Feb 13, 2009

It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s A Rorschach Test!

It was very windy in Bossy’s neighborhood yesterday, and the clouds were sailing by at breakneck speed. So Bossy threw on a hard hat and stood in her tree covered backyard and looked up to see what she could find.

Take that first cloud photo, above. Please. Bossy sees a bird!

But then a funny thing happened to that bird cloud. It broke up and got all weird:

Wait — that’s not a weird broken-up cloud! It’s a cherub!

Next came this cloud:

In no time Bossy saw a Great Dane in that cloud! A Great Dane with a shoe nose:

And then along came this little tangle of vapor:

Who sees the rodent:

And next, Bossy will try to figure out an interesting way to introduce yet another cloud:

Bossy sort of sees a giraffe. Or a bird:

Which is when this deeply disturbed formation of ice crystals drifted by:

Bossy spied the profile right away:

And last but not least, this rotund number:

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60 comments

1. 1
   on February 13th, 2009 at 10:32 am
   Cat said:

   Bossy’s mind is a weird and wonderful thing to hang around with.


2. 2
   on February 13th, 2009 at 10:35 am
   Colonel said:

   Really kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel for content ideas,huh?


3. 3
   on February 13th, 2009 at 10:37 am
   Heather R said:

   Bossy is a hoot


4. 4
   on February 13th, 2009 at 10:43 am
   Say What? said:

   I’m wondering why Bossy needed the hardhat. Was that so she wouldn’t be hit with any falling cloud particles?


5. 5
   on February 13th, 2009 at 10:50 am
   kristin said:

   Bossy has some impressive imagination.


6. 6
   on February 13th, 2009 at 10:50 am
   Sandy Shoes said:

   What has Bossy been smoking?


7. 7
   on February 13th, 2009 at 10:51 am
   Diane G said:

   How fun!


8. 8
   on February 13th, 2009 at 10:58 am
   Lizzy said:

   I think the Jester looks like a young Ronald Reagan. Anyone? Anyone?


9. 9
   on February 13th, 2009 at 11:08 am
   Grandma J said:

   So, this takes the place of shopping, going to concerts and spending money in foolish ways, preserving the families assets for more important things like mental illness meds…I mean food.

   You are way too funny, Miss Bossy!!


10. 10
    on February 13th, 2009 at 11:17 am
    bossy's friend martha said:

    The last one is totally The Grinch. A shout out to Bossy from Seuss himself!


11. 11
    on February 13th, 2009 at 11:20 am
    Enrico said:

    I love seeing clouds make strange shapes. I actually saw some the other day and was going to make a blog post about it, but my camera phone didn’t take the best pictures…


12. 12
    on February 13th, 2009 at 11:26 am
    Cheri @ Blog This Mom! said:

    I must disagree, on behalf of Laura, my child, the duck enthusiast. The great dane? A duck. Quack.

    XO


13. 13
    on February 13th, 2009 at 11:51 am
    Lisa said:

    did you go swimmin with mr phelps this morning? Lucky girl.


14. 14
    on February 13th, 2009 at 11:57 am
    imom said:

    hilarious!


15. 15
    on February 13th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
    Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah said:

    Goon Squad Sarah thinks Bossy needs therapy and spends a lot of time thinking about Pete Best.


16. 16
    on February 13th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
    Undomestic Diva said:

    I think I just regressed twenty years, and it is awesome.


17. 17
    on February 13th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
    Lisa said:

    I have fond memories of my Dad and I laying in the backyard and looking at the clouds and discussing what they looked at. That practice branched out for me to the brown hills of California and this weird floor covering we have a work where sometimes when sitting on the toilet, I see faces and animals in the shapes on the floor.


18. 18
    on February 13th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
    POD said:

    Now we know where Pete Best went after the Beatles chose Ringo.


19. 19
    on February 13th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
    BabyFavorite said:

    How many times do I have to tell you: PUT DOWN THE CRACK PIPE.

    Love,
    Baby Favorite


20. 20
    on February 13th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
    Little Miss Sunshine State said:

    When I was a little girl I used to do this with the yellow roses on my bedroom wallpaper.

    I totally saw the Wild Boar.


21. 21
    on February 13th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
    joeinvegas said:

    I think I have to agree with the general comments, was Bossy smoking those funny cigarettes again, eating brownies her college son brought home or did your prescription for meds run out?


22. 22
    on February 13th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
    Kristine said:

    I saw the last one, but I sooooo didn’t get what you saw in the others until you drew the lines.


23. 23
    on February 13th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
    Momo Fali said:

    Did Bossy tell her neighbor she was seeing these things? Because someone might come and take Bossy away soon. Though, I saw everything that Bossy saw (except I thought the great dane was Woody Woodpecker), so maybe we can ask for adjoining padded rooms.


24. 24
    on February 13th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
    Reeb said:

    Remember lying on your back with a little friend, pointing to clouds and describing them? “That one looks like a dog, no that cloud there, and there’s its nose and there’s its tail and … oh heck, it’s already changed shapes. And you never saw it!”

    Thanks to cameras and photoshop, we now get to see what our current little friend is seeing. Fun.


25. 25
    on February 13th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
    Reeb said:

    I see shapes and pictures in the paint squiggles on the fiberglas above where we sleep in our little boat. Those long, curving lines mostly tend to remind me of a nice male body part.


26. 26
    on February 13th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
    hal said:

    I remember when Bossy’s grandfather would make his little
    Rorschach drawings using water blots on his napkin—must be something in the genes.


27. 27
    on February 13th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
    Domestic Goddess (in training) said:

    Was Bossy haning with Michael Phelps when seeing these artistic cloud creatures???


28. 28
    on February 13th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
    heyjoe said:

    What happend with that Starbucks job?


29. 29
    on February 13th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
    Alissa said:

    Awesome!


30. 30
    on February 13th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
    Kim said:

    That is way cool. I haven’t done that in so long, very clever.


31. 31
    on February 13th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
    furiousball said:

    my y chromosome is telling me those are all boobies


32. 32
    on February 13th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
    Manic Mommy said:

    Bossy puts the AT in Creative!


33. 33
    on February 13th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
    Beachmom said:

    does bossy have a housekeeper – when do you find the time for all of this fun creativity?


34. 34
    on February 13th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
    sarahbean said:

    wow – you are good at this game.
    impressed.


35. 35
    on February 13th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
    rory said:

    What’s the name of the wine Bossy drinks? I need to get me some of that.


36. 36
    on February 13th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
    MemeGRL said:

    Court jester it is not. It’s clearly Lady Elaine Fairchild from Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. Lady Elaine was one of the puppets in the kingdom of King Friday the XIII.


37. 37
    on February 13th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
    JenKneeBee said:

    Wow, I’m totally impressed. Your cloud drawings are amazing.


38. 38
    on February 13th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
    jandondi said:

    during my mri this morning, i looked up and said, “are those supposed to be clouds painted on the ceiling?
    (makes you feel so much better?) Maybe if bossy were there to outline the content…..


39. 39
    on February 13th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
    Chesapeake Bay Woman said:

    This may represent the first time that Bossy fixates on animals rather than boyfriends or husbands–unless in the Rorschach system animals = men, in which case never mind.


40. 40
    on February 13th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
    Bush Babe of Granite Glen said:

    Bossy… I know this will scare the pants off you, but I think we might be twins…

    http://bushbabe.blogspot.com/2009/01/favourite-things-clouds-of-imagination.html

    
    BB


41. 41
    on February 13th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
    janet said:

    What about the two blue hearts in the middle of the picture underneath the wild boar? See ‘um???


42. 42
    on February 13th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
    Emily said:

    That’s about the longest blog entry I’ve ever seen – maybe a world’s record! Ummm – don’t you have some laundry to do?


43. 43
    on February 13th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
    Kerri Anne said:

    The bird one totally looks like Buckbeak from the third Harry Potter movie. Annnd, cue nerdery!


44. 44
    on February 13th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
    HAGERDASH said:

    Do you earn an income from your blog? I hope so with all the time it must take you to write these fabulously creative posts.


45. 45
    on February 13th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
    Michelle said:

    Honestly, before you drew them in, I saw none of those things in those clouds. I just saw clouds. (Have you read It Looked Like Spilt Milk?)


46. 46
    on February 13th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
    Linda_M said:

    Hee! And also funny comments!


47. 47
    on February 13th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
    Maria said:

    my husband, as I have mentioned before, doesn’t read blogs. He just can’t. He doesn’t have the disposable time like I do. Anyway, we read this together…and well, does roflocao mean anything to you (our collective arses) again, bossy brings us together…especially after that fight we had last night.
    But anyway, we were SO with you on the wild boar. Even before we saw that you thought it could be a wild boar we were all like “wild boar”.

    And to you commenter who sees shapes in weird tile on the floor as she’s sitting on the toilet: “I KNOW, I so do that too…”


48. 48
    on February 14th, 2009 at 12:43 am
    Anne said:

    Pete Best !?! Oh God you crack me up …


49. 49
    on February 14th, 2009 at 9:18 am
    Mocha said:

    Whatever crack you are smoking is boss. I want some.

    Wow, but you are a talented woman. I think it’d be fun to lie in the grass next to you while you come up with cloud descriptions.

    After smoking some crack, of course.


50. 50
    on February 14th, 2009 at 11:59 am
    Mr Farty said:

    I’ll have what BOSSY’s having.


51. 51
    on February 14th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
    gp said:

    looks like unprecedented opportunities for creativity…

    gp in mt.


52. 52
    on February 14th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
    jennifer said:

    This. is. AWESOME!!!


53. 53
    on February 14th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
    Camille said:

    Hmmm… I only saw the first one. I must be blind. Or an idiot.


54. 54
    on February 14th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
    Surrender Dorothy's husband said:

    So, what is your favorite drink again?

    holy wow…

    Although…I did see more Abe Lincoln than court jester. And the giraffe/bird one reminded me of this:
    http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Sam_the_Eagle


55. 55
    on February 15th, 2009 at 12:26 am
    Suzanne said:

    Very impressive. Way to flex the right side of the brain.


56. 56
    on February 15th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
    Lori Anderson said:

    That is just brilliant.


57. 57
    on February 15th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
    sista #2 said:

    Me thinks Bossy had camera in one hand, bong in the other.

    peace
    #2


58. 58
    on February 15th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
    Craig said:

    This was genius.


59. 59
    on February 15th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
    Jason said:

    Really. How do you do it? No. Really. How do you do it?


60. 60
    on February 16th, 2009 at 1:19 am
    Christina said:

    Hilarious. I saw a ballerina doing a pirouette where you saw a Great Dane, though.