I cannot believe I never did an update. Longest gap ever.

I am, of course, married now, and quite a while too It's all good, no Britney style 24 hour divorce or anything. Actually no Britney anything, although our tummies look similar since she's been letting herself go.

I no longer work in a bank or anywhere in the financial services sector which is delightful! I'm not out quality-testing puppies or anything as fun as that but I've a 10 minute cycle to work and very little corporate b/s to deal with. So that's a weight off!!!

Absolutely no drawing done. Which I will no doubt go to hell for. Since I don't commute anymore I thought I'd have time for the art but I've been wasting the time on my wii and watching telly/reading/housework. I think the bug will strike again though and I still have an unfinished wedding portrait - going on like a year or something

Everyone's stuff is still amazing and I am checking in from time to time. Big hugs to anyone who casts their eye over this.

Hey all,

Sorry, I'm hardly ever around but I doo read all the journals and look at all the art - which is still totally amazing!!!

Well, this time next month, 1st April 2007 I'll be married in Las Vegas, in my Playboy Bunny costume with my better half in an Elvis costume and the family and friends in fancy dress. Then I'm off to St.Lucia for the holiday of a lifetime - well only 5 days but I'll never be able to afford it again (not that I can afford it now!).

I'll stick up some pics when I get back and someday I'll get back to drawing, but work and the wedding and the boring rituals of life have stolen my time for the moment...

EDIT
finished a commission of my baby Button. It's way way awesome and I might make it my icon. But until then no one can see it cos it's mine all mine.

So check out some of =IceKrystal's other work and be a kindly patron....

Hey all!

Sorry I didn't update before now, have only been on the compy for a few minutes here and there. You can probably guess from my typing that I did indeed survive!

Had to wait nearly 4 hours for my op cos they were running behind schedule but i suppose that's hospitals for you!
Kept being calm and scared and vice versa but when the nurse said 'I'm here to take you to surgery' I nearly freaked!!
Really spooked lying on the trolley getting brought to the anaesthetic room and lying there, the only thing that stopped me crying was a nice nurse making small talk with me. Thanks goodness for her!

Getting the bung in the back of my hand wasn't as sore as I though, a scratch really and a wierdo feeling of a needle inside you. Then into theatre.... (I was still thinking I could cancel the whole thing )

I hopped up on the bed looking at all the giant lights and stuff and the nurses are all chat and laughter and I'm convinced I'm going to die and the anaethetist starts injecting and says "You're going to get a cold feeling in your arm and a funny metallic taste in your mouth".

Well I'm lying there and manage to think for a split second - that arm going cold thing sounds well scary and I get the weirdest metallic, chemically taste at the back of my tongue, I say 'urgh!' and I'm gone.

Wake up appareantly 1 hour later, my hand gripping onto the side of the bed rail, my throat is killing me and I have gauze in my mouth and a world of snot up my nose!! After a while the gauze is eased out and I'm brought up to bed.
Where I cry a lot as people text me and call me and I can only whisper replies. My throat! My nose!! My sinuses!!! (the tooth isn't a problem at all )
Surgeon drops by to say hi and tell me cos it's so late in the day I need to stay overnight. I feebly protest for about 1 second and then say okay. My face only swelled a little in the evening and I managed some jelly (Jello for y'all) and yoghurt and water.

Had some visitors and watched tons of telly and got to go home at 10 the next day. Proper swollen then, only on the one side I got the lower and upper teeth out, giant shiny pink face, like Desperate Dan! Hid under a scarf and was delighted to be home.

So it's nearly a week now, the swelling's nearly gone, I have the lightest yellow bruise, I can feel all my stitches which is sikening. I have them til next Monday!! Unfortunately I'm still quite numb to the fron on my lip and chin on the side I got the botom tooth is so that could be permanent. It can happen if the nerve under the tooth takes a knock. But it could still go and it's not that bad, I can still move the area, just parts of my skin are kinda dead feeling.

And I will start to work on some art, in the middle of a huge wedding portrait for a nieghbour which is takin a lifetime!! Themethursdays, my apologies

Oh God. Had my appointment with my oral surgeon today.
I have to get 3 wisdom teeth out (so I guess I'll be after that!)

One is pretty near the nerve so there's a higher risk than normal of numbness/nerve damage. Yay. I'm getting it done 28th November.
That's the first time I'll ever be 'put to sleep' as the Doc called it. I pointed out that that's what we say about getting a dog put down and he laughed. Yep, laughed.

So tell me your operations stories! Teeth/plastic surgery I don't care. I want to know people went to sleep and woke back up!!

Header-iffic!!!!


I'm hear a year!!!
Wow. That flew in. I miss being online as much as was in work, but I'm still getting to see everyone's great art and I'm even working a bit harder myself.

Thanks so much to all my friends and everyone who comments

(I know it's not CSS, I will get around to that some evening!!)



and all my other friends and watchers, check em all out!!!

And here's the Puppy from my signature, in case you were afraid to click