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So would like to know what I did on my birthday?

Anyone?

Well I’m going to tel you anyway.

First I should let people know that when you have young kids birthdays are different then when you don’t have kids.  You spent your day with your family rather then out partying and such.  So I wake up and the first thing we had to do was take our daughter to her dance class.  After that we took her to a Valentines Day party that one of her friends was throwing.  After that we went to a Chinese Buffet and ate ourselves stupid.  On a side note, I happen to notice that the amount of actual Chinese food compared to everyday type food was a little lop sided in favour of everyday type food.  Which made me think that the only reason this was called a Chinese Buffet was the fact that it was owned and run by Chinese.  Anyway, regardless the food was great and I would totally go there again.  Oh, and I fill up the Chinese food since it is a Chinese Buffet.

Okay so after that we went and saw a live performance of The Backyardigans.  It was lots of fun.  I should mention that The Backyardigans is a CG animated children’s show with a hippo, penguin, moose, kangaroo and a… pink thing.  They sing songs and play pretend in their backyard.  But see, the songs are really good.  Each episodes songs are done in a different style like, Hip Hop, Country, 1920’s Jazz, Swing, Rockabilly or Italian folk.  The list goes on an on…  Plus the whole show is really, really well done.  My wife and I love it more then the kids I think ^_^

Anyway, the live show was lots of fun.  After that we went home and made some home made funnel cakes which failed miseItrably.  Put the kids to bed watched a movie and went to bed.  That was it, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Did I get any presents?  Just one.  My daughter drew me a picture of our whole family.  I cried a little when I opened it and I’ll keep it forever.

That was my birthday.

One of the best ones so far.

31 years ago today, at Belleville General Hospital in Ontario Canada, I was born.  Both my parents are artists types (one draws, the other crafts furniture) and I seem to have taken the best aspects of these skills in to myself to hone.  When I was a child I would play with my Legos and small toys but I would get down low and use my eye as a sort of camera and plan out cool “shots” for my own viewing pleasure, like I would fly little space ships close to my eye and alter my focus to create a more dramatic entrance of the hero of the moment.  I drew a bit, but not much, although I knew I could, I just never bothered.  I took film classes in High School and architecture and drafting and excelled at both of them.  Later, when I’d decided that I wanted to make art my career, I went to animation school and learned to better draw the human figure and create life in my work.   I soon found the the film courses, drafting and even the way I played with toys as a kid help me a great deal since I already had a working idea of the concepts and shot set ups.  After college I succumb to my love of games and decided to do animation for them… 2D animation.  Seven some odd years later I’m still at it and loving what I do.  I also found the time to get married and father two children. ^_^

It’s interesting to look back and see what you’ve done and the decisions that you’ve made to get you to the point you are at now.  I’ve had high points and low points but regardless of those it’s the decisions that I’ve made have made me who I am.  It makes you wonder if those events in my life where different would I have made the same choices?  Probably not… how could I after all.  I would have made different choices based on different events, but would I end up at the same place I am now.  Is it destiny or choice, or maybe both.  I believe that the life you live is a road with branches on it.  You come to a branch and you have to make a choice as to what to do.  But I also believe that the choices that you come across in your life are presented to you for a reason.  So you can learn from your choices.  It’s not about making the wrong move, but learning and becoming a better.  Some people will learn from their choices and some won’t.

In 31 years I’ve learned quite a lot and I’m happy to be where I am and who I am and I’m glad I can share my life with the people around me.  It’s neat to think what I’ll learn in my later years too.  What choices I’ll make.  Where will I be.  Still here I hope.  Some parts tell me that this whole “31 is you last year” thing is silly but something still eats at me.  But regardless of what happens, I’m still happy with the live I’ve lived.

I wouldn’t have it any other way. ^_^

31 years ago today, at Belleville General Hospital in Ontario Canada, I was born.  Both my parents are artists types (one draws, the other crafts furniture) and I seem to have taken the best aspects of these skills in to myself to hone.  When I was a child I would play with my Legos and small toys but I would get down low and use my eye as a sort of camera and plan out cool “shots” for my own viewing pleasure, like I would fly little space ships close to my eye and alter my focus to create a more dramatic entrance of the hero of the moment.  I drew a bit, but not much, although I knew I could, I just never bothered.  I took film classes in High School and architecture and drafting and excelled at both of them.  Later, when I’d decided that I wanted to make art my career, I went to animation school and learned to better draw the human figure and create life in my work.   I soon found the the film courses, drafting and even the way I played with toys as a kid help me a great deal since I already had a working idea of the concepts and shot set ups.  After college I succumb to my love of games and decided to do animation for them… 2D animation.  Seven some odd years later I’m still at it and loving what I do.  I also found the time to get married and father two children. ^_^

It’s interesting to look back and see what you’ve done and the decisions that you’ve made to get you to the point you are at now.  I’ve had high points and low points but regardless of those it’s the decisions that I’ve made have made me who I am.  It makes you wonder if those events in my life where different would I have made the same choices?  Probably not… how could I after all.  I would have made different choices based on different events, but would I end up at the same place I am now.  Is it destiny or choice, or maybe both.  I believe that the life you live is a road with branches on it.  You come to a branch and you have to make a choice as to what to do.  But I also believe that the choices that you come across in your life are presented to you for a reason.  So you can learn from your choices.  It’s not about making the wrong move, but learning and becoming a better.  Some people will learn from their choices and some won’t.

In 31 years I’ve learned quite a lot and I’m happy to be where I am and who I am and I’m glad I can share my life with the people around me.  It’s neat to think what I’ll learn in my later years too.  What choices I’ll make.  Where will I be.  Still here I hope.  Some parts tell me that this whole “31 is you last year” thing is silly but something still eats at me.  But regardless of what happens, I’m still happy with the live I’ve lived.

I wouldn’t have it any other way. ^_^

So last year at my birthday I stated that my 31st year is a little freaky for me. See when I was 6 couldn’t see me living past the age of 31 (or 32). Possibly because I was only 6 and 31 seemed like an eternity but now that my birthday is right around the corner I’m seriously afraid that this is my last year of life. Now it should be known that I’m in good health, I don’t drink, smoke, do drugs, I don’t eat much junk. I have only 11% body fat (so says my doctor) although I don’t exercise much. But that’s not counting the bus that could take me out one day ^_^

When I was in high school I read a book called Panther in the Sky where the Shawnee leader Tecumseh’s father saw that he (the father) was going to die because he saw his star disappear from the sky. My Mother believes that my Grandfather knew he was going to die the night he was hit by that drunk driver because of the things he did that night where out of his usual routine. Unable to change the events that where to happen yet, didn’t know exactly what was going to happen. Just going though the motions as it where. My Grandfather was a full blood Mohawk.

So these two things sit on my mind as does that day when I was 6 years old. Maybe I’m crazy… I hope am… But we will see. So how would you know if died? Well, I’m going to try… try being the key word here… to make a post for every single day of my 31st year. Some will be short, some maybe long, most will be boring. If I can’t make a post and I know in advance I’ll say so so people won’t freak out. So here’s to roughly 365 posts… I hope, and if not. It’s been real. ^_^

So last year at my birthday I stated that my 31st year is a little freaky for me. See when I was 6 couldn’t see me living past the age of 31 (or 32). Possibly because I was only 6 and 31 seemed like an eternity but now that my birthday is right around the corner I’m seriously afraid that this is my last year of life. Now it should be known that I’m in good health, I don’t drink, smoke, do drugs, I don’t eat much junk. I have only 11% body fat (so says my doctor) although I don’t exercise much. But that’s not counting the bus that could take me out one day ^_^

When I was in high school I read a book called Panther in the Sky where the Shawnee leader Tecumseh’s father saw that he (the father) was going to die because he saw his star disappear from the sky. My Mother believes that my Grandfather knew he was going to die the night he was hit by that drunk driver because of the things he did that night where out of his usual routine. Unable to change the events that where to happen yet, didn’t know exactly what was going to happen. Just going though the motions as it where. My Grandfather was a full blood Mohawk.

So these two things sit on my mind as does that day when I was 6 years old. Maybe I’m crazy… I hope am… But we will see. So how would you know if died? Well, I’m going to try… try being the key word here… to make a post for every single day of my 31st year. Some will be short, some maybe long, most will be boring. If I can’t make a post and I know in advance I’ll say so so people won’t freak out. So here’s to roughly 365 posts… I hope, and if not. It’s been real. ^_^

Well, Christmas has come and gone and I wasn’t able to post this here on time. It’s hard to do smutty things when your parents are visiting ^_^

Ah well… we do what we can.

So this is what I’ve drawn since then. Two versions of the same pic ^_^ One smutty and full of candy from a private collection and one more softer and cute. When I decided to Fifi this year I wanted to jack up the cuteness of the character. I remembered that TDK had drawn some of Fifi and he/she drew her with thicker hips and it was something I really liked so I thought I would use that idea as a base for this pic. Soon after I started the sketch I decided I would do two versions. One soft and one hard and man am I glad I did. I’m seriously not sure which version I like better. I like the hard one because I just can’t get enough of stuffing large, multiple objects in to toons and I like the soft one because… well… ^_^ lets just say that her rump end is so cute I’ve never wanted to bury my face in a toon puss so bad as I do with this one ^_^ Srsly.

So what else is new… I found on HongFire a thread that had a bunch of Soft Circle Correges games (they made May Queen and May Reason) and now I’m playing though them at a leisurely pace. Blue Note is the first on the list ^_^

Also some sad news with a happy end to it. I had a major flood at my house due to a HUGE rain storm that hit us and flooded my basement. Suck. The water ended up getting in to my older rough drawings and getting them all wet. Super suck. I gathered them all up and put them on the recycle pile wondering what the recycle guys would think when they picked it up this week. Well I later tried to dry out some life drawing that got wet too and got good results. I dashed over to the blue box and pinned up the wet, smutty drawings and they too dried out pretty well, a little wrinkled but not bad.

Which made me think, why do I have these drawings still? I should sell them or trade them to others that would like them. So that’s what I’m going to do. So if anyone out there reading this wishes to have some of drawings and a nice glossy print to match I’m willing sell or trade my art for video games. Yup, that’s right you heard me. If you have some older games that you’d like to swap for my dirty art then drop me a line (providing it’s a game that I wish to have ^_^)

GameBoy, GameBoy Color, GameBoy Advance, DS, NeoGeo Pocket Color, NES, SNES, N64, DreamCast, PS2, and Wii are the systems I own. I’m going to take a list of what drawings I still have left for people in the next week or so so we can see exactly what gone and what’s not.

Well I think that’s just about it for now. I think I ‘ll get on reviewing a new MAME game. I have one in mind that I don’t think people have seen that much.

Should be fun ^_^