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corriespondent — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:18:15 +0000

Sunday morning walk of shame

corriespondent — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:06:28 +0000

Our church has a light-up notification sign in the corner of the sanctuary. When a child is having a hard time in the nursery, the nursery workers punch in the child’s number and the sign lights up so that the parents are notified to go to the nursery. The poor parent has to wiggle around people’s knees to get out to the aisle, then start the long walk of shame down the sanctuary and across the plaza to the nursery, as people stare and give amused and knowing smiles. I always feel slightly embarrassed as the numbers shine out brightly, bathing my hair and back in its red glow, indicating to all that my child is Unsoothable.

The way it goes

corriespondent — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:05:32 +0000

NaNoDrawMo 2011

corriespondent — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:37:37 +0000

NaNoDrawMo 2011 is over! I ended one day late, inking in my last drawing early this morning.

This year I did 30 “My Day” drawings – sort of like tiny daily journals, in picture form, in my 3.5×4.5 Moleskine notebook. It’s fun for me to look over them and see the many milestones that have occurred – from the demolition starting on the outside of our house for our upcoming house addition, to Matthew being completely weaned, learning to push himself on the toy car, and starting to walk a lot. It’s also interesting to have proof of how poor my sleep quality is, thanks to children waking up at odd hours and my own messed-up biorhythms, and other work-at-home parents can relate with that tough balance between being productive and being there for your kids.

To my surprise, I didn’t hardly create any of the realistic pencil sketches that I’m most comfortable with, but I ended up doing a lot of sermon notes and writing/illustrating quotes that I wanted to ponder. Below are some of my favorite ones, but you can see the entire set on Flickr.

My one pencil sketch:

My one non-Moleskine drawing:

I had one recipe:

All of my Moleskine ink drawings were done freehand – no pencil sketching beforehand.

Some of the “My Day” drawings:

Example of sermon notes:

My favorite drawings from this year have been the quotes.

And, I had a few random comics and drawings here and there.

Finally, this is my favorite drawing from this month, and maybe one of my top favorite comics of all time that I’ve created.

Now that NaNoDrawMo is over, I can reclaim my early mornings and late nights of scribbling furiously in my Moleskine. Steve can heave a sigh of relief that I’m not asking him constantly “what time did we go to bed last night?” and “hm… what else did we do yesterday?” I didn’t feel like I was able to put quite as much effort this year into exploring different art forms, but I’m very happy with this body of work, as they all ended up fitting an overall theme of documenting my life and thoughts.

Heather at home

corriespondent — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:59:43 +0000

Heather sent me some pictures of her cat sprawled out on her keyboard and of her two dogs laying beneath her feet at her desk. Which, of course, meant that I had to draw a comic…

But more background first – at the SharePoint conference (2011), Heather became known as “SharePoint Conference Mom” because of her self-described mobile pharmacy. She had neosporin, band-aids, advil, tylenol, and much, much more, and took care of everyone around her.

We use a lot of bandaids around here.

corriespondent — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:37:16 +0000

Maybe this doesn’t really happen with a magnifying glass, but Steven is in the phase where he minutely examines every part of his body for an “owie.”

Comics: New medical codes

corriespondent — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:09:04 +0000

The Wall Street Journal had an article about the new medical codes coming out, which expand the codes used by hospitals and doctors to detail items on invoices to insurance companies from about 18,000 to 140,000. They allow for almost absurd fine detail in describing how the injury occurred, where the injury occurred, or other causes of the injury. Some of the smirk-worthy examples from the article include a code for “walked into lampost, subsequent encounter,” or a code for “very low level of personal hygiene.” (You can run keyword search using this tool here.)

These, of course, inspired some comics when I couldn’t sleep last night…

(see chicken codes)

(see bucket-related codes)

(see bedroom codes)

Comic: Car seat nap

corriespondent — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:38:59 +0000

Two boys. One room.

corriespondent — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:21:01 +0000

I drew this one early this morning. Based on real life.

Supermommy

corriespondent — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:19:53 +0000

I forgot to post this – drew this one a few days ago. I was on a phone call with some of the Synteractive ladies – Heather, Petra, and Diane – and they started embarrassing me by calling me “Superwoman.” Heather said I needed to draw a comic about me ripping off my shirt because the baby spit up on it. I let it percolate and this is what came out…