Halfway through!

Made it through half of my first semester of Occupational Therapy school! ^^

Song of the moment: Riptide by Vance Joy

naptime doodle challenge

These days, sometimes I do nap duty.  I used to always do first shift nap duty when I was a full time teacher. First shift is when all the kids are wired, thinking their little cot is place where they can party. Second shift is when the storm has passed and everyone's conked out. Last week I had to sub in for nap duty and found that the first shift was so quiet. Oh. My. Goodness! They are all asleep? No struggling with children?!! I don't need to pat a back a thousand times?!! Then, I began to struggle with myself. It's really dim in the room. Snoring clogs the air. There are soothing musical notes wandering around your ears. The absence of action is pulling your eyelids down. The sandman is behind you trying to take you away when you're supposed to make sure all the nappers are safe. Agh! So, I drew a lot. Frankly, drawing in the dark is hard and probably terrible for your eyes. As you can tell, these are on the back of coloring sheets. And... pen is un-erasable. And... I am one of those careless, non-archival artists. So, excuse the scrappy quality, enjoy the concept art running around the theme of sleep. First shift blue, second shift black.

Song of the Moment: Beautiful Unknown by Ingrid Michealson

Napa Noms!

Oh the joys of wine tasting in Napa with the girls!

Song of the Moment: Luv(sic) Pt 2 by Nujabes ft Shing02

Bear Moon

Sailor Moon brings a touch of sugar to the childhood memories. Anyways, what could be better than bears and sailor moon combined. :D

Song of the Moment: Hay Un Amigo En Mi- Toy Story 3

More delicious birthday noms

This post was waylaid by massive amounts of anatomy and physiology terms! Woops! But now that we have just completed our final exam, here are the other nomming cartoons. 

First two are from my birthday ice cream tour and the last one is from Baba's birthday dinner at Alexander by the Sea. YUM YUM :)

Song of the moment (Jazz-hop for your soul): Koenji by Leehahn

Sumika Birthday Meal Highlights

This summer I will try illustrating the food spots I've hit this summer. So let's start out with Sumika. Sumika is this really good Japanese izakaya in Los Altos where my brudder, seester and I ate ridiculous amounts of food for my quarter century mark. 

Other highlights are super fine sake, sesame panna cotta, miyazaki beef tataki (A5 wagyu shoulder cut which made brudder very overjoyed), salted and charcoal grilled ayu, and monkfish liver kakuni. However, the oyako don and tontoro (which is what we shout JOOOOOOWL!) were my favorites! 

Song of the moment: Treasure by Bruno Mars

Homemade noms!

YUM YUM YUM. watermelon popsicles with too much peppermint and super moist cantaloupe bread was on today's homemade food menu :)