I AM...

My friend at You Know It Happens At Your House Too is doing an interesting social experiment. For five minutes, she's asking you sit down and write about yourself. The catch is the phrases have to begin with I am. This is meant to be uplifting, and kept as a reminder that you have qualities that are awesome and make you unique. I just might enjoy it because I love talking about me more than anything in the world.

Interesting.

I am awesome. There are few in the world as awesome as me.

I am broken. Not worthless, not perfect, but broken. I'm okay with that.

I am a procrastinator. It gets done.....but on my time.

I am a geek. I may not be as geeky as some, but I'm okay with that.

I am a genius..........on paper. It's the real world stuff that gets me sometimes.

I am funny. No, really, I am.

I am a kid at heart. I'd rather hit the toy aisle of a Target than anywhere else in the store.

This pretty much sums it up

I am me.

There's my list......now, I throw out the challenge. Who are YOU?

Blog Challenge: Harry Potter Wands

Having been referred to the Harry Potter book series by my niece and aunt, I voraciously read all 8 books, and have watched 6 of the movies. So when Brenda DLR posted this pin to my Blog Challenges Pintrest board, I was intrigued:

Last night, Amanda was home relatively early, so I decided to take on the Wizarding World of Paper Magic Wands.

It's pretty amazing that these were made of paper. My first thought was: "Oh great, they're going to be all flimsy and the kids are going to destroy them in about 4 minutes." As we progressed through the instructions, though, I found them to be surprisingly sturdy, which is also why I can never ever be an engineer.

The 3 older kids did thier own, and Amanda helped B with his. She asked me to Photoshop her picture, so I just touched up her cheekbones a little. 

She pulled up a recliner to the table, also.

The kids really enjoyed painting and decorating thier wands, but got impatient with the hot glue gun, and 3 of them, Amanda included, didn't bother to add the raised portions of the wand. 

Ally and her mysterious blurry wand

I didn't quite get to the point that the original picture did, because Ally wanted me to put glitter on mine. My raised portions of my wand were really small, and the only metallic paint I had was old plastic model paint in aluminum, so it didn't take too much. 

From left to right: Ally's, Kat's, Nic's

From left to right: Nic's, Brody's, Dad's

While they were drying, my perverted mind immediately thought: "Wow. If I ever saw a unicorn's ding, this is probably what it would look like."

But, barring the pornographic unicorn references, it was fun. Give it a try!

All Hope Is Lost....

For the first of my blog challenges, I decided to try to recreate Shepperd Fairy's iconic "HOPE" poster from the Obama '08 campaign. **THIS IS IN NO WAY POLITICALLY MOTIVATED OR REFLECTS ON MY PERSONAL POLITICAL VIEWS** That discussion will probably never happen here.

Here is the poster:

I found this pin on Pinterest, complete with instructions for Photoshop. Sweet!

First problem: I know absolutely jack about Photoshop. I have the open source alternative, GIMP, so I had to alter the instructions slightly.

Second problem: I have pretty much no patience. Apparently it's required for this project to be successful. Otherwise, you end up like I did, with posters reminiscent of Toxic Avenger movie ads.

Third problem: I wasn't about to make a picture of myself.....so I found some unwilling participants.

Here are the original photos (by With Love Photography):

Here are the "HOPELESS" propaganda posters I created:

The first one....I tried following all the instructions to the letter. It doesn't look anything like the Obama poster.

Poor Katie. There weren't enough shadows or something. I followed all the instructions on this one too. After I "completed" this one, I threw the instructions out. I think the words "Close Enough" were uttered quite a bit.....

Getting better....a little closer.

And I quote: "Wrap this sucker up! I don't really give a rat's ass what it looks like. I'm tired of editing photos. Your sister is damn crazy to do this all day."

Art wasn't my strongest class, people. Cut me some slack. Besides, I told you the attempts would be laughable.

WTFriday!

Being the father that lets thier children explore (controlled) on the internet, I have no problem with them and YouTube (I changed thier settings so they can't see boobies). 

My 10 year old is now a makeup maven (like momma), and follows several makeup channels, including an awesome little girl with cancer that is so full of life, she glows. Stay with me, this is not the WTF part.

 

While stumbling across the internet, I found something that confused me. My 10 year old, however, said "Dad!! You haven't seen that?!? OMG?!?!", then my wife also reiterated the same feeling, meaning that apparently, I'm not up to par on my youtube virals. It's called the Cinammon Challenge. Seriously. Search for "Cinnamon Challenge" on YouTube, and you get this:

About 25,200 results

 

 

 

 

 

 

Challenges!

Between looking for a new house, and trying to make all the stuff that my wife has on Pintrest, I came up with a brilliant idea.

I have created a new board on my Pintrest account for blog challenges, so I can make stuff that you guys find on Pintrest, and post the results. 

Most likely, I will fail horribly. COMEDY GOLD. 

I already put a couple of ideas that I'm going to start on next week, so please feel free to send me links to pins, or mention me in the comments of any pins you would like me to add to the board and fail miserably at.

http://pinterest.com/sooperjeenyus/blog-challenges/

For the love of Pete, nothing that I have to buy stuff for. I'm broke enough as it is.