My life has MUCH more certainty! Coffee, wood piling, mosquitoes AND snow shoveling will happen! I’m blessed to know the future! Kind of…. lol, anyways, Happy New Years for tomorrow!
We always mark the New Year as being a time of renewal, despite there is only 24 hours between the end of this year and the start of next year. (Even less, if you’re counting minutes and/or seconds.)
And yet, despite the arbitrary nature of a New Year, it really is refreshing and invigorating; it gives us new focus and even new energy.
Hope all goes well for Randie & Ryan in 2018 – for both the characters and the creator!
Oddly, according to a report by Minnesota Public Radio, there are far more people born on January 1, than you might think. The significant difference is provided by immigrants.
When an immigrant comes to a new country and cannot speak the language and has no official documentation (due to refuge status, the home country having poor records, or other circumstances), the immigrant officer will often put down “1/1” and an estimated year of birth as their birthday.
A fresh start indeed! And every New Year becomes a reminder for the hopeful immigrant with an “official” January 1st birthday.
I just saw an article in my news feed that said that the “political climate” (a euphemism for the current White House) made 2017 seem to DRAG on forever. Agreed.
My production is steady. But a goat for the coming year… GET AN R&R book in production! Prod Prod Prod.
Maybe we can have a contest to predict the next set of trials and tribulations in their lives for the coming year. I suggest:
1. Randie breaks several bones in her hand and can’t do arty stuff for six months
2. The little pregnancy kit comes back positive
3. Randie’s fear of gnomes gets out of hand and she gets sent to Arkham
The hand problem is the most likely, especially for digital artists. We pay our artists very well so that they don’t ruin their hands trying to make extra money from commissions. We had an artist wreck her dominant hand from overwork over four years ago and she still has not been able to work professionally.
1. Randie contracts superpowers, names herself “CAPTAIN COFFEE” and must now balance her normal life, her art life, and her hero life.
2. Ryan finally confesses to Randie he’s an alien from another planet, here to observe humans, squirrels, and gnomes. (I mean, really… what are the odds of there being such a wonderful HUMAN guy?)
3. In a massive mental battle of galactic proportions, Twinkie tries to turn Ella? Will Ella turn to the dark side? Or will Ella’s goodness instead save Twinkie, bringing him to the light? (WOW! This sounds like a great story premise! They should make a movie!)
A new year, with new opportunities to do amazing things and NOT get hurt in the process! Think of the caffeine to come and trooper on!
Yes, the new year shall be full of coffee shops… for SURE. I guess, that’s really the only reliable prediction… coffee will happen.
My life has MUCH more certainty! Coffee, wood piling, mosquitoes AND snow shoveling will happen! I’m blessed to know the future! Kind of…. lol, anyways, Happy New Years for tomorrow!
We always mark the New Year as being a time of renewal, despite there is only 24 hours between the end of this year and the start of next year. (Even less, if you’re counting minutes and/or seconds.)
And yet, despite the arbitrary nature of a New Year, it really is refreshing and invigorating; it gives us new focus and even new energy.
Hope all goes well for Randie & Ryan in 2018 – for both the characters and the creator!
Thank you, Pete… I hope that YOUR new year brings only success and love and things most agreeable. May you have Joy!
And, really… one’s birthday ought to be the start of the new year.
Oddly, according to a report by Minnesota Public Radio, there are far more people born on January 1, than you might think. The significant difference is provided by immigrants.
When an immigrant comes to a new country and cannot speak the language and has no official documentation (due to refuge status, the home country having poor records, or other circumstances), the immigrant officer will often put down “1/1” and an estimated year of birth as their birthday.
A fresh start indeed! And every New Year becomes a reminder for the hopeful immigrant with an “official” January 1st birthday.
Fast away the year may pass, but at least your production is up.
I just saw an article in my news feed that said that the “political climate” (a euphemism for the current White House) made 2017 seem to DRAG on forever. Agreed.
My production is steady. But a goat for the coming year… GET AN R&R book in production! Prod Prod Prod.
And may you reach that goat! *hehe*
Hahahah! GOAT! Hahahaha… well, if it’s that UNICORN goat from Despicable Me 3, I should, at least, have my math skills increased!
Maybe we can have a contest to predict the next set of trials and tribulations in their lives for the coming year. I suggest:
1. Randie breaks several bones in her hand and can’t do arty stuff for six months
2. The little pregnancy kit comes back positive
3. Randie’s fear of gnomes gets out of hand and she gets sent to Arkham
The hand problem is the most likely, especially for digital artists. We pay our artists very well so that they don’t ruin their hands trying to make extra money from commissions. We had an artist wreck her dominant hand from overwork over four years ago and she still has not been able to work professionally.
Responses to your suggestions:
1: Randie re-bonks her head, thinks she’s Jean-Michel Basquiat and roams the streets of Portland painting graffiti on buildings.
2: she and Ryan give birth to a garden gnome
3: Randie encounters a band of rabid squirrels at Lauren Park and runs home and hunkers in her basement hideout for months.
Oo! Oo! I’ll play, too!
1. Randie contracts superpowers, names herself “CAPTAIN COFFEE” and must now balance her normal life, her art life, and her hero life.
2. Ryan finally confesses to Randie he’s an alien from another planet, here to observe humans, squirrels, and gnomes. (I mean, really… what are the odds of there being such a wonderful HUMAN guy?)
3. In a massive mental battle of galactic proportions, Twinkie tries to turn Ella? Will Ella turn to the dark side? Or will Ella’s goodness instead save Twinkie, bringing him to the light? (WOW! This sounds like a great story premise! They should make a movie!)
Ha.. well, Captain Coffee strikes again! With her ESPRESSO Powers!
I laugh, because we actually say that Nelson is an alien!!! Hahahahahah!
Well, Ella is a blackish tuxedo cat… I guess she could go either way… May the kibble with her!
Coffee…is there anything it CAN’T do?
Gulls website is down for the time being. Re-tooling.