DIARY! BOOYAHHHHH

10-7-12

I wake up at 11:10 and am dead tired. The wife is too. We watch some football and I work on commissions for a few people. I catch up on Joey Diaz’ podcasts and keep working. Then I start sorting through crap I got laying around, tossing some stuff for the move. The wife and I decide to move the bed to the living room, tossing ½ of our sectional couch that we are not taking with us to the new place. I do most of the lifting but the wife and I take it out to the dumpster and instantly after completed, I know I’ve hurt myself a bit. We toss a few blankets, pillows and bags of trash and things we are sorting through and no longer want. Then we set up our new bed space in the living room for comfort. The bots hits the bed at 9am and the wife and I booze up a bit enjoying Football and a Rush documentary. We spend a nice quiet night together and I end up asleep by 10pm. Back up at 2am with the baby and then finally back to sleep by 6am cause that’s my shift with him.

10-8-12

I wake up at 11:40, very tired. My back is sore from moving the couch yesterday so I mostly take it easy for the day. I head to work from 6-2am and try to not lift too much cause my back hurts so much. I get back home and the baby gets up. I feed and put him down and I am in bed by 4:30am.

10-9-12

I wake up at 10:40 and the wife informs me of all the errands she’s run during the day. We get up and run to the CD store and then Culvers for lunch. Then we get bots off the bus and I drop off my debt payment and get bots a couple apple pies from Mcds (he loves those!). We head home and I ink the Lioness commissions and scan them/touch up the inks in photoshop. I send them to the client for approval. Then I take a break and lay with the family on the bed and relax.

Finally I get up and head to work from 6-2am. Its very slow and uneventful. I get home by 2:30 and stay up till 6am on baby duty. In that time, I negotiate the sale of more of my DC AP cards to a client and start penciling on a custom one. I pass out dead tired at 5:10.

10-10-12

Wife wakes me up at 8:10 saying that the bus never picked up Scott so she’s on her way to drop him off. I attempt to fall back asleep but James gets up (natch). I change dipe and start a feeding. The wife comes home with breakfast and takes over feeding. I pass back out. Around 12:30 I wake up to bots jumping around. I roll around bed until 1:30, still tired as hell. The wife announces her sleepiness as well and I decide to take bots out of the house so she can attempt sleep. Before I leave we get the mail and I find 50 blank Fantasy Art cards in there for me to get done by Nov. 1^st! YIKES! I forgot! But I re-check and get the reference I need for it.

Bots and I leave and head to the mall where at FYE I get the wife a used DMB cd and I get a used Rob Zombie Hellbilly Deluxe 2 CD. Then to B&N where I get Jason and the Arganaugts on BR for cheap. Bots acts up so I put back his disc of Diego I was going to get him. Bad boys don’t get presents. We drive around a bit and head home. The wife got no sleep in my absence and was now attempting sleep. I sit at the table and organized my stuff, updated blog, pulled more reference and made my TO DO list for the next few days. TONS of artwork to get done! Boy o’ boy!

Wife’s sleep finally hits the bed around 8pm, and I join her after getting bots to go to bed. I wake back up at 2am then pass back out by 4:30am.

10-11-12

I wake up at 10:30 and piddle around on the net until bots gets off the bus. I then take off to Target and Best Buy. I get bots a Wubbzy disc two pack, just cause I am nice. I get home and spend time with everyone, but then head to Okemos out of boredom, getting a new flash drive at Best Buy and stopping off at Replay, finding nothing used that I wanted. I get home and then head to work from 7-4am. I get home and pass out dead tired.

10-12-12

I wake up at 10:30 and the wife is itching to leave. She leaves and I attempt more sleep. But the goddamn lawn mowers come by the windows and wake up the baby. Great. Bots and the Wife come back and basically sit around my computer while I am trying to work, begging me to leave the house. We play with the idea of going to Kalamazoo but I opt to go see Ted in Mt. Pleasant for a couple hours. Not much time for else. So we head an hour north. I am surprised at all the changes of my beloved home town and realize that indeed, there isn’t anything there for me anymore. All my favorite haunts are gone and traffic is insane. We pickup Ted and drive around a bit. I stop off at Game Traders and get bots a disc and he wants a cheap NES game for some reason, so we get that.

I take everyone to Ponderosa and we all chat and catch up. Bots acts up the whole time and I am instantly regretting getting him a disc. Eventually we drive around a bit more and then drop Ted back off. By then I am itching to head home cause I am tired. We drive home, barely able to stay awake. When we get home, bots is moody and tired and I am as well. He acts up getting inside the house and tempers flare. I get quite angry at him but eventually relent after a hug and give him back the discs I took away as punishment. I then lay down instantly feeling stupid for my lack of patience and fall asleep feeling I am a bad parent.

I wake up at 10:30 and check online shit and update blog. Wife finishes feeding James and lays down. I get to work on the mountain of work I have on my plate to do. Getting some work done would certainly help me feel better. But as soon as I start tackling the mountain, the baby wakes up. An hour and change later, he’s back asleep and I get to work. I ink a logo and scan it for the client. I work on about 15 Fantasy Art carts for the next set and get them inked. While doing this I watch all of season one of COMIC BOOK MEN and then the STAN LEE doc on Netflix. I pass out around 6:20am.

10-13-12

I wake up at 10:45 with the wife in my face. She wants to go to the newly opened Buffalo Wild Wings to see if she could win free wings for a year. I’m on 5 hours of sleep, but I get up anyway. I start to get stuff going, but the bots is being a dick and the baby wakes up (natch). So I try my best to please everyone until the wife returns. I decide to take off solo to Clems Comics where I get a used TPB of Batman: Death in the Family and a cool Godzilla figure that I plan to help decorate my new office with. I stop off at B&N and get a Mad Magazine Superhero parody collection as well. I stop off at Mcds for everyone and then head back.

We eat and watch the end of the MSU/Iowa game, which they lose. Then I start sorting through boxes in bots’ room. After a sweaty hour of work, I eliminate three more big boxes of shit and condense a lot into manageable boxes. I move all the packed boxes to the now empty bedroom for moving day. Then I start packing things in the hallway and from my office area. I take a break at 6:30 and update blog, start organizing my art desk for the long night of artworking ahead of me.  But I am starting to really feel run down for the lack of sleep from the last few days. So after spending time with the family I decide to fall asleep at 9pm. I wake up at 1am, but am back to sleep by 1:30, dead tired.

10-14-12

I finally wake up around 6am and am still tired. But I opt for some breakfast before the kids get up. We eat and I pass back out till 11:30am. We hang out and watch the end of Shawshank Redemption, which we can never ignore during channel surfing. Who can!?!?! Then watch the Lions beat the Eagles. It’s a close game, once again. In between half time and the middle of the game, I box some more stuff and toss about half a box of comics. Finally after the game, I get to work on a couple commissions and thumbnails for two more. Then its 7:20 and the wife is moody as hell. So I decide to stop and take over on bots duty. He’s being difficult all day and once again I gotta be the mediator. I decide to give him a bath but he freaks out the whole time and is being difficult. So I put him to bed early. I lay in there with him watching Netflix and he doesn’t pass out. So I leave him be and go watch the Walking Dead season premiere, then the tail end of the Packers/Texans game. Then the wife is asleep and I start work on more Fantasy Art cards while skimming through my digital copies of Lord of the Rings. Then listen to podcasts to occupy my mind while I work. The baby gets up at 2:30 and goes back to sleep by 3:45 after a couple feedings. I decide to hit the hay by 4:30 and hope that the baby don’t wake back up cause my “shift” ends at 6am.

10-15-12

Wife wakes me up at 7am getting bots ready for school. Then I re-wake up at 11:45 when she is feeding the baby and has to go get the bots off the bus. I take over and then put him in his vibrating chair and he passes out. I get up and check email as the wife and bots return with food. I decide I want to take a trip to Toys R Us in Okemos to kill time. I get a couple things for bots (a bop up blow up toy and an Umizoomi coloring book) and then head back. Bots is acting up and Kelly is frustrated. I take over bots duty and calm him down. My computer is acting up real bad, so I shut it off for the night to rest. I turn it on later and its sluggish and freezing. HD is moments from kaboom level! I sort and toss more stuff. Even stuff that is completely uncharacteristic for me to toss (Star Trek magazines), but like I said: I’m trying to cut my collection down by 40% for the big move! Bots goes to bed and we watch Monday night football, and then opt to rent Friday the 13^th part VI on ON DEMAND. We watch it and I try sleep to no avail. I read a blog by Joe Peacock which inspires me and I write him to let him know it. I pass out around 3:30am.

10-16-12

I wake up at 9:30am from the baby crying. I try to boot up the comp but it is shot. Won’t boot up. Done. So the wife returns and I head to the post office and then to Best Buy to get a new HD. I get one and an air can. Then to the nearby hardware store to get the proper tools needed for the job. I watch walkthroughs online on how to replace a HD myself. I’m nervous about it. I take the wife and kid to the baby’s doctor appointment. Bots is being moody (natch) and so I occupy him while we wait. Finally they emerge and I race home, my mind only focused on the task ahead of me.

I get home and the wife distracts the bots while I tackle the job. I take apart my mac, undo the HD and put the new one in, cleaning out all the dust in the process. I assemble it and boot it up, but it doesn’t find the HD. I run a few different experiments with discs and utilities and it just ain’t finding a HD in there. I think it’s a connection problem. So I take it all back apart and recheck everything. I even take it out, disconnect it, and then reconnect it. Re-assemble all of it and try again. Same thing. At this point I give up and re-take it all apart and put the old HD back in. I reassemble it and it boots right up and acts completely normal! (SIGH) So I reseal the new HD back up and go return it to Best Buy on my way to work.

I get to work and work a non-stressful 6-2 shift. I hang out after a bit to chat with friends. I stop off at Taco Bell for the wife and get home by 2:30. I update blog and pass out by 3am.