Or the miraculous story about how I’m not dead.

Ok. It’s not that dramatic or exciting, but being a home owner is rather involved and moving, packing, and unpacking sure takes a ton of your time. I’ve got a bedroom to organize this weekend, another trip under my house for plumbing issues, and I haven’t even thought of how to get rid of all the goddamn cardboard boxes I have.

When you fill up a 400 square foot garage with your shit, you have to step back and realize that’s a whole lot of wasted space and – well, you should probably throw out a lot of that shit.

Tonight, I went to a neighborhood ice cream social. Isn’t that whacky? It was really interesting to meet all the young couples who are moving into my neighborhood or who have lived here for some time and to watch all the old people stand around on the periphery and stare at the tattooed, blue haired freak who bought that nice old 94 year old’s house. It makes me chuckle to pretend not to notice these things and watch them feign pleasantries.

The good news is I have set up my home office again and my studio! I’ve got some work to create since I’m totally too late to get my tickets to Comic-Con this year.

I’m writing this post surfing on the streams of some neighbors WiFi connection.

This weekend is all about settling in to my new digs and there is a lot that I plan on accomplishing. I’ve already had an electrician come out to the house to start on the upgrade that my place will need to run all the gadgets, heating/cooling unit, and set the ground work for future upgrades. He should finish this tomorrow and should be approved next week!

I have to head down to Home Depot and get one of those jumpsuits and a respirator for crawling under the house to wire my place with Cat5 cable for my Playstation 3 and internet connections. I’ll also be installing a cat door as Boo-Boo (her name – I’ve decided) was let out supervised today after I came home and then later again when I was taking out some recycling and trash for tomorrow’s pick up, so I do think she’ll be doing it on her own soon. My fridge/freezer kit arrives tomorrow from Sears which will start my plans for re-doing my kitchen. Next week, the phone company will connect all my pre-wiring up for internet so I don’t have to hijack somebody else’s. And then in two weeks, I should have my new furnace installed in the attic and the cooling unit on the outside wall facing the old lady next door.

Today, I got some great news from Last Gasp. They want to republish the short story, “Dem Bones”, I originally did for my fellow comic fiends who do Hard To Swallow Comix – #3. It is to appear in the pages of Best Erotic Comics of 2009! Hurray!

As I hear the final booms and screees of fireworks that shouldn’t be lit in a city that is entering ‘fire season’ once again, I rest my weary ass on this piece of crap Ikea chair that I plan on chucking in the dumpster tomorrow. My lower back is sore from lifting, sifting, bending, throwing away, packing, boxing, taping up, and sliding in the back of my car and into a big rental truck, all of my belongings coming just shy of my computer, flat files with all my inked drawings and my computer.

Tomorrow, the last of the last remains to be moved into the truck – sofa, books, comics, my old g4 tower, monitor, DVDs, kitchen stuff, various bathroom items, and my bed. I’ll put an ad on Craigslist to take away my weight machine and stationary bike which never got any real use. Finally, the futon, leather recliners and the cat in her travel box crying all the way over to my new digs.

Monday, Sears will deliver a new fridge and freezer unit to be later set into the wall when I start remodelling. Until then, it will sit awkwardly in use in the space that the old fridge used to be and I’ll dream of ripping up the linoleum floor. Carpets are cleaned and I’ll chuck the one I’ll remove from my room – a threadbare aqua blue shag. Sometime next week the electrician will upgrade the switchbox from 60 Amps to 200 Amps, AT&T will wire my house for high speed internet, and later in the month I’ll have the furnace placed in the attic and central air installed. I’ll go around the house adding and making all outlets grounded. Paint will be applied to ‘freshen’ up the place and old grandma wallpaper will be removed, while unpacking commences this Sunday.

It’s a big blur. Two aspirins. A tall, cool glass of water. Sleepytown awaits.