I can draw stick people!

I haven't blogged in a long time. I keep saying I'm going to do it more, but I end up just continuing to scribble things in random notebooks and hiding them away from the light of day. I don't know why I do this, and have decided it's silly. I think it's effective to write like no one else in the world will ever see it, because it makes you more honest. But if you actually never let anyone see it ever, what's the point? That's like, I don't know...taking a blind person to see the Mona Lisa. Not that I'm Da Vinci, or the literary equivalent of Da Vinci. Wow....this paragraph got away from me quickly.

Anyway, this is me, returning to putting things out there, fear of derision be damned. I mean, I held a goddamned scorpion last year. Okay, it was in an exhibit at the Puyallup Fair, but I did it.

<<--- Blurry, photographic proof of scorpion-holding.

I can totally handle anonymous internet criticism/mockery/trolling, right? Okay, the scorpion was probably the easier foe. But I have decided that the self-doubt spider (it's a spider and not a scorpion because spiders are FUCKING. SCARY.) is not going to keep me from doing things I really love to do. And I really, really love writing. I do a lot of it, and I'm tired of not sharing it.

Okay, intro to first blog post in a whole bunch of months? Check. So, once I decided that I should really start doing this blogging thing again, like I have been telling myself I will for nearly a year, I started digging through my notebooks and random drawings. I will preface this by stating that I am most definitely NOT a super-talented, awesome artist. I can draw things, but it will take me far longer than a normal, really great at drawing just about anything type of person. And it still won't look as great as what said talented person could probably churn out in 10 minutes. I say this to explain why my drawings will look like either a.) intentionally bad cartoon drawings or b.) stick people only slightly better than what you probably drew when you were seven.

That said, I fell in love with drawing and writing things via the "Paper" app on my iPad. I started using this as a convenient way to jot down random observations and happenstances throughout the day. And since I'm also kind of lazy and haven't finished any of the things I've been writing recently, I decided to share these sketches with you. I won't subject you to my unbelievably bad handwriting (Which is also only slightly better than that of a seven year old). Instead, I've cropped out the pictures and am transcribing the actual writing part for your improved reading pleasure. I'm thoughtful like that.

May 31st, 2013

Kurt told William he deserved a million pancakes for his birthday. William responded "If someone gave me a million pancakes I'd be like 'Man, you're a dick!'"

May 31st, 2013

2 years ago I suffered from a great deal of work drama which, like a soap opera, seemed to only ever manage to get to the brink of resolution. Today, this is the only drama that occurred:

June 3rd, 2013

William was wondering out loud when restaurants began, and how the first one came about. I suggested that it probably all started with people selling food on the streets for a bit of extra cash. William responded that this must have been it. He said that one day one the guys must have said "Hey! We should do this INSIDE!"

I promise longer entries later. I have a lot of longer entries, I'm just not so good at the whole finishing thing. Actually, I started writing something about how I am awesome at starting projects but not so good with the finishing...it's not finished yet.