Fanboy Video Interview

Here is an interview I did recently at the Dallas Comic Con. It's with the fine folks at Fanboy Video and Fanboy Radio. Big, big thanks to Oliver Tull for doing the interview and to Luke Hawkins for filming and editing it. These guys and Scott Hinze have always been supportive of me and I really appreciate them taking the time to give me some exposure. Thanks fellas. The goofball on the left is me...

Going GReeN

Recycle



When my kids were little they came home from school, after hearing some teacher talk about saving the planet. I’m thinking are you serious? Next thing you know it we had a million different plastic bins to hold all the crap we were suppose to recycle. Let me just say that BUGS come with recycling. We lasted about a month.

We tried again when the kids were in jr high. On a much lower scale this time, aluminum cans. There’s money in that right? We even bought a can crusher and installed it in the garage. I know we had at least 10 trash bags full of cans. All over the freakin garage. So we finally find a place to take these “bags of cash”. We load them up in the car take them all the way to the recycling center and find out you really don’t make much money. At least not with 10 bags. So once again we have given up.

If you are going to recycle you really have to do it because you want to help save the planet. Cause there is NO real cash in it.

We have now moved onto other ways to help the environment. Going green means a lot of things. We sold our SUV and bought an energy efficient car. We have talked about getting a rain bucket to recycle rain water and use on our plants and flowers in our yard. We use all natural household products to clean with. We eat a lot of organic foods. Some yummy; some not so yummy.

There are a million different ways to go green; you just have to do the research. Going Green is hard work, but don’t you want to help make a positive impact on the world you live in and set a great example for your children?

http://www.treehugger.com/gogreen.php

New Emma Pin-up By Jennie Wood

Here is the piece by Jennie Wood, which I mentioned in a previous post. She had sent me an jpeg of a work-in-progress image and promised a actual piece to arrival in the mail. It was worth the wait, I love it. It really makes me wish I do watercolor competently, maybe one day I'll give it a try. Thanks again Jennie!
Jennie Wood's Website.

Time for yourself

TiCk ToCk

Why does the world pass by at warp speeds when you don’t want it to and move as slow as a turtle when you’re watching the clock?

There are two kinds of people in this world. There are the ones who watch time tick slowly by. Lonely & or bored with life. Then there are the ones who speed thru life so fast that they don’t take the time to slow down and enjoy it.

Which one are YOU?

If you’re the clock watcher, then stop freakin watching! Live your life like there is no tomorrow.

If you’re the speed racer, slow the fuck down. You have probably already missed out on some major important times that you just can’t get back.

I am one of those “speed racers”. I cant tell you how many times my kids have stood there following me thru the house trying to tell me something that was important to them. But I wouldn’t take the time to slow down and stop to listen.

People, your kids will remember this as they grow old and become adults. How you wouldn’t take the 5 extra minutes to stop multi tasking and pay attention to what your child had to say.

I know how tough it is to be a working parent. I also know how hard it is as a single parent. There is always so much to do and not enough time to do it in. The world today has so much going on and we all seem to want to be a part of it. For the fear that if you’re out of the “loop” you might miss something detrimental.

Who really cares right? Well you do, or you wouldn’t be throwing 15 hours of work and things into an 8 hour day.

Well let me remind you that life is too short and nothing can make up for lost time with the ones you love the most.

Live everyday as if it were your last

Say What?

Is anyone listening to me??????

Blah Blah Blah

Is this universally heard by all men of all ages, when a woman is talking?


Cause I am pretty sure this is what my husband hears when I ask him to do something around our house. It is also what my son hears when I ask him to take care of something.


How do we as women get around this “tuning out” of things? I have read many books trying to understand men. Yes, they all say the same thing. WE are different. No freaking duh! I don’t need to read a book to know that. What I need is the secret code to get them to listen to me.
Is it too crazy of an idea to just have communication? I call it “selective hearing”. I know most women have experienced this with a man/child before. I don’t get it. Do men want women think they are dumb and or lazy?  Sometimes I think it is done deliberately to try and get out of having to help out around the house.

So I am on a new mission. This one is where I don’t wash anyone’s clothes (but my own of course). I don’t fix anyone’s breakfast and I don’t iron anyone’s clothes. I don’t have to worry about dinner, cause I never fix that anyways. Ha!

I give it a week before the complaining starts. And then I am going to turn around and say

“ Blah, Blah , Blah”.