Illustration Friday, lip balms, and obsessions

Today's quickie cartoon above is for Illustration Friday. This week's theme: "Superhero," and my cartoon is in honour of parents everywhere. To post a comment specifically about the cartoon in Flickr, please click on the image above.

I helped out at my sister's this past week while she was doing school presentations, and was (as always) amazed at the amount of stuff she has on her plate. In addition to having to meet her writing and illustrating work deadlines, she picks the girls up at school AND takes them to a zillion school activities before and after school AND does homework with them AND (at the same time, somehow) plans meals and does food shopping and cooks for the family and does housecleaning AND does fun stuff with them. And somewhere squeezed into this hectic schedule, she still manages to find time to work out/exercise, read, and get some quiet-time for herself. Then when Kaarel comes home after working all day, he still always summons the energy to help with household chores, clean up after dinner, help the girls do homework, etc.

*whew*

How do you parents do it? I feel incredibly lazy in comparison.



The other topic for this Blathering is one of my lifelong obsessions (other than chocolate, that is): LIP BALMS. Some women go ga-ga over shoes. My weakness is lip balms. The above photo shows my current faves. The Vanilla Spice was part of a Christmas gift from Jodi. The Savannah Bee Mint Julep was an impulse purchase at the Columbus airport just before coming home. The Acacia Blossom Lip Honey was a decadent purchase at a closing-out sale of a local toiletries shop. The Burt's Bees lip balm is the only one readily available in my neighbourhood.

SURVEY: What's YOUR weird obsession? Y'know, an item that makes most other people raise the eyebrows and wonder about your sanity?

Link O' The Day

Wohba: Fascinating and amazing stuff here, including videos. WARNING: potential time-sink! For example, check out these incredible sand sculptures! (Thanks to Jeff for the link.)





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