Weekly Update! (2025-05-18) It's All About Momentum
Heya peoples!
The last couple of weeks have been fairly intense, not going to lie.
(CW: Medical Issues/Descriptions below!)
Last week, one of my cats who has been having litter box issues (just peeing everywhere except the box) began peeing blood. So my roommate rushed her to an urgent care vet clinic, and she got some x-rays, which showed that she apparently had a bladder stone that was about the size of my thumbnail, and had gotten a serious urinary tract infection from it since it was too large to break down.
While not an uncommon or untreatable situation, this cast her recent misbehavior in a new light, certainly. Still, we had her set up for the next day for it to be removed and she went into surgery and spent the night at the vet before coming back home. She’s doing well now, and much happier already, which is really good to see. It’s been a bit, and I’d just assumed she’d gotten tired of her litter or the other cats were making it hard for her, but she is definitely a lot more affectionate and better behaved now, so I can only imagine the kind of discomfort and pain she was in.
The whole thing cost us about $3K, which isn’t great, but we were able to soak the cost. Still, it sets us back a bit on the credit cards, so if you’d like to be a big big help, my tip jar is over here [ https://donate.stripe.com/fZe15wdjQfSn6Yg9AA ]. Every little bit is appreciated. I’m just glad she’s feeling better.
So that was the week before last, and that ordeal was why I didn’t have a weekly update last week. This last week, things actually went pretty well, though! I can hardly remember it, to be honest, but things are moving along! My new rotational means of organizing streams is actually working out, my backlog is almost worked down again (which I’m rather happy about,) and work on projects is going at pace! I should be covered for this month, fairly soon, financially, and if I’m lucky, I can actually start to get ahead on things and save money.
Despite everything, I’m kicking butt, which I’m very happy about.
Now this coming week, I’m going to have to take a by-week to help Tigre watch the little one while Dicy goes out of town, because she’s been very harried by everything lately, and she needs a break, and he won’t be home until Friday. So no streams for me, but I’ll do my best to keep up the project work in-between things.
I’ve got some exciting stuff coming down the pipeline, so I hope everyone is going to enjoy it!
All of the pages but one are in production for the end of Chapter 6 of Various Happenings, and I’m hoping to wrap that up towards the middle of June. Chapter 7 is already outlined and I’m going to be trying some new stuff with it to really get the production moving and make it a more consistent experience in the future. It’ll be different, but I’m hoping that everyone will enjoy just having more new Various Happenings.
I’m also currently hard at work on another project which is nearing its prototype phase, that I’m very eager to share once I’m able (it’s a resurrection of an old project that fell by the wayside, that I’ve been working on in fits and starts for the last six years or so and I’m super stoked to see it actually moving forward again.)
ClaCos is absolutely still in the cards, of course, and I appreciate the patience of those of you who are eager to see Clara’s adventures really get going. I can’t wait to focus that down, so I can really get that moving and out of its nascent phase; I’ve just been in a weird place with it, and I’ve got to find the groove again to really get the art to flow. But we’ll get there.
Azure and I’s naughty comic collab is also moving again, and I’m going to try and get that knocked out fairly soon, as it’s one of the things that I can just put a pin in once it’s done. I’ve also got other FSS site stuff with Azure and Nori that I want to get a move on with, as well; so look forward to that.
I stalled out with merch, but we’re gonna get that set up soon enough. It’s in my docket, and there’s a bunch of other stuff that I’m juggling right now, so it’s a lot to manage, but the more that gets checked off, the easier it becomes to check off other things. It’s all about momentum.
Still, as always, thank you for your patience and patronage. I couldn’t do any of this without you. That’s all for now, thank you for reading, take care of yourselves, and I’ll see you all next week!
~Sali
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