Maybe tomorrow I'll update my DeviantArt or I'll just link some of my more recent work to you guys.
I'm at my boyfriend's aunt's house right now so I can't :P

If you post it I'll totally add it to my DA watchlist

My DA user name is also Booderdooder xD
I just need to get around to updating it.
Kind of abandoned it after losing my passion.
Got it back now though. People that wanted
me to commission them might be a bit
disappointed.

omigosh your art is adorable!!

Thank you (>u<)
My style has changed a little over the months, but
most of the content is still the same.

^^ Knowing a lot of artists, it's often for the better.

Wow! I'd forgotten about how this site often draws amazing artists ~ Nemo/Cloud and Booderdooder - awesome eye candy for the morning!

Have you recovered from your long work day, Poet?

How are you this morning, Livi?

I know I'm forgetting people - my apologies - waiting for coffee to kick in.

Originally Posted by The Wandering Poet

@ Cloud - Hello! :3 Of course you are welcome here.
*clicks* Ooh nemo's art. Yeah she's an amazing photographer :3

I'll let you into a secret - I am her. I just am not fully throwing it out there, but I'm to the point of not caring if people know. But I needed to get away from my username, and associating things with that name, so I've switched names, and accounts. And thank you.

Originally Posted by Elmira Swift

Wow! I'd forgotten about how this site often draws amazing artists ~ Nemo/Cloud and Booderdooder - awesome eye candy for the morning!

I need to get better at remembering to actually upload photos on there. So pics on there tend to come in clumps because I'll go "Oh, yeah! I need to actually update pictures on dA. Doh...!" And then I have to sort through iPhoto and find pictures so they come in giant clumps. Haha! I think I'm fully updated with photos on there, finally! :P

My sister is the same way with needing her coffee to kick in before things start functioning properly. She calls it her 'brain juice'.

My family knows I have a routine first thing in the morning, and since I'm usually first one up, I can do it and be able to function. Today I woke up and was bombarded with questions ~ which required thinking ~ and I'm trying to recover from that. Brain chemistry was and still sort of is out of whack.

Cloud, was your user name just on DA or was it your name here? I'm trying to remember people here from way back.

Booderdooder, I love your artwork and if you'd like to do an avi thing either for a sig or so I can put it in an album here that would be more than enough for the Scythe. I can even add gold if you'd like :)

@ The Wandering Poet

I'm always trying to refine my style. I hate drawing in the same one
over and over again for years or I never improve.

@ Elmira Swift
Oh yay :3 would you want me to draw your current avatar,
or do you have another favorite?

Questions first thing do not help, when one isn't fully awake and not functioning properly.

Same username on there as was my old username on here Before that I was HopelesslyInLove (or something along those lines) - changed to Nemo.love_22 (on here, and I recently abandoned that account and came over here - for reasons I won't go into but I had my reasons for abandoning that account and coming over here, so I'm Cloud now. )

Booderdooder ~ that would be awesome!! I dig this one and am trying to refrain from adding more foo foo to it.

Cloud ~ I think I remember your username from a few years ago, but my memory is not fantastic for names. Faces, definitely but not names. I do understand the need to change them from time to time.

Well, if you change it a little, I can always alter the drawing.
It doesn't take much time to add a flower or something :P
Don't worry about it if you want to keep playing with it.
It will take me a few days to start, anyway.

Elmira: I had a very good reason for the change. Anyways, yeah... other than the bombardment of questions this morning, how's your day?

I may have to disappear as my tutor (she's also a friend) invited me to brunch with her and her roommate. And I probably will have to walk to the restaurant, which will take me like... mmm.. quite awhile - like over an hour to walk there. I'm waiting to see if I can get a ride - and she just texted me to tell me that she can pick me up. Thank goodness. I could have done it -I figured out the fastest way there, but this way, I don't exhaust myself before we eat. I can give her a bit of money for gas. :]

Have a good time, Cloud :3

I'll be going to my boyfriend's grandmother's house soon,
but I might take my tablet with me so I can post.

It's cool and I hope I'm not giving you the impression I'd like to know why - that's your business I'm okay. The kids both received chocolate bunnies, but Otto doesn't want to eat his because "they're so cute!" and he is now trying to justify eating his sister's. Um...

So glad you are able to meet with your friend! Is this a restaurant you like going to?

Booderdooder ~ I'll probably leave it as-is for a few days until I see something shiny

Booderdooder: Thanks. I'm sure I will. It gives me more time to practice, as my tutor is deaf. :] I'm fluent in sign.

Elmira: I wish I had gotten anything... I'm still kinda bitter about this because once again, I'm alone without family. And they're all up at home celebrating my grandma's birthday today... and I can't be there. :/ Plus mom totally forgot to send me anything like she normally does... she did the same for Valentine's too... I guess it's easy to forget someone when they live hours away. :/

Haha, so he doesn't want to eat his, but yet eating his sister's is ok? LOL. Gotta love kid logic.

I've never actually been to this restaurant, but from what I see from the menu online, it looks like good food. :] Better than my frozen microwave food that I have for today because everything here at school is closed today. :/ So I can't go to the cafeteria.

The campus cafeteria is closed? I do understand about the out of sight out of mind mentality. I was in the Navy stationed just two hours from home and I may as well have lived in Alaska. Even now? My folks blow us off because we live in another state. I have to call them on my and the kids' birthdays. My parents are dorks though. I know it's tough when you want to maintain a connection with family and they're probably thinking we're adults and not interested in things family did when we were kids. I know I'm having trouble figuring out what my daughter wants to do because what worked well for her a few years ago may seem too juvenile - and I don't ask and find out later she wanted to do what we did in the past. So... finding this whole parenting thing requires more conversations and fewer assumptions.

Our Dorm cafeteria is closed today, so is our little store here at the dorms.

Mom calls often and wants to stay in contact, despite the fact I'm 8 hours from home, but she admitted to me that she totally forgot to get anything together -same thing happened with Valentine's Day, but she didn't even tell me she forgot - she just never sent anything. :/

My parents love to assume things, and that just really annoys me. :/ I've got this trait -- it's called Sensory-Processing Sensitivity -- and I've only realized this last semester - I have known about it, but I didn't have a name before last semester. It basically explains why I am the way I am. But anyways, yeah, mom is now trying to make up for years of not believing me with things that are brought on because of this - I am more sensitive to noise and well basically all of my senses are heightened. And I would talk about that all as a kid, and no one believed me. So yeah... I know about wanting better communication.

My niece has a similar condition I guess you'd call it? And sensory issues to noise, light, touch are things we deal with because of autism (both kids and myself). I do remember trying to explain why things were disturbing or irritating when I was younger. I'm sorry you're going through that with your mom because I know it's frustrating and upsetting. However, I'm glad you have friends who are with you today!!

People who have what I have - it's basically a heightened nervous system - are Highly Sensitive People (HSP). And it's something that 15 to 20% of the population has but it's highly misunderstood.

I used to complain about how much noise kids in my classes made when I Was younger and my parents just thought I was being a typical kid and just complaining to complain, but I was completely serious about the noise. It still bothers me but I rarely complain about it now. But I really don't like loud places, and small group discussions in classes - when they're not in ASL - suck!

Yeah! Yay for real food, and not microwaved frozen food.

They weren't sure about my niece because of our family history with autism and assumed she has Aspergers and possibly OCD. She was tested and I think her official diagnosis is not the same thing you are dealing with, but something similar. They made some accommodations for her in the classroom if things are too noisy or distracting. So, maybe the specialists are figuring out there are different degrees of sensitivity?

Have you decided what you are going to order?

That's good that they were able to do things to help her out. I just have had to learn to deal with things on my own as I wasn't believed till I was almost 22 by my own parents (I'm 25 now). And I still have people who tell me it's just something that I'm making up to hide behind. :/ I'm sure that there are varying degrees of sensitivity. No two people are the same. I've never been officially tested, but based on the list of things that make it something - basically all of them relate to me.

Mmm, not yet. I'm horrible with making decisions. xD LOL!

My friend is running a bit behind schedule and I chose to wait for her to come pick me up as the restaurant is in an area I'm not super familiar with, so this way I can familiarize myself with the area and then next time I can walk without worrying about getting lost.

I wasn't diagnosed until I was 43 and my dad was in his late 60s. We thought we were pod people or something. Social interaction was such a stressor for me I opted to study anthropology to just figure out what I was doing wrong in the eyes of other people. For a long time I thought it was all related to PTSD from some things that happened to me when I was a child, but it was more than that. Thought about studying psychology, but found it too stressful to focus on someone's problems because of my innate need to see patterns and fix.

I found other people will either be sensitive enough to understand not everyone operates the same way or they are unlikely to bother. I no longer take it personally because if I have to constantly explain who I am to people, it's not worth my time.

With the information you've seen about HSP, what can you do to lessen the severity of sensory overload?

Basically it's doing everything I already was doing whenever I start to feel overloaded.
Take breaks off on my own whenever I'm starting to feel overloaded, be able to listen to my body and understand when I'm getting overwhelmed and be able to excuse myself. Use my noise canceling headphones, which helps to calm myself down with noise. Try to find smells that don't give me headaches (most air fresheners) make me feel sick to my stomach.

Basically listen to my body, and when I start to realize that I'm getting overwhelmed - have a back up plan in place so I can retreat to try to refresh. It's different for everyone, depending on what you do to bring yourself back down and relax and refresh.

More on HSP.