Fish and Skull

I’m experimenting with color. I think I should stick with black and white and make a coloring book instead.

A collection of skulls seems so necessary when I’m drawing. It’s so fun to draw. Can you guess the skull?

Flowers

Though it may not be spring, it sure feels like it here in San Francisco!

I watched How to Train your Dragon 2 and I love it when toothless is eating fish.

Craft nights are pretty much wild cards, but we decided to make felt flowers of these types.

Creepy Crawlies

Whenever I go to the Academy of Sciences, I love looking at the armored catfish. They’re so fascinating.

I heard some froggy noises, so I followed just to find what I thought was a frog! It turned out it was a California newt.

There was an insect bbq, and I had one of these hornworms in a spring roll. I’ll say that I much prefer crickets over the caterpillars, though.

Random things

I love these long tailed grackles! They’re so elegant in my eyes.

Cheetos are good for my workouts, right? They have whey in them!

We watched some wrestling and I super love their underwear and long boots!

The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is an amazing show. Drop everything to go watch it now on Netflix.

I also love MadMen for their women’s outfits. Go costume designers!

I don’t know. I was thinking of weird vending machine items and I thought seafood would be bizarre! I wonder if it exists anywhere.

Believe in yourself.

On my road trip, I saw a dead jackrabbit and I thought, what would it be like if we left our deceased like we leave our roadkill. That’s what inspired me.

Happy Lunar New Year

Happy Chinese New Year, friends!

Year of the ram!

Getting old and food related

You know you’re getting old when your car insurance goes down (yes!), but your health insurance goes up (nooooo! Age brackets!).

Sometimes you need a battle ram.

Do you love/hate first person games as much as me? Love playing, hate nauseous feeling.

It really sucks being a girl. I mean, I get cramps so major that I just feel really sore. Now pair that with a really hard without for the first time in forever. Deadlifting? Squats? Ugh!

Sometimes dating a man with a beard tells you many things about him… Mostly what he ate from the tales of food past.

And some of you may or may not know this, but I am a true San Francisco native. I even know the hand signs! Though it’s really hard to do.

Lastly, I went to a friend’s 40th birthday party! I haven’t seen her since we graduated from the animation program! Good to see her.

Daggers in my eyes

Whenever I’m too full, (I’m the worst with portion control) I imagine a party in my stomach.

I’ll use anything at hand to shade me from the sharp sting of the sun in my eyes.

Don’t you hate it when you get the smallest speck of dust between your eye and contact? How is it possible to feel like the pain of thousand daggers and the fiery burn of a dragon’s breath in your eyes? Only those that wear contacts will know this pain.

Catching up

I had some passport pictures taken and it’s always a struggle between what you think you look like and the reality.

Then I had a dream where I didn’t feel comfortable with how my teeth were and didn’t smile.

When sitting in a coffee shop and flies are hanging out, I just think of them barfing all over everything they land on and how it’s completely disgusting.

Sometimes I forget how gross it must be for a vegan to date an omnivore… Especially when she adds extra dried shrimp and fish sauce to her salad.

The Musee Mecanique is worth checking out, especially the French execution. #spoileralert

Topics like mochi must be discussed over dinner, but when asked how do I get the consistency right, I just tell them they don’t have the magic.

When I was a kid, my dad would tell me weird stories about work… Like this time a guy in Chinatown randomly asked if he would like to buy a bottle of mice fetus wine. I asked him what it was for and he had no idea.

I just had some lobster sashimi topped with tobiko and I always think of the generations I’m murdering in my mouth and Joe delicious they are with their gentle, salty popping.

When life is too real

I get these csa boxes delivered to my house. It’s like a farm service where they deliver you super fresh, organic produce to your door for only thirty five dollars. Anyway, I get this head of cauliflower and I see this brown thing between the branches. I thought oh! This might be a cool beetle or something! Then I look closer and realize it’s squirming and trying to crawl away. As I was deforesting his home, I start freaking out about it. He’s eating and shitting all over my cauliflower. If you wanna ever know what caterpillar dookie ever looked like, here it is.

You’re welcome. So here’s Noctua Pronuba, a crop pest.

Then I took some passport photos… And you know… They never really look like how you think they do…

Sweet bees

Beads? Bees? Beads! And sweets. Mendl’s, specifically. From The Grand Budapest Hotel. And dead bumblebees from hiking. Sad.

Then this coffee roasting machine from The Beanery, which is a local coffee shop.