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I wanted to write something smart and funny tonight, but everything I've started has been less than pleasing.  Possibly this is due to my eye-crossing weariness (don't ask me why- I have no excuse), or possibly all my cleverness is being drained by the sleeping puppy in my lap.  After all, she did graduate puppy kindergarten today, and she was told she'll be a good candidate for agility training (once she gets past her spastic puppy stage) because she's so fearless and smart.  Since I find that hard to reconcile with the same dog who stares at me like, "What does 'sit' mean?" as we stand in the rain waiting to go inside, I have to believe she is siphoning cleverness from somewhere...

I also wanted to put up a good little drawing for you, but everything I've done has been (you guessed it) less than pleasing.  So instead you get a haphazard sketch of the puppy draining my smartness...

Sacked-out puppy as seen from above.

Nerdy-One

If you had asked me even six months ago if my idea of a good way to kick off my birthday included doing eighty-four burpees, I'd have said,

"What's a burpee?"

And then, once you'd explained it, I'd have said,

"Ninja you crazy."

By which I'd have meant:

"Oh hell no."

And yet...

WOD:

21, 18, 15, 12, 9, 6, 3
Burpees
Kettlebell Swings

"Just look at it this way," said Jack.  "Each round you do will the the longest one you'll have to do for the rest of the day."

"That is a great way of looking at it," I said.  "Let's see if I can keep doing that by the time I hit the 9 round."

(I totally did.)

So yeah, that's what I did with  my (birth)day off from work- I went to Crossfit and did some freakin' burpees.  And as an added birthday bonus, I was not the slowest person.  Woo!  Finally!  I've been going for over a month, and this is the first time I have not come in dead last.  (We will ignore the fact that the one person who was slower than me was using a significantly heavier weight...)  Of course, I was the slowest person in my two-person session, but the other guy totally cheered me on through my last two rounds, which I so needed.

Man I love this stuff.

And now a preface to today's doodle: Jack and Aubrey have a very sweet, very mellow greyhound who occasionally hangs out at the box.  Today was one of those days, and she was being (for her) pretty excited, doing short little sprints and happy little leaps.  Jack explained that that's because she gets fed at 1000 (I went to the 0900) so she always perks up around that time of day.  Well after we finished our workout and were recovering, I found myself the subject of an adorable Greyhound Stare.  Adorable until I realized what she really wanted...

...because she wasn't going to get her breakfast until we all left!  Hah!  So I did, and broke my fast in the ultra-indulgent manner of bacon-wrapped chocolate (seriously you guys- it was so good).  See, there is a birthday tradition in my household of chocolate cake for breakfast, but throughout the years I've occasionally had to substitute various items (the year I had my wisdom teeth out I had chocolate pudding- Cosby approved, either way, amIright?).  Hence, in light of my new dietary lifestyle... chocolate-bacon for breakfast.

Kitsune

Here is a page full of doodles:

These are some very wise foxes...

At one point during the evening Katie leaned over and said, "Why so many tails?" (which you may also have been wondering)  There are so many tails because I was drawing Japanese kitsune- which sometimes have up to nine tails.  They are one of my very most favorite mythological creatures, in no small part because I am so awfully fond of non-magical foxes to begin with.  And nine tails is an interesting design problem, to boot, sooo... they are perfect for doodling!

It is Late and Possibly This is Being Phoned In

I found an old pen today... old and un-used, which was awesome, because it was my favorite kind of doodling pen... and thus did I doodle.

We at it again...

(If you do not realize that this is a doodle of Rihanna, you need to educate yourself.) (or maybe I need to get better at drawing?)

This is Not a Crossfit Entry...

...because I did not go to Crossfit today.

I know, I know.  I'm sorry.  I really am.  But the dog was having poop-related issues which resulted in Nathan and I getting very little sleep, and when 0730 rolled around going to work out seemed like the far, far greater of two evils.

But here is some progress that I have made on a thing:

Her left thigh needs more shadow... buh...

And so you see, I've added some preliminary shading.  And some highlights.  And more are  yet to come...

Doing it More Often

And here is another dude!  I strove to make him a distinctly different face from That Other Dude (or, "Dad-looking-guy", as Nathan called him), and this was the result:

Striven.

...I ended up inadvertently drawing Chris Isaac?  But with more hedgehog-like hair?  I guess?




(You guys, this is why I draw girls.  Seriously, you guys.)

I'm a Dude!

Okay, well, I'm not a dude, but this guy that I just drew totally is:

I drew him because I have a hard time drawing men, and thus need the practice.  I should probably do it more often...