Lil blue couch, where oh where are you?

HELP! I've lost my lil blue couch! It has been misplaced! This is a catastrophe. (what a weird word to spell.  I got a trophy for the best catastrophe. haha) I know my lil blue couch is around here somewhere. Somewhere. Somewhere.  I think I hear it.  It's muffled. Must be still in a box somewhere.  I need to find it. My new mission.  Mish's new mission.  Oh dear. I am troubled.  Perhaps it's the box underneath the glue, paper, scizzors (yes, i spelled them with zzzzz's and i don't care!) and scribbles.  My brain is frazzled. (there's those zzzz's again. they like me today. i need more zzzzz's. more zzzzz's would help.)  I hope to unwind someday.  But I'm afraid it won't happen til I find that couch.  If you see it, will you let me know.  Or at the very least, tell it I'm looking for it and I will find it soon. I will. Thanks. :) I appreciate it.

It's a school night!!!

AHH!!! I have to go to bed early!! How does one do that? I am the QUEEN of late nights, so we shall see how this goes. HAhA.  Tomorrow is the student's first day, but they don't go to art. So technically, my first day TEACHING is Wednesday.  Regardless, I am STILL nervous.  My biggest problem? WHAT TO WEAR!! I remember the days of middle school, and all through high school, wondering and panicking about what to wear to school the next day.  Obviously, things haven't changed!  But now I don't have my older brother here to mess me up and change all the clocks in the house so I think I'm running late when I'm not. Mean.  Anyway, I'm so excited to meet all the students! Honest! I enjoy my job.  I've shed many happy tears lately due to this fact.  I am so grateful.  I know I have many challenges before me and it might not come naturally.  And I know I'm going to suddenly be exhausted. (eeeeek! no more blankey and pillow and comfiness and sleeping in!!!!) (yes, that's right, I said BLANKEY!!) hahahahahaha  Well...I must get back to choosing what to wear.  (give me a break!) I know!! hahahahahaha  Oh pics. Pics I shall take tomorrow of my room.  My partially finished room! (will it EVER be finished, mish? no, probably not. But it's good to have dreams) Oooooh, speaking of dreams.....

Pinch me!

Pinch me! On second thought, don't!  For one, it'll hurt and two, I don't want to know if this is a dream! 

Goodbye summer! Til we meet again!  And until then....oh the adventures I will have! WAHOOOO!


And yes, I WILL have adventures. How dare you doubt me!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Last Day of Summer Vacay!

I'm so happy!!!

Here I sit, on my wonderful old couch.  The tiny lil blue one? No.  But yes, perhaps this will turn out to be a trip to that tiny blue couch after all. (mish, i'm already confused.) (good. that's the way we like it!) Hmmmm....I'm reminded of a quote.  By none other than Harry S. Truman. He said (where and when and in reference to...I don't know) But he said, "If you can't convince them, confuse them."  It makes me laugh and at the same time it is horrible.  I think most professors I have met - the ones of boring topics (hehehe) have used this logic.  Oh, perhaps you are saying to yourself, "Mish, I think you are just dumb and don't understand the boring topics. How dare you blame the smarty profs for confusing you instead of convincing you." And so....I've confused myself, AGAIN, in only a matter of minutes.  Probably just one minute.

Anyway, sheeesh, before I get toooo carried away.  August!!! Where have you gone!! What happened to you??!!  I'll tell ya what happened!!  IT WAS GREAT!! I HAD A GREAT AUGUST!!!!  I got to meet my favorite actor (how charming!! dream come true!) and I got to reach another goal I had in my life - to be an extra in a movie!  It was great. It is great. Great. Great. Greatness!  So fun! To see the behind the scenes stuff - out of this world LOVED it!!  I'll never ever forget it.  I hope they don't cut my scenes! (haha my scenes!!) I would love for you to see me in the background - even if for a split second! And all of this has inspired me. Inspired me in ways you have no idea!  (more on that later...) For now I sit (quite comfortably, I might add) on the last night of my summer vacay. (yes, that means vacation. me - lazy typer! haha) Another great part of August - I got to step into my very first, very own art classroom!!  YES YES YES - ANOTHER DREAM COME TRUE!!!!! I tell ya, I meant it when I said this was a TRULY GREAT AUGUST!!! EXCELLENT! SUPERB!!  (of course, you should be reading this with a British accent. Of course.) (it only makes it betta!) Yes, my thoughts ARE betta in such a tongue! hahaha.  I crack myself up.

So I want to blog these thoughts, these moments of pure bliss.  For I know this is a season of harvest for me. I've been renewed! It is wonderful! God has blessed me! I am soooooo happpyyy!!! I want to hang on to this feeling, this moment, this strong inspiring emotion! Never let it go. Never. (nevah) I look forward to this school year ahead of me.  I know it'll be challenging and great. I'm so thankful for all of it. Every last bit. You betcha!  Oh don't worry, I'll write more on my inspiring inspirations (hahahahaha what wording!) But for now, I shall get off this lil tiny blue couch and head to my bed.  Before I do, I shall leave you with a quote - one I shall surely discuss later!

"All your dreams can come true, if you have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney

Start the climb!

Another Trip to the Tiny Couch: Anything is Possible!

A Lil Couch Time

I am feeling optimistic this evening.  Do you know why? I know why.  Let's just say that GOOD WEEKENDS DO HAPPEN!! Trust me, they do. They really really do! Oh yes, we've all had those weekends that we thought we couldn't get any lower, (oh come on, you know the ones: sweats, munchies, tv, boredom, lack of helium.....helium??? hahahaha yes, that, too)  but hang tight, GOODNESS is coming!  Funny, I reread this and it sounds like I live for the weekends. So definitely not true.  But when ya have a good one, it sure is refreshing.  Fun is refreshing.  I like the word refreshing.  It refreshes me just to say the word refreshing. REFRESH. REFRESHMENT. (oooh now i'm thirsty!) FRESH. no no, just refresh! I like the word compelling lately, too.  I want to be compelled. I want to compel someone.  Can you compel someone?? Hmm, mish, I think that isn't right. What do I know.  I want to compel you. I'm going to compel you to do something. HMMMM....just doesn't sound right to me.  Oh dear, my summer obviously has been good to me - or at least to my brain!! My oh so COMPELLING brain! raa haa haa

I'm currently crossing my fingers in hopes that my lil mac will be able to hold my latest upload of pics.  ---Just checked. . . . 202 to go!! ahhhh!  I've been deleting photos for days it seems, and to no avail.  I want a computer with an endless endless, and when I say endless (you didn't say endless, you typed it.) (Ya know, mish, i'm kinda getting tired of hearing that one!) (yea, but it's funny still, isn't it!!?? isn't it??) (oh hush) what was I saying? I don't know but 79 more pics to go! Cross your fingers everybody...cuz I can't cross 'em while I type! haha I crack my self up.  Oh little tiny couch, to what is your purpose today?  Certainly not to be shiny and cute.  hehe What am I even saying.  AAh, alas, I hear the purpose of the tiny couch visit today! The purpose is that anything is possible.  After my wonderful weekend, anything is possible and, dare I say it, DREAM BIG! (oh, I do. Trust me. I really really do dream big.) Only way to dream.  Now if only my pillow was big enough...

Reaching for my dreams!

List # 897

1. Make a list of everything you need to do. 
2. In PEN.
3. Read it over, make sure you included EVERYTHING.
4. And I mean, everything!
5. Hmmm....do you include that you need to scratch your back?
6. YES!
7. I did say everything, after all.
8. NO, you TYPED it.
9. Did not.
10. Anyway, take that list and rip it up. Into teeny tiny pieces. 
11. Now crumble them.
12. Crumble some more. 
13. Spit on it.
14. Crumble together again (should stick together better this way!)
15. Now THROW it away!.....and try to hit that wall with it on its way to the trash can!
16. Smile :] 

Thrills and Spills of Summer (things i love 'bout summa!)

Now THIS is how you enjoy summer!!! LOVE!

I just felt the need to let you know that I do enjoy summer. . . . . . . sometimes!

1. Sleeping in oh sleeping in!!
2. No FORCED work.
3. What's that? 
4. you know....when you have to go somewhere and be someone for 8 hours a day.
5. oh . . . . THAT
6. walks....but walks in winter are much much MUCH more fun!
7. hey, this is supposed to be a happy thought, mish!
8. ooops...
9. kayaking! fun!
10. my kayak's name is Tiny Bubbles
11. Campfires...mmmmmmmm....smells....sounds....stories and glories.
12. don't forget the mallos!
13. flippy-floppies :o)
14. swinging on the back porch (i'm just a swingin'...)
15. rain 
16. umbrellas
17. ummm....it doesn't only rain in summer
18. ok, so that one doesn't count!
19. oh! ICECREAM CONES! YUMMM!
20. and last but definitely not least..........drum roll please..........
21. .................i can't hear you.....................ddddddddddddddd...bbbppppppttttdddddddddd
22. ....MY AIR CONDITIONER!!! AND HIS FRIEND, THE FAN!!!

p.s. nice drum roll :)

Dog Days of Summer

Dog days of summer

Dog days of bummer

Bummer for the funner

Summer for the hummer.

Hummer for the dumber

And dumber for the dog.

hehehe

Tick Tock, Get Out the Blocks!

Red Village is next to Blue Village

The 'burbs!

Do you live on this street?

You can still see the skyscrapers from the burbs.

I liked the lil blue village. I need more blue blocks!

When was the last time you played with some toys? Better yet, toys that don't require batteries, that don't need to be charged or need a decent signal to work?  Recently I was doing some lesson planning and brought out the building blocks for my classroom and well....I just started playing.  Before I knew it, I had built an entire village! It was incredibly engaging. The world tuned out. I was five again. Just with bigger fingers and better dexterity. haha. But my mind was there. I had no worries on my mind. I didn't care what I looked like at the moment, I didn't care about the bills on the counter, the phone that rang, buzzed and beeped. And those dishes! Oh the dishes! I didn't have to do those, for after all, I was FIVE YEARS OLD AGAIN! All that was on my mind was finding all the blue blocks to make a blue village.  Troubling, because I didn't have enough blue blocks. I had to go with red. Red was good. ooooh but then there's yellow, too. Hmmm....It's my little red roof village.  The people that live on the street are super nice and their kids are always outside playing ball in the street, or up in that lil tree house in the great big tree in their backyard. Don't you see it? It's right there.....

After hours (hours? well...I actually have no idea how long it was, it probably was only 20 minutes. But that 20min was funfilled!) of playing, building, creating, and pretending, I was done. I stood up and looked at my village. It was great! Yes, I'm saying it....I'm praising my own work! Why not.  We as adults try so hard to not boast about our work.  But then in doing that, after awhile, you tend to truly believe that your work isn't that great. And surprise, you don't do anymore work. But DON'T LISTEN TO THAT VOICE! YOUR WORK IS GREAT! Why? Because you enjoyed creating it, that's why!  So here I was standing and staring at my marvelous lil creation. And what did mish do?  (got out my camera - of course)

So I urge you to take this challenge.  Go find some toys that don't require signals, batteries or gadgets and let yourself play. Build. Create. Imagine.  Listen to that lil child inside you.  That child isn't worried or stressed.  He/she wants to play! Run! Relax! and of course, giggle! Listen to the sounds of the blocks, Legos, sticks, rocks, whatever it is you found and just imagine. 

Enjoy!

Summer Days Summer Haze

Summer days, oh summer days
You fill me with a tiny craze.
Tiny? Yes. But a craze indeed.
Craze for shade, craze for breeze
Craze for feeling that freezing freeze!!

Haze of shelter
Haze of blue
Haze I feel to what you do.
When I sit and sweat to death.
I hate the haze upon my breath.

I make no sense.
I know you'll see
The giggles have halted
The mind is melted.
I sit in a stare of gooey cheese.

Summer days oh summer haze
I'll take you while I can.
But know in my heart
where it pitters and patters
I will go thump for my freezing cold matters!

Yes! Cold matters!
Save the COLD! Run! Run to your AC
And give it a hug.

Thank you and goodnight.

I need more btu's

I'm not getting enough sleep. Or any good sleep.  It's too hot in our room at night.  Stupid air conditioner just doesn't seem to reach our bedroom like it used to (sniff sniff!!) Tonight... I'm sleeping on the couch! hahaha Yea right, my bed is soooo comfy.  But it's too hot in there.  That's it, I'm moving my bed to my living room! Oh if only I could. Why is it that when I can sleep in and it doesn't matter when I awake that I cannot sleep.  But oh when those cold wonderfully cold cold nights come I'll be able to sleep sleep sleep but I'll have to get up up up for work work work. And way to early early early! But how I will love love love my job! OK,  I think I need to stop stop stop! hehehe

Things I've Seen Today

1. The very back of my art room.
2. By uncovering it, that's how. Phew. There's a lot of stuff in there.
3. But why?
4. Well, it's an art room, that's why.
5. Doesn't your art room have a lot of stuff in it.
6. Yes...
7. To find something I lost. I was frantic.
8. In doing so I found something ELSE I lost that I stopped looking for! BONUS.
9. I only spent an hour looking for the lost item (the first lost item I mentioned).
10. Guess where it was?
11. In the first place I thought to look.........but of course I didn't look there til WELL into the search!
12. You mean you actually kept looking after you found it?
13. No, that's just silly.
14. Yes, clearly.
15. And just what were you looking for?
16. A card, of course.
17. Yes, of course
18. Back to things I've seen today...

Tiny Couch, Many People, One Mish

One tiny lil couch, so many ideas do I see when I look at it. What will this lil couch cause me to say today, I wonder? I have no idea. (hmm...it is kinda dirty, and old). I like to write(or should I say laugh); there's this little child inside me that wants me to write (giggle) - so I must fulfill her needs, right? Right. I like that I'm listening to a child! I am an artist. But I haven't created anything lately. Aren't artists supposed to create something? DO something? So, I had to do something. So, I shall sit on this lil couch in the photo above and unload what goes on between my ears! haha. What will I write about, we shall all find out I guess. I have this grand vision - writing of my dreams, visions, ideas and seeing them implemented. How cool would that be. I'm sure it seems selfishly silly to title my blog after me and write about me. (I think that's kinda the point, mish! oh! silly me!) But I'm on a path of discovery here, whether it's personal discovery, people discovery, place, (oh explorer mish!) or thing....time will tell. All about the journey right? Sounds so cliche, but really, is being cliche so bad? Really, is it? I sometimes find it comforting that I'm thinking something so many others have thought. And sometimes not. I originally wanted to blog in list form. I think I might. I just might. I could write of my daily adventures through the mind of a mish. I could write an entire book alone on the funny things my husband says or does on a daily basis (ask me about this later. just mention these two words - raccoon|shed - trust me). I think I'll start out with the basic elements of mish. Of mishdom. (hahahaha)What is a mish? Keep coming back and sooner or later it'll hit you - oh - that's a mish! (oh dear, I see many trips to this tiny couch!)

Ten Reasons to Start Blogging

1. why not
2. time to start something new
3. ya never know
4. you never know what?
5. exactly my point
6. I enjoy speaking in lists
7. cuz it's fun
   
8. I know you asked why, didn't you?
9. I finally decided on my name for my blog
10. so why not??