So it was prefect weather to be curled up with a book on the couch, no tv or computer, reading a ghost story.
Until the lights went out.
The laptop was closer than my mini-maglight so I opened the case and started it on battery power to shed some light on the situation while I opened the blinds (it wasn’t completely night yet, just gloomy) and found the flashlight. Of course, shortly after I finished all of this the lights come back on but I waited a bit before I put the flashlight down somewhere, just in case.
Not really feeling 100% so far this week but still working my way through another set of strips. Hoping to step it up tomorrow night but even if this turns out to be a mostly “off” week I’m still in good shape to knock some serious work out next week (which should be “on”). Guess it’s just a matter of knowing my cycle?
So, just as I was finishing up the comics posts for this week and just before I started blogging my internet here died. Dead. No resuscitation. And the weird thing was that the router was still working because I still had the local half going but nothing outside. And the modem showed everything was flickering on schedule. No clue. And I had stuff to blog about!
But tonight, I have Internet and time and all I can do is sit here and stare alternately at the television and the laptop. Blah! I ate something that didn’t quite agree with me and now feel rather icky and listless. Which is not good because I wanted to get another article written tonight. Guess it’ll wait til tomorrow. I’m still good for deadline, even with the Ghost Hunt this weekend. It’ll all get done and I think I’m going to bed early.
So I’m back to working full days again (late arriving notwithstanding) and working on comics and articles and all that fun stuff. And I’m exhausted and it’s only Wednesday night. Bah! I’m also on slacker-mode when it comes to dinner, I just can’t stand the thought of cooking right now, at least not anything that doesn’t require the microwave and a single vessels of some sort (fyi, pyrex pie plates are AWESOME for heating and reheating items in the microwave, seriously). I may try to break that cop-out tomorrow night but, well, maybe not. We’ll see.
Not getting much writing done and feeling kinda icky, so might as well make it an early night. Brain’s feeling a bit foggy along with the usual stuff so very little concentration to be found around Casa de Scraps. Started another article but mostly I just wandered around the internet while listening to Marie Antoinette and Independence Day. Until next time…
The piggies aren’t broken. Apparently the x-ray was perfectly clear, I can still maintain my “no broken bones” title (knock on wood), and it’s just a matter of the soft tissue healing. However long that takes (up to another month I’m told).
Aside from that. Nothing new to report. My anxiety leading up to this mornings ultrasounds was (of course) way worse than the actual experience. I actually lucked up and got a very personable sonographer (usually I get the prune-faced battle axe who has the bedside manner of a bean) but she couldn’t tell me anything what (if anything) she saw. I don’t know why I thought I’d know something today and, really, I’ll be lucky if I get my results by the end of the week but I’m hopefully. I’m not generally a patient person and this sort of limbo is never really helpful. So I’ll just try to stay busy in the mean time.
But I don’t really feel up to blogging about any of it. Maybe tomorrow I can muddle through it a bit more. In the mean time, I’ll just ruminate in silence while inking this week’s comics.
Not totally, of course, there was the scanning and the PhotoShop cleaning of the print pages which did get done. And all those grays I was erasing stray marks to be able to pick them up better? They totally dropped out anyway. Apparently 20% cool gray is ass for scanning. Oh well, just tweaked the levels and left them out. I was kinda worried how they’d print anyway so it’s probably just as well. If it’d been only a little uneven I just would have gone back over it with the airbrush to fix it. Oh, well, live and learn.
Other than that, nothing had really happened tonight. I had totally planned to start on this week’s strips tonight, at least getting pencils down but, well, no. Didn’t happen. And I’m not going to beat myself up over it, either. I can definitely get Wednesday’s up tomorrow night so there’s no crisis and after pushing myself so much these past couple of weeks I think a night off is not uncalled for.
Now about July… July is going to be a “chill” month for me. Of course I still have the comic and my eHow articles to do but here are some things I’m not going to be doing:
*taking on new projects
*scripting Act 2 of Wedding Tarot (it’ll wait til August)
*committing to new projects for future months
*throwing a party (it was a possibility, but no, I need the break)
etc.
I also plan to curb the superfluous spending for the month of July, kinda like a lifestyle detox. Of course, that just meant that I ordered the print gocco machine tonight rather than waiting on later this month, but I’ve been planning to order it for 2+ months now and it will actually be used for an article, at that. But enough excuses. Aside from things like gas and groceries and necessary art supplies it’s gonna be nix on the other frivolities. We’ll see how that goes 
Didn’t want to get up this morning, only wanted to lay back down. Stacks of work fluctuated on my desk (because I didn’t give in to the stay home desire) and the to do list certainly isn’t taking any major leaps. Emotions went up up UP as a prospect loomed on the horizon and then kind of faltered a bit when things didn’t go as planned. Might be back to the back-burner but it’s a little hotter at any rate. And my gills are still a little green as I wrap up an article draft and rule out the next comic.
Being a girl sucks somedays. Example of the lovely hormonal ennui? I’m eating supper and watching the first episode of Girls Next Door Season 3 which is their Christmas epi and Holly and Bridget have adopted this family and are getting the presents ready to send over and I tear up. I’ve seen this episode two or three times already with no adverse reaction but tonight I get all emo over it. Sheesh.
And the weather isn’t helping. The gray drizzlies just make me want to curl up and sleep 24/7 so productivity was way down. It was only through sheer force of will that I got the two articles I wrote on Tuesday finalized tonight and only a little bit done on Tuesday’s comic. I suppose between the busy time of Monday evening through yesterday, today’s slackitude is balanced out, but still: I need to be able to be a bit productive every day and not have the highs and lows.
Maybe tomorrow will be better. It’ll be Friday, after all.