Diary! Son's bday. Snow. Artworking. Etc.

1-27-13

I wake up at 7am to bots making a bunch of noise in his room. Fearful he’ll wake the baby, I take him downstairs. I check internet and update blog. Wife comes downstairs with the baby and I get to work. I scan all the commissions and clean them up digitally. I set them up for coloring as well. Then pull out some graphics for the adult site and start coloring those up. Then make digital pages on the site to house the new graphics and grab the source codes I need. I listen to Jim Florentine podcasts all while this goes on.

Finally I take a break around 2pm and nap from then till 3:30. The wife wakes me up saying she’s gotta run to Kroger for a couple things. She takes off and I play with bots. She returns and gets the baby from his nap. We all hang in the living room and bots and I play wrestle/ticklefight. Then its time to head to work. Its snowing bad out and there’s ice everywhere. I get to work and we literally have one customer all night. My co-worker swears we’re going home early but it never happens, so I doubt it the whole time. But to my surprise around 11pm, the club side called it and we’re leaving. Our boss approves it and we clean the store up and close up. I go outside and scrape the ice and sleet off my jeep and we take off. I get home around midnight, check online shit and then hit the bed by 1am. I even stay off the temptation of eating some Mcds on the way home. Good for me!

1-28-13

I hear the baby up at 6am. The wife is gone to work in the horrible ice storm. We do a feeding and watch some VH1 classic. I set up more That Metal Show for DVR recording. Then I go in and update blogs and start building buttons for the adult site. I go in and set up all the pages I need and drop code all morning. By noon, the wife is texting me asking what I am cooking for lunch. She opts for manwich out of the choices I give her. By 2pm I’ve got it built up enough to where I send it out to some of my artist buddies to get feedback. I decide after my hard work to take the rest of the day off from art. I sit in the living room with everyone and listen to podcasts and play with bots. Later bots is being too loud for the wife so I take him upstairs and watch TV with him. We cuddle in bed and he’s very interactive with me. Even calls me “daddy.” So awesome to see his progress! I put him to bed around 8. The wife joins a little after that and we get the baby to pass out. Then I decide to make it an early night myself, passing out around 9:30. A GREAT NIGHT OF SLEEP!!!!!!

1-29-13

I wake up well refreshed around 7am. Even beat the alarm! I get bots up and put him on the bus. Baby is still asleep so I head downstairs and record a morning show. Then I pencil and ink a quick piece for a pal of mine. Then do sketches for a new tshirt I am considering having made for con season and the website. I get a call saying my hockey return cards are at the office and I gotta go pick em up. I continue sketching and listening to podcasts and then do a blog update and answer emails. I get bots off the bus at noon and wait around for the wife to get home. I cook noodles and doodle some more. Wife gets home and I take off for work. I get there early for a co-worker and work a 5:30-2am shift. By the end of it, I am really tired. I almost fall asleep driving home. But I get home and pass out around 3am.

1-30-13

I wake up at 7:20, put bots on the bus. Get the baby up and do a feeding. He passes back out and so do I till 11am. MUCH needed rest! We watch my DVR’d TMS reruns and I get bots off the bus. Then I watch a doc called “Life After Porn” on Netflix and its so-so. Meanwhile I ink pages on the Expendables Tradebook bonus story. All done. Just gotta scan em! My tooth is acting up bad so I email a few local doctors to see if I can get in. I don’t hear anything back.

The wife comes home with Subway and we eat hearty. Baby is fussy so we pass him back and forth. I continue my TMS marathon. Wife gets bots to sleep and I deal with baby. Then she takes over and I head to Walmart for groceries and other things. I pick up a DIO Cd for $5. I get home, cook some late night food and scan art. Deciding I am too tired for anything else, I retire for the night.

1-31-13

I wake up bots at 7:15 and put him on the bus. Attempt another nap after a feeding, but it doesn’t take. Baby is in full on “pay attention to me, I’m not napping again” mode! So I get up and color on some stuff. Then pencil/ink two pages for the digital version of STARSLAM chapter one, bringing the total to 18 pages. Now just to do supplementary material and color the cover! Bots gets home at noon and I wait around till wife gets out of work at 4pm. I head to the post office and then to East Lansing where I score my comics and a couple used Cds. Then back home where I spend time with the kids and the wife puts bots to bed. She’s got a headache so I am on baby duty. He doesn’t fall asleep till 9:45, which cuts into my work time severely. But I do some more coloring and finish inking Expendables tradebook bonus story pages. Then I scan them up. By midnight I am exhausted and really dreading doing the Bigfanboy Podcast. But I come on for the first 10 minutes and then drop out due to extreme fatigue. I crawl up the stairs and pass out after that.

2-1-13

Wife wakes me up at 6am to say we got our federal income tax refund deposited. Good news! I pass back out. I wake up at 7:20 and get a moody bots dressed and on the bus. Baby wakes up after that and we do a feeding. Luckily he passes back out and so do I. Around 11, we both wake up and do another feeding downstairs as I catch up on emails. I get bots off the bus at noon.

I wait around for the wife to come home. Finally around 4:30 she’s here. We leave and head to Logans for a nice hearty meal. Then we head to Target to get new pans and a few other things for the house. The wife picks out some new undergarments and I get some new undies as well. (exciting I know!) We get back and I have to head to work. I work a 7-midnight shift that is extremely uneventful. But we stay busy. I head home. Update blog and check directions to my son’s house for his surprise bday party. I pass out around 1:30am.

2-2-13

I wake up at 7am and then take off at 9:30 to head to Port Huron for my son’s 13^th birthday party. It’s a total surprise as he doesn’t know I am coming. I arrive around noon and he’s pretty damn surprised. We play some Ice Hockey on NES and a couple other games. Then everyone else arrives. Presents and cake are opened and ate. Finally everyone leaves around 4 and so do I. The roads were bad heading there cause of snow, so I anticipated dealing with the same on the way back. I get back and the wife is anxious to leave the house, due to needy kids. (welcome to my world!) She goes out for a bit and then returns. We put the kids to bed. I am too tired to stay up and work on art, so I pass out around midnight.

2-3-13

I Am woke up at 4:30am by the bots. Wife gets him back to sleep. But the baby is stirring as well, so I get up and feed him. He keeps me awake till 7am, and we nap in the living room. Bots gets up at 9am and thus, I am up for the rest of the day. The wife wants to head to Kalamazoo, but I deem the snow too treacherous to attempt the trip. Instead we all get dressed and head into town. I pick up some used video games, a couple books and a Cd. We get back home and clean the house for the Super Bowl party festivities. While out, Robert calls and says he is coming for sure. Awesome! While cleaning, Dean and Mjit arrive and we play Cards Against Humanity. Then Robert and Zach show up and we all play. Then the game starts and I sit with Zach and watch. The wife gets the kids to bed and they continue playing cards. The baby is still up and moody as hell. Teething is the pits. Dean and Mjit along with Robert take off cause they all gotta work later at night. So Zach, wife and I watch the rest of the game. Finally by the end, The Ravens pull it out and the wife finally got James to sleep. She puts him to bed and Zach takes off for home. The wife and I sit and chat for a bit but decide to call it a day. I’m still tired from the 4:30am wake up! So we pass out dead tired.

2-4-13

I wake up at 7:20 and get bots ready for the bus. But he pukes up 4 times within ten minutes, so I get the wife to call and cancel him going to school for the day. He pukes again on the TV stand an hour later. But eventually feels better, eats and drinks fine, and then he’s his old self again. The wife takes off for work after running and getting some groceries. I am left with a VERY moody baby and a bots who is sick but then gets better. All day I am unable to do anything due to the baby’s mood. Eventually, they both pass out and I start some flats on a coloring commission. I text with the wife to see if she’s interested in some late night fun. She is! She gets home and yada yada, I am in bed and asleep by midnight. 

2-5-13

I wake up at 7:10 and put the bots on the bus. He’s feeling much better today. I feed James and watch some TMS and a Behind the Music on Green Day. I record episode 99 and 100 of my Morning Show. Then answer emails. I get the offer to do more Hockey cards for Leaf on a very tight deadline. I accept quickly, flattered that they feel they can rely on me. I download some new music and podcasts and stay busy on laying flats on commissions. Then gather more reference for the cards to come. Then email with Durden on our Pinup Girl cards we are jamming on. Bots gets off the bus and immediately James goes into moody mode, preventing me from getting anything done. And now its imparitive that I do, cause of the tight deadlines I got coming up! (sigh) I do some more digital coloring and then the wife comes home. I pull reference for the various hockey players I have to draw on the new cards. I head to work for a 6-2 shift that drags ass. Then come home and pass out by 3am.

2-6-13

I wake up at 11am, thanks to the wife for letting me sleep in! My additional Hockey Card blanks have arrived, so I get to work on penciling/inking some of those. The wife heads to work for a 2-11 shift. I spend time with the kids all day and don’t get much art done as a result. They hit the bed around 9pm and the wife comes home at 11. We sit and booze up together for a “date night.” Yada yada, I am in bed by 3am, asleep, dead tired and drunk!

2-7-13

I wake up at 5:30am thanks to the baby. I do a feeding and then put him back to bed. Then back up at 7:20 am to put bots on the bus. I decide to stay up and get artwork going in the morning. I pencil a few more cards and the baby gets back up. The wife gets up too and we all head out to the used CD/DVD store for a treat. I pick up a few used AC/DC remastered CDs, Remastered Green Day 1039 Slappy, AC/DC live DVD and A blu ray double pack of Jackie Chan flicks (Supercop and Twin Dragons). The wife gets all comedies. Since I turned in some DVDs/NES games I didn’t want, I only end up spending $3. Cool! I head to downtown to get some Copic marker refills at Grand Art Supply. They warn me of the oncoming snowmageddon. I doubt their words as it is 35 degrees out currently. But this is Michigan, and anything can happen.

We stop off at Culvers where I eat a healthy alternative meal to my usual poison (good for me! Staying strong!) and then head home. Wife gets bots off the bus and I start reorganizing my dvds/cds. I then spend a lot of time peeling those pesky used stickers off my purchases. She takes off for work for a 2-11pm shift. I sit and watch this awesome doc called “SOUND CITY.” Then jam on Black Sabbath while penciling more cards. The baby is a bit moody and needs lots of attention, so I don’t get much done. I declare that I will stay up late and get artwork caught up as I am on some major deadlines. After a while, I am starting to feel kind of ill. Head pain, sinus and runny nose. I feel aches and starting to get sick. Wife texts me that she’s feeling the same damn way. So we think we got each other sick! Great. I get bots to go to bed around 8:30. Baby won’t pass out till about 9:45. But by then, my head cold has won and I decide to take the night off and try to rest. I head upstairs and help the wife re-organize her discs and she comes home to finish the job she started and had to abandon earlier due to work. We finish up and fall asleep around midnight, watching the large amount of snow fall to the ground and she dreads having to get up at 6am to head back out in it.