Where Have I Been All Your Month?

Yeah, so I realize that I haven't posted a new cartoon since August 31st or a blog entry since August 29th. The end of the summer came and went without a word and the beginning of Fall is here...I kind of missed out on September having spent most of it in some form of recovery from that surgery I spoke of on August 29th. What have I been doing to heal myself then? It's funny because I spent the first two and half weeks sitting on the couch, watching the entire first season of Heroes again (just in time for Season Two tonight), playing video games (non-stressful games otherwise there was pain), and surfing the Internet until both typing wrists HURT (oh no...not another surgery). I couldn't wait to go back to work, and I've slowly made my way there with half days and half weeks and...i ran out of halves.

The biggest question people have asked, aside from "How do you feel" is, "How restricted is your diet?"... funny that it's LESS restrictive now that I don't have a hideously diseased gallbladder causing me pain whenever I eat anything yummy. I eat grease...I feel fine. I eat butter...I feel good. I'm going to gain a few pounds or ten if this keeps up. Oh...that's the other thing. "You've lost weight". It's true...I've heard this and I DID lose 8 lbs in the hospital, but have since gained back 9. Because I can eat ANYTHING. I appreciate the compliments...seriously...especially since the day before my long absence from the office, someone asked me if I GAINED weight. Who asks that question? Someone did and I'll never tell them your name Mike. :-P

So now this is all behind me...what's next? I think it's time for some changes...and not some crazy, "I had a life changing experience" type of changes because the whole thing wasn't all that bad. Honestly, I've had this life long fear of surgery and now it's mostly gone. I mean...I don't WANT to go have more, but it wouldn't freak me out. I realized in all this time wasting (sitting home on the couch creating a dent while I recovered) that I don't accomplish enough (outside of work of course where I get SO much done...in case anyone from work is reading). I have all kinds of plans to write, draw, socialize, create, learn...I said it...learn; but I never seem to execute any of those things completely.

This week's update...it's OK, but it's just filler. And maybe it's funny, but I want more out of this whole comic thing, so here I'm thinking about it and if I can think of something freshly new and creative, you'll be the first ones to know.