Jolly's posts

I wanna talk about this game here to distract myself from buying it yet
waiting for some bills to pass
Any of you heard of it? :D Just came out last week. I hear good feedbacks from it but I'm still curious if its something that'll like... entertain me for a couple hours and then never touch it again. Or if I'll step into it and then emerge again in 3 months cause its gooooooood
Like what stardew was like for me.

There are some art directions with this that are a bit odd to me, like I'm not sure I particularly like the style of the cover art and feel like it clashes with what the pixel sprites look like. A little jarring I guess, but thats just personal preference O:

Other than that I mean... I wonder how much depth the game has! Looks pretty sweet

My job is already under staffed. We have 2 women on maternity leave (one week apart from each other xD ), one of them is highly unlikely to ever come back. The other one visits us often and communicates a lot so I know she's coming back, but not yet cause her husband also deployed rn.

So there's been 4 of us. Store manager, asst manager, me and this dude who just quit on the spot yesterday.
So now there's 3 of us. I'm not in a key holding position so that means one of the 2 managers needs to be there open and close. We all normally work open-close shifts anyways, myself included. Just normal practice cause we're on commission. But now there's more pressure cause we lose days off, and normally we would get 1 half-day shift and 1 short (but not half) shift every week, with 2 days off. Now we lose all short/half days D: and one week we lose days off too

Its not too terrible, 45 hour weeks (and a 50 hour one coming up, cause one of the managers is required to go on a business related trip for a week so we'll be down to 1 keyholder and me sdjhfgsdj)
BUT IT STILL SUCKS

LAWD GIVE ME STRENGTH until that maternity leave ends and we get another set of hands back in!
and big ass sales to put more funds in my pocket over this >:0
thats almost a given though

Oh so precious <33

@merynia:
Thanks!! SHe's doing a lot better now :D
She's been super happy, but that also means she's been extremely crazy and hyper too lmao I love her to bits

@totalanimefan:
Yeah hopefully! I get overwhelmed pretty easily lately so we'll see where I'm at by then :D
Things are gradually getting better and more stable (sort of--I did just end up with extra hours at work starting yesterday when a coworker walked out on the job sdkjfh) so I feel like I'm able to relax a bit more and draw things properly <3

Last week I managed to finish two arts in one day and I was like daaaaaaaang I'm comin back XD

@ruby:
Ah, yeah that makes sense! It can be a lot of pressure, especially when you talk to the community sometimes. Its meant to be a lowkey art gifting game where you aren't obligated to draw anything, but some do put a lot of pressure to draw back or "revenge" and stuff so >> I get intimidated sometimes too.
tbh this year's season was kinda lame compared to normal. I think life has everyone so stressed as a default, that everyone got massive burnout very quickly from drawing o:

OH MY
I NEED GHOST

@totalanimefan:
i have 53 cause i forgot to come back :,,,,,,D
200 work hours later here i am again, recalling my desire for these sunflowers lmaoo

@kda drew:
well now that you say that, I wanna see the other attempts xD
but i love how it turned out ♡♡ we're always learning and improving as artists

@sunny:
That sounds really cool <33 how does it work with the writing? Are you given a prompt or something? O:

@totalanimefan:
Thank you! Yeah I think I've heard about that one before, but hadn't joined it.
Could be fun if its active this winter <3

@ruby:
Thank you <3
Do you by chance go on artfight? (I feel like I've asked before, but I've been gone so long i forget!) thats a big exchange concept that doesnt matter what drawing level you feel you're at--everyone is accepted! It's so much fun to use as a motivation for practice ;v; or in my case, to shake off rust when I dont draw enough.

and yeah I MIGHT end up with one more move. I have an audit style interview with a regional manager to be promoted at my job. If she chooses me over the other 2 candidates, that means I'd be moving to san antonio :> only 2 hours away.

@jessamine:
Traditional art is so satisfying imo <3 its how I started and spent half of my artsy career XD
I didn't go digital until after I was already 20.

@vixen:
Its a ton of fun and the mods are very sweet <3
they take a break for winter this year so if you did join it, you'd still be free for Hachi's :D

that sunflower hat
I must obtain it
;;o;

I can't even remember how I came about this awesome seasonal event, just kinda seemed like the admin Elissinia appeared out of nowhere and welcomed me in. I'm usually quite shy on discord but this one felt oddly... not cliquey! It has been SO NICE participating with them :D

Here are the entries I've done





This next one was part of the "mini" event tier, where you're only required to draw something of about $25 minimum value.
The other two were to be $75 minimum value, so a lot more to them :D


I always love drawing things for others, but with something like this where there's some motivation for it and I dont feel like I have high pressure. Usually theres about a month and a half to the deadline.

https://artexchange.carrd.co/]exchange carrd - I know autumn exchanges will be starting up again soon. I'm debating on taking a break or not, knowing there wont be a winter exchange (they take a break then). But I might end up moving maybe, so..? :vanora_upsidedown:


Anyway-- any of you join exchange/secret santa events kinda like this? OR THIS ONE?
:D

@totalanimefan:
Yesss I'm trying to! I'm always so bad at being consistent online XD
but I like being on here

THANK YOU ALL

@totalanimefan:
I HOPE TOO
but honestly even if I dont, this opportunity had me doing a bit of research on the location and it gives me an idea of where we'd want to try out next! Since we haven't quite found a city that we feel home in yet. Could become the next goal to work toward :D

MAYBE I CAN ACTUALLY
B U Y
A HOUSE ... !!
This raise would be enough if I liked the area

how on earth did i come this close and this far after only a year ago I was living off rice cause i was too poor
;;;;; A;;;

I work in a company that only promotes from within, which is cool, but they require you to move to get promoted. blabla avoid animosity bla bla bla

Anyways there's one 2 hours from here that popped up in my work email today. I tossed my name into the hat, so hopefullyyyyyy
I'll have a phone interview with the regional for that area next week. Maybe I'll win and get this raise!!!

ALL THE GOOD LUCK CHARMS AND PRAYERS ECT
o/

I'm tired of moving but I hate this apartment anyways. smells like tobacco all the time. XD