the Good Lord decided to curse bless us with a child of golden hair, blue eyes and a never ending quest to scare us with her pooptalk beautiful smile.
HAHA just kidding.. well sortof. ANYWAYS.
May your highlights turn out well and your home cooked meal travel safely in the toxic confines of your lower intestines.
LOVE YOU!!!
about what is going on &emdash; i apologize for that. I’ve been keeping busy with work, some photos, hanging out with Jenn, trying to catch up on sleep, dieting. I’ve put up and reorganized some galleries over on Picturing’s Galleries. The latest are in the PhotoClub album with Fall Challenge and Scavenger Hunt, I’ve moved the Meech Lake gallery into the Ottawa Album (Gatineau Parc) and I’ve created in the Ottawa album a nested gallery for Mer Bleue. I’m currently saving my pennies for a new camera. I currently have enough right now, but with mine and K’s recent table/chair/mattress purchase combine with the holidays coming up, I need to just wait a bit longer. Maybe I’ll get lucky and in a few months the price will drop again. Miss Sandi wants me to do portraits of her, S and the girls for Christmas. I need to get on that and plan with her.
Yesterday my friend Jenn and I went to a very late afternoon nature outing for my photo club. The conservation area we went to is called Mer Bleue. Mer Bleue Bog is one of the largest bogs in southern Ontario and arguably the most important natural area in the Greenbelt[...]The most striking feature of the area is the bog mat itself, a “sea” of deep, saturated peat overtopped by open heath and stunted to moderate-sized black spruce and tamarack trees. We were going to go earlier in the day, but as chatty girls often do.. we got distracted *L* I hope to go back to Mer Bleue this week for some more daytime photos.
1a. Name someone with the same birthday as you.
Melanie Griffith (1957), Gillian Anderson (1968),Audrey Tautou (1978), Deion Sanders (1967), Whitney Houston (1963), Sam Elliott (1944), Reynaldo Hahn (1874)
1b. Name some people that died on your birthday.
Sharon Tate (1969), Jerry Garcia (1995), Gregory Hines (2003), more than 70,000 people (1945)
1c. Anything exciting happen on your birthday?
1979 English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach, 1978 U.S.S.R. performs (underground) nuclear test, 1974 Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th president, 1945 US drops 2nd atomic bomb “Fat Man” on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki, 1944 Smokey Bear debuts as spokeman for fire prevention, 1942 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland, 1902 Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria, 1854 Henry David Thoreau publishes “Walden”, 1842 U.S. - Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1378 Cardinals declare pope Urbanus VI lawless (anti christian/devil)
Three names I go by:
1. Becka
2. Becky
3. Bex
Three screen names I have had:
1. hello lovely
2. neko no ongaeshi
3. katz
Three physical things I like about myself:
1. wrists
2. freckles
3. hair
Three physical things I don’t like about myself:
1. my height
2. my weight
3. my nose
Three parts of my heritage:
1. English
2. Scottish
3. Irish?
Three things that scare me:
1. spiders
2. deep water
3. swimming lakes/rivers
i’m back in town. the past few days have been a bit busy. My flight back in on Sunday was uneventful past sitting on the runway for an hour because the idiots forgot to put luggage on the plane. I spent most of Sunday sorting through email, doing a bit of laundry and having eats. Yesterday I spent running around getting a few things for the Halloween. We passed out candy, we had about somewhere between I would say 100-120 kids. Most were well behaved, we had a few that were obnoxious. One little brat just starting pinching candy out of the bowl right under my hand and it was seriously a bugger off before I stab you in the eye with my wand moment. Then one kid complained that the nieghbours across the street gave out 2 candies and I had to remind him I gave him two candies. The little ungrateful snotbag. Most were really impressed with Kevin’s costume (swat team member). Nearly all of the boys that came to the door were in awe, the girls were all like meh whatever *L* There were some funny moments wondering if he was a spy, and one little girl piped up saying ” I think he’s a scuba diver”. One little boy was admirable about his toy gun. He was like wow that’s a nice gun as he was practically peeing himself and running way but torn between staying and looking at the costume more.
The trip last week was fairly good. A few rough spots but all in all things went ok. I got to see both parents, and a bunch of my buddies. I had lunch with Karen and Bryan on the Tuesday, where I tried to eat a burrito as big as Karen’s head. The burrito won. Then I spent every day with Lori and Lacey. We did lots of shopping, we went to the Boo @ the Zoo on Saturday. Nici came over Tuesday night and Friday night she brought Bree. I saw Sarah and Addie on Friday night too. Addie made my heart melt, she’d only seen me really once where she would remember me, but Sarah shows her a picture of me all the time telling her that Auntie Becka loves her. When I asked her if she knew who I was, after about 20 seconds she said Auntie Becka. I got to spend some time with my neighbour, her husband helped me put the tile down in the kitchen. I went to Karen’s halloween party Saturday night, it was a good time. There were some really great costumes.
Consider this:
If every household in Canada changed just one old fashioned light bulb to an Energy Star qualified compact fluorescent bulb (CF), the reduction in pollution would be the equivalent of taking 66,000 cars off Canadian roads.
Project Porchlight, has been kicked off in my area of Ottawa. I’ve just signed up to help volunteer. We already use some CF bulbs in the house, I’m sure we can find more places to use them as well.