I had to make him do it, and so we brought Violet in the bathroom with us and shut the door and worked through some mats until Violet really had enough. We got a bit out of her the first chance, and the second chance Violet was less willing, and because of that, we were talking about using one of Steve's shaving kits to shave the mats out to make the mat removal go faster...I wasn't sure if Violet would be okay with the feeling of the vibrations from the machine shaver. She wasn't a big fan of it, but let us shave a lot off, and now she actually looks funny. Most of her butt and lower back was shaved down to nothing and the rest of her is long haired. *laughs* It looked funny for a while, but I got to get a lot of her mats out. She still has more, but she usually lets us know when she's had enough...I hate that. I usually want to get it all out at once, but ugh... lately I have been thinking about the heat, and how hot it was, and started to realize that that's why Violet was matting so much - because of the heat...she tends to sweat more, then matting a lot in the summer. So, ugh. Oh well, soon I'll get it all out.
You can see how she looks here, all shaved off, half-long haired, half-bald. A little sad, I think. But at least I'm sure she feels a bit more cool now, not so hot! Heh...
I was also getting restless during the week that I kept wanting to go places all the time, with it getting warmer and warmer by the day. So Steve and I took some walks out in Brockville so I could check out the area and see more of the town. We went out to the waterfront by the model plane and walked around there, I think it was the Brockville municipal marina...it was interesting. The temperatures were really nice that day so we both just decided to go for a walk and check things out. We have also gone back to Raxx's for another of their meals, and just to hang out.
In the beginning of May, Steve wanted to go back to this one industrial boneyard that he had found a couple of months back, and take me to go take pictures there. He wanted to do a whole thing where he films me taking pictures and checking out the area. He mentioned to me later that I would find things that he had missed the first time out there, so it was like a whole different trip for him. There were also some things I was checking out that Steve had checked out before for his first film, Industrial, on Vimeo. There's this one scene where he props up a pail so that he sits on it, and when we went looking at the machines and stuff, I noticed some mangled metal on the ground and was talking about it, and he told me it was the pail he had set up to sit on for his earlier video, that was all destroyed. I thought it was a little funny...got to check out a lot, and there was a lot to look at, so it was cool. It was funny because I was shooting and I turned around and saw a little bird who was eyeing me on the ground in a distance, and I was all, oh, got to take a picture and the bird just began barreling towards me with it's wings wide open, like he was going to attack me and I had to jump back in surprise, never saw a little bird get so angry before! It sure surprised me. *laughs* Steve said that I actually screamed, but I think he may be exaggerating...I know I was surprised, yeah, but I don't think I screamed, maybe I yelped but screaming seems a bit extreme...the bird did get right against my leg before turning and running away from me...It was really strange. It's a little bird, why would he be doing that? *laughs* Steve thinks it was a female and was protecting her nest, as we had seen a nest in one of the machines earlier. It was really funny though. Was a bit unexpected, that's for sure. I have pictures of that little bird in my photos here. We were out there for maybe a hour, just shooting and checking out different parts of the machine. It was different.
You can see Steve's video here:
You may remember I changed my name back to my maiden name over a month ago? I finally got all my cards in, and then proceeded to change more in the rest of my other items and memberships. It really hasn't been much fun, but hopefully it's almost all over. *smile* There has been some places that like fighting me on changing my last name, which has been insane...but they are being changed slowly though.
Anyway, my friend Kat had her baby a few months ago and I hadn't actually met the baby yet, so I thought I should drop in on Kat while Steve came to Ottawa to pick up something he ordered for himself, a new Glidecam. He's been dreaming about having one for a really long time, and a new affordable Glidecam came out and he wanted to grab up the chance to get it, and in the meantime I thought I should visit Kat and meet her new baby. So we headed out to Ottawa one Tuesday in mid-March, and went to pick up Steve's new Glidecam, and he was all excited, but couldn't use it yet until he came home. It was a little funny, and then we headed over to Kat's place. We went to her backyard and then mellowed outside on her patio with her, her baby Arianna and her mom, Linda. It was good, just talking about everything and just catching up with everybody. I also had to introduce Steve to both of them as they hadn't met him yet, so it was not too bad. Kat was just too busy telling me about the birth, Arianna, and being a mother, to actually officially meet Steve in actuality, but he was kept busy talking to Linda anyway so that was okay. *smile* Nothing new with that. Arianna was pretty cute, and a very happy baby, so that was a little funny. I'll just have to see as she grows up and all that, and see how she'll be as she gets older. That'll be interesting...like all the other babies I have known and gotten to know in the past couple of years - there's just been a big boom on babies lately for me, for my friends and family, so it's a little crazy. Heh.
The holiday weekend, the Victoria Day weekend was interesting. It was a really, really hot weekend, unfortunately! Wow... :/ And Steve had been telling me that Brockville actually did have a beach of a sort around the waterfront, and I was a bit surprised about that. It's such a small town, and it has a beach? It was over at the St. Lawrence Park by the waterfront, so it was cool. Just going there and checking it out. I even brought my camera with me for that so it was interesting that's for sure, and Steve had fun filming. Though, when we went to the water shore, to check out the temperature of the water, there was a lot of little kids running around in the water, not quite swimming as the water was still pretty cool, and one little boy came up to us to talk about Steve's videocamera. He seemed to be very fascinated by it. *laughs* It was a little funny actually. After we went up and talked to the boy's mom, and there was something about Steve where everyone just knew him and the people that worked at his work. So it was crazy. It was cool checking out the beach, and I know it's there, but it was certainly very small so it may be a little cramped. Yikes, just have to see what it's like through the summer at least. We then finished up at the beach and started shooting around the park and different locales, and in the large gazebo, I started shooting pictures. It was interesting, that's for sure. I'm still getting used to Brockville, that's for sure. *smile*
My mom finally came by over the holiday weekend to bring over my fans that I could use in my apartment as it was getting to be unbearably hot with the humidity being so high - if I wanted to use A/C's, I would have to let my landlord know and pay extra to have my A/C's installed. So I wasn't too sure about that at all, so I opted out on that part for now, and just going to stick with my two fans. I may pick up another one for the third room in the apartment, but otherwise, it's beginning to feel better here now. My mom just came by to drop off the fans and to talk to me about all the stuff going on, she was only over for a few minutes. But the place finally feels a lot better, and Violet seems to be feeling a lot better, and hopefully she'll let me cut more mats out of her, and brush her more. Heh...all wait and see. But I'm hoping she will sweat less, and get less mats soon.
One day Steve decided to take me to join him with his co-worker, Matt and Leigh, for drinks. I have met Matt here and there, as he lives in the apartment below us, and Leigh, I hadn't met before, but had seen him on his TV show that Steve produces and works on, Critical Thinking. They all tend to go out for drinks after they finish the show, and he actually asked me to join them one night, so I was willing to, because I had been cooped up in the apartment and wanted to get out. So we went to Boston Pizza to join Matt and Leigh, so it was interesting. They both were pretty nice. Matt and Steve were tired, and Leigh was late, and when he finally got to the restaurant, he was in a goofy mood. It was good, they all were nice, so it was fun. *smile*
When I was over at Kat's place, she was talking about going camping and stuff like that, and also about Mayfest, and how I should come by, but because Mayfest was the next weekend, and I wasn't sure if I could come back to Ottawa again the next weekend, I told her I had to think about it, and Steve couldn't make it because of work anyway, so we started talking about camping, as Kat was going to go camping in Charleston Lake the coming summer, in June, and I was willing to...talked to Steve about it, and then we decided to book times at two parks for the summer. One at Charleston Lake in the end of June, from the 21st to 24th, so to hang out with Kat and her family and just enjoy the place. Neither one of us, Steve and I have ever camped at Charleston Lake before, so we're hoping it's nice there. Steve has always liked Sharbot Lake Park, so we're also going there in August, to the same campsite we went to last year, so that'll be good. *smile* Two camping trips over the summer, which is going to be crazy - and busy!! Wow... Oh well, I'll get used to it eventually, and I hope my allergies won't be too bad for those times. My allergies were bad for a while, but they seem to have gotten better lately, so I'm glad about that. *smile* I want to start enjoying the warmth! Heh...It's just going to be crazy. Sheesh.
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