Dimitra's cuteness, scrapbooking, and sewing.

So that is a short video of Dimitra playing with her most favourite thing in the world to play with. She will literally mew at me for 15 minutes while flopping on it to coerce me into playing with her. She will not play with it otherwise.. So I have to give in. She has grown up quite alot since I got her.

Though you should hear her the last few days (though not tonight) mewling at the moth that got inside the house. She was chasing it everywhere and was running all over us in the bedroom. As the moth was of course atracted to the tv, the only thing that was on. Paige, the other cat got pretty curious about it as well looking for it. It was quite a night monday and apparently tuesday it happened as well. My boyfriend told me she was running all over me, guess I was sleeping like a log then. LOL!

Hmm monday this week was certainly a very exciting day as you could read about it in my previous blog about the tree. that's all I will say about that though. Now on to scrapbooking! I have decided that I am going to make my own scrapbooking album as all the ones that I have seen are just too expensive, plus all kinds of people will have the exact same scrapbook as mine, minus any of the embellishments I put on it. I shall let you know more about this developement as I move it along. That will be a fun experiment, keeping fingers crossed that it should not turn out disastrous.

So here is my latest scrapbook page. (which is at the very top of the page... things got really screwy on here for a moment there... it signed me out?however that is possible.) It is from my world religions trip to toronto that I took in High School. It was a fun trip! Though sadly I forget all the places that we had visited while there because it has been that long. I got part of my inspiration from stopping at this scrapbook store run out of the woman who owns it house. They have scrapbooking contests and winners get a gift certificate towards supplies in the store. Even though I am not able to enter that contest or the one that is today, the idea was still great. It was a "wrapped in yellow ribbon theme and you also had to use either birds or flowers. I chose butterflies and birds.

The theme that was due today is "Home". Show whatever home means to you. I still might be able to meet the deadline as the store only opens at 6pm tonight. I am not sure if I will or not. It will depend on how long I am up for now and how much time I have when I finally do get up after going back to bed because I know I will soon. At leat I hope that I do.

Well my step mom is going to have a look at my sewing machine that I was given by a very kind lady here in town to see if it really needs a tuning or not. Maybe she might show me how to use it? Well If not I will look on youtube for some how to videos. If that fails then I will see if I cannot get lessons somewhere...

Hmmm... I am certainly wordy tonight. I think I will hop over to my novel that is well behind schedule and see if I might get a little bit of catching up done. :D

If not then my deadline for it will be pushed back by a week more than originally, with more words added...possibly.. Let's just see how it goes for now..

Tree branch anyone?

So finally 4:30 am and heartburn/indigestion is keeping me.... so I guess I will write this blog that because I went out for my usual monday margarita/nacho night with my boyfriend and some friends that by the time I got back and after we watched a movie. It was too late to write and the last few days have been kinda busy...not working busy but I helped my dad do a few things around his home... you know because he wanted me to help him. I was more than happy to help with a few chores around his place. After all he has done for me, I am not hesitant to help him out around his place when I can. :D


Anyhow, I will now get to what it was I have been wanting to write. On monday the most curious of things happened. I was sitting in the living room when I heard this big bang. I looked out into the kitchen (the two rooms adjoin) through the window I could see the tree outside. I thought to myself... I should not be seeing the tree out back through that window. So I go outside to investigate sure enough the tree branch that I told my boyfriend awhile back was probably going to let go because it looked pretty rotten. Well it finally did that day.

I was worried, as you can see in the picture, there is a dog pen. That day one of the two people who live upstairs was home.. I went to ask him if his dog was inside. Though don't be worried at all. The dog was safely inside and not harmed. He came and had a look at what had happened.

The only thing that had stopped it's full descent to the ground was the clothesline. It was too heavy to move ourselves and we were jsut going to wait for my boyfriend to get home before doing anything about so we went back to our places.

A little while later, maybe 15 minutes to a half an hour? maybe longer, maybe shorter than that. I am not entirely sure. I heard another big bang. I went out to investigate yet again. The upstairs guy (I don't want to name him because well I am sure he doesn't want to be named. I won't ever use someone's name without their permission.) He came out as well to see what had happened. Not the clothesline but the post had given out under the weight of that huge chunk of branch.

Luckily in all this, no one was outside as well as the tree branch never hit the house. We never used the clothesline anyway. We might not even bother putting it back up again. though It would be better to hang clothes out to dry on sunny days. I think I would get a stronger post though...just in case if any more branche decide to fall. Not that it would fall that way anyhow.

Ok so the top left hand picture shows you just how big this branch was. The right hand picture shows that the clothesline was indeed holding up the tree and not the dog pen. The last one shows where it had broken off from the tree...

30 days!!!! :P

By the way that camera club meeting I talked about was cancelled that day. Hoping to maybe get there this month though!

Lately I have not been doing what is truest to my heart. Writing... I have not really written anything serious in awhile, just scribbles of notes and this and that. So my goal is that in 30 days I will write a full rough draft of a story. I have to write about 1,667 words today.. The day is growing ever shorter now as it is 3:17 in the afternoon... Looks like I have alot to do.. well maybe if I can think up of something to write so I will be doing a bit of research or something to get some ideas flowing through this head of mine. :D

I did not think up this idea on my own. When I figure out where the book is that had given me this idea before I will definitly post it! I had tried this out before and I do believe I got almost a week into it before I got so insanely busy with work that I couldn't do much else other than sleep, eat and work.. I didn't even think of anything else. So even if I manage to get it past a week I shall be much too happy. Though I plan on seeing this one through as soon as I figure out exactly what to write about but I will open my mind and research and see what happens to pop into my mind....

well till next time!