Day: January 3, 2005

My Day

By / January 3, 2005 / 2 Comments

I’m exhausted and I’m not done working yet. I’ve still got two kids to put to bed.
Today (In no particular order) I:
Did all the bugeting and banking and setting up folders and clearing out cabinets to set up book keeping for 2005.
Ran load after load of sorely neglected holiday laundry. Folding is looming now. Literally. Some of those piles are ready to topple.
Failed to get Patches to nap despite cruelly leaving him in his crib for extended periods of time where he acquired a self-inflicted (and parental guilt inducing) bloody lip.
Put up with excessively cranky Patches for the rest of the day.
Took down and stowed my Huge Christmas Tree.
Took down and stowed everything else which even remotely looked christmasish.
Hauled boxes of Christmas stuff downstairs to hide until next year.
Fixed meals.
Picked up kids from school.
Met the mother of Kiki’s school friend so that going to play at his house is possible. There is friendship potential there for me as well. It bodes well.
Required kids to do their homework.
Rocked Patches for 30 minutes because even though he was (finally) asleep, every time I tried to actually put him down he’d wake up and scream.
Helped Kiki and Gleek trade beds. Again.
Read stories to Gleek and tucked her in.

I’m hoping that what comes next is peaceful bedtimes for Kiki and Link followed by happy and uninterrupted Buffy viewing and Sleeeep.

Evaluation

By / January 3, 2005 / 3 Comments

Well I’ve just started my new year by reconfiguring my budget, paying bills, thinning out my file cabinet and assorted other book keeping activities. The process was kind of tedious, but actually enjoyable because it all provided evidence that this cartooning thing is working. The budget has very little wiggle room, but it actually seems possible that we can live on Howard’s cartooning without giving up the house or the cars or the kids activities. Right now we have contracts lined up that will pay bills through March. That’s the end of the solid ground. We have ideas about what will come after that, but nothing we can stand on yet.

We continue to live on hard work and faith and scrimping and the generosity of the Schlock fans (Some of whom were incredibly generous last month. I can’t thank those people enough if they’re reading this. Thank You!)

The point is, it’s working and I’m glad.