Here, There, Everywhere.

4-9-12

I hear kicking at bots’ door meaning he is up. Its 3am. Way too early for him to be up for school already! So I get up and lay in his room, making sure he is in bed and attempting sleep. I pass out again till about 4:40 there on the floor. I get up off the hard floor and get back to my own bed. At 6:58 my alarm goes off and I get up to get him. But I am moody as fuck and the wife is up anyway cause she has to work that she takes over for me. I lay back down and I am out till about 11:40am. I turn off the alarm and check on my fishes. I don’t see the babies so I decide they must be sleeping. I get bots off the bus and he’s extra moody. I am too because I cannot walk on the treadmill cause the wife is working the next two days. And I couldn’t yesterday cause of the holiday. So I check internet stuff and toss out a few emails to some people I need to touch base with. I get an email invoice finally from my order from Comixpress.com proving once again that I gotta stay on their ass or they will never get back with me. I submitted my order well over a month ago it seems! But still, great price and quality. Can’t complain too much. I’ve used them for years. I post a blog about my day to day and a new one I write about my love of all things Titanic. Mail arrives and I get my Amazon order: Invincible #7 Hardcover and Vault Of Horror EC Collection Hardcover vol 1. I muck about online and then clean the house a bit. It has become DESTROYED in the last few days!! I don’t get any work done cause the kid is acting quite needy.
The wife gets home around 5:20 and I have no time to catch up with them before I have to get ready and go to work myself. I get there and try to survive the longest shift ever. My back and feet hurt all night. (what the hell?) I think I had three customers all night in total. I did get an email while working inviting me to a FCBD signing in Lansing. I was honored by the request and instantly felt awesome about it. For years I’ve had to chase down other shops to set up something for FCBD and I’d have to do a lot of the leg work for it. Some have been great partnerships and all that, but this is the first time I was actively sought out as a person to be there. I was told I was recommended by a friend whom I owe a handjob to later, indeed! So honor taken, I replied back with an enthusiastic “yes.” Likely my only live appearance for the year now it seems.
I get home after dropping the co-worker off and gassing up, and I am passed out around 3am, despite Kelly playing her streaming JTV over her laptop loud as usual. I didn’t feel like getting up to turn it off.

4-10-12

I wake up at 6:55 with my alarm and get the bots up. He’s unusually cooperative in the morning as I let him watch Netflix on my phone to distract him while I dress him. I get him on the bust around 7:35 and check online shit. Then pass back out till 11:55. I get up and get him of the bus and check internet stuff and work on Mars Attacks cards for a while. Then do a round of bounce and toss with the kid. The wife gets home and drops the bad news that she works on FCBD so I gotta figure out something. I toy with the idea of selling my Ipad in favor of money for Heroes and even go so far as to put it up on Craigslist. Later the wife talks me out of it and I decide against selling it, disappointing a couple people who started to email me about it. Sorry folks.
I head to work at 5:30 and work till 2am. I call in to Sabo to listen here and there but the signal is so bad in my workplace that I keep losing it. I get out after what feels like the longest shift ever and drop my co-worker off. I head to Walmart to get some goods to cook for the wife tomorrow. I get home, change the cat litter which desperately needed it, pass out around 3am after the groceries are put away.

4-11-12

I wake up at 6:40 hearing the wife getting the bots ready for school. I had planned to get him myself but it seems as though she is giving me a break and doing it cause I worked so late. I pass back out till 11:20. The wife takes off for the bank and I get up, feed fish and peel potatoes and get dumplings started. I check online shit and listen to the Sabo from last night. I notice that he titled the show “Mighty Odo and Sam” as a dig to Tim and Me. Lee is such a prick. But we already knew that didn’t we? I finish the food and we eat like kings. Kelly leaves for work around 2:20 and I play some bounce with the bots. I start drawing on Mars Attacks cards a bit but am feeling really tired. So I take a small nap on the couch around 7 and wake up to see the bots feel asleep beside me around 8:30. I clean up his room and transfer him there and return to drawing cards and a commission I got hired for. The wife gets home around midnight and I stay up till about 2:30am and pass out after watching “50 Most Shocking Moments in WWE History.” Some crazy shit I never heard of! Thumbtack slams. That’s too gnarly for me.

4-12-12

I get up at 6:50 to pee and then pass back out till 9:20. The wife takes me to work and we stop for breakfast. She decides to keep the car for the day and she drops me off. I work till 2pm, which they have an employee meeting at the job. I stay downstairs to man the store. Basic same stuff going on. I request time off for Heroes Con but then get a bit of shit from my boss for taking too much time off in a row. Its six days! What, a person can’t have a vacation once in a while? Jeez!! I continue my shift until 7:00… well, 7:15 because my relief was 15 minutes late (natch). I chat with Durden over Twitter about all things sketch cards and Sabo snoring.
The wife picks me up on time. I’m hungry as shit and my foot is killing me. We opt for eats at Mancinos, trying two large grinders and a large cheese bread. Way too much food for all of us. We get home and I check email. I get a confirmation that I am on for FCBD at Clems in downtown Lansing. Hopefully the wife can go into work a little later in the day that day so I can get the decent foot traffic time. We get home and I check online shit.
The wife and I curl up and watch “Horror of Dracula” on DVD and try to get the kid to calm down for sleep. He finally does and we put him down when the flick is over. I go to draw and wait for Bigfanboy Livecast to start, only to find out that there is no show tonight. I ask the wife if she wants to try another movie, but she’s going to bed. I go back to drawing and watch “Killing Bono” and “The making of The Joshua Tree” on Netflix. I color about 15 Mars Attacks cards before passing out around 2:40.

4-13-12

I wake up at 9:20 for work and the family rides with me cause she wants the car again. I stop and get some doughnuts for Juan and I and I arrive five minutes late. Everyone is trying to get the store and club in shape and decorated because pornstar Gina Lynn is coming this weekend for the clubs’ 26th Anniversary. So I just stay busy as I can and stay out of the way of the fights and screams. Finally at 7pm, I get out and head home with the family. I stop off for soda (for mixing booze drinks later!) and a couple cheeseburgers and fries for the kid. We get home and I catch up on internet shit. I desperately want to take a nap but decide I am better off just staying up. We sit together and the wife takes bots to bed. I start drinking some Amaretto and Sprite while laughing at Mtv Jams videos. The wife joins me and we have a night of debauchery (hubba!). I pass out around 1am.

4-14-12

The wife kicks me awake at 8:40am to get bots up and so I let her sleep. I get up and feed bots, check email and net stuff. I diddle around till about 10:40 when I decide the wife has slept enough and we must step out for some lunch. We hit up Mcds and then drive across town to take bots to the woodland park. We spend about 45 minutes there and toy with the idea of taking him to Impressions 5 museum, but decide against it. We get home around 1:30 and I update blog and check online shit again. I show bots some of my voice imitation skills by faithfully recreating a Don Knotts type of voice from a cartoon he has, and he loves it. I do it for him about 50 more times. I call my parents and end up talking to Gloria for a good 50 minutes. She reveals he thinks that she might have had a mini-stroke and I get a bit worried. I wish they’d move up to Michigan with us and live a stress free life. Kelly leaves for work around 2:30 and I start penciling some pieces to sell at FCBD and a commission I was hired for. I even color another commission I penciled and inked the day before. Brian Maze calls and we chat for a while. I also text with Ted a bit to find out he’s trying to find a new place for him and his girl to live. Needs to be income based, most likely. Bots finally passes out around 10pm, and the wife comes home at midnight. Throughout the night I can't get the Titanic sinking anniversary out of my mind, and mark it on Twitter and FB at each step I can. I stay up to draw a bit but end up passing out around 1am.