RANDOM MUSINGS: I'm NOT dead! (seriously!!)

With such a long absence, I would not blame any of you for thinking that I no longer exist. Damn, this entry was in my draft box long long enough. First it was titled "Hell! It has been almost a year!". Then more than a year passed by and I couldn't afford to revamp my blog properly. A year and 8 months passed and Real Life ® gave me a break. But let me explain my long-time absence first.

2011 was a very rough year for me.  I was doing the fifth year of my career; the second one of almost-full-time clinical work in the dentistry clinic of the university. Apart from being a life-sucking activity (seriously, I had class from 8 to 9am, then clinical work, almost every day the entire day) I also ended the relationship with the mother of my son. Also, passing all the subjects in the theoretical part was plain difficult and I had to deal with the clinical part too, if you fail one part, you inmediatly fail the other part of the subject too. It was damn difficult, but I managed to be OK with all the subjects, my patientes, my teachers and son on. Or that's what I thought. Right after Christmas, I was informed that my pediatrics-dentistry teacher wasn't going to allow me to pass the subject. You can imagine what a wonderful end of the year I had.

2012 begun as a depressive year. I thought and wanted to continue my career (still had to pass pediatrics-dentistry) in another campus of the same university but in another neighbour town. For monetary reasons, I couldn't afford it, so I had to do that @#$%$#!^# subject again, here. I was going to have plenty of spare time, cause I had only clinical work on Thursdays and 1 hour of class on Fridays. But even with time, I just had no mood to do anything. During March, April and May I was just a mindless-zombie-like-automaton. Until one day I had some serious chat with myself and decided it was just enough shit, so I planned to restart doing physical excercises, restart enjoying my hobby and find a job to have enough money to had some good time with my friends. Just 2 days passed since my change of attitude and my former boss (a dentistry who owns a private clinic where I had worked as assistant before) called me asking if I had time, because he would need another assistant, starting on next Monday. LOL. So I began working again, with 3 dentists, full-time, well-paid and in a nice ambient. I continued with the excercises, work, university (¬¬U) and hanging out with my friends, eventually painting something, and son on.

Today is my second day of vacations. I passed that damned subject in the University. Still have my job. I've spared enough to pay the whole year cost of the schoool for my son (did I mention that education is insanely expensive here in Chile? Like 5K USD a year), also had enough to travel a little, had good times with my fellas, buy a lot of plasticrack (yaaaay!) and so on.

Well, as I said, I'M NOT DEAD! I was just freaking busy with Real Life ® messing with me. I seriously appreciate all of you that still follow my little blog, and also thanks to all the ones who began following, even with me absent. I couldn't even make some time to say "yay" when the bog passed the 100 followers. Anyways, thank you a lot! Right now I'm back, and not only because of vacations! This year I must end my career and to do so, I must do a internship in a rural location. I'll have to work just until 5 or so, in some little and rural town, with not much to do! So, I'll have plenty of time to paint, blog, scratchbuild and all other crazy ideas I have right now. You'll be reading from me soon! :D 

It´s just so nice to be like this right now...

And, apologies for such a long wall of text. I'll show you some WIP and pics of some of the projects I have right now going on!

I even managed to buy this beauty!

Converted Chaos Marauders and Chaos Chosen.

See ya!

HOBBY TIP: Cleaning your files

Hi again ladies and gentlemen (is there any lady btw? xD)

Today, a quick hobby tip. How to clean your files (without screwing them up!).

I found this method in a blog wichs name I didn't save. Sorry!

Everyone knows that needle files don’t work very well when they are dirty and caked with debris. If you didn't know, you should! To clean your files, use a small clean jar of choice. All you need to do is fill the jar with lacquer thiner and put your needle files in there!

For the ones who don't know, the lacquer thiner is a mixture of solvents, used to dilute, dissolve and clean up of lacquer products. Typically too caustic for oil paints, lacquer thinner is often used additionally for removing inks on metal, and adhesive residue from a variety of surfaces. Lacquer thinner is very  strong and rapidly deteriorates many surfaces and fabrics

Just put your clogged needle filesinto the thinner and close the lid to avoid the fumes. Just be cautious not to submerge the rubber handles of the files. Wait for an hour, remove the file and clean it off with an old thooth brush. Then, your files will be as good as new!

The lacquer thinner can be found on most of your favourite art supplies stores, and also in any hardware store.Whoever sells paints could sell lacquer thinner, among other solvents and thinners!

Well, that's for now, I hope this little tip can help you a bit ;)
Now, back to Real Life -.-

See ya soon!


PS: I've said NEEDLE FILES! Not diamond files. Be aware, some chemicals can screw your diamond file, eating the glue that attachs the diamond particles to the file!