Just Doodlin’

My Prickly Valentine

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Whether you love Valentine’s Day or not… it is upon us. And even though I don’t have a Valentine this year that isn’t a cat… I can say, I kinda like it…

Not for the mega expensive red roses, or huge boxes of candy at the CVS. Seriously, there was a $40 box of candy there this week when I went to go get some mascara. Who would buy that!?!

Mostly I like Valentine’s Day because, I totally like people being nice and giving me candy until I get a stomach ache! Already took my visit to Candyland today, and ate my arms weight in chocolate. And now I have the stomach ache of a small child who should have ate her lunch and not candy.

For all of you out there who love today or not, I give you this little greeting from my favorite provocative plant:

♥Lauren

The Lauren Way

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So I’m all stuck at work today. And outside couldn’t be more beautiful. I know this is true, because I saw it at lunchtime while eating pudding in my coworkers car. That isn’t a weird thing…

So how can you deal with this cruel peek at the beautiful world a then return to your bleak little cubicle? You can handle it the Lauren Way! I just sit in my cubicle and make things cuter than they actually appear!

For example: Your plain old boring stapler? Try to make it yellow and then coordinate everything you can to it!

This is my stapler… my nails match it now, and so does my post-its. Someday it will look like the sun is coming from my cubicle, true story!

 

And doodles… well, just make sure they make something cuter than it actually needs to be:

This is how I get through tough times… I draw regular items as even cuter then they actually appear.

Oh, and Indulge in your silliness. You may not think it’s the best thing, career wise…and it may not get you as far as someone with a total stick up their butt and a jacket with straight up lapels… BUT, you won’t get bogged down in the junkiness of a regular work day, either. And sometimes the carpet sample guy will bring you a big throw rug just because you make work fun (that is a true story!)

Can you expect anyone else to be giggly and happy for you?

And soon enough it will be 5pm and you can go home and dance until you pass out. Oh darn, I think I just gave away my plans. Also I should study and draw more cute things. #ALLMYDREAMSAREWEIRD

♥Lauren

It’s just one of those weeks… don’t take it personal…

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I have been especially fertile with drawings and ideas as of late, and all of them are sassy.

This one is a shout out to the person who I would most likely wish to fall into a planter instead of talking to…  which would be a stunning award to receive  actually. But somehow, there are never planters when he’s around… never even a potted plant. Anyways with him in mind I make this simple wish:

Like so alone ..t hat I could brag about it.

Like so alone, that I forget the annoying voice you have, and maybe even your annoying face. Like so so alone, that I could brag to Superman about my straight up dandy solitude.

Someday this wish will come true.

♥Lauren

The Planter

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Do you know people who you would rather avoid at all costs? I certainly do, and some of them I have to see far too often.

There are so many ways to try to avoid people, but since I’m pretty ungraceful there are very few that are actually successful. Walking backwards out of the room, answering pieces of wood you pretend are a phone, and being really interested in glue sticks are some of my cool moves… which you can totally borrow if you think it will work for you.

I have adopted one from my good friend Christine lately, and it seems really fool-proof:

planter of solace

Sadly, if you think you are one of these people I would want to super avoid… you are probably right. And also probably not reading this…

♥Lauren

Monday Hair

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Does anybody else ever have this problem?

Sometimes I look like a brunette David Lee Roth or even dare I say 80’s Whitney Houston

I’m going to continue Livin’ on a prayer in my cubicle while counting down the hours to 5.

♥Lauren

Starburst Fort

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Okay so I’m going to keep this post very brief because this is a dangerous subject. The subject is negativity. And I don’t want to think/type about it longer than I have to. Because it will cause sad rain clouds to form over me, and I will be washed away into the sea of sadness.

But personally, I really do have a negative cloud in my life. I try to ignore it, and hide it and push it away… And since it is a person that I have contact with quite often… it’s hard to make sure that their negativity keeps out of my silver lining.

Actually, I even got a stapler the color of sunshine to combat the grey cloud of murky that this person is to me.

Where I can do nothing about this problem in real life.. except for becoming a nomadic outcast like the Incredible Hulk… at least doodle Lauren can do something about it:

It’s the most delicious fort material I could find

Keep all the murky dismal away from you this week with starbursts! I hear that it totally works

♥Lauren

Pardon my French Toast

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I’m in my cubicle right now. I am missing the days when I had time to type really dumb things on the internet and make a doodle to go with them. I have been so busy with no signs of a respite on my work horizons, that I may never get that kind of time again.

I’m still drawing, but I have barely been logging anything. I have a sick cat, and I’m a little tired of my work load. But today I realized, I might as well enjoy my day and week because… everyone is getting along at work. And everyone seems to be a little more kind this week than usual (we are currently missing our office grump). We even looked at Ryan Gosling memes this morning. And also on silver lining mode, I have stuff printed to study for my eternally ongoing ARE’s and seriously, I got to eat the world’s most delicious fishy burrito today.

Basically, I could high five a million Angels right now.

This doodle has nothing to do with anything except for sheer toast enthusiasm:

Toast it real good!

Put some strawberry jellies on that thing first.

♥Lauren

P to the S: Sorry for cursing in the doodles Mom.

Monday’s Scoop

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I haven’t had much time lately to write. Actually that is a lie, I have had a lot of time I could have chosen to write, But I just haven’t done it. And well it’s been noted that somebody has also been skipping dedicated doodle time that she made up on Sunday’s between 3-4. That somebody is me… I’m a dirty doodle dodger.

But I also find that I don’t have a lot to draw lately. I’ve been realizing that I doodle more when my brain is overwhelmed or underwhelmed. And right now, I’m whelmed. And my mind seems to be stuck, sometimes on incredible joy and sometimes on not much of anything. And the only thing I can think of right now is a delicious ice cream.

So, enjoy this:

Don’t you want to ice cream? I do and I want mine to be mint chocolate chip, thank you!

I really want an ice cream… The weather is fine and I’m hungry!

And tomorrow I may share with you the joys of owning a yellow stapler! And how I plan on it changing my work life, regular life, and everyone else I know existences!

♥Lauren