So just, real quick, before I pop off: Commissions are back! $2 per 100 words this time, feel free to DM me or send me a note! All the same rules apply! If that's all you really care about, you can go ahead and click off the journal now cuz the rest of this is gonna be tidbits of my personal life, cuz I just... feel like I need to say it? I wanna start off by apologizing for ghosting you all for about a year. And this time, I feel like I need to offer an explanation... I was in a baaaaad place. Mentally, emotionally, and in a certain kind of way, physically. Life was changing a little faster than I was entirely comfortable with, and then it *kept changing,* and then it... kept changing. Little tidbit about Gracie: *She Doesn't Take That Very Well.* So I kinda just had to walk away. I just didn't have the energy or the drive, I didn't have much of *anything* anymore. And honestly, I think I needed it. At the end of it all (if it even *is* the end of it all,) my life has almost