DIary! Not DAIRY!!

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11-9-12

I hear the bots up by 6, but I am out till around 9:30. Finally am forced up by 10. The wife leaves around 11 to go see SKYFALL, as I had free tickets from the BR I bought last week. I scan art and digitally clean them up. I send some changes to a client, answer emails, upload new diary and art to blog and deviantart. Then I record a new morning show about the nights’ events. All in all, a productive morning! A nice distraction from my depression, which has set in hardcore. Unavoidable. She gets home and I attempt a nap, which doesn’t take. She’s moody and wants a nap herself. We’re tiffing at each other all day until I finally leave for work early a little mad. I get there and work the shift and the wife and I make up over the phone. I get home by 3:20am and the wife leaves for work. I pass out.

11-10-12

I wake up several times thanks to bots and the baby waking up early. But the wife gets home at noon and we head to town for some shopping. I score a few new BluRays and a Mike Wieringo HC of FF. But all day I am dragging ass. Dead tired. I call my boss to see if I can come in later. After contacting about 4 people I work with for various forms of approval, they say its certainly no problem to go in later! We get home and I pass out for a nice 2.5 hour nap!

I wake up feeling much better and head into work. I drink some AMPs and am feeling like my old happy self again. No stress and I’m having fun. The shift is over at 4am and I head home, losing myself on Wikipedia for an hour and then finally passing out at 5:10am.

11-11-12

I sleep in till 11:30 and the wife is up with bots and the baby. We opt to head to East Lansing to see if we can get a copy of Casino Royale on BR. The wife has been Bond crazy since seeing Skyfall a couple days before. We head out and get it. Then stop off at Five Guys for lunch. Then to Barnes and Noble where I get the new Horrorhound and a cool Nirvana book from their bargain priced section (I am such a sucker for that section!). We get home and have a movie marathon. We watch Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace (the wife’s picks). Then I put in Dr. Strangelove. The wife ain’t digging it. We finish it and put bots and the baby to bed. We finish off the night watching Stargate, a movie she’s never seen. She likes it better than Strangelove. We both pass out around midnight.

11-12-12

I wake up at 6:30am, having to piss real bad. Plus my back is stiff as fuck from our shitty mattress. The wife is getting ready and heads out to work. I get bots up and on the bus. He’s especially cheery in the morning, which is nice. I record a morning show and spend some quiet time with myself catching up on work and then the baby gets up. (The rest of the day is a blur)

11-13-12 Most of the day is a blur, but I head to work at 7pm - 4am. BAHHHHH

11-14-12

I wake up at 7 to put bots on the bus and feed baby. Back to sleep until noon when bots comes off the bus. We sort and clean all day till wife comes home at 4. I take off solo to get comics at 21^st Century. I get back in time to let the wife go out. Most of the ones who said they wanted to make plans with her ditched her, so she goes to BW3’s solo. I feel bad for her cause no one ever seems to keep plans solid with her. We need new friends!

She gets home and we watch episode one of SHERLOCK, which she’s never seen. I have to practically beg her to watch it, but she does. And after its over, she says she likes it quite a bit. We both pass out till 2am, which the baby wakes up. The wife kicks me awake saying I need to get up to feed him. So I am up with him till 4am. Then pass back out when he does.

11-15-12

I Wake up to the alarm at 7:20 and bots is there ready for the bus. I change his clothes and put him on the bus. I check online shit and debate whether I could get away with more sleep, if the baby was gonna wake up or not. I decide to shoot for it but am denied. I stay up until the wife gets home and I head to work. Its “all male review” night and there’s nothing but ladies there out for a good time. Its good and rowdy. Holy crap is it loud! Its great to see them having a good time though. I get out and head home, pass out by 3am, dead tired.

11-16-12

Bots is up by 6:50 and I stay up and put him on the bus at 8. I try a nap but the baby ain’t letting me. I record a morning show and do some coloring. Bots gets off the bus and we hang out. Wife comes home by 4 and I want to nap for the long night ahead, but we decide to head to Art Van. The wife got the news that we were approved for funding and so we decide to invest on getting a new bed. We’ve had the same bed for ten years and its sagging big time! So we go in. We sit through a diagnostic and then are shown four different mattresses. We settle on one and then check out. By the time we leave, it sucked up so much of our time, that getting desperately needed groceries for the house is now impossible, thanks to lack of time. I take the family to Mcds and then head to work. I work a 7-4 shift but I am extremely tired for the last 4 hours of it. The wife texts that the baby ain’t going to sleep and she’s dog ass tired. She begs me to come home and quit, but it really ain’t the smart thing to do. So I call her, calm her down and then get a caffeine drink for myself to wake up a bit. Thank god my co-worker lets me take off about 35 minutes early! I get home and hit the pillow and am out by 4.

11-17-12

I wake up to bots standing at the foot of the bed at 5am. FFFFFFFIIIIIIVVVVVVVEEEEEEE!!!!!! So I get an hour of sleep. Great. I sleep while being woke up every ten-twenty minutes by bots for various noises and what nots. The wife leaves for work and I get up with him and the baby. Total sleep, maybe 4/4.5 hours. But with bots pulling me out of REM sleep every twenty minutes, it fucks with your brain, so I am dog ass tired!

I feed baby, do shit online and do more digital coloring. My eyes are so tired that I quit and try a nap. Meanwhile, bots destroys all that is destroyable. He gets into his usual spots of trouble (putting cat food in the water, dumping food into my boxes, throwing toys, getting markers and writing all over my planner and his toys as well) So I abandon all hope of a nap. I get up and feed baby again and try to stay calm with a very hyper toddler in the house. I now know that on days he doesn’t go to school, he’s got tons of energy and boredom that needs attention. Boy does it suck on my end! It ain’t a good day.

I contact some places that owe me money and they hit me back saying they will pay ASAP. That’s good cause I could use all the money I can get to catch up with bills and the upcoming move. Much needed! The wife gets home by 5:30 and I need a break desperately. I take a nap from 6-8:40. I arrive to work shortly after nine, feeling quite good. The new guy we hired is already quitting, so tonight is the last night with him pretty much. (Man we just can’t keep people, can we?) I work an uneventful shift that lasts till 4am. I get home and pass out rather quickly.

11-18-12

I wake up at 8:30 to bots and the baby and wife hanging out. I sneak in an extra 40 minutes of sleep in-between chatter, which pisses the wife off. I get bots ready and take him to get groceries for our final week in our old home (and it’s a THANKSGIVING week at that!). We get to Family Fare and load up. Bots is in a great mood and acts nice so I get him a balloon and some Wendys.  I score some gas and come home, loading in 4 trips from the car full of shit to cook this week. Wife is asleep and baby is up in his chair. I move everyone to my side of the room so she can sleep and I check online shit. I decide to spend most of the day drawing and inking. Its been a while since I’ve really sat down and got my art on! I felt like penciling some shit, rather than digital coloring. But I got a mountain of digital colors that need to be done, so I focus on that. I get a couple commissions done and sent to clients when Dean texts to see if I wanna drink. I say yes. I get bots to bed and I clean house, while feeding baby. Finally around 10:30 they arrive and the wife arrives at 11pm. We drink and play Munchkin till around 3am, when I shut it all down and kick everyone out. I pass out shortly thereafter.

11-19-12

I wake up at 8am to change and feed bots and doze in and out of sleep with the wife while bots is up playing on his own, watching the same Dora episode over and over. The baby gets up and we do a feeding. Then back to sleep till 11:30. I get up and feed baby again and check online shit. Wife finally wakes up at 1pm and takes bots to the store for groceries. I am watching the Lions game (they eventually lose, natch). Wife returns and I make hamburgers for everyone. I start digitally coloring more flats on a comics commission I got hired for and then take a break to play with Jimmy and Scott.

JJ calls in the middle of the Steelers/Ravens game and we chat for an hour. I get an email from Brett that has the 4th and final EXPENDABLES script. I give it a brief skim over to see what its all about. So I gotta add that to the TO DO list! Walters texts to see if I am down for a podcast, and I reply “yes.” I watch WALKING DEAD and have to verbally catch the wife up cause she’s missed the last few episodes. Finally its over and she puts bots and James to bed. I digitally color some more and do the BFB podcast with Walters. Its over and we’re unexplainably kicked off of Talkshoe after its over. Boy, that’s new! We text and say we’ll catch up later in the week. I hit the bed and pass out to Twilight Zone on Netflix.