Jul 06 2008
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What a day… I went to work today. It took me almost a month to get up the strength to go and do all the work I scheduled last month. I have been depressed for a while now but the meds have stopped it from really going too far… But, I have sat in my back room day after day since telling myself “come on get up and go to work… you have a family to feed and bills to pay.” Well after all the hills and valleys, I got up the nerve to go today… First because I need to get motivated and second, I’m down to $4.00 in my account! Being poor, I don’t mind so much, being poor and having a family and not being able to put food on the table …. well, that sucks! I don’t get paid to draw the cartoons, but I am making a few dollars on-line now… I have a business website that has paid sponsors. So, I do have some money coming in… The wife and I call it “pizza money” since it is not our main line of cash flow.
Anyway, I did get to work and it is physical work out in the hot Florida sun… I did even get one job to pay me instead of having to wait for a check so we will have milk on Tuesday when the check clears… It was not always like this, living hand to mouth, paycheck to paycheck. I never wanted to be rich, I just wanted to be able to give my kids what I did not have. But if you look at how we are living today, god it’s like how I lived in 1976. I grew up in the projects… but that is a whole other blog. No really it is..I started it the same time I started this blog but I have had to focus on one at a time. It’s called Bipolar Dad, and once I get a handle on this blog, I’ll go back to it. But talk about bipolar blogging, this one is cartoons and fun stuff, the other is about my child hood and some of the stuff I went through… I wrote as “G” rated as I could…
Well back to today and what a surprise coming home and seeing my blog was the Featured Blog at Today.com
I did not post a new cartoon today because of this. Since my weekly review posted and that is like having a week of posts all in one. So, it was the perfect post for page one.
One last note, I have had a few people contact me about using the cartoons in their blogs. I just first want to thank you! It feels great to know others appreciate the cartoons and feel they are worthy of being part of your blog. I know I have some strange rules for use so just let me clarify them.
YOU can use any cartoon you want on your blog for free as long as you link back to my blog from that cartoon and under the cartoon is in writing that I gave you permission to post the cartoon.
If you have a commercial website or blog then there is a fee.
As for cost to use the cartoons, once again they are free but some people have enjoyed them so much they have been giving me a little donation… BUT this is NOT a requirement to use the cartoons. The goal is to get them in as many hands as possible.
If you have any questions please, E-Mail me.
Chato
Chato, congrats. on getting back to paying work again! I don’t have a family to feed (well, take that back, I do have a darling cat), but I can relate to the “taking a month to get to the place where I can start on the things I was “supposed to have done last month…” and being thankful that while meds con’t completely prevent those depressive times, they can, as you say, “stop if from from going too far”… Sometimes the first step toward action is the hardest. Keep it up!
Thxs TG! I feel like i’m taking the rights steps in my recovery and I can’t tell you how much your comments and the many others the blog gets comforts me and give me the boost I need! so to you and every one else I say thank you!