A Day in the Life – September 8th, 2007

A Day in the Life – September 8th, 2007, originally uploaded by liz kerrison.

Today we dropped Paddington off at Thomas’ parent’s house and drove to Kingston. The drive was nice and quite short – only 2 hrs. we listened to the new Harry Potter audiobook on the way so that also made time go by quickly. i’m really enjoying it.

When we arrived in Kingston we went directly to Fort Henry. it’s a historic site and we toured around there for a couple of hours looking at HUGE canons and learning about the lives of the people who used to live there

after that we checked into our Bed and Breakfast then headed to see Jane at her residence at Queen’s University. thomas tried unsuccessfully to fix her not working wireless internet and then we went to a very yummy Italian dinner. after dinner we went for a walk and Jane left us to go to a semi-formal while thomas and i headed to the B&B to listen to more Harry Potter and crash. we were exhausted!

A Day in the Life (Paddy and Liz) – September 6th, 2007

A Day in the Life (Paddy and Liz) – September 6th, 2007, originally uploaded by liz kerrison.

I thought i’d document a part of Paddington and my daily routine. when i get home from work every day we do the same thing – i take her outside for a walk and so she can relieve herself, and then we come in and play on the bed. usually with Sully (pictured here)

so today i got out the remote and had some fun with her. she kept getting distracted by the sound of the camera taking the picture but we still had fun.

after we played i gave her a bath, but thomas wasn’t home so i wasn’t able to document it. i didn’t want to get the camera wet. maybe next time! she smells wonderful now and is all soft.

A Day in the Life (Thomas and the Fan) – September 6th, 2007

A Day in the Life (Thomas and the Fan) – September 6th, 2007, originally uploaded by liz kerrison.

both Thomas and I have had our eye on this fan for quite some time now. Today we found it on sale for quite a bit off so we bought it! it has three separately operating fans that swivel. it’s pretty awesome. thomas is in love. he wants to get another one…

A Day in the Life – September 5th, 2007

A Day in the Life – September 5th, 2007, originally uploaded by liz kerrison.

Just as i thought today couldn’t be more boring, Paddington chews up some post it notes. she’s finally comfortable using the steps we got her to get on the bed. while we were working, she got on the bed and chewed up a whole pad of post-it notes. they were the last of my “E” shaped ones too oh well. it was quite funny to be honest. while i was taking the picture, she decided that the act of taking photos of her mess, meant it was ok to chew on the paper again, hence the “caught in the act” shots.

A Day in the Life – September 4th, 2007

A Day in the Life – September 4th, 2007, originally uploaded by liz kerrison.

another busy day full of work. nothing too exciting. played with Paddington and shot some pictures of her and her favourite game: tug of war.

A Long Weekend in the Life – Labour Day Weekend 2007

A Long Weekend in the Life – Labour Day Weekend 2007, originally uploaded by liz kerrison.

I kept forgetting to bring my camera this weekend so i thought i’d amalgamate the whole weekend into one comic.

Friday night Thomas’ little brother, Shawn, came over for a sleepover. We took him to see Harry Potter and went to the market in downtown Ottawa on Saturday morning. the rest of Saturday was spent babysitting – where i forgot my camera and was not happy because there were so many opportunities i missed!

sunday we had a scheduled relaxing day. no work allowed. we slept in, went out to lunch, went shopping (love shopping – got some awesome stuff – yay for LuLuLemon and Jacob) and watched a movie at night (Bourne Identity). it was a great day

today was filled with cleaning and work. all day. pretty boring.
good weekend though!

A Day in the Life – August 29th, 2007

A Day in the Life – August 29th, 2007, originally uploaded by liz kerrison.

So today was supposed to be uneventful as usual…but something actually happened….and not something too good.

We had quite a big thunder storm here tonight starting around 5:30. i was in a massage therapy appointment and the power went out about 4 or 5 times, which is fine. but at home, our apartment started to leak.

i called our rental company and they sent the super over. he looked at it and is going to send someone to fix it next week. he then went to check upstairs above us to see if they had leaking too. they did not, but they did come down to check to see if we were ok – the super didn’t elaborate on “leaking” so they had visions of a lot of wetness. We know them because our doggies are friends. They have a 2 yr old Shitzu named Bear. Paddington was in heaven with another dog here – she was so excited. they played around and Bear even tried to steal her loofa toy!

It’s good to have neighbours sometimes!

A Day in the Life – August 28th, 2007

A Day in the Life – August 28th, 2007, originally uploaded by liz kerrison.

Nothing exciting happened. Went to work – kept designing a newsletter. came home. worked some more – designed a business card.

that’s about it. so the pictures are boring today. Paddington was on my lap so i took pictures with Photo Booth.

A Day in the Life – August 27th, 2007

A Day in the Life – August 27th, 2007, originally uploaded by liz kerrison.

Today was back to work as it’s Monday. The day went by relatively quickly considering it was the beginning of the week.

Tonight Thomas and I went over to my friend Annelise’s place to have dinner with her and her bf Tim. On the way we almost witnessed a pretty bad car crash. i only heard the metal on metal, but three cars were involved one girl was really angry. she was yelling out swear words in the middle of the road really loudly and at the old lady she hit. Everyone involved was walking and looked to be ok, just shaken up. we didn’t stay because we didn’t really see anything, just the tail end of it and the angry girl yelling.

For dinner Tim made us some delicious fettucinni alfredo and corn on the cob. thomas and i brought dessert (we were getting the dessert when the crash happened) and we brought a really yummy cheesecake.

A Day in the Life – August 26th, 2007

A Day in the Life – August 26th, 2007, originally uploaded by liz kerrison.

I try to take Paddington to as many dog related things as i can. she’s been really good lately with us working so much so i was really glad to be able to take her to something fun this weekend

we went to a charity “Poochnic” for a local charity called BARK that rescues dogs from the Ottawa area. It was the perfect day for it, nothing like yesterday. today was sunny and much warmer than expected.

We paid our $20 to get in and got a free hot dog and drink. I entered her in two contest and we were number 11. The first contest was Musical Dogs – where the dog had to sit when the music stopped. we didn’t last very long in that one because Paddington decided she was done about a quarter of the way through. The second we participated in was an obstacle course. There were 10 of us on a team but we didn’t win. Paddington got a big cookie and a lay each time we participated.

I also got her nails clipped and bought a new red retractible leash for $1 and a ball and rope toy for 0.25. she LOVES the new leash because she has a ton more room to run around the yard with. we also got a $2 goodie bag filled with treats and an orange tennis ball with paws on it.

It was a great day and Paddington had a blast. Thomas had a deadline today and couldn’t come, so i got him to take a picture of Paddy and I when we got back.

Paddington and i are both exhausted. she’s sleeping and i’m about to hit up Quizno’s for dinner then sit on the couch for a bit!