I want to submit everything I ever drew, except I'm pretty sure it's not good enough. They make sweet graphic arts versions of submitted children's artwork.
Yes!!!
This is way cheaper (and cooler) than FAO Schwarz's Make Your Own Monster initiative, which, don't get me wrong, would still fulfill many of my childhood fantasies. This is just free and awesome, and expands on my imagination rather than reminding me exactly how bad I am at drawing.
Realistically, I never drew anything as cool as that boat in my life, but I don't have to feel bad about it because there are tons of other images by kids who are way worse than me. Made better. Like magic.
The answer is Y-e-s it is raining cats and friggin dogs out there.
Storytime.
I am at work at about 3:24p.m. and realize I have yet to take lunch. I think to myself, "If I don't leave now it'll soon be too late and I'll miss my chance altogether." Needless to say that can't happen. Then a series of fairly unfortunate events happened.
3:26p.m. heading out the door w/ umbrella
3:26:08 stab my finger with umbrella, immense pain in my thumb. I stagger, attempt to catch my breath, and grab hold of the door handle to avoid crumpling into the fetal position.
3:26:42 umbrella refuses to act like a normal umbrella, sinks into deflated state
2:27 blood oozing out of my hand
3:28 arrive at Starbucks, enter seeking refuge from the rain, my now bloodied hand and stupid umbrella
3:29 leave Starbucks, not interested in drinking and/or paying for coffee right now. consider that I look like a crazy person entering and leaving so fast, don't care.
3:30:30 hesitating for a moment on the starbucks porch, fiddle with my umbrella. passerby calls "you better get yo'self a new umbrella cause that shit is BROKE," I nod in a please-take-pity-on-me way. I feel pathetic.
3:32 I visit the Hoboken CVS and see my friend Greg (or something like Greg) who is the greeter. We discuss our plans for Thanksgiving and eventually I weave it into the conversation that I have recently punctured my beautiful hand. He offers me napkins for my bloodied hand and I accept. He is too friendly to not have some kind of social disorder.
3:33-3:45 I wander around aisles of CVS considering my misfortune and what to do with the remainder of my lunch hour.
3:50 return sheepishly to work.
I want to end this with something like "if I'd only checked isitraining.in/hoboken (works for many cities) none of this would have happened," but that's not true at all. I checked it. I knew what I was getting into. I just wasn't prepared for that kind of storm. That website is generally accurate though as it updates every hour(ish.) It's good, I like it. It's for the going-outside-and-checking-is-too-hard demographic. My people.
In other news, I found out that A Muppet Family Christmas is available on YouTube, so, here you go. When you see Ms. Piggy trudging through the snow storm, that is me trudging through Hoboken not more than an hour ago. Oh, and side note, it's a shortened week! Happy Thanksgiving and more importantly HAPPY CHRISTMAS TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
