OK, I lied. Another raster graphic.
I’m almost done with this series!
Category: Iconic Anecdotes
Icon of the Day – Iconic Anecdotes – My Eyes are Playing Tricks
I have been on the computer all day. My hands are tired. My neck is tired. My eyes are tired. This is what everything starts to look like after staring at a computer screen all day. Yeah, I am supposed to stare away. It still happens. Maybe its age. It feels like, my eyes are playing tricks on me.
Or maybe its a Michael Kors bag.
Icon of the Day – Iconic Anecdotes – Going off in Too Many Directions
Overwhelm.
Sometimes there is too much going on.
I feel overextended. Scattered. Out of balance. Yet every day I somehow keep things together.
Icon of the Day – Iconic Anecdotes – Mad/Mad: Two Takes/Same Face
Two Moods at Once
Today my son was making this weird, scrunched-up face. I asked him what it was.
He said: “See, on once side it is MAD and on the other side it is CRAZY. I’ve seen it on cartoons.”
So, if I can be forgiven for using the “crutch” of “cute things said by cute kids”, I present to you:
Icon of the Day – Iconic Anecdotes – Hunger
Today’s icon, and posting, are minimal, to reflect the spareness of hunger itself.
Icon of the Day – Iconic Anecdotes – A Cog NOT in the Machine
Are you in or out?
When you have a job, it is easy to feel like a cog in the machine. Sometimes, you just want OUT.
When you are out of work, that machine that seemed so oppressive back when you were spinning away in it seems strangely alluring.
What a strange place to be.
Icon of the Day – Iconic Anecdotes – You Make the Call!
Icon of the Day – Iconic Anecdotes – Like a Deer Caught in the Headlight
Icon of the Day – Iconic Anecdotes – The Identifying Good Hair Day
OK I am making this one quick today.
The opposite of a Universal Bad Hair Day is:
The Identifying Good Hair Day
(c’mon, guess who it is!!!)
OK.
It’s Elvis.
Icon of the Day – Iconic Anecdotes – The Universal Bad Hair Day
Insomnia.
One night, maybe in the early 90s, I could not sleep.
What did I do?
Well I did what any media-obsessed woman in her mid-20s would do.
Let’s see, there was the Lucky Star overblown, bleached blond poof and the Papa Don’t Preach Pixie and the definitave Bridge and Tunnel Virgin Mess (before they were doing it) and the Like a Prayer (rare) brunette Italian Film Star locks. Even to this day, it continues going up to her Cowgirl Wave or her My Roots are Showing straight hair chic.
Now the woman has gone way beyond the usual cycles of celebrity, and has come to symbolize th cycles of womanhood itself. I was also thinking that we could visualize her like a Picasso painting. All hairstyles from all times at all angles all at once. Well, since it is an icon, I chose just three hairstyles. But, presented all at once, they start to look not anywhere near as good as one might hope. It becomes, in effect a bad hair day for our lady. Which brings us to today’s icon.
Icon of the Day – Iconic Anecdotes – Why Have I Been on Hold for So Long?
Oh, the Irony of it All.
I was recently on the phone with the Unemployment department. Maybe its a sign of the times, but I was on hold for 120 minutes.
Well, I can’t say they didn’t warn us. The automated voice did say: “the expected hold time is 120 minutes”.
It would employ a lot of people to be answering those callers!
Well, I finally did speak with someone.
I was exhausted.
Icon of the Day – Iconic Anecdotes – The Dog Ate My Waffle
Or, The Case of the Craving Canine.
Our dog will eat anything if she can get her teeth on it.
Usually the best thing to do is keep her out on the porch during meals.
Today it was below freezing, so we kept her inside.
Unfortunately, when the kid turned his back for a moment, the dog managed to dart out and grab his breakfast.
Obviously, this is not good for any of us.
But, it makes a pretty cool icon.
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