Rok's Dumb Birthday Present

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For the past couple months I have been working on a gift for Rok that I think he will really like. I can't talk to much about it here since this is a shared blog after all. But this project started as a little thought of something that would be cool but needed far more planning and time commitments than I thought at the time. Now I am 100 hours deep and about halfway through. But I can see the other side and the closer I get to finishing this project the more excited I get for Rok to get to open it and see what I have been working on this whole time. I still have more drawing to do, elements to assemble and time to spend till this project is fully complete but I am getting closer by the day.


I wish I could say this was my first time that I got way to into a project to later realize how big of an undertaking it is. Then I have to ask myself, "Do I take the option where I have wasted however many hours of my life on this thing that will never be complete. Or do I spend however many more hours on a project that I can only really decide if it was worth it once it is finished. I did that with my mom's birthday gift too. I made her a mermaid out of a Super Fumina moble suit. And it took way more time effort and blood than I thought it was going to. But at the end I had a gift I was proud to present to my mom, and she loved it. Which really made it all worth it. I am hoping this project, since I have decided to forge on, is the same way with Rok at end.


So that is what is happening in my mind right now. I have an unclear deadline, besides soon and an unspecified amount of work left. But I will finish this project so Rok can finally see what has been taking up all of my time and brain power. So while I rush to finish this, please for me:


Stay Cool.

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