been one of my longest breaks from blogging all year. Things have been super busy though with school starting up again for the kids, between volleyball games for my daughter, football practice twice a week for my son, in addition to a football game, and then watching the game film with the other coaches......oh, and I have tried to actually WORK this month for a change too, not to mention looking for more work. I've also decided I think that if I have to mow the yard one more time this month, cuz it's growing like it's on steroids, we might just landscape the ENTIRE damn thing with rocks, mulch and various shrubbery, flowers and more trees and call it done.

How busy is it really? Well I'm up at 4 or 4:30 in the morning the last 2 days because I can't sleep for thinking of all the *** there is to do when I get up. Which naturally leads to me dragging my arse out of bed, and starting to get said *** done so that I can basically stop working by 3 and start running around. Today though an honest to goodness nap might be in the cards (seeing as how the couch in the upstairs living room is just outside my studio)

Kind of feeling like I've got no time to work on any of my creator owned projects anymore either right now, which is creating a huge drag on my motivation to do any work. This whole financial mess that the country is in, seems to be affecting just about every industry, comic books included. I'm waiting on money here again this year, not the first time, probably not the last time, and definitely not a surprise. It seems that almost all publishers, with the obvious exception of Marvel or DC, are really struggling to make ends meet for themselves these days. I've even heard rumors that Diamond is having trouble paying publishers on time. Not sure of the truth in that, but boy if that IS true, and I've heard that from quite a few people now in the industry, it's no wonder so many publishers are struggling. Which in turn, makes it painfully obvious why creators are struggling as well. Maybe another good example of why the logic of one major point of distribution is faulty. If Diamond was to start struggling themselves, then everyone they distribute for would be boned (retailers, publishers and creators) Just seems like a real rough time for everyone outside of the giants of the industry, and makes it that much harder for guys like me, who've been making a living coloring now for over 2 years without ever having worked for said giants before. It's not impossible to find work right now, but it sure as hell ain't EASY for me either. Still, I think I'm pretty lucky to make the kind of money I make, have virtually NO expenses working from home, be able to set my own hours, and get to do so much family stuff at the same time (when I don't have a pressing deadline)

So, it's almost 5:30, and I didn't really mean to turn this into a big complaining post, because at the end of the day, I certainly have FAR less to be complaining about than a lot of other people. I think I'll try to get a couple pages colored here by lunch time so that I can fit in that nap I'm already thinking about now.