A personal life update
Feb. 12th, 2010 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bladesparkI don't normally say much about my personal life outside of certain filters, because I don't really feel like sharing everything I do with the whole world. Just the way I am, I guess, I'm pretty introverted, and I save public posting for my art, by and large. But sometimes personal life affects my customers, so occasionally I feel I should mention a few things...
I suffer from depression. I've been fighting it on and off since 2005. At the moment what I mostly have is Seasonal Affective Disorder, which means I get horribly depressed during winter. Which is right now, for anybody who hasn't noticed all the snow and rain and cold. :)
That would be part of why I'm currently running not quite two months behind on fursuit commissions, as I'm working now on stuff that was scheduled for December completion. (The other part is that I'm *still* playing catchup from the wedding, which ended up eating nearly three months of my life, as far as productive work goes.) Getting the small stuff done is always a little easier, tails are a nice break from working on larger, more stressful and often more frustrating projects, but I know I'm not always the best at getting larger commissions finished on time, for which I apologize. Some days I look at the massive amount of work piled up for me to do, and all I want is to crawl back into bed and not come out again. I don't post about that very often, because I don't really feel it accomplishes anything to whine to people about how hard and awful my life is.
Mostly I'm posting this to remind everybody, current, future, and potential customers, that I say my completion estimates are just estimates for a reason, and it mostly has to do with this kind of thing. Life happens, and I have days when climbing out of bed is an accomplishment in and of itself, so not a lot of work gets done. And so the work is sometimes late. I try to not miss hard deadlines, but I'm pretty bad about hitting the soft estimates. Anybody reading this who has a hard deadline they need a major project done by, and it's not noted on my website, might want to drop me a line and let me know, btw.
I appreciate the patience of my customers very much, and with spring on the way I hope to be able to pull myself out of my current funk and start getting caught up.
This ends your irregularly scheduled "spark's personal life update."
I suffer from depression. I've been fighting it on and off since 2005. At the moment what I mostly have is Seasonal Affective Disorder, which means I get horribly depressed during winter. Which is right now, for anybody who hasn't noticed all the snow and rain and cold. :)
That would be part of why I'm currently running not quite two months behind on fursuit commissions, as I'm working now on stuff that was scheduled for December completion. (The other part is that I'm *still* playing catchup from the wedding, which ended up eating nearly three months of my life, as far as productive work goes.) Getting the small stuff done is always a little easier, tails are a nice break from working on larger, more stressful and often more frustrating projects, but I know I'm not always the best at getting larger commissions finished on time, for which I apologize. Some days I look at the massive amount of work piled up for me to do, and all I want is to crawl back into bed and not come out again. I don't post about that very often, because I don't really feel it accomplishes anything to whine to people about how hard and awful my life is.
Mostly I'm posting this to remind everybody, current, future, and potential customers, that I say my completion estimates are just estimates for a reason, and it mostly has to do with this kind of thing. Life happens, and I have days when climbing out of bed is an accomplishment in and of itself, so not a lot of work gets done. And so the work is sometimes late. I try to not miss hard deadlines, but I'm pretty bad about hitting the soft estimates. Anybody reading this who has a hard deadline they need a major project done by, and it's not noted on my website, might want to drop me a line and let me know, btw.
I appreciate the patience of my customers very much, and with spring on the way I hope to be able to pull myself out of my current funk and start getting caught up.
This ends your irregularly scheduled "spark's personal life update."
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Date: 2010-02-13 02:27 am (UTC)*HUGS*
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Date: 2010-02-13 06:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-13 11:12 am (UTC)For my project, I can give you until early June. I'd like to wear it to AnthroCon (June 23ish) but if you can't make that, fine. Just keep me posted. It won't kill me to go without. :) Friends are more important than fur.
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Date: 2010-02-13 11:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-13 11:53 am (UTC)I've noticed in the Artists_Beware community, a lot of the main issues revolve around lack of communication. I'd say that at least 25% of the complaints are that one party hasn't heard from the other and that is why the post is made. Personally, I can't see doing that to someone but then, I've worked in "the real world" before and I know what is expected in proper business transactions. That's why I feel comfortable with you making my costume. I knew ahead of time about you moving deadlines and I didn't have a problem with it because you know how to use email/LJ/etc to talk to people. Updates are just as important as the finished product.
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Date: 2010-02-13 12:00 pm (UTC)I know I've left a few unhappy customers (I know at least one of them is crazy, also) but none of them could ever complain about my communication, at least. :D