It's been a while since I uploaded anything, and while I'm aware my meager offering pales in comparison to some people's regular art dumps, some of these pics date back a couple of years and I just forgot to add them >w<

but I'm mostly caught up now at least!

(If I have art from/with you and I forgot to upload it still note me so I can get it added! D: )

This here lovely artist is celebrating their milestone in watchers with a raffle! Come check them out for some great art, and maybe enter too if you like it enough :3

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/9160122/

So today it finally happened, my dog has been with me for 16 of my 26 years, but today it was his time to go. Even as I got ready to take him to the vet he knew what was coming, I feel like he had accepted it before even I knew but after some talks with the vet it was decided that it would be better he be allowed a long sleep rather than potentially suffer as we tried to fix him... Black Labradors are only supposed to live for 12-14 years, so for him to make it to 16 means I can at least feel that I did right by him until the end, often going hungry myself just to make sure he didn't...

I sat with him right to the end, he didn't seem afraid and he let it all happen peacefully, but it still broke my heart to see his breath stop. But he's at peace now, not suffering, and I'm glad for that. It's left me devastated however, I've lost many things over the years, all my grandparents, great aunts and uncles, and now my closest companion of more than half my lifetime. I'm not sure how much more loss I can take and yet I must go on, not that I even know how anymore.

It seems I've leveled up again, level 26! So I guess for today I should ignore all my problems with money and a lack of a job and just try have fun instead? x3

Really though, another journey around the sun for me and I've met lots of new, awesome people and made good friends, so hopefully this means that by next year I'll know even MORE!

A good friend of mine's computer just went bust, which means he can't finish work he owes people and needs help, full details are in his own journal here.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8784611/

If you can help him please do so, even just spreading the word is enough!

Where are all you people coming from? Get out of my house!

200 people that like my Te Kaha or one of my other OC's enough to watch me, it certainly means a lot! Some people do raffles and such for this kind of thing but I'm currently out of a job so I can't really spare the money to do that! BUT I appreciate the small following I seem to have at least <3

And I have other commissions underway from when I still had a job so I'll be posting more sharky goodness soon no doubt!

So because the list of things screwing me over my laptop is now breathing it's last breaths too. It completely died yesterday but I've managed to revive it and it's now barely clinging to life. Making some pretty unhealthy sounds and glitching and lagging out frequently. I could get it down to a repair place but with everything that's been wrong with this thing even before now, I feel the amount needed to fix it will far outweigh it's actual value.

Which means I need a new laptop...

But I can't afford a new laptop. I don't make enough money to really do that, and usually trying to save up money ends in me losing that all again when something else decides to screw me over. I have a lot of stuff on here that I don't want to lose, and although I'm in the process of getting as much off as I can, I have no idea when this thing will just shut off for good.

So this all sucks, and I have no idea what to do. I can't get a new laptop, neither can I afford to repair this one x.x

Sorry for the whiney journal, but it's got me a little upset and down because it's something I have no solution for, and everything just seems to be piling up this year...

If you want a chance to get a piece of lovely art for free, as well as finding another talented creator to follow, then do I have the link for you!

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8595484/

Go ahead and give this artist a watch to see more great stuff, and if you want to, enter their raffle too for a chance to get a free piece from them.

I'm a very unobservant shark when I want to be apparently! I never thought I'd have 100 watchers and yet I noticed today I have 112! A big thank you to everyone who likes the things I upload, and a big thanks to the lovely arrists that make them for me! <3

I... Don't know what more to add, I'm not an artist myself so I can't offer giveaways or anything x3 but you're all amazing people anyway ^^

Yeah it's pretty early I know! Still 11 and a half hours for me and longer still for some of you. But I might still be working at midnight so I might not be able to write up a message then. x.x

2017 for me was pretty okay mostly, some ups, some downs until the end of the year when I feel like I got hit by a nuclear bomb. The start of 2018 is uncertain and going to be rough, I can't not worry about it and it's making a mess of me.

But!

I'm cautiously optimistic that after a rough start things will level out again and 2018 will be another okay year as a whole. Most importantly I hope that the next year is good for all of you too! <3

As you might have read in my previous journal, Christmas just kinda went to hell for me this year. But... Well it still wasn't as happy as I had hoped, but the support I got from my friends certainly went a long way towards making it not so bad. To all of you who supported me I thank you, it might only have been kind words, or simply being around to listen to me when I was down, but it all made a difference. And for that I'm grateful! <3

Thank you all, and I hope you all have a good Christmas!

So... My Christmas this year was looking pretty okay... And then on Wednesday my shift manager got fired on a technicality for something that wasn't really his fault. He was pretty well liked by all of us on the night crew so it was a pretty big hit to our morale. Getting fired right before Christmas, I feel bad for him, it knocked my mood down a bit but I can only imagine what it must be like for him.

Then I get told I have to work Christmas Eve, which is my brother's birthday. It's not usually so bad but this time, no they want me to work during the day. For the reasoning that I get more time to spend with my family in the evening for once... Yeah so now I don't get to see my brother on his birthday because I'll be at work, and around the time I'll get home from work is when he will then have to go to work instead, so... Thanks for that, great job giving me more time to spend with my family, I just miss my brother's birthday instead. So that's another hit to my mood... I mean, you might think 'hey at least you'll get to see him on Christmas Day! ...No, I won't. He works at a bar/restaurant and because some people are selfish assholes they book that place on Christmas day to eat there, so people like my brother have to go to work serving those people instead of being able to spend Christmas with his family...

So then I get my hours cut at work, so my pay is going to be terrible next payday and I'm going to struggle throughout that month so... That's a nice start to the year waiting for me.

But wait! There's more! I was given a letter today when I got to work, written by my store manager... In January my hours are getting changed, effectively I'll no longer be night crew, we'll have to work from 4pm to 10pm. Now that probably doesn't sound so bad, but there's a reason I work nights, I have other obligations during the daytime that I need to attend so... I can't do those shifts I literally cannot manage that, so effectively as of January I'm out of a job!

Also today, I found out that a close friend of mine is going to be leaving for a while, possibly a few months, possibly up to a year, alone something like that wouldn't be so bad to find out, maybe a little upsetting... But instead this was the straw that broke the Camel's back. Everything seems to have just crashed down on me all at once and I honestly don't know how to handle this all, or overcome it. I feel like I've just had a tonne of bricks dropped on me and i don't know if I can even get back up...

Sorry for such a long post, I understand if some, or most of you just skip through this I just needed to write it all down, seems like a happy Christmas isn't for me this year, but I hope that the rest of you at least have some sort of enjoyable time...

Okay so it's not really that extraordinary, or a particularly great milestone... But I feel a little immature so... 69... Heheheh.
I couldn't resist dun judge me >w<

As always people who like this sharky enough to watch me are always appreciated and loved! Maybe one day I'll reach an actual milestone instead of just being a silly fishy :3

Hey everyone, this was brought to my attention and I thought I'd share it along too, to try help this artist. Please take the time to look at the following link, and help them out if you can. They aren't asking for much from us, but it will help them immensely in return.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/25425670/

So I'd built up a few pics of Te Kaha over time, from commissions or gifts from friends and realised these were all over the place! Then the gears clicked and the realisation dawned on me... FA has this thing where I can upload pictures to my profile... And they'd all be in one, easily accessible place? SORCERY!

So yeah, I kinda did that, so now there's lots of Kaha in one place for easy access, and for others to enjoy too! ^^

Why did this need to be a journal? No idea... But it is so, yey? xP

Now this was brought to my attention, and it's not something I see often so I thought I'd give more people a chance to get in on the offer, as well as get such a generous artist some recognition! But they are offering free pics for people, so if you want a chance to get a little something check em out!

https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/8411203/