More like Weekly and maybe sometimes by-weekly. In my defense we moved this weekend and the end of last week so I didn’t have much time. I know… excuses, excuses! I am not in much of a blogging or designing mood lately though. I think I found a Wacom Bamboo Tablet that I may try and pick  up tonight if the person messages me back. Maybe that’ll get me in the mood. There is tons of tutorials for drawing with tablets to get me started. I have been trying to do a little photo manipulation and also have put my 2 cameras up on kijiji.ca to see what I could get out of them. I want to either trade the two of them up for a better dSLR or sell them and buy one.

So I said we moved this weekend. We have everything finally in my parents place and guess what? On Saturday while in the middle of moving our water pipe decided to burst flooding the basement and endangering everything we just put down there. Not to mention the fact we spent most of the weekend with the water off while trying to first fix then replace the pipe. Lets just say there was no happy campers in my house this weekend.

I got a raise this pay, plus there was no rent to pay (other then the $50 bi/weekly we promised to pay mom each to live there to help with food and such) so for once I paid everything up a little in advance and still have a little left over. What a nice feeling!

Going to start back on walking every night tonight. Put it off for the weekend figuring that 1) there would be no time and 2) we’d be too tired and 3) we got enough excersise by lifting heavy furniture and sweating in the hot sun while doing it… so back to the daily grind tonight. If Keith won’t come I’ll grab a dog and go for a short walk with them just to get back into the swing of things.

I’m absolutely hooked on Facebook games. I feel like I spend most of my internet time on Facebook playing games. There are a few in particular that I always play. Treasure Madness and Treasure Isle are my favorites. How about you? What do you guys do one Facebook? I occasionally talk to my friends and family. I should maybe do that more… But more often then not I am playing games of some sort.  I don’t know why but they are so addicting!

I just renewed my Club Pogo membership. I used to spend a lot of time on there playing games. I got addicted to that too. Especially Poppit! It’s not that the games were great. Just something to do. I also liked collecting badges and having goals and challenges to work towards. It all comes down towards things to do when your bored. And I get bored so often

I find I am always looking for tutorials for Illustrator and Photoshop or stuff that is Photography or Web Design related. I love looking for inspiration and just to see what other people can and have done.  Anyone know of any really good collections of tutorials? I want to learn more about illustrator. I was thinking about getting a cheap (for now) graphics tablet, something similar to this one. But I honestly don’t really know anything about them and which ones are good. Guess it’s time to do a little research.

Yay for useless random info…

My friend Erin and I decided on Tuesday since I was off and she was off to pool our money together and drive to the town of Truro which is about an hour away and go for a walk. We both love just driving aimlessly and taking pictures. Since Nova Scotia is mainly valleys and Oceans we decided to head the other way into the “mountains” and go for a hike.

My mom suggested Victoria Park which is essentially a 400 acre wooded park in the middle of the town! It’s really pretty. There is 2 sets of waterfalls in the park and lots of beautiful woodlands. Hills and ravines and lots and lots of green. We are having the greenest, warmest April on record here. It is like mid June weather already. Warm and sunny. Except today of course which was cool and sunny.

We walked up one side of the brook to the falls and took some pictures there.

Then we continued up to the second set of falls and onto a set of wooden bridges and paths set into the side of the falls and over the top. It was beautiful!

We went down into a little area at the pool at the base of the waterfall and sat on the rocks, it was so tranquil and peaceful. I love being near waterfalls…

It was a nice walk. About an hour and a half total. I definitely want to go back there sometime this summer and get some more pictures. It’s made me want to go explore some more waterfalls and trails in Nova Scotia!

I am working on getting about 10 images per gallery set up from all my trips with Erin (or anyone) to display on the site.  As soon as I do so I will blog about it. In the meantime check out my photos on Facebook for this and other adventures! I think I have them all publicly available… if not let me know.

Boy has it ever warmed up over the last few days. Last week there was mornings I woke up and it was around 0. It’s like 15 degrees today in Chester. And in the city (where I live) it is like 24 apparently. Celsius… just in case your wondering. 24 is like 75 in Fahrenheit. It’s a beautiful day out. We took the puppies outside for some air and let Billy run around a bit. I got a couple of good pictures.

I have been trying to convince either my boyfriend or my brother to go down to the beach at Queensland Beach. But since they wont go my Mom and Mary-Ellen went with me.  We spent about an hour and a half at the two beaches and then a small drive just to spend some of the afternoon outside. I got a few more pictures there. As well as a video. I’m going to try posting the video… hopefully it will work, if not let me know.

Not bad huh? At least I got something to blog about. Keith and I are leaving in a few minutes to go back to Halifax and then drive over to his brother’s place for a bit. Then I have tomorrow and Tuesday off. I have no idea what I am going to do with myself.  I guess I’ll figure something out. At least the weather is good. I can’t wait to go swimming and go to the beach and walk in flip flops and shorts or capris.

Okay so I am proud of myself. I got up this morning and decided to go for a walk about 10. I drove over to Cole Harbour and went for a walk on the Heritage Trails. I stuck by the farms and woods but ended up down by the water a bit. I got some pictures though nothing really spectacular. I’ll add a few at the end of this post. But all in all I walked about 2 hours (1 hour each way) I think it worked out to about 10km or more. I was trying to figure it out later cause I did not look at the km markers along the way. I guess I should have.

I then went to meet my parents at the QEII Lifestyle Lottery Show Home. They bought a ticket for $100. On Wednesday I think Keith and I are gonna go splits on one too since the grand prizes are really nice and it goes to a good cause. The Grand Prize is a $900,000 home in Glen Arbour and $15,000 Cash. The Second Grand Prize is a $390,000 cottage, a Boat and $5000 cash. Plus tons of early bird prizes. So if your from around here check it out. Not that you probably don’t already know about it. Who doesn’t!

Anyways here is the pics: