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So what's new you ask? Well...
a) I've gotten back into my scrapbook and so I have spent the last few nights sewing buttons onto envelopes...and then little nooses onto the top flap to do up the button...I finally finished that this morning. Thank god.
b) Peta and I drove around yesterday trying to find the Central Saanich Animal Hospital - damn Stelly's Cross Rd....- anyways, so we finally found it (we've now seen both sides of East Saanich Road) - we were originally going to go look at a cat up for adoption there named Buffy who had a bit of a bad life so far and I felt bad for it...but she's so freaked out of other cats that she's loosing her furr - she needs to be on special food for the rest of her life...and she just isn't going to become a lap cat or a comfortable outside cat - so instead we took a look at two others - Maxine and Gabby. Gabby was a beautiful manx cat but not interesting in being a lap cat. Maxine is a gorgeous black and white fuzzy, soft, green eyed girl. She's only 10 months old and very pleasant. She's also a big shmuz - which is what we're looking for.
I filled out adoption papers for Maxine and the receptionists told me that they'd get back to me within 24 hours to let us know if we'd been approved or not. They had to call our landlord to check up on us, and they wanted our vet's number in Squamish but I explained that our pets in Squamish belonged to our families and not solely to us - nor do we pay for them...so they didn't call the vet. I got a phone call this morning saying that Maxine was ours if we wanted her so Travis and I are going to the Animal Hospital (if I can find it again) after work today to let Trav take a look at her and hopefully we'll be able to bring her home. I'm really excited. Of course this means that we have to miss watching Lost and ANTM with Pen and Em which I feel really bad about because Em leaves for a bandtrip tomorrow but if we don't get the cat tonight then someone else might adopt them and we've been waiting a long time for this. Plus I'd feel bad bringing it to a new home and then leaving it for 3 hours....
But I'm still excited. I can't wait to have someone else to snuggle - not that Trav isn't nice for that - I just miss cats.
c) We went for a walk down around some streets in Cadboro Bay this morning for our Cultural Geography lab - it was really nice as the weather is gorgeous today and we were all actually starting to overheat in our jackets...but it was fun. Erin and I had to be Matt's poster girls - haha - holding up the poster of different examples of Victoria architecture every time that we stopped infront of a house that Matt wanted to use as an example of one. However, we snuck off at the end of the tour because we were so close to the Cadboro Bay starbucks and we both wanted a drink.
So for this project we have to choose a city block's worth of residential neighbourhood and then sketch 5 or 6 different styles of houses on the block and write a 500 word paper on the general architecture of the neighbourhood and wether it's all very alike or if it's a real mix of cultural diffusions of architecture. I like the concept - a lot of people see it as irrelevant - but I really like the idea. I find that it's a mix of history and geography - mapping architecture that reflects the different cultures of the people who built houses in an area...anyways - there is a really cool street just a few blocks up from our apartment that I tend to walk along when I go for walks and it has a really neat mix of houses so I'm definatly going to use that street. The only problem is that I'm a bit uncomfortable with taking pictures of other peoples' houses just randomly. I feel like I should be leaving notes saying who I am and what I'm doing with my pictures of their houses...just incase they object to it....I've nervous to go do it...
d) When we came home this past weekend for my birthday party (thanks everyone who came to that by the way - it was really fun!) Trav and I brought one of my families' bikes back to Victoria with us for me. Trav spent the better part of Sunday evening fixing it and getting it ready for me. Apparently it needs new innertubes for the tires but as soon as he's put those in then we can go for a ride. This is part of my game plan to 1) get some exercise in and 2) bike to work at the farm in the summer rather than driving. We'll see how that goes. Luckily for me, Trav really likes to bike and he has his bike here too so I have someone to go with until I get used to it - someone to push me to keep going when I feel like I'm about to die. I hope that it works out.
That's about all that I can think of.
I was goofing off today because it was nice and sunny and I have these pretty tulips here in our living room so I was taking some pictures and playing with them on Picasa. I made an album of them on my photobucket. They aren't really in order unfortunatly, I wish that it would let you move them around a bit...anyways I put up the original pictures along with all of the variations of the originals that I made. Check it out if you would like.
http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/u288/scottish_mafia/I%20play%20a%20lot/
Have a good evening.
Meg
a) I've gotten back into my scrapbook and so I have spent the last few nights sewing buttons onto envelopes...and then little nooses onto the top flap to do up the button...I finally finished that this morning. Thank god.
b) Peta and I drove around yesterday trying to find the Central Saanich Animal Hospital - damn Stelly's Cross Rd....- anyways, so we finally found it (we've now seen both sides of East Saanich Road) - we were originally going to go look at a cat up for adoption there named Buffy who had a bit of a bad life so far and I felt bad for it...but she's so freaked out of other cats that she's loosing her furr - she needs to be on special food for the rest of her life...and she just isn't going to become a lap cat or a comfortable outside cat - so instead we took a look at two others - Maxine and Gabby. Gabby was a beautiful manx cat but not interesting in being a lap cat. Maxine is a gorgeous black and white fuzzy, soft, green eyed girl. She's only 10 months old and very pleasant. She's also a big shmuz - which is what we're looking for.
I filled out adoption papers for Maxine and the receptionists told me that they'd get back to me within 24 hours to let us know if we'd been approved or not. They had to call our landlord to check up on us, and they wanted our vet's number in Squamish but I explained that our pets in Squamish belonged to our families and not solely to us - nor do we pay for them...so they didn't call the vet. I got a phone call this morning saying that Maxine was ours if we wanted her so Travis and I are going to the Animal Hospital (if I can find it again) after work today to let Trav take a look at her and hopefully we'll be able to bring her home. I'm really excited. Of course this means that we have to miss watching Lost and ANTM with Pen and Em which I feel really bad about because Em leaves for a bandtrip tomorrow but if we don't get the cat tonight then someone else might adopt them and we've been waiting a long time for this. Plus I'd feel bad bringing it to a new home and then leaving it for 3 hours....
But I'm still excited. I can't wait to have someone else to snuggle - not that Trav isn't nice for that - I just miss cats.
c) We went for a walk down around some streets in Cadboro Bay this morning for our Cultural Geography lab - it was really nice as the weather is gorgeous today and we were all actually starting to overheat in our jackets...but it was fun. Erin and I had to be Matt's poster girls - haha - holding up the poster of different examples of Victoria architecture every time that we stopped infront of a house that Matt wanted to use as an example of one. However, we snuck off at the end of the tour because we were so close to the Cadboro Bay starbucks and we both wanted a drink.
So for this project we have to choose a city block's worth of residential neighbourhood and then sketch 5 or 6 different styles of houses on the block and write a 500 word paper on the general architecture of the neighbourhood and wether it's all very alike or if it's a real mix of cultural diffusions of architecture. I like the concept - a lot of people see it as irrelevant - but I really like the idea. I find that it's a mix of history and geography - mapping architecture that reflects the different cultures of the people who built houses in an area...anyways - there is a really cool street just a few blocks up from our apartment that I tend to walk along when I go for walks and it has a really neat mix of houses so I'm definatly going to use that street. The only problem is that I'm a bit uncomfortable with taking pictures of other peoples' houses just randomly. I feel like I should be leaving notes saying who I am and what I'm doing with my pictures of their houses...just incase they object to it....I've nervous to go do it...
d) When we came home this past weekend for my birthday party (thanks everyone who came to that by the way - it was really fun!) Trav and I brought one of my families' bikes back to Victoria with us for me. Trav spent the better part of Sunday evening fixing it and getting it ready for me. Apparently it needs new innertubes for the tires but as soon as he's put those in then we can go for a ride. This is part of my game plan to 1) get some exercise in and 2) bike to work at the farm in the summer rather than driving. We'll see how that goes. Luckily for me, Trav really likes to bike and he has his bike here too so I have someone to go with until I get used to it - someone to push me to keep going when I feel like I'm about to die. I hope that it works out.
That's about all that I can think of.
I was goofing off today because it was nice and sunny and I have these pretty tulips here in our living room so I was taking some pictures and playing with them on Picasa. I made an album of them on my photobucket. They aren't really in order unfortunatly, I wish that it would let you move them around a bit...anyways I put up the original pictures along with all of the variations of the originals that I made. Check it out if you would like.
http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/u288/scottish_mafia/I%20play%20a%20lot/
Have a good evening.
Meg