Saturday Night Smile

Comicopia 97 is finally over and done with. Issues mailed, accounts updated, members advised. I have a few drop-offs to make next week but that’s nothing difficult 🙂 Now, before I go take some time and actually READ the issue (or, really, right now, just skim through quickly), I wanted to share something 🙂

This here is a great (bombastic!) drawing Jay Willson did of “me” 🙂 It was his way of showing his thanks and appreciation for all the hard work I do and have been doing these last 16 years 🙂 It’s the pinup of the House Organ this issue, but I couldn’t wait any longer to show it off 🙂

Mike Aragona - Distribution Manager

Thanks again, Jay! 🙂

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Comicopia Issue 97

Another deadline has come and gone, and I’m working (and have been working) on packaging it all together for mailing off this weekend and distribution next week. Definitely has been one of the better/ less difficult issues to put together for which I was quite greatful for! 🙂

Here’s a sneak peak at the cover by Chuck Rhodes:

Comicopia 97

We lose an old member, we gain an old member, and the balance remains… 🙂

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Dr. Zap

Just got back from visiting my doctor’s today. After fighting off migraines for about 2 days every week for the last 3 weeks, I figured it was time. Especially after Monday’s migraine which was the first time I had one last from 6am one day through to a second day.

He prescribed some medication that I’m really not too keen on… Every night for the next month, I’m supposed to take 10mg of a medication that was at one time used for those suffering from depression. This will knock me out and allow me to sleep and hopefully keep the headaches away.

I’m sorry, but 1-I hate medication that needs to be taken over a long period of time. Heck, whenever I’m unlucky enough to fall on antibiotics, I’m usually suffering from depression by day 4 of the prescribed 10! I don’t like altering my body like that. 2-Depression medication to cure migraines? Sounds too bizarre. 3-Uhm. I have a small child at home, not to mention an older child who suffers from asthma. I really want to be out cold over night and not hear them should they be in distress? I need to be able to function – even in small painful steps.

I do believe that a lot of my pain is from other factors (such as insomnia and stress (work and life)). I did come across a small “migraine calendar” that details more information about an attack than I used to keep, and I think it’ll help me at least better understand the causes.

At any rate, he did send me to radiology for some Xrays of my skull and my sinuses. I know this might sound bizarre, but it was the FIRST time I ever actually FELT something while undergoing an xray. I don’t know, maybe it’s because it was my head (and I felt my brain tingling) or maybe it was just the idea of it all, but I know I did feel something. Insane. Bizarre. and Maddening.

We’ll see what happens…

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Insomnia Sucks. I’ve been awake since 2:30am after maybe falling asleep at midnight.
At least it’s better than Thursday night when I lay in bed the entire night and fell asleep at 6am…

being sick sucks, too.

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BABY!

Okay, this is a private post. It will be made public in a few months but right now I wanted to capture something on the day it happened. Namely, Friday October 20, 2006.

Chantale came to pick me up from work. She was home that day with her contract at Pratt & Whitney Canada supposedly on hold as of the day before (Thursday) and with Kyle’s Guardian (Miriam) needing the friday off for family matters.

Anyhow, it was a really rainy day with the rain getting so thick that by the time she picked me up, it had turned into slush/snow! Kyle was sleeping in his car seat and as we made our way down Stanley to Maisonneuve, down de la Montagne to St. Antoine and finally onto the 720 west, we talked about the day and how Kyle had been, etc. I was in the passenger seat and had taken the mail out of the side of the door to put in the back. I had noticed a small box there but thought it was a box of Reactine as I knew Chantale had run out and needed to get some. After a bit, she asked casually if I had seen the box. I look again and see that it’s not Reactine but a Pregnancy Test! I open it and grab the stick, see the double lines and then look to the box to check the legend… PREGNANT! 🙂 Wow!

We laughed, we cried, we squeezed hands and babbled about everything! The traffic was really rotten and when Chantale finally realized she could get off the 720 to switch to the 20 via St. Jacques, she made her way there. St. Jacques, of course, was also quite packed and it took us forever just to drive a couple of blocks. I realized where we were and asked if she wanted to go to Picasso’s!

Sure enough, Kyle had his first Smoked Meat and French Fries supper at a Picasso’s GT that night! The three (point five) of us had a great time and Chantale and I were able to fully relax and talk more about what having another baby would be like! 🙂

And that was how we found out another little baby would grace our lives in a few short months! 🙂 I was (and still am!) SO happy! I love my family SO much and it just feels SO great to expand it like this! 🙂 A wonderful, wonderful, bit of news! 🙂 That night, I hardly slept! I basically spent the night in bed just thinking about everything and was so pumped up on adrenaline that I had no problems getting through the Saturday, either! 🙂

Another amazing adventure begins!! 🙂

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James Update

Finally a bit more action on this side. After getting nowhere in terms of results or news on his health last week, I told his mother to get him to the emergency room. She decided to do that on Saturday afternoon (my weekend) and asked me to take him. Sorry, couldn’t. That’s not how things are planned. So, Melyssa stayed with us this weekend and James went to the hospital for the typical extra-long stay. 7 hours, more blood tests and xrays later, he’s given an appointment for this morning at 8:30am and told to keep all weight off his leg as it could “break at any moment”. Hmm. So, he gets crutches for the weekend.

This morning at around 11:30am, he called me to let me know that he had an MRI done and they confirmed that he has a Benign Tumor growing, forcing against his bone. Thus, they have to call another hospital to schedule a day surgery which includes putting him under for the removal of the tumor. They couldn’t explain the procedure but it has something to do with freezing it and scraping it off. In the meantime, he can keep taking Aspirin for the pain. I just hope – after 3 months already – that it won’t take much longer to schedule the surgery…

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Needed a Giggle

Laughter might not cure all ills, but it definitely does help lighten the spirit. This joke/ image was too funny not to share 🙂

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one of those…

yes.

today is one of those days.

ishouldastayedinbed.

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