Will I win the race and get my peonies split and bulbs in the ground before the first frost? Odds are not looking great 😬

my husband, getting called into a work meeting at 6:30am bc of aws outage: 😑 me, snuggled up in giant fluffy blankets in the next room, peacefully: 😇

The part of adult life I really struggle with is that it is impossible to be “done”. There will always be something more to do, and the trick is to find the balance between the “want tos” and “need tos” your brain throws at you

Why is October always the busiest month, when all I wanna do is vegetate and soak up fall vibes?

Printers really are mysterious creatures. I've had the same one since 2008, purchased at half price from one of those internet sales sites with a weird name like flarp or whatever. it generally works.

It's a Canadian Thanksgiving Miracle! a NEW PAGE of The Black Orb has finally arrived! busysquirrelpress.com/blackorb/

"forgive me father for i have sinned, it has been two months since my last webcomic update" Priest: "uh...do a hail mary and finish that shit i guess"

Okay, but has anyone tried Naptober? I feel like I could really succeed at that one.

it's so cold and crispy today like real fall

Welcome to “Try-to-finish-my-webcomic-tober”! 

Really can’t stress enough the importance of journaling your feelings of incandescent rage

This morning’s record selection for painting

Friendly reminder to regularly empty and sanitize your countertop compost bin 😬😬😬

When you have an idea for a comic and you’re not sure if it’s any good 🤔

Saw a praying mantis yesterday

I still yearn for making comics but alas reality prevents it

Social anxiety, am I right?

The ordeal of being known but it’s okay bc it’s a dog doing the knowing

i want to do something

dogs, in general, are pretty great, if I do say so myself.

the horror as you realize you didnt get the whole plastic sheet off the fruit roll up

My spouse wanting to explore culinary wonders while I’m like over here perfectly content in my cave with the palate of a toddler

September is for walkies (spoiler, every month except February and July is for walkies)

this painting has been on my easel forever and i give up trying to make it look nice and now i'm just slapping paint on it for fun

time to go play geoguessr until i feel like sleeping

Me at 12

What is my dog’s problem right now? Wrong answers only.

trying so hard to finish this chapter, then one more....

I hate it but I respect and will fight for your right to create and display it. (Sexy watto)

I'm doing a huge scanning project and i just realized i have to redo the 2 hours of work i've done over the last two days because there was a thingy on the scanner 🥲

The Cracker Barrel logo thing is exactly like the Gap logo thing that happened a few (?) years ago. Someone in Marketing said "Clearly our logo is the problem keeping us from making more moneys, let's freshen it up", made a change, and everyone said "no we hate this"

Telling myself the lie I always tell myself on a New School Year’s Eve: “this year’s gonna be different”

*MILLIONS* of peaches

I had a dream I became a crime scene diagram maker? And it was my life’s calling ig

Sure is Saturday, wish I was at the fantasy farmers market with my dog instead of whatever reality this is

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i made lemon bars and they are delicious but i cannot fully enjoy them because they give me terrible heartburn 😭

“Busy, why isn’t there a new comic page yet?” “Because I am having my monthly existential crisis about how nothing really matters. And also I didn’t finish it.”

It is decidedly orange outside today.

My husband packing for vacation: “how many chargers and pairs of socks should I bring? Toothpaste?” Me packing for vacation: “oil paints? Watercolor? Maybe gouache? Two sketchbooks or just one?” We are not the same.

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“Calzone, take me away”

Me: “why am I so tired?” Also me: has slept like 5 hours a night max for the last two weeks

Someone yell at me to get off the couch and go pencil comics 😬

things could be worse, for me, personally, I say, as I gaze with a thousand yard stare, thinking of times it was actually quiet in my house

Man, I’m like, really tired.

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sound effects, what's up with that?

ok i am fully sick of summer can i get some fall over here?