So I pretty much went into hermit mode for a year or so.  I haven't done any conventions.  I've honestly barely written.  I did start working full time (plus regular part time babysitting), which is part what pulled me from creative work, but I can't blame it for the full absence.  I was slowly prepping myself for a video project I've wanted to do for a long time in association with my budgeting book, but that's not the full excuse either.  I think it was more trying on normalcy and taking a break from being a workaholic...and playing a lot of Zelda.  (Also saving money, projects need money...)

What you may not know about me is that my degree is in video production, and Ameoba Ink was always intended to be a multimedia company.  It's just been extremely slow to grow in that direction.  My video making skills are rusty, but I am glad to dust them off.  I'm launching a year long project where I'll do budgeting videos in a sort of reality TV but with numbers YouTube vlog.

Here's the first teaser for the project.  Please subscribe to the channel...YouTube won't let you do a lot of customization until you have 100 subscribers (oy):

It's also my hope that in getting out of my parent's house I can finish up Seven and 13, and do the sort of online promotional work I've been avoiding.  Think I'm also hitting that age where I want to tick the big items off my bucket list.  So hoping after this project is a wrap, I can prep for the grand con hopping tour of the U.S. that I always wanted to do.