Ligers and Tiglons and Litigons, oh my!
Not that I can afford to step away, but seeing as the majority of last month's proposals were either declined or ignored, I decided to take a break from the major work-related stress and focus on art-like practice. I've been commissioned by the SO to make a few chibi images, but unfortunately all my inspiration seems to keep going back to this one idea. It's an image of a roughed-up, indignant, semi-amazonian queen with a dark past... sitting on her throne of... don't know what yet... with her protector, an enchanted Liger who used to be human nearly 100 years ago. When given the choice to break his curse, he turned it down in favor of serving his Queen. So far, I've only really developed the Liger's story but I'm having trouble finding usable stock images. Guess I'll have to go the old fashioned route and use imagination to combine stock of tigers and lions. Meh.
Another good reason for a break, or at least a break into art stuff, is the whole damn Visa business. We submitted our petition in early March and our case was moved to CSC, which is working through cases at a snail's pace. We've been told it could be October before hearing anything back one way or another. I think that's one of the worst parts of this. Waiting just to find out whether or not he can even have an interview. If they're going to reject it, I'd rather just visit him now, get married, come back here, submit our AOS stuff and see within a few months if they'll approve or deny. *shakes head*
Anyway, since it's such a long wait until then, I've offered to go ahead and get my passport and maybe, MAYBE, visit Dubai for a few weeks. I don't know that we can even afford it and the timing is kinda fucked. Holy months out there are around July/August so we have to plan around those or else you know... no hand-holding and definitely no kissing in public. You can't even eat in public then so we wouldn't be able to go out for food or anything along those lines. Not the vacation Jon had in mind so, yeah. Assuming it doesn't take a lifetime to get my new passport back, June or the end of August/September. If we're at all lucky and the CSC's speed picks up, could even possibly be there during his Embassy interview.
Blah. But for now, blah. Everyone was so annoyed last month when my response to every bitch and moan about the country and taxes and government policies was "New Zealand"... for many reasons, I've always wanted to explore and ultimately live in a place like New Zealand. Everywhere has natural disasters, so why not go somewhere beautiful with job opportunities and as far away as fucking possible <3 The more I mention it, the more people seem to be getting on board. I mean, if you're just gunna gripe about the way things are here, while offering no solution to fix it, go somewhere else, right? Hmm...
Another good reason for a break, or at least a break into art stuff, is the whole damn Visa business. We submitted our petition in early March and our case was moved to CSC, which is working through cases at a snail's pace. We've been told it could be October before hearing anything back one way or another. I think that's one of the worst parts of this. Waiting just to find out whether or not he can even have an interview. If they're going to reject it, I'd rather just visit him now, get married, come back here, submit our AOS stuff and see within a few months if they'll approve or deny. *shakes head*
Anyway, since it's such a long wait until then, I've offered to go ahead and get my passport and maybe, MAYBE, visit Dubai for a few weeks. I don't know that we can even afford it and the timing is kinda fucked. Holy months out there are around July/August so we have to plan around those or else you know... no hand-holding and definitely no kissing in public. You can't even eat in public then so we wouldn't be able to go out for food or anything along those lines. Not the vacation Jon had in mind so, yeah. Assuming it doesn't take a lifetime to get my new passport back, June or the end of August/September. If we're at all lucky and the CSC's speed picks up, could even possibly be there during his Embassy interview.
Blah. But for now, blah. Everyone was so annoyed last month when my response to every bitch and moan about the country and taxes and government policies was "New Zealand"... for many reasons, I've always wanted to explore and ultimately live in a place like New Zealand. Everywhere has natural disasters, so why not go somewhere beautiful with job opportunities and as far away as fucking possible <3 The more I mention it, the more people seem to be getting on board. I mean, if you're just gunna gripe about the way things are here, while offering no solution to fix it, go somewhere else, right? Hmm...