royal winter fair

Thanks to Chris Baty for posting one of my NaNoWriMo cartoons on the main page of the NaNoWriMo site yesterday. If you want to see my other cartoons, feel free to check out my NaNoWriMo Livejournal. 12,344 words written so far, 37,656 to go. I ended up writing 1,000 words on the couch at Vartan's place while Jeff and the others were doing their Friday night gaming.

Had fun at the Royal Winter Fair yesterday morning with Ruth, Sara and Annie and hey, it had more than cows! We were only there a few hours but managed to see a horse show, dog show, pigs, sheep, goats, geese, turkeys, chickens, ducks, roosters and Martha Stewart.

I didn't notice Martha Stewart right away, who was filming a segment for her show in the poultry room, but did notice some press with very big cameras as well as policemen standing around. Wow, I remember thinking. There must be some REALLY important prizewinning rooster around here somewhere. Then I turned and saw Martha about thirty feet away, surrounded by cameras and microphones. Here's a story in the Globe & Mail about her visit.

Sara and Annie are sleeping over at our place tonight, the first time that both of them have slept over. Woohoo, slumber party! Tomorrow morning we're going to the Lord of the Rings exhibit. We're all very hyped. I think it's kind of cool that Annie and Sara are just as excited about this as Jeff and I are.





Links/News:

My e-mail to Dave Clement is bouncing! :-( Does anyone know if he recently changed providers? Thanks for any help. I've been using his pangea.ca address.

Two years ago, I decided to move home from Philadelphia in early January rather than in March. Rereading this entry was an interesting experience for me because there is SO much "between the lines" stuff I purposely kept out of my journal. I was very, very unhappy at work. I would have resigned months before if it hadn't been for the fact that Xlibris had Inkspot, and I couldn't bear to leave Inkspot's community and staff unprotected. Later on, I had no choice.

Speaking of corporate bureaucracy, I can't believe how poorly Famous Players Theatres is handling school trips recently. As some of you already know, my music partner Allison is a schoolteacher. A very cool schoolteacher, in fact, who works very hard to come up with interesting activities and crafts and school trips to enhance her students' education. Most recently, she planned a class trip to see the new Harry Potter movie on opening day, same as she did last year (now how cool is that?). After confirming plans with Allison, turns out Famous Players is changing its mind, and Allison may have to tell her excited class that the trip is off as well as cancelling all the arrangements she's made. This really ticks me off, and I'm not even a parent or student! See Allison's Livejournal for details.





Today's Blatherpics:

These were taken at the Royal Winter Fair yesterday morning.

	Baby pig, even more adorable in life than it appears in this photo. Immediately after I took this picture, it stomped pretty enthusiastically on its sibling's head.
	Annie communes with the baby pigs.
	Ruth, Sara and me in front of some giant pumpkins (yes, those are real pumpkins!). My 5-year-old niece Annie took this photo.