Summer scarves

This blog's purpose is to bring to attention the trend of summer scarves. Here at Luxottica people are pretty high on fashion and not just the sunglass variety. Guys are wearing skinny jeans, and girls wearing glasses in which the lens are about the same size as my open hand while indoors. Now this past couple weeks the temperature has been in the 90's with a heat index of making it feel like it was in the 100's some days. With the temperature that high of course the air is going to be on in the building, but they do not blast it and it is in no way freezing in here. This fact does not prevent women and men alike to be wearing a scarf with their wardrobe. I think it is hilarious and my friend Tiffany wears them and I give her a lot of crap about it too. However, when guys are wearing them in the office I lose it. They all look like they are sweating which I depicted in my picture but have to wear a scarf to cover up their vampire bite wound they performed with a stapler remover because of their undying love for twilight. At least that is my opinion on why they would wear these "accessories" in the middle of the hottest summer in a while.

Bora Bora

Has anyone ever been to the French Polynesian Islands? They are incredible and that is being said with me just looking at screen savers and desktops. My favorite island looks to be Bora Bora, because of the amazing beaches and the remote feeling of it. I actually had tickets to go here once purchased but that "fell through" and they had to be refunded and thankfully I was able to do that. It is quite expensive to fly there and stay. However, I will be going there one day. I don't care when or with whom at the moment but it will happen. To help illustrate my point I will obviously create a picture for you in paint using nothing but my memory (of the screensaver). Feel free to use as your desktop wallpaper! (PS it is hard to show depth in paint. The blue in the background is the amazing water)

Pinky out.

Today at lunch I noticed 2 different people who were drinking their pop with their pinky out. There has been laughs about this already within volleyball limits. But I am now noticing more and more people who are promoting this "drink with the pink" out attitude. I only feel like I should be doing that sipping on wine that does not have the name Korbel. I am now determined with John to take a tally of how many people do drink and point at the same time. Until then... pinky out bitches. Enjoy the pic.

Amazing sweaters and shirts

Today's blog is about the sweaters, shirts, and ties that were handed down to me by my Great Grandma. They belonged to my Great Grandpa who was pretty influential in my life. He was an absolute sports nut. A die hard baseball fan (Cubs fan but still a fan). He took me to my first baseball game when I was 4, I actually remember some of the game too. These sweaters she gave me were insanely bright and drew attention so of course I loved them. The ties were the same and he actually had a piano tie I still have. I am pretty sure he is where I got my sense of humor. My Great Grandma also gave me some of his socks too. All of them had Zulich written over them (his last name). I tried to draw one of the sweaters I saw last night in my closet. The pic doesn't do it justice though. It is 100 times more awesome than the pic. If you see me in the winter I will probably wear it to a party :)

Miss ya Gramps!

Volleywallyball day

Today is Thursday. That means that we have a volleyball game. It is the one time of the week in which it is sort of socially acceptable to carry around a toy pistol. I have included a picture of the pistol that I received as a birthday present. Best present ever, besides when I was I believe 6 and my parents got me the Ghostbusters House (pic also included). What magical days. Also as you can see the tip of the pistol is broke. I don't like to point fingers or say names of people responsible. With that being said, lets just say the name of the person who did this rhymes with Natie Smeal.

Work shananigans

We needed a sub for volleyball in two weeks, I asked my friend Marissa if she would and she said she could. I then found out that Dana truly hates a girl named Marissa she knew from a work function. So I decided to mess with her via e-mail and tell her it was the hated Marissa that was playing, it was fun but I felt a little bad because I think she really wants to kill this girl. However, I have drawn in paint how I see this showdown going down!

Greatest Creation

This was by far my greatest paint creation. It was Erin's birthday present that I was contracted to create from her sister Katie. This took me at least 15 minutes to perform not including google image look ups and dog head cropping. Just so you know 15 minutes in Microsoft paint is equivalent to about 3 and a half weeks for normal acrylic based artwork. I tried to incorporate everything that is important in her life. That included Buddha, Miles, Honey, and her sister. What you don't see is that I am also in this picture because of course I am important in her life. You can't see me because I drew myself in white. But I am peering right over Honey's left ear. Can you see me sort of... yep that is me. I am important as well.

Non-volleyball people

So, there are actually people who are reading this blog whom I did not play volleyball with. So to get you in the loop I will provide you a picture of my volleyball team. Don't worry volleyball team my friends won't judge you based off this pic. However, I also think it would be fun to share my first impression of everyone. I am curious to see what their first impression was as well. This pic shows my impression after knowing them for about 2 months and I think it is spot on. First impression list will be coming soon. :) It won't be bad, I am pretty sure I didn't have a bad first impression of anyone. Well, besides all the girls. PS I am currently working on my butt drawing skills. Then tend to come off as looking like something else. I apologize if I offend anyone who has long brown hair and balls on the left side of their hip.

Team shorts

I threw this idea out there the same day I gave the t-shirt design. It seems however most didn't take to my volleyball shorts idea. I thought they were absolutely perfect for our team. They would be comfortable but also portray a statement. That statement was, "Hey we are here to party... and go fuck yourself." This didn't catch on. But I thought I would let you see this design again and maybe you will now see what I was talking about when i designed these. The lightning stands for our speed and how quickly we can strike (by strike I mean spike a bitch in the face). The fire stands for our hot dance moves. The bear claw stands for ... well a damn bear claw, because when you see a bear claw who isn't like ... hot damn that is a bear claw. Shit that is cool. Seriously, if you play volleyball with me, think about this.

Grammarisms :)

Just a heads up. I write at about the same speed I think, which is super fast. Thus, my grammar is not going to be up to English major standards. If this upsets you... tough shit. These are my thoughts and they make perfect sense in my head. Plus, the grammar with the drawings should be perfect. So just look at those.. ass.

This started it all

This is one of my first "serious" drawings. It all started when I joined a sand volleyball team of strangers I did not know. All i knew is that they wanted a shirt but had no design. Erin Beckloff was on our team and a graphic designer but she was overwhelmed by other projects. She didn't tell me this because I barely knew her at the time, but I could see it in her eyes. I am good at reading people and their emotions. It is a gift. Like right now I know your emotion is happiness because of this blog and this paragraph. See gifted. Anyways, I decided to take the extremely important task of creating this design for our shirts and as you can see I did not disappoint. There were some minor tweaks made to the design. For example the woman in the design got boobs. I forgot details like that, how I have no idea. But here is that picture in all it's glory. If you do decide to print it out please send me $5 or at least give me a hug and tell me I changed your life for the better.

Tell your eyes I said you're welcome

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