DIARY and SIGNING this past weekend...

First of all, thanks to everyone who came out to the MSU COMICS FORUM. It was great as always. I had planned to go out with my artist buddies but my son got real sick, puking everywhere. I decided to go home and help out. Such is the life of a daddy I guess! But yeah, thanks to all who came up and said hi and got stuff. You're awesome!

I'm busy this week on commissions and sketch cards. Busy! So I will just leave you with this last couple week's worth of a diary. Enjoy!

2-24-13

Baby wakes me up at 5:30am! GREAT… We get up and watch TMS while feeding. I attempt a nap on the floor but bots gets up too, negating that whole idea. The wife closely follows and we score breakfast. I record a new Morning Show and start to get more stuff ready for the MSU forum show next weekend with online plugging and all that. I head to work for a 12-7 shift, but eventually broker a deal to leave at 5pm, cause its dead as fuck.

I stop off at the mall to get some card protector sleeves but find the sports memorabilia shop closed for good. I leave and hit up this board game place and luckily they sell Magic Cards too. So naturally they have some of the cases I am looking for. I grab the last two and head home. We sit and relax and I play some Tetris on my GBA. We watch the Red Carpet and then the Oscars intro. Wife puts the kids to bed. I stay downstairs watching the Oscars and doing live tweets. Baby gets back up at 10:30, so I get him and feed him again. He goes back down around 11:45. Finally at midnight the Oscars are over and I hit the bed.

2-25-13

I wake up at 6:30, thanks to the baby. I do a feeding, check online shit and do a Morning Show. Wife gets up and puts bots on the bus and then heads to Kroger to get a few things. I sit baby down on the floor for tummy time and get to work on organizing digital files for the adult site. I upload new Porn World Weekly and Starslam strips and go live with them. Then I start penciling and inking Pinup cards for the Pinup card set jam to send to Durden. Wife works, I get the kids to go to bed at 9pm. I feel tired around 10pm and I hit the bed to catch up on sleep.

2-26-13

I wake up at 6am with the baby. I put bots on the bus and deal with a moody, needy baby all day. No artwork gets done at all as a result. Brian Maze calls and we talk a bit. My blank sketch cards come out from Cult Stuff and I make a note of what all I gotta get done with them. The wife comes home at 4:30 with Big Johns subs. We eat and I head out to the day job. I work a 6-2am shift. I fall asleep at the wheel on the way home and I wake up while driving in the other lane! Luckily its snowing bad out and no one else is on the highway. I get home safely and pass out.

2-27-13

Scott and James wake me up at 7am. School is cancelled due to the snow. I feed moody baby all morning and catch up on art, blog and podcasts. Work a 6-2shift and hate every tired second of it. I get home and pass out exhausted.

2-28-13

Baby up at 6am. Man am I tired and I decide I cannot keep this up. Wife comes home at 2pm and we go to a meeting for Scott at his school. Basically saying his autism has been improving but needs more one on one. I decide in my head that I need to spend the day with him instead of trying to sneak in artwork from now on. I work a 7-4am shift. My boss is there and I tell her that I cannot do 3-5 days a week anymore. I ask to go to one or two days a week. She agrees. I feel much better about my situation. Something has to give. Get home at 4:30am, dead tired.

3-1-13

Baby wakes me up at 6:10am, making me officially having to live my day on 1.5 hours of sleep. I put bots on the bus and tend to the moody baby all day. Wife comes home and takes over. I nap from 6-9pm. After which I get up and go double check all the things I got packed for the comic signing tomorrow. I stay up and scan some pages and just spend some time working in the quiet. I don’t even listen to music. Its quite calming. I pass back out around 12:45am.

3-2-13

I wake up at 7am and go to Walmart to pull out the loan from my parents and get bots’ doughnuts. I head home and the wife and I have a discussion about how the new car deal went down and my problems with it. It’s a surprisingly civil conversation, much to my delight! We head to the auto place at 8:57 to catch them when they open. I check out the car and it looks okay. Interior certainly looks lived in, but its doable. We fill out paperwork for an hour and I tend to the kids acting up constantly. They let me sign some stuff so I can take off for the show. I drive to East Lansing and park. Grab my old gear and head upstairs to set up in the artist alley. Immediately I am greeted by some old friends. Dean and Mjit arrive but aren’t in too great a mood. I work the table from 11-5pm, meeting all sorts of people and selling a few comics and prints. I talk with Bruce, Tony and Jay about all things sketch cards and we give advice back and forth. It feels good to have the connection with my pals. But again, I feel the drag of “gigging” in the convention table running game. By the end of the day, I have had my fill and pack up. I had planned on going out with everyone but the wife is texting that the kid is sick and puking. I decide to call it an early day and head home.

I get back home and the wife takes off for a town break. Bots pukes two more times and the baby is moody as fuck. Welcome home daddy, eh? Heh. I feel real bad for bots as he won’t drink or eat anything. The medicine I gave him he pukes back up. Wife comes home and takes bots upstairs for sleep. Then the baby. I sit and watch THE OFFICE on Netflix. She comes back down and we drink some booze and play SNES and watch Jackass 2 and all the extras. Around 11, we’re exhausted and so I decide to call it a night. I hit the bed and pass out.

3-3-13

Baby wakes me up at 5:30am moody as hell. I feed and deal with him all morning. Bots wakes up around 6:30 and seems better. He’s eating and drinking like normal. Wife gets up around 10am and I head to Wendys where I get some quiet time to work on some sketch cards and samples. A large church group comes into my quiet little area I am working in and the kids keep looking over my shoulder and bothering me, despite the fact that I have headphones on and obviously prefer my quiet! HA! So I pack it up early and head back home. I nap at home from 4-6. I end up going back out before work to try to get some micron pens at Michaels. They are out of the ones I want, so I head to work for my 7-2am shift. Its uneventful and I head home, passing out by 3am.