What do you call a man with two red legs?

Fucking Stupid! That's what. Legs soooo sunburned... So After a week of interesting highs and lows. Met a different girl whom seems pretty cool as well. Actually, has my same sleep schedule. I'll leave that there for now because honestly, I have no idea if anything will ever come from that fantastic night. I learned that if you put chocolate chips in mountain dew they have a lava lamp thing happen. Also that if you go Kayaking for 5 hours sun screen isn't a good idea, its a pre-essential. I am going to have the weirdest tan line ever. We're talking farmers tan time 10. Really awkward. If I do manage to get laid in the near future you can bet your fanny there will be questions about why the insides of my legs are bright red. Also hot showers are evil. This week my Bike article and my Funny Girl article both are a go in the paper. I'm pretty stoked. I'll be judging comedy again and with any luck that girl will be back.

In other news related more to the art side of my life I have actually gotten quite a few commissions. Like the one you see above here. I'm also in the process of finishing the coloring for a piece I drew for Mary Doodles. The Fact that I met David Mack still is blowing my mind. Seriously, 1 degree of separation from Neil Gaiman Now. I couldn't be any more excited. He has a similar strategy to approaching art as I do which I will be writing about for TNTML soon. Oh speaking of that site my interview with Anna about the porchlight sessions went live last week. It was a really well done interview and I was excited to have gotten it to print before her project ended. There was a little mix up when Jen went to a wine house in the middle of no where for 3 days. That kinda complicated my timing but all is well in the end.   Anyway, Look forward to more art... a series of poems dedicated to family members, and more writing. I'm on a roll. Woot!

In closing

Well it's been another year gone by... looking back I can safely say it's been both a good and a bad year. I have chased and lost. I have worked and achieved. As far as advancing my life I have done that to perfection. I have pushed myself both in my regular job and in my art. I have made new connections that will hopefully garner new and exciting developments. I have made new friends and lost some to the pendulum of time. I have both failed to stop smoking and lost the weight I so desparetly wanted to drop.

Artistically, I am working for Misti Dawn (side note my art starts all of her homebrewed porns :))for the site The Naughty Nerd. Soon you'll be able to buy my prints in their shop there. I have continued to write for TNTML, picked up a new writing gig for The Hype, worked on my poetry, and even attempted stand up comedy which I have been told is actually pretty good. Still won't know till i get in front of a real audience.

Another one of my brothers got married this year. Beautiful service. Illustrated just how badly I am doing at finding my own love in this world. Doing my best to find it I just think I'm a little much for any girl. Facebook is probably a killer for any blossoming relationship as I tend to have way to many crazy photo's there and my gallery of gorgious girls hanging off me most likely makes people assume I'm some kind of poon hound. This could not be further from the truth. In the last year I had sex with 1 girl. The year before that... 1 girl. In fact I am averaging 1 girl a year and that's gotta be some kind of sad record. It's not that my intention with any new relationship is to get laid but it seems to be how guys base how well you do in any way. I just can't invest myself sexually with someone unless i connect on a mental level and while i have found girls that i do connect with finding ones that aren't damaged and distant that still match that qualification are few and far between. Maybe i have way to high of standards, maybe I just think things through to much and when it comes to passion can't act in the moment. I'm sure I've had far more chances to hook up than i want to admit to. Just can't seem to do the casual sex thing.

Love will be something to work on in the new year. So here we go... New Years resolutions. Lose another 50 lbs. This one will be a lot harder after the initial major weight loss but I'm going to be joining a weight loss competition. That should help ;). Get back into a habit of going to the gym every night. Knock out way more art and push myself to be even better. Lastly, Stop smoking. Yeah this was one last year and I achieved it twice and then failed twice. So I think i can nail this one this year. Just gotta remember not to snack so much when i do it. Also I'll need to remember to take breaks to just go outside and stand and think. That's the most addicting thing about smoking I've found the quite moments of contemplation I get for myself. So there you go folks here's to the New Year i do hope this one was good for you all.