Happy May!! (And other stuff ...)

Happy May Day, everyone! (Well, a day late, but it's better than nothing -- lol.)

I decided to give my RS gallery a bit of a face-lift going from Easter into May (and springtime). It's been a while since the gallery wore dark colors, and I thought it would be kind of a funny play on the whole "spring flowers" idea. It makes me laugh. Then again, I have kind of a strange sense of humor. Still ... Bwahahahahahahahaha!

Hey, life is short and apparently full of swine flu, so you've gotta laugh where and when you can. =D

I just realized my gallery hit the 35K hits milestone. I never posted about it, so it passed as I think most milestones should: quietly and without much notice. I think this is a good thing, although I wanted to take a moment to say thanks to everyone who has ever visited. It makes me really happy to have reached such a large milestone in terms of number of hits. I still remember first opening this gallery. Back then, I would visit so many amazing and gorgeous galleries here on RS and think it was impossible for my gallery ever to amass the amount of hits those beauties had. After all, I only had two cels at the time! I still don't think my gallery comes close to comparing to many of the amazing places you can find, both on RS and the internet at large. But my hit counter has racked up a few miles. For that I'm grateful.

And I passed a little milestone of my own last month: 5 years in this nutty hobby! Wow! How the time has flown. Again, I have to think about those early days, when I was still so new to the hobby. I never imagined I could last five minutes doing this, let alone five years. From those initial two cels, my collection has grown. And, more importantly, I have grown. I feel like I have learned what I love and what I don't. I've learned that my decisions with what to buy, what I want my collection and gallery to be and feel like ... well, those are my decisions, and no one else's. I've learned not to let others' opinions sway me as much, and I've learned to try and have more confidence in myself and my own choices. I'm happy with the things I have, and I think that's the most important lesson of all. For me, anyhow.

Here's wishing everyone a happy May, a wonderful spring, and many more years of celluloid joy.

<i>(Pssst! While you're here, check out the newest updates, too! There's some new Saiyuki I'm pretty excited about. Plus, a Cleao cel I've wanted for quite a long time. Acquiring it kind of makes me feel I've come full-circle, in a lot of ways. =D)</i>