my "weekend"

So somehow my five hundredth post just snuck right by me, unnoticed. I have written Five. Hundred. Posts. I should do a giveaway or something hey? Uh yeah...let me think on that. For now, here's lucky thirteen photos from my "weekend" (Tuesday and Wednesday) with Ryan, Tank, and a couple library books.

Have a nice (real) weekend!

Things I Love Thursday

This week I love...

The 'Forever Alone' meme. Every single time I see it I think it's funnier than before. It's out of control. And for you aficionados, here's the ultimate Forever Alone cartoon.

These fifty photos of basset hounds running. I'm sure you've seen these before but um...they're still great.

This very important thing for all bloggers to know. Credit your photos!  I'm really trying to do better at this, both by using my own photos as much as possible, linkbacks, being careful to never mislead the readers into thinking I created something I didn't, and putting credits in visible legible font. 

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This powerful collection of photos by James Mollison, entitled "Where Children Sleep". Here are a couple that really contrast...follow the links for more.  What an interesting project!

And check out his "James and Other Apes"  portraits too, they're beautiful!

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Things organized neatly. But who doesn't like that?

This video of French kids trying to figure out what older technologies were used for. (A record player, a floppy disk, that kind of thing.) It's really cute. And for more cute French kid, watch this video of a little girl telling a story. Cutest. Kid. Ever.

These photos of 100 Abandoned Houses.

Benjamin Franklin's daily schedule. I love his morning and evening questions!

Elsie (of A Beautiful Mess)'s story of how she created her first dress collection. Normally fashion stuff and business stuff are super dull to me, but she is such an inspiring person.

This USB hub that looks like pretty tulips, sold at Fred Flare.

Here's another one that's all over the internet but is a must see; the Pirate Ship Bedroom. Seriously, to die for.

Maybe it's just because I have literally worked at 8 different grocery stores*, but I find the stories of how they came to be quite interesting. Groceteria.com has tons of info on all things supermarket.

This story about the wallet that was found after 40 years and returned to its owner.

And last but not least....

via The Whoa!

*About the grocery stores...

It all started when I was a kid. My grandma was the owner of an IGA. My dad worked there, and that's where him and my mom met! When I grew up I was sure this would be an easy job, you know, because it runs in the family, and so my first job ever was as a cashier at an Extra Foods in the town I grew up in. 

Over the years I also worked as a cashier at Superstore, a "meal solutions" clerk at Sobeys, a deli clerk/fish counter person/cashier at three different Safeway stores, a deli clerk at two different Planet Organic locations, a deli clerk at Russel Farms Market, and a cashier (for two weeks) at the Market on Millstream. Some of these positions lasted over two years. If you think about it, basically 1/3 of my life I've been working in grocery stores.

It's one of those jobs you know you can always fall back on, because when they hire they basically just check to see if you have any experience at all...that last cashier job, after two weeks they were already on me to become a manager. I was like "I am so out of here." It's too easy to become a 'lifer' in a supermarket, and there's nothing wrong with that for those people who enjoy the weird subculture. They always turn into big incestuous families full of weird cliques after a while though and I am sincerely hoping those days are behind me for good. 

Have any of you worked in supermarkets before? What was your experience?

I know I already wrote about bananas today but...

...I just found the game 'bananagrams' underneath a pile of laundry I was meaning to wash for some time.It's a sign. Bananas...bananagrams...I need to play bananagrams!

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It's a word game...sort of Scrabble-esque in nature. Why haven't I played it yet? WHY? Ryan and I have the day off together tomorrow. It's like the first time in a hundred years where he doesn't work tonight, tomorrow night, or have to go pick up his kids across the island half-way through the day. I'm going to maybe put in a request to play this game with him tomorrow. We'll see...there's quite a lot of rum and diet cola* going around this evening...maybe my brain not work so good tomorrow.

*Coke or Pepsi, I'll never tell! 

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Another blog update:

I changed the name to Four-Eyes Rella. In case you hadn't noticed. Everything else is the same, I just like that name better.

That is all.

-Nova

I'm going bananas!

For some reason I've had a ton of creepy banana related links on my computer lately. Enjoy! (?)

What the?

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via Cheeky Raven

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Banana carvings.

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See the whole Nannerpuss video here.

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Zombie Banana?

About the new header.

I came home early yesterday from work due to a ridiculous headache. I was thinking "migraine" until I researched migraines on the internet. I wasn't that sensitive to light, and although I felt a little bit nauseous it wasn't anything like the way people who suffered migraines described it. And I could still function, albeit totally in a daze and grouchy. I think it was more of a tension headache.

Anyway enough of the self-diagnosis. I'm writing about something SO COOL! After lying around in the dark at home while Ryan watched hockey all day, reading the book "The Birth House" by Ami McKay (awesome book, by the way), I started to feel better and went on Facebook, where I found a wonderful surprise from 'chelle (from Coffee and Zombie Movies)... she drew a picture of me!

She claims she doesn't have a shrine built in my honor or anything yet, and was just sketching the first person who happened to show up on her Facebook feed. Whatever. I love it. Isn't it so great? So I opened it in the paint program and made me have four eyes instead of two and made it my header. What do you think?

Today...

...I will try this camera for the first time. Wish me luck!