Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to Sussurations!  With the birth of my little boy, things have really turned upside down on the homefront.  Hopefully, we can manage to eek out a Tuesday/Thursday update schedule for your viewing pleasure.  Feel free to look around at what I already have up and let me know what I can do to improve the site.  Polite, constructive comments are always welcome!  Thanks for dropping by!

A Stiff Dose of Reality

I’ve got all sorts of excuses for the lack of communication the last three weeks.  I could mention that Robert had a fish conference at the same time as he  was trying to put in his NSF grant proposal, simultaneously making me a single mother and an edit monkey.  I could mention that Aaron, that nursing infant that’s still around, and I have both been sick.  I could mention that I got a new calling at church that eats up probably about three times the amount of time and energy the last one did.  I could also mention that I’m a superhero that’s having trouble balancing my super life and my mild mannered alter ego.  (Who here’s ever played three truths and a lie?)

But the reality is that I only have time for one pointless hobby and, right now, Sussurations is not it.  It’ll stay that way through November.  (Distracted again!  Curse you, Nanowrimo!)  So check  back that first Tuesday in December and I can almost guarantee that I’ll have something up by the end of the day.  Almost.

Gnyar

So I was literally walking with Gulliver to the scanner to scan in the update when a housemate set Aaron on a chair in our kitchen and the little guy, of course, arched his back and dove headlong into the hardwood floor.  An ambulance came and said we should take him to the hospital, so in we went to the emergency room to get his little head checked out while he flirted with the nurses.  He was perfectly alright, but it kind of killed the day.  So, day late, dollar short, here’s the update.  At least it’s four times bigger than usual.  (Is it really a dollar short if it’s bigger than usual?  Or is it a few dollars in excess?  Like a late fee.)  I can make myself feel a little better that way.  Hooray for high school prom!

PS- Politics aside, you have to admire any human being who can swivel a hula hoop around her hips 142 times.

The Best 3 Months

Aaron turned three months old yesterday.  My little man’s getting so old!  It’s strange.  On the one hand, it feels like it really hasn’t been that long, but, on the other, it seems like he’s been around forever.  What would I do without my Peanut?  Seriously, marrying Robert was probably the best decision I ever made.  Having Aaron was next best.

But you probably don’t care!  You want to know about the comic!  And the decision that I have reached is that, yes, sadly, Stephanie v. Copy Machine has come to an end.  Thanks to all the loyal readers.  (Maybe we’re up to three by now!)  I hope you’ve enjoyed the comic as much as I have.  Thanks especially to the KBML staff who let me make fun of them on the world wide web and still spoke to me come Monday!  Maybe I’ll pick the comic up again later and do another chapter or something, but, for the time being, we will move on to bigger and dumber things.  So, Robert and I will now take two weeks to scheme, meditate and otherwise prepare for our hostile takeover of the world the new comic.  In the meantime, if anyone is interested in doing guest comics, creative writing, or art, feel free to shoot me an email with the tasteful, G-rated goodness.  (Like I’m always tasteful and G-rated.)  If nobody bites, I will nonetheless do my best to continue to entertain you with doodles and whatnot on Tuesdays and Thursdays by 11 a.m. Alaska time.  Such as this fine piece, incomplete with internet-choppy-halfness.  Enjoy!

Lerdy-der

I’m having a heck of a time with this kid’s sleep schedule!  Maybe he’s still too young for a real schedule, but, sheesh!  Sometimes he sleeps eight hours at night, sometimes fourteen.  Sometimes he naps, sometimes he doesn’t.  It makes keeping a schedule myself rather difficult.  Being rather sleep deprived myself, I can’t decide whether or not this page should be the last page of the comic.  There’s more I have planned, but this seems so succinct.

Sleep Schedule Schlorp

Baby and I have had a busy morning.  The update will come when he decides to take a nap.  I don’t know when that may be.

UPDATE:  Didn’t sleep – did it anyway – hes angry