Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself

Hey there,

So it’s been three years since I created this blog and in that time my attempts to start my business have been put on hold… and put on hold… and stopped cold. While in quite a dramatic reverse rate of speed my debts have increased… and increased and, well… you get the idea.

My name is Chris and I’m a 34 year old gay guy living in Toronto, Canada. While I’ve had my ups and downs for the last three years, I’m determined more than ever this year to get my production company up and running while I handle whatever life throws at me. My first task is to begin paying down this goddamn debt I incurred. Now you might think it’s because of extravagant living that got me in this mess, but believe me, if you could see the conditions I’m living in right now you’d know that it’s not because I tried to update my apartment to resemble this month’s issue of Martha Stewart Living (oh Martha it’s not because I doubt you, it’s just that picking hay and pine cones on weekends has not been what we humans call a priority).

What I have spent my money on and what set me back financially, were two things: going back to school in 2005 and in 2007 I ended a 4 year relationship. Needless to say, I had to find a new place- quick. Hello emergency loan and 29.9% interest rates! Oh, and then Marley died. (See eulogy below)

Since then trying to find work in my field has been next to impossible. I’m just getting started in the film industry and finding set work as a PA in Toronto has been about as productive as finding a three legged unicorn (if do I find him, I’ll call him Tripod). So I have a day job that pays the bills while I use my evenings/ weekends to work on my animation, scripts and, if time permits, have a life. Now that things are slowly back to normal, I’ve returned to working 35 hours a week, instead of 73, and have the time to finally focus on what’s important.