Paper Dinosaurs

Weekends don't mean much to me since I have been unemployed. So, for the past year, every day of the week has felt the same. I don't cringe over Monday mornings, I don't rejoice over Friday afternoons. The only real difference is the fact that I can go on all day adventures with my brother since he is home during the weekends. I am sure that everyone with dreadful 9-5 jobs are wishing they could strangle me through the computer after reading that, but trust me, I am over it.

Anyway, the highlight of last weekend would have to be my newest craft project. I was loaned two how-to origami books, one completely devoted to dinosaurs. So how did I spend my Saturday night? Systematically folding National Geographic pages into dinosaurs, of course (I didn't have any colored paper). They didn't turn out half bad for my first attempt. Sure, me and the Apatosaurus had a bit of a misunderstanding, but we eventually worked it out.

My fascinations with all things dinosaur is starting to become an obsession, much like with the zombies.

On Sunday I picked up some origami paper in Little Tokyo (and Hello Pandas!).  As soon as I got home I started making pinwheels and cranes. I had some trouble with the first crane, and after being mocked by the instruction book (it said that most Japanese children know how to make them) I decided to call in a professional: my brother. He swooped in, fixing it in seconds, making me feel kind of special for not being able to figure it out on my own.

Now I am so incredibly stoked about origami. So far, the Stegosaurus is my favorite, but I really want to hang hundreds of cranes from my ceiling. I may need to get more paper.