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Well, I went to work this morning at 9am, and we only had 10 children. That was nice, very quiet, nothing major to do. Lovely. At 11:30am the manager counted up the children, and said that she might send someone home. I jokingly said that I should go home because I had the :chicken:pox in the holidays. She goes “yeah, okay” and so I was sent home!

So at home I’m bored. I’ve been hanging around this place all week, and am sick of the site of it. I texted a couple of people and Demi returns to me telling me she’s going to pole dancing tonight, and that she wants me to come. I’m kinda thinking ‘nah, not really me’ but she reckons it’s a great workout, and that I should join her. That and she’d pay for me, and I have to give her her Christmas present. Oh all right I told her. I’m a little bit shamed by it all, but we’ll see how it goes… maybe I’ll get a job with my new skills *sniggers*.

In other news, I’ve finally finished a layout that I’ve been working on for a while. Took me a bit to get the opfh to get going on it, because the colours of the kit that I chose to work with were pretty boring. In the end, this is what I came up with. I only used 4 photos, but there were way more photos taken. I really like what I did with the borders of the photos. I selected the photo, masked it, then used a brush with flow of 100% to go around the edges, and paint out the mask. Once I was satisfied, I then took the mask off. The brush marks were selected, then I just pushed ‘delete’, and the brush marks were deleted. Pretty clever I thought – I came up with that all on my own *pats back*

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Credits:
Kit: Cristina Blomberg – Graduation 2005
Pin: Kimberly Stewart – Stones (I remade the pin so it suited the kit by taking a hat from the background paper and putting it over the pin)
Tag: Marie – Hope Kit

Then the sad part of my day so far. I was chatting to my Mum, and she told me that my cat Toby which I’ve had since I was 8 (he’s now 14) hasn’t been eating for a week, and Dad finally took him down to the vet today. Seems all his organs were failing, and they put him to sleep. They buried him by the pond in the garden. Strangly it hasn’t really hit me yet. Well, it kinda has, but I haven’t had a cry or anything yet. What’s really weird was that it’s so sudden – 2 weeks ago at Christmas he was bright and perky. I suppose it will hit me the next time I go home – which won’t be anytime soon, so maybe I’ll be used to it by then. We’ll see what happens. Writing about it helps.He was a weird cat. Silly I tell you. I still remember when he was a kitten. He didn’t have the nicest temperament, and he didn’t like me much, because I hasseled him too much. He mellowed as he got older though, and often joined Dad for a snooze on the lazy boy. He was a scrawny thing, we could never keep any fat on him, espically as he got older. Compared to Elvis, he was so little! I’ll always have 2 images of my cat in my head. One when he was young, I took a photo of him chasing a bright yellow ball, and the other image is of him walking along the fence, with a darkening sky around him. In fact, I think I’ll go find that photo now and scan it. Good thinking.

Goodbye my Toby cat. No more meowing for food for you. And no more Buck eating your food for you when you turn your nose up. No more scratching at me when I give you heaps, and no more cuddles when you are feeling lovely.

Tags: Cat, Graduation, Photography, Scrapbooking, Work

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