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In the beginning there was a girl, and this girl’s dream was to be a fabulous graphic and web designer. In January of 2004, she joined the anime fan site otaku.com as she was beginning the path down graphic designing. However… she was using Paint because she had nothing professional on her. She started to submit her work to her portfolio and people began downloading! She was happy that others were appreciating her work and she continued to make more wallpapers! However, situations with her family began and she had to leave her main page. She was crushed and didn’t want to, but promised she would return again some day. Even though she could not verbally express how her work was being put together, she still submitted her work to her portfolio and her fans keep downloading and supporting. During this time, the girl was entering in high school. Her classmates in her choir class had voted for her to be the choir historian and received a brand new camera. With this new camera came a picture editing program and she began playing with that. On and off she made wallpapers using this program, but she felt as if it wasn’t enough for her. She wanted to learn more and her desires continued to push her forward. Christmas of 2006, the girl got Photoshop Elements from her dad! She installed the program and started messing around with it within the hour she received it and she was fascinated by the millions of things she could do that was not possible on Paint. Every time she made wallpapers for her fans, she always tried out new ways to give the art work life and excitement. Seeing how this was working out better for her, she was taking the next step of web design as well. Her websites were looking like masterpieces as the layout brought in more fans and asking for layout requests. Between her busy school work and life at home, the girl continued to do whatever she can to make her fans happy and excited.
It is now 2008, the girl is now sixteen years old, entering into her junior year of high school, and is currently at the top of the computer science department of her school. She is no longer the little 13/14 year old girl that feels sorry for herself and has no friends. No, this girl now has new hopes and dreams, goals that push her towards life, friends for support, and maybe… just maybe… a purpose in life. She still may have her struggles such as the stress of school, her family, and her thyroid disease – but she not giving up on what she loves to do! After fighting through five devastating months of hard core depression, she is ready for anything!
Courtney (yamisgirl) has come back: back “home”.
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Fellow friends, family, and fans… I am Courtney (yamisgirl) and I am happy to be back to my main page on the otaku.com. It has been 3/4 years since I last left and I am very sorry that I had to leave so suddenly. I have missed all of you and have been thinking about you ever since. I am sad to say that I have lost some close bonds due to my leave, but now that I am back I want to start over with a new beginning and make up for what had happened. I can’t exactly type up every single day of the past three years, but I will give you all an over view. I have completed my first two years of high school, and am now on my summer vacation! During this time, I have recently cured myself from a case of high depression. It was so bad to the point that I was loosing friends (including a brother I had from here), thinking suicidal thoughts, etc. Going off skin medication pills, I felt reborn and happy once again. I am now feeling more confident in myself and am able to feel happiness once again. I know that I truly do have friends that are truly there for me and that appreciate me for who I am and I thank them all for that! However, I am not COMPLETELY cured. I currently have thyroid disease (which very few of you know). I have done two ultra sounds and about four blood tests for my thyroid and we are praying that nothing changes. If my thyroid stays the same as it is now, then I am okay. If it grows any more than it is right now then I need surgery to remove it. Some side affects of my disease are disadvantages to weight gain (I am sometimes 5-10 pounds lower than I should be), anxiety (which I get quite a bit), and more that I currently cannot remember. Oh yeah… and I am also a vegetarian now, so yeah, I’m not as healthy as I was when I left. I’m doing okay but I could be a lot better than I am.
Wow… lol, it really has been a long time since I’ve been here! A lot has changed, but I hope none of you changed too much. The only thing I’ve changed really is my age and my anime interests. I’m not going to go to go into details. If you want to know about my anime interests and the wallpaper contest I have been (indeed) in/am currently in then ask in your comment and I’ll reply as soon as I can!
I hope this wasn’t too long! Hehe… I’ll DEF update again soon! If you want to talk to me before then reach me on IM! Later everyone!!! ^^
Courtney (yamisgirl)
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