The way to go back strong into another work week is to have a hearty weekend. I love my life.

I just wanted to quote the song because it’s kind of appropriate. Happy September & happy Saturday to all!

I am so excited. Even if I were in the place of a student returning to school on Tuesday after a memorable summer, I’d still be excited. Back to school was always an exciting time for me – a geek at heart. Who doesn’t love fresh school supplies? Post-its and pencils and notebooks and such.

PS. I broke 350 sales on Etsy and setting a stretch target of 400 sales by the end of 2012! :)

Be jealous of my awesome upcoming weekend lineup:
CNE Air Show (This means new aviation photos)
Backbeat Broadway Show (This is the story of how the Beatles became the Beatles. Thanks to my love who grabbed a hold of tickets at the last minute, to a high demand, sold out show that is ending this weekend.)

I had dinner with beloved friends yesterday evening, whom I miss oh so much. Life happens and before you know it, you’re relying heavily on text messages, voicemails, and phone calls to keep good relationships with those you care about. Face time becomes a once-every-two-months thing. Nonetheless, I have amazing people in my life and am truly blessed.

Monday wasn’t so bad at all. Today was a great day. Let’s carry the same greatness to Tuesday.

and that’s where I renew my springs that never dry up.”

I love the concept of solitude. Leads me to appreciate houses / structures in the middle of a vast and empty land that are seemingly alone and lonely, but are in fact peaceful and happy.

How can it be Monday again tomorrow?

O Canada. Air Canada. I love airplanes.

Not that you’d care to know but I am in desperate need of a pedicure. My toes have been a rugged, beaten up souvenir from Costa Rica since I returned from the trip three weeks ago. I’ve had no time to tend to them in this crazy life. It’s appalling but we’ll take care of it today. Happy Saturday!

I’m at 344 sales. Come shop and maybe help me get to 350! :)

1/5 = 0.2
3/5 = 0.6
3/8 = 0.375
5/8 = 0.625
3/2 = 1.5
5/4 = 1.25
6/5 = 1.2
7/4 = 1.75

I’m memorizing like crazy – being able to comfortably switch back and forth between fractions and decimals is critical to the time and speed to completing certain types of math questions. Calculators not permitted. It’s either you know it from memory or you have to do long division (in the case of fraction-to-decimal conversions). I have to say, retention of information is not nearly as good as it was. Three years ago, I could memorize and recite five textbooks to you like it’s going out of style. Now it takes twice, maybe triple the effort. It’s true what they say – if you don’t use it, you lose it. I think certain parts of our brain become dormant when left unused. It slows down and then dies or something, so we must tend to these parts and ramp them back up now and again. If you’re anything like me, you’d fear a shallow, sleeping, stagnant, deteriorating mind. Continuous learning is key. It doesn’t matter how you do it, as long as you’re learning and putting your mind to work.

If I were tiny, I would sleep on a marshmallow.

My drive to work passes the airport, so I see dozens of Air Canada planes fly by daily. What makes this more appealing than seeing planes fly by elsewhere, is the angle and proximity of these planes. They’re closer to you and not a thousand miles away. Because I love taking pictures of airplanes (or anything that is flying up in the sky for that matter), I’ve been meaning to bring my camera along on the drive. It’s just that it’s a bit tricky to point your camera at a flying plane while driving on the highway, but being the delinquent that I tend to be when it comes to photography, I did it today anyway, at the risk of potentially crashing the car. I’m not overly pleased with the quality of the shots (although I must give credit to image stabilizers), so I’ll be doing this every day for the rest of the week until I get one that is satisfactory. This is not rocket science – it just mildly resembles one when you’re driving at 120 km/h and photographing at the same time (lol). Here’s a previous delinquent moment that comes to mind.

This was a helicopter that I caught with the camera in Costa Rica.