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Switching Accounts New account name in here

Thu Oct 2, 2008, 11:01 AM

Mood: Artistic
Listening to: Shake it up
Reading: Some manga Alex let me borrow
Watching: School Days for the second time through
Playing: Castle Crashers

NEW ACCOUNT:
~PiggyNukka

All updates will be there, as you can see I'm slowly deleting my gallery, friends, and favorites. Please continue to watch me on my new account if you want to see more from me.

I'm thinking about doing it really soon.

For what reasons?

Well for one I'm kind of done and out of drawing really anime looking things. It's always going to be my roots but now that I'm in college I've realized that I can't just stick drawing giant eyed, deformed people. I would rather not have everyone associate my art with that and with all the old things I have on here and my username it's self being the title of one of my favorite anime it's time for a change.

I've also grown up a lot since I made this account forever ago. My subjects and such have done a total 180 and even though it is nice to look at all of my old art, I need to drop that stuff and continue on with my new life.

Another big reason is I have a lot of people watching me and a lot of pageviews. Which I only consider that as a bad thing because 1. Most of the people on my friends list don't even look at my art let alone go on their accounts anymore 2. I unfortuently got some of those people watching me in the early years of me being on dA thinking that "Hey the more people that watch me makes me more popular. and 3. It goes kinda of the same for pageviews. As I said earlier, I've grown up a lot, I want people to watch my art because they like what it is for and not because it was a trade of favorites or watches.

I'll be posting on a new account hopefully by the weekend after this. I will not be bringing any of my old art over and that is where all my new art will be posted (well that and my livejournal) I'm going to continue to watch my close friends and my favorite artists but that is about it. If you enjoy my art that by all means please continue to watch me on my new account which I plan to update more then this. It's going to take me a bit to sift through my friends and such but I will post a journal with my new account as soon as I get it up.

Thanks for all the support I've gotten thus far in my art and I hope that having this new start will push me further to becoming a better artist.

~Nikki

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So many things to do.

Thu Sep 4, 2008, 11:39 PM

Mood: Artistic
Listening to: Shake it up
Reading: Some manga Alex let me borrow
Watching: School Days for the second time through
Playing: Castle Crashers

Who knew that life on your own could be so busy! It's been awhile since I last blogged so I think I'll just split this one up into categories.

Portland and Moving: I'm really loving it here! The weather here is so nice and I love how there's always something for me to do if I want to. With all that said I still miss Redmond and all the silly little things that go along with it. I guess Redmond will always feel like my real home until I settle down some where for permanent.
Housing is...ok I guess. Two of my room mates are really easy to get along with and I love spending time with them. Totally people I would befriend in other situations. But the last one, that's a different story. She's really messy and gets on my nerves a lot and I can't stand being in a pig sty. We've got a meeting because our apartment was too messy because of her so I'm hoping it all gets sorted out soon.
College: Is so much fun! Though I do kind of wish it were next term already. I'm taking so many interesting sounding classes like Drawing and 3-D Modeling. I think I'm going to do pretty well this term though. I've gotten an A on my first paper and been keeping up on my work so it should all ride smoothly.
Love Life: I've never been happier dating someone in my whole life. I love Kyle and that's that.
The start and continuation of my busy month: Some of you have heard of everything I've had planned from end of August to late September but let me give you a short run down...
*Salem Trip #1- Went to visit Kyle for about 4 days to finish up his cosplay costume and also just for the hell of it. I got to participate in Eddies LAN too which was fun. I'm slowly getting better at Team Fortress 2 and as much of it as we played that night, I think I'm doing pretty well.
*Kumoricon- Was this last weekend. It wasn't the best con I've been too but I still had a lot of fun. My Legretta cosplay went downhill pretty fast from putting it off but I still had Miria and Bridget!
Cosplaying with Kyle for the first time was pretty hilarious and exciting. I'm guessing this is partially because we act like the god damn characters but whatever. Joshy joined in Baccano! cosplaying with us as well and I made a new friend Torei through it. We didn't have a lot of people recognize us but the people who did freaked out and the aftermath of posting pictures got us nothing but good responses. I'm defiantly going to be wearing it again.
The highlight of con was being with my two favorite guys in the world, Kyle and Josh, and laughing at anything and everything I possibly could. I left con with only 3 spoils: Robot volume 1 and two Range Murata gashapons.
*Salem Trip #2 and Renfaire- This all will be going on the weekend after this. I'll be visiting Kyle for a bit and hitting up my first Renfaire ever, dressing up included.
*Redmond Visit!!!- Immediately after my last final I'll be headed out to Redmond for a week of family and friends. I'll be getting there on September 17th and leaving in the early morning on the 25th. If you want to hang out while I'm down don't hesitate to contact me one way or another. And right from there I'm headed to...
*Salem Trip #3 and GOD DAMN BEACH TRIP- Straight to Salem and then leaving the next day for a weekend at the coast in a beach house with Kyle and friends. I'm so excited, I want to go to the tide pools and aquarium and play in the sand!!

All the time between that? Trying to draw, working on finals, getting cosplays set up, managing my life and all that jazz. Hopefully I'll start updating a bit more so I don't have to jam pack it all into one journal.

I'm praying that I won't die with everything going but since this is basically my summer, I might as well go all out.

Here's to all of you and I hope everyone is doing well.

~Nikki

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Better updates on my art?

Sun Jul 27, 2008, 2:13 PM

Mood: Neutral
Listening to: Rebels of the Sacred Heart- Flogging Molly
Reading: Snow Crash
Watching: Soul Eater
Playing: Dead Rising

I made a livejournal account for a sketch blog.

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Why not on dA? Well I feel bad about posting lots of shitty sketches. I'll probably combine all the sketched I do eventually and post it as a whole. Completed projects will still be going on dA first and foremost. Hopefully this journal will help me get into the swing of things and complete more stuff.

If you have livejournal watch it so I can get more motivated.

~Nikki

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The New Life

Thu Jul 24, 2008, 4:21 PM

Mood: Wow!
Listening to: What's Golden- Jurassic 5
Reading: Snow Crash
Playing: Dead Rising

Man guys sorry about the wait for this if any of you were looking forward to reading a blog about Po-town. We really don't have internet and we're taking it from somewhere else and it goes in and out all the time.

But I made it to Portland and college! Living away from home is hard. I find myself talking more and more about Redmond the longer I've been here. I miss it a lot, even the stupid little things I hated about it. But most of all I miss my family and friends. I love you guys so much!

Anyways, I'm living in a nice little apartment with 3 other girls right now. I like them all a lot, especially my room mate. She's pretty quiet but we like a lot of the same things and we don't annoy each other ::{or at least she doesn't annoy me at all}:: so that's good. School is awesome too! I'm only taking two classes right now but I like it a lot. Classes are small so it isn't packed full of people like high school was. My photoshop class is super sweet and fun and we always get awesome projects. Freshman seminar....not so much. I kinda hate it but at least I'll have it out of the way for late. I just got a job today too. I'll be working at the school for the VA, aka no taxes taken out of my paycheck.

Besides that just catching up with friends in the Portland area. I went up to Salem last weekend to hang out with Kyle. It was super fun and I loved spending so much time with him. We hung out and watched videos, played boardgames with Miles, went and saw Hellboy II and a whole bunch of other good stuff. His mom also gave me her bike so I could ride it around in Portland. Unfortunately I already had an accident. I was riding down the street and the wheels of my bike got caught in the street car tracks and threw me off. I have slight roadrash on my arm but my legs got it the worst. I have lumps and bruises all over them and it hurts to walk. Hopefully things will ease off a bit soon so I can go riding again.

For DevArt news I really friggin' want to update this for once. I'm totally different then when I started going on dA. I deleted my journal layout, I'm going to update my id, start sketching again, update all my info, ect.

My plans for the rest of the summer? School. work, Kumoricon, Ren-faire, so much stuff I can do. I want to come visit Redmond before fall term starts up so I have that planned in as well. This weekend my Mom and Sis are coming for a visit and the weekend after that Kyle, my room mates and I are all going to go to Flugtag. Yay watching stupid people fly things off a pier for free! Anyways I should get some cleaning done. I hope everyone is having a great summer and I love you all. Don't be a stranger either! Send me e-mails. messages, or im's whenever and I'll answer them. I want to try to keep in contact with everyone.

So I haven't died yet guys. Believe in me!

~Nikki

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The start of something new

Journal Entry: Thu Jun 5, 2008, 7:59 AM

Mood: Neutral
Listening to: Red Red Wine- Bob Marley
Reading: World War Z
Watching: Kanokon
Playing: The World Ends With You
Drinking: Milk

Goodness gracious! Did you know that I'm completely and totally done with high school? It's so exciting and a load of weight off my shoulders. While it's totally awesome and I'm excited to be done I'm pretty sad at the same time. I don't know what it's going to be like without my friends in all my classes and roaming the hallways. I'm really going to miss that. At least I'm going to try my damnedest to try and keep in contact with everyone that I care about though.

On a second note it seems that at the end of High School you figure out who your true friends are and who maybe wasn't your friend through out it. Out of all of my friends I want to thank Josh for being there for me whenever I needed it. He's my best friend for many reasons and I'm glad that we have gotten so close. I thank everybody else to for chilling with me, helping me, and being downright goofy too. Sadly enough it hard to think that people you care about will go behind you and say things, and others hurt the ones they care about. It's not cool. I've seen it in so many people this last month of school and I've been lied to, stabbed in the back and humiliated by people. What's even more sad is that I want to make amends with the people that do this to me. I must be crazy or something but I just hate conflict XD I've already fixed things with a few people and I can only hope things will get better with the rest of them.

Going on with complaining, another thing I've learned through high school is that some people never grow up. I don't mean in that way where they just want to chill and party all the time because that's exactly what I do but to know when they need to act adult about a situation. I find that most of the people I know finally caught on to this, hell it took me a long time to figure it out myself, but others just try to keep themselves suck in the drama of primary school. If something happens a year ago you need to get over it and man up and not act like a jealous little kid, going around spreading rumors about other people. If anyones heard anything out of the ordinary that sounds like something I've never done then it's probably not true, if you have any questions about it though feel free to ask! I have nothing to hide. It's just nice to know that I'm not a loser who can only make themselves feel better by making hateful lies about others and spreading them around.

At least I'm getting the stuff done in my life that I want to get done~ On July 7th I'm finally moving to Portland and starting college on the 14th. I'm super excited to finally move to the big city. I'm going to be taking two classes, two days a week each about three hours. Part time school will help me get used to college life and give me time so I can still work, learn about Portland, and hang out with my friends. I think I'm going to be fine living away from home, I've learned a lot this year and anything I haven't I'm sure I'll pick up on my own. If not then I'm just glad I have a lot of friends in the up-towns that will help me if I need it.

My plans for the rest of the summer now? Well graduation is on Friday which I'm super excited about. The weekend after I'm getting my wisdom teeth pulled which I'm freaking out about and besides that those are the only plans I really have. I plan to spend my free time when I'm not working or getting my stuff packed up to go and move to draw, play videogames, watch anime, do all the cool outside stuff Central Oregon has to offer if it ever decides to get warm, and to get as much time in with my Redmond friends as I possibly can. If anyone wants to hang out before I leave to hesitate to leave me a message or give me a call. If not then you might just hear from me anyways.

I hope everyone else has awesome plans for the summer and you'll probably see a couple more blogs from me before I move.

~Nikki

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