I’m so absurdly tired and I’m mad about it.  I don’t want to feel like I don’t get time to do things I actually like today, but I also feel like I’m just forcing it if I keep myself awake and doing things.  

In other news, sent out some commission mockups and received some very 80s toys in the mail.  

I didn’t hear anything back from the people who wanted the 80′s girly nostalgia-styled things, but I had such a good time doing that that I formulated some plans of things to make and bought some souvenirs of the art styles I was working from.   This is what prompted the sudden Dream Castle clean, actually.  I was making room for these new vintage plastic friends and thought I would consolidate the ponies in the castle situation, including some of the 35th Anniversary ones I bought in a fit of delight and capitalism when I was out in California.  Then I just suddenly saw how filthy Dream Castle was all at once.  Compared to the new ponies, it was freakishly dirty.  Every corner was like the Scream violins.  So it had to be Addressed.  

I got Dream Castle second hand in 2006 (it was so important I bought it without thinking about how I was going to cram it into the microscopic dorm room I was living in at the time), and then it had to spend like the next 10 years in my mother’s basement, so it has been waiting a while.  I think it’s been wiped down with water a few times, but a proper cleaning has always been ‘soon’ because of its circumstances always being temporary.  I don’t think I realized that had happened when I excavated it from my mom’s. It’s now been scrubbed in every crevice multiple times with cloths and a toothbrush like I’m fucking Cinderella.  The pony residence is probably cleaner than mine.

I still can’t get this 30+ year old yellowed glue or whatever off of the joint areas, though.  And I think I gave myself a serious headache with all the junk I tried to use last night.  So I’m gonna Not tonight. 

But that’s what is happening there.