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Tiring day...
Out at 9:45 am to the Winnipeg Humane Society, waaaaay across the city, to count change from donation boxes for their annual Tag Day fundraiser. Within five minutes of arriving I managed to cut the tip of my right index finger (yes, my drawing hand) quite badly, and bleed all over the place. Where did the injury come from? It's a complete mystery, and it hurts like a bitch when I type or use the stylus to draw.
In the volunteer centre, they'd set up a display about the new WHS centre they're building in the next couple of years -- a MUCH expanded facility which will be capable of handling the 9,000-10,000 animals per year the Society processes (their current facility was only designed for 2,500). Looking over it, I found my faith in the design firm compromised by the fact that they misspelled "exercise" four times on the site plan. >.< Ah, the joys of being an English major!
(Note: the floor plan you see online is substantially different from the floorplan on display today or in their recent fundraising handouts. *facepalm* These people REALLY need to get some competant people in their web design department...)
Four hours later, my shift over, I headed back downtown and stopped at The Bay, looking for a skirt for the belly dancing class. Found one for $6, and not too hideous a print either (pale Chinese dragons on a dark teal background), as well as a brown velvety full-length sun dress for about $12 (which will go beautifully with the ladies dress shirt I found at the Salvation Army Thrift Store last week). Then back to my end of town for a quick stop at Radiance to pick up a copy of Llewellyn's 2006 Magical Almanac, which contains the dates of full moons for the entire year -- a real bonus, since I plan to keep running Full Moon rituals during the coming year. A hop next door to Bread & Circuses netted me a nice dinner, and then home again, home again, jiggety jig...
Oh, and I saw the most gorgeous shawl in Radiance: a black velvet one with silver flecks and a green leaf -and-Earth-mother pattern on it. :-)~~~~ A bit too expensive for my tastes, more's the pity, but oh so beautiful to look at and touch!
Tomorrow: getting down to business and laying flats. Looks like we'll have to fire up the air conditioner since the temperature is supposed to hit 30 degrees Celcius. *groan* If I could, I'd work all night in the cool, but my back is killing me and I'm absolutely beat.
Out at 9:45 am to the Winnipeg Humane Society, waaaaay across the city, to count change from donation boxes for their annual Tag Day fundraiser. Within five minutes of arriving I managed to cut the tip of my right index finger (yes, my drawing hand) quite badly, and bleed all over the place. Where did the injury come from? It's a complete mystery, and it hurts like a bitch when I type or use the stylus to draw.
In the volunteer centre, they'd set up a display about the new WHS centre they're building in the next couple of years -- a MUCH expanded facility which will be capable of handling the 9,000-10,000 animals per year the Society processes (their current facility was only designed for 2,500). Looking over it, I found my faith in the design firm compromised by the fact that they misspelled "exercise" four times on the site plan. >.< Ah, the joys of being an English major!
(Note: the floor plan you see online is substantially different from the floorplan on display today or in their recent fundraising handouts. *facepalm* These people REALLY need to get some competant people in their web design department...)
Four hours later, my shift over, I headed back downtown and stopped at The Bay, looking for a skirt for the belly dancing class. Found one for $6, and not too hideous a print either (pale Chinese dragons on a dark teal background), as well as a brown velvety full-length sun dress for about $12 (which will go beautifully with the ladies dress shirt I found at the Salvation Army Thrift Store last week). Then back to my end of town for a quick stop at Radiance to pick up a copy of Llewellyn's 2006 Magical Almanac, which contains the dates of full moons for the entire year -- a real bonus, since I plan to keep running Full Moon rituals during the coming year. A hop next door to Bread & Circuses netted me a nice dinner, and then home again, home again, jiggety jig...
Oh, and I saw the most gorgeous shawl in Radiance: a black velvet one with silver flecks and a green leaf -and-Earth-mother pattern on it. :-)~~~~ A bit too expensive for my tastes, more's the pity, but oh so beautiful to look at and touch!
Tomorrow: getting down to business and laying flats. Looks like we'll have to fire up the air conditioner since the temperature is supposed to hit 30 degrees Celcius. *groan* If I could, I'd work all night in the cool, but my back is killing me and I'm absolutely beat.
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A funny little story about the Weather Network, if you will: one Christmas (I think it was 1996?), we'd driven up to Port Hardy, which is on the northern end of the island, to spend Christmas there. We were watching the weather, and there was a particular meteorologist/announcer on named Al DuBois. Obviously, he was kidding around, but he started to dance a bit on camera and sing the chorus from "Do Wah Diddy." And he referred to himself as "Al, Your Weather Pal." It must have upset someone in the viewing audience, because after the commercial break, Al-Our-Weather-Pal came back on with an apology and a rapid assurance that "no one on the Weather Network staff had been drinking."
Whenever I want to crack Neil up, I can still do so by making a reference to "Al, the Weather Pal" and "Do Wah Diddy." ;->
And yes, don't you HATE when words on signs are misspelled? There was a sign not far from where we live that advertised Amateur Night, except, of course, that they spelled it, "Amature Night." Gah.