do you know how LONG I've been waiting for an opportunity to change my deviantART name WITHOUT going through the trouble of starting a brand new account? I've worked hard for the pageviews I've accumulated and I like all the people I watch/watch me back. I really didn't want to have to start from scratch all over again. This account has HISTORY. It's seen me all through my highschool years and now through my working years and now soon to be college years! SO YEAH. I was pretty stoked when I saw the new feature come down. PHEW.

But now I have to change my devID to say Reba-Joy, and not Miss-Ribbit32... hahaaaa Ah well.

In the meantime I am preparing for a MOVE. I am moving ONCE AGAIN. I will have been at my current place for only a year! But I'm moving closer to the Big City - Vancouver. As much as I am a country girl, I can't hang on to the big open spaces much longer. Gotta get some more schoolin' under my belt and acquire a - hopefully - new and better job.

In speaking about deviantART some more... I need to find a way to properly whore myself out. I don't think I'm as bad as they get at photography, and I believe I'm improving a lot.. but it's really hard to get recognition here on dA. I find the whole thumbnail viewing in your messages takes away from pageviews - as convenient as it is. As has been the age-old problem here, fanart and anime get a bucket load of attention. Or artists who already have established a massive following. It's difficult for us.... less popular people... to get some views. Buuuut all you can do is bitch and moan about it, right? I don't think that will drive me from this website - it's one of the few things I've stuck with for so many years. Like before, this place has history to me. And I'm not quite ready (or mad enough) to let it go! I love it here.

So I guess I just gotta get more active. I used to be super talkative and commented on just about everything I looked at. I don't know why I stopped - other than laziness. I figure if I'm hurting for attention, so is everyone else. So instead of complaining about it and doing nothing to fix it, I should get up off my lazy bum and help other people out too!

So cheers to that.

ALSO! I HAVE A FACEBOOK PAGE
[link]
Cool!

-Reba