Welcome!

Hello. I'm Ashira, Ashira Saide Cartel. You may know me from my other websites - Ashira's Notebook and Ashira's Store - but this is a totally different place [obviously].

I get bored with my life and have many plans. I try to keep people updated as best as I can, but that's kinda hard. I like ranting, I'll admit that, and sometimes talking about my website just doesn't happen. I don't like a diary because it either just gets really personal and I don't know what to do with it, or more likely than not I wanna share it with too many people and it's not that personal anymore.

As a solution, I first thought I'd try working on an Autobiography...sorta...but there was a lot in it that I just didn't like and didn't want to mention. There was also the fact that most of the book wasn't something I was up to selling, and overall it was just too much work that I wasn't willing to do. So I eventually ended up just quitting it...but I still thought, "What should I do...?" I didn't want to use my time making a whole 'nother website all for the purpose of randomly ranting, so after watching a video on YouTube from user MasakoX, I figured "Eh...alright, I'll give it a go" and here I am...on blogger. I'm also on tumblr if you're more into the short, random crap that's on my mind. I used to put this stuff under my main blog posts as Random Song of the Moment, Random Artwork of the Moment, etc.

I do wanna note a few things to any random visitors, however... first of all, this place is quite different than Ashira's Notebook. I don't censor myself quite so much [therefore I curse/swear, I talk about touchy subjects, etc.]. Secondly, I tend to talk about completely unrelated things from artwork. The things I discuss here usually are just general updates geared towards friends and family interested in what I'm doing with my life, as well as fans looking for a more personal side of the artist behind the artwork.

If you're hoping to get an inside scoop on my current projects, I will occasionally put things about them, but usually I'll write about random crap. In that case, I suggest you look at the News section on Ashira's Notebook more often and maybe checking out the Forums. If you're looking for examples of my written work, again I share some things on here, but the majority of my work is on my Writer's Cafe.

All that in mind, I hope enjoy your stay at Ashira's Home.
~Ashira

Friday, February 24, 2012

Big News :D

So some of you might know this already, cuz I haven't exactly kept it that secret, but I figured since not everyone knows [and when I told everyone I was still wavering between staying and going], I thought I'd just give you all the big news :D

I am dropping out of my high school, getting my GED in these next couple months [at longest, I'm even considering just going in in a couple of weeks], and starting college at Front Range this summer or fall. So yup. It's official everyone! Today my dad is talking to the school about me taking my leave, I'll be dropping off my books and such soon here, and I'll be starting college early :3 But don't get me wrong, that's not all I'm doing. Goodness, no, too much free time haha

Here's a list of all that my leaving high school entails:

Let's start here: I'm going to be working on self-discipline, and to do that I've gotta build good study habits. It's why I'm not going in to take my GED test as soon as I can. I'm going to be dedicating a few hours a day to studying, which is a new concept for me since I've never spent more than 15 minutes just studying [outside of homework]. This should be really good for me, and will help me excel on the GED when I do take it.

I'll be getting my physical education in there quite a bit more. I'll be going to a gym much more frequently, so if there's any friends of mine that wanna work out with me every so often, then hang out after or just go get a bite to eat, then I'm happy to oblige! I know it's a big motivator to have a friend to talk to who's working as hard as I am, so please, if you're a friend of mine, then let me know if and when you'd like to work out with me :3 Maybe we can work out a weekly schedule together and you can get some work out time in too!

I'll be getting a job or two very soon here. I wish that my art was hitting it off and making me some serious money, but I've gotta be realistic here - it's not making me anything. So what I'm gonna be doing is working for my dad at his law firm when he gets his office around May time. Depending on how that much makes me and how much else I'm doing in my day [after I start school] I may or may not get a second job as well, though that's still debatable and won't be happening right away. Regardless, I'm still going to be selling my art on my online webstore, Ashira's Store, and checking my e-mail [and facebook for my friends on there] for requests for commissions. My last thing to say on that subject is I will no longer be giving out free artwork. From this point forward, I will no longer be giving out artwork without some sort of payment. I can't afford to be working hard on gift art just because you don't have the money the moment you want some art, or you're not sure you wanna pay me for my efforts. I will no longer do any free work for anyone but myself because of these sorts of things. Thank you for understanding!

I'm going to be getting my licence and a car in about a month here. Kay Kay, who has been driving me everywhere, can now breathe a sigh of relief - you no longer have to be my ride everywhere! And, by the way: I'm sorry if I've been taking advantage of that any. I promise to make it up to you one way or another. Moving on though: I'm going to try to avoid doing too much with this car. My parents will be paying for the insurance, etc. so I don't want to damage the car any [not that I planned to or would wanna do that with my car either lolz], nor do I want to even treat it as my car as of yet. My parents are paying for it, and I'm going to respect that by keeping it clean and nicely kept. So I'm going to appreciate this car as much as I can, and I'm going to use it mostly for driving to and from school and work. My point with this: Nobody else can drive this car but me. It's not my car, but being trusted to me, so to those friends [oh you know who you are big brother ;3] who wanted to give my car a test run...I'm sorry to say you won't be able to quite yet. Love you though!

Alright, so far that's really all I've got going on. I'm sorry if that was long, but I just wanted to make sure I told everyone everything that was going on. If you have any questions about this [or commissions! :D], message me on facebook or e-mail me at blackstainedsorrow@yahoo.com and a big thanks to all my supportive friends who have been there for me since day one. Love you all so very much!
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