DIARY!

2-8-13

Woke up at 5:45 by the phone ringing. Obviously from the foot of snow outside, cancelling school. I attempt to return to sleep but the baby wakes up. I am feeling a bit better from the head cold that started to develop the night before. I update blog and do various updates online while sipping OJ and determining myself to feel better. Time drags. Wife gets home around 5pm and brings in groceries. I take a ten minute nap on the couch. But then I have to get up for work. I am immediately dreading going in, because I feel like crap. The whole way there I am bitching that I don’t want to go. But hey, at least I am out at midnight!

I get there and apparently the meeting we were all supposed to be at started at 6. I thought it was 8, so I am late. But I catch the tail end of it. Then they proceed to ask me if I would stay all night because another employee is sick (even though she is there for the meeting and seems fine to me). I strike up a deal that if I stay, I get tomorrow off. Deal agreed, I am stuck there till 4am. I work the shift and end up tossing a lot of caffeine in me and feeling better. I get home and pass out immediately around 4:45.

2-9-13

Baby gets me up at 7:10. A glorious 2 hours and thirty minutes of sleep! Bots is up and into stuff. I do a feeding and check online shit. Then get to work digitally coloring things and working on more cards. I clean the house and wait for the wife to get home. She does and I make tacos. She declares it a nice day and we should head to Kalamazoo now that I got the day off. I’m worried its too late in the day to make the trip but we go anyway. I hit up some of the usual spots but don’t find anything I truly want. Then head into FYE in the mall and am shocked that the STAR TREK TOS seasons on BR are only $39.99 new! I don’t want to blow my wad on all of them, so I just score the second season (has some of my fav. Episodes in it). We head back home after a stop off at Cirillas and Kohls. We get back home and its 9:30. We work on getting the kids to bed, which seems quite easy. Then the wife and I booze it up a bit watching an AC/DC Live DVD I got recently. By the end of it, I am passing out on the couch cause of the 2.5 hours of sleep. I slide up the stairs and pass out quickly by 11:30.

2-10-13

I wake up at 7:30 to the baby crying. I’m feeling pretty good now that I got 8 hours of sleep! I check emails and update blog. My main priority is CARDS! GET THEM DONE!!!!!

2-11-13/2-12-13 – I cannot remember. Mostly work and then some sleep.

2-13-13

I wake up at 9am and the wife and I head around town for breakfast and some light shopping. I go to the day job at noon-3pm, when they let me out early. I grab some medicine for the baby and head home. Then we go to the mall and then home. I spend the rest of the night working on the adult site and by 3am get it up online and ready to launch. I pass out shortly after that.

2-14-13

I’m up at 7am and put bots in bed. My knee is severely hurting from twisting it the day earlier, so I can barely walk. I pump some ibuprofen in me and try to keep moving so it doesn’t stiffen up and hurt worse. After a while I feel somewhat able to walk so I clean the house for bots’ teacher’s visit. I do a live morning show podcast to talk about the new website launch. At noon, bots gets home and so does the wife. I head out to avoid the meeting and I get 3 used NES games for $2 each at Disc Traders. And then I swing back to pick up the wife and kids. We go to Ponderosa for Valentines Day lunch and then to Walmart where she buys me THE THING on BR. She remembered! Earlier I got her a box of chocolates and a bottle of Asti for our Valentines Day night. I text with Matt talking about their visit Friday.

We head home and I show her the completed STARSLAM pages and take care of emails and check the numbers on the site. We sit and watch 3/4ths of SKYFALL after which the wife puts the kids to bed and she declares herself too tired to really do anything. I feel the same way, actually. So we call it an early night and I pass out around 9pm, catching up on some much needed sleep. Not the most romantic of Valentines’ Days but we got all weekend together, so that’s good enough.

2-15-13

I wake up at 3:30am to pee and cannot go back to sleep. I finally get out of bed at 4:30 and decide to get a couple hours work done while everyone is asleep. I update blog and then work on Hockey cards. Around 7, the kids and wife get up. She heads to work and I am watching them all day while trying to keep the house clean and get work done. Finally around 5, the wife comes home, so we head out and kill time before Matt and Michelle arrive. We meet them at Applebees because our previous two choices are too busy to get a table in a timely manner. We meet up and eat dinner and catch up. Then we get back to our place. The wife puts the kids to bed while I introduce M&M to the power of Bluray viewing and why its better. Finally we start drinking and play some Cards Against Humanity. They love the game. Matt breaks out the Absenthe and despite my fears I end up taking four drinks. UGH! Matt drinks far more than we all do. Kelly, Michelle and I tap out but he keeps going, which floors him. The wife and I retire to our room and I pass out around 1am. A great night of drinking with old friends.

2-16-13

Kids wake me up at 7am. I feed baby and watch M&M get up. Headaches and hangovers all around. I occupy the kids while Matt and Michelle awake and regret instantly the night of doing Absenthe. I gather the kids and take Kelly to work, leaving M&M to get dressed and ready. I drop the wife off after getting her lunch, and then head back. I pick them up and we drive around town, sightseeing for Matt’s sake and also killing time as I want them to try FIVE GUYS BURGERS. Finally its 11, and we head there. They love it, as everyone who I bring there does. We head back and they take off after a bit. Great to see them!

I spend the day dealing with a moody baby and a hyper bots. Around 6, I gather them up again and go pick up the wife. She calls in a to go order from Applebees and we score that. We get home, eat hearty and she puts the kids and herself to bed.  I run to Kroger right quick to grab the bots some groceries and us some soda. I have two ebay auctions up, one for sketch cards, the other for bots’ broken ipod. Both sell to some high prices so I can now afford to replace his ipod comfortably. YAY! I stay up and finish off the hockey cards all night. I watch House of 1000 Corpses and some Seinfeld, before passing out by 1:40am.

2-17-13

I wake up at 6:20 to a crying baby. I take him downstairs for a feeding and see the wife off to work. I update blog and scan the Hockey Cards I got done for the set. I repack them back up and get them ready for shipping. I shoot off emails to the editor and to the ebay people for bidding on my stuff. I color on digital commissions and then get new Porn World Weekly strips going with pencils. I spend most of the day tending to a loud bots and moody baby. I do manage to clean the kitchen real nice and organize some cabinets and do 4 loads of laundry (amazingly enough). I attempt a nap, but that’s a fool’s dream!

The wife arrives around 5pm with KFC and we eat hearty. I notice in the meal that I feel like my bad tooth has gotten worse. I feel around and sure enough, more of it is broke off. I was toying with the idea of cancelling the appointment but now I pretty much SHOULD/HAVE TO go in to get it looked at. There’s a sharp edge to my broken wisdom tooth now that is biting the side of my cheek. It hurts to talk or eat now. Great. I pull out the paperwork and fill it out for Tuesday’s appointment. Instantly that old childhood fear of the oncoming dentist visit hits me. I know the first one is an eval only, but still I don’t show my teeth to anyone. Not even my wife. I’m embarrassed by them. But now has come the day where I medically HAVE TO get something done about them. I could deal with it, sure. But I want to be responsible and face the fears. (sigh)

The rest of the night we’re dealing with a  hyper bots and a very moody baby. I check his mouth and see some teeth starting to come in. Thus, his freaking out. I head to Walgreens to get some baby gum gel and a bubble mailer. I get back and the wife works on getting the kids to bed. I color on commissions. At 9pm, I stop and watch the new Walking Dead, which turns out to be quite awesome. I watch Talking Dead and talk with the wife. Suddenly we are both feeling sort of ill. Turns out the KFC wasn’t so good! UGH. I wait around from 11-11:40 waiting for Walters to show up for BFB as I promised I’d be on. Finally he shows and we do the show. I fall asleep halfway through but wake back up to finish it. We hang up and I crawl up the stairs and pass out by 12:30.

2-18-13

Baby wakes me up at 6:50. Great. Bots gets up too. I listen to more podcasts as I do laundry, do a morning show, update blog and more digital coloring. I also upload the new Starslam strip to the site. I spend the rest of the day digital coloring commissions, doing laundry and keeping kids occupied. Then around 2pm, I sit and watch a bunch of Behind the Musics and TMS shows I’ve DVR’d. Wife comes home around 5pm and I head out for work. I do a 6-2am shift that is slow and boring. I get home at 2:30am, falling asleep as I am driving. I pass out quickly, depite my mind being occupied all day for the dentist appointment dread I have for tomorrow.

2-19-13

Wife wakes me up at 9:30 to get me up for the dentist appointment. I nervously brush and get dressed and head there. Turns out to be a great first visit! I get xray done and get some info on my rare tooth condition. And despite the fact that I’ve ate and drank crap all my life, all my teeth are quite healthy and strong! Me lucky!! We make an appointment for March 22^nd to get the wisdom tooth pulled and possibly another one pulled.

I grab food and head home where the wife and I eat hearty. Bots gets off the bus at noon. Wife takes the baby to a doctor’s appointment and I sit and catch up with digital coloring.  They come back and I head to work for a 6-2 shift. We get a lot done! Been taking some pride in the day job lately and it makes me feel a bit better. I get home around 2:30 and pass out.

2-20-13

Baby wakes up at 4:50!!!!! Wow. So I get up and feed, but it physically hurts me to open my eyes. Wife takes over and I pass back out till 6:50 when bots gets up. I put bots on the bus and baby is moody and needy all day. Teething, hardcore. So I deal with that but manage to finally sit and watch the “Anvil” doc on Netflix. Pretty damn good. I clean the house finally and the wife comes home. I cook spaghetti and garlic bread. The wife has had a bad day so she tells me about it. I negotiated to have the day off, THANK GOD! We decide to sit and watch some TV together, so I take the day off from artworking. We watch a Floyd documentary about the making of “Wish you were here,” then some Seinfeld reruns. The wife is laughing shortly after that. We head to bed and get bots to sleep. Jimmy takes a while longer. As soon as he passes out, so do we around 9pm. A night of much needed sleep catch up!

2-21-13

I wake up at 6:15 to the baby crying. We sit and watch a Behind the Music on Judas Priest and then the LEMMY doc on DVR. Its awesome!! I put bots on the bus and cook Tuna Helper. We basically hang out all day. Bots gets off the bus at noon. Wife comes home at 2pm. We hang out all day and then she puts the kids to bed. I stay up digital coloring and drawing. I finish some commissions and then stay up late doing a STUDIO CHATTER podcast with my old talkshoe buddies. I pass out around 2am.

2-22-13

I wake up at 6am to the baby once again. The wife is already getting ready for work. I put bots on the bus and deal with a very moody baby all day. As in NOTHING is getting drawn or done today! Bots comes home and we hang out. I cook noodles and wait for the wife to get home. She arrives an hour and a half late, obviously upset because of some BS that’s happening at her work. Some co-worker talking shit. I try to keep her mind off of it and we watch some Seinfeld all day. We get the kids to bed and pass out to Seinfeld discs by about 9pm.

2-23-13

Baby wakes up at 6am again. We get up and watch TMS and a Behind the Music on GENESIS. Around 9am, I go get the mail and see that my check for the hockey cards is in! So I wake the wife up and say I am headed to town. She watches the kids and I go to the bank, post office, Disc Traders, Target, FYE and finally Applebees to bring home lunch. I get home and we eat. The wife is still bumming, so I let her go out for a while, solo. I am really tired and need a nap, but I want her to enjoy the sunlight while it lasts. She heads to the used clothing store and gets a bunch of baby and bots clothes. She gets back and I head out to get some prints made for the MSU show next week. I stop off at Replay and low and behold they have a used Game Boy Advance! I snatch that up, toot sweet! I get back home to find my co-worker and her family in my parking lot for a surprise pop in visit. I take my stuff inside and then leave with them to Culvers were we sit and chat for an hour.

After eating, we head back and I say goodbye to my pals as they head home. I go in and check out my new GBA. There’s a white mark on the screen as some pixel is messed up. But after playing it for a bit, I decide its still worth keeping. Bots gets a bath and the wife and I talk about her weekend of frustrations. She ends up feeling much better after a ring purchase (natch). She gets bots to bed as I feed James and then work on cutting out the print cards and attaching matte boards to the full print pages. I finish and take him upstairs. Then I straighten up my office a bit, clearing off my desk and hanging some posters I have long delayed putting up. The wife heads out for extra booze and comes home with some good stuff. FINALLY, we’re in a good mood together and we start doing shots and playing NES/SNES. We drink and have fun together, leaving our worries and cares far behind us. We have fun and pass out around midnight.