Today my dear friend Veronica told me that it’s “Mitten Tree Day”
A day when people put mitten on trees.
Now initially I thought it was to prevent trees from getting frostbite or just to feel empathy for the trees that have to stay outside while we are in our comfy homes.
It is actually a day started when a lady noticed some kids didn’t have mittens in really snowy cold weather so she made them and clipped them on the tree so they could take a pair if they needed it. Which is really beautiful, and is something that should be shared. We should all try to something sweet for people in need, with or without the glory. If you think about it we have so much to share with people! Even if you think it’s not much, it could mean something special to someone else!
What I will do at least for right now is make a doodle and hope that it gives someone a little smile on their face:
I am not always permitted to put doodles of my coworkers online… except for the incredibly tall and full of life Amber…
But this one seems especially pertinent to post.
This is an introduction to “Thon”
If I had to write a biography on him these are precisely the things I would say:
-He is a brave and creative curator of this years Isabel stare-a-thon.
-He handles the large colony of spiders that live at my desk, and sometimes takes them outside so they can live in a place where I don’t have to experience them landing on my bare knees.
-He keeps an incredible amount of paper tubes at his desk. I think he’s going to make a raft out of them, so he can live the dream of forging a river Oregon Trail style (and by that I mean super unsuccessfully.)
-He has and uses a magic 8 ball for all of life’s important questions, or at least what he should eat for lunch. (which is an important question)
-And he is the riskiest person on your team at trivia Tuesdays… he will always go for double or nothing, even though the result is almost always the nothing.
-and one other thing that is much easier illustrated:
It’s true it’s all flippy and the sort.
And like most other dudes with Jim Halpert hair he has no quarrels about this…
When contacted Jim Halpert only had this reaction to his folicle buddy:
Image courtesy of “Jim Halpert faces” Tumblr
And seriously, they both make that face…
I think this is the best and briefest introduction I have ever accomplished.
(Authors Note: Amber just told me his hair is now longer than the standard Jim… but the doodle still stands.)
On today’s edition of the celestial Isabel stare-a-thon it seems that now Isabel has traveled further than the solar system and is now even out of this galaxy
She’s practically interplanet Janet from school house rock:
And you would think that would mean I’m literally melting off the pounds…
Well no, not exactly. I feel hungrier than a linebacker on their way to the Super Bowl as a side effect.
But that is not what I want to focus on here. This is where I admit I had a soda and a hostess cupcake for lunch, but seriously all the sugar that’s been around me I feel like it is literally in the air whispering my name… and who am I to deny how much sugar wants to be eaten?
I will certainly not be the girl who denies sugar.
Oh wait- – –
I was talking about my attempts of being more active.
I, as you all know, am not athletic.
Like basically any sport you can think of that has coordination as a part of it… is something I simply will not be good at. Just ask all the guys who have tried to teach me to golf, or play basketball. At least they have fun admitting I will never learn, but am a tenacious trier.
One thing I have discovered that I’m not so bad at is… dance. On my quest of exercise I’ve been spending a lot of my non-studying time in the world of belly-dance. It’s an amazing art form. So much hip shaking and sparkles. And when I’m not reading about sustainable this and that’s for the test I have in a month… I’ve been dancing. (This is actually why I’ve had very little doodles to share, sorry about that Internet.)
On Friday there was a performance with some of the girls I dance with. It was so fun and sparkly and beautiful. It was my first belly-dancing event and I even left the show so swathed in the scent of incense that I thought the Pope was going to bless people with me.
I was inspired to actually doodle some business, and rather than focusing on how I smelled like a Palm Sunday mass… I thought of a simple fun doodle:
I wish I was dancing right now!
I wish I was dancing right now and not sitting at work…
It’s that time of year when I have very little desire to be here in general. I think it’s because I know that none of these people like each other*… and that I still have 48 hours of vacation that I haven’t taken this year!
I’m going to remedy that next week by running away.
And on vacation I’m going to dance, doodle and very much not work.
Happy Monday!
♥LAUREN
*I’m still trying to figure out if this is an exaggeration… But at the very least there are office mean girls (and they are not girls)
Happy Friday to tall those crazy starers out there!
On this Edition of the Isabel Stare-a-thon we see that a heavenly apparition has appeared in a really non human occupied area in somewhere in Africa…
Thank goodness Gazelle’s are very technology savvy and always have their smartphones at the ready:
I know its not exactly mid-week… but bear with me… I finally fit some internetting into my schedule that isn’t about the glorious world of sustainable design and bidding documents…
And then it happened. I was like totally clicking and clacking all over the internet and I found myself totally distracted by sprinkles.
And that’s what brings me to this (kind of) midweek confession:
sprinkity sprinkles
It was like 20 minutes before I realized I need to get back to work….
Also reading this somewhere in the wild north my brother is not surprised that I said any of this.
Viciously Sweet 