Today I was walking home from getting some lunch, and I saw something I hadn’t seen before. I saw a sweaty, shirtless man running down the street with two shiny, bouncing nipple rings. It occurs to me now this site is probably a fairly regular thing in some places, including Atlanta’s own Piedmont Park, but somehow I have gone this long without witnessing it.

Then it occurred to me that these were very shiny rings. These rings weren’t just pieces of body jewelry this man left in full time. They were recently polished silver nipple rings, glinting in the sun from yards away. Perhaps the guy has an assortment of nipple decorations. Maybe there are formal, casual, and exercise nipple rings? Maybe it isn’t just nipple rings, and he has a whole sexual organ body modification wardrobe for any occasions.

A friend at work pointed out that I accidentally already did S with the slug, but I wanted to do spider-man.

One more. This is a little one, about the size of the old ‘fat’ nintendo DS. I only bought two canvases, so now I need to go buy more if I plan on keeping this up. The detail work is brutal. I don’t know if it is my lack of skill and/or my cheapo brushes.

I got myself a cheapo, crafty painting kit to kill some time during the first couple days of my recovery. For someone without any training… this is still pretty poor.

We got our engagement photos taken last week, and that is one of my personal favorites. We’re probably not using that one for the Save The Date card since it looks like a photo for an article on an indie rock band’s sophomore album, but we haven’t quite nailed down which photo that will be just yet.

A lot of other non weddingy stuff is going on.

Work wise, I may possibly get to work on ATHF again soon. Hopefully. JibJab also accepted a pitch for a new series of Sendable greetings that do not feature Mistor. I don’t know when the first one of those will be out the door since I need to write them first, and I’m still working on a Mistor birthday card. That’s even a little delayed because of something else going on I’ll mention in a second. That birthday card could potentially be my last Mistor cartoon for a little while. I’ve got the itch to make a new personal cartoon, but I haven’t quite found the “story” or whatever I do that passes as a plot.

I had surgery yesterday. That was a lot of fun, and I suggest everyone try it. The drugs I mean. The getting cut up while you’re asleep part is no fun.

I’m healing. It wasn’t a big procedure, so I should be back to whatever it is I say I do in a couple of days. I won’t say what I went under the knife for, but in a totally unrelated note: birthday cake scented shampoo is not edible and doesn’t even remotely taste like birthday cake.

My phone broke a few weeks ago, and Sony Erriccson refused to fix it. Somehow it got water damage and voided the warranty without activating the water damage litmus tag in the phone or, more miraculously, me getting it wet. They sent it back with a photo of the water damage and a politely worded “ha ha you’re screwed” letter. I liked that phone a lot, but now I’m all insulted and moody. Since I chose to be an animator and not a profession that can afford things like ‘data plans’, I longingly gazed at iPhone ads while I ordered a Nokia 5310 xtreme dumbphone. Hopefully that’ll show up today. I also lost all my phone numbers, but who calls me anyway?

I bought some paints, brushes, and a few little canvases in what has been turning into an adorable reminder of why I don’t paint. I really suck at this. The first one isn’t done, so I’ll reserve judgment on just how much I suck at this for the time being. I’ve got some other stupid ideas I want to paint to give me more time to practice before I decide if this was a terrible failed experiment or not.