Pretty much was a family members last day of work at the school. So they came home and suddenly wanted to start moving things around/taking things out.

So I got a small amount of work done but not much. So late spring cleaning bug has hit aldfj. Ah well our house looks nicer as well.

I hope to resume work tomorrow, I need to go get :linkRazz:'s marker for his badge. Yes badge, I might be open for them soon, he was willing to be my test subject. Anyways that and some other stuff needs to be picked up, and I've gotten the offer from said family member to get my hair cut before the family reunion (sunday, won't be on then either.) so depending how much of that eats my time.

I'll be sending out sketches and the finished image when I can tomorrow since I'm gonna go face plant in my bed. I'm so tired aha. As long as SAI stops being a butt, it took like 15 minutes to or more to save something idk why computer needs a restart I think.

Anywho, just updates! Didn't wanna just poof without giving some warning to people.
Gonna try to open for icons, sketches, small things tomorrow. If you are interested in one let me know.

Since recently my provider decided to do a craptasic job on a tag for a friend and then couldn't see how it was wrong/ told us that it won't always come out looking like the image. Which is bull since I made over 20 (guessing) tags and they were great. So I went about on my search again, I know where to get most things but couldn't find what I needed for years.

Finally came across everything I need! The issue is I don't have the money to get it going. But once I get a little extra set aside I'm going to get some stuff and test it out, if it passes my expectations of qaulity well dog tags will be open!

I know there are a few people who have been wanting them for a good long time since I stopped making them a good time back. So there is hope yet, and we don't have to deal with my provider being a dickweed like they are right now.

I'm hoping to get them before MFF (which I hope to be going to, any friends have a room in the main hotel they are willing to share with 4 other people lol.) so I can take them to the con with me. Though I'm not sure how many I'd be able to honestly get done at the con but some premades might be done.
Which I'm sure I'll ask later what to make if I do make them.

So once I get over start-up cost who knows.
As of right now I'm not going to take a trade for things sorry. I know some people have offered to trade art for the stuff I need. But til I know, there is no reason for it.

After I get some work done today I'll either do a stream (after noon today central time this isn't for sure so yah.) and do some hourly things, or just open up for sketches, icons, ect. Bills are due in the next couple days so yah :I suck.

I'll stop rambling now.

I had... an interesting day that resulted in little to not art done :I I'm gonna try to get some creative juices going and at least DOODLE something be it commission or one of the 20 ideas I have swirling in my mind right now.

Started off with me not being able to sleep again, joy of joys. I finally get to sleep and something wakes me up and hour or two later. I heard something shut off and thought someone turned the air off, but it finally dawned on me our power completely went out possibly on the block.

We have someone across the street who sweeps her drive way a lot. Come out pretending to sweep it looking around seeing if we all lost power. It was freaking hilarious so that made the morning pretty good.
We regained power an hour later but I didn't get back to bed for a few hours. Did some things and one of my cats decided she wanted to try and get in something upside down and ended up making me help her.

For whatever reason she flipped out and ripped open two fingers. A huge one on my thumb and a smaller part on my pointer finger. So I had to deal with taking care of that and having a bit of issue with one part of my thumb. I honestly shouldn't be typing or doing stuff but its really hard to not use my dominant (no less art hand). I'll see how it goes and check on them tomorrow. I'll leave out the details since they are kinda gross but thankfully no signs of infections right now. Thats what I'm worried about most.

But yah after all that fun I went back to bed. Just to be woken up like every few minutes to an hour, mostly by Twitch's cat. Who takes off in a flat run down the hall, jumps/smashes into my door and rapid fire scratches my door to get me to get up just so she can make it a game and run away before I open the door. Or other things kept happening so YAY LACK OF SLEEP NAURO.

Oddly enough I've been in a pretty good but super tired mood today. Sorry for lack of replies and whatnot, this is the most I've typed all day and my thumb is starting to go D8. Which is making my wrist a not happy camper lol.

NOT what I wanted to happen today but I will power through /determined

Sadly gotta open for new commissions to work on between others in the next day or so. So you can throw some suggestions my way if you want. Thinking about icons/bust ect.

Edit: OK WELL I TAKE THAT BACK dA.
I ended up making the account I wanted before this thing popped up. So no, I can't get the username /flips tables.
Why in the world must you make crap so hard dA.

THANK.YOU.dA

You have heard my prayers of a name changing thing. So that other account I was going to switch to in a few months, so now I don't really have to causing a lot of people to throw a bitchfit about me moving. Though it would have gotten rid of the dead accounts on my list and been a fresh clean start.

But anyways, I'm not going to RUSH and change my name this second. I will give it a time, my name is grabbed that I want (Though I would have still prefered NK or Nauro but ah well.) I'll let people go nuts and drive others up the wall (since already people are having fits over this, seriously you don't have to "waste" a few seconds of your life going and hitting the watch button.)

Why do I want to change my name? I hate hate hate hate hate this name, I kid you not. I made it in my wolfaboo days and have been pondering moving for a long time but I never did.
I'm not into wolfs, I don't find them amazing wonderful and special creatures, sorry. Only wolfs I find interesting or worth it are the truely endangered ones.

So yah, I'll either in a few weeks be changing my UN when the rush dies down or I'll just move to the new account.

Well hopefully they'll let me use that name. Meh.

First I got to change my subeta UN after all this time and now possibly my dA so woo.

I'm doing better then this journal implies.
Though I'm prob going to go faceplant in my bed for awhile again aldfalk least I was up for a few hours lol.

JOURNAL CRAP:

First off my friend is opening up super duper cheap commissions. I'll be helping out and offering whatever needs be art wise. So go give zephyro a note if you want something, her prices are here: [link]
or check her out on here idk if she posted a commissions dealio but go the ~Vibrating-Piggies

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Ok the reason I went MIA suddenly are lovely, not really. But I've been really iunno off recently having a hard time being social and replying to people. Even so much as uploading has been put off cause I just don't wanna deal with stuff. Which makes it worst for me.

But a lot of it has been, I've been feeling really ill. Some days are better then others but I've been really run down as to late I know stuff has been going around. One night I felt feverish and even dizzy, ever since that night I had a really really bad bought of insomnia, so bad I didn't sleep much one night, and the next I couldn't sleep til the next day right before noon. Even then I didn't sleep much. Course after that I've been super tired and doing nothing but sleeping, at least when I couldn't sleep I could do some art.

So I've pretty much slept a lot of yesterday and pretty much all of today off and on. Its nothing I can control as much as I want to so I just have to give in and sleep. I have this happen every few months its like a darn cycle that no matter what I do it happens.

On the up and up, I figured since my lifestyle has changed (unfancy word: diet) that I wasn't getting a lot of vitamins I was before. You can only get so much, and taking some sour vitamin c things and magnesium wasn't cutting it. So I've gotten some vitamins and starting to feel a lot better then I was before, so I'm hoping this will help me get over stuff and feel better more often.

So where does this place me with art, once I can feel better I can get more then one thing done a day. Hopefully. Depends on how big the thing is, I'm going to try and be more social again and stream more often. I want to get caught up in my artwork and reply to everyone. As well hopefully tomorrow upload everything I want to upload. I would have done it today but I am no on my main.

I have plans to get up decently early and start in on replies and art tomorrow. Hopefully my body will agree with me and allow me to do this. And hopefully my computers will too. With luck I'll do sketch streams or officially open for my first public by the hour commission.

So sorry for those who are waiting, thats why I've been really quiet and at times just gone. It sucks having someone in the house work at a public school, they bring home anything and everything that is being passed around.

Well may bank decided to be a dick all the sudden and I have to get some extra funds going. I had other plans then having my bank suddenly screw me over. So this effects my student loan payments too, so yah HERE WE GO.

I will offer smaller things like sketchy icons, you can find those here: [link]

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What am I offering? I'm offering what seems to be a fan favorite! Fully body, colored and shaded with textured background (or no background if you don't want it.) sketches~ I will do couples for $35, extra characters are that add + $12 USD.

What has changed; I will now send you the sketch before I color. Though I will do one change unless I missed something.

Please note, these are going to be done between regular commissions. So I will use them as warm-ups and/or do them after other commissions.

Examples:






Before ordering please read my ToS located here: [link]
If you are curious about my current que you can find it here: [link]

What I need from you.
Please fill out this form to make it easier:
[link]

If you want you can comment here too. But once you submit your form I will look it over and send you an email/comment back/or not you here (which ever is preferred.) with the amount and my paypal.

Payment is upfront, if I don't receive payment I won't start. If you are weary we can work something out. I will send a small low res blocked out pose. If I don't receive payment after that your slot will be dropped and the pose sold. Sorry it has to be this way, if I weren't in need I would be a little more lax on it.

What I will draw

Anything listed on my ToS.
I will draw sexy/suggestive.
Barbie/Ken doll nudity
Liquid/goo characters (I am fairly new at this mind you I've only done one image)

If your character is a different animal then what I get to draw often/want to draw I will see about getting you a discount too.

Past that its about all I can think of. Sorry for the long long journal.

Slots
Starting with 5, if there is enough interest I'll add a round two of slots.

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I think that covers it, if I don't have something here you want, I might be willing to take a different type of small commission. But I do not want to over burden myself.

Just typing this up between everything, I pulled an all nighter so I'd like to get back to sleep soonish. I'll try to get caught up on all comments and stuff soon. There will be another journal either right after this or soon talking about that issue.


What is a red line?

I don't have the right term or whatever but its a way for me to correct anatomy or other things in an image/sketch. I quite a few for friends and figured I'd go ahead and offer outside of that.

People keep commenting on how I do things, and one thing I did and still do is ask for help. By getting tips and redlines from other artist I've improved greatly. And redlines benefit not only the other person but myself too, I get to learned stuff through the process as well so its a win win.

Please don't be afraid to ask if you need one or have other questions I'm pretty easy going and willing to answer what questions I can.

Now I'm not saying I'm perfect by any means.

Anyways I've lost my train of thought, and where I was going with everything but yah I'll leave it at that for now.

[link]

Seriously, playing with this for the last couple minutes and it seems to be amazingly helpful. You can choose the color of light, the area, type ect.
If you can get past the really creepy stare I think it will be an amazing tool for a lot of artist to have.

Now if you don't mind me I'm going to go back to feeling like crap.

First off go wish my awesome birthday buddy happy birthday too!


And seems to be having a birthday today too so yah!

So thank you all for the wishes and such! So many I've yet to be able to keep up, I'll answer them all tomorrow if I can!

Also I have to share this because its DARLING <3



And thank you who are on subs and sending me gifts cause dfjalfj wow.
I'll add more later.

So I wouldn't open these if I didn't absolutely need to open for more. These will be [b]worked on between[/b] my normal commissions. I don't want to open for more large stuff til I get caught up, as well my waitlist is officially [b]closed[/b].

Also, I will be taking my birthday/29th off so no commissions and whatnot will be worked on then. And I might not be around that day so who knows. Just thought I'd tell people ahead of time.

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Icons

What will these icons look like? Well like my normal sketches just headshots and such.
Here is my newest example~

[link]

So sketchy, in color with some shading and a textured background.

I can also do couples icons for $20. And if there is more then enough interest I'll open for another round earlier or more slots.

Some Info

There is no approval stage with these, I will need all the info listed below so I get everything right.
These are pay upfront via paypal.
Like I stated before I will work on these between regular commissions, so they might take a little bit. But I'll get them to you as fast as possible. Can't think of much more.

What I need

I will need you to fill out the below form when you get one. When/if I accept your slot I will comment back saying so and will give you my paypal. I'll also post it in the journal but DO NOT pay until I tell you if you have the slot. And when you pay if you could PLEASE include your FA name or something that would be great.

All you'd have to do is put like randomfurry2 in the comment section or Sketchy Icon for Randomfurry2. It would help so hardcore.

Form

Refs/Images:
Expression/Mood
Theme (if any):
Single or double?

I feel like I'm forgetting something but that should do for now.

Slots

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Paypal

My paypal is payment@nightsidedesign.com if you need to get ahold of me for other reasons its nauro@nightsidedesign.com though I'd prefer to keep all the icon stuff here.

So a friend of mine linked me to this on Amazon today, its about $5 for a $50 art program. I was wondering if anyone here has used it and what they had to say about it and if its worth it. I mean even if it isn't that grand least its $5.

Figured since I still have left over gift cards from prior birthdays and Christmas that maybe I'd get it for kicks. I went to get the trail but it wants you to put in a credit card and all this other junk just to get a trail for 30 days. So thats out of the question really.

But yah anyone use it/have used it?
I know it might be more for comics (which I wanna start making) but might have other perks too.

I have to say I love this one, its not overly retarded and you can opt out of this. And FACTS I'm learning stuff! ON THE INTERNET now that is something new. I've already learned a couple things.

People need to take a chill pill, don't like this stuff? Then don't get on the internet today yeesh. I mean they could have been worst or low like some other people have done.

Don't expect pranks from me, I have no reason to pull stupid stunts like leaving forevars and style changes.

I'm gonna try to get some art out (did some spring cleaning after going to an awesome lunch with my mom so fun. But really tired now lol.) and start on my backlog. I need to get Kalira's thing finish (and with lots of extras.)

I might hold a kiriban in a few days to, I caught my 54321 yey. I've been waiting for that forever ahah! It came to fast to even offer something then.

This journal ended up WAY longer then I meant for it to be.

Last notes I'm thinking about taking some pixels (both small dA icons and large ones for profiles and whatnot.) or having more sketch sales/icon sales what says you guys?

I tried to hold off as long as I could but I can't anymore. I'll be working on these between my other commissions, I really need to get incontact with some. Though depending your slot I might be email you right away.

These will be a mix between and [link] (Late St. Paddy image I will upload it sometime.)
Or well since its experimental I wanna you know experiment with this. I want to work with loose ideas so unless you really need it there won't be an in between acceptance since its a sketch. Yes these should all be in color, black and white, or sepia tones to make it look old. This I will give somewhat of a say. I will take anthro or feral creatures, if you trust me enough/like my human art I will be willing to try humans to.

Some may even have tiny pieces of a background who knows.

What I need from you.

Ref(s): No more then 3 characters at this time please.
Poses: If you have any in mind I will see about working with those.
Theme: Suggesting a theme will help a lot too.
Bonus points for steampunk, were creature, Victorian era, ect.
Email: Where I can send the high res images once done.

Each extra character is +$5 USD

Payment is preferred upfront and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me who you are when you send payments! So many have sent payments recently without telling me who they are from and its been hell tracking down who sent what.

Slots:

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I'm hoping this will get me back into the swing of art.

Not wanting one of these? Never fret I will be opening up wait list slots as soon as I get a form ready. When on the wait list you do not have to pay until I get close to your commissions. I'll be adding a discount for returning customers in there as well.

So first off I'll be opening sketches tomorrow.

Second, these will most likely be sketches unless agree'd upon to be more. Just know when you do your half/offer what you will do keep in mind mine with be regular sketches, Black and white sketches or colored sketches. If I really like the outcome maybe we can talk about upgrades.

Third, I will be picky, I'm sorry to those who REALLY want to get art from me or do a trade. I rarely open to the public for a reason, and still have trades that I am waiting on. Not trying to call anyone out I've been in talks with one person. I think I'll take  2-5 trades depends on how I feel.

Lastly, commissions ALWAYS come first but I will try to get this out decently fast. Though I will only show/submit the trade when I see some progress from you as well.

This is a human art trade, meaning I'm looking to get human art in return unless I have always wanted to do a trade with you. If thats they case then of course I'll take something different. OH on that note I prefer to draw kemonimi's or whatever they are (human with ears, tail and sometimes they have some other features like animal feet.) If you don't have a character like that then its cool.

I will not be designing your human character for you unless I agree to that. Keep that in mind.

So yah please please please don't get upset if I don't respond. Friends can always ask for trades and if I watch you and you wanna do a trade just ask~





The ONLY reason I'm doing this is because I really wanna get better at humans and maybe drawing them for others will get me even more motivated to do so.

Last bit, I may ask for more then one character just FYI you can do the same.

First off thank you all for the watches,faves, ect. You guys are awesome~

Also I hate posting stuff like this makes me feel like I'm coming up with excuses and whatnot. Also I'll be responding to everything and sending out updates when I can get to my main computer. That or I'll try and transfer stuff to my laptop and use that.

But as most of my older watchers might know, I've been suffering from pain in the jaw area for well I'm guessing months. Thinking its been a few different things. Well I think I found out what it was or is. TMJ (TMD depends who you ask). So I've been proactively trying to reverse and heal that. So far within one day of changing stuff I feel loads better. And even been able to get more then an hour of sleep at a time, so if this keeps going the way its going I'll be close to having this taken care of by weeks end. I'll be sticking to the soft diet and such for at least two weeks just to make sure.

I still need to figure out ways to destress. I know I get myself worked up/stressed about commissions since I feel I need to get everyone on my list stuff super fast. Of course with high qaulity, I really need to change the way I'm doing things so I don't stress myself out as much.

So I'm gonna attempt to get back to work tonight or start back in tomorrow. Sorry for those who are waiting! I'll be making it up to you guys for waiting and whatnot. You guys have been great!

I can say its been nice actually being able to sleep for awhile. With the insomnia and storms recently, its a wonder I've even been functioning at all lol.

On that note I hope everyone has been safe over the last few days and wasn't in the way of the storms.

Sorry if this journal is long and rambly. I tend to ramble a lot anymore.

I want to get better so I figured HEY does anyone know of any good how to's?

The human body isn't you know the issue since I draw human like bodies for anthro its mostly the face. Ok its pretty much the face, idk why I have an issue with them but side view ffff.

Anyways post some please so I can look at them and attempt to practice later after more commissions~

Fyi I'm gonna open for sketch commissions soon too less people want something larger. Then -points to notes.-

-flops in bed.-

First off HOLY COW I am floored you guys! I can't keep up with the comments, and the favs, watches ect SO MANY THANK YOU <3.

ON the more important note!

Go smoother with birthday love! Its her birfday and I think it would make her feel super special if people told her happy b-day :3.

And also gonna pimp her out she is willing to do super cheap commissions to. What could make a better present then money lol.

Thanks guys in advance who do .

Rp = Roleplaying ignore my title I'm trying to be funny at 4 am when I should be sleeping.

WARNING THIS IS LONG I RAMBLED.

ON TO THE FUN STUFF. I really need to stop being stupid about this rp deal, a lot of my former rp partners are no longer on/around/talk to me/ect

But I kinda wanna keep to a certain standard on who I rp with and whatnot. I'm not trying to be mean but I hate going into an rp with someone who does one liners while I put thought into mine.
Looking to rp with someone who will draw our characters as well and not just get into an rp to have their characters drawn. And its kinda obvious if someone does that since they don't attempt to really get into the story.

If it doesn't feel right don't baww at me because I cut it off. If we can't go anywhere with it then why keep trying.

Last catch though >x> I have this fierce fierce want to rp my subeta pets. And want to keep them on subeta, so I'm looking for someone on subeta or mayhaps get on subeta since I want to be able to link out to the other profile and whatnot. Some pets I MIGHT bring off subeta others there is no chance in that. I'll list below with a blurb about them and what I'm looking for. Some are super certain others not so much. You can post your own ocs, I might be able to get someone for them~

[link] if you join feel free to refer me c: I would not be upset.

Constinine: I will be picky with him, I like what was going on before in his rp and were it was going to go.

Const is a angel (seraphim) whom at one point was (partner's oc) gaurdian angel. He either got transferred or went up a rank, I won't say what how or why. After some events unfold (which will kinda start off the rp) he ends up a fallen angel. With a wing missing and others are tattered he has no where to turn but to (partner's oc). He has little knowledge of the world below which can add the the comic value over all. But he ends up waiting in (partner's oc) house (angels can go anywhere lol) which pretty much leads to how they meet ect.

What I'm looking for in the character: Female of course, clutz, shy/flustered, sweet and caring. I feel like I'm missing some things but I can discuss this with the person I choose.

Rp'd most as: Anthro, Kemonomimi (human with ears and tail)

Resolute: Aka Res, his story also deals with a plot that happened on subeta. I can fill someone in who hasn't dealt with it. So he is very site specific, his design though is still in the works. Partner's oc will have to deal with Sever(ine) his cousin popping in now and then, mind you Sever is a crude, self centered type.

Partners oc and Res will either have met at the Masquerade or before then. Res is a tinker and a steampunk/steamwork themed pet, so he builds stuff and can fix almost anything. But he has always kept to himself and had little to no friends other then some of his creations. Sever is the closest thing to a friend he has, Res is use to Sever's color personality and hardly bothered by it. But doesn't do well when Sever pushes him into things. Res is super shy around females, he has a really hard time talking to them. Often studdering, blushing, and all around nervousness, which often adds to his appeal. He is a bit old fashioned about things.

What I'm looking for: Maybe a happy go lucky female who can deal with Res's shy and nervous nature. And isn't afraid to bother him while he tinkers or enjoys that stuff as well. Steampunk theme would help too hah. This is a bit looser here there is still a good bit of wiggle room.

Rp'd as: Anthro. Might do kemonomimi but anthro is preferred right now.

I thought I'd have more >> meh.

Others I might look rp.

Tanak: Dragon Gaurdian of a sacred forest.
Galen: Hard working mechanic, works on airships and stuff like that. Tends to be cold and serious at least at first. (Steampunk)
Sever: Vain, self centered, ass. Really into his looks almost prissy about them. He is blunt, to the point and often cruel. Barely anyone will ever deal with him.


I just noticed all are guys -n- Yuki might be up for rp. But not Xhy. I need more ladies on my account.

RAMBLES.

I will not rp on email or IM so if you rp that way sorry. Those seem to die to fast, I will rp on dA notes or my rp forum. I miiiggghhhttttt rp on subeta smail.

Can't think of much more. I even have some themes but not sure if I'll include those right now. Since some are for friends only.

Sorry if I don't comment back. Just sometimes don't have anything to say, oh and I'd love to see your characters too.

If this journal goes poof by tomorrow either I changed my mind on stuff or found people. Do not note me about this please. I need to answer notes tomorrow and don't want even more notes on top of that.

Anything does, I might have a painted commission slot coming open here super soon. And I'm kinda opening this as a waitlist, so you don't have to pay until I get to you. Though I will often do multiple things at the same time. If you wish to pay ahead of time then that works too.

I am nearly done with all my v-day stuff (I would not suggest getting a v-day commission less its a sketch or icons.) So I will be starting on backlog and moving to new.

New: Tea trade! I want tea like a mofo but dislike the price on amazon. So I thought why not trade a commission slot for tea~ Its pretty easy, I send you a link to were you can send some giftcards to me. In doing so I'll trade the exact amount of the gift cards for art. $25 and up please. I will also allow people to get icons as well.

This is a test and I will only be doing one. If it goes well I'll trade like this more often. Not that I'm not trusting but I would prefer to not have someone I don't know send me tea. Since it can be tampered with so I'd prefer to do it this way.

Augh sorry for the rambles!

As normal please read my ToS (Terms of service) [link] PLEASE PLEASE read this, I have overhauled my ToS.
If you are worried people will get the slot before you then you can always read ahead.

Price list


Slots
1. dune_buggy
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Tea Trade
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Comment here to claim the slot then I will give you my email so we can discuss what you want. I will also use dA notes.
And if you don't want your commission BEFORE I get to yours tell me. I don't want to start blacklisting people for doing this.

First off, I wanna say sorry to those waiting for replies/art the whole being sick thing hasn't helped it. And I have over a week to get some v-day stuff done and I'm feeling the pressure. To those who are waiting because of this v-day stuff. I will get back to you/get you your art soon! I feel like I need to add more to the items too because you guy are so awesome!

On another note, I've been using SAI forever and just now found somethings that will be so helpful. So woo for that!

And yes I got a Nabyn account now~ Thanks to an awesome person!
[link]

I'll be setting up over there soon and getting some stuff in order. I'd like to get a new icon and banner going.
And no I do not have any invites I'm sorry. Please do not ask for them, I have 3-4 people in mind for invites once I get them.
But so far Nabyn seems really nice, I'm liking the whole invite thing, less chance trolls will get on there and such.

But yah quick update since its 4 am here and I should have been asleep hours ago. And once I get up I'll be finishing this v-day image and working on the last two.