Diary!

8-26-12

I get up at 8:30 with bots and record a morning show. It takes forever to convert to mp3, and fails a few times. So I don’t get it posted till close to 11am. I listen to podcasts and sort through three more boxes of random shit and toys. I toss two of the three boxes worth of stuff! (Guttin’ this house like a fish!) I start researching stuff to build my upcoming webcomic website and am still struggling with the who, how and when. I toss out some emails to people for inquiries. The wife comes home at 4pm and I make tacos. Then we dig through the boxes of things in bots’ closets. I end up tossing almost 4 more boxes of random things and old broken toys which he don’t use and we don’t want to carry on to Jimmy. The wife finishes up and I recheck online shit.

I try an hour nap and get about 30 minutes. I get up in time to watch the new Breaking Bad while she puts Scott to bed. I am bummed cause one of my favorite characters bites the dust in the show. Then I go and pencil three pages for the erotica comic and get inks rolling on them. Before I know it, its 3am and I pass out to Twilight Zone.

8-27-12

I get up at 10:30. I record a morning show and upload it, then check online shit. I chat with Shane via email a few times and then take care of little odds and ends around the house. I decide to sell my 160gb ipod cause its acting up and I never use it anyway. So The wife gets up and we head to disc traders and sell it off. Then head to East Lansing where I get my comics, five guys burgers and some gas. Then we go to the Sprint store to see if I can get a larger GB phone to replace what my Ipod provided me. There’s a huge line and one irate customer in there that I really didn’t want to listen to him bitch anymore, so we left. I take the wife to her doctor’s appointment and they schedule our C Section for Sept. 6^th. We call our parents to tell them the news.

We get home and I relax and play with bots for an hour and then head into work. I pick up my co-worker and we work the 6-2am shift. Naturally, there is drama and I learn some things being said and done behind my back and it fuels me to some extreme anger. I vow to come back the next day and give a major piece of my mind to those involved. But my co-worker talks me out of the notion, saying its not worth my time. She’s right. So I let it go, but I don’t forget. I drop her off, get home, apply for some online freelance jobs and pass out around 3:30.

8-28-12

I get up at 10:20am and the wife is up with the bots already. I record a quick morning show, which sounds sort of a downer, thanks the events of the day before. I post it, not proud of it, but it is what it is. We get ready and head to Logans for lunch, then to Target where I get a couple packs of Football cards and some milk and a baby monitor. Then back home where I catch up on emails, update blog and do some artwork to get my mind off of things. Lee texts me to see if I am down for a Sabo tonight, but I am working at the den of sin. I text him a bit of my worries about the freelance life and he hits me back. I feel a bit better, but not much. Just feels good to talk about it I guess. I get ready and head to the den of sin for my shift. Its uneventful but I deal with the predictable rude assholes I usually deal with. (Don’t worry, I’ll reveal all one day. And they will wish they were nicer!) I get out and head home and pass out by 2:50am.

8-29-12

I wake up at 11am cause the wife let me sleep in. I get dressed and we head to Okemos to Wendys and Replay. Then we decide to hit up the art supply store downtown so I can get a few new markers and copic refills. Then we rush to the corner store for some bread and we hit the river park to feed the ducks again. I film another video there for a future youtube feature. We get back home around 3:30pm and I record a late morning show and upload it. Then I pencil/ink the last two pages of my erotica anthology short story. I fill up my copics and add greytones to the MAYHEM story. I email back and forth with Mike about details for the book and what is to come with it. Brian Maze calls in between me working and we catch up a bit.

I take a break and head to Grand Ledge with the family to Pizza Hut. We eat hearty and come back around 9:30pm. The wife takes the kid to bed and I decide to watch some TV. I watch three new Louie episodes on ON DEMAND, and then a Documentary on Ozzy Osbourne on Showtime. By then its 12:30, so I get up and update blog, check online shit and outline some more stuff with Mike about MAYHEM. I text with Dean to see if he wants to possibly do something for 24 hour comic book day, but he don’t seem into it. I still haven’t decided if I want to do something or not. I want to do 24 hours of solid work on my stuff to catch up, rather than do a 24 hour comic or something. But I am not sure. I scan and work on digital files for the newer comic stories and then pass out around 3:30am.

8-30-12

I wake up at 8am with a huge stomach ache thanks to the Pizza Hut from the night before. I lay back down on the couch and pass out till 11am. I get up and record a morning show and upload it. We load up the silver surfer and head to the bank, then south Lansing to get some paperwork signed by the wife’s boss. My boss calls me and says that she hears I am upset at some things at work and we start to discuss it. But I have put the frustrations so far at the back of my mind that I say I will call her back with more in a bit. But she apologizes on behalf of those who will NEVER change or apologize, and I feel a lot better about it. Glad to know enough that she cares to try. I also call my parents and they announce that they still plan to come next week when James is born. I tell them that Kelly’s parents will be up for that day too, but they are welcome to come and stay with us. I had assumed they were not going to because dad has had some major back trouble. So we leave it up to them if they are going to come or not.

We head to Ponderosa and have lunch, then to Kelly’s doctors for them to sign the same paperwork. They say it will take 7-10 days for them to sign it. (YIKES! To just sign a piece of paper?!?!?!?!!? Idiots!) We get to the house and my boss texts me that she’s going on vacation and I should just email my thoughts if its easier to do so. So I sit and gather my thoughts and email her everything I got. I let the wife read it and she approves. She passes out for a nap and I check online stuff and play with the bots. I watch a Bill Burr comedy special on Netflix while bots plays discs. Bored, I get bots and we head and get the wife some doughnuts, then to Arbys (he LOVES their fries). I suddenly realize that it is potentially the last time Bots and I will hang out together just the two of us. Cause from now on, he’ll have a little brother to share and play with. I almost start crying at the concept.

We get back home and wake the wife up with her doughnuts. Bots eats my cinnamon roll and I munch on a twisty. Then I am feeling tired and declare it is now my turn for a nap. I pass out from 7-9 and then wake up. I check email and see that 5 of my 6 Mars Attacks return sketch cards sold on ebay. I send invoices and prepare the cards for shipping. The wife puts the bots to bed and I update her on the good news. She tells me they went out shopping and rental house searching while I was asleep. She heads to bed and I get to work cleaning up the digital files I scanned the night before. Then I work on uploading the last two large DVDs of mp3s I got stored to my HD. I also upload a self portrait I did a while back to FB and deviantart and it gets some nice attention. Much appreciated!

Finally around midnight that is done and I join Mark for the Bigfanboy show. I break in the middle to get taco bell for the wife and I. I finish the show and am too tired to work on anything else. So I give up and lay down watching Netflix, passing out around 3am.

8-31-12

I cannot remember what was done on this day. But mostly it was me coloring the erotica pages and finishing up post production on both mini projects. I’m sure I took a dump at some point. Oh, and we did go and look at our new 4 bedroom townhome we will be moving into come this November! We put a mini deposit down on the place, effectively holding it for our arrival. We're both excited. Its gonna be a tight budget, but its a dream home. And with my freelance increasing as it has lately, its quite doable. Feels good!

9-1-12

Bots’s BDAY!!!!!!!! He turns the big 4 today! We get up and film bots blowing out his candle on the cake for his bday. I record and upload a morning show. Then we get dressed and head to town. Stop at FBC where I trade in some Cds and buy bots a Simpsons box set. Then to Okemos for window shopping and burger king. Then to Walmart in west Lansing for some minor things. The wife sees a blu ray player for $68, so we get that! We get back home and I set up the BR player and we watch Jaws. Then I watch some extras on my Star Wars box set. I also learn that it will play .avi files off of a USB flash drive! So I put some Beavis and Butthead on and try it out. It works like a charm!

I decide to take off the whole day from art and the wife and I watch Predator on BR. Then I watch the new Doctor Who, while she puts the bots to bed. Then we watch the rest of the Michigan/Alabama game. Then watch some ON DEMAND Tv shows. We hit the bed at midnight and I pass out to some Doctor Who on Netflix.