May 2014 ~ Stargazing Mermaid

Friday, 30 May 2014

Day 150 and donating blood

20:08 365FeministSelfie, blood donation, doing good things No comments

I picked up my new glasses today. I learned my lesson - I didn't ask for a copy of my prescription until after I'd ordered and paid for a pair from my optometrist. So they didn't try to talk me out of Clearly Contacts, just printed it off. I donated platelets today, for a man in a Calgary hospital who recently had a bone marrow transplant. The needle wasn't sitting quite right and kept setting off warning alarms. The nurse didn't want to fiddle...

Day 149

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I noticed I'm in a rut of closed mouth smile selfies. So I improvis...

Pictures catch up post!

12:54 365FeministSelfie, Calgary, cats, Charlie, Chloe, doing good things, Hermione, photography No comments

They don't often nap together, but when they do, it's ADORABLE...

Day 143

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Day 142

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Things that don't need to be photographed - hair removal cream on my upper li...

Day 141

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I woke up feeling blah and wanting to vomit. So I took a sick day. And I look like crap, so no fancy well-lit selfie tonigh...

Day 140

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"OMG you guys!" "The lilac bush I planted two years ago?" "It's going to bloom this year!" Also, I'm never going to eat mini-peanut butter cups before taking a selfie again. ...

More Northern Lights photography

22:12 Northern Lights, photography No comments

April 29, 2014. f3.5 ~ 30 sec exposure ~ ISO 400 f3.5 ~ 30 sec exposure ~ ISO 4...

Selfie catch-up

22:06 365FeministSelfie, hair No comments

Day 138 - I got a baby gryphon puppet at the Calgary Expo last month. Day 139 - I coloured my hair, covering the grey hair in advance of my job interview on Frida...

Photography Day

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May 17 turned out to be a photography day. It started with a notice on Facebook that some peope were seeing a sundog. I need a wider lens but here is the halo....

Day 137

22:57 365FeministSelfie, Calgary, Carburn Park No comments

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"Lost" Northern Lights photos

11:46 Alberta, aurora, Canada, Northern Lights, photography No comments

Not really lost ... just that I had a lot going on at the time I took these photos, and honestly thought I'd posted them. I'd processed them and everything. Anyways, this is from my one solo excursion. Many photographers, male or female, don't really like being out on their own, but this was a surprise appearance by the Northern Lights and I decided at the last minute to go out. I didn't broadcast that I was going alone - I just went. I ended up...

Day 136

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Day 135

00:00 365FeministSelfie, Grey's Anatomy No comments

I braced myself for the Grey's Anatomy season finale (and Sandra Oh's departure) with Irish cream liqueur. Good cal...

Quick update

22:43 365FeministSelfie, cats No comments

Day 132 I would've posted yesterday's selfie last night, except that a cat was giving birth on the Internet and I couldn't not watch. Even after the first was stillborn (he had a birth defect). I stayed up to see a healthy girl be born, but couldn't stay awake for babies 3-7. That's right, six healthy kittens. Day 133 I went for a walk this evening. I'm not used to this sunny weather stuff. Sooooo happy it isn't sn...

Day 132 and photography musings

00:16 365FeministSelfie, gardening, Northern Lights, photography No comments

The days are warming up enough that I can go sit in the backyard again, or do yardwork or transplant seedlings. Today it was seedlings, which I put into my mini-greenhouse. I also let Charlie have some fresh air in his play pen. One of my coworkers sat down today to talk about Northern Lights photos. Tucker talked about Chris Ratzlaff's photos - Chris is a former coworker of ours who has inspired and encouraged this whole fascination with photographing...

Weekend catch-up - deer, chasing aurora, bathtub selfie!

00:03 365FeministSelfie, Calgary, deer, photography No comments

Lately, I've been going to Carburn Park after my knitting group. It's still looking rough after the floods of last June. And it was raining. The park is a hidden gem in Calgary. One reason is that it's fairly easy to see deer there. That evening, the space weather reports began to show a good possibility of viewing Northern Lights. My friend and I drove out. The sky was clear, the night was beautiful ... but the solar activity dropped and...

Day 129

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Calgary, Dragon Age and Donuts!

01:06 Calgary, Calgary Expo, fangirl, Felicia Day, Star Wars No comments

I had the pleasure of meeting Felicia Day three years ago when she was at the Calgary Expo. I have a raging girl crush on her. Meaning, I'd love to sit on the couch and watch Star Wars with her and eat the doughnuts from the above video. And if she wanted to make out, I'd be up for ...

Day 128 - Northern Lights!

00:34 365FeministSelfie, Northern Lights, photography No comments

The aurora alerts went off. C, the woman I'd partnered up with before, was up for an excursion. I waited until after midnight to set the self-timer and jump in front of my camera and try to keep still for 10 seconds. We were blessed with a clear sky, but the abundance of moonlight really presented a challenge for me. I still have much to learn about aurora photography - but I am very happy with some of my pictures last night. We tried a...

Day 127

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Day 126

23:07 365FeministSelfie, charity, selfie No comments

I had a challenging day, but then I came home to something nice - my first letter from the girl I am sponsoring through Because I Am A Girl/Plan Canada. I felt squishy. :-) (Plan Canada is non-denominational and I'm sponsoring a girl in Nicaragua). (I also signed up for kiva.org and lent $25 to a group of craftswomen in Guatemala. I'm on a rol...