I had a slight mental breakdown. I had not been taking care of my needs, only my wants, and it finally got to me. I am in full burn-out. No amount of sleep or exercise was helping. I didn’t end up dropping all of my classes. I kept the one that was online. I’m very sad about Biodiversity. It was my favorite and I was learning a lot, but skipping classes like I was doing wasn’t sustainable and I would not have passed my midterm exam. I’ve been accepted to Mizzou Online, but I’m not sure if I want to try this semester again–retake the same classes next semester–or if I just want to cut my losses and transfer to an online school.

In the meantime, I have been finishing the upstairs of my garage to make a proper studio/study space. I can’t focus in this house with two teenagers and Spouse working from home now. I need my own space to breathe.

So far, I have fully insulated the upstairs, built and installed two half walls to separate the 12′ by 30′ space, framed out vents, and started putting up drywall. Spouse has helped with the electrical, because though I am trained for it I find it quite tedious. The drywall is going to take a while to get done and I still have to build a full wall downstairs and frame out a door, and install said door, and insulate that new wall, and add drywall to it. I’m possibly looking at a few weeks depending on how soon I can get a door delivered.

While I am finishing the studio, the Squish collection is being put on hold again, but so is everything else… except Theodore.

This is Theodore “Teddy Bear” Handyman. We’ve had him for almost two weeks. Teddy is 3 months old. We adopted him from a rescue in St. Louis.

Oh! I did ship out the prints last weekend. I hope they’ve all made it safely to their new homes. And today I varnished the Flirting With Death series that I painted over a month ago. As soon as those are dry, they’ll be listed in the shop. I’ll update here when that happens.

I think that’s all I have right now. I’m still just tired and pushing through. I hope you’re doing well.

Love,
Liz/socialanxietyandart