Long over due

Hey everyone

Personal Updates:

I know I've been keeping you all updated but very sporadically so i promise to try and do better. I apologize in advance as this journal may get very lengthy.

Personally i have alot going on at the moment, in less than 3 weeks i will no longer be employed as at Florida Hospital. I feel sad in a way as i liked my job and the people there but on the flip side to this is that in less than 2 months i will be moving back to The Bahamas. I am so excited about this i didn't know it until the beginning of this year but i miss my home. Up until then i thought i just missed one person there, but i realized that while i miss them the most ... i just miss the familiarity of it all and the difference in culture and my family and i never realized how alone i felt sometimes even though i have friend around me. So while there are alot of nerves involved with this move i am also extremely happy. I just wish i could figure out where to start with all this moving stuff ... i just keep procrastinating about everything involved with it. I haven't found a job for when i move back but i have faith something will come up until then i will just enjoy the idea of being home.

I was also given a sort of wake up call recently.. to give some background i've always had weight issues but i try to exercise and eat relatively healthy most of the time. Well about two weeks ago I woke up with a weird feeling in my chest which persisted throughout the day. After being told by my sister who is a nurse i went and got it checked out only to find my blood pressure was extremely elevated (or so the doc put it) 170/110. So i spent the afternoon in the ER getting check out and with my EKG, chest x-rays and lab results all turning up normal i was sent on my way and told to monitor my pressure all week and see a doctor on Friday. Well i did and it was still elevated but no as bad as that day... and the Doctor Friday decided i have Hypertension ...at 26. It depressed me at first but with both my parents being diagnosed with it when they were fairly young i guess its just genetics. I am currently on medication for it with the hopes that with diet and exercise i can get it under control and in a month be taken off the medication. The doctor believes its stress related and with my move impending and my mother recent hospitalization i can see why. So i've been working on it.

Otherwise my life is going really well no complaints just alot going on. How are all of you?

dA Updates:

I've got some updates for you all dA wise as well.

First things first dA has been updating the Forums!!! Check out the hq here. Some of the updates have already taken effect (since i am late with this) so be sure to check out the forum page!

Also the #MNAdmin and #help chatroom have been consolidated so please use :#help: from now.

The MN@ team have also recently had some big transitions with Narfmaster, mackattack23, leaf-lover, TerraRhapsody and Oukan returning to the community and FritsPlays and abutton joining the team.

Here is a few of the MN@ News Articles from the past weeks:

Forum Features #17 - May: Fire!
I Came, I dAmned, I Founded [15]
Putting the ART in #devART Vol. 22
The LOL Corner [#110]

I'd also like to pimp out the deviant365 project! Its a fun way to get involved with the community so check it out!


I think thats it for now, later guys.