Holiday Week Diary

6-29-12

I wake up at 9:20 and get the bots up. (man has he been sleeping in lately or what!??!) I check online shit and send a graphic over to Jordan. I update blog and start coloring on the rest of the cards I got for the current set I am on. I spend the day just hanging with bots and not doing much else. The wife comes home and we go to Toys R Us in Okemos and we get the bots some Team UmiZoomi toys. Then to Culvers for dinner. Then I drop her off at JC Penny to shop solo, then back home. I really want to go see TED, Seth MacFarlane’s new movie and Dean twitters me interest in going. So I drive out to Mason to pick him up and we go to NCG Cinema to watch it. Pretty good. Enjoyable. A solid 4 out of 5. Then I take him back home and get home around 11:20. I give the wife a backrub and we’re both out by midnight.

6-30-12

I keep dreaming about being stuck at work at either the Vu or Lions Den again and I cannot stop dreaming it, despite waking up twice to avoid the dreams. Bots wakes me up at 9:20, and my back is stiff as hell. I check online shit and write a review of TED for the Bigfanboy website. Finally, something new I can contribute!!!! I continue on coloring sketch cards till around 1pm. I play with the bots around the house till 4:20 when the wife gets home and then take a two hour nap in preparation for the long night shift ahead of me. I get up around 7:20 and head to work for the first time in 3 weeks. I work my shift and it is uneventful. I get home around 4:16 am, dead tired and pass out to AVGN.

7-1-12

I get up around 9:12 and wake up the bots. I check online stuff but I am still feeling the effects of the late night shift. (I’ve been trying to go to bed earlier now in an effort to feel more “normal.”) So I lay down in the bedroom and watch cartoons with bots, dozing in and out. Around noon I get up and get to work on a couple sketch card commissions and start penciling more sketch cards to ink later on in the week. I really need to keep up on these things as I want them in the mail no later than July 20^th, well ahead of my deadline of August 1^st.

(The rest of the day is a blur as I didn’t keep up with my blog. Sorry.  Safe to say I did a bunch of random nothingness. Passed out by Midnight.)

7-2-12

Bots gets us up at 9:20 and we leave around 10:30 to Flint to pickup Cody for his two week stay. We stop off at Walmart on the way cause we are super early. We pick up Cody and head home. We get back and hang out around town until I have to go to work 6-2am. I get out, get home and pass out.

7-3-12

I get up at 9:20 and get some cards penciled. I then take the family to Fire Mountain and we eat hearty. Then hang around the house. I take a nap from 3-5 and then head to work from 6-2am. I get out and pass out around 3:30am.

7-4-12

I get up at 9:30, wake up bots and we lay around in the A/C. We all gather and head to East Lansing to eat a July 4^th meal at Five Guys. The wife and I playfully snipping at each other and I can’t decide if we are just funning or still on edge with each other. We go to Pruess Pets to window shop and then to Party City for little trinkets for the kids. Then back home. Cody and I toss the ball around but then I have to get to work on cards. I got 150 cards to get done in 17 days! I plug in some podcasts and get to work after updating the blog.

I end up penciling over 30 cards. A definite jump that I needed! I take a break and watch Cody and Kelly play PacMan Fever on Gamecube and then go back to ink some of the cards. I get done and they are playing Mario Party 8 on the Wii. I lay on the couch attempting a nap but the wife ain’t gonna let me for some reason. What that is gonna hurt, I don’t know, but it is what it is. Kelly takes bots into the bedroom to get him to fall asleep and I watch Godzilla vs. (some monster I didn’t get the name of) from 2000, and Rebirth of Mothra II on Encore Family. He’s never seen a Godzilla movie before and he ends up liking them a lot and wants to watch more throughout the week. I’m glad he’s finally digging on “older kid” movies. He hits the hay and I pass out around midnight to AVGN.