IWantArt1949

My internet still sucks.  Most of the time it won't work well enough to load the pages here.  I've been going through DeviantART withdrawal.

I just wanted to let viewers know that I appreciate any comments & favorites even when I can't get to you to thank you personally.

Every once and a while, I get a good run of wireless internet.  God help me when I do, I get carried away with "Favorites".  But there are so many really good artists out there.  Sometimes when I am going through someones pages, I catch myself marking most of their work [but I can't help myself.  Other times, I manage to refrain from marking all of them.  Then I feel bad, afraid that they will think I didn't like them as well as I really did.  

As of right now, I have 28 pages of Favorites.  That is 641 according to my Stats.  And it has only been 7 months.  WOW!
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I am terrible about thanking people for marking my work as their favorites, etc.  I am so sorry.  Please forgive me. I hereby thank everyone that has come here, looked, maybe downloaded or marked as favorite, and of course, commented on my work.  It really is appreciated.  

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I am trying to quite smoking again.  Honestly I don't want to, they just cost more money than I have.  A couple of years ago, I started smoking  "roll-your-own"  because I couldn't afford "ready made".  The "roll-your-own" cost $2.49 for a pouch which yields around 40 cigarettes.  That is pretty good [once you learn how to roll them & can stand to smoke unfiltered] Then the government decided to put a whopping tax on tobacco products for something or other.  This tax raised the price of "ready made" by a little bit, but they doubled the price of  "roll-your-own" up to $5.49 a pouch.  This may not mean anything to those of you who do not smoke or have lots of money.  But it really p#ss&s me off.  


Any way, my mood is rapidly changing to extremely depressed & agitated.  And now you will know why. [But that is only part of the reason - Our government wanting to control every part of our lives[now that they have screwed them up] is another really good reason.  But I am not going to get started on that right now]

Sorry for ranting.  Smoking is the only thing I had to keep me semi-sane.  I will get over it [I hope]

My internet still sucks, but I am going to try to load some of the color me club pics that I have colored while not having internet.  

I still have too many people that I am watching.  I had over 600 deviations to go through when I signed on this time.  I got it down to 361 but I can't deal with so many all the time.  I never get all the way through them.  So, not that I don't want to watch all these people, but I have to eliminate the constant in-flow of deviations.  I will probably go back to "watching" again when I get cought up.

I am going to try to post some more of my photos again soon (I hope).

As before, I thank all the people who marked some of my work as favorites.

Thanks for all the favorites & watches.  I can't seem to keep up with going to everybody's sites and thanking them individually so I will just do it here.  

My wireless internet connection is gone more than not.  So when I have it, I go a little nuts.

I have all my animals up for now.  So I will wait a little bit before I put  up anything else.

Again, I want to thank everyone for all the favorites & watches.

That reminds me.  I had to pare down the number of people I was watching a bunch.  That doesn't mean that I wont be going to them to see what is new, just that I wont have hundreds of deviations to look at every time I get here.

Oh, well, I have decided to go ahead & put some of my photos out there to be criticized by somebody besides myself.  I am only going to do a few at a time.  I am starting with the oldest ones I have come across on my MANY CD's.  

Honest criticism, as kindly as possible (& still be honest) will be appreciated (I think).  

I'll let you know if I change my mind.