A week in review: May 12-18th

The highlight of the week? Getting a new dishwasher. We now have all brand spanking new appliances in our kitchen! Of course, it means when we move out if something is wrong, it's our fault.

These are some super large stone busts my bus drives past and always fascinate me!

The weather was nice, so I took a walk at lunch. We have great little quad - an oasis in the middle of downtown.

I swear, we have the best bus stop in the city

Of course, we also have stairs that lead to... nowhere.

 Then again, stuff around our apartment isn't always normal. I swear this rocking horse rides from balcony to balcony. It's never in the same place twice. Also, our city is overrun with bunnies.

A week in review - May 5-11

It was apparently a busy week, filled with cookies...

games with friends...

Imax 3-D movies....

 Coveting jackets and shoes of others on the bus...

 Waiting for buses behind the CBC

 MacGyver-ing solutions to wardrobe malfunctions

  Watching Baby E (foreground) play while we eat ice cream...

 Lusting after a new leather jacket (anyone wanna give me $300? Also, it's black not purple)...

And being so exhausted I slept through apparently destructive thunderstorms...

 

Boy am I glad it's the weekend!

April 27-May 4th

This week flew by - so quickly I couldn't even remember taking pictures

I do remember eating a lot of vegetables. And a little pretty presentation makes Scott feel guilty enough to eat them too!!

I spent some time with my niece who has entered the "interest in stickers" phase

I got caught in a rain storm and did some accidental pattern mixing: plaid & polka dot

I looked at this building everyday and it made me crave crinkle cut fries

This dress reminds me of falling leaves (The one in the middle)

Week in Pictures - April 21-27

Last weekend was a blast - actually going out and doing something with friends! On a Friday night!  Woohoo! Of course, not all nights start out as planned. Discovering my favourite lounge 7 years ago had closed was kind of a shock.

I capped off last weekend spending the day with my niece. Or at least, spending part of my day with my niece. She crashed out during our walk, so I had little else to do but keep walking and enjoy the man-made nature surroundings afforded by the sprawling suburbs.

Since I've gone back to work, I've been concentrating on making healthy changes, and one of those was eating properly. Despite the fact that we are notorious for buying and not eating vegetables, this week, we bought a little more strategically, and have done pretty well and eating them! (At least during the week. I may have inhaled a batch of peanut butter cookies last night)

My bus stop is right outside the store where I bought my wedding dress. While it does bring back happy memories of the planning and the wedding, it does also remind me of my frustration I feel towards my wedding dress. Lesson learned: trying on a size 22 dress when you're a size 4 really doesn't give you an accurate idea of how the dress will fit, regardless of what the sales people say. But at the same time, it also reminds me that it doesn't really matter now - I'll likely never wear the dress again!

My sister picked me up from work yesterday, and so I met her outside a different building and got a chance to photograph the weird architecture of it!

A Week in Pictures - April 14 - 20

New week - new job! While there is still a lot to learn, I really feel like I just slid into the position with ease... it fits perfectly! The best part is that I feel all the excitement of being back in university - not just because I do work on campus, but also because I see so many opportunities from here. I switched my major almost daily in my first couple years of university, and in my first couple days of work, I've already switched my career path half a dozen times. One day, I want to become the registrar... the next, an adviser... the next, the study skills coordinator. And the best part is that there is no reason why I can't do all of that... and without sacrificing pension, benefits or vacation entitlements.

Anyway, onto the picture portion of the post - you know, the point of it

 Getting to Work

While the Canadian Museum for Human Rights construction was stalled for the longest time, they seem to have made progress since the last time I took the bus regularly.

 

Every time I go by the VIA rail station, I start dreaming of how to spend my vacations - so nice to have a job that offers them!!

At work

 

I found this in my desk, and became completely enamoured with it. It's perfect for holding my phone messages (and I get a lot)

Coming Home

Sure, laundry is still boring as ever, but being in a great mood makes it easier to find the beauty in it... like great colour combinations in the camisoles hanging to dry!

Week in Photos April 7 - 13th

It feels like forever ago that I went downtown adventuring - even though it was just last Monday. Despite being disappointed in the library being closed, I loved the pattern of the security gates.

Of course, the art work BESIDE the security gate was pretty awesome, too.

I am fascinated by this building - I love the sheaves of wheat on the side of the building.

And just in case you think that I live homelessly downtown, since that seems to be the only place my weekly photos seem to take place, there is one picture from "home". We're doing some minor home repairs, (meaning our drawers are out of commission), so unloading the dishwasher involves sitting on the ground.

Downtown Adventures

I've been spending a lot of time downtown, so this week is devoted to some of the sites I've seen

View from the balcony at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre's production if God of Carnage

The fountain at Portage Place that used to fascinate me as a child (it will periodically shoot sky high).

Cool kids read graphic novels. This sign says so (University of Winnipeg Bookstore)

Oh, and this is the University of Winnipeg castle (or, more formally known as Wesley Hall. I think. I could be wrong)

I love the elevators at The Bay, because they're so old. Of course, I don't trust them enough to use them.

Oh, and The Bay has a canoe in it. Cuz it's awesome.

Remember the other week when I showed you a picture of this building? Good thing I took that when I did:

Week in Review: Mar 17-23

This week was weird and wonderful, at least as seen through my pictures

Perfectly round shadows

An odd outtake from my flower pictures

A real picture of the flowers (Thanks Mom & Dad!)

Trying to take pictures of lightening through screened windows

Wondering where city hall was, only to discover it was a non-descript building I'd see many times before

Week in Review - Mar 9-15

My week was spent surrounded in papers, and then in the car. Since the road trip is more exciting than papers, here is are the highlights of the often-taken prairie Trans-Canada trail!

It's hard to see, but that's a houseboat. In the middle of a field. My only explanation is this video

There are a number of wind turbines between Moosomin and Wapella. At my grandmother's funeral, a cousin spoke about taking my grandmother to see  a similar set of windmills in Manitoba, as she loved to look at them. Since then, I always think of my grandma along this stretch of highway.

Normally, there is snow everywhere at this time of year. Instead, the fields are nearly bare, and the geese are already flying north for the summer!

It doesn't matter where you are going along the TransCanada in the prairies, this is a very familiar sight!

Again, hard to see, but there is a taller grain elevator (still not "life size") beside a number of really small ones in Grenfell SK. They just make me laugh

And don't worry - I didn't take any of these while driving! I was fortunate to be the passenger for the longer leg of this trip!