It snowed this weekend. It snowed last night (which was technically part of the weekend, but I feel a need to differentiate between the two). Schools were closed today as a result. I don’t work in a school so I had to go to work. Fortunately for me, I take the bus to work so I didn’t have to drive in less than favorable conditions. I feel pretty safe on the bus. Safer than I do in a car, no matter who’s driving. I mean, unless we were driving near a large body of water with inadequate railings to keep the bus from careening into the water should it get a little too slippery. Then I’d be nervous. Lucky me, my bus doesn’t pass any large bodies of water on my way to work. Okay, this is going nowhere I was intending it to. Time to switch topics.
I got a lot of drawing done this weekend. First, I drew my first Animus Wars strip in months. That was mostly because I hadn’t WRITTEN any Animus Wars material in months. Okay, it was entirely because I hadn’t written any Animus Wars material. I kept telling myself I still had a backlog of strips to get through before I NEEDED to write anything. Well the last backlogged strip went up on Friday so that excuse was no longer valid. I had to get off my keister and write (and then draw). I have a few pages of strips ready to be drawn. I probably won’t get ahead of myself again. Missed weeks are a possibility, but I’ll try to avoid it.
I had this week’s (and next week’s) mash-ups all ready to go. Technically, they’re not mash-ups at all. I decided to draw the characters wearing their usual clothes only in the more elaborate style I do for the mash-ups. The plan was I’d post those next and have two weeks to work on some Christmas-themed mash-ups to go up the week after next. Well, I consulted my calendar and realized that if I kept to that plan, the Christmas material would be going up on December 26th. A little late. So if I was going to get any Christmas stuff up, I was going to have to start NOW. And start I did. I did this week’s batch (four pictures) all on Sunday. This was after drawing my traditional Sunday morning strip. All told I drew from 7 to 5:30. I was a little tired after the first, but I told myself I’d just start the next one so I’d have less to do this week. Then I got a second wind and the results motivated me to keep going. Now my only regret is that I didn’t have them done before I made my magnet order last week because I think the pictures are really cute.
“Last week? I thought you ordered those weeks ago?” You’re right. I did. However, I didn’t check the email I use for my business with cafepress and I wasn’t aware that they’d written to tell me that there were issues with my order that needed to be taken care of. Oops! Well, they’re taken care of now and I hope to get them before the end of the program at work so I can give some out to the members of my team for Christmas. Ideally they’ll get here this week.
Okay, that’s all for tonight. I’m going to start on next week’s Christmas pics. Blog to ya again in seven.