Things progressing....

Okay, its late night introspective time. Time to give full details on things happening.

PLEASANT LIFE--All done. Just waiting for the wife to edit around 60 pages with me. Check for spelling errors and the like. After that, its time to upload it and get it to the printer! I can say, looking over it all that I am damn proud of it. The wife is laughing in all the right places and giving great feedback. Seems I really nailed the story and comedy moments this time. I'm damn proud of what we accomplished this time around.

I'm finishing final pre-orders for the SKETCHBOOK and giving everyone till monday to order the book online. After that, I am pulling the preorder and then moving on. Moving on to what?

OUTCAST/PLEASANT LIFE PRE-ORDER!--I'm planning a pre-order sale on both tradebooks. I want to cut some sort of awesome deal too. Maybe if you get both, you'll get a page from one of the books. I am not sure. I just want to stimulate the sales on these things a bit. Get things going. You know? But I'll make an official announcement soon.

BATTLESTAR--Watched the new one tonight where alot of flashbacks and filling in the gaps have happened. I'm confused a bit by a few things, but I got plenty of time to sort it all out. Still loving it.

TODAY--I officially became a business by starting some new accounts to send and recieve payments for projects all related to idiothead.com as a business. I'm officially legit! A big step and quite proud of it. I'm still in infancy, but growing and learning. Glad I felt that this was finally necessary to do. More to come.

HEALTH--The wife has been on a hardcore lifestyle change the past couple weeks. She's lost over a total of 40 pounds since giving birth. She's dropped 9 pounds this week alone, with hardcore running on the treadmill and a strict diet. Me, I did see saw dieting since January 1st but still nothing stuck completely. Two things happened at work that made me change my mind to get on the ball harder: 1-I was working and all the sudden felt some chest pains. I was sweating and breathing oddly. I thought for sure "this is it.. my heart attack." But no. It was severe heartburn! But it was enough to scare the shit out of me. All I could think of was letting my family go on without me, and how much that would suck. #2-I sat in my bosses comfy chair. Just sitting there and it broke. Yeah. I broke a chair. I've gotten that fat. At my biggest recently, I was at 340. I'm now at 332 and dropping. I started working on the treadmill. I am on nothing but water and good meals. Since the economy is in the shit right now, eating out isn't much of an option anyway, so that helps. But I am 100% committed to finally, FINALLY dropping some weight. My easy projections say I can drop 40 pounds by San Diego time, which would make walking much easier. But I am hoping to do more than that. I'm building up my walking treadmill tolerance and will get into running. Then things will start to melt off. I could even be down 60 pounds or more by then.

I know I've said these things publically and promised myself these things a million times in my blog. But somehow I know now that things are different. I've changed. I know you all out there will just have to wait to believe it and see it. I can only promise you my dedication to it this time. things are different. I swear it. I promise to keep you all updated with news, pictures and more on my progress. I really consider it that I am in "training" for this next year worth of travel and work. I am eating the proper foods, drinking only water and exercising. I'll show you all my dedication in the weeks to come.

OTHER--My step mom is going in for some minor heart surgery. I ask that your thoughts be with her. Its not a major thing, but still, the positive vibes and thoughts are always appreciated.

I think thats all I got. I thought I had more, but thats it. Happy Valentine's weekend folks. Go spend it with those you love. Me? I'll be stuck at work.

Oh well!

Luvs, T