Hi, friends!
Happy Wednesday! Today is a good day to get discounted Valentine’s Day candy.
I embarrassed some youths the other day. I was walking around Target singing Miley Cyrus’s new song under my breath (it’s very catchy!) and these teen girls noticed it and looked at me like ewww an old person knows the same songs we like. To which I said “what, it’s a real banger!” and walked away.
Don’t assume too much. She’s now in her 30s.
The youths in my area are way better at political activism than my circle at the same age was. Maybe it’s that I live in a libtard dystopian state or maybe the kids are alright?
https://www.kuow.org/stories/thousands-of-seattle-students-walk-out-of-school-protesting-gun-violence
that reminds me….i need to order one of these for when it gets warmer again
I’ll take that in a size large, please.
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The youts had me giggling today at work, because I was able to completely blow some Kindergarten minds with my “drawing“*** skills😉😁😄
Lots of my K-2nd graders at the before & after school program are really into Pokémon & Pokémon Go, and they also really like drawing & coloring Pokémon…
Usually they ask for IPad time to be able to draw stuff like this;
But today, one of our K’s wanted to color a Mega Mewtwo, and asked *me* if I could find & draw it up for him…
So I found an illustration he liked, then grabbed a pencil, hacked a piece of paper down to the size of our Ipad’s screen with scissors, enlarged the illustration to fil the screen, and I traced it.
*Because* I was tracing, it took less than 5 minutes…
And Y’ALL? You should have SEEN those Kindergarten brains imploding!😆🤣🤣🤣🤣💖
They were so sweet, and SO complimentary!🤭💞💗 SERIOUSLY–if any of you EVER need an ego boost? Go trace a simple cartoon picture off a computer/Tablet, for a little kid to color–they’ll act like YOU just painted the whole Sistine Chapel *yourself*😉😆😁
After seeing the Megan Mewtwo, another little guy asked if *he* could have a Mega Blastoise, and *that* little dude was about the sweetest little peanut a person could EVER ask for, ego-boot wise–all I did was TRACE someone else’s art (and for his, because the pic he chose had that grey & white checked background, so the lines weren’t quite as defined–so I also pulled the illustration up on my phone to use as a reference…), and you would’ve thought I was Banksy, painting him a custom piece!
He was SO sweet, SO incredibly complimentary, and also *so* mind blown, that it was about the cutest dzmn thing I’ve been part of so far this year!😉😄😁💞
I was literally tracing other people’s art–that’s IT!!! But apparently I was one of “the fastest draw-ers” he’s ever seen, and I about melted his mind😂
I reminded ALL of them, that when *I* was their age, I had a hard time drawing, too–and I ONLY got better because I *like* drawing, and I used to practice & draw a LOT as I grew up. I explained that I chose to take art classes in high school *and* I took art in college, too–and that I once had a job where I had to draw stuff (costume design in some local, small, theaters).
I ASSURED them that when *I* was a Kindergartener like them, I was WAY worse at drawing than I am now, and that it was just practicing & doing drawing & other art as I grew up, that let me get “good” at it.
They were SO cute, y’all–and by the way they were impressed, you would’ve thought i was Leonardo motherfucking DaVinci, rather than just a damn tracer–and alllll i could think of, as I giggled & tried to graciously accept their sewwt compliments, was the “Tracer” scene from Chasing Amy😆😂🤣🤣🤣
Seriously–if you ever need an ego boost? Go get an IPad, a pencil & some paper, find some Elementary Schoolers, and offer to “draw” pictures they can color!😉😁💖
Tracing-i was TRACING y’all, juuuuust tracing!😆😂🤣💖💞💗
Brilliant! You’d think that after three years of drawing cars (my kid’s most requested imag) on command, that I would be better at it by now. I am most definitely not. This life hack will greatly up my drawing game.
Pretty sure it’s Yutes.