we had company tonight

I got home from work and while I was in the kitchen getting ready to open Kelli's card (thanks Kelli!) I glanced out the deck door to see these guys helping themselves to Vesper's food. Timmy was inside hissing at them, I waved my arms around but they just looked up at the dinner theatre and kept eating. Greg chased them away when he got home a few minutes later.

bye-bye Cookie

He went back to the SPCA today. We've known all along that we couldn't keep both our foster kitties; it would just be too much for Vespers. But we have had them since the beginning of August! Anyway Cookie is a nice cat but the more aggressive of the two so he was the one to go. And who gets to do the dirty deed? Me of course. I was fine, got him in the carrier no problem, he was kind of unhappy in the car but seemed fine once we got to the SPCA. But then when I had to fill out the papers to adopt Timmy I started to cry. Geez I'm too sentimental for this stuff... I'd decided I would donate extra money so that Cookie could be neutered, then he can be in the communal cat room and I heard they were more easily adopted from there. But when I go to tell the SPCA lady this I burst into tears. Nearly had her going too...

If we ever do this again, Greg can return the kitty!!

Frustration

OK I've tried to post a photo to my profile. But can I make it work? It was there last night and today it's been transformed into a little red x. What does this mean?? ...later I've pasted in a new URL and the picture shows up in my profile but not on my blog. WTH??

Anyway I'm trying to get inspired to make Christmas cards so thought I'd post some pictures of previous years'. Maybe it'll get me going...




OK here I'm going to post the picture of me after I had my makeover at Saks in New York in the summertime. That was so cool...

how could I forget?

How could I have neglected to post this????



And I really like this picture

It's unfortunate that all the pictures of me (at least those I've seen) are UG-LEE!

back in work mode

How can a weekend which was so much fun become a distant memory so quickly?? I even unpacked my bags (well most of them) right away, showed off my stuff. In fact I took Andrea's little flower card in to work & put it on my bulletin board to cheer me up.

Askaway is now official, the government announcement was yesterday morning right before my shift...it was brutal! The questions were flying in fast & furious. Usually there's just 2 of us on for that shift, yesterday there were 6 and many were juggling 3 & 4 questions at once. I quite hated it. And my heart was just pounding! Real 'in person' reference is so much easier. You can tell if the person is serious or joking for one; if it's a bar bet they tell you; they can see you're working on it & haven't vanished into the ether. No need for 'hello hello are u still there' and most don't have the nerve to ask rude questions in person! But it is nice to get the occasional thank you - I was even told I was 'aswome' by one grade 8 - I took it as a compliment...;)

Anyway Lost is on in an hour so I'll be off.

Oh and Audrey, I'm not having any contests so you won't be winning anything here! LOL

Retreat

Here's Min's make & take
Gen & Dawn
The vogue girls: Tara, Min & Audrey
More of Min's make & take

Just wanted to post some photos of this weekend. Look what you're missing...;) I tried to post these to the store's forum but the files are too big.

a little bit more on technology

I just got monthly parking at the library parkade this week and I am totally enthralled with the device mounted behind my rear-view mirror which opens the entrance & exit gates for me. That is sooo cool! Also today a patron showed us his flash card which folds open and you can plug it directly into a USB port. Also very cool.

...not only that, the internet is back up & running at the library. The regulars are all relieved!

Oddly both DH and DD are sound asleep this evening. I'm the one with the splitting headache - why am I awake?? Because Lost is on in 40 minutes, that's why!

technology

Well first of all I love technology. My darling husband brought me home a card readers from work today (so handy to have connections in the computer business!) so I can now upload photos straight from my camera to my laptop! Love it love it love it... That's why the 2 pics I took at the cemetery yesterday are here already. BTW I'm not a religious person but I chose Mom's plot to be close to the statue of Jesus so it would always be easy to find again! And the flowers were still there...

But, back to technology. I hate it. This new automated system we've migrated to at work is a pain in the you know where. Some things are easy enough and others are just not working. Plus there's been some unexpected side effects - which are apparently coincidental - so we can't get into our online databases and the authentication software doesn't work so the public internet computers are down. Oh boy, how the word on the street gets around! The place is deserted. The folks who are usually running up the stairs when we open at 10:00 are nowhere to be found. It's been down since Saturday and I don't know when it'll be up again, I hope later this week.

And I had my shift on Askaway this morning. There's something wrong with the computer we use, so we have the problem of no databases compounding by an inability to get into any library catalogue using Horizon. Everytime we click on a link in a catalogue we get a page of gobbledy gook(sp?). It makes the old card catalogue look pretty good!

Thanksgiving weekend

Happy Thanksgiving everybody. We had our dinner yesterday at my MIL's place; just the 4 of us so it was kind of quiet, but on the other hand, we didn't have to share the leftovers with anyone else! A quick trip to Costco after that (we had our meal at 12:30) and then home.

Got this cool scrapbooking cart, 12x12 size that I'd heard about on bcscrappers. So I came home and cleaned off my desk (again) but then I got distracted by stuff as I always do, so the cart is still sitting unassembled in the hallway. However I did do a bit more work on my "life as a librarian" album so it was a fairly productive evening.

Today I absolutely have to get prepared for the retreat next weekend. The only other time I have is tomorrow night. Wednesday is parent teacher interviews, and Lost, Thursday I work till 9:00 (and it's book club) and then I go straight to the hotel after work on Friday.

Thursday would also have been my mom's 86th birthday - she was supposed to live till she was 86, that's what she believed as both her parents died at that age. But it's been nearly 21/2 years since she passed away. I've been missing her a lot these past few days. She would have LOVED the reunion last week. And then I always associate Thanksgiving with her birthday 'cause they always fall so close together. I might go up to the cemetery today and see if my flowers are still there. The last batch went missing this spring. And if they are there, I'm taking them home for the winter!

family

Well we're back from our whirlwind trip to my aunt & uncle's 50th wedding anniversary. It was somewhat of a family reunion as well and I met a bunch of relatives for the first time. It was great to be able to put faces to names (and finally figure out where they all fit in) and see people I hadn't seen for a long time. The family dynamics on this side are a bit 'odd'. As one of my 'cousins' (OK 2nd cousin strictly speaking) said, when she realized that her 2 grandmothers were sisters: gee that's ... weird! Yeah it is. But it makes the family genealogy a lot easier to discuss; everybody knows everybody!

The kids of this family, my cousins, are a bit younger than I am. They always used to come to our place for Christmas and the oldest one, who is my age, used to come at Easter break & summer holidays. We had so much fun together when we were kids! I don't see her very often now, but her brothers & sisters - well I think it's been since high school for one and later in the 70s for another! And they're so damn tall now!! When did that happen?!