Tomorrow is my birthday and I did not make the deadline in my Blergsday miracle.
I have to show up and work… like a grown up. Instead of staying home and chillaxing in my jammy jams until I hit the town with Christine.
It is okay. I have been promised cake, and everyone likes promises that are made with frosting.
So it’s all really good news if you think about it!
♥Lauren
So I’m not the biggest drinker. But I am a fan of happy hour. And not just because that is when drinks are most affordable, but because of the name. Happy Hour. I think more hours should be dedicated to happy, and not just because I like to have a drink or two… but because we need an hour where the world is not driving us mad and an hour to pretend like we have never heard of cell phones or the internet. You know, time to just be.
Also if I had a happy hour it would have alcohol and desserts. Because I don’t know if there are two things that could make people happier.
True story: I’m not the biggest drinker. And I never quite know what to drink… and well I know alcohol is not the tastiest thing… so I’m not that picky. And a lot of the time when I order drinks I sound like this:
I’m going to get my happy hour on now.
♥Lauren
I have very odd selected daily goals, and the weirder they are the joy of completing them is greater.
At work I have many professional goals… you know deadlines and the sort… but I always keep some spare time for a little giggly goal.
And this goal is not really a secret:
Today I read her a exterior canvas catalog in a spicy Marilyn Monroe kind of accent. We both laughed so hard we had to stop… and somehow I ended up shoe-less.
Talk about that you talk-talkers.
♥Lauren
You know this time of the year is a magical time. The leaves turn, the nights get longer, people are a little nicer (to your face)… and the Lauren is always stuck in the office missing these previously mentioned things.
I have been so busy these last few weeks that I actually have dreaded taking the days off I had previously planned. This Friday I plan on not going to work and I plan to celebrate my birthday, so I need to figure out how to make a whole new day somewhere in between that can be filled with work. I think if anyone can do it… it could be me. I would like to call it Blergsday. I am in need of a Blergsday miracle.
I have work up to my eyeballs, no one wants to Wang Chung with me, and some people at my work are even gossiping about me (for real). This basically means, I’m too awesome for them to handle. And their lives are really really boring. Trying to deal with all of this while simultaneously trying to figure out if I found the lid to my pot.. is really stressful!
Any who I also have to admit that I actually had to do something even more terrifying to make sure I don’t neglect my blog, my birthday, my doodle time, the holiday I created about my friend Isabel, and my other responsibilities. I made a calendar with a drawing matrix and scheduled events. I this I just made making doodles a professional commitment… how is this happening to me? How is it you can get so busy you have to schedule in fun? Is this real life?
♥Lauren
Also shout out to my brother and sister-in-law. I haven’t heard from either of you for what feels like forever. I hope your vacation was awesome. And I ♥ you all.
So many people who know me know I like funny things… and that includes funny people.
My love of 2012, Amy Poehler has inspired me in so many ways this year, and although she herself has had a trying year. She just keeps making things better for everyone.
She has these really great videos for girls, and she sincerely gives stellar advice. But good advice is really just good advice, so have a watch right here:
In this video, after I dried my tears on the closest carpet samples. I realized Amy shared a really beautiful saying in the video.
“Every Pot has a lid.”
every. single. pot.
Now I know this saying is probably old fashioned and directed from grandmothers to girls they deemed spinsters at 21. But as a girl who usually feels like a unicorn trying to board Noah’s Ark, I totally get it. And someday when looking through the mounds of mismatched lids, I will find one that works. I think everybody will. So needless to say, I found this saying really wonderful. It’s sweet and I think it makes a really cute doodle:
And remember one more thing that I have learned from Amy that is so, so important:
“No one looks stupid when they’re having fun.”
– Amy “the love of my 2012” Poehler
Go out in the world and be wonderful.
♥Lauren
I have been having a bad time at work. Because I haven’t been being myself or being honest. I have not been giggles and Wang Chung. I was being the person I thought everyone would rather me be, and I was making myself miserable.
Yesterday, I found out that even though you make situations really bad, it can all be fixed. And sometimes that person you think hates everything about you, doesn’t really… just some where your words and actions got lost in translation and made things worse than they ever had to be. And sometimes you can’t choose how important certain people are to you, and although it can really suck. It can also be really awesome sometimes…
Anyways, last week and yesterday until lunch I really just wanted to be alone… Because 6 personalities in 1,000 S.F. (that is including a bathroom and storage) is very hard to deal with. Especially when you are fighting with 1/5 of the people you work with.
I contemplated working in a more secluded spot… so logically I thought working in the Fortress of Solitude could really work out for me:
But alas… we couldn’t figure out how to link up the phone with all those large ice crystals. And, I don’t think I would have survived very well in solitary confinement. and none of my coworkers agreed with this doodle.
Here are the reactions of my coworkers:
Dab: “That’s such a freaking lie! I just don’t see that working out for you”
Professional: “I think it wouldn’t be solitary for very long. Actually you are the only person who could probably unsolitude the fortress of solitude”
Amber just knowingly giggled.
I guess I should probably invest in a batcave… especially if I can be there with Joseph Gordon Levitt.
Today was a good day. I hope you had a good one too.
♥Lauren
Today is Monday and since I live in California there is nothing special happening except I’m working on my new website/store/superpavillion for the most awesome things on the whole internet!
I wonder if I was in England or Australia if today would be more exciting? True story, my mind is effectively not in my office or even in my country at all, but approximately 5600 miles and 7400 miles respectively. And my head is boggled by a holiday supposedly celebrated in these countries, Guy Fawkes Day/Cracker Night.
If anyone can answer any of the following questions I would be eternally grateful.
Do you really celebrate it?
Do you really call it Cracker night?
Do you wear fancy clothes or V for Vendetta masks around town?
Do you eat crackers (the baked good) while watching firecrackers?
Do you really burn things in effigy?
I know I could google my answers… But I’m kind of against google searching right now, as I think it is too easy of an out to not think things through or really investigate an answer. I’m far too guilty of googling things I want to know but don’t want to think about, and I’m putting a stop to it. So if you are out there and can help my brain thoughts… please give me a shout out. I’m just an girl in the world… who really wants to know the truth about Guy Fawkes day.
♥LAUREN
Oh my goodness. An honest to goodness Saturday post!
This hardly ever happens. Really think about it, on Saturday’s when I am not renting my time to a computer… I am out in the world giggling, running, and spending my paychecks on books and clothes.
But today I’m excited to say is a special day and I thought I would share…
IT”S SANDWICH DAY!
Yes a day designed to celebrate or love of bread and meat and fixing’s all together in one beautiful entrée. So today go out and sandwich it up:
I’m going to make mine chicken…
♥Lauren
I have been very scattered lately. I have all these ideas floating around on loose leaf paper, and post-it notes. I have accumulated so many of these scraps my desk at work and at home is beginning to look like I’m starring in a remake of “Memento.”
I actually even have physical post-it notes on my phone. and they are written on front and back. I am aware of them every time I pull my phone out… because as many people have told me they make apps that negate my use of actual post-its. But lets just be honest, if I have to click around on a screen to find this graphic post it note… I’m not going to remember it if I’m in a rush. And true story I have digital post-its on that program from May, and those things are still incomplete.
You may be saying to yourself right now… why are you having a traffic jam of thoughts in your imagination? And I will tell you, I have let myself get busy. I tell myself that if I get it half done I can finish it later. And later just isn’t showing up. I’m so stressed at work my hair is graying, and I find myself nearly passing out from exhaustion at 7:30. Yes 7:30, I can barely make it past the time the elderly are watching Wheel of Fortune. Also trying to figure out the business end of all the projects I’m trying to start right now is also killing my brain. I realize the reason I didn’t go into business is because I frankly find it confusing. Numbers and marketing? No thanks, I just want to bust out some of my thoughts with the free crayons I got at lunch.
The only thing that has been calming me the last few art-less days is listening to music. However now my imagination is mixing with the sweet sweet melodies and the next thing I know I am preoccupied with my ideas again, and then out comes another sheet of paper, another post-it. And the vicious cycle continues. You can’t comprehend how much I don’t want to be looking at these ceiling plans and renderings. They are trying to consume me with their evil stringent rules and budgets.
Anytime my coworkers have talked to me in the last few days they first have to break me from the spell of Joy Division, New Order or Of Monsters and Men to get in a word to my brain… and even then it’s questionable if I can soak in what they are telling me. My brain is lost in the music:
Tonight I vow that I will make time for my artistic needs. Hopefully this will clear up my brain so I can get more done for the big Friday rush. And seriously… does anyone have a post it? I have this great idea about a…
♥ Lauren
Viciously Sweet 
