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I’ve caught another mouse!  This is the second one so far.  Well, that’s not totally true.  I did catch another one before this little guy/girl, but it escaped the bucket I put it in.  Jumped right out it did!  This current one was released in to the wild right out from the trap… which it didn’t want to leave.  It took a bit, but eventually it jumped out and ran in to the bushes on to it’s new mousy life.  Yay!

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I wonder how many more mice I have.  I wonder if I’ll have to draw a mouse picture for each one. o_O

Did you know that I have a tumblr site too?  I signed up for one a while ago, but I don’t do too much with it other then fave other peoples stuff.  I post up the rough drawings/doodles mostly.  Don’t worry, I’m not jumping ship.  There’s much more meat and potatoes here and that’s the way it’ll stay.  Tumblr is a great way to follow other artists though, which is pretty much what I’m using it for.  So if you use Tumblr, feel free to add me to your collection of follows. ^_^

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We seem to have mice in our house as of late.  My mother told us she saw one run by our stairs a while ago.  I thought she was crazy to be honest and for a long time we didn’t see anything.  But, sure enough this past week a mouse made it’s presents known to us.  The next day I went to Canadian Tire (it’s a Canadian hardware store) to get some no kill traps.  It took a few tries, but we were able to catch mouse in it.  The only problem is… we seem to have more then one.  Now I have to catch his little friends/family.  The one I caught was super adorable, but he couldn’t live in my house.  I let him go in a field/walking path away from my house.  I hope I can catch the rest of them so they can be reunited. ^_^

I did this doodle for this post, but it reminded me that a long time ago I wanted to do some city mouse & country mouse drawings.  It theme would be large insertions with two lady mice.  Because when your a mouse, everything is large.  Oh baby!

Do you workout?  I used to, but I fell off that wagon a long time ago.  I stopped once I had my vasectomy and never started again.  I wasn’t doing it to lose weight, it was totally for vanity reasons.  I was to look buff when I go to the beach while camping or when I’m by the pool during Disney vacations.  Recently I decided to take it up again.  I don’t really have time to go to a gym or anything, so I decided to just do basic pushups, crunches and squats on my lunch.  It’s been paying off quite well.  I might not be putting on the muscle quickly, but I have made a noticeable difference and I’m quite happy with that.  I’ll continue to work out like this until I get more time in the future… maybe. ^_^

Hello out there.  It’s been a while since I’ve put anything up, I hope all will forgive me.  I do want to say that what I have been doing is dedicating any and all spare time to getting my Tinkerbell folio done.  As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t get much extra time in my life and I felt that I wasn’t getting as much done as I wanted too, thus letting all you fine people down.  But now I feel like I’ve been neglecting my blog and that needs to be corrected too.  So I’m here to confirm that the folio is still will underway and looking very fine I think plus, I’ll going to once again be more active around here.  I sort of have a hard time balancing many things, but the one thing I won’t do is quit.

This past weekend was my 13th wedding anniversary.  Yay me!  Normally my wife and I don’t exchange gifts, but this year we did for some reason.  I bought her a new piece of jewelry and she bought me Niel Gaiman’s new book and a 3 volume history of pin up books.  How awesome is that!  Receiving gifts isn’t high on my wife’s love list.  She prefers just spending time together, so I also took her out to a very nice, fancy, kid free dinner… which she loved.  Who says that the number 13 is unlucky? ^_^