12-23-22 (tw - may contain some heavy topics)

2022, what an eventful year it was for me.

This is pretty much a follow-up from this post I made last summer, but also doubling as a year-in-a-review sort of thing.

So, we're pretty much near the end of this year (surprisingly went by pretty quickly for everything that happened), and I just wanted to give another update on stuff going on back at home.

Some great news first, my mom's been finished with her treatments for her sickness since October, as I mentioned in that post, and it was eventually confirmed last month that she was in remission. I personally didn't want to say what it was that she was being treated for, but since it's finally done, I guess I can say what it was, she was diagnosed with cancer back in April, or March, can't remember which month, but it was absolutely devastating when I first found out about it. Thankfully, we caught it early and had it treated right away. It was a harsh several months for her, with the chemotherapy and the radiation treatment, but now she's completely cancer-free!

I wanted to talk about this earlier, but I was still trying to get through my difficult earth science class, and although I was on break when I heard the news, I was still pretty exhausted from the exam I took prior to thanksgiving break, but I'm just thankful that she's still around for me, she can live to see another day, I'm just so happy for her, especially after everything she went through, and I love her so much.

As for me though, I'm still kinda hanging in there, surprisingly I’m almost done with my community college, but this semester that just passed was pretty stressful, and the situation with my mom going through the treatments, combined with the expenses of college classes sort of took a financial hit on us, since my dad had to take off days of work to take care of her, mom couldn't work anymore since she was sick and getting treated.

Because of all that, I've been considering trying out commissions if I'm not super busy with college to hopefully help me and my family out, but I dunno, I need to find a good time for it, especially with balancing the coursework of college and all the other stuff life slings at me. But, what do you guys think of me doing commissions at some point? Should I try it out for a bit? Please let me know below in the comments, thanks.

One more thing, and this one hits really hard for me, but a few weeks ago, as I was finishing up my last few weeks of my semester, I found out my grandpa from my dad’s side unfortunately just passed away. Hearing the news, as I was going through my last few weeks of my semester, really hurt for me and my dad, because now I’ve lost both of my grandparents on his side. We’re okay now though, just the week I found out about it was devastating. I'll miss him so much.

And that's pretty much all I have right now, for real life stuff at home, we went through a lot this year, I hope next year's not as bad, maybe the year of healing.

Meanwhile, not sure if this exactly counts as a holiday thing, but I finally got to upload that old photography project I did a couple years ago. I figured since it’s been two years since I made it, and it was taken during the holidays, I thought I’d just finally post it now.

I also made a music track too, in between working on my earth science stuff, but that’s gonna come a bit later.

Sorry if my posts have been very scattered this year, it's just been a stressful year so far, with college, my mom’s condition and stuff, but I'm still holding out, in fact I feel like my mental well-being has gotten a bit better since that post, just finally expressing everything going on and such, plus I made some amends with some former mutuals in the past, which definitely helped my self-esteem a bit, at least knowing that there's no hard feelings and they're doing better. Still not sure when I'll be back to posting on Instagram, if I should fully return to posting on Instagram either (considering my bias against facebook, or whatever they're calling themselves now, and social media's falling apart at the seams at this point with Elon and Twitter...), also sorry if this post came off a bit sappy and depressing, but I really needed to get this out.

Hopefully next year might be better, and thanks for the support and feedback on my recent stuff, I really appreciate it!

That's pretty much what I have for now, Christmas is coming at an approximate 999mph, so it's REALLY close, and it's freezing out there, so bundle up, sip on some hot cocoa, and spend some time with your friends and family.

Thank you everyone, and have a happy holiday.

-JPiX