First few days of 2013 Diary!

1-4-13

Mercy be to the nations of T! The wife lets me sleep in till 11am! Twas glorious! I wake up, check online shit, post new blogs and get to work on sketch cards. I spend all day drawing and then head to work for a 7-4am shift. I come home dead tired.

1-5-13

The wife and I pretty much watch the playoffs all day. Before that though, I get a lot of the pencils done on Expendables 4, and ink the pages. Only three left to go! After the games and the kids are in bed, the wife hits the hay as well. I stay up drawing some more and watch Hitchcock and Bones Brigade Doc on Netflix. I pass out around 3am.

1-6-13

I wake up at 8 and start penciling. After a few hours, I’ve finished all of Expendables 4, plus a potential cover! God bless me drawing on smaller paper this time around! I scan them all, touch them up and send them to Brett for approval. We text back and forth the plans to come. The wife and I watch more NFL playoffs and then I have to head into work. I stop off at the disc place for extra scratch. I work a 7-2am and then head home, dead tired and honestly, not feeling that well.

1-7-13

My biggest fears are correct, I wake up with massive aches and chills. I’ve finally caught whatever the kids and the wife have had for the last week and change. The baby is still stuffed up as well. The wife heads to work and I negotiate a deal to get out of work so I can rest. But still, I am on all day kid duty. Bots is moody, baby is needy and all I want to do is crawl into bed and die. But I suffer all day to take care of them. Its what a daddy does, right? I watch Django Unchained and try to stay sane with some Trek DS9 on Netflix until the wife comes home finally. After a brief tiff and food in my belly, I go upstairs and toss and turn getting ten minutes of sleep at a time. I am definitely sick!

1-8-13

I wake up feeling okay, but sore as fuck. I scan some of the Sketch cards and send to the editor for some sort of promo for it. I end up heading to work and doing a long as 6-2am shift. It DRAGS because I feel like shit! I get home and pass out quickly, after briefly joining everyone on a return SABO show.

1-9-13

I wake up and get to work on art. I am damn close to finishing the sketch cards. I also do some coloring on Starslam strips. I assemble some PDFs for my pals to look at for feedback. The write backs are quite positive! I head to work for a quick 2-6pm shift. Then back home. I do more art all night and am quite productive! I pass out at 3am.

1-10-13

I wake up at 7am and put bots on the bus. The wife and I head to get breakfast and groceries. We get back and she does our taxes. She’s filing separate cause my state always gets claimed from back unemployment owed. She heads to work and I watch Zero Dark Thirty via Academy screener. I deal with a moody as fuck James all day until he passes out around 8:30. Bots passes out around nine. I go downstairs and get to work on sketch cards. By midnight, I am done with them and ready to mail them out! I email Mark and say that I am out on doing a BFB show cause I’m not feeling well. So then head to bed and pass out.

1-11-13

I wake up at 8:10 to bots staring at me. We all get up and baby flips over on the floor a few times. Getting there! I scan all the hockey cards and mail them to the editor. She sends me a UPS mailer and I pack em all up and get ready to ship them out. I then clean up the office and dig through the closet through my model kits. I toss out a bunch of old paints and make a list of things to get at the hobby shop. I cook and burn bots a pizza. So I have to cook another one. He eats the next one and I wait around all day for the wife to get home. At 4pm, I cook us some great noodle soup and she comes home with OJ and other stuff from the store. We eat and I take a 20 minute nap on the floor. I head into work early to drop off the trash and to grab something to drink. I work a 8-4am shift that is full of things to do, as we are getting a ton of stock from two other closed stores. I get home at 4:25, dead tired and pass out to episodes of Louie.

1-12-13

I wake up at 11am (SWEEEEEEEEET!) and I hear the bots jumping up and down the stairs as usual. Its his favorite playground. We all get ready and I drop off the wife and bots at Chuck E Cheeses cause a co-worker is treating them to lunch and fun. James and I head to hobby lobby and I spend $3 on model paints. I’m close to being broke, so I take it as a nice treat for me. We wait around and then join them inside the place. I’ve never been into a Chuck E Cheese before. Its insane! I woulda loved it as a kid. Yeah, my parents never took me out much. Bots plays, James gets passed around for the “aww’s” and we head home. I toss some things up on ebay and then dig out my model kits to see what I can get away with painting for now. Then start painting some of the models up and working on gluing interior stuff. Then stop and watch the Broncos lose to Baltimore and then 49rs beat the Packers!! Yay!!! Dean and Mjit come over and we play this game called “Cards against humanity, which is devastatingly funny (especially when you are drinking!). They leave around 3am and I pass out shortly after that.

1-13-13

Bots gets up at 6:30 and I get up with him, hung over to shit. I work on model kits some more when bots lets me, and basically use the rest of the day to work on commissions and other stuff around the house. Then the wife works 2-11, and I put the kids to bed around 9pm. I think about staying up late, but I am dog ass tired. So I pass out around 11pm, reassuring that Walters is cancelling the BFB Sunday show. Good. I am out!

1-14-13

Bots wakes me up at 5:40am (GAAAAHHHHH), do the usual and I put him on the bus at 8am. I feed the baby and attempt a nap, and get about an extra hour of sleep. Bots gets home and we hang out all day. I watch a crapload of THAT METAL SHOW On Vh1 Online. Wife gets home at 5:30 from work and I head in for a 6-2am shift. Its uneventful and I get home and pass out dead tired.

1-15-13

I wake up the bots at 7:10 and get him on the bus. I get the baby up, do a feeding and we nap from 8-10am in our room, listening to Vh1 Classic. Baby wakes me up and I do yet another feeding. I get bots off the bus and then call all my bills to set up payment plans. Then record a couple morning shows. Wife gets home and I make Pork Chops and Taters. She’s in a bad mood due to sickness and other things, so I leave in a huff after she gives me some shit. I get to work and its very slow. She texts to apologize and I say its fine. I am dead tired by the time we get out at 2:20am and I head home, passing out quickly.

1-16-13

I wake up at 7:20am and I cannot even keep my eyes open. This 5 hours a sleep a night shit is KILLING me. I get bots to the bus and then feed the baby (natch). Then pass out next to the wife while the baby sits in his chair and naps while Vh1 Classic plays (he loves the music!). At 10:30 we all wake up and run errands around town, paying bills and all that. We get Culvers for lunch  and I drop them off to get bots off the bus. I rush to the post office to mail shit out. Then I go to Kroger to grab a few things for bots. I get home and the wife says I need to run back out to Walgreens to get a plunger. I go there and get back in time for her to head to work for a 1-11pm shift. She’s sick as shit and I hope they send her home.

I do three feedings for James before he FINALLY passes out. (for ten minutes anyway) I download some new music, do a morning show, organize some files and start inking commissions and other things. The baby gets more needy and then I feed him two more times. The wife comes home and takes over and puts them to bed. She’s still feeling like crap and wants to go to the doctor tomorrow. I scan all new art and upload it to deviantart. I finish coloring a few pieces laying around and put them online as well. Then start doodles for the Expendables tradebook story. Then pass out around midnight.