Current mood:

hungry - time to eat!

Canada Day YEAHs and OMG's
so we'll start with the happy and/or boring and/or just regular life news:

went to the zoo with alaira yesterday for Canada Day! Free-ness! i hadn't been to the zoo in a long time... and weirdly, it seemed bigger than i remembered... that doesn't happen with most things from childhood, you know? i'm pretty sure we saw most everything, though we didn't see the lion, and somehow missed the zebras despite following the signs... *_*? i discovered: i love monkeys!!! they are the absolute most fun to watch - swinging on their monkey bars, climbing the cages, chasing each other... hee hee - so cute!!! here are some choice pics of the zoo trip:

my name on a brick - yeah!

my parents "donated a brick" to the zoo when i was younger and had my name put on, so now i am immortalized in front of the wallabee enclosures!

alaira's hand - yeah #2!

it's a bigger pic than mine, because she told me she wants it and she'll probably snag it from my lj, whereas i have the bigger version of my brick ( :P ) on my computer... i think it looks like a happy-face has been drawn in it, but she swears she never noticed... ^_^

the impressive log and photo op

alaira liked the sign, i liked the freakishly big log... it was a wonderful coming together of ideas...

can you spot the leapord?

leapords are one of my favorite animals - so beautiful, graceful, and full of mystery...

only to be outdone by... monkeys!

oh, these little guys were too cute! the one on the log is running back and forth on it, causing it swing up and down like a see-saw, to the oohs and awes of the crowd (also, the baby monkey is climbing the fence, you can just make him out near the bottom of the pic)

and the monkeys were only to be outdone by... the coke machine! ^_^

well, we may not have got to see the zebras, but i did find this coca-cola machine incredibly amusing!

It took me long enough to figure out how to hide things, but hey? what can you do?! ^_-

After that, we wandered around Osborne Village checking out the little kiosks - but there wasn't much else besides clothes and jewellery, and the music wasn't so hot, so we went home after.

That night, i went to work for the night shift (unghh... after being up and walking around all day, too!). As soon as i walked in and looked through the little window into the courier room... i realized: oh, sh*t, it's month-end, right! Dammit! 4, two foot stacks of daily reports (leftover from Canada Day, because nobody had worked that morning) with month end dailies, as well (they're printed together and you have to leaf through each one separately to figure out whether it's one or the other to mark them down)... plus special reports, plus another month-end report that i, personally, hadn't done in over a year (i was just filling in for someone this time, and it only comes once a month, so i hadn't even seen it in a long time), another set of dailies, the RFI report and the month-end RFI report (these are all big reports, btw, in case you hadn't guessed) and then on top of it all, member statements (think big boxes full of paper that weigh a ton!) ... all piled together and not sorted into routes (which I, then, had to do), because no-one had put up the little lists of which boxes go where (which i couldn't even find and had to make up a whole new stack of and post up around the room!). oh, lord! the punishment! for what?! i had even been forced to come in at midnight (rather than 11, as per usual, on a Friday night/Saturday morning) because my company didn't want to pay time and a half for the one hour it would still, technically, be Canada Day, if i had come in at 11 *shakes head, shrugs, & shakes hands in frustration*... so i lost an hour of work before the bags had to go out - which is what i blame for not having them done when the driver's started showing up (despite the fact that i hadn't so much as sat down since i arrived). then, of course, after the bags went out, yet another report... *sigh* ... *big, shaky breath...* okay... okay... done ranting now, i think...

Anyway... my feet were absolutely KILLING me by the time everything was done!

Despite all that, however... it was, as far as things go, a good day at work - what with nobody working Canada Day from my department, that meant no bosses, and no co-workers to worry about! And... dum-dum-dum... I brought Niamh!!! ^_^ *glee* ... I barely had time to sit her down before i had to get to work, but after everything was done, just before i went home, despite the fact that i felt like my bones were grinding their way out the soles of my feet... i got some really cool pics of my baby at work with me! hee hee hee... ha ha ha... bwa-ha-ha-ha... yes! evil genius me!


this is where she sat pretty much the whole night while i busted my a$$ to get everything done... what a lazy butt, eh?...


still... she found ways to amuse herself...


teaching Niamh the popular, and highly athletic, sport of "whipping rubber bands at people" - practiced often in any place of business where people are surrounded by rubber bands and have at least a minimal sense of humour...


an apt pupil, she quickly turns on her teacher... a time-honoured tradition amongst rubber-band whippers everywhere...


these are the huge, ugly, heavy boxes i had to move around all night... actually, these are the small, half versions, the larger ones, of which there were many, are twice as big...



so, anyway... that was my Canada Day and night... when i got home, i was so tired (and sore!), i just flopped into bed! ^_^ i didn't sleep very long, but i actually am feeling alright now...

i was going to write about my other, less mundane, more sort of philosophical and confusing things that have occured since then... but now i think... this is enough, for now... maybe later...

later days!