Hey people! I know I haven't been very active as of late. Let me give you a little update on what's been happening recently.
I have a job! I work in the book section of a store called Hastings Entertainment. For those of you that don't know what that is, it's a store that sells movies, video games, books, music, electronics, and novelties. It's pretty awesome! Especially since I'm working with books! I'm making a little below decent pay, not enough to move out and be on my own yet, but enough to pay for my insurance, gas, cell phone bill, school, clothes, and food. It's so much fun to work there, and I love all of my co-workers.
I got a new boyfriend :3 His name is Blake (not real name of course) and we've been friends since 7th grade. Yeah, yeah, I know, bad idea to be dating yet ANOTHER friend after what happened with the last boyfriend. But the difference is I know Blake so much better than I knew my ex, Rem. We became friends when he first moved to my town. He had a huge stuttering problem. You could hardly understand him, and you had to have a lot of patience to listen to what he had to say. Luckily I did, and I'm very glad. He's a really amazing guy, the exact opposite of Rem. While Rem is the fashionista, artistic, suave, Blake is rustic, masculine, and very genuine. He's blunt, and tells you the truth whether you want to hear it or not. And he doesn't care if you like him or not, unlike Rem. If you like him, then great. He'll be one of the best and loyal friends you'll ever have. And if you don't like him? So what? That's your problem, not his.
We've been dating for a little under 4 months now. It's really weird . . . not that I'm dating him. It's weird that I had a boyfriend at the beginning of 2015, and then a new one at the end of 2015. I've had a total of 3 boyfriends in my life. The period between the 1st and 2nd was 4 years. The period between the 2nd and the 3rd was 7 months. That's what I find weird. It's still taking me a while to get over Rem. I'm not going to deny that I loved him very dearly, and I was head over heals in love with him. But I have to get over it, because he's not coming back to me. I wouldn't take him back, anyway. The way it goes with me, you only get one shot. If you stab me that hard like he did, you're screwed. I'll forgive you, but I'll never trust you again, and I won't take you back. I'm hoping this doesn't happen with Blake . . .
I CAN DRIVE!!!!
I was so scared to drive at first because of how big cars are and how easy it is to get into an accident. But my parents got me my first car, a little 1999 Ford Taurus, and it drives exactly like a go cart. I love it so much, and I love driving. There is a huge freedom, knowing that I can leave whenever I want and go wherever I want, instead of being holed up in my room all the time and having to wait for someone to drive me somewhere. Driving has made me really responsible as well . . . not that I wasn't responsible in the first place. Driving just makes you feel more like an adult. You can't really rely on anyone to take care of you. You have to take care of yourself.
Next week I am starting my last semester of college. By May I will have a degree in 3D Animation. Obviously you guys haven't seen a lot of my work, which I hope will change very soon as I get better. I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do with my life after college. I want to be an author, an animator, an artist, a game developer, and a nail tech. I don't know if I can do all of them or not, but I might as well try. This semester is going to be very rigorous, since I have all the hardest classes. That may mean I will be on just as much as I was the last year: little to none. But I'm going to try and start up my account again. It would be really nice if I had like a tablet I could draw on that didn't plug into my computer. My computer is really heavy and I don't want to lug it around everywhere. I'll be looking for a "hopefully" cheap artist tablet here soon. If anyone knows where I could get one for under $500, I'd appreciate it if you told me.
Alright, now that the life updates are over, let me start with the DA updates. I'm thinking of starting a new account on DA. There's just so much clutter here, and I've been getting a lot better at my art and writing. I'd really like a fresh start. It'll be mainly for drawing. I'm not sure if I'll be putting stories up like I used to. No one really reads them here, and I have a lot more viewers on FanFiction.net and WattPad.com. If I decide not to post stories anymore, I'll give you links to the new chapters in a journal so you can still read them if you're interested.
Once I get the new account, I'll give you a link to it. It will still have "Ice" in it (that's how you all know me
can't get rid of that) and I'll leave the old account up so you can still see this art and stories. I'll finish up Fear of Falling here, and after that I won't be active here anymore. I hope to be a lot more active in my new account than I was here. I still love DA, it was the start of my love of Sonic, and my start writing stories and drawing. I'll never forget my roots here, all the people that have helped me, and all the friends I have made. The people I am most closest to in life I have met here. I hope that never changes.
Thank you to everyone that has supported me here, those who have helped me grow as an artist and a person, those who have given me advice and love, and those that have stuck with me for the last several years, even when I wasn't here.