This is a really long bulletin so here's a TL;DR: I've been super inactive because of life stuff and while I'll try to check in more, things are still gonna be pretty busy through New Year's at least, I imagine. I've cleared out all of my notifications since Mid-July, so if you pinged me anywhere and/or had any important bulletins/news that you'd like me to see PLEASE let me know about it because it's all been deleted! If there have been any big site updates/changes since then please also let me know about those! I saw today's stuff but that's about it, this place isn't super good with changelogs.

HELLO FRIENDS you may have noticed I haven't been very active lately, and by lately, I mean, uh... since July, according to my last bulletin? Oh. That's even worse than I thought. Whoops.

As I think I alluded to a little in previous bulletins, this is mostly because I've been going through a lot of life changes these past couple months!:

• I quit my old hell job at Wal-Mart and work at Best Buy now, which is significantly nicer, pays me more, and gives me vastly more hours. That also means I was finally able to afford a car since now I have enough money coming in to pay off bills for that every month. I also got my license!! Finally!! Gosh I can't believe how long I've gone without saying anything on this dang website
  
  
• HOWEVER I'm still looking for a full-time job because my new deadline for moving out is January 1st, and it turns out there aren't the opportunities for advancement here that I thought there would be by now since there's only supposed to be one full-time merch person and my store already has two. It's a shame because Best Buy is a really nice place to work, but it's also physically exhausting since it involves walking around, lifting things, climbing ladders, bending, crouching, cleaning, etc. for 4-8 hours, usually 7 for the past few weeks, and I'm about to go into a gauntlet from Sunday-Tuesday with all 8-hour shifts and a 7-hour one tomorrow. Which is great for my wallet! But oof ouch me legs. It's a big reason I haven't been as active, because even on shorter days and even though I've been there since the start of August I'm so tired when I get home that I just crash and take a nap. Then I wake up at night and have to rush to finish homework and do other daily stuff and then I have to hurry up and go back to bed because I get up at 5:00 in the morning every day. 4:30 on Sundays! Also I never have any weekends which has been particularly killer; I'll have scattered single days off but as it turns out you really need that second day to get anything done, that first day is all about relaxing tbh. Having a full-time job with a consistent schedule would be great, I'm just having a hard time finding one, especially one that I'm actually qualified for.
  
  
• I'm in my final class of college, ever!! But unfortunately despite being a one-day-a-week class it's probably the most brutal class I've had in my entire life. In fact, the workload for this single class is probably more than the total workload I've had in any other given semester. I regularly spend 3 hours a night on homework for this one single class I need to graduate, not counting any studying I need to do; filling out the vague study guide we got for the first exam got mine to 13 pages long and I have the next exam on Wednesday which is gonna be a REAL pain given the whole 8-hour gauntlet that doesn't end until, well, the day of the exam. Cool beans!!!! Please help me I am dying
  
  
• As I think I mentioned before about a year ago a lot of old friends of mine got back together and we started forum RPing again, so most of my spare time has gone toward keeping up on that. Not that I or most of us have been super active lately bc we're all old and trapped in capitalist hell workin all day and then being too tired/still busy afterward to make the posts but when this semester is over I'm gonna bully 'em so hard. But that's where my writing/OC energy tends to end up instead of making bios/playing forum games.
  
  
• I've actually been in a real profile mood though but time aside I just haven't been able to find a layout that rly speaks to me that I don't have to mess around w/ CSS for a day or two to get ready for my OCs... I have like 3 diff templates purchased and my current one is fine but I feel like it ends up being kinda hard to read a lot of the time thanks to transparency but tl;dr it's not something I can change super easily since the source of the transparency is an image rather than part of the box's CSS. Which really just means I could make a less transparent image or just a blank white one BUT YOU GET IT I'm very lazy. But I dunno, I like things with sidebars and I have like two neat ones but there's so much tweaking I gotta figure out how to do so it ends up sapping my motivation bc I just wanna get to the part where I plug stuff in...
  
  
• dragalia lost is fun and i also have to slog through playing feh on not one, but two phones bc i thought an alt account would be fun and IT WAS it's reward units only so ive made some astounding SI decisions but most of my friends are rly down on feh lately for many reasonable reasons which kills my excitement so now it's a chore doing the same dailies on two accounts AND playing another mobile game that's heavy on the dailies and requires you to actually play due to being an ARPG rather than a turn-based thing that i can slam that autobattle button on. but rly mobile games take up a disappointing amount of time in my life but they're fun and cute and i like to imagine oc aus in their verses ;_; life goal make an oc gacha game
  
  
• I've been doing NaNoWriMo! Haven't posted anything here yet because it's about versions of Dicro and Istra from an AU board we have on our RP forum, and they're both different enough characters that I'm debating if I should make them some profiles first. I haven't even posted anything on DA or Tumblr for some reason, either. Just... really lazy these days. I'll probably get around to it eventually, though, even though I haven't written a thing in like a week. Work sucks!! School suck!!

I think that's about it! Just a lot of different things eating into my time and, more importantly, my precious few spoons. I've gotten like 3 different PMs about my forum games over the past couple months and I haven't even done a dang thing about them bc I just. Never have the energy to do anything anymore. It sucks!!!!!!!!

Even though I won't have much free time for still quite some time yet (I inexplicably don't work my retail job on Thanksgiving, Black Friday, or even Saturday despite being available so I do at least have a mini-vacation assuming I don't get called in; we're apparently over on labor hours and I've already got 24 hours scheduled for me next week so that doesn't seem super likely... not complaining though obviously lmao) I still wanted to make this bulletin because it's been an egregiously long time since I've said or done anything around here. I'm in charge of a couple threads and used to be pretty active, so I'd at least like to have something on my profile that people can look at and go "oh, that's where Iso went, it's not because she quit Toyhouse or something!"

I also wanted to let everyone know that I've cleared out all of my notifications!! Character notifs were around 5,000, I had like 300 bulletins sitting in there, and my forum notifications were almost 50 pages long - WAY too many to even skim through to see if I got a ping. As such, if you've had any important news or you've pinged me in anything or something's gone on in one of my threads since mid-July or so, I have no idea about it, so please tell me about it if possible!

And yeah! That's pretty much it, gotta go make some rolls now for Fakesgiving(tm) since my family won't be in one place for Thanksgiving. I'm cool with that tho bc I pretty much only eat like rolls and corn and dessert anyway :thinking:

How have you guys been? Any big character updates? Participating in NaNoWriMo? Got some cool stories for me to theoretically check out in a million years when I have some dang free time? Anything happen on the site, community-wise or actual website-wise? Pretty much all I've heard about is that there's some sort of minor block now + the updates from today, so if there's anything else let me know! But, yeah, fill me in with your Toyhousey lives, my friends!!! I miss you!!!!!