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Oh yeah, something I HAVE to mention now (should've mentioned it Monday!) but I have three new t-shirt designs up on ZeStuff for the holidays (one of the projects I was finishing up last week).
  
These three are currently in presale, and if you order any of them during the preorder period you save around 15%! And of course since they're presale they may not become permanent items so if you have any interest in picking one up for yourself or as a gift for someone this holiday season, you should place an order quickly as they might not be available for long.
Also in existing shirt news... if you were on the waiting list for "This Is How I Roll" you already know this, but they are back on preorder directly through the site. Also ZeStuff has added a new version of one of my personal favorites, "Dungin' & Dragons" in a new black "Chaotic Evil Edition."
  
So yeah, if you'd like to pick any of these up for the holidays now is the time!
And remember, all the proceeds from shirt sales will go directly toward feeding my unborn daughter! You don't want her to starve, right? >__>
Actually that bad joke reminded me... someone had asked if I was considering putting a donation button on the site for people who wanted to help us out with money for the baby. I'll be honest I've done okay at my last job and have some money saved up and shouldn't have any problems for at least the next three months... but if you do want to help support me and the site, picking up a t-shirt is an excellent way of doing it. You get something out of it, I get something out of it, it's win-win!
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Okay, first off... today's blog title quote is just a joke! My girlfriend is not stupid or a jerk!
Can't wait until Alyssa sees that one. >_>
So I've been putting off this next post I guess... not that I have any reason to avoid it, each day it's been in the back of my mind that I need to do it, but I end up focusing on other stuff because it seems much more immediate. This kind of leads into item number two...
Item two: Quitting my job and moving
So the last few weeks have been kind of crazy for me. I gave my notice at work and last Friday was my final day at my graphic design job. Since then I have been packing like a fiend, getting stuff ready so that Saturday I can drive all my stuff to our new place in Albany. Alyssa has actually been living in Albany the last few months (long story) so she's already up there getting the place ready, and in fact I think she's packing up her stuff right now (with the help of her family). It has to be tough dealing with all this while pregnant but somehow she seems to handle it well.
But as for me, I'm still in Manchester packing everything up (and getting some projects finished up before ripping my entire office apart). I think everyone knows what a nightmare moving is... we accumulate so much, and when you start boxing it up the sheer physical volume is almost surreal. I don't consider myself a packrat or anything... I think we've both been making a conscious effort over the last few years to pare down some of our unnecessary belongings... but when you have a home office like me it's like having one extra room tacked on (with twice the stuff). Still, I seem to be making some decent headway (thanks for the help mom!) and it looks like I'm on track to get out of here this weekend.
Of course you might be wondering why we're moving in the first place. Hey that's a good question! There are a lot of reasons and the whole situation is very weird and confusing. Naturally we needed to move into a bigger place since the baby is due early December (that's an obvious one). Also Alyssa has desperately wanted us to move closer to her family at some point so there's another good one (Albany is actually about halfway between our families). As for me though, besides simply moving out there because Alyssa wanted me to, I've slowly come to a realization that my life had kind of stagnated here in the last two or three years, with a decent but not going anywhere job and a pretty apathetic attitude at home. Long story short I guess I'm in a rut and I'm hoping this move is like a much needed forced reset on my life.
It seems weird though... I know so little about Albany, and I have no job lined up (probably won't get one until 2008 since I have an opportunity to be home with the newborn). But that's the whole point of doing a reset, right? Shake things up and throw a little uncertainty in your life? It certainly feels like I need it...
And I guess this kind of leads into item three... which hopefully I can post after the move. Shouldn't take me as long as the last gap that's for sure.
Oh and thank you to everyone who emailed me congratulations about my daughter! I really appreciate it, and it is nice to know that a few folks still check out my blog posts now and then. |
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Haaaaaaaahhh... hey how's it going?
Long time no update, right? Yeah my life is a little weird these days. Oh sure, I say that all the time... I can make excuses with the best of them! (And by "them" I mean "artists who whine and don't do any work"). Well this time things are really, REALLY crazy for me. More on that below.
But yeah, there have been a bunch of times over the last month I've thought "I really need to post on my site" but I don't know, I wasn't producing any comics at all and writing on the site with no actual comic update always feels weird to me. I mean, do people check up on the site to see how my life is going? Seems pretty unlikely to me! My life is totally uninteresting! Well, until the last few weeks anyway...
So okay, there's a lot I need to talk about, but lets start with the most important item on the list.
Item one: Knocking up my girlfriend
If you follow my life or the strip or this site you might know that I have a lovely flower of a girlfriend named Alyssa and that we have been dating for the better part of seven years. Most people would think that after dating a few years we would get married, but hey, that's not how we roll.
Anyway, last month to our surprise we found out that Alyssa's pregnant. 29 WEEKS pregnant. For those of you who aren't really knowledgeable in the field of pregnancy (and hey, until recently I was one of you) that's really freakin' pregnant. Long story short, I'll be a father in early December (hopefully not while I'm at the New York Anime Festival, but if so, I have that situation planned out).
So needless to say last month has been an emotional rollercoaster of sorts. Most fathers get some time to prepare mentally for this kind of thing... but I've been blasting through a gauntlet of emotional states for the last few weeks, and many of those emotions I'm not proud of.
Accepting the fact that I'll be a father before the end of the year, which honestly is not something I really wanted at this point in my life, has not been easy. And while I know it's pretty selfish for me to act like I'm the only one going through all this craziness, I do know that Alyssa wanted to have a child sooner than later and I guess in that aspect she might have things a little easier emotionally. Not that I haven't put her through hell with all of my shit the last few weeks.
Of course as far as emotional and physical fatigue goes we all know Alyssa wins hands down... seeing as she's carrying a rapidly growing lump of our collective DNA around in her gut. But still, it should be said that it has been a rough few weeks for the both of us. Sure, this is the kind of thing that really puts a relationship to the test (and it has), but at the same time its really forced me to think about myself and where my life is headed. In some ways I've been in a rut the last few years and maybe it's time I started caring about my own life a little more as well.
But anyway, if I HAD to knock someone up, I'm certainly glad it was Alyssa! :P
We've been together for such a long time, I guess this is just the next step in our relationship. I mean sure, getting married first would have been nice, but hey, I guess we can always do that later. Maybe we can honeymoon after she's in college or something. >__>
Oh yeah, and if you didn't just pick up on it, it's a girl.
I know, right? It had to be the gender I'll never understand.
Well anyway, at the moment that's the biggest thing going on in my life. There's a ton of other stuff I need to mention from the last month or so, but I think I'm about blogged out at the moment.
BBL!
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