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.<\/p>\n
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 Well the last backlogged strip went up on Friday so that excuse was no longer valid.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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
Okay, that’s all for tonight. I’m going to start on next week’s Christmas pics. Blog to ya again in seven.<\/p>\n
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