It's been an easy hard month for me. If that makes any sense.

I've been fighting off a sore throat for about a week now and last night I felt it finally take hold. It's been there every morning when I wake up and comes and goes. I almost feel like I'm trying to get the flu. Normally when I get it I have a sore throat for a week or two, it gets to the point where I can barely talk, starts going away and I think I'm going to be well, then I get a fever, get knocked on my butt, and am left bed ridden and vomiting for at least another week.
So far I've only got a sore throat, but I keep waking up in the night with stomach pains and nausea. I really hope it doesn't get any worse because I have a lot of stuff I need to do. I can't afford to be stuck in bed convulsing.

Speaking of which, most of you know that I'm now living off of my art. Which is great. It's what I've always wanted to do. But it does have some unexpected cons. The main one being that, in the last 2 years, my ass has doubled in size. (well, not actually doubled, but I've put on a few pounds and inches) It's difficult for me because right before I started freelancing, I would work out every other day, and run for 2 or so hours every night. I suddenly stopped that when I moved in with ~UberVestigium and started working at my desk for most of the day. It happened gradually and I didn't really notice right away, but I lost all of my strength. I've been trying to get up, stretch, do some jumping jacks, push ups, etc, and it has been making a difference, but not a lot. My butt did stop expanding, but I wanted it back to the size it used to be.
So, about a week ago, I started doing P90X seriously. I had tried out a few of the workouts, but half-assed and weeks apart. It also helped, but not a lot. Now that I've been doing it once a day and every other day, I'm starting to feel better. I'm sore almost all of the time, but I'm kind of a masochist so I like it. And I've got energy again. I can go up and down the stairs to my third story apartment without getting winded, run, walk for miles without getting heat stroke (freaking southern sun), and push my mother-in-law's car up hills. . I'm honestly more happy about that than the 4 inches I've dropped off of my waist. I hate hate HATE feeling weak. =.= It's depressing and somehow makes me feel like less of a person.

But that's enough about my health.
Art.
I've been doing a lot of backgrounds for visual novels lately. It's really beefed up my knowledge of perspective and helped me think about things in a 3D manner instead of as a flat image on a 2D plane. However, since I've been doing so much of that, my character skill are getting a little weak. I haven't had to draw them as much and I'm not as fast as I was. It takes me almost twice the time to get a sketch right and work out all of the anatomy issues before I can ink it. So I'm going to be doing some life and photo studies when I have the free time. I really love doing character art, and don't want to become primarily an environment artist.
I do have a character from a trade that I owe ~Phipps1666 so I might use that as practice. (I'm way late, but I haven't forgotten about you!)

I also want to do some 3D character modeling. A friend of mine got me a copy of the newest Maya and Mudbox. Lately 3D sculpts seem to be calling to me and I want to see what I can produce if I really give it my all.

Bang Bang Attack Studios has a couple medium sized and large games in the mix. For now we're setting aside arcade style games and are focusing on games that "you actually have a sense of progression in", as I call it. I'm not the biggest fan of 30 minutes of play games myself and would like to put out something that has a bit more meat on its bones. BBAS now has a writer, a sr and jr programmer, a pixel artist, and...me? I think that's about right.
As much as the studio has going on right now, and as slow as development is, I'd really like to do a small game myself. I'm not the best programmer, but I am learning. And I was thinking about doing a short visual novel using Ren'Py and maybe finding a writer to work with.

And then of course I have my graphic novel I'm working on (or talking about working on lol) and personal comics. It's frustrating because I have SO MUCH I want to do, but no time. On the days where I do have time to focus on them, I choose to sit in front of the TV, veg, and play video games. I'm just so tired of sitting in front of the computer by the time that I get a break, I don't want to draw for myself, I just want to take that break and not think about art. >.< It's a viscous circle.

Does anyone else have this problem?