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There's not exactly a punch line to today's cartoon. But this really did happen. I didn't get much breakfast on Friday morning before heading out the door, and by the time I was done with my morning water aerobics class and getting ready to head for the library, I was famished. So I bought the oatmeal, tucked it into my pocket and headed straight for the back of the library where I knew I could eat it in peace and quiet. I always bring coffee with me, because I like to have a cup of coffee when I work in the mornings, but the oatmeal was something I normally wouldn't do. I have to admit, I don't like bringing food into the library. I think too many people do it and they leave a mess and don't bother cleaning up after themselves. And of course, sneaking food in can lead to some unexpected problems...

I did manage to get the oatmeal out of my pocket, though for a few minutes I thought I was going to have to it it straight out of the pocket then scrunch up the empty carton so I could pull it out and throw it away. Won't be doing this again. As Mich pointed out, I should have just spent a few minutes in Starbucks eating the oatmeal there, but I was so intent on getting to my happy place in the library, I was willing to be stupid.

Speaking of my happy place at the library, I learned years ago that if I really wanted to get work done, the place to go is the library. There's this one desk in the back that's right next to an outlet, and the desk has those walls on the side so I'm shielded from nosy onlookers and I can sit and work to my heart's content. I've been doing this off and on for years, and just recently started going back to the library for "regular office hours." I've been there every Monday and Friday this month, working on my NaNoWriMo project, which is shaping up into... something. It's more like pre-writing or outlining than a novel, but it's that important first step in novel creation so I'm pleased with the results. As of this Monday morning, I'd written almost forty-six thousand words. My plan is to finish off those last four thousand words before we leave today to head to DC for the week.

I WILL NOT HAVE INTERNET CONNECTION DURING THE REST OF THIS WEEK BECAUSE I WILL BE IN DC!! I just thought I'd mention that. I'm going to be at my in-laws and they only have dial-up there and it's not worth going down to the basement which is where I think I'd have to go to connect, so I'm just going to be offline for the rest of the week. I have all my blog posts for the week planned out except for the PerCaDraMo entries. I'll continue to do a cartoon a day while I'm away, but you won't see the drawings for Tuesday through Saturday until after I get home. Sorry!

Have a great Thanksgiving, and if you must sneak a turkey into the library to eat it, make sure it's small enough to fit into, and get out of, your jacket pocket. Salud!

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I've been dealing with schedule issues since school started, trying to balance my roles as parent and as business woman, and not having much success. It was getting to a point where I was so overloaded with work and obligations, I was stressing out over the tiniest little things. I even had a melt-down over the new hand-mixer Hubster bought for me because it came with too many attachments and I had no idea when I was going to have five free minutes to sit down and read the manual to figure out how the damned thing was supposed to work.

So I made a decision last week to cut some stuff out of my schedule. Some of it was stuff I wanted to do but know I don't have time for, and other stuff was stuff I was expected to do by other people and I didn't have time for. I let folks know that my priorities are family, then work, and then everything else. And since family and work take up 99.9% of all my time, I did not have anything left over for anybody else. Thankfully, everybody involved seemed to understand, and my stress level went down considerably after I made those changes to my schedule. But it was pretty bad for a while there, and I need to be very careful that I don't get that overloaded again.

So anyway, I thought it would be fun to draw a steampunk cartoon, and here it is. This was the comic I spent all my drawing time on Sunday, which is why I never got a PerCoDraMo comic up that day. I was drawing, working very hard on this in fact, but it wasn't supposed to go up until today, so there ya go. Will I continue PerCoDraMo after this month? Ah... no. Again, I'd love to, and I may still do a quick drawing every day, but getting it posted some times is a bit of a problem, especially when I try to do the web comic in advance, because then I have to draw two things that day. As I stated earlir, I need to be very careful to avoid adding extra obligations and stress to my already hectic schedule.

Cheers!

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A funny thing happened to me last Thursday. I had been contacted by the girls' school about helping out with a t-shirt for a fund-raiser the school is hosting in two weeks. They needed someone to convert 16 JPG graphics into EPS format, which I said would be simple enough to do. But when I got to the school to talk to one of the staff, things sort of snowballed on me.

Not only did they need the JPGs converted, they also wanted to know if I could lay out the back of the shirt. Apparently, the printing company had decided to tack on extra fees this year to do the EPS conversion at the price of $35 an hour. I understand why they would charge that, being a freelance illustrator myself, but this is a shirt for a fund-raiser. The point is to raise more money than you spend on running the event. So I said yes, I could design the back of the shirt as well. After all, how hard could it be to convert 16 black and white JPGs to EPS and then lay them out in a 4x4 grid with a bit of text above saying "Thank you to our sponsors!"

Only the graphics weren't black and white. And a lot of them were very tiny and badly pixelated. And some of them were in file formats that I had never seen in all my years of doing computer graphics.

And did I mention the school also asked me to do the artwork for the front of the shirt as well?

In the course of 24 hours, I went from converting 16 sponsor logos to converting 27 sponsor logos and designing both the front and back of the t-shirt.

It was supposed to be a 3-day weekend for us. The girls had off from school on Friday, so I was going to spend the day with them running errands, swimming at the Y, picking out pumpkins to carve from the local pumpkin patch, and helping them finish up their costumes. I had also planned to do a bit of client work and draw today's cartoon, plus polish off a personal project that I had been waiting weeks to get to. And there were also several loads of laundry to do, a kitchen to clean, a pumpkin carving party to go to, a couple 15 mile bike rides to take, and so on and so on...

The girls and I did run errands, get pumpkins and go swimming, although by that point I had already pulled my first all-nighter so we were a little slow getting out the door and I had to cut the day short to get more work done. And we did make it to the pumpkin carving party, where Mich began assembling the braid for Pixie's "Rock Star Goth Rapunzel Vampire" costume. And I made it out for one bike ride around the neighborhood. But that was it. The rest of that 3-day weekend was devoted to creating that t-shirt. I pulled 3 all-nighters in a row. I bitched and moaned a complained on Twitter and Facebook while doing it. I played very nice with the ladies organizing the charity event and did not kill anyone. And I worked 27 hours in 3 days and basically pulled a few miracles out of my ass.

I have been asked if I would design another shirt for next year. I have said yes, upon the condition that we start this process in the spring of this school year, after I get through Girl Scout cookie sales. That way I won't be forced to deal with another rush job that leaves me sleep-deprived and dangerously snappish. I have been thanked heartily for my work, which is always nice, and I have ensured that I will not need to do any further volunteering for the school for several months.

Yesterday, after the worst of this weekend was over, I told the Hubster how psyched I had been at getting this shirt done. In spite of all the hassle, the lack of sleep, and the stress over doing a rush job, I did actually enjoy myself. This was in my area of expertise, after all, and I was in the zone the entire weekend, crushing each and every challenge that came my way. I worked miracles, folks, and I enjoy doing that. But I was also really depressed that all this work had been done for someone else. Sure, it was for a good cause, but it upset me that I never got to do that sort of thing for myself. If I were to spend that kind of time on my own projects, there'd be no stopping me! I'd rule the universe! But I could never possibly put in such long hours making my own miracles and masterpieces for myself.

"Well, why not?" the Hubster said.

"Because you'd never see me," I replied. "If I worked like that on my own stuff, the laundry would never get done, the house would be a disaster, the kids would have no idea who their mother was and you'd probably forget what I looked like too. I just can't do that every weekend."

"Well, no, not every weekend," Hubster said. "But what if you did it one weekend a month..."

And at that moment I knew I had married the best man in the world.

Essentially, Hubster has agreed to give me a free pass once every month to disappear into my office and bust my ass on my own artwork. He will take care of the kids and the house while I do it. It is an incredible gift on his part, and I love him dearly for it. I don't know when the next weekend will be yet, but when it happens I will let you know. And when it happens, I'm going to call it "Helen's Art Binge" and I'm going to gorge myself silly with time spent on my projects just for me. I will tweet and post to Facebook all through that weekend to let folks know of my progress, just like I bitched and moaned all through this weekend over that t-shirt, and when the final product is done, I will share it for all to see.

So stay tuned. There will be interesting things happening in the near future. All thanks to my very understanding Hubster.

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Honestly, I really do feel a lot of pressure these days, but I drew this because I wanted to draw me with just a skull for a head. I thought it turned out well.

But about that pressure. We haven't even finished October yet and I already feel like my head is about to explode. A lot of it is due to Girl Scouts. Both Princess and Pixie are in Girl Scouts now, so last week we had 3 troop events. This week I have two meetings and a training class to go to. Next week we'll have another troop meeting. And very soon, cookie sales stuff starts up again. We don't actually start selling cookies until January, but we do start paperwork and training prior to that, and it's my goal this year to get started before everyone leaves for Christmas break, because once folks are gone, it's kind of hard to get all their permission slips signed and turned in on time.

So yeah, a little bit of pressure these days. I saw a news piece last week about how more and more women are taking anti-depressants and it really struck a nerve with me. I know why those women are taking meds. I'd like to figure out how I can avoid taking them myself. As I told the Hubster, the problem isn't how I handle the stress, it's how much is being piled on me. If I can reduce that load, then I'm good. The question is, how do you reduce that load.

If anyone has any ideas, let me know!

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