Fence Climbing...

You bring up my childhood, or any subject relative within five degrees and my dad will trot out his collection of horror stories. I was apparently a hellion and the cause of the premature aging of at least five relatives. When I comment on my own children's falls, bruises or random acts of chaos, he rolls his eyes and says something about karma. I asked him recently what he'd done to karmicly deserve to raise a wild child like me and the subject got changed suddenly.

Intercultural Miscommunication

Celao Napoleon

News Report: Boxes

Moth

Carl J. Judson Sr. and Eleanor Meredith's wedding anniversary

My paternal grandparents were married 69 years ago. Today's date felt especially significant when my aunt mentioned this anniversary this morning. Not sure what either of them would think of being "chibied" but this is my favored way to honor dates these days...So, blessings to Carl and Eleanor, their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren!

8/9/10

Thinking about Jim Reidhead who once upon a time on 8/8/88 brought the significance of numerically aligned dates to my attention.

Amanda

Um...Alicia's nicer than Lucy, though.

Guerrilla Painter Girl!

"Africa" Song

Not a comic, really--just an acknowledgment of a passing event. We often find ourselves listening to Shakira when Celao checks out the noticias on TV...and we find ourselves humming along...and then dancing. Tevan has even started requesting the "Africa" song.

Lost in Denver with Becky...

Harmonydawn says stuff sometimes that strikes me as hilarious--especially the stuff that wasn't at all intended to be funny, just everyday comments.

*happy dance* Made an official title image for FRSA!

Playin' dress up...

Liz and Amsbry Chibis

I got a comission for chibis! Yay! These are of my cousins, Amsbry and Liz. They are nearly inseperable sisters and best friends (figuratively "inseperable"--currently, Liz is studying in Boston and Amsbry is teaching english in Korea). My aunt Becky asked me to draw them up for the girls--I enjoyed this very much. I chose outfits of fictional/mythical characters who reminded me of some of the things I love best about my cousins. Clockwise: Alice and Bella, Dorothy and the Scarecrow, Artemis and Athene.

House and Holmes...alrighty then.

It will all be worth it IF...

Artist's note: Yay! Go get your own. I'm not sharing. *nom nom nom*. . . *nom nom*. . .

Movie Mesh: Amelie and Neo

That's right, folks. Break out the dictionaries. Your second year of High School French wasn't that long ago...

When Celao and I watch movies, we frequently insert lines from other movies into what we are watching. The less related the better. We could be watching The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and one of us will be triggered by some line or some prop in the movie, and out comes "This conversation...is over!" or "I know what it is you saw." Or we get creative with "I am Ben's uncontrollable reverse-aging gene." I have no clue if this sort of stuff is only funny to me...I don't get out much, you see.

New Shoe Smell...?

*phew* I'm not the only on who gets distracted...

Celao and Nina chibis

In honor of my 9th wedding anniversary, I made chibi magnetic paper dolls (what else could you expect of me these days, seriously?). The first two are of me and Celao from 1994 when we first met. We are represented in our super cool school uniforms and our even more super cool street clothes. We had a wedding that was kick-butt-put-together in less than 24 hours, and given that, we didn't look too shaby. And last, obviously, we are in our present, parenting costumes, which we wear all the time now.

Celao, te amo! Gracias para la familia que tenemos ahora. Espero muchos anos mas contigo y nuestros cueridos hijos!--9

Goerrilla Painter--Don't Look at Me Like That.

Thank God For Dictionaries...

Dysfunctional...

Hmm. Greek mythology. I love it. But I used to love it more before it sunk in how dysfunctional they were. And I mean that in the best way: *ahem* I'll never call my own family dysfunctional again with out really reflecting on the Olympians first.

Also, before I knew it, Ares was lookin' like Marvin the Martian, but that's actually totally fitting, really.

12,960,000 Seconds of Waiting

So, yeah...we're Twilight fans around here. And it's sad. But the upside is that we like the parodies even better--that's definitely a plus, huh?