9-27-12
I am woke up at 3am for a baby feeding. James won’t eat so I
put him down and he’s back up at 3:20. Same deal and he’s back up at 4am. The
wife takes over and I hit the pillow till 6am, when bots gets up. I get up with
him and he’s in a surprisingly good mood. We eat breakfast together and play
puzzles. I get him ready and put him on the bus and record a new Morning Show.
I upload that and the one I did the night before. The wife and I are testy at
each other because of the lack of sleep so we snipe each other all day.
Although she does let me take a nap from 4-6pm. She takes off with bots a
couple times to the store for various things and we basically have a quiet day.
Around 9pm, I put bots down for bed and then watch James from 10pm-2am, where
he sleeps on my desk in a chair and I build some pages for Mayhem, work on a DC
card, scan them to the editor for approval and then rough sketches for a
commission. I pass out around 3am.
9-28-12
I am up here and there throughout the night because the wife
is up with the baby. Finally around 6:50 she gets me up for good because Scott
is up. She takes over Scott duty and puts him on the bus and back to bed by
8am. I stay up with James from 7am-noon. During which time I record a new
morning show and upload it, update blog and do some other writing on some novel
ideas. Anything to keep me awake!!! It turns to noon and I wake the wife up.
She gets up and gets bots off the bus and takes him to run errands. I clean the
house and do the dishes. I start the digital file work for Mayhem and take a
break to head to the post office and my bill pay place to pay my due. I ship
all packages owed and then stop off by the bank to get quarters for laundry.
I get back home and work on digital layouts for Mayhem, all
while doing some laundry. The wife puts a lot of her old rings on ebay and bots
re-destroys the living room. I finish around 5pm as far as I can go and start
online shit. The wife takes bots to Walmart for a few more things and James
wakes up from a nap. She takes over when she gets home. I finish PDFing Mayhem
and then take a nap from 7-10pm. The wife comes in and wakes me up and hits the
hay. I get up and get an ad from the Ghost Provokers I offered to put in the
book for free (cause I love that show!) and Mike Pascale’s pages, which are
DOOOOOOPEEEEEE! I get it all assembled by 11pm. Only thing left are two pinups
which I must now come up with in the next three days to finalize it all. I check
online shit and realize that tonight, 25 years ago Star Trek TNG’s pilot aired.
So I do a blog about my memories of that night and then bring up “Encounter at
Farpoint” on Netflix. I skim through it, remembering that first night I saw it
25 years ago and am blown away by the memories. I deal with tooth ache pain all
night as something is up in there. No idea what. Hope it goes away soon! Last
thing I need right now is another doctor bill!
James gets up at 10:20 for a feeding and he spends the rest
of the night sitting in his Monkey chair with me as I get work done. I take a
break and end up getting lost on youtube for a couple hours and then Wikipedia
(my favorite place to get lost). By 4am, James is wide awake and I am reading
about John Candy’s weight at his death of heart attack in his sleep: 330-369.
Chris Farley died weighing 295. I am easily in that range that John Candy is in
currently. Quite a sobering fact. I keep looking at James and worrying now that
he will grow up without a daddy. I make a promise to him that I will try my
damnedest to not let that happen. I hit the pillow by 5am, but don’t end up
falling asleep till 5:40 cause of all those sobering ideas on my mind.
9-29-12
I wake up at 1:20pm (YAY!) and the wife is up taking care of
bots. The baby is sleeping with me. I sit and check online shit. Robert sends
me another filler pic for the Mayhem project. I talk with Jarmo over FB for a
bit and he tosses accolades my way for a recent self portrait I did. I did this
self portrait a couple weeks ago and I got a figgin’ online standing ovation
for it. I even chatted with some people privately about it, but I still don’t
see why people reacted so well to that one as opposed to anything else I’ve
done. I gotta examine it some more. I suggest to the wife that I want to go to Ponderosa.
We pack up and head there. I eat pretty healthy too, except that their salad
bar was sans lettuce! UGH. While there, I get contacted to do a logo design for
a client. I accept the challenge and promise to get on it tomorrow. We head to
Hobby Lobby where we get a couple things for the new house (we’re thinking of
decorating the living room with a “Cinema/Movie History” theme!), and I get
some Bristol paper. We get home and I get changes on the drawing I did for my old
high school mate. I make a note of what needs to be changed and promise to get
on it tomorrow.
At 6:30 I leave and head to work for my 7-4am shift. It’s a
loud night (as every Saturday night is). The guy I was supposed to train quit
the day before, so it was an easier night in that sense. However loud mouth
frat boy, alpha male jerk offs came in from time to time and ruined the night.
Finally left around 5 after and got home in time to see James get up for a
feeding and I got to pass out around 5:30am.
9-30-12
I wake up at 8:30 with the wife angry she’s on lack of
sleep. James is keeping her up and bots is being moody and demanding. I drift
back asleep as I am not sure what she wants me to do about it and I am half out
of it. By my suggestion, she puts James in the vibrating Monkey chair next to
my bed and she hits the couch for some shut eye between bots’ needs and wake
ups. I am on James duty as I sleep. I peek out every twenty minutes and he is
unmoving.
Around 11am, I wake up for good and the wife is still
extremely moody. I suggest she hit the couch for more sleep and let me handle
the kids. She sleeps until 3pm, where we watch the Lions lose again. I do a
couple quick logo designs for a client and doodle some more sketches and check
online shit. I watch a couple other ball games and bots is being moody as hell.
We opt for KFC for dinner and we eat hearty. Later on, the wife puts bots to
bed and I watch a Doctor Who episode from the new season I missed. She comes
out to join me and we watch the tail end of the Eagles/Giants game. She swigs
on a beer while I do a frozen daqueri and some shots of Sour Apple. Finally we
both hit the bed at 11pm and I pass right out.
10-1-12
I wake up at 1am to James screaming for food. He’s soaking
wet, as he leaked in his diaper. Wife changes him and hits the bed again. I am
up from 1-5am with James. In that time I record a loooooong (and very personal)
Morning show and upload it, update blog, get lost in my Amazon wish list and
catch up with new episodes of my favorite podcasts. I also look up pics of nerd
shelf porn (pics of people’s houses and nerd room set ups with their nerd shit
in it for ideas on our new place!). Finally around 6am, I trade off with the
wife and finally hit the bed.
I get up around 11:40 and the wife is out to go get the bots
off the bus. I tell her I want to go to the new apartment to measure some
things to see where furniture is going to fit. She’s into it, and she gets
Jimmy ready. We wait out side for bots and then head to the dollar store for a
tape measure. We then get some Mcds (I eat a much healthier Grilled Chicken
plain) and we get to our new townhome. I measure stuff and discuss layout with
the wife for a good 30 minutes before we head back. We get home and I dink
around online and spend time with everyone before heading to work for a 6-2
shift. Its uneventful and I get home sore and tired. I try to sleep but Jimmy
gets up and its my shift with him till 6am. We feed and I get the email that my
DC 52 cards I pre-did were approved. So I upload those to advertise and I am
dog ass tired. I try to lay down at 4:20, but Jimmy is back up at 4:40. I am
EXHAUSTED. But we try another feeding and I basically am on complete autopilot
till 6am, when I hand him off to the wife and fall asleep in a millisecond.
10-2-12 - 10-3-12
These days are a blur. I worked a couple shifts at the job
and then had a night off on the 3rd. I met with Dean at the coffee
shop and penciled a last minute pinup for Mayhem. Then he came over that night
and we watched the roast of William Shatner and Roseanne before passing out
drunk at 1:30am. Then back up at 4:30am for a feeding.
10-4-12
I wake up at noon after the long night of hangover, drunken
fun and 4:30am feeding, which I fell asleep in the middle of. Kelly gets bots
off the bus and heads to town for a bit. I stay with Jimmy and they come back.
I am itching to get out of the house myself so I gather some LPs I am not using
and take em to Flat, Black and sell them. I score a used GREEN DAY and JIMI
HENDRIX Cd to occupy me for the drive home. I get home after stopping off at
Walmart for TP and Berries for bots. The wife then heads to Family Fare in
Grand Ledge with bots for groceries. They return an hour and change later and
we fill the cupboards with the loot. Brian Maze calls and we talk a bit. We eat hearty and then I get to work on
art. I scan the Mayhem pinup and complete the book. I then do inks and colors
on a commission logo for a friend. Then do a blog, update diary and make a TO
DO LIST. The wife puts the kids to bed and then herself. I text with Walters to
see if we’re doing a show. First it’s a yes, then a no. So I get to work on
other things and get an offer for a few more pages on a commission. I start to
pull reference and then the baby wakes up at 1:50. I do a feeding and try to
watch some D grade zombie movies on Netflix, which I cannot sit through. He
passes out on my desk and I pull reference for the new commission, which I got
earlier. I print it out and get to sketching. Finally I pass him to the wife
and hit the bed at 6am.
10-5-12
Wife wakes me up at 11:30 and I check my phone. A local
client wants to meet to discuss getting a flyer done. I make the appointment
for 1:30. The wife takes bots to the store to get extra diapers and a few
things for her overnight trip to the motherland of Mt. Pleasant to drink with
her friends. I check online shit and do a feeding. She returns and I head to
the meeting with the client. We discuss the flyer, have a nice conversation and
he pays me. I get back and the wife takes off for Mt. Pleasant leaving me with
heckle and jeckle for the night. Baby eats a lot all day and bots messes up the
house. I don’t get much done. The wife has a great time with her friends and I
chat with Walters on the phone for about an hour. Then I pass out to Sherlock on Netflix around 3am. Back up at 5am for a feeding and
then back to sleep.
10-6-12
Bots wakes me up at 7:30 and he’s an absolute terror all
day. Just into everything and moody and loud. The wife texts that she’s hung
over but on her way home. She arrives at 11:30 and lets me sleep from then till
2:30. Her and bots head to Target as I feed James T, and check online shit. I
don’t get much done during the day as I am cleaning up bots’ messes and
reorganizing my comics that he pulled out and tossed around the room. (yeah.
You read that right) Eventually, I am going through a lot of my stuff,
organizing it and tossing more stuff. I cook tuna and before I know it, its
8pm. The wife puts bots to bed early and I lay on the couch watching the rest
of the Tigers game. Then the opening of the Giants/Reds game. I pass out till
1am. I get back up and the wife is sleeping on the couch next to me. I decide
to get up and get to work. Before I start, the baby gets up for a feeding. So I
change him and the wife wants to feed him. I work on some changes to a logo for
Bingham, finish the flyer for Marvin and then re-work on the book logo for the
client. Then pencil a bit on the 4 page superhero erotica commission. Before I
know it, its 4am. I update the blog and decide to call it a night. I stop and
pass out.
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