Questionable Projects

A 9-inch plushie takes on American life

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  • Marketed

    Yesterday I went somewhere really neat: the farmers market! The girl wanted me to experience a really big one so we went to Cedar Rapids. Our first mission when we got there was to find some breakfast food because we were hungry. We walked around looking for breakfast sandwiches and then we saw this food Read more

  • Transported

    The girl’s birthday was this weekend, and she said there were two things she needed to do to celebrate: go to Lake Michigan and eat fish and chips. Lake Michigan is 227 miles away from where we live, so we had to drive five hours to get there. We had to cross two state lines, Read more

  • Quad Citied

    Now I’ve turned an Iowa destination into a verb, how do you like that? Yesterday was absolutely wild. I visited two of the Quad Cities — the Iowa ones — and I think I saw more people in one afternoon than I’ve ever seen in my life. The girl’s friend came by in the morning, Read more

  • Gifted

    Yesterday was Memorial Day. After the girl got done taking pictures of flags and honor guards for her job, her friend picked us up and we took a walk to one of our favorite places — Big Grove Brewery. Our server, Anna, noticed me and asked about my work as a blogger. I shared my Read more

  • Amused

    For three days this week I’ve been left home alone while the girl went to work. I thought she might take me along one day, but she said she has a coworker who might put me up on the ceiling fan while she isn’t looking, so I haven’t gone along yet. Amusing myself at home Read more

  • Doubled

    This morning there was a wonderful breeze coming in from the window when the girl got out of bed, and I thought, there’s no way I want to leave this place right now. She wasn’t sure about leaving me home alone while she went to work, but I assured her that if I could survive Read more

  • Outfitted

    My second day of sunshine. The girl said today’s mission was to find me something to wear, so she took me to Hobby Lobby so we could pick out materials. It seems clothes for me don’t come off the rack, so she was going to design and make me something herself. Right away we found Read more