DIARY!

10-28-12

Not much to report. I took  a “ME” day and watched movies like “High Fidelity, Conan the Barbarian. Also did a bit of sketching on commissions and did a podcast with Mark Walters. Then talked with him for an hour post-show.

10-29-12

Got up and gathered the family after bots got off bus and we head to East Lansing for Five Guys for lunch. We get back and I take a nap. Then wake up a bit early to stop off at a Jersey place to see about getting some custom made jerseys made for myself for Con Season. I Get prices and then head downtown to Captial City Comics. It’s a shell of what it used to be, for sure. But I get a card holder to mail some cards out and then head to work. I am dreading being there, completely. All day long I am reading updates on twitter and FB about Hurricane Sandy, constantly worried about my friends who are in harm’s way.

I get there and the dude who harassed me was forced to come in right when I got there to apologize to me. I couldn’t gather whether he was really nervous or mad about the incident, but the apology went quick and I am not entirely convinced it was genuine. Mostly because I found out that he talked a lot of shit about me when I wasn’t around. But that’s neither here nor there. I consider it over. But after he left, all I could think about was the incident itself and how I almost quit and I shoulda quit. And here I am, stuck in the place I hate even more now. I drift through the hours of the shift hating every second. I just cannot let it go. Finally my area supervisor calls and talks to me. She offers to pay me for the day I missed even. Her talk and her kind gesture certainly deflates my anger and makes me feel a lot better. Finally, I can smile again.

I finish my shift and head to Walmart for mailers. I dig through the $7.99 BluRay bin and find nothing I can talk myself into. So I buy bots some Angry birds jammies and Scooby Doo house pants. Then head home and pass out around 3:30am.

10-30-12

I wake up at 6:30 with bots and the baby up at once. I feed the baby and talk with him as the wife gets the bots ready and on the bus. Then I pass out.

I am back up at 11:50 and we speed get ready and I gather the cards that need to go into the mail and pack em up. I get bots and wait in the car for Kelly and baby. They get in and we head to the bank to get a money order, then the post office. Then lunch, drop off the payment , Walgreens and then home. I call back Brian Maze and we chat a bit.

I head to work and work a 6-2 shift which goes quick cause we got plenty to do. I get home, check internet shit and pass out by 4am.

10-31-12

Wife wakes me up at 8:20 to feed the Jimmy, and she heads to work. She’s got a shift in St. Johns from 10-1pm. I get bots off the bus at noon. We check out his Halloween booty from school and play bubbles. The wife gets home and we hang out a bit. Then get the kids dressed (Jimmy is a bee, Bots is Darth bots) and we head to Okemos Mall. Bots goes to each store and gets tons of candy. It’s the first time I’ve been Trick or Treating at all since I Was nine years old. I saw the fun bots and all the kids were having and it was quite touching. Ran into my pal Steven as well. On the way home we stop off the QD and I get Vodka for me, Doughnuts for the bots and wife. (She’s down 23 pounds though!) Then we get home. I watch the Garfield Halloween Special and wife does a feeding. Bots tosses his candy around the house, making a further mess. The wife heads to the Gym and gets the bots to hit the bed. I hang out and feed the baby. The wife and I drink a few and watch Jackass 3.5 and some online videos of Halloween pranks. She konks out at midnight and I stay up with the baby till almost 2am. Finally he goes to sleep, and so do I.

11-1-12

I wake up at 7:50 and feed the baby as the wife is putting bots on the bus. She has to head into his school for a meeting on his development. Baby passes back out and so do I. We wake back up around 11:40 and the wife comes home with the news that he basically has some behavorial problems that are in the “autistic” category, which is a WIIIIIIIIDE range. But cognitively, personality, all there. Just need to work with him and maybe get a specialist one on one with him to help develop behavorial stuff better so he can develop better in those areas. The teacher gives us some pointers too.

We all get dressed and head to Mcds on old 27 where I meet a client with some changes to a graphic he’s had me working on. I get paid and we head to Wendys for lunch. Then back home, where I announce that I am so far behind on commissions that I need to leave the house and be distraction free to work. So I take off and sit in the Arbys for 4 hours catching up on some art. Finally its too cold in there for me to stay so I take off for home. Once home, the wife takes bots and heads to Walgreens for some things while I sit with Jimmy and do some online business I gotta get done. I text with Dean for a while and he says they are coming out for a party. I agree and we make plans. The wife comes home and puts bots to bed while I clean up the house a bit and make a playlist on itunes for the night’s festivities. Dean and Mjit come over and we drink into the night. I am on baby duty from 11-2am, so I go sober. They leave at three and the wife and I hit the bed.

11-2-12 Cannot remember what I did this day.  Probably a bunch of nothing. I know I boxed some stuff up, that’s for sure. And I am up till 4am feeding the baby.

11-3-12

I wake up early with the bots and let the wife sleep. She gets up and works an 8-2pm. After she gets home, I head to Arbys and draw some more for a couple hours. I get back and box more stuff up from the house for the move. Then I take a major break and watch Jaws on BR with the wife. Bots hits the bed and the baby amazingly enough passes out around 11:50 as well. I watch some stuff on On Demand and the wife passes out at Midnight. I fall asleep at 2am.

11-4-12

I wake up at 7:50, tired as hell. Bots is wide awake. I feed the baby and the wife gets bots ready to head to the store. We search for his shoes and finally find them 20 minutes later. They leave and I feed the baby another bottle. They return and I am dead tired. I take a nap but am woke up every five minutes from the noise. The wife and I have a minor tiff because we are both tired. She leaves for the Gym and then work and I am on baby duty.  I record two new Morning Shows and then basically watch bots make messes all day and clean up after him. Baby and I watch Star Trek TMP and part of Wrath of Khan on Tv. Then the second half of the Lions game. Finally at 9pm, I put bots to bed. He’s got the sniffles real bad and he’s up all hours having trouble breathing. I watch the new Walking Dead and its intense. The wife comes home as I am feeding the baby and putting him to sleep. I eat some cereal and then fall asleep to AVGN.

11-5-12

I hear bots up at 7:00am. We called in sick for him the previous night, so he’s not going to school. He’s moody as fuck and it’s a quite fun morning for me as a result. But I keep my cool. I check online shit and Muck about on some art. The wife heads to work and I basically sit around watching TV all day after that. I watch American Reunion on On Demand, not half bad. Then catch up on episodes of Comic Book Men and Toy Hunter. After 7, the wife takes over kid duty and I get some inking done. At 11pm, we do a Sabo Show and I am dog tired after it. I pass out around 2am. Great to hear from everyone again.

11-6-12

I wake up at 7 and put bots on the bus for school. I piddle around on the net and Go get breakfast for the wife and I. She gets up and we decide to head in and get our votes done. I stand in line maybe 45 minutes and get done voting. We head to the used DVD place and I get a couple BluRays (2001, Eyes Wide Shut, Escape from NY, all used). Then to Best Buy where there’s a major sale going on. I make note of some possible Christmas gifts for the kids and get myself a copy of Sherlock season 1 and Moonraker with the free Skyfall movie ticket on it! The wife and I make plans to see it Friday. The wife checks the bank and we find out we got her bonus! Thank god!!!!

We head home and get bots. We go get him some Mcds and then back home. The wife takes off for work and I pop in the 2001 BluRay. I am literally crapping myself over how great the transfer is!!! Mark Walters calls during my viewing and we chat about things. I convince him to drop $150 on the Bond BR set. (I wish I could afford it!!!) Brian Maze calls and we chat for an hour and change. Then I am glued to CNN all night after that. Bots hits the bed at 8pm and I just watch as the projections come in. By 10:30, the wife gets home and we watch CNN and flip to other channels to see whats going on elsewhere. Finally around 11:30, Obama is declared the winner and I enjoy the explosion on Facebook and Twitter. Then I get the great news about the legalization of gay marriage in Maine, Washington and Maryland. Then Colorado/Washington legalize Marijuana! Wow. What a night! We wait around for Romney’s concession speech and then Obama’s speech. I finally pass out around 2am.

11-7-12

The wife gets up and puts bots on the bus and I sleep till 9am. We both get up and ready after I blog a bit about the night’s events. We head to the bank, get the money for the move in stuff to the new apartment. All their fees and what not. They inform us that we will get the keys to the place for the 21^st!!! Our official move in will be the 26^th, but we got five days to load stuff in if we want to. That will make the transition much much easier!! Then we head to the loan place and then back to the bank. Then the wife’s secret stash bank and then to Culvers for lunch. We get back to pick up bots off the bus and head to the furniture store where we got two new couches on layaway and we pay a nice chunk on them. I finally get to see them too. Very nice and stiff, which I like. We then head to Walgreens for laundry detergent, Mcds for the bots and then home.

I start a load of laundry and leave the wife to watch the Obama speech from last night which she missed and I head to Walgreens for more soda and a snack for bots. I get back and she is finishing a feeding with the baby. She leaves for work as I work on laundry and cleaning house again. Bots meanwhile creates all sorts of creative messes for me to pick up. Including dropping eggs, emptying salt all over the kitchen floor, putting food in the cat bowl and more. I swear, I gotta strap him down like Hannibal Lector sometimes…

Finally, he hits the bed and I try for a quick nap. I get about 30 minutes and then James gets up. We feed two bottles and then the wife comes home. She takes over and I ink pages and scan and color a commission. I send it to the client who wants so many changes that I basically have to redraw it. So I give up on that and work on other commissions. Around 11pm, Walters calls me and I listen to him order food and he tells me about some crazy shit going down with his show last time. Then says he’ll meet me in ten minutes on the BFB show.

45 minutes later, we start and I am dog tired. The wife is sleeping in the same room and I have to stay quiet. Finally I cannot stay up any longer and I drop off, passing out by 2am.

11-8-12

I wake up at 7:20 to get bots up and on the bus and pass back out. Moments later, the baby wakes up. The wife and I lay there wondering if the other is going to get up. Eventually I do, but I am dog tired.  The wife takes up and takes over, and I pass back out till noon.

The wife takes off to take bots to lunch and returns with lunch for me. We all decide to head to Target and see whats on clearance for the new place. We head there and I get American Psycho on BR for $5. We price out some stuff to potentially get for the move and Xmas. We get back in time for the wife to head to work and I finish recording a new Morning Show. Then I dink around on the net, updating various things and cooresponding to emails I have had sitting around for a long while. Bots is into everything again, but not as bad as yesterday. I sort the laundry, clean up the house and toss more shit. Baby gets up at 5pm and hangs out after a feeding. Bots finally goes to bed around 8pm and I continue my cleaning/sorting efforts while listening to new Joe Rogan podcasts. The wife comes home and we toss a bunch of trash, including my mother’s chair. It broke a while back again and I tried to see if anyone else wanted it. The cats had pissed in it and I decided to let it go. It was a hard thing to do, but I did it.

I get dressed and head into work for a quick midnight-4am shift.The whole way there I think about the chair and if I was making a poor choice. And I felt guilty that I didn't have the time, or money to devote to fixing it. Its like I was defeated. I was quiet and depressed all night. Being at a place I hated the moment I walked in didn't help matters. 

After my shift, Mark Walters saw my FB post and called me to make sure I was okay. We talked for an hour. I appreciated the gesture. Finally, I passed out to sleep by 5am.