MS Paint Mondays 52

Good Morning Readers! I am back and I am ready to dance or erm blog! It isn't just any Monday and I don't just mean because it is MS Paint Monday, nah brotatos and siselery sticks, it is also Mother's day here in Costa Rica, so that means I had the day to chill with my familia, and that just helps put me in a better mood, paint or no paint! Anyhow let us dig in to MS Paint Mondays!! 

--Thoughts of the day--

* So I am the last person to talk about having a good mother son relationship as I fought with mine for 7 years before finally having the courage to open up to her again/apologize to her despite me not being the only one at fault. The point is I am not an ideal son, yet even I know how great a challenge and nurturing experience motherhood can be; despite it being full of heartbreak, we as kids can normally be the ones to mend it all, even if we feel we shouldn't have to.

* This thought only became stronger throughout the day as friends and other mothers in my family posted pictures, well-meaning messages, and lovely memories all over social media and texts, I just wish love for the family (not just mothers) could be more evident in today's society. I feel like the push is for everyone to be out working and kids to be taken care of by the outside world/influences. It's honestly quite sad.

*Then I started thinking about family struggles and social media nonsense, and I got a one of those notifications from Instagram telling me that some random person tagged me on one of those how to get more instagram fans nonsense posts. That made me think, why do people do this? Is there some 35 year old guy in Turkey, named something like Farketh, who falls for these traps or adds random people in hopes of fans as he has a shrill voice and people cannot take him seriously because of it. Now I imagine him eventually getting the fans he so thirstily desires only to exclaim in his high pitched voice "Giddy up Daddy!" But why, why would he say that? What if his dad was in the room and said, "What? No, you are too old to play horsey on daddy's knee!!" I imagine Farketh, rolling his eyes, and telling his dad, "You promised me we would play horsey as soon as you got home!!"; "That was 14 years ago!!" cries his father. (Then I started laughing hysterically, imagining a 21 year old Turkish man begging his father for a horsey ride on his knee... lol). I then pondered further, why would he want this horsey ride so badly, and then it clicked, what if they played horsey at a young age and his father knee'd his testicles so high up that his voice became permanently shrill, and he can never get back to normal speaking pitch until he gets a healing horsey ride... and... and... what were we talking about?

Soooo mother's day makes me think of this old co-worker friend I used to have who had a love for cows, and how she became an amazing mother 3 years ago, so therefore I will honor her this year with the paint "Katherinne and her Cow". In the end, go out, enjoy your mothers or motherly figures in your lives, but not just today, do so everyday! Give out them hugs! :D

As always, I hope this exercise helps you ease that weekly case of the Mondays and inspires you to start creating new things, and really help expand the creative construct that is your brain! I encourage you to share/send me your own MS Paint Monday creations, if I get enough I plan to do an MS Paint showcase at the end of every week so we can enjoy each other's styles and imaginations.

Much Love, Wachi

I Was on TV a Fifth Time

Random Life Update!!

***I Was on TV... A Fifth Time***

Good Morning ladies and gentlereaders! I am back again to low-key brag about my TV appearances on national Costa Rican programming lol. Nah, to be honest this is more for documentation purposes and I have friends who like when I share these such occasions. So without further ado, let's get the ball rolling on my 5th though technically 4th TV appearance.

So as usual I am portraying another family name in the genealogy based show, "Linajes", this time we did the last name Philips, which is a pretty uncommon last name in a latino country, as we researched this, we found that the Philips "clan" of sorts, had quite the unexpected journey before becoming a staple in Costa Rica, making stops in both Bosnia and Scotland.

The filming took place in this small clearing next to a grassy downward slope, here's a quick picture to illustrate the dangers that we as historical re-actors have to tackle to bring you such quality programming lol;

So as you can clearly see, we had to brave past drug-addict homesteads, venomous wildlife, and clearly real assassination attempts. This is no joke friends, this serene-looking clearing in the woods, was more sinister than your old school fairy tales, and I am talking before Walt Disney turned them into colorful, happy ending bonanzas!!

Regardless we do this all for you, you sweet, curious public ♥. With all that said I will quit stalling and present you with the Philips' episode of Linajes (and yes, I too think my wife is a descendant from Pixar's Brave.);

Link: Philips' fantastical beginnings


With all that said and done I hope you enjoy this small bite of my sandwich of future stardom haha, by the way, in case you are impatient, my scenes begin at around the 4 minute mark, again apologies that it is in Spanish, but hey maybe you'll understand a thing or two.

As always I am open to any criticism on my tv reenactment skills, or lack thereof, not only this but I appreciate those who decided to watch and support the national channel, even if you didn't understand a thing.

Much Love,

Wachi

MS Paint Mondays 50 (and 51)

Good Morning Readers! Hope you are all having a wonderful, Wednesday..? Yes, yes, I know it isn't Monday, but here in Costa Rica, both Monday and Tuesday were Virgin de Los Angeles day(s), or holidays dedicated to visit the Virgin Mary in Cartago, so MS Paint Monday this week has been pushed back until today, so with that said let's bounce to the beat of MS PAINT MO--ERM... WEDNESDAY!!!!!

--Thoughts of the day--

* In these times where people here take a pilgrimage to visit the Virgin Mary at an old church to reflect on themselves and truly ask for and remember what is important for them and their lives as well as the lives of their loved ones. 

* So often we meet someone who rubs us the wrong way and we just actively avoid them, or we express love and compassion for trivialities over things that actually matter. Basically people have a lot of their views and priorities skewed and this is a time we try and get that straightened out.

* What's sad is these revelations we have during times like this usually fizzle out until the next big holiday, like Christmas or New Years, only to continue on like this, it honestly is the little things we do and feel that we sometimes don't even realize we do it.

With all that said the first (yes, I making this a 2 paint week, since I started late) paint is titled "DD" for Douglas David, which was a co-worker who shamelessly flirted with our friend in the office to almost "rapey" standards and she didn't see it, we couldn't stand him and therefore reduced to avoiding him and giving him elementary school annoyance tactics in order to push him away, which honestly made us less mature than he. So this is an example of a person whom by avoiding I may have made them worse. People should attribute respect and even positive qualities towards all folks, making an effort to be friendly, even if someone doesn't rub you the right way. How is anyone supposed to grow, if you never even share a moment, conversation?

For paint numero dos, we have the quaintly named "Frank Sinatra.... lol". Yes, I actually added 3 dots and a lol to the title because I thought my pun was THAT hilarious, I am aware I am lame, but I am even lamer to have drawn this simply because the company bought us hot-dogs for lunch. As you can see, the aptly named sausage is singing "Love N' Mayo" which is a reference to the real Fran Sinatra's classic, "Love and Marriage", and yes even though this is a silly doodle with no deeper meaning, I thought it served as a good example at how easily we are able to thrust out powerful words in order to describe the mundane. Take Pizza for example, I really like pizza, a whole freaking lot, but I always tell Pizza that I love it, I am guilty of slightly killing the impact of the word love. The definition of love is so much broader than just a great affection for, and the fact that I can so effortlessly use it to describe a consumable over a person in my life speaks volumes of our own priorities in life... or maybe I am just overthinking it all, hmm, you tell me.

As always, I hope this exercise helps you ease that weekly case of the Mondays and inspires you to start creating new things, and really help expand the creative construct that is your brain! I encourage you to share/send me your own MS Paint Monday creations, if I get enough I plan to do an MS Paint showcase at the end of every week so we can enjoy each other's styles and imaginations.

Much Love, Wachi