i signed up for a drawing class..because I want to be able to gain better drawing skills so i can do my own comic sometime. right now i’m just a doodler, and I try to avoid drawing people as much as possible becaue my proportions are always totally off. anyways, we’re supposed to draw something every day, so tonight I drew a collage of my day, since I was at a loss for to draw anything else. here it is.

the grasshopper part is a tragic story. I LOVE grasshoppers. anyways, when I came home from work, I put on my favorite ancient jammies and was talking to erin when I felt something crawling up my knee. Instinctually, I grabbed my knee, and felt a HUGE BUG! I had those pants off faster than you can say “willies!”..and a mortally wounded grasshopper fell out.

I felt terrible because 1. his leg came off (one of the nice big jumping legs) and 2. he must’ve been trapped in a drawer inside my pants for DAYS. Total suckage! I have lots of guilt. The Pirate laid him to rest out in the grass in the flower garden.

Yesterday on my way to work very early in the morning, I found another cicada sitting on my screen door. My screen must be very appealing to cicadas..since I found one in that same spot last year.

Also, our friend Megan visited us this last weekend from Minneapolis. On Sunday, we had a tasty breakfast at the Lincoln Cafe in Mt. Vernon. Here, Erin + Megan are discussing..bikes!:

After too many cups of coffee and buttery biscuits, everyone gets jittery:

Finally, in an attempt to combat the coffe freakout, Erin ordered this homemade spicy pickle. Only one dollar for all that briny, onion-y goodness! mmm-mmm! a cheap treat.

If you click on Erin + her pickle, you will be transported to The Pickle flickr set, where you can see the consumption of the cuke in super-slo-mo! I recommend the 1 second interval setting for the show.