“You Don’t Just Cry When You’re Sad, Right?”
It has sort of become an inside joke between my brother and I that I owe him a lot of birthday gifts. He’s pretty considerate and thinks a lot about the gifts he gives to people, and I do not. I have the best intentions but I’m a shitty person so I only do whatever is within my means. Sometimes that means nothing, last year it was a painting(given three months after his birthday) and this year its…shaping up to be a blog post. That may officially be a downgrade, but I’ll leave that up to Brother to decide.
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Every year for about twelve years, my mom and maternal grandma (“Yaya”) would pack up our Aerostar van and drive us kids to Myrtle Beach for two weeks, to celebrate both of our birthdays, which were five days apart. It was a twenty-hour trip of tupperware totes filled with crossword puzzles and colouring supplies, Sing-A-Long-Kids songs and, at least one time I screamed for 4 hours of the trip before my mom pulled over to discover a crayon stuck in my diaper (it was blue, and obviously melted). We loved the trip there almost as much as we loved the days we spent in the Cadillac Court, a budget hotel located on the south side of the beach overlooking the ocean. We always rented a suite and it was outfitted with an orange pull out couch with yellow and black striped cushions, yellow cupboards and orange carpeting, but it was big with plenty of beds and a balcony that we used to watch the dolphins swim by at five am.
Pet Portraits
Hey! Remember how I said I was doing pet portraits? I totally did some. I managed to raise a bit of…
Happy siblings day!
Apparently this is a thing, which is just as believable as this thing on the right claiming to be…
Great Wall of China, China by Sebastian Johnke
Thinking of you today
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My week, in Instagram photos (part two)
The last thing I want is this section of my site to become an instagram feed, and my efforts to…
YES I KNOW I ALREADY POSTED ABOUT THIS.
But, now I’m donating 25% to Toronto Animal Services South.
So go ahead, feel less guilty. I know I do!
I’m kidding of course, I’m racked with guilt constantly, for no apparent reason at all!
Some people have asked why TAS and not THS? The answer is mostly that I spend many hours perusing their blog and find at least one dog every day i would like to adopt. I can’t, so I figured this was the next best thing.
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The Deets:
$65 buys you an unframed watercolour painting of your pet, on a 9x12 sheet of 140lb cold press watercolour paper. 25% goes directly to TAS South. Order here.
Thanks everyone!
