This time it's really big news. I am just so overwhelmed by the immediacy of it, that I have little choice but to let you guys know it's happening with me.
Today my father and I learned his commissions, for insurance work he does, will stop in another month or two. Three at best. That means, simply, we are pretty much out of our house, probably by September or near there. Not sure how we are gonna get around that fact now.
It's such a big blow to my Dad, that he is not handling it well. It's even rocked my Mom, and she is "safe" at a nursing home, or so I thought (she is still not stable, but better there than here). It's been a rough day with rough news to learn. I am sure I am not alone though. I guess several of you have been though similar this year. I just thought I had more time before we actually might lose our house though.
You guys have seen fit to stand by me as much as you could this year, and for that, please know your work is coming soon. At least I will finish it before I have to move. That is something I have no choice about. No way I am trotting about with other folk's things huddled in amongst my own meager stuff.
What will we do? No idea. I currently have no outside job, no new income coming in, and now, I have to worry about my Dad's health as well as my own. I am overwieght some still, stress mostly, but have been walking daily to try to relieve the stress of all this. It's gotta be dealt with here and now. Can't have a heart attack now, not when my folks need me most.
This is the year that wouldn't die. I swear...it's like a damn joke!
It just won't stop!
Anyway, to try to sway the demons that are coming my way, I have to sell off most of my collection. I have no choice now. Not after today's news.
I have spent most of the afternoon realizing that I should be grateful rather than sad, that I gathered up so much stuff that I actually can sell. I started this afternoon on Ebay with one figure, my Hot Toys Chopper Predator, but will follow here with some and on Ebay with more.
Too numb to really be upset, but after this year of horrid experiences, it's almost anticlimactic. I think lightening my load will help me solve a lot of things, and maybe redirect my life somewhere I can do more good that just painting figures, even though I love that.
So, anyway, that's today's fun news. SO...If ANYONE is interested in ANY of what I post for sale, PLEASE buy any of it! Haggle, ask, PM, Email. This go round, it's not just to pay my personal bills anymore, but to help my dad and I move and keep going.
I won't be selling it all at once, and not all of it to be sure. I will keep some stuff that means the most to me. But I have to sell off way more than I ever thought. That is not how I planned this a couple of years ago, but that's life.
Workwise, I am still painting, and still working on current projects, such as the Mola Ram and others, but after all that is caught up, not sure. No way I can know. This is just too crazy for me to think about in one day.
Thanks all who ever stuck by me. May the gods of Karma smile your way. And may the mailman deliver some cool stuff to you soon. If I have anything to say about it, he will!
Thanks all! Sales and finished stuff coming!
Les
You rock. 
