When I was in high school, I lived close enough to it that I could walk home and eat during the lunch period. I have no idea how many times I made myself ramen noodles for lunch, and I STILL love ramen noodles today :D
Normally, I'd reply to everyone now, but today was pretty special to me, so I thought I should write down how I feel about it all. Blog it, if you will ;) Warning: it's kinda long.
So wow, number 1!! I seriously can't express how happy I am!! :D When I first started this comic, it was on a whim, there was no planning behind it whatsoever. All I knew is that I had wanted to do a journal comic for a very long time, and once we were ready to tell everyone that we were pregnant, I thought that this would be the perfect way for me to tell all my friends and family. I would then go about just keeping track of the whole pregnancy with my comic, and try to do it for as long as I can way after the baby was born. I was going to write/draw about my days, about both the highs and lows, and if I wanted to drop a curse or whatever, then hey I would, it's my comic. If something really bothered me, then you bet I'd make a comic about it and let the whole world know how bent out of shape I was over it.
But the more I kept making these comics, the more I wanted my kid to be able to read them when he's older. I didn't want him to see me throwing curse words in a comic. I decided I would try to keep it a bit more PG-13.
More time passed, and I also found that I really didn't want to make strips about me moping about or just having a bad attitude in general, especially when people were starting to tell me about how reading my comic would always cheer them up.
And you know what? I found that simply awesome. The feeling I got every time I read about how someone was cheered up by my comic after a horrible day, or just a rough patch in life, it made me feel good, really good in fact. That I was able to do that, just by making comics made me feel like I was doing something right.
I think I'm sort of lucky in that I have a great sense of humor, and I can find something to laugh about almost every single day, even the bad days. I have a very loving, supportive wife who has been nothing but awesome through this whole thing of making a comic, even when making them started to become a part of my every day routine. She also has a very oddball sense of humor like me, and we make each other laugh almost every day.
If I can share my happiness with everyone, if I can brighten up their day through a silly little joke or just a funny looking drawing, then that's all I really want out of this comic.
Tiffany (my wife, in case you guys didn't know. I really need to make an "about" page) and I were talking just the other day about how we really just want to show little Nathan how much we really do love each other, and how happy we really are. I think in a way, I was already trying to do that with my comic. We want Nathan to grow up in a very happy and loving household, and we're going to do the absolute best we can to do just that. So maybe that's the REAL reason I started this comic, I just didn't know it at the time. I wanted to share how happy I was, and how happy I still am, with everyone else.
Nathan is expected to be here around March 9th, and I'm going to do my best to keep doing this comic for as long as I can. I hope to keep track of him growing up, so I don't forget anything. And when he's old enough to look back on all my comics, he'll see how happy his parents are, and how much support his parents had received from everyone who read it.
So to my wonderful, amazing, beautiful wife, to my little baby boy inside her tummy, and to all my readers, thank you all so much. :) This comic has gone much farther than I ever thought it would, and I just can't even begin to say thank you enough. So thank you, thank you, thank you!!
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