I escaped art block today! It was just a few hours since my last journal though, oops lol. But I thought about the holidays, Halloween is over and I don't care much for Thanksgiving, so up next are the holidays! Like Christmas and stuff!! This is my favorite time of the year and I updated my profile to match! Drawing the doll on my page was the most fun part for me! Getting to draw a cute girl all decked out in cozy festive winter wear was the best and just the mood booster I needed after my midterm!

I don't really care much for Thanksgiving since it's a food centric holiday and I have always had issues with the textures of food (blame the autism) and the pressure of needing to eat food that was made special for you, two things that Thanksgiving combines for me. I've always gotten comments about which foods I will and will not eat and frankly eat like a toddler because I need my food to have a consistent texture and I don't like strong tastes, spices, or chunks in my food. The feeling of being perceived also comes with these comments, which makes them worse. So whenever Thanksgiving comes around I don't eat and just watch the macys parade instead. (I kinda dislike the 4th of July for these same reason, I like fireworks but not bbq!)

I like the winter holidays much more because of the spirt, I like seeing decorations all around, and its more about togetherness and gift giving instead of just food, or at least for my family it its. Shit, I'm just feeling holly and jolly now, but I still have to wait a little longer to go into full blown holiday mode!