emeraldfire2065

My profile says I have been a deviant for six years... yet I have been absent probably for the last two.

I went on a MAJOR hiatus after my art inspiration dwindled, and I returned to my main literary project, which was the writing up of the Final Fantasy 7 game. I finished that at long last in September 2010, and am now ploughing my way through writing up Final Fantasy 8. That's also going very well and I am on the last instalment. Just getting Rinoa back into my party with Ultimecia controlling her. I should hopefully be finishing that off this year and then it's onto Crisis Core.

That being said, I decided to post a journal because I've done a new piece of artwork. In September last year I finally started taking violin lessons, since I've always wanted to learn. I'm going to be taking my Grade 1 exam in March, so I wanted to draw something to celebrate. Thus my new picture.

Hope you like! And don't get used to updates, since I'm totally focused on my writing these days.

*is looking at the so-called April Fools joke avatar.*

GET THAT THING OFF MY PAGE!!!!!!!!!!

I finally completed Dissidia and unlocked the ability of Battle Replay!!! So I saved a few of my favourite battles and uploaded them to youtube!

Zidane vs Zidane - www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGq4D3…
Zidane vs Kuja - www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAXLx9…
Zidane vs Kuja 2 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR0bnm… - during Destiny Odyssey IX

So watch me fight!!!

Well, it's reached that stage of my life where things have begun to change again, and this time it's a biggie.

I'm moving out!

See, I'm 24 now, and I still live at home with my mum and stepfather. I've always been a homebird and a child at heart. I rebelled against the adult world I was being forced to grow up in, because I wasn't ready for it.

Of course, over the years I did begin to change, as I realised I had to adapt to this world I was living in or I'd just be destroyed, metaphorically. Getting my first job did that for me, as I suddenly came out of my shell and began to grow. Perhaps late, but I was growing, and everyone noticed it.

And now it's come to the stage where I'm ready to move out. Not because I really want to. It's more because I need to. It will be that last step to push me into the adult world and I'll achieve independance. Equally I need it because, frankly, I need the space. Everything is in my room and I have little space left to store anything, so I need some more room.

In the end I'd end up moving out anyway, because, and we all hate to admit it, but my parents won't be around forever. One day this 'security' will vanish, and I have to be ready to adapt. So I figured I'd best start NOW while they're still around to guide and advise me, and can help me to adjust. If I waited until the worst happened, I think I'd end up homeless or in a mental home (another reason I need to leave home).

I'm going to be renting my dad's old house, the house I used to live in. He's moved out since with his new wife and my step-siblings, and he's been trying to sell the house for over a year with no luck. So he came to me and said he would rent to me. He's offered a very good price for rent: my jaw almost hit the table, and I had a single sentence running through my head:

"You would be a fool to turn this down."

So I accepted. I should hopefully be moving in sometime in October. There's some stuff that needs doing to the house before I go in: fence needs fixing, new bathroom suite, etc. Once the major jobs are done, I'm going to move in and work on the rest.

It's very exciting. I've been looking at sofas and beds and all sorts of stuff. You know you've hit the adult when the thought of looking at sofas becomes exciting. 8D

It's my birthday!!! I'm 24 today! Yahoo!!!

So far I've gotten (bear in mind it's only 6:30am)

A pink bathrobe
Japanese-style gown (from Australia)
HaraJuku Lovers perfume
Three Discworld novels: Equal Rites, Mort, Sourcery

Plus £70 to spend. Woot. :3