Day 19

1:22 - dead pens

I collect dead pens and pencils. It started when I began high school and decided to buy colored pens to color-code my classes. I hand wrote most of my notes, so I drained the ink from pens pretty quickly. I guess I find it really satisfying to see all the writing utensils that I've completely used up. 23 pens and and 10 pencils!

What odd things do you people collect?

Day 18

9:36 am - clean me!

I really need to clean the table...!

Day 17

11:36 am - bartle-doo?

Brother watching Mumbles, a character from one of our favorite youtube comedians, Ed Bassmaster. Ed's a great actor and he plays hilarious pranks on people while secretly filming them.

I can't say I've done anything quite like Ed, but while we were vacationing on Sanibel Island, my cousin and I decided to play a prank on Joey, who sells ridiculously priced hot dogs and sodas from a pontoon boat. Here's how it went:
Joey: Hello.
Me: 你好！ (ni hao, translation: hello)
Joey: .... half-smiles, confused
Me: 请你给我一杯可乐. (qing ni gei wo yi bei kele, please give me a cola)
Cousin: She wants a cola, and a sprite. (I had forgotten to ask for that too, haha)
Joey: still half-smiling in puzzlement, grabs the drinks, hands them to me That's four dollars.
Greg: 四个. (si ge, four)
Me: [hands Joey the money] 谢谢！(xiexie, thank you)
Joey: Uh, sure.
Me and cousin: run away giggling, totally not looking suspicious.

We came up with elaborate plans afterward, but didn't get a chance to carry them out. :(

Here's another prank I came up with and the boys carried out:

Cousin: What movie is playing tonight?
Hotel Receptionist: I think it's G-Force.
Cousin: Oh really? Isn't that the movie that got negative reviews because of explicit sexualization of female animals?
HR: .... Um, I don't decide. I just work here.

We were trying to get them to play a different movie, but it didn't quite work out. And according to my brother, who is a movie buff, it did get bad reviews because of the negative portrayal of female hamsters.... sad.

Day 16

4:48 pm - surprise greeting

Brother and I lined up snowmen on the driveway to welcome our parents back home from Las Vegas. We used to play a game where we'd make little snowmen and put them on the street to see if cars would run over them or avoid them. Usually the cars barreled straight ahead, avoiding the snowmen with their tires and occasionally knocking their heads off with the underside of the car. It was actually little old men with glasses as thick as fingers that slowed down to 5 mph and carefully maneuvered around the sacrificial snowmen.

Day 15

6:30 pm - eyes and ears

Sorry, this photo was actually the top to the photo take yesterday! Thought it was neat, plus I was too lazy to take a photo today anyway.

Day 14

6:25 pm - head, shoulders

Day 13

5:55 pm - work in progress, scene from Mononoke

I've forgotten how much I love to draw! After seeing Princess Mononoke last week I could not stop replaying scenes in my head. I think my mind likes to fixate on certain things for brief periods of time. A couple of weeks ago it was "My Favorite Things" from the Sound of Music - over and over and over.... This past week it has been Mononoke.