Sunshine Diner

Today was day one of the 2007 extended birthday celebrating. My parents and their Brazilian exchange student, Isis, were in town, so they took me for brunch for my birthday a few days early which Alex's family followed up with dinner.

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Girls' Night

The first deck party of the summer ended up being a kitchen party instead. I don't think it has rained since this afternoon, but it was quite chilly, so we crowded into the dining room to play poker.

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Past My Bed Time

A recurring theme this week...bed time has been and gone long before my head hits the pillow and the light is off.

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Mr. Moon Mr. Moon

Moonrise over Kits.

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Three Door Boarding

Great...the overcrowded bus I take to work is difficult to board during regular term time. It's not so bad right now since there are few students on campus, but during the year, often as many as four or five buses will breeze past because they're too full to pick up more passengers.

Now they've gone to 3 Door Boarding which came into effect yesterday along with all buses being fare-paid zones (this I think is a good things. Too many bus drivers have been assaulted because of fares).

The problem with 3 Door Boarding is that it effectively erases any semblance of a line. On those mornings when the bus doesn't stop, at my stop a kind-of-line forms (one stop east a real line forms), but when you open all three doors, it negates the line and potentially means someone who has been waiting for 20 minutes might not get on, but someone who just arrives and happens to be at the back door will get on.

I think I'm in a complaining mood because this isn't really an issue for me. During the term, I tend to take a trolley bus anyway. They may take about 5-10 minutes longer from my house to work, but I don't watch them drive past with no room for passengers, so it actually makes my commute shorter than taking the express bus.

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Self-Portrait

Riding the bus home from a long day at work. I don't have the energy to take a picture of anything more interesting.

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Greek Day On Broadway

Today is Greek Day! Broadway, from Macdonald to Balaclava (or maybe a block or two further) is closed and there are tents with food and music and people, people everywhere. Although, the downpours might keep the people away this year. Who knows. I'm totally impressed because these flags have been up for four or five days and no one has ripped them down, not even the partiers who were throwing eggs at the cars on our street on Friday night. Egg=not so easy to clean off a car.

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Saturday Night Excitement

Or not. We had a quiet Saturday night at home after Greek food and a visit with Kelsey (who by the way is crazy and will be running a half marathon tomorrow...crazy I tell you!)

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Sneaky Sneaky

Alex bought me flowers last week that included these purple flowers. The sneaky store where he bought them tricked us...looks like they coloured them with food colouring or something...

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Orchids

Part of the beautiful bouquet I brought home from the event last night. My boss thought they would look good in my house. Flowers are great! The bouquet was so huge that we had to split it into four vases.

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Ceiling

I spent tonight sitting under this amazing ceiling, hoping that everything would go as planned...and it DID! Yay...now I can breathe again and my head isn't going fly off my shoulders!

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The Never-Ending Camp Blanket

I started accumulated these badges when I was a brownie...a long time ago. They sat in a box for years. The box grew a few times and finally morphed into a huge ziplock bag. My mom bought the material for the blanket and it sat, lonely, waiting to be made into a poncho. *TWO* years ago, I sat down and make the poncho and did the blanket stitching. Now I'm still trying to sew all the stuff on to it. I can't believe how many badges and things I have. This crazy blanket is almost the most expensive piece of clothing I have. Seriously, I think I own one thing that cost more than this blanket.

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Flowers

A Saturday morning surprise from some boy I know (and yes, I do know it's Monday today).

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It's Cozy By The Fire...In JUNE!

It was a bit of a dreary, dismal June day today. We got back from Father's Day brunch to discover that it was so dismal, a cheerful fire was needed...

Yeah...I like a good fire in the fireplace, but I was just a little too warm this afternoon!

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Cheesecake!

We went out tonight with some of Alex's coworkers for dinner and drinks...and, apparently, cheesecake.

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Unemployed?

He doesn't look like he's upset about being unemployed. He looks rather content and not so stressed out. And technically I guess he isn't unemployed, he's between jobs. Alex's last day at his job was today and he starts his new job on Monday. That's probably why he doesn't look too concerned!

Good luck Alex!

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Ever-Changing Front Step

At the top of our stairs is a tiny porch with not enough room for a chair, but K. has put a planting table/baker's rack there. It's super convenient to put things on when searching for keys or when carrying too much to open the door. It also has a collection of stuff on it. Plants, decorations, stuff. Well, I went to home work this morning and the birds and gargoyle were gone. Everything was gone. But when I came home this afternoon, they had been replaced by the frog and the planter.

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Gummy Bear

My only companions today have been the Gummy Bears (oh...J. just made a liar of me. She's here now, but until now it was just me and the Bears). It's very quiet out here on the edge of the cliff.

Aside: Gummy Bears always remind me of Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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Breaking Through

Even though the morning wasn't exactly sunny, the light from outside managed to get through the living rooms blinds and giving us an interesting view of the stained glass butterfly my Dad made me.

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Finally Finished

I finally finished the blanket I was making for the baby who arrived early. It's been so busy around here lately that knitting has been put on the back burner. I'm not sure what I did to this poor blanket (I haven't blocked it yet), but I think my tension changed because it's a funny shape but still had the right number of stitches...oh well, a two month old baby won't notice that...

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