GAHHH!

Okay I just need to fess up. I have a serious case of lazy and deflection lazy. There's so much I need to get done and I either ignore it or act busy by doing ultimately useless things. I've recently started reading up on things that are important to me again, like making things at home for cheaper and/or better than I can buy at the store, or urban/suburban homesteading in general. I feel a bit better at that because it's not me spending hours on Pinterest pinning random fun things or feeling guilty because of all those annoying motivational pins about weight loss >_<

When it comes down to the nitty-gritty (which is a weird word...), I am lazy and it just cannot go on like this. I want to be a wife and mother who cooks, sews, gardens, preserves food, raises chickens/quail/rabbits/a pygmy goat who shall be named Geraldine, home schools the kids, still goes to anime conventions with the kids in cosplay of course, and draws comics that are just plain epic. Kinda' ambitious isn't it? It is especially when I'm a wife who has 36 pounds to lose by August yet can't seem to get off her duff and exercise, can't remember where her husbands socks ran off to, has to fight the clutter to even find her sewing machine let alone sew anything more than a straight-ish line, can't remember to do her own self-taught drawing lessons, will be doing pretty much all of her JAFAX cosplay last minute and killed the cord on her graphic tablet.

When I look at that list, I'm so very glad that I'm not alone in trying to make this happen. Seriously, if I didn't have Jesus, I'd go absolutely insane. I know that all things are possible because He gives me the strength to start and keep going, despite myself.

And now, Pygmy Goats, curtesy of Crosswynd Farms of Shelton, WA.

I love the long-suffering expression on who I presume is the momma goat.

Welcome to My Head

That's probably the most ominous beginning I've ever done for a blog. Of course, once you get to know me, it will seem pretty normal.
    
Anyway, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Rachel, though I'm also known as LunaMusings, Ookaminokage and She Who Must Be Obeyed. Okay, not really on that last one but a girl can dream. I'm married to a fantastic and insanely hilarious man named James. We do not have children yet. Emphasis on yet.
   
I am a comic artist, writer, cook, knitter, sewer and just about anything else I want to be. I simply love making things, tangible, edible and intangible. I suffer from no lack of inspiration. In fact, I have too many ideas. And that's why I'm here. I want to reach out to others like myself who have that same problem, the opposite problem, or someone who just needs a nudge in the right creative direction. I hope to share ideas that will inspire new projects for all who read my posts.

I hope that my brainstorms, sudden inspirations and even my "cranial drizzle" can be of use to you all out there in the great unknown of the internet. I hope to be posting every Friday or Saturday until January, when I'll finally have constant internet access. My posts will be varied, from recipes I've tried or made up, to sketches of characters, to the Christmas present marathon I will be embarking on called "Project Sock Critters". There will be much more and I hope to also include spotlights on other peoples' work in the posts to come as well.

I hope you'll take this journey with me. Thanks!