Cowlick-Man.

Saw a man with the most adorably cartoonish, gravity-defyingly magnificent cowlick I’ve ever chanced upon in my entire life!
Sadly, it was during a serious meeting about serious work things conducted in most serious manner… but would we have met in a different time, in a different place, under different circumstances, perhaps then something would have happened between us, cowlick-man. Perhaps I would have had the freedom to point and laugh at your expense.

Booty Shakin.

There are boys in my gym dance classes that can shake their booty like their booty done gone and removed theyselves from their parent bodies. I am mildly disturbed. And jealous.

Teen.

I love my baby brother; he is the sweetest, cutest, smartest 14 year old I know. Sadly around his friends, however, he turns into the biggest jerk 14 year old I know. While at home he is talkative and sweet, in public, should any of his friends or anyone around his age be around, he’ll suddenly slump over, shove his hands in his pockets, and transform into this stereotypical puberty/angst-ridden teenager that he is not. This is also over the phone, when he’ll suddenly stop talking and resort instead to curt single-word retorts like: “WHATEVER. STUPID” and I’ll know his friends are over and that any hopes for human conversation are now lost. It makes me sad that teenage social norm requires even the sweetest and smartest boys to act aloof, apathetic, insensitive, and angry in order to be labeled as “cool”, while boys who express emotion and talk in complete sentences are shunned. Alas, the least I can do is be understanding, having gone through them years myself, when it seems the worst possible advice anyone could ever give to sabotage your entire life in a single admonition is: “Be yourself”. Navigating life as a teen is hard, and I extend my love and support and cheers to every wonderful and amazing teen out there: You can do it!

Sick Day.

Friends.

Since buying J the entire Friends series box collection for her bday in June, both of us have become completely avid fans of the series, to the point where we now talk about em like they are our own actual friends. I can now safely say Friends is one of my favorite shows, to redeem a 10th grade “About Me” presentation in front of the whole class in which I, without having ever seen a single episode, pronounced “Friends” as my favorite TV show just because every single other kid in the class said so when in actuality my favorite show was something off the Disney channel because that channel was (and is still) pretty awesome.

Susan Draws is One!

It only occured to me after the fact, but Susan Draws is now officially a year old! As a belated commemoration: A timeline is in order! With commentary by myself! In third person! Huzzah!

7/6/09: After nearly two years as an accountant, Susan decides that her art-person is dangerously close to extinction due to lack of channels for artistic expression while working the 9-5. In a desperate attempt to keep the inner artist alive, she makes herself a blog and sets to draw a picture.. but has no idea what to draw.

(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2009/07/1-introduction.html)

She continues to have no idea what to draw for the next two months.

9/4/09: Then the fateful post to start off all other posts and a general theme is unleashed: office rants. She initially draws pen on paper, then scans on the office multi-functional printer and posts images only, with minimal or no text. Drawings are initially crude because there's no crtl+z to utilize against mistakes. Also she has to make these quick cause she's drawing em in the office.
(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2009/09/blackout.html)

9/11/09: She attempts colors (coloring scanned pics at home) but quickly folds because it is time consuming.

(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2009/09/my-fortune-cookie-said-to-me.html)

10/15/09: The first significant typed rant is triggered by The Boys. "The Boys" are Susan's coworkers, all of which are male.
(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2009/10/coffeemaker.html) Everyone gets aquainted with the boys.

10/22/09: On this faithful day, Susan's work computer dies, and the new one (outfitted with Windows Vista), does not have a driver for the office scanner. That is the end of the pen-on-paper scanned drawings. Susan starts drawing at home via tablet mouse on her laptop during the hiatus and discovers she likes this medium far better (ctrl+z FTW!!!). Drawings start featuring pink cheeks.

(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2009/10/hiatus.html)

11/19/09: The blog takes on a whole new level of usefulness with the first ever (and presently only) Office How-To: "How to Motivate (and/or manipulate) your very own middle aged man in three words or less".

(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2009/11/office-howto-1.html)

12/31/09: Celebrating New Years Eve! Yeehee!


(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-nye.html)

1/11/10: Susan starts pinning her bangs up.
The significance of this is beyond me. Who even cares. I don't.

(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2010/01/death-by-business-trip.html)

2/22/10 and 3/9/2010 and 3/31/10: Everyone gets to meet some of the boys a bit more up close and personal.

(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2010/02/hi-kj.html)


(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2010/03/company-nurse.html)


(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2010/03/office-man-fad.html)

Those transition glasses still annoy the heck out of Susan and emobody all things crass, all things kitsche, all things common sense would govern anyone NOT to wear in public.

4/16/10: The first full-color feature! It was quite the time consumer so does not happen again for a good long while. Susan's friend Christina, Teddy's mama, prints and frames the picture to have and to hold forever and also to embarrass Teddy with when he is older.

(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2010/04/teddy.html)

6/1/10: Color becomes a regular part of the drawings after the epic June 1 Dreamer series inspired by my roomie and BFF: J.

(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2010/06/dreamer1.html)

6/24/10: Susan discovers a love for mixing funkylicious colors.

(http://susandraws.blogspot.com/2010/06/diet.html)

Susan Draws: To Be Continued!
Thank you everyone for stalking/loving/supporting Susan Draws for an entire year! XOXOXO

Shower.

This is me (with aptly placed bubblage so as not to burn anyone’s eyes out) annoyed in the shower because I had, for the billion-and-eleventh time, forgotten to take the bobby pins out of my hair before entering the shower. Frustration ensues as they end up all tangled up in wet hair and refuse to give up without a fight, then refuse to go out alone, bringing with em strands of innocent bystander hairs that end up in the drain through no fault of their own. Sorry hairs, it's my fault.

Under the Weather.

The little itchy throat that I collected over the weekend has been slowly morphing itself into an increasingly more mucus-ridden hacking/coughing by the day. Bad, cough, bad!

The Gym Man.

There’s a man at my gym that happens to work out at the same time I do and has been pretty much every weekday for the past two years. Yesterday, for the very first time, we accidentally chanced upon each other outside the gym both on our way in and momentarily froze. It was disconcerting, seeing the man and being seen by him in regular non-gym clothes and in a non-sweaty face. I felt oddly exposed, like my identity was found out, that now we knew too unnecessarily much about each other, and that things would never be the same.

Score.

Oh how I love me a good sale!! And that feeling of victory you get after buying two shirts for less the original price of one! Hurrah!

Tea Battle.

This is a survey of some of the tea bags I have in my office desk drawer. Not included is Fresh and Easy white tea and Yamamotoyama Jasmine tea. The winner from all these is apparently apparent and clearly clear: Japan ftw!!!

Gum.

The other day I was getting out of my car and thought it would be nice to dispose of my gum onto the ground. I usually never EVER litter or even spit on the ground but this seemed like a good idea at the time and enjoyed feeling reckless for half a second. Justice was served when I ended up stepping on that same gum on my way back into the car and failed to notice until it was smeared all over my car mats. Lesson learned!

White Peach.

Iiiiiiiit's white peach season!!!! Hurrah!!!
Regular peaches I do not like at all, but white peaches I love so much I wish I had a gigantic one to nom on all day!

Alarm.

Ever since I changed my phone, I’ve been unable to wake up in the morning and have consequently been late to work because the new phone’s new alarm is just not as persistent as my old phone's alarm was. Usually if I press snooze on my old phone, it’ll register that as license to beep with triple the vengeance until I have to jump out of bed and run out of the room in order to escape the madness. The new phone’s alarm has similar (if not louder) volume and a similar caliber of annoyingness in its beeps, but is easily offended and takes “snooze” to mean “shut up I hate you” instead of “please keep beeping I love you I need you.”

Cookie.

If you think about it, that innocent children’s Cookie Jar song/chant/game thing is really just teaching children how to blame and frame without conclusive evidence: Teacher asks who stole the cookie (“who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?”), one kid lies and frames some innocent kid (“Jake stole the cookie from the cookie jar”), and that kid (“who me?“) in shock (“couldn’t be!”) frames another innocent kid (“Susan stole the cookie from the cookie jar”) in order to escape being incarcerated for the crime, and the lines repeat for every kid to get a turn blaming and framing while all along, all the kids in the circle are innocent.
I BET THE TEACHER ATE THE COOKIE.

Adventure.

The funny looking deer from yesterday's post was so cute I thought I'd draw him again. His name is Jake. Jake likes adventures too but is disgruntled here because he thinks if a person has two good legs they ought to make good use of em and walk their own selves around. Also I happen to be rather painfully grabbing a fistfull of his back skin for support in order not to fall off while excitedly pointing at random things.

Word of the Day: WENIS.

WENIS [wee-niss] – noun – The skin that covers the tip of your elbow. The wenis lacks sensitivity and can withstand all types of abuse. (source: UrbanDictionary)

New Phone.

This is me frolicking with my new best buddy: LG Ally Android phone hurrah! I used to think nothing could beat the iphone and that all other wannabes were just wannabes but this one steals the cake from iphones, cuts it up and EATS IT.

Post Holiday.

Fourth of July weekend was BOSS (as my baby brother would say) -- Fun times with familia in Northern Cali with copious amounts of yummy foods yay! The only thing lacking was sleep…

I Heart BBQ.

My ultimate favorite part of Fourth of July weekend is the BBQ food!! Kabobs, shrimp, chicken, Korean shortribs, corn, burgers, hotdogs, and steaks, oh my!! Have a great Fourth of July weekend everyone!

BMG

Our main webpage for I61studio is still in the works, but our photo blog (www.I61studio.com/blog) is now live! And to celebrate the launch of our photoblog, a free photo esession giveaway (http://www.i61studio.com/bmg/) to one lucky engaged couple!!!!!