The Botched Photoshoot and the Gallery of "Ugly Sits"...

Happy Leap Day!! I hope you remembered to wear your blue and yellow :) I just bought some brand new index cards and thought it would be fun to scribble a story.

It was a lazy weekend morning, and Christmastime was near. I had recently decorated my place for the holidays with a small tree, some lights, and even fake snow on some of the furniture..

 I had my favorite coffee cup...

 And was ready for some quality spacing-out time in front of the TV.

 

I barely took my very first sip of coffee...

 When Chaos appeared on the TV stand.

He was perched on the soft pile of fake snow, beaming at me angelically.

 "It's a Christmas miracle!" I exclaimed, overwhelmed by this uncharacteristic display of cuteness.

 

 

 Chaos responded with a wave of adorableness, the levels of which have never been matched to this day.

 Just believe me, it was ridiculous...

 

I was pretty new to this business of cat-caretaking and it felt like we were sharing a genuine moment.

 Naturally I wanted to snap a photo for Chris:

 

 But when I returned with my camera...

 I found nothing but a cat imprint in the snow.

 I was deeply disappointed.

 

 Chaos had relocated himself to the shag carpet and had assumed his typical sitting posture (which gives him the appearance of a dumpling with back problems).

 

At that moment, I resolved to only collect photos of him demonstrating his poor posture (or "ugly sits" as Carrie and I call them).

So I'm sharing a small sampling of photos I've taken of Chaos. Please enjoy the Gallery of Ugly-Sits:

 the lotus position?

 urrgh!

 Typical couch potato-ing

EDIT: Carrie reminded me to inform the general public that the bald, pink patch on his belly is his one of his bare, hairless, prominently nippled moobs. Chaos. What a creature of grace and beauty.

Do any of your dogs or cats have posture as poor as this?? And more importantly do any of you have documentation of your dogs or cats doing 'ugly sits' of their own?

The Drawn by Chance Challenge! (and a recap of my sickday)

A few of you have inquired about the drawing challenge that the talented Mr. Le Tang and I have started recently. I apologize for how disorganized I've been. This thing is still in its infancy and we're still trying to figure out the best way to run it. First of all, this is a weekly challenge that is open to absolutely anyone who wants to participate. Its original intent was to encourage some of us in the DW story department to work out our storytelling muscles since the awesome bi-weekly drawing challenges ended some time ago. We'd love to see any sort of entries (character designs, illustration, animation, etc.).

Each week, we choose our prompts at random by drawing words from cups. We have one cup of adjectives, a cup of nouns, and a recently added cup of verbs. We select two words...one of these words will always be an adjective, and we will alternate between nouns and verbs for the other.

Tomorrow's challenge is Obsessive Pokemon, for those of you who still want to participate. We're still debating whether or not to start a separate blog for what we are now calling the Drawn by Chance Challenge, but for now, I will be posting entries to my blog (so let me know if you've posted anything up!)

 
Sorry for not getting this up sooner. Yesterday I was home sick with a fever and most of my time was spent like this:

Some of it was spent like this:

 And some of it was spent witnessing this:

HARRGHARRBBLEWRRFALFFF!!

Chaos needs to learn to chew his food.

Levitation (aka my first lesson in physics)

Here is another true story from my childhood. This also took place when I was around preschool age.

Like most kids, I had a very random assortment of toys to play with when I was young. I also carried a baby-blanket everywhere, often draping it around my neck like a scarf.


One day a random but thrilling thought occurred to me.


My 3 1/2 year old brain had figured out how to levitate.


It was very simple. All I would need was my baby blanket and a little effort.



In my mind this was how it was going to work...please note that my unsophisticated childbrain did not yet have a full grasp on the workings of gravity (or the limitations of my upper body strength) and this made total sense to me:






It was going to be awesome.

Once I was able to levitate...I would float around to show people how freaking cool I was...



All of the other kids on the playground would be envious of me...


I would never have to worry about slogging through mud puddles after it rained.

I was going to make such a kick-ass ghost at Halloween.


I was going to be the coolest. kid. ever.


Unfortunately, I failed to be as awesome as I'd hoped.

This is the sad reality of what actually happened:





Epilogue..this didn't stop me from trying to replicate the "levitation experiment" with a jump rope mere days later.