The Funny Moments of Life

You know how there are just those moments where the only thing that could make it so funny is life? Lately Michael and I have had our fair share of them. This picture is of Michael holding up one of his "Plackers Hi-Performance Flossers." One of our laughing moments. For some reason this was incredibly funny to us. He put up on his facebook how these have made flossing a whole new experience for him and we thought it was a hoot.

I'm still drawing although I took a break from it yesterday. I had to pull guard duty in between the hours of 1 and 3 AM and just didn't get that much sleep as a result. So I slept from about 5 PM to 8 AM today. I've been trying to get a variety of stuff done throughout the day via keeping a list schedule, and the other day I just couldn't bring myself to do it.

This was supposed to be a drawing of folds, but turned into a weird abstract thing. Yesterday after Mike finished blogging he saved his blog in the wrong spot. I've been thinking about making a kind of artist blog for myself and so I started up a new domain name, but just haven't done much with it yet. He saved it to that domain name and then couldn't find his latest entry up here. So he asked me to figure out what went wrong, and when I told him what I think he might've done he said, "You know what, I think you might be right! That's just the sort of thing I'd do on accident because I'm a technology idiot." We started howling as a result. For some reason that was just amazingly funny to us.

This drawing was insanely frustrating. The sole of the foot is very difficult to do.

Michael had his award ceremony the other day. He got a Bronze Star for his end of tour award this year. This is his second one.

This hand drawing is Michael's favorite drawing so far. I'm holding my JSCM, which is my end of tour award. He says it looks the most real because I foreshortened it. We've been laughing today while Michael goofed around with these glow sticks he found in a discarded care package. He does these dances that are hysterical. We also went on a "double date" to the local DFAC for ribs as on Sundays they make these amazing ribs...so good. It actually felt normal to do even if we are in Iraq. So all in all things are good. We're happy and less than 30 days until we go home. We've been getting a lot of time together, which is always nice. Especially when once we get back we're going to have to get into the grind of things again. So we hope everyone's doing well. We love you and hope you're safe and happy. TTFN.

~R.