Everything Everywhere All At Once

The day starts with good intentions as always. Get up, get ready, drink a tea have a coffee. Then the routine floats away and I’m back to drawing, writing, working and occasionally fretting about the madness in the world.

But this is all inspiration. I’ve given up trying to understand it. Bad people seem to always rise to power like stubborn weeds and the good people realising this, eventually mow the hypothetical lawn to remove them. It’s how I feel about Trump and the latest chaos that did not need to happen.

So here I am, caught between the escalating madness and clinging to small joys with my grasping fingernails. I’m creating on YouTube whilst writing as yet unpublished stories and waiting to start my Graphic Design Degree in May. Life will keep moving forward and I’m certain good will, eventually, sort everything out. Once everyone who brought this lunatic to power realise the emperor has no clothes. The history books show that, it may take a while. But eventually it happens. The tyrants fall and normality returns. With all the history on this subject I think it should be considered pointless by now to be a bad guy 😂

Anyway, my internal and global anxieties aside, I am, as the title suggests, doing everything everywhere all at once (I wasn’t actually a fan of the film btw, sorry 😔) I’m controlling the things I can and trying to ignore the things I can’t. Simple. But kinda good for my mental health haha.

So here I am, I have a sizeable collection of unpublished short stories and poems I need to compile and turn into a self published book. I have at the time of writing this, 200 subscribers on YouTube I enjoy creating art for, a part time graphic design business, a new degree course, job hunting for more money and a normal routine. All while maintaining a happy relationship with my beautiful wife and kids. It’s actually working. Usually I would be freaking out. But strangely not yet. I seem to have an ambitious drive with a desire to avoid people whilst also enjoying talking to people when I do eventually meet them. I’m guessing this is all to do with my, at the time of writing, undiagnosed ADHD. I just love everything creative, but also love working in isolation for hours and hours while mushrooms consider growing on my back while I’m hunched over drawing.

I wonder how many other people are happy with being occupied all the time.

At bedtime the I shut down whilst watching Demon Slayer

on Netflix at around 11pm. Then I wake up at 2am and do Wordle and Sudoku. If that fails to send me to sleep I’ll head into the office and draw or edit a video until 4 or 5am, then go back to bed. It feels mad, but actually it helps me get everything done.

Currently I’m editing a video of a character called Glen who’s an anthropomorphised Frog 🐸 in a game called Chrono Trigger. I’ve never played it but enjoyed drawing it, then photoshopping it. At the same time I have crafted this picture…

I have know idea who she is, but feel she’s in a phone booth and has just taken out a demon that I may slump against said phone booth.

I hope this was insightful. But I need to get back to editing this Frog 🐸 video and finish this picture.

Take care everyone and enjoy your weekend 🤗