Runs With trimmer.

Enough food to feed Spartacus' army....

So it's the final countdown today has been a flurry of activity. We haven't been camping in more then a year because last year we didn't go at all.

I am telling you camping is expensive business we went and got a new 5 day cooler someone told me about this because I was worried about keeping food good for 7 days in our old one. We had to buy some sleeping bags for the kids they've out grown they little Winnie the Pooh ones LOL, new flashlights (we go through them alot around here for some reason), first aid kit, batteries, food, film, water shoes, Josh needed new shorts for the summer the kid has grown so much he wears a 32 in mens pants! Adam who is 9.5 can still fit his old shorts I swear the kid never grows anyway but up, I checked some of last years shorts and they were size 4!

I also realise that I needed to see my doctor before I left as I was going to be out of medication mid vacation so I had to run and get that done today, why can't they just do it over the phone?

 I have no idea how we are going to get all this camping stuff in our poor little car! We have a car topper but realised to late it can't go on this car as there is no roof rack, we have to check if we can have one put on since we are leasing this time.

After the doctors and Walmart, Josh and I went to Safeway and stocked up on food forthe trip it seems like we have enough food for a month LOL. The most giant bag of marshmallows you have ever seen has been purchased along with graham cracker and chocolate we are going to try smores for the first time YUM!

Well I better get back to work, it is so much work to organise a camping trip I can't believe people only go for a few days. After all the money we spent we are planning on a couple more camping trips this summer but a little closer to home next time:D

Have a great week!

Still no news on my painting mark but I got my photography mark back and it's an A+! My GPA is at 4.0 right now woohoo.

marshmallows and roasted hot dogs here we come!

Yahooo! I was sitting in my gross messy house procrastinating and wishing I was somewhere else and I got to thinking it would be nice to get away and go camping so I did a little internet searching and found a campsite by the ocean in Powell River. The boys and I are going for a week Gord is going to take us down and drop us off and he will stay home and work.

I am going to need a quick lesson in operating a campstove....I am scared of them but now that I am medicated I think I can do it.

We are going to this place here:

http://www.seabreezeresortbc.com/camping.shtml

it's only about 125.00 for the week and we'll be right on the ocean. It's a five hour drive to get there but that's a small price to pay to camp oceanside I just love beach combing and they have resident bald eagles:)

Now I have to get our butts in gear and organise everything we need to take since we are leaving on Saturday. The good thing about Gord staying home is we wont need to kennel Winnie and the cats it gets a might expensive when we do that. We'll miss him but it'll be good mom and son bonding time. Bets on whether I get a week to myself while they go away? Yah that'll never happen.

The inlaws are taking the kids the week after this I think not sure nothing has been officially planned as per usual but I'm flexible ....I've been checking out prices of Vegas vacations for the week though hee hee just in case.

Mom if your reading this and have no plans you could always join us :D kind of short notice but if your interested email me then I wont have to learn how to operate a campstove !

Oh and my first grade is in A- in drawing, I should know my photography grade by tomorrow I tried to figure it out but I am a art student not a math student I think it might be an A+ or possibly an A depends on my participation grade.

Painting may take a couple days to find out I am still waiting to hear the grade onj my last two paintings, my teacher was strongly encouraging me to take painting two ....and I might because it is only one day a week and not condensed.

I am so proud of myself for making it through this semester without taking any extensions! WOOHOO.

Heather

Vacation all I ever wanted....

One more day left and I am free for a couple months! I can't wait. I had my final photography class tonight and found out I scored 35 out of 35 on my photography exam highest in the class WOOT! and 9.5 out of ten on my third assignment. I'll find out my final assignment mark tomorrow. It's all about the positive feedback for me LOL I am so needy.

I was talking my options over with my photography professor after class mentioning I was disappointed they weren't offering photography two next semester. She said to give the coordinator a call and ask about it and if all else fails my prof will sponsor me as a independent study student where I could work on my own and meet with her for feedback etc. for credit. She said she would definately like to see me pursue photography and that I have a real eye for it so that was good to hear :D

I will definately be taking Intro to digital media but I am going to put down the paint brushes for a semester this condensed semester painting class really kind of took the love out of painting for me I think I'll work on some stuff on my own for now and then decide if that is the route I want to take. Right now I am really kind of interested in pursuing photography as my major focus and that was the point of this semester to figure out what I wanted to do.

As it is right now my final painting isn't done and tomorrow is my last class I will have a few hours tomorrow morning to work on it but I probably wont finish. I am just so unenthusiastic about the whole painting it is really hard to work on it.

For now I am going to hit the hay I had plans to work on my painting til the wee hours of the morning but did I mention how sick Adam has been? We spent several (5) hours (yay Canadian government) in the ER on Saturday with him as he was really complaining about moving his head because his neck was sore which is never a good sign so we went and had him checked out. Anyway I feel like I am getting it, I bet I will be done with class tomorrow and then it will hit me full force....can't wait.

Man I am just sunshine and happiness lately aren't I? :D

nothing says art like a spotlit porta potty!

So last night Gord and I ventured out in the dark to try taking some photos for my final art project. We went up to the area behind my house where they basically clear cut every tree out of there to put in a gazillion houses that are 6" apart.

Can you tell I am not liking the ever expanding population of Langley. There is not alot of trees left here and row upon row of the exact same houses is so ugly.

Anyway we were crawling around this empty soon to be subdivison spot lighting all kinds of stuff, I am sure the people driving by were wondering what the heck we were doing LOL. I went and bought a giant spot light just for the project so I hope I'll use it again for something. I think I will.

Here's hoping I got the focus right because I am on week three and I still haven't found my glasses, they are in the house somewhere I have photographic evidence of the last time I was wearing them. I even offered the kids twenty bucks to find them and they couldn't find them either. I know a sure way to get them to turn up.....go buy a new pair :D the old ones will appear magically probably the next day.

It's one of those cases where I put them somewhere so I wouldn't lose them. I specifically remember thinking that as I put them down....as Gord says, I hate that spot! Many a things have been lost to the place where I will be sure not to lose them.

Today I am heading into the school to develop my two rolls of film and hope I got something. Adam woke up sick as a dog today and now we have to drag him in the car to drop me off :( He's burning up, has a sore throat and he's thrown up already this morning. Just in time for summer vacation. I am really hoping I don't get it I kind of knew it was coming because he has been extra miserable the past two days, I can always tell when he's getting sick because of this.

Gord's off buying popsicles, magical elixir (aka gingerale) and movies for him so he can relax in bed all day. Unfortunately for him Gord's not as good at the pampering of sick kids as I am, he has no sympathy for the little boogers.

My drawing final project...

ok I admit I did this pose for my drawing so I didn't have to draw my face LOL but it does capture perfectly the way I have been feeling lately :D

Now I have to go to my last drawing class WOOHOO I get my life back soon. Well for a couple months I just paid my registration deposit for next semester.

The moment you've all been waiting for.....

Ok maybe you weren't really giving a darn but Josh and I were goofing around with the camera after his grade seven grad and we captured the red hair.....

notice the bags under my eyes ...that's the stress from school right there!

One down two to go....

Phew I just finished putting the final touches on my drawing final project. The assignment was a 3 foot by 5 foot self portrait which I had to use three sources to combine into one drawing and it had to involve a conflict of some sort.

I am done and tomorrow is my last class for drawing where we put up our portraits and do a critique :)

I started my second painting yesterday and got a good start on it, it's due next Tuesday and tonight I plan on going out and taking some photos for my final photography project so hopefully everything will be wrapped up by Tuesday and relaxation can commense.

Tonight is Josh's graduation dinner at the school and I am looking forward to going to that hopefully I will still have time for photos after the ceremony and dinner stuff. Hopefully the speeches don't bore me to tears LOL.

After I clean my house that is....or after I nag my family into cleaning it. I was hoping that it would be clean before school was out so I could truely relax but that doesn't look like it is happening.

One more photography class and two more painting classes left!

Time to start thinking about next semester and how I want to torture myself this time.

Painting number #1

o I am going to put painting number one aside for now and start on the second landscape, I don't know if it is done but it is done enough to get marked by the teacher. Something is not right to me in the upper left corner but I will need some advice from the prof before I do anymore.

I just thought I would share a photo of what it looks like so far, not a great photo but you get the idea.

Rock and Roll baby rock and roll....

So sports day was fabulous yesterday, a bit chilly but no rain so we had the first fully outside sports day in a long time!

I was so tired when I got home I layed down and had a quick 30 minute cat nap woke up refreshed and went into school to work on my painting for another 6 hours.

Then I came home and watched the first three shows of Alias season one, my latest TV series to arrive from Rogers direct :D It's pretty good so far.

So on the way to driving me to school Gord mentioned he and Josh had gone and checked out drum sets after Josh's drumming lesson on Thursday and what did I think about getting Josh a drum set. My exact words were, he needs to be sure he really wants to do this he seems to be really good at it. Also we need to make room for a drum set.....my exact words! Guess what was sitting in my living room when I got home? Yep a drum set LOL Gord is such a softy and Josh is drumming away right now. So much for making room for it, I think drums in the living room is very fashion forward, we're trend setters.

I have to say I've always kind of wanted to learn to play the drums too LOL Josh has being playing snare drum in the school band all year but he wasn't getting alot of instruction so we signed him up for drum lesson at the music school and he likes it alot more. I am sure having a full cool drum set will help get him practising more. Not to mention he got cool purple sparkly drum sticks. In other news I think I am going to try and get out to the cabin at Cultus lake when the school year is over maybe take my paints and paint my father in law a painting of the cabin as this might be the last year we have it and it's his childhood home.

Wow Josh is pretty good on the drums! I wonder what the tenants must be thinking LOL oh well we put up with there really loud surround sound system that sometimes vibrates my computer chair it's so loud, they can deal with a little drumming :D

He does have a heart!

Hello again bloggees :)

So it`s 10:30 pm and I just got home from school....the school I have been at since 7:30 am this morning! I chuckle to think of all the non-art majors in my classes who took them because they would be an easy A LOL suckers!

It was a grand coordinated effort to get me to school an hour earlier to get a start on my drawing project, the one the teacher said we better have started by today. Well I forgot my paper at home and then had to wait an hour for the bookstore to open so I could buy a new one anyway LOL what a waste of time and bad way to start the day but it worked out in the end. I was one of only two people who were prepared for the class so I was worried for nothing as per usual.

I got a great start on a painting today and the teacher took pity on us all and extended our last day from the 19th to the 24th so that helps alot I am feeling less stressed. I painted in a mad kind of panic today and it seems to be working for me I still don't really like painting this way but at least I will get something done to hand it. Sorry Mom you may not like the landscape LOL and it's 3 feet by 4 feet so you will really have to love it to actually put it up ;)

Tomorrow is sports day at the kids school I didn't even realise it! I can't believe how fast this month is going by. Gord has taken the day off so we will spend it at the school cheering on the boys, we have that unfortunate planning that our kids are 4 school years apart so they have only ever been on the same team once then they got split into morning primary and afternoon intermediate groups so we get to spend ALL DAY at the school ....hope it doesn't rain because cramming all the parents into the school hallways and class rooms for the activities SUCKS!

I'll be home all weekend because Gord is away for a family event in Seattle and the kids and I will be here chillin'. I have lots of homework I can catch up on and then I'll be in my last week and a bit of school....I can't wait for summer break!