Your chance to vote is almost gone - only three days left. I have my next poll idea in my head already and will get it up as soon as this one is done. Then of course I will start trying to figure out how I want to blog about the results of the current poll. Don't miss out on being a part of my first poll blog.
The laptop is here and I have it running...it just isn't connected to the itnernet at work or the wireless at home. I didn't have much time last night to work on it so it really isn't running any of my necessary software as of yet - but it will. I have Photoshop going on it now and eventually I will have everything I need to be running my super-duper portable, creative unit. I am so excited about the potential...there is just so much.
Just a quick note to say that there isn't much time left to vote in my first poll. Right now there is a four way tie which will make it harder for me to write about the results. There has to be more than 4 people who visit this site. So have your say, vote and be heard - come on, it's anonymous afterall.
Today is my Dad's birthday and I want to wish him a happy one. I am sure he is just hanging out with Comet today and perhaps going out for dinner with Mom tonight as like me, he is not a huge party person. The picture is from Thanksgiving when he took Dave and I out to the fields behind the forest behind our house to look for geese. We didn't find any geese. It's not the greatest picture as it was getting dark and I didn't have a tripod, but it was a good walk and I really enjoyed the time with my Dad.When I started at DST I learned about a home computer program they have in which the company purchases a computer designed by you on the Dell website and you then reimburse them, interest free, from your paycheque for the next year. They get a pretty decent discount on the computers as they purchase all of their many computers and laptops from Dell. As my current computer is starting to feel its age and I have been wanting the portability of a laptop for quite some time, this program seemed just right for me. I technically have the funds to be able to go out and purchase the computer on my own, but this way it is a little cheaper due to the discount the company has. In the end, I used the many I saved in upgrading several of the features and components and will end up with a pretty kickass high-end laptop. I should be getting it at the end of the month or early next month and can’t wait. I am sure there will be many more changes to this blog or at least more frequent posts once I get the new equipment.
I really enjoyed this past weekend with the families. Dave and I drove to Peterborough on Saturday and then joined his mom's side of the family in Newmarket for Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday. Monday we headed to Prescott to spend the day with my family. Tyler and Lynn were already there as they had drove up the day before and it was really nice to see them again.
This weekend was also my parent's anniversary (11th), my mom's birthday (11th) and Tyler and Lynn's 1 month anniversary (13th) - so there was even more to celebrate than just Thanksgiving itself. It was a very nice relaxing day.
Unfortunately I got sick sometime during the weekend, though I think it was building up throughout last week.
Dave and I went shopping on Saturday after he picked me up from my photo outing downtown. We ended up at the Comic Book Shoppe on Merivale where he discovered a new and better place to learn about his new game. We also learned that they play this game there every Sunday (except this holiday one coming up). It is actually going to work out quite nicely. This means that I can drop him off there and then go on a photography walking trip without feeling badly about him being home alone with more or less nothing to do. We can both do what we enjoy while not boring the other one to death by bringing them along. The only downside if that I have to leave a great deal later than I normally would and therefore run into far more families on the trails and therefore small children who steal bird food and scream when they see animals, which equals no animals and no bait for future animals.
Victor Borge - go look him up on YouTube - go now, do as I say.
Better yet, go here and watch his clip called Inflationary Language. Very funny in an intelligent way. :) So good. "He is two, but I am two three."
I picked up the packages on Friday – they were both mine. I got my two filter sets and my 70-300mm camera lens – both fantastic and exactly as they were described online, though the lens box was a little beat up. Unfortunately though, Dave’s parcel did not come and he was a little sad that he didn’t have a new toy to play with like I did. Hopefully the notice will come today, although that still means we would have to wait until tomorrow to get it and to make matters worse for him, he would have to wait until I was done work to go pick it up since it is in my name. I guess that is the downside to us both using my EBay account – although it does get us more reputation stars faster.
Dave and I spent some significant time on EBay last weekend and bought a few things for ourselves. Yesterday we finally got a notice that Canada Post tried to deliver some things to our house. Unfortunately we can’t pick them up until today after 11am, which basically means I have to get them on the way home from work today. I am really excited to see which items came. I hope they are as great as the seemed to be online.
Thanksgiving is the weekend of the 11th and it is currently looking like it is going to be a good one, though quite busy as well. Not only is our guest moving out two days before the weekend, but we have lots of family dinners in the works as well. In previous years Dave and I go in opposite directions for Thanksgiving (each to our respective families), but this year we are going to try and get to both families together – should be interesting to say the least.
Dave’s Aunt Melinda is having the Mantel Family Thanksgiving at her place near Toronto on Sunday. We will probably be spending the night at his parent’s home in Peterborough and then driving to Prescott to have dinner with my parents, brother and new sister in law on Monday. It will mean lots of food and possible some good leftovers to get us through that next week too. We could move my family’s Thanksgiving up to this weekend, but that would mean we lose two weekends to this holiday instead of just one and quite frankly I have been so tired lately I need the weekends to rest up from the previous week of work and early mornings.
The Mantel Family get-togethers are very different from the Beach ones. To start with The Beach Family Thanksgiving consists of about 5 or 6 people while the Mantel consists of ... well a lot more. Mantel Family events are planned way in advance as it needs to be decided which sibling will get to host the event (or have to host it depending on your outlook) while the Beach events are rather unplanned and just semi-‘go with the flow’. Dinner is of course planned, but the day that it happens doesn’t really matter as long as there is even notice to make the meal.They have the same family togetherness feel to them and there is really no drama at either of them, so I guess it is really just the size and pre-planning of the event that makes them different.
I am looking forward to being part of Dave’s family holiday as I have been attending the family reunions for the past three years and enjoy them very much. It will be nice though to have a quiet, peaceful day with my family after it all though.
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