Diary - Runnin' Outta Time!

8-11-12

I wake up at 12:20 (thanks to the wife for letting me sleep in for once!) and check online shit. The cable is out for a bit so I have to check it on my phone. We sit around and wait for the mail to arrive to see if my big fat freelance check is in it. Meanwhile the cable comes back online and I get on the comp and check/update shit. We load up in the Silver Surfer and grab a bit of groceries and hit Mcds for the family to eat. Then we head to the mall and walk around a bit. We stop off in JCP for clothes for the kids and then back home. I lay on the couch and re-read the last twenty issues of “The Boys” to catch up and then play with the bots a bit. He’s being cute and playful today. I plug up the Nintendo Wii and play some old NES games, then transition to Netflix. We watch some cartoons and then the wife puts the kid to bed. I sit up drinking some Amaretto and Sprite, mixed with Jager shots and watch some 90’s SNL. My buzz just doesn’t take and after a while I feel kinda sick. The wife comes out and we watch the latest Kevin Smith Live Q&A while I give her two long back rubs. Then we hit the bed where I watch some AVGN on my phone and then fall asleep.

8-12-12

Bots wakes me up at 8:30 and we watch Fresh Beat and Bubble Guppies on Nick Jr. I’m tired but decide to stay awake for him. I weigh in and I am 4 pounds heavier than what I last weigh in at. So I decide to brew some coffee and get some energy going. I’ve felt just heavy and sluggish all week. And after work every night my whole body aches and hurts bad. Severely out of shape.

We get up and head out to Replay in East Lansing. I score a couple Godzilla dvds and two Ani Difranco Cds. The bots gets discs (natch). Then to Target which comes up empty for the wife’s wants. We then hit Culvers and then head back to west Lansing, hit the Target there. I get a pack of the Mars Attacks cards for the archives and the bots an ice cream toy set. The wife gets baby booties and other minor stuff. We get back home. I upload my new CDs and build a new backdrop for my computer. I putz around on the net and make a new CD/DVD wish list. I get the sad news that Joe Kubert died and I am bummed out. I was already bumming thanks to it being the five year anniversary of the passing of Mike Weiringo (one of my favorite comic artists of all time). I finish up my randomness and clean up the area and start sketching, inspired by thoughts of them in my head.

The wife heads to JCP but comes back defeated because they closed at 6pm. I play with bots for a bit and we sit and watch TV while I draw at the coffee table. At 10pm, I watch the new Breaking Bad and the wife and kid hit the bed. Then I stay up drawing and watch three documentaries about weight loss. The first one shocks me so much that I am riveted to the events unfolding in it. Finally around 2:40, I stop and update blog, check FB and find that my pals Michelle and Matt have got engaged! I retire to the bedroom and fall asleep to AVGN.

8-13-12

I wake up at 9:30 and check online stuff. IA m still feeling the effects of the documentaries I watched last night and I start writing down notes for a plan to possibly juice fast for five days. If nothing else, to cleanse my system. Then I research buying some kettlebells for exercise. I wish I could hang a punching bag, but apartment living makes that difficult. But I am confident of my results this time. I make a smoothie to celebrate the decision. I text with the wife and Matt (Michelle’s boo) about the engagement and all things Midland. I check the mail and one of my huge freelance checks shows up! HORRAY!!!!!! I putz around the house most of the day until 3:30 when I cook a huge meal for the wife to enjoy. She gets home from work/doctors appointment and we eat hearty. I head into work for a very boring 6-2 shift. During the shift I get a couple offers for a commission and a gig doing an erotic comic. I email back and forth with the folks involved to get an idea of what I need to do. After work, I get home around 2:30am, passing out to AVGN by 3am.

8-14-12

The bots gets us up at 9:30 and so we get up and head to Okemos to Toys R Us where we get bots some fake food toys and an Olivia figure. Then I go to FBC and score Brian Wilson’s SMILE, Miles’ KIND OF BLUE and Coletrane’s BLUE TRAIN all used. Then we head to the Lansing Mall for the wife to get some more baby clothes from JCP. I score a new copy of Rush’s VAPOR TRAILS and GODZILLA 2000 on dvd for dirt cheap! I get talked into three magazines free for two months (I choose Inked, Sports Illustrated and Rolling Stone. Yes, I turned down PLAYBOY. Crap magazine anyway).

We get back home after stopping off to Arby’s for some sammiches and the wife heads to work. I chat with Shane online and then go off to listen to my new albums. I start with Wilson’s SMILE and I get no further. I listen to it twice. And I am so blown away by it that I watch a two hour documentary on its history on youtube. Then I clean the house real good and watch cartoons with the bots. The wife gets home as I am putting him to bed. I email back and forth with another client who wants some comics done for a local project. Then also working with the erotic comic people on what kind of story I could do for them. We nail a couple ideas out via email and at the end I am satisfied with the concept I could do. I lay down with the wife and pass out to AVGN.

8-15-12

Bots gets the wife and I up at 8:30 and we head to her early morning doctors appointment. She was a bit worried about her heart rate so she wanted it double checked. The bots and I score some breakfast and then head back to get her. She gets a clean bill of health as I call my dad and catch up a bit with all things concerning my uncle’s recent passing. We get back home and grab a few things and I respond to some emails and we head to Kalamazoo to celebrate our wedding anniversary.

We stop at Green Light and I get Rush R30 Dvd and Godzilla: Final Wars used. (and bots a disc set, natch). Then to Target and the nearby hobby shop, where I get the Ecto 1 model kit and white spray paint. The model car I’ve always wanted and now have!!! We head to Portage (attached to Kalamazoo) and hit the comic shop where I find the Star Wars bluray box set for $50!!!! That’s a savings of over $85!!! I also get some Football cards and Marvel Beginnings 2 cards for the archives. Then to Chilis for our anniversary lunch.

After lunch we hit the Best Buy in an attempt to find the exclusive Jaws bluray, and leave empty handed. We head back home to Lansing and go to Walmart and then Sams Club to get some house staples. I also get a rack that I am going to use to put my bluray player higher out of the kids’ reach (He opens and closes it all the time and its acting funky as a result. Plus he likes to put toys and cards in the player! YIKES!!!!!). We stop at Best Buy and they have no Jaws either. So home we go and I check online to see if I can order it or get it somewhere else. Online and all local stores are sold out. Turns out the Best Buy exclusive Jaws set is rare and sold out across the board. So I am stuck getting the regular version. Oh well.

We head back out to another Walmart and they don’t have any Jaws blurays at all. But the wife gets some cool Super Mario pillows. Then to Target where I get 4 more packs of Football cards and I find the last copy of JAWS on BR stuck in the wrong area. Seems to be the only copy in town!!! Triumphant we head back home. I open my cards and update online stuff and then watch the season end of Man Vs Food: Best Sandwich in America with the wife, then some of Toy Collector. During the kid’s bath, I try to hang the shelf and it doesn’t work. So I pack it back up to exchange it tomorrow. The bots has a hard time falling asleep so the wife deals with that.  I get on the podcast with Talkshoe gang and talk BREAKING BAD. Finally around midnight I stop partaking in that and want to hit the bed. I hear the wife still lurking around so I ask her if she’s up for watching some of the extras on my Star Wars box set. So we sit and skim through the transfer of A New Hope, which looks AMAZING! Then I watch all the deleted scenes and some of the extras on the set. I finally hit the hay around 2am.

8-16-12

The bots gets up at 8:10 and thus, so do I. I check online shit and listen to the rest of the Late Night Lounge from last night. The wife gets up and so we get dressed and start to head out to town. As I am getting into the car my pants rip! So I go inside and change. Finally we are off to Walmart to exchange the shelf for another one and grab a few other things for the house. I also stock up on coffee as I have been soda free for a few days now. We go to the post office, JCP to get me some new pants. I also get a Batman shirt! Then to the bank and to south Lansing to Ponderosa for a nice lunch. I fill up on soup first before eating chicken wings. While at the restaurant, I rip the second pants I am in and the kid bites me when I get after him about sitting down at the table! I correct that immediately!

We head back to Pet Smart and get a couple new fish, then to drop off my debt solutions check, then home. I check email and get some reference pics for a couple commissions I am doing to benefit a fundraiser for a pal of mine. Then I sew up the two pants, another pair of pants that need it and one of the wife’s shirts. Then I get to work on the commissions while catching up on the latest Joe Rogan and IceHouse podcasts. Work tries to call me in early but I cannot as I gotta meet someone at 6pm.

Then I get ready and head into work. I stop off to meet a client at Expresso Royalle in North Lansing who wants me to do some illustrations for a digital book he is writing. We hammer out exactly what he’s looking for and I commit to the project. Sounds like fun to do! I head to the Vu and I work a 7-4 am shift without incident and then get home and pass out around 4:30am.

8-17-12

The bots gets up at 8:10, and I am dog tired all morning. I finish a quick sketch for a job I am due to do and then start inking a couple other commissions for a friend’s benefit fundraiser. I ink the final pages for the horror anthology I have to do. Then I loose pencil the first page of the erotica comic project I am a part of. I shoot the pics of the commissions to the gal who got em and she suggests a change. I resend and she’s happy. We make plans to meet and exchange goods.

The wife gets out of work and comes home with some groceries and I cook us all burgers and waffle fries.  The wife and I discuss how large her belly is and how much we’re ready to just get this pregnancy over with. She wants her body back! Then I head into work from 7-midnight, with the plan and I will do more work when I get home. I work the shift and its quite boring, even though my co-workers are entertaining. There’s some drama as always, but I let it go very quickly cause I just don’t care. I get out at midnight and I am extremely tired. I get home and attempt to get online but my comp freezes up again. I have to restart and its acting up again. I run a disc utility on it and it detects nothing wrong at all. I just don’t get it. I get it to boot in safe mode and regular mode, but still sluggish. So I decide to just shut it down and deal with it in the morning. I pass out around 1am.