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You want orange?

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Why does it have to stay cold? We had a couple of nice warm days, but nothing seems to be sticking. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm just about done with winter.

Went downtown to play a game with the super noobs. It's not often I get to play someone fun like Howard. The walk back to my car along Rideau was pretty cold. next time I need to find somewhere closer.

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So cold today. -30 something with the wind chill. The sun was bright and shining, but those in the know in Canada know that bright and sunny in Canada usually means it's freaking cold.

However, because it's a clear night, we have a awesome moon in the sky.

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Today was the last day of my first week on placement. The week went well, though I'm a little tired out. Thankfully tomorrow is PD day, so I can get some planning done. I was enjoying the little bit of sunshine while we had it, followed by bone crunching cold winds.

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Today saw the end of the council. Sadly, if you arn't into L5R you have no idea what that means.

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The snow started up against today. I'm sort of glad it's no longer raining, but I'm really done with winter.

I'll have to bring this matter before the council, maybe they'll get rid of it. They'll know how too, from their learnings.

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It's been some time since I've really thought about roleplaying. I remember back a few years ago when we were all really into it, including out stupidity where we'd play 2 nights a week. What prompted me to pick up the new D&D book, I'm unsure, but we'll see where it leads.

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Downtown was nice today. Wasn't too cold, wasn't too warm. So we played some L5R at Fandom, then a couple of us went around, and walked up Sparks street. Keith's ears got red, and I thought it was funny since I remembered my hat.

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I went down to the protest on Parliament Hill today. I'm pretty sure Facebook said it was going to be at 11. However, this sign downtown told me 1 oclock. Considering I was downtown around 9, I wasn't very amused. I wasn't impassioned enough to take part in the protest, but I wanted to see it. In the meantime I explored the gargoyles on the Parliament Buildings, and saw the cats that live in the back.


I did eventually see the protest.

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I'm excited we've had a few days of natural light. I've been very excited about about this light. So next week I start my placement in a kindergarden classroom, I'm very excited, And it's close enough I can actually walk there in the morning.

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I had a big list of things I wanted to do today:

- Get pants hemmed
- Move dresser from basement to my room
- Clean
- Run the vacuum and dust my room from all the stuff I've kicked around
- Ge my license renewed.
- Play with my Kotei decks a bit
- Go downtown early enough to take some pictures downtown

The first one happened. I got downtown in time to wait for Gilles to get out of the shower so we could go to Fandom.

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Wow, I've made it to picture 20. Good for me.

Today we actually got the sun I was whining about yesterday. Everything seemed a little nicer, from the blue sky to the happily little critters outside, burrowing around in the snow for something to eat.

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I'm getting rather tired of it constantly being grey and miserable outside. I don't know why, it doesn't normally bother me, but this year I could just about kill for some sunshine.

Same with this dinosaur here, outside in the cold. As you can see from it's eye, it's a very sad dinosaur because of the weather. Possibly the saddest dinosaur in the entire world.

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I love gargoyles, I always have. I have a nice little collection, so much so that a few have moved out of my room and into the rest of the house.

It's been a few years since I've gotten any new ones, but they're all over the place. I remember at one point I named all of them, but I haven't a clue who they are now.

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A very busy day of buying and sorting and opening and cheering and winning. That meant a very quick dinner, mostly of the fake Chinese variety.

Between fake Chinese food, my samurai theme'ed card game made by white guys, and my not-bamboo, my partially plastic katanas, I sure have a lot of faux-Asian things in my life.

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Today was a nice day. We got together for Mel's birthday, and then we played some games of BSG. This would be Mel and her boyfriend Brad, holding each other, ever so tenderly. All in all, this weekend will end up being pretty awesome it looks like.

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A little unhappy right now. The memory card in the camera glitched, and I lost a bunch of pictures. I had some ones I really liked, and thought would turn out really nice. Luckily Brandi lent me her card, so I was able to take some shots. Such as this lady totally taking a picture of her kid falling down on the ice.

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Going through my room and emptying drawers and stuff I came across my little treasure box. You know, that little box where you put things that don't really have a place, but you keep because of sentiment? You can see the box and some of the insides here. A lot of necklaces I used to wear, stones when I used to collect them, some pins (both old and new), and the rose I wore when I went to my high school prom. I've taken some time to look at these, and now they're going back in the box and back in the drawer.

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Still waiting for a callback to do my next placement. Sort of means I'm stuck here with little to do until they get back to me. If I don't hear by today, means I'll walk down at the end of school and see what's up. Means I've been cleaning out my dresser today, I have a lot of random crap in there.

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Salads are only for murderers,
coleslaw's a fascist regime.
Don't think that they don't have feelings,
just cause a radish can't scream.

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Took Maggie down to the old tree farm. Place is very nice to go walking, however there's no upkeep anymore since it's no longer used. She loved it, running up and down the paths, making a general fool of herself.

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Went down to Fandom today with a terrible deck. Played some cards. Woke up tired, and will probably end the day tired. Apparently I'm not sleeping well since I moved my room around. Not only did I play a terrible Scorpion Clan deck today, I also took a whole bunch of terrible pictures. This picture of Brandi sitting across the table from me was the least offensive.

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Really stupid cold out today. And of course I picked today to go out to Rona and pick up some not-bamboo. I kinda like the way the not-bamboo looks, even if it's not bamboo. Apparently it's rather hard to kill it, so that means it should live for a little while in my room. Just felt the need to add something green and alive.

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Today I decided to do a picture of myself, taken by me. I was learning how to use the remote to go with my camera. I've also been playing more with photoshop, so I photoshopped it a little bit. Mostly for colour, playing with curves and stuff.

Figured a self portrait was acceptable since I'm actually rather happy right now. I sort of realized that when I was out walking Maggie.

Picture 7 - Part 2

No kitty! That's -MY- sweater! I need it to go outside and walk Maggie! Common kitty, it's cold outside! Get off of my sweater :( Kitty no! Stop looking at me like that and get off!

Fine.. I'll go without a sweater :'(

A picture I took last night, the look on her face makes me laugh. I'll post today's picture later today.

FYI - I just grabbed another sweater.

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Seems my spurt of cleaning and moving stuff inspired mom. She's been going through her downstairs cupboard, finding all sorts of weird things in there. Some of it she wants to get rid of. Who knew we had so much stuff?

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Today I start taking care of Maggie again. Her owner is a teacher at the school I finished a placement at before Christmas. This dog is one of the best trained dogs I have ever seen. She sits, eats, lays down, goes away, and pees on command.

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Not everyone in the family follows the same traditions we do. Putting up the Christmas Tree means the cat gets to swat at ornaments. Christmas Day means she gets to run through, hide under, and play with wrapping paper. Today the tree came down, which means she gets to snooze in open ornament boxes.

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This guy had his bag open, and was walking across the street with his bag open. He could have lost all of the stuff in his sack, and he wouldn't have even noticed. I let him know, and he let me take this picture on the other side. I rather like how it turned out.

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My new awesome clock. Everyone knows about these, the tail swings and the eyes move. I know you're jealous.

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The table in our living room. In the photo would be my brother and myself back when we were in high school. The little dog I gave to my dad around the same time.

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Rowena is very pretty, and in this light she looks awesome. Apparently she's one of those people who's completely photogenic. It's aggravating.

The 365 Challenge

So now we're in 2010. I feel the need to.. do something. So, here is something I am going to try.

Every day for the year 2010 I am going to take a picture. Every day (in theory) I will make a post here, putting it up. Obviously committments and time will get in the way, so posts can and probably will be late on occasion. I will try my best not to let this happen, but it will.

There is no plan, rhyme or reason to what the pictures will be about. But everyday, there will be one.