Work, draw, sleep. Work, draw, sleep. What else is there to my life anymore?
Well, I’m making more progress on my prints for HEROES CON. I got maybe about 5-8 more to draw and color and then I will send them to the printer. I ordered my matte boards and plastic sleeves to house them yesterday. I think its going to really work. I like what I am doing with it. I still haven’t heard from Comixpress about the Pleasant Life Tradebook. I asked that I have it in hands no later than June 15th, so I am gonna wait till closer till then to hound them about it.
Scott is doing good. He’s in this habit of when we get outside of 4-6 feet of him, he gets a tad whiny. Which I guess is kinda good, cause he loves us so much that he doesn’t want to be away from us. But on the other hand, if I just gotta get up to get a soda, go to the bathroom, do housework or draw or something, it gets annoying. So I am trying to train him to understand that I won’t come pick him up every 10 seconds. Cause if he grows to develop that mindset, it will make it more difficult later on. But I still feel bad. He’s sitting here on my desk as I work on prints and this blog today. Mom is taking a nap. Wish I was. I got a whole 5 hours in today.
Speaking of naps and work, I’m plum exhausted. Totally. Mentally, physically. I’m afraid I’ll go insane soon. I try to get out and enjoy myself to relieve the pressure and just get away from it all. Like I went to South Bend for art supplies. And then back the next day to shop with the wife. Outside of that, my outlets for human contact have been pretty limited. My job has now monopolized the nights where I get to call into the shows on talkshoe and talk to my artist friends from afar. I just get to download and listen to the fun they had. It sucks. I don’t get to go out and drink or enjoy a night to hang with friends. I have no local friends. That sucks. I would waste some time with myself and read or watch a movie (or the millions of films I want to see that I haven’t yet) but all I do is think about the things I should be doing instead. Like finishing art and getting crap done, etc. Plus my wife and I are missing each other. I feel guilty, but I have to finish this stuff. I’ve fucked off all I can and its down to the wire on some of this shit. Hey, what are ya gonna do?
This weekend is Memorial Day weekend. While others get the weekend off to go fishing, BBQing, spend time with their family… I have to try to sleep when I can, draw when I can, spend time with the bots when I can and go to work every night. For the next two nights, I am by myself at work. I’ll have to do everything. Trust me, that’s a lot of physical work and plus it will be busy as shit cause of the Holiday. I’ll never get shit done!
So boo hoo right? I don’t mean for this to be a downer of a post. Believe me, I hold it all back from you guys. Wouldn’t want to not entertain you all. And there are things coming up that I look forward to. HEROES and SAN DIEGO. PITTSBURGH and spending time with the family. Those are the things on my mind right now. All else is second.
I kinda committed to a few different jobs this year as far as comic art goes. I think I may start to think about scaling that back a tad. I got a lot of paying work now, and that should take precedence. I need to save my sanity a bit and get out of my nerd cave once in a while. Anyone want to BBQ and go fishin’ with me? Hell, a round of golf sounds good too. I haven’t been golfing in almost 10 years! I used to love it! How about bowling? Something.
Anyway, I hope you all are having a good time out there and spending a nice weekend with your families. Me, I’m holding down the fort for the late night drunks’ soda, candy and photo needs. And I’m working toward getting stuff done for the shows. We’re all out there working to better ourselves aren’t we? But man, can I feel a vacation coming on.
Luvs, T
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