Yeah .. both my daughters are mermaid princesses on any given day
That’s all.
Category: Drawings
Drawings from 2015 onward.
Mr Superlove
I haven’t slept well this week. Which is kicking me a few places. I haven’t ran in a week now which hampers my goal of trying to hit 1,000 miles this year. It’s not out of reach, but is getting there.
And I haven’t been productive in my actual free time (not actually free time… Sitting at the Nature Center while Edith is at preschool – it’s a whole thing but safe to say I have 3 hours where I am on call and can’t leave the area).
I had used the time a week ago to research some things for the Board of Directors I’m on, to read and in general try to plan out the next year or two of my life so I’m ready when Edith goes to kindergarten to re-enter the workforce.
But this week I’ve been zombie-ish, tired and zoning. So I’ve been listening to music and drawing some. Which I haven’t drawn in a while so that feels nice, and I generally listen to a lot of podcasts and classical, instead of ‘music music’s which what inspired me to doodle/draw.
Anyways.
Today I’ve been listening to the Ass Ponies. Clearly I’m a fan of Chuck Cleaver (and Wussy). Specifically I’m listening to Mr.Superlove on repeat. Not the cheeriest of songs but man do I like it.
So that is that, and here’s today doodle:
Sure as the Sun
Wussy has been slowly releasing songs ahead of the release of their first new album in 6 years.
Sure as the Sun has caught my ear. I’ve listened to it more than a few times since discovering it yesterday.
On my downtime today…. I drew a few sketches for it. Nothing big or time consuming, I’m just tired and lack energy for much else so a few sketches eat up the time.
Echo
While at my parents in May, Marceline got a bump on her head from running into a door. I used it as an opportunity to tell her about the myth of Athena jumping full grown from Zeus’s head.
She loves it and her nighttime stories since that night are different Greek myths. One that really caught her imagination was ‘Echo and Narcissus.”
In the version of the story we read Echo is always running fast away from you while repeating your last words back to you.
Marceline now will swing back and forth on her swing with head back screening “Echooooo” into the air. It’s been two weeks of her doing this and it’s just as adorable now as it was the first day she did it.
Only minimal cursing…
Sam has wanted an outdoor storage shed for our tools and gardening supplies. Just to move it out of it garage and free up some space.
We do have a larger shed in the backyard, way on the edge of our property. We aren’t using that very well, the stuff in it is basically storage, some bikes we haven’t used in a while, gardening supplies that we don’t have a place for (think larger hanging pots and larger gardening supplies), and some fun stuff (frisbee golf basket, outdoor toys).
Basically it’s full of stuff we would like to use more but haven’t figured out the time or storage.
But we needed a place for shovels, rakes, hoes, buckets, and more that just leaned up into a corner in our garage. So why not buy a $300 storage shed to put along our house?
Shockingly, with some help and supervision from Sam we got it together in well under an hour. The only stupid part was securing the roof to the structure. It was 8 screws but it pinched my fingers every time because the screws were recessed under the roof and back wall.
But… It’s now successfully up and ready for use.
Toothbrush Tale
I’ve spent the last two weeks visiting my parents. Not quite the visit we expected. Three days into the trip we were all sick with COVID. Girls got over it pretty well, but it lingered in the adults for a week or so.
However, that second day we ran into a little toothbrush incident.
Sam and I went to Target to get a few things we needed / forgot. We brought a reusable bag that we had used to pack clothes on the way there. So, we kneeled down looking at some clothes for Marceline, and when we picked the bag back up off the ground, we saw Marceline’s toothbrush on the ground.
We knew it was hers because Marceline’s toothbrush is a red toothbrush, that lights up, and has a 1-minute timer.
We picked it up from the ground, brought it home, rinsed it off under some hot hot water and blammo, Marceline was brushing her teeth that night.
Except, a day later we found a red toothbrush, that lights up, and has a 1-minute timer among our bags waiting to be unpacked.
Soooooo…. we just had our daughter brush her teeth with a random toothbrush.
But in our defense, what was the odds that the exact toothbrush that Marceline had would be on the floor of a Target, right where we had dropped our bag on the ground to do some shopping?
Anyways, we had her brush her teeth with a backup toothbrush we had brought for the rest of the trip.