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| From Pictures of the Day 2012 |
This morning while getting Violet’s clothes together for the day Melissa saw this scene on her little toy kitchen. I couldn’t help but take a picture. All she told me in the morning was that they were eating pizza. It wasn’t till this evening when I show the picture to Violet that she told me the rest of story of what’s going on. She said, ‘Mario is the bay and the other one is the dad. He’s having a duty day.’
Last week the latest game in the Angry Birds franchise was released, angry birds star wars. It recasts the birds as Luke, Obi-wan Han and the rest of the hero’s from star wars. The pigs become the billions, from Sand people to Darth Vader. It amazes me how well Rovio has been able bring new life the series. Before the release of there last game, Angry Birds: Space, I had grown tired of the repetitive game play in the classic Angry Birds and even in Seasons. With the added complexity of variable gravity I quickly played through all the available levels. Of course even that got stale and Angry Birds was removed from my phone. I tried to ignore Angry Birds Star Wars, I didn’t look at the concept art, or early teaser video’s, until the day of release and I saw the Cinematic trailer.
The day winds down and I look at this blank post and I wonder why I ever told anyone about my goal of writing two posts a day. Some day’s it’s hard enough to get the picture of the day out let alone another 500 unrelated words. At least before I went and spouted off about what I was doing only me and a few of my family and friends would know of my failure. Now anyone who reads my blog knows that if I have just a POD and nothing else that I failed in my quest to write 2 posts a day for a month. And when does the first day that I’m really unable to think of anything happen, the very next day. Perhaps I knew that would happen and that’s why I was holding off writing about it. Perhaps it’s just bad luck. So instead of a real post you get this rambling line of thoughts about not being able to think of anything. It was this kind of post that made the move from writing a posting every day to just posting a picture every day easier 3 years ago when I last tried to really post every day. Hopefully I’ll get a better list of idea’s sorted out in the coming day’s so that I don’t find myself rambling on as the the day slips away.
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| From Pictures of the Day 2012 |
Today the temperature was in the double digits, so we couldn’t keep the kids in the house. So we headed out, Jacob with his skateboard and Violet with a scooter and enjoyed the warm weather.
If you are a regular reader of my blog you might have been a little surprised over the last 10 day’s at the amount of posts I’ve been doing on my blog. They have double, instead of my daily picture you are getting my picture and something else. Well the extra writing is for National Blog Posting Month, it’s supposed to be a challenge so I thought I had to do something then just my standard picture a day so my solution is to add a written post each day. Something more thought-provoking and longer then the usually 50 words I write with my picture of the day. My goal is to write a least 250 words, but I’m really aiming for closer to 500.
I’ve waited 10 days’ to explain this, for two reasons, the first is I didn’t know if I could take the added writing. It’s hard to just think of something to write about each day let a lone write it. The second is I was keeping it in reserve, I figured hey there will come a day that I really can’t think of what to write and on that day I’ll be glad that I have this to write about. Today my mind drew a blank as I sat at the computer trying to come up with something worth writing. I’m not sure if this is really worth it, but it’s a post and if you are interested in my blog it will show you what I’m hoping to do going forward beyond NaBloPoMo.
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| From Pictures of the Day 2012 |
Today Jacob and I headed to the mall with the number doors, Sherway Gardens, for what we thought we’d be a quick morning of picking up tickets for the Sanata Experience. It’s one of our favourite holiday outings. Santa reads a story to the kids and sings songs and does magic tricks. It’s a great evening. One we triThe kids get to sing and dance with Santa. Here’s my post from last year’s visit complete with some video I took POD: The Santa Experience. We arrived at the mall just past 8 to a line that stretched around the square in the centre of Sherway and down beneath the food court. Before they started selling tickets at 8:30 the line stretched out of the mall. Around 9 am, the first of Sherway’s employee’s wondered by saying that the line was 4 or 5 hours. I thought great, we should be out by 11 and easily make it home in time to get to Jacob’s hockey game. I didn’t get to the counter till just before 1pm. Luckaly Papa came and got Jacob around 12, so he didn’t miss his game. Still 5 hours in line is worth it to see the smiles on there faces when they get to see Santa. Of course the one quiestion I have is will Violet pose for a picture with the big man this year?
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| From Pictures of the Day 2012 |
This this morning as I went to check on the kids I was surprised to find Jacob had joined Violet in her room. Often when the kids wake up in the night they find their way into our bed, I guess last night Jacob got lost on the way back to his own bed.
Geek, Father and Husband, these are the words I would have used to describe myself when I launched this blog 3 years ago. Over the years since then I have been trying to come up with other words. I’ve wanted to have a page dedicated to me, and one about my wife and kids. They have never been written. I’ve tried many times, but I can never seem to capture what I want to say. A while back it came to me how I wanted to describe myself here on my blog. I’ve chosen 7 words to describe me.
Geek, Father, Husband, Programmer,
Photographer, Writer and Runner
You can read about the seven words here, or by clicking on the Geek in The Family menu. I’m not sure if I’ll use the same style when writing a bio for my wife and kids over the next few weeks, but I will be writing something for them. With my renewed focus on writing on my blog this month I thought it was important to start filling out some of the other area’s of my blog. I’m hoping to add bio the rest of the bio pages before November is through, but will be happy if I get this up this year.
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| From Pictures of the Day 2012 |
Yesterday Jacob lost a tooth, so this morning before he woke up I snuck into his room to see what the tooth fairy had left him. I got a big surprise, personal letter from the tooth fairy herself and five dollars. Almost makes me want to lose a tooth.