It’s getting hot in here.

Sometime during lunch… the Office Air conditioning system passed away, leaving 3 hot and mildly uncomfortable office workers.
Office Air conditioner Summer 2010- Winter 2011.
You were going to get a nice touching eulogy because I was feeling really sweet. Then I remembered you do this to us all the time. And you are thusly unforgiven.
So now I am moving at a tepid tamale’s pace, and it blows.

♫Lauren

Taco Lake

In school I was always trying to link my favorite things like Modernism and Gothicism, and tacos.

I came up with many ( mostly failed) ideas to link them into a beautiful hybrid… including a fake Architecture Firm called “Fiberglass Taco”…

Well today no one has shot down my next foray into a taco hybrid world… A taco ballet:

I call it “Taco Lake”

Here is a more than helpful advertising poster:

It's also 250% more delicious and spicy than "Swan Lake"

And here I is a great rendering of me dancing “the Dance of the blithe salsa”:

My imagination is limitless… because much like swan lake I plan on pulling all the stops including a children’s dance where they are little taquitos.

♫Lauren

Shrimp

Today’s doodle/story needs only but a brief description.

I was thinking about what it would be like to be dressed like a crustacean. Not for Halloween, or for anything fancy… just an average day dressed like an aquatic friend. So I drew this:

And then I realized its also funny because I am short as heck. Bask with me in my shortness.

The end.

♫Lauren

Dress Me Up in Pictures

Jimmy has already made me go see halloween decorations.

And since it is still August, and this is completely logical. I begin this Halloween season with things that Jimmy should dress as:

1. A goat herder

2. A goat

image from: charlievegas.co.uk

3. Allspice

4.  Waldo… of “where is waldo”fame

omg... I think that could really be him...

5. Alex Trebek

Host of Jeopardy!

6. A mountie of protecting Canada fame

Canadian both Day and Night

7. Regis Philbin

Geriatric Magic!

8. Toast

9. Bert from Mary Poppins

Poppin fresh!

10.  Or my personal fav. Kenneth the NBC page.

Did you notice this wasn’t really helpful at all?

Yep. My job is complete.

♫Lauren

Decorating with Elliott

Today’s storytime adventure involves another true story.

This story takes place in a little beige house with white trim. In this house resides a family, a family with 3 lovely pets.

As you can tell this is probably my house, and those are probably my pets that I am talking about.

Specifically, tt’s about Elliott, the cat.

To my cat there is nothing more relaxing than recreational decorating. He enjoys stealing weird bits of string, paper, paperclips, twisty ties, and unused popsicle sticks (from a failed art project) to scatter all about his kitty tube.

When you clean up the area he goes back out to the world to recollect these bits, or similar friends of theirs. I think he is inspired to do this because he knows that I work with architecture.

I think if he had an architectural style it would be deconstructionist.

♫Lauren

The Little Mer-Cat

Sometimes I find my cat staring out the window in a manner reminiscent to that of a young Ariel wishing she were part of the human world.

Also, I have a way over active imagination.

That is how I came up with this conclusion:

 

♫Lauren