Living Day To Day

(BTW as a side note, if seems you guys really enjoy reading my day to day journal like these. Its got more reads than my regular posts do! Thanks for reading about my boring life. Hope its somewhat entertaining!)

5-6-12

The bots kicks the door at 8:20 and I get up. I lay on the couch a bit dozing off while watching cartoons and finally get up for good around 10am. I feed the fish and check online shit. Its gonna be a frustrating next three days as I have a ton of artwork jobs to get done and no time to do it in. The wife works the next three mornings, which means I am up with the bots and not able to work and then I gotta go to the damn day job the next three nights as well. So I only got a 4 hour window Monday-Tuesday when bots goes to school to get work done. And that means getting less sleep too! (sigh) But I’ve got my eye of the prize that very soon I might be able to quit working a day job for good. The art is taking off so well, and we’re paying off the stupid credit card we’ve had for years that I pretty much can go full time at this. Very soon, very soon…

I take some time from art cause my hand is sorta numb from all the drawing I did the day before. I do some digital coloring on some pieces but once again, bots demands attention and I have to deliver. I shoot an email to J saying that I probably won’t get the piece done for the site till Thursday or so because of my hectic schedule. He’s totally cool with it. I relax and read some comics while watching cartoons with bots and text with Kelly when she’s at work. I get online and pull some more reference pics for ANNA II and get psyched to hopefully start on more pages by the weekend. I peel taters and start pork chops around 4:45 so they will be done by the time Kelly gets home. She gets home and we eat hearty. I prepare a ham sandwich to eat at work so I am not tempted to eat greasy bad food during the night. I head out to work my 7-2 shift. It goes decently but again at the end of the night, same old foot pain strikes me back. I survive though and get home around 2:30. I shoot some emails to Grant and Shane and hit the hay around 3am, leaving the wife some surprise money for breakfast in the morning.

5-7-12

I get up at 6:55 and get the bots on the bus and I am too exhausted to attempt to stay up. I hit the bed again till noon, get up and get bots off the bus and check email. I get a nice reply from Grant with more advice, which I completely appreciate. He’s become my personal idol and guru in many things lately. I get some emails from Shane and we talk back and forth about a lot of things. Then Tom from Clems offers an email of thanks for a very successful FCBD and an additional pat on the back of store credit in this store! Very awesome!! I cook up a pizza for bots (he loves the sides) and I eat a ham sandwich and crystal light tea. I catch up with some Joey Diaz podcasts and wait for Kelly to come home. She does and we chat a bit, then I leave early for my work shift to stop off at Hobby Lobby for some microns and more comic paper (I’m out!). I get to work and work my 6-2am shift and its quite uneventful and boring as always. I do lots of cleaning to pass the time. At one point, the club only has about five people inside and I am wondering why we don’t just close down!? But we don’t and I stay till close and head home after dropping my co-worker off. I’m proud of myself as I had money in my pocket and didn’t buy any fast food and all I drank was water! I’m three days off of soda and doing great! I get home and hit the pillow watching AVGN and I am out like a light, again with foot pain galore.

5-8-12

Alarm wakes me up at 6:55 and I get bots ready. He’s moody and extremely uncooperative. But finally we get his bag on and he’s all smiles like it never happened. He gets on the bus and I am back in the bed till noon. I get bots off the bus and check online shit. I get some nice new comments on deviantart and a few emails of praise of recent stuff I had done and it feels good. Bots is kind of moody and plays on his own while I digital color and then break for cleaning the house a bit before work (My last shift for the week thank God!). The wife heads home and offers us to head out, which I decline. I just feel like vegging at home until going back to the den of sin. But I end up leaving early to shrink some artwork so I can scan it. Then I head into work my 6-2 shift. Its uneventful and boring and I call into Sabo on my break and then also on the way home. I get home and the show ends. Walters calls me and we talk a bit while I scan more pages and save them in the proper format. Then I pass out around 3:45am.

5-9-12

The wife wakes me up at 8am wanting to go to breakfast. She got up and got the bots on the bus and we’re alone. We take advantage of that situation and yada, yada, I am very relaxed about 30 minutes later. We get up and go to Denny’s for a nice breakfast. Then drive to the bank and to Clems comics to redeem my store credit. After waiting 20 minutes beyond the point when the store was to open, we give up and head back. We stop off at the B&N to see if there’s a nice Horrorhound magazine out, which there is not. We get a couple stuffed toys for bots anyway. We go to Cirillas and go toy shopping for the wife and we head back to get bots off the bus. I decide to chance another trip to Clems to see if I can get a parking space. But downtown is bustling so much with lunch foot and car traffic that it makes navigation and parking impossible. We abandon the trip yet again and head to Red Robin where I eat Grilled Chicken Fajitas. We head back and the wife goes to work. I keep up with net news getting angry and outraged at some headlines involving banning gay marriage and the fact that NY has now made it legal to view certain types of immoral pornography online, so long as its not downloaded or shared. I just don’t get that. But, President Obama comes out and says he now supports gay marriage. A bold and risky move sure, but I prefer to see some action on it. So I spend some time watching the fallout from all this and decide I need to actually get some work done!

I get to work on digital coloring before I start to feel really tired. I curl up on the couch to watch cartoons and nap with the bots. I wake up an hour later and he’s passing out in the chair. I pick him up and put him to bed. He’s been moody the last couple mornings so he definitely needs some decent sleep! I finish the digital colors and assemble the pieces together for the video game graphic. I like it, but I see lots of things I could improve and make better. I decide to shoot what I got to J to get his thoughts, explaining out what I want to change and make better. I text the wife to see if she’s down for some boozing. She is sorta but we decide on a movie night instead. I get and watch the newest Game of Thrones episode and wait for her to come home, texting with Dean about Heroes plans. Apparently he’s got a friend who needs a ride to the show and he lives in Columbus. I say if he’s cool and will contribute to gas than he is more than welcome to come with us on our journey. The wife gets home and we search through movies before settling on Alien on On Demand. Truthfully, I’ve never seen the flick in one sitting. I always have seem to have seen it in pieces, mostly the later half a ton of times. And I wanted to brush up on it in anticipation for this year’s PROMETHEUS prequel flick. So we sit and watch it and end up hitting the hay around 1:30am watching AVGN.