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 :)

Foodie Doodles!

Welcome to your monthly dose of doodles, presented to you by a cat wino.

I have friends who like to eat a lot. And some like to Instagram their food. I just like to color pencil these babies. Anyway, these photos are from my buddy, Jenn, who eats alotta good looking meals. 

Music of the Moment:Bacon Pancakes sung by yours truly, Jake from Adventure Time

Must have brains...

My coworkers get these random answers when they ask questions.....so here is a diagram of why food is important! You need glucose to make those darn ATP's!
Song of the moment:
Try by Pink covered by Jayesslee

Classroom Bear

We try rescuing classroom bear, but the life of such a bear is sooper tuff! Sometimes bears go to bear heaven after a tuff year....Gasp!
Song of the moment: The Girl covered by Run River North

Henny goes A HAH HAH HAH HAH!

I have a little hairy niece who is basically hunky dory 24/7. My brother-in-law and I basically sum her mood up like this, "a hah hah hah hah hah" in a squeaky scratchy voice. Henny's innards are probably made of sunshine, candy, and rainbows (sorry about poor quality! scanner is awol!)

 Sometimes Henny doesn't get sad even when my sister goes kablammo-bonkers.

On a side note, she has booties now for rainy day walks.

Song of the Moment: The Woman I Love by Jason Mraz (live)

Dog Costume Party

Monny Mon and I are still figuring out what our doggies should wear for our pumpkin carving party. So here are some fun ideas with our Mister Brown as a model. Fact: He did wear a pumpkin costume before.
Song of the Moment: Follow Through by Gavin Degraw

Jason and the Brussely Brussels Sprouts!

My lovely Boopsie and I went to see the Mrazmatazz strum his guitar yesterday at his Tour is a Four Letter Word music concert! It was super exciting! :)

He said he just planted his brussels sprouts, which sums up as really quirky sweet. So here Jason is, singing along with his brussels sprouts that soon shall come!

Song of the Moment: 93 Million Miles- Jason Mraz

GAKSITAAAAAAAAAL!

So far this show is action packed sheer insanity. Love it! Anyway, that's why it gets its own fanart! Woot woot!

Song of the moment: One Thing Remains by Kristian Stanfill

Brownie Time

We still miss the little brown booger! 

Sincerely, O.G.

Recently watched Phantom of the Opera, 25th Anniversary at the Royal Albert Hall. I like how the original stage musicals have tons of great music that gets omitted or lost in movie versions. :P  Rock + opera = bellissimo.

Song of the moment: Phantom of the Opera and Music of the Night by Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess

Buzz and Woody. Woody and Buzz.

Toy Story! Hooray! I was one of those kids whose every toy had a name and a personality. It was almost as if they were alive, just like these guys were alive and kickin in this movie.
Song of the Moment: You've Got a Friend in Me by Randy Newman

Suzy and Sam. Sam and Suzy.

Moonrise Kingdom é un film da vedere!

Song of the Moment: Le Temps De L'amour by Francoise Hardy

Snow White Skin, Blood Red Lips, Ebony Hair

Doesn't snow white totally sound like the ideal beauty standard in asia? Anyway...I thought Snow White and the Huntsman was definitely entertaining...and it spawned more watercolor studies! woohoo!

Song of the Moment!:  Walt Grace's Submarine Test by John Mayer

Foodscapes!

Back in college I made tons of food-scapes using meat pictures I found in the Nugget catalogs. Did they really have serious underlying themes? Let's just say this: it is what it is. It's like asking a preschooler if their armless girl drawing means the destruction of female rights in post-modern society. Just enjoy the madness and inherent lack of logic. :3

Candy Mountain 5-12

Pizza Falls 4-12

Escape from Blueberry Mountain 5-12

Song of the day:  Shadow Days by John Mayer