just never know what to say
Finally I have something:
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! I'm sooo excited about getting a DD on the mushroom costume from last halloween!  Thank you so much to and

This month we are moving so I doubt we're going to be making any new costumes for halloween this year as everything is packed up at the moment, and then we have to decide where to set up our craft room, we may forgo having a livingroom and just use that space - we'll see.  On top of moving I seem to have either a cold or very bad allergies, ugh! ...so here I was sleeping all day on the couch amidst a sea of kleenex while everyone was leaving me nice comments - I'll try to get to them all tonight or tomorrow though! Thank you!!!  

To appease my costuming needs while not making anything at the moment I've been playing with outfits on PixieHollow, putting together and dying things.  I've done two fire themed ones, and now the cheshire cat and the caterpillar...perhaps I will put screenshots in my scraps.  

I'm hoping to do some kind of feature journal soon, but I always take so long to narrow down what I pick out....which is part of why I haven't actually updated this all year, heh.

This is my battle cry of the month!  so pepare for an onslaught I am going through things on my computer and I have an overwhelming ammount of photos that I'd like to post and never got around to, and I'm determined to do it now.  So I'm just going to keep on hitting that "Submit Art" button and uploading one after the other without worrying about order, or lots of commentary on each one.  Sorry to flood my watcher's notices....

oh, and happy holiday season!   I just love this time of year!  I love the feeling of expecancy in the air, and having warm cinamon-y treats after coming in out of the cold.

----EDIT----
Whooo! 171 photos in 10 days, lol I told you to watch out, hehe.  I feel like it's nanowrimo for DA postings. Anyways, I'm not done slinging pictures at you yet!  I've been trying out the new Sta.sh feature which is pretty cool - great for organizing my line up of what to post next, and I love how fast they upload.  Also, thought I should mention that most of what I'm posting now is from 2007-2010, and the autumn pictures are almost all from 2009.  I'm trying to get caught up with all these before getting around to sorting out and posting the new stuff I've taken since I got my new camera last Christmas.

-----EDIT 2------

1001 deviations submitted in 1 month!

and an arabian night picture, just because....

soooo......it's been almost half a year since I updated my journal but I don't really have much to say and because of that I'm apt to ramble far too much, so I've just put it off.  I'd like to do a feature or something interesting here, but I'm getting sick and I'm tired so, for now this is it.  Blah.  new journal.  


p.s.  I did have a great time with our halloween costmes this year and I'm glad I finally got them posted!