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At this point in my life, I've lived over twice my life in suburbs, but a good portion has been in the country. They both have their pros and cons. Small towns are amazingly friendly and supportive communities, but you meet more diverse people and get more exposure to other cultures and ways of thinking towards cities. I could never choose one over another, I need both. I need the way of thinking cities provide and I need the atmosphere of a small community. I'm going to southern Illinois in 12 hours and can't sleep, and I'm excited, if not a little afraid.
My little town of Robinson, Illinois is a great town. I've been nostalgic and homesick about going there recently. I was feeling particularly homesick and nostalgic when I was discussing burger joints (I think it was) with WeirdAndLovely, and my mind wandered off to Moonshine, Illinois. If you don't know what Moonshine Store is or their moonburgers, this video does a decent job of explaining it:
It's not that it's the best place to get a burger, it's the best place to eat that burger. They don't call them moonburgers because they're otherworldly goodness, they call them that because there's nothing on them to begin with, you come for the friendly atmosphere and you're happy. According to my family, Moonshine is still in business too, and I haven't been since 2010. And remembering all of this is when the homesickness hit.
The reason it's been worse is lately is that life in the suburbs has been distracting. That job I was so happy to get a few journals back? I didn't keep it. I couldn't, because I couldn't physically keep up and my weight has never been something that hindered me before, but it did this time, and without going into too many details, I was very upset. Losing the job put a road spike in my tires, so I rested two or three days. Then I got to work on a workout plan, and with the help of my brother, I ended up with a relatively good plan.
I started out well, but my sleep schedule had become wacky when I quit the job suddenly, and my body went from walking out every day applying for jobs to nothing, and my sleep hasn't balanced out since, and me and my brother have not been able to make that 12 PM deadline together even once, so at least a week ago, I had begun entertaining the idea of doing this myself, in a better setting. There's really only two other settings for me, my grandparents, aunt, and cousins in Bloomington Normal or Robinson. I don't know how things are going for my family in Bloomington Normal, but it has rocky since my aunt's divorced husband started deteriorating mentally because of a degenerative brain disease. In Robinson, however, my Great-grandparents live in the center of town, allowing me access to a lot of town things, and my grandparents live outside of town on a few acres of land in the forest, which gives me a lot of freedom to do things.
So this is a heads up of sorts, I'm sorry for pulling this so suddenly, but I have an opportunity to get down to Robinson later today, where I will have some internet but I'll also be preoccupied. I'm going to be cutting down the majority of my internet activity to keeping tabs on friends in the suburbs on facebook and skype (my facebook, if you would like to keep in touch that way (do let me know who you are): www.facebook.com/nichrysalis and my skype is "nic.swaner") and keeping my dA activity to a minimum of posting new bitlets and continue participating in groups I'm a part of.
I hope to get back to dA soon, but real life takes priority, as always.
My little town of Robinson, Illinois is a great town. I've been nostalgic and homesick about going there recently. I was feeling particularly homesick and nostalgic when I was discussing burger joints (I think it was) with WeirdAndLovely, and my mind wandered off to Moonshine, Illinois. If you don't know what Moonshine Store is or their moonburgers, this video does a decent job of explaining it:
It's not that it's the best place to get a burger, it's the best place to eat that burger. They don't call them moonburgers because they're otherworldly goodness, they call them that because there's nothing on them to begin with, you come for the friendly atmosphere and you're happy. According to my family, Moonshine is still in business too, and I haven't been since 2010. And remembering all of this is when the homesickness hit.
The reason it's been worse is lately is that life in the suburbs has been distracting. That job I was so happy to get a few journals back? I didn't keep it. I couldn't, because I couldn't physically keep up and my weight has never been something that hindered me before, but it did this time, and without going into too many details, I was very upset. Losing the job put a road spike in my tires, so I rested two or three days. Then I got to work on a workout plan, and with the help of my brother, I ended up with a relatively good plan.
I started out well, but my sleep schedule had become wacky when I quit the job suddenly, and my body went from walking out every day applying for jobs to nothing, and my sleep hasn't balanced out since, and me and my brother have not been able to make that 12 PM deadline together even once, so at least a week ago, I had begun entertaining the idea of doing this myself, in a better setting. There's really only two other settings for me, my grandparents, aunt, and cousins in Bloomington Normal or Robinson. I don't know how things are going for my family in Bloomington Normal, but it has rocky since my aunt's divorced husband started deteriorating mentally because of a degenerative brain disease. In Robinson, however, my Great-grandparents live in the center of town, allowing me access to a lot of town things, and my grandparents live outside of town on a few acres of land in the forest, which gives me a lot of freedom to do things.
So this is a heads up of sorts, I'm sorry for pulling this so suddenly, but I have an opportunity to get down to Robinson later today, where I will have some internet but I'll also be preoccupied. I'm going to be cutting down the majority of my internet activity to keeping tabs on friends in the suburbs on facebook and skype (my facebook, if you would like to keep in touch that way (do let me know who you are): www.facebook.com/nichrysalis and my skype is "nic.swaner") and keeping my dA activity to a minimum of posting new bitlets and continue participating in groups I'm a part of.
I hope to get back to dA soon, but real life takes priority, as always.
Quick Question
Would anyone be upset if I posted some of my shibari photography here? I mainly use this account for writing because well, I'm mainly a writer to begin with, but tying people up (with consent) to make fun and beautiful designs has become a hobby of mine as well and the site redesign is not friendly to writers anymore. It's a fun way to spend time with someone I love and indulge in my artistic side. As of now, the photos just sit on mine and all my partners' google drives. Here's an example of the kind of photography I do with these photoshoots. Let me know. I'd like to share but if you guys are uninterested or don't want it, I see no need to bother you, but I'd love to share. Nic
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Hey guys, it's been a while. I never stopped lurking around here, but I did stop posting. I kept writing and creating but a lot of my creative energies have gone to projects that either don't work well here (the past two years I've spent learning music theory, guitar, and rapping/singing quite intensely). Any other energy I wasn't spending on my album I had was spent on work, learning programming because I want to switch to that career field, my fiancee and our wedding, and writing bitlets. Guys, I have over 600 bitlets. What do I do with all of these micropoems? Granted, a lot of them have gone on to be full-fledged works of literature.
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Hullo World
What's up guys, it's Nic. I've been busy, lotsa life changes, including becoming a lurker on deviantART, something I never would have expected of myself. My life is changing, for the last year or so I have been working two part-time jobs to make ends meet, and with the help of my family I have kicked debt's butt and am starting school for programming.
I'm excited to develop my knowledge with code, and with the savings I have, I am about to cut down my hours at one job in favor of starting a website of some kind and building it up into something I can make money from as I go to school. I'm a bit paralyzed as to what the website should be abou
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Hullo, dA, long time, no talk. I never really stopped keeping tabs on this place, but I reduced myself to mostly lurking for the last year or so. I've been writing, wedding planning, and otherwise keeping busy.
If anybody followed me before my stream of updates ended, you might have read I ran a pizza chain. I have moved on from that now and started working with special needs kids at the suggestion of a former coworker to supplement my income while I looked for a new job with my skillset. I still haven't found anything, but I'm being very picky. My last job absorbed my life with very little benefit, and now that I've stepped away from that,
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