DIARY of a sleep deprived week.

 9-17-12

I am up at 7:20 with the baby’s crying for food. I decide to try to get bots up for school. Once again, he’s being difficult. The wife senses my frustration and takes over. He’s very co-operative with her! She goes back to bed and I record a morning show and upload it. I chat with Shane online about parenting woes and what to dos. Then I work on coloring Ray’s pieces while watching Miami Ink on Netflix. Just enjoying the quiet while bots is in school and everyone else is asleep. Ah, what life would be like if this were full time!! The wife gets up and feeds Jimmy, and I clean up bots’ room. We go out and pick up the bots from the bus and head to James’ doctor appointment. His checkup goes well and we wait outside while the wife takes care of business.

45 minutes later, we head to Logans and bots is at first pretty moody, but my new calm attitude toward him wins him over and he starts being cool for the rest of the day. We head back home and I get the mail. I decide to head back out solo to Walmart for a few minor needs (food for the bots) and I get back around 2pm. After that, I start rocking on the coloring for Ray’s pieces. I finish around 6pm and shoot them to him for approval. I then download some new fonts and get some shit lined up for a logo design for a local band who contacted me through craigslist. I make some examples and send them to him.

I then watch some Miami Ink on Netflix while doodling a little bit and then I cook Taters and Dumplings for everyone. By then its 9pm and we’re all pretty tired. The Falcons are beating the Broncos on Monday Night Football as Kelly puts bots down and I clean up after my cooking mess. We all lay down and I pass out by 11:20 to Miami Ink on Netflix. Poor wife has to get up all night with the baby waking up every hour or two.

9-18-12

I wake up at 7:20 to bots being in our bed. I try to get him ready for school but he don’t want no part of me. Mom finishes the gig as I feed the baby. Bots goes on the bus and the wife and I load James into the Silver Surfer and hit the Denny’s for some quiet breakfast. We enjoy each other’s company and then head to Best Buy with the intention of getting the Indiana Jones BR set. I eventually talk myself out of it in favor of cheaper options to save cash. I instead get the SMiLE sessions Beach Boys box set and South Park Movie and Stand By Me 25^th on BR for cheap. We leave and head to the thrift store for more long sleeved oneziees. While waiting in the car, I open my SMiLE box set to see its missing a disc! So when she gets back, we head back to Best Buy for me to exchange it. My day job boss texts me to remind me of the mandatory meeting for tomorrow.

We get back home and the wife heads off to her appointment (her incision scar is healing weird and hurting in one spot). I feed the baby and wait for bots to get off the bus. He gets off and is moody as usual. Eventually he calms down and gets normal. Wife returns and I basically take the rest of the day off and watch extras on my BluRays. I watch all the JAWS stuff, including an awesome documentary called “The Shark is Still Working”. OUTSTANDING doc! Then the Ghostbusters extras. Then the transfer on Good, Bad and the Ugly. By then its 9pm and bots is going to bed. I’m tired so I decide to retire early for the night. I fall asleep to STAR TREK TOS on Netflix. However I am up every two hours to help with feedings.

9-19-12

I get up at 7:30 and put bots on the bus. Record a morning show and upload it. I talk with dad a bit about plans to sell my uncle’s house and what needs to be done. I leave and get the wife some Mcd’s breakfast and return with just enough time to put on my uniform and head to the day job for a mandatory meeting. On the way there, the wife calls and she’s having an anxiety attack. I calm her down and tell her that if she needs me while I am at the meeting to call or text and I will leave. She agrees but sounds better after a time. For the meeting: A System Jo lube representative comes in and tells us all about the specific lubes and what ingredients do what. I appreciate the info and leave with a bag of goodies. I couldn’t help but bring some pics of James to the meeting cause this is the first anyone has seen me in over two weeks. They seem genuinely glad to see me, which is surprising to say the least. But of course on my way out, one of them stops me to fill me in on the drama, which I am trying to inch away from. I couldn’t get out of there fast enough.

I get back home and we spend most of the day watching Beavis and Butthead .avi files on my BR player and then its time to put bots to bed. James is up practically every 30 minutes for some reason. Upset tummy perhaps? After I put bots to bed, I get to work on building some fake ads for the MAYHEM book. But my imac is acting up so badly and InDesign keeps freezing that it takes me a long time to get anything saved or going with it. So I quit for the night and watch some Horror Trailers on Netflix before passing out around midnight. I am up every 2.5 hours to help calm a hungry James while the wife gets the bottle ready for feedings.

9-20-12

I get up at 7:30 and put Bots on the bus. He’s surprisingly acting good and in a good mood. Most welcome! My new attitude change is working for him! (maybe. We’ll see!) I check email and spend the morning promoting Mayhem to various horror websites and also making announcements about my sketch card sales from Titanic and the DC 52. Before I know it, its two hours later! I swear when you are the face of your business, keeping your online presence up takes up half your production time! Anyway, I record a morning show and upload it, write a blog discussing all my current sales and then update diary blog.

The wife gets up and cleans and I continue online work and then start penciling new Anna pages. Of course, I have to look through what I already got to see if I can add anything new. I have a couple spots where things need to be added, so I do that. Then pencil loosely about six pages! In the end, I am quite satisfied with the results. Kelly says she’s not feeling right and heads back to the doctor, leaving me with the moody bots and mid-feed on James. The wife calls to say the doctor is afraid she might have a possible blood clot on her leg, so she’s going to the hospital to check it out and rule it out if it is or is not. Meanwhile, I juggle two kids alone and it proves to be quite the handful! As soon as one wants something, the other does. And I am ready to freak out. I think the added worry stress of the wife’s whereabouts wasn’t helping either. Luckily Brian Maze calls me to help keep me sane. Finally around 7:30, the wife texts that it wasn’t a clot. Not sure what it was really. But she heads home with Subway, as I am feeding James again. She takes over after eating and I try to keep up with bots. He almost knocks over our bedroom TV and he won’t stop bouncing on the surface that I am trying to feed the baby on. Then the wife almost breaks her neck, tripping over one of his toys. It’s a crazy, stressful night to say the least. I go back to my Anna pages in an effort to just stay out of the way. Finally bots goes down to bed and I finish drawing around 10:45pm. All total: NINE PAGES of ANNA POCALYPSE 2 loose penciled with borders inked! (I’m BACK BABY!!!!!!!) Boy I needed that!!! And we’re into the meat of the gross/good stuff! The set up is done and now into the rolling train part of the story. All action from this point forward. I email Mark and tell him I can’t stay up for the BFB show, as I am exhausted with the baby feeding schedule. I pass out to Sherlock on Netflix by 11:20.

9-21-12

I get up at 7:30 and help with a feeding. The wife opts to put bots on the bus, leaving me to take a nice healthy shit. I pass back out for a bit until I hear my phone exploding with texts. My boss is asking me if I want to pick up a shift for the night. I am reluctant and the wife don’t want me to, but I need the cash. I agree to work a 10pm-4am shift. I hit the pillow till around 11:20. I get up and go get Culvers for the wife and I. Bots gets off the bus and is moody, of course. I update blog, record a morning show and do online shit. Robert Knight calls me and we catch up. He says he can get me a new pinup for the Mayhem book by next week. A nice last minute addition to the project! The baby gets a bath and put down for sleep. The wife takes the bots to his 4 year check up appointment. I stay behind to watch the baby and do various drawing stuff and work on a Titanic sketch Card Commission. While gone, the DC New 52 AP cards arrive and I start making sketches and ideas of what I could pre-draw on them. The wife comes home and I just work on the cards all day until 9:10 when I have to leave for work. The wife is having doubts about me going to work and starts crunching the numbers to see if its possible for me to quit. I get there and work the shift fine, getting out by 4:05 and pass out at home by 4:45.

9-22-12

I wake up at 9am and then at noon, thanks to the wife letting me sleep in a bit after my long late night. I spend most of the day helping feed, occupying bots and drawing a couple more DC 52 AP cards for approval. Then finish Pencils on the Titanic card. I email it to the client for thoughts. I head into the day job at 7pm and work till around 11:40, when the wife texts to say she’s extremely light headed, heart pounding and blurry vision and wants me to come home. I punch out and rush home. She thinks she is having a bad reaction for the high blood pressure pills her doctor has given her. So I sit and calm her down and she passes out. I am on baby duty til 4am, when I finally pass out.

9-23-12

Bots wakes me up at 9am. I get up and edit/upload a video with various clips from James’ birth week to youtube. Then finish coloring the Titanic card and start working on more DC 52 cards for approval. I’m really hoping those cards pull in some cash for the upcoming move and bills I am now behind on. (The rest of the day is a blur at this point and I am unable to reconstruct what I did. Suffice to say I took a crap somewhere at some point.)

9-24-12

I get up and spend the day working on a couple more DC 52 cards. I end up working a 6-2am shift. Its uneventful and I pass out around 3am after a feeding.

9-25-12

Wife wakes me up at 11:20, saying the new apartment cashed a “holding the apartment” check that they weren’t supposed to cash until November, and thus our bank account was now overdrawn! So we head out and sell some things and pull some card advances to make up the difference. It’s a headache and journey worthy of “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” porportions and it seems to never end. We end up celebrating/drowing our woes in some Logans and getting the new Green Day album and Avengers BR. I head to work for a 6-2am shift, but the wife calls in the mid throes of an anxiety attack or perhaps worse. I talk her down for a couple hours but it doesn’t seem to help. So my gracious co-worker lets me head home for a couple hours to help calm her. We watch the extras on the Avengers BR and then I head back to help close the store. I end up getting back home by 2:30, and am up till around 6:30 cause James will not sleep. I catch 20 minutes here and there of make up sleep. By 7:30, I am up to put bots on the bus and thank God he’s cooperative! I’m out by 8:05am. (On the positive note of the day: We achieved funding for our Kickstarter project at 11pm!!!! Tales of Sequential Mayhem #2 is officially GO!)

9-26-12

I wake up at 11:20, barely able to walk from tiredness and the long stressful day before, to put on my clothes and head to work for a meeting. It’s a meeting with a client who helps sell the male masterbators. (don’t ask) After an hour and change, I am back home and the wife decides she wants out of the house. She calls on a doctor for an appointment and she can't get in till Tuesday! (yikes) She takes off and bots and the baby are asleep. I update blog and do a feeding. Bots gets up and is moody, but I convince him into a good mood with some discs I got stashed. Wife returns and we hang out all day. She heads back out with bots to get some booze and other things and comes back with a happy bots. I record a new Morning Show and take care of some various updates and things for MAYHEM online with Mike and everyone else. We watch Avengers and bots passes out. Then the wife and I dig into some booze and watch Jackass 3D. She taps out after half a beer, and I drink Vodka, Oj, Rolling Rock Jumbo and some Seagrams. End up passing out around 11:30pm.