Subspace Purse

If I'm going to be Ramona Flowers for Halloween, I'm going to need a subspace purse! Instead of spending over $100 to buy one, I decided to make one! Piper helped!

Gather your supplies!

Showing off the finished product

Nice and roomy... if Scott Pilgrim can fit in there, Piper certainly can!

Welding Goggles

Since I'm going to be Ramona Flowers for Halloween, I need to start piecing things together now to spread out the costs and give me time to find weird things like welding goggles. Well, I have those locked down, at least!

Piper thinks they'll look better once my hair is blue.

Central Library

Piper accompanied me to a meeting at the Central public library in Virginia Beach. This was my library growing up, and since I work in a joint-use library now (part community college library, part city public library) I sort of work with them.

They recently installed something we refer to as an AMH (Automated Materials Handling system)... basically, it automatically checks in books when you drop them in the book drop, and it sorts them based on where they're supposed to go next (shelf, another branch, holds shelf, etc.) We have one at our joint-use library (since our building was just finished last year, we were guinea pigs to make sure it worked the way they wanted before they put them at other public branches). But at Central, the conveyor belt goes under the floor at the front door and you can watch your items if you drop them in the box outside and run around to the door to watch!

We have bigger, exciting adventures coming up soon, but I'd rather keep them a surprise for now! (Oh, the suspense...)

Cassy's Wedding!

We went out of town for my friend Cassy's wedding this weekend! She was very excited to hear that my LVs were going to be in attendance.

Banner in front of the library

Piper and I stand in front of the library where the ceremony was

Pretty centerpieces!

Mmm, cake! Orange flavored!

Congratulating the bride

Bride smooch!

Duck!

Rubber Duck, the giant yellow duck sculpture by Florentijn Hofman, is in Norfolk at the Chrysler Museum of Art! And we got to go see it today! (Everyone in Hampton Roads is posting selfies in front of the duck on Facebook.)

The duck is meant to bring people together and make them happy, according to the artist. Piper looks pretty happy, I think!

Piper in Toronto

What an exhausting few days this weekend was! Flight cancelled, long wait for a rental car, had to walk to the Rogers Centre twice because security told me my purse was too big (does he not understand that I have two LVs who want to come to the concert too?), got a little lost driving back to the airport, sat boarded at the gate for twice as long as we were in the air on one flight... but all in all, we had a good time!!!

At the Rogers Centre... That's about 10,000 people on the floor, by my math.

Avicii takes the stage!!!

Neat fountain outside an office building in downtown

Travel buddies!

Piper & Damson enjoy some public art near the waterfront

Lake Ontario! We aren't certain whether that's Hamilton (Canada) or NY behind her.

CN Tower

Damson & Piper check out this whale statue

CN Tower from afar

We visited Chinatown...

...and tried the spicy Dan Dan Noodles. Hot!

My travel partner, Christopher, makes faces with Piper
while we wait for our planes to board.

#vacaselfie!

I only planned the trip around the Avicii concert, so I totally missed the fact that it was Victoria Day weekend and most things were closed. I think we squeezed a lot of fun into the two days we had, though! (Would have been three, but storms between Norfolk and New York postponed my first flight by 17 hours.)

Birthday Cookies

We also baked birthday cookies for Husband's birthday!

Supervising the unwrapping of the Kisses with Damson

Yummy finished product!

Delicious! We have another batch of cookies to make for the training day at work before we go to Canada on Friday!!!