The doodles of 2008
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Recently Tim of Red Neck Bar And Grill expressed interest in my doodles which spawned the thought of a doodle retrospective. Then Frank of Frank Is Speaking threw out the suggestion of REPLACING the Converse Mood Key with a doodle! After the heart palpitations receded I was able to tell him no way.
After much searching, I realized I only have four doodles to share. I really thought I had more than that. I guess I express myself via the written word more than 90% of the time. That’s got to change in 2009.
I did, however, throw in a new doodle at the end so we’re not in complete re-runs.
Okay, so at the beginning of 2008 Mr. C and I had to tangle with the Catholic Church.
The short story goes thusly. While enjoying the benefits of Oxycontin our priest of ten years came on to me sexually in front of my husband and our children, who were in the adjoining room. As you might surmise, this had many devastating ripple effects.
One of which was sending letters to the Pope in Rome (a symbolic gesture and we still haven’t heard back from him), the National Council of Catholic Bishops in Washington DC, our local Archdiocese and our local Victim Assistance Coordinator.
In an effed up turn of events, that Victim Assistance Coordinator turned out to be a mentor and tight friend of the @sshole priest.
The Monsignor (the mentor) and I had a good old fashion screaming match on the phone as Mr. C listened with his mouth hanging open.
Mr. C was the voice of reason on that call and I was the voice of ballistic outrage. And I did bitch-slap that Monsignor back to Thursday and I made him apologize twice. Because the first time he was dripping with sarcasm. Bastard.
The priest basically got a tap on the wrist, is “working on that issue in counseling” and is still the parish priest at our old church.
In explaining who we wrote to I created a crude Catholic Hierarchy for the non-Catholics in the house. It ends with me in a fury.
Then there was the elbow incident over the summer. I really enjoy watching true crime and medical shows. Enter Dr. G: Medical Examiner. In this doodle, I wondered if I ended up in Dr. G’s morgue would she have been able to figure out what happened to my elbow.
As you may recall, I recently complained about the new jumbo sizing of Burger King’s drinks in the following doodle.
And that was all I had. But I felt I should add something new, so I present the day I called 911.
This should not be confused with the other day I called 911. I haven’t created a doodle for the first call.
But back to the doodle. It’s sort of difficult to read the text above his notepad. It says: Notepad with my name and birth date.
Because after the guns were drawn and the house was deemed safe, I had to pony up my personal information. And that. Totally. Freaked. Me. Out.
All I could look at was his gun. I really felt like he was going to suddenly lock me into a neck hold, put the loaded gun on my jugular and scream, “You just wasted the taxpayer’s money! Don’t ever do that again!”
But he did not do that.
So that’s all I have to represent 2008, but I think it accurately highlights the happenings of the past year.
Going forward, my New Year’s Goal is to doodle more often in 2009. And to avoid a third call to 911.
Oh, how I enjoyed this! I remember the Catholic Hierarchy and The Elbow Incident, but I missed the Jumbo BK Drink doodle. And I love the new one (complete with rings of sweat!) I would never dare suggest replacing the Converse Mood Key, but I think doodles should definitely take a more prominent place in the new year.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Thanks JD! Happy New Year to you, too! Yes, that new one just wouldn’t have been complete without the ever expanding sweat rings.
Ha ha… they sound like good goals for 2009 :)
I hate to pin myself down with an actual resolution, you know? It’s just too … resolute. But a goal, now that’s something one strives toward and something that has a chance of success. And between the two, I’m really hoping to be successful on the latter.
Awesome doodles. As a new Catholic I especially like the first drawing explaining the hierarchy to me! Have a great New Year, see you in 2009.
Thanks Michelle! I’m sure I’m forgetting someone in that Catholic doodle, but it’s close enough, I guess. Of course the ones I know that are correct are the deacon, the punk priest and the betch who is the monsignor. Punks. No, I’m not over it. I’m still working through that one.
Hey!
Happy New Year! Hope you had a great holiday. Love the doodles (although I don’t consider them doodles but works of art…doodles are just little random scribbles not drawings that tell a story). Definitely don’t replace the low tops, but more doodles are always welcomed.
Happy New Year, Buf!
Sweet! I like the idea of works of art. And I’m shooting for a doodle a month, because then my 2009 retrospective will have some legs to it.
Do NOT replace the Converse thingy! I knew you wouldn’t anyway, but, still….
And yes, you must doodle more. I’m looking forward to a doodle of me and The Idiot Child sometime between March 14th and March 20th, 2009. See?! DATES!!! Already RTO’d at the J.O.B.!!! I’m really, really gonna do this!
Ahem…* No. I have not been smoking funny stuff, I swear.
I hope that week (Ky’s Spring Break) will have a day or two (or three or four) of visiting/coffee-ing open on your end, cuz they are the soonest available to us. How sweet of me to check with you first, huh, Shetbag?!
(Jumps out of chair, bangs head on shelf above the computer, says “INT!” and begins to hyperventilate.) Yeah, yeah, yeah (nods head) March 14-20, 2009 is Les-apalooza here in Michigan! Booyah!
This post made me smile, no surprise, I smile through all of your posts. What was even more fun is that I didn’t have to click some of the links to get the story because I read them already and was quickly able to put 1 and 1 together to make 2 funny.
i like the catholic drawings, just look at monsignor coverup with that smug look on his face. i ought’a erase (or wite out) that smile off his face. you probably won’t get a response from the holy father as i’m sure he has piles of letters and complaints to read that make the book war and peace look like a pamphlet. no diss though, that’s not how i roll.
and yes, leave the sneaker. it puts me in your frame of mind when i get ready to read. i like preparing myself for the mood at hand. no doodle could replace that!
That monsignor does have a very smug look, doesn’t he? (I accidentally typed “doesn’t IT” which I suppose is a Freudian slip and illustrates that I don’t even see him as a human being anymore. Grrr. And very loving and spiritual of me, eh? I’m sure God’s proud.) Yeah, I finally exhaled on waiting for the letter from the Holy Father back in September.
But it was still awesome putting all of the cc’s on the bottom of the letter, showing all of the folks locally exactly WHO was going to see that four-page letter. And mostly it was cathartic for me and Mr. C to feel like we actually did something proactively, even though we knew the results would be less than satisfactory.
I am sorry I caused you great angst by saying you should say shew to the shoe. I thought about the production time it takes to make a doodle happen (on the blog) -
1) think of idea
2) draw it (limited edition works of art are worth more)
3) scan it
4) move to top of post
I think that is way too much trouble and the sneaker does do its job well (barometer of blog’s heroine).
I also think (one of my resolutions is to do less thinking), that All of your doodles reflect a less than happy scene
So I would like to see a happy CG Doodle.
(Remember the comic strip Cathy, she got started doodling).
Finally, thank you for a great retrospective CG year in doodling. I look forward to more.
P.S. In the elbow incident, did you hit your funny bone ? You did not look like you were laughing.
Oh Frank, sweet Frank. No apology necessary.
Buf suggested these were “works of art” and I really like the idea of limited editions as well. OH! at the end of the year I’m going to have to count them up and then I’ll be able to write in pencil on the bottom “1/12, 2/12, etc.” like real artists do.
You know that’s interesting, Frank. I didn’t realize these do depict less than happy thoughts. I’m going to work on that as well. I suppose I feel the need to doodle when there’s drama. Hmm, that’s some fodder for the therapist’s couch, isn’t it?
Regarding the elbow incident, believe it or not I think I missed the funny bone by a mere inch or so. There was no laughter in that experience. I remember stifling quite a few expletives and jumping around as my children looked on.
Cardio Girl not only are you a talented writer but you’re a illustrator too! Love it. And the first one is helpful I’m non denominational and have major church anxiety issues ( I’m sure there’s a physiological diagnosis of sort I could assign myself :) ). Your emotions in your drawings are very evident hee- hee good stuff! I have to come back to read the back stories on some (gotta clean arghh) late night reading and laughs :)
That cleaning thing always gets in the way of fun, doesn’t it? I’m at war with the dishes and the laundry right now. And I’m losing the battle *and* the war. Grr. Oh, that feels like a doodle! But I’ll hold back for now.
Awesome doodles. A year of more doodles will be a great year indeed! :)
I stick to Microsoft Paint, myself :)
Thanks strugglingwriter! Don’t you find the mouse to be limiting? Do you have a stylus? I had one back in the stone ages at work. That thing was totally awesome, loved it!
Well. That elbow incident does look like it hurt like a betch. I’m still picturing your doodle self jumping around holding her elbow yelling “SNATZ!”
In order to forensically determine what happened, she would need to know what hand you were holding the eraser in. Are you a rightie? I couldn’t tell from your intricate doodle :)
It did indeed hurt like a betch on wheels.
It was my right hand — I am a rightie — and the perspective is always wrong in these doodles. I was sort of crouched down like that, but it looks like I was facing away from the cupboard while scrubbing behind my back which was not the case. However, that sounds like a fun twist to cleaning.
Cardiogirl with no Converse? Has Frank gone mad?!?!That would be like a bird with no feathers, a pea with no pod, a…….well you get the point LOL.
Your doodles crack me up so doodle away in 2009. Happy New Year to you and your family. My favorite names in the first doodle is Monsignor Coverup and Father @sshole. And, might I say, those names capture those “characters” just perfectly!
See you next year!
Susan
I think he did go mad for just a minute there, but he apologized. And I didn’t have to scream at him and make him apologize twice — the second time respectfully — like I did with Monsignor Coverup.
p.s. Happy New Year, Susan!
If you listen to anything Frank suggests I will quit reading forever! Hee! Hee!
I like the shoe effect, even if Monsignor Coverup was funny.
(laughs) I can’t begin to explain my love of the Converse low top. I think I want to be buried in a pair. I know no one will see them and that’s cool, but I just cannot explain how closely my identity is tied to my low tops.
I truly only wear different shoes for two reasons — dress shoes to church and running shoes to exercise. Otherwise it’s me and my Chuck’s experiencing life one moment at a time.
I only had one call to 911 this year, thank God. A call in which I was not directly affected, either, so that works out well.
Also, the catholic priest my next-door neighbor and his wife went to in the town I grew up in absconded with said wife and turned him away from the church forever. Dun dun dun. And for some reason my boyfriend’s mom is disappointed that I’m not Catholic to bring him back to the faith…yeah. Maybe it’s just our town, but we have some bad apples in there.
That’s scary Heidi, but good for you for being a conscientious Samaritan. I think there’s always a bad apple somewhere in the bunch, unfortunately the Catholic church seems to a few more than the general population. Having said that, I finally have started to go back to Mass and am regaining my faith but in a cautious way.
OH MY GOODNESS,, YOURS IS BETTER THAN MINE… I love it but mine is just parts of old posts then an end of the year lets jump into the new year all new ending… have a great new year I am so glad I some how stumbled on you even though I do not read every day.
Jam, jam. None of that. I’m glad we met also, I love your former Michigan connection with new Desert Rose roots!
I remember reading the entire priest saga. Ugh.
What a 2008. Happy New Year CG. Hope you and your family have a lovely start to 2009!
Amen to that — ugh. Happy New Year, Melissa. I have a feeling 2009 is going to be fantastic, relatively speaking.
Happy New Doodle Year to you, my friend! I’m with you on the increased doodle potential of the coming year! Maybe you should join up with the Doodle Weeks they have — or not. I did it once and it was almost too much pressure. But more doodling is definitely a good goal to have for ’09, especially when not limited to a particular week or subject matter.
I might have to do that sporadically — the doodle challenge — so I can enjoy it. Because as you know, I can get obsessive with stuff like that which throws me into an anxiety spiral. Yes, then it’s settled. I shall pop into the Doodle Weeks at my leisure and the free-style it the rest of the time.
p.s. I would love to see more of your artistic doodles, Elle. Yours really are cool.
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