Daily Diary

Sunday---I wake up at 8:15 when the wife wakes up for work. Baby isn’t up yet, so I pull reference for the NFL cards and get ready to sketch cards during the games today. Baby finally wakes up around 10am. We hang out til around noon-ish and I put him down for a nap. Then I pull tons of NFL card reference and do some commission pencils while watching the Lions game. The Lions pull off a win, which is great. Then I watch a documentary on the Rocky movies and Necessary Roughness on Encore. (I like that flick) I also launch a Breaking Bad commission bonus for all Artbook pre-orders done this week.

Baby gets back up around 3:30 and we play all day til the wife comes home. We try to get him to walk between us for a while and he seems to take to it a little bit. But not quite enough. I head to the store for some basic staples and come home to find baby in bed and the wife has bots in the bathtub. I watch a bit of the Emmy awards, flipping back to the last episode of Breaking Bad. Then at 9pm, the newest episode of Breaking Bad airs. I am frozen for an hour and a half.

After the show, I flip to the Emmys. The wife joins me and gets a back rub. I watch Breaking Bad win best Dramatic Series and consider this Sunday a great victory all around. I hit the bed around midnight.

Monday---I wake up via the baby making noises around 7:20. Good anyway, cause I really had to pee. I get up, update the site with a new webcomic and update on the blog. I clean house and the wife gets up to join us. I put bots on the bus and we head to Logans for lunch. We get back and she goes to work. I put baby down for a nap and I decide to treat myself to the same.

At 4pm, I get bots off the bus and he is in an insanely bad mood. The worst I’ve ever seen him. It was a loooooooooong day to say the least. Lots of emotions. But finally at 9:30, the wife came home and got him to pass out. We sit up and watch some Joe Rogan and Brian Posehn comedy specials on Netflix and I booze up a bit to calm my nerves. He really did a number on me. I pass out around midnight.

Tuesday—Bots wakes me up at 7:10 and he’s still kind of moody, but not too bad. I’m still shaken from the events of yesterday to deal with him be bad again. The wife wakes up too and we take everyone out for lunch. We get back in time to put bots on the bus and we head to Meijer for groceries. Then we hit the Babies R Us to find a few things. Then the dollar store for a new dustpan.

I drop them back off at home so the wife can have a conference call. I go to disc traders to kill time. Then to Arbys where I start sketching on more NFL cards. The wife calls to say her call is done so I head back to get them. We let baby sleep in the car while we drive around. We’re both testy and in bad moods for some reason. We stop off at Blockbuster and I get a couple used movies, as does she. We get home and she opts to take bots out for a mommy/son day. Baby and I rock the day solo while I draw on cards and listen to Stern.

I leave around 8:45 to meet a client locally who had me do some commission work for his anniversary with his wife. We meet, I get paid and I head to Walmart for some carpet cleaner the wife asked me to get. I get home, ink on some more art pieces I got laying around and then hit the bed around midnight.

Wednesday---I get up around 7:50 when I hear bots in our room. The wife heads to work and I deal with the kids all morning. I put bots on the bus at 11:20 and put baby to bed. I cook some tuna and then work on some cards. I hit the bed myself for a nice nap. At 4pm, we all get up and wait for bots’ bus to arrive. He runs about 25 minutes late, making me worry a spell. But he arrives and we head to the wife’s work. I clean out my car in the meantime.

We stop at the wife’s work and they say hi. I get bots’ car chair out of her car and we leave the wife to it to drive around a bit, killing time till she gets out. She does at 6pm and we head to Okemos for me to get a Breaking Bad keychain thingie I saw in there the other day. I use my $5 coupon to get it. We stop off at a couple other places gathering ingredients to make the sky blue rock candy meth stuff from the show, thanks to instructions from the net. We head home after dropping her off at her car.

The baby goes down to sleep and then bots does too. My 100 blank art pages arrive via UPS from Bluelinepro. With those pages I will finish Anna Pocalypse 2 and the first Starslam tradebook. Bots hits the hay and the wife and I dismantle her elliptical, because the delivery truck might come tomorrow for it. We watch a Breaking Bad marathon on tv while that happens. I notice she’s sort of into it, which pleases me, because I want her to like the show as much as I do. (Its hard to get her to watch anything I dig cause our tastes are all over the map! I usually have to bribe her with a back rub to watch anything in my range of interests.) We retire to the bedroom where we watch a few episodes of the new Family Guy box set and pass out around 12:30am.

Thursday---I wake up from a dream/nightmare of chasing down the delivery truck with our jeep, kids in the car. The wife is screaming that we missed it and I am screaming back on that she wanted to drive around looking for the truck in the first place. We get to a part of town where we know we saw the truck headed. Get out of the car and it isn’t there. It took another road headed a different way. We race to get back into the car from a useless attempt to flag a passing truck down and we locked the kids in the car. I’m freaking out and in my head I think “This is a dream. Wake up, and stop it now.” So I do. I wake up and check my phone. 6:30am. I toy with going back to sleep but I have to piss and I am thirsty as fuck. So I get up and head downstairs to do both. I hit the computer to check up on net shit and update blog. LOTS of hits on the new “Diary format.” Cool. I guess everyone digs that. I’ll keep doing it.

The kids get up and The wife gets up and grabs us breakfast. We put bots on the bus and go about our day. Nothing too eventful. The wife heads to work at 9pm and I stay up late drawing and doing the bigfanboy livecast. I hit the bed around 2am.

Friday—The wife gets home at 7am from her overnight at work and I get up with bots. Baby sleeps in till 10. I put bots on the bus and work on cards. The wife gets up and we go to Chilli’s for lunch. Then shopping a bit. Baby is acting kind of sick, so we keep an eye out for him. I also hit Clem’s for comics.

We get back home and take a nap, putting baby down for one too. I get up around 4:10 and get bots off the bus. Check on baby, and he’s still asleep. I go downstairs and work on more NFL cards. An hour later, I go to check on baby again and he’s awake. Took his diaper off and slung poop EVERYWHERE. The most insane baby mess I have ever witnessed. I put him in the bathtub and then wake the wife for help. I clean the baby crib and more. UGH. Wife gets up and we all head to Walmart for a replacement gate and some groceries. We get bots a few new shirts off the clearance rack. I take her to Pay Less where she gets some new shoes.

Back home, baby goes down to bed and the wife goes to get us BW3’s for food. Bots goes down for bed and I continue on cards. I finally tire at 11:30pm and go pass out.

Saturday---I wake up at 7:20 to baby noises. We go downstairs and record a new Morning Show podcast. Then I do general net shit and updates on things. I also make some blue rock candy to celebrate tomorrow’s BREAKING BAD finale. The day is uneventful and I pass out late.

Sunday---The wife has to work so she cannot go to her pal’s bday party. I am stuck at home watching the Lions win! I piddle around the house all day and then the wife comes home and puts the kids to bed. I stay up watching the finale of BREAKING BAD and then do some work on sketch cards, passing out around midnight to the new South Park on On Demand.

Monday---I wake up at 8am and gather final reference for the sketch cards to be done. I put bots on the bus and try to get some work done. But baby wakes up from nap quite early. So we head to Kroger and get some small amount of groceries. Bots comes home and is he’s in full-blown “wobbler” mode and quite inconsolable all day. The wife comes home and we try to drive around to calm him down, which does no good. We basically go home and try to be patient with him. Finally he does calm down and is a perfect angel. I demand he be taken off of his meds immediately and the wife agrees.

I spend the night basically doing sketch cards and I get quite far. I join the last Breaking Bad Fanboy Livecast and talk with my friends late into the night while working on cards. I pass out around 4am. I really needed that night of long work and talking to my old pals again.

Tuesday---I wake up at 8am, dead tired from being up so late before. Baby and bots are in good moods so that helps! I ink and color on more cards and start to label them and put them in shipping order. I got about 50 left to do! (Almost there!) Wife heads to work and I put bots on the bus, baby down for nap.

My original plan was to take a nap myself but I opt to stay up working on cards further. After a while, I am burned out so I stop and do house work. Baby gets up and I take out trash. Wife calls and says she’s into drinking tonight. Cool. I need it! Bots gets off the bus at 4pm. He’s in a great mood. Awesome! I knew taking him off the pills was the right thing to do. His brain was being messed with and I’d be moody and pissed too.

After the wife gets home, we all go to this thrift store in East Lansing. Then to Five Guys for food. We get back home and I go back out for vodka from Kroger. I get back home and we put baby to bed. The wife then works on getting bots to bed while I play Ghostbusters on 360. She joins me later and we spend the whole night drinking and having fun watching/playing various things. Yada yada, I’m asleep by 1:30am.