wordlesswhisper

That I've been a member of this site for a full third of my life. I don't know if this is a good or a bad thing. I also recently realized that I'm all grown up now. Again, not sure if this is a good or a bad thing.

I bought a house! We just agreed on the price, and we're closing mid-January. Ah, bliss!

So, just a brief update since it's been a few months. I'm using dA a little more frequently, visiting the forums again and finding new artists every day with amazing talent. I've been taking more pictures of my own, as some of you may have noticed. My upload rate has dramatically increased over the past few months.

In my personal life, things are also going very well. I'm still with my wonderful boyfriend, Evan, and we have two dogs named Loki and Thor -- a lab and miniature dachshund respectively. I'm still in school, still working, and still generally enjoying life in Austin, Texas. Here's to the upcoming new year!

So, I know I'm not around much, and I've mostly dropped off the radar. But I do stop in pretty regularly, and I've actually started posting some new photographs! I'm happy to say I'm branching out a bit. I still love my macros, but I'm also really starting to enjoy portraits and architecture. I've also started to grudgingly give in to photo editing. I still don't use any of the nice programs, but I'm starting to make decent use of programs like Picasa.

Things are going well in my life. I'm insanely busy with school and work, but my boyfriend and dogs help keep me grounded. I went to Puerto Rico last month for a friend's wedding, and it was incredible. I'm basically just chugging along, doing what I can in the time I've got. I hope all of you guys are doing well, enjoying life, and enjoying art of any kind. Love you all!

Bonnie

It's weird. I look around this website and see other deviants' pages, and so many of them have taken advantage of all the changes that have occurred over the past few years. The extensive customization of the page layout and style, journal embellishments, ordering of deviations, the ability to block comments from others (which, back in the day, was a huge argument on the Complaints forum), and using all those other nifty features available to us now. Hell, people have Twitter feeds on their pages! But I use none of them.

Don't get me wrong, some of these pages are awesome. They're well put together, well organized, attention getting, and thought out. It just kind of trips me out. I'm that kind of person who stops by for a while, and then just kind of fades away for a long time. I've been here seven years now, and I was even an admin once upon a time. So when I've been gone for a year or so and I show back up, it's like going back to a place you used to live in. It's still totally familiar to you, but there are all these little changes that take you by surprise. You mean I get to preview my forum posts?!

I feel so terribly old school, but I just can't help it. This place was my home for years, and I still come and visit it. I can't think of many other things that I go back to time and time again, even after seven years. And sometimes it's nice to have it look mostly like it used to. For me, at least.

Blah, blah, blah nostalgia.