Just One 'O Them Days!

I didn't have a great day today. To begin with it's Valentine's Day, and while I know it's just another day exploited with commercialism, but I rather enjoy the holiday...when I'm with someone.

Problem is I have only been dating someone on Valentine's Day once, and that was my first girlfriend! Ever since I have been alone on the coveted day. The last time I was almost with someone on V-Day I broke up with her weeks before. She was falling for me and I wasn't there yet. That didn't make her too happy, so we called it quits. I still made her a card though, but that doesn't really count.

So anyway the day was already off to a bad start for me. Yeah, I know I'm being a total wuss, but I was lonely and I'm man enough to admit it.

So from there everything that happened today just hit me hard for no apparent reason. Posts on messageboards really got to me as people were just rude and know it alls, and wouldn't let up even when I agreed with them. Normally I don't let that get to me, but the past couple of weeks it has.

Then I heard back on a story I submitted and am told the letters I just re-did after the penciler's attempt at them, which wasn't great, will probably have to be redone again because the layout guy probably won't like all the uniform tails and sfx. On a normal day I'd be cool with this, but today it really bothered me. I got to looking at other offerings from this particular studio and the lettering wasn't that great in any of them, and all their tails looked nearly identical, and their sfx were plain and boring. So I'm thinking "what in the world is wrong with them?"

Then I get into a minor tiff with my mother who's never been good at the motherly consoling thing. She raised me by herself, so she took the stricter side of things.

And on top of all that I just couldn't get motivated to do anything today. After lettering 20 pages over the weekend I thought I'd be on a roll this week. I got maybe a page and a half done today, which is just nothing.

Not to mention the whole mess with the misinterpreted review in my last column, which is still bugging me. And in an attempt to cut my own hair, which I do all the time when I can't make it to my barber who is a 30 minute drive from me, I kind of messed it up. It's not an easy thing using the clippers on the back of your head while trying to position a mirror to see just right. I got a couple of small nicks here and there. Not really noticeable, but I know they're there.

Oh, and I ran out of turkey for my sandwich and broke a waffle bowl (like a waffle cone - for ice cream) trying to get it out of the package.

So it just hasn't been a great day. My Mom did get me three comics from Kroger though. And even though a couple of the stories (she got two Marvel flip books and the latest issue of X-Men) were old I had only read one of them, so that was cool.


My little 13 year old brother was so cute though, I have to say. You'd have to know my brother. He's a total goofball and a ham, he's been outgoing since the day he was born and never knows a stranger. He's into skateboarding, playing guitar and rock music. He's got a white boy fro, and he's just crazy.

Well, he has all these female friends, but none of them are his girlfriend, wink, wink. He got it in his head to get them all something for Valentine's day. So the boy goes out and spends $45 on two cds and 6 roses, then comes home and creates 6 cards on the computer. So he went off to school with presents and roses for 6 girls today. He is such a player! He's gonna be a heartbreaker for sure.

And of course they all loved the gifts. Then he comes home and leaves again to go to a Valentine's party! Man, my life at that age was so not that eventful!

So at least somebody had a good day.

As for me, well tomorrow's another day, and 2007 is another year. Maybe luck will change on one of those for me! :)

B-Out