For the blog assignment we were supposed to do something we wanted and not necessarily share what it was but show reflections on it. As I usually do the assignment after a glance then read the specifics after it is done (as indicative of what I discovered) I generally have some tweaking to do at the end of the assignment, but with this one time it actually helped me. I felt that because I did what I would have guessed the assignment to be and then reflected on it I got what it more truthfully meant. We weren't forced to share, but what I did for my bliss assignment was look for a motorcycle online, drive an hour each way to see it, and bought it when I was there. I reflected that I like to do things impulsively and with the 3 hour time frame I realized that I rarely do any one thing for a three hour span. Even when I watch a movie it is rarely so long and I usually get disinterested with anything else during that kind of time span. The second part of the assignment was to watch a video and then relate a stuffed animal to it. THe video was largely about trying to get out of your own head in the creative process and let it happen organically, since I was proven impulsive anyways I thought about how my actions with a stuffed animal applied to what I learned from the bliss project. I thought back to the one stuffed animal I had ever had and saw how what happened with it applied to what I had seen during the bliss assignment. The one stuffed animal that I can actually recall having I won. My mom had been doing something at a bank and there was a table with entry forms for a raffle contest. The contest said that you could enter as many times as you wanted so the entire time I was waiting at the bank I filled out the raffle forms. Long after I had forgotten that I had ever signed up for a raffle my house was called to say that I had won a prize. I was disappointed when I found out it was a four foot tall plush bugs bunny. Being a rough and tumble boy (and the plushie having a metal spine) I decided to use it as a dummy to practice the karate I was taking, shoot arrows at, and hit with sticks. I soon had turned the rabbit to tatters and broke the metal frame that was its spine. A couple of weeks later a Warner Brothers catalogue arrived at the house and I flipped through it, the stuffed toy was in the catalogue and behold it was worth four hundred dollars as it was a special anniversary edition toy. I saw from even then that I was energetic and impulsive. i was mad about the toy for about a day, but then I got over it and realized I had fun with it. The motorcycle has cost some money and I am having to put extra into the impulsive decision, but when it gets warm I hope to have fun with it. Hopefully I have gotten a little less destructive on the way.
