Given a task (especially a fun one), I will complete.

Recently I came upon a fun game to play. It reminds me of my favorite assignment in a design class I took in college, where we had to redesign an album cover. Instructions:

• Step One: Go to Wikipedia and click on Random Article. This is your band name.
• Step Two: Go To Flickr and on the “Last 7 Days” section, choose the third picture. This is your album cover.
• Step Three: Go to Wikiquote and click on Random Page. Go to the last quote and copy the last few words in the sentence. This is your album name.
• Step Four: Assemble and post.

Here’s my creation.

Update: Here’s another. I couldn’t help myself.

Fall foliage

My mother is coming to see me soon and when we were in the early planning stages of this trip, she kept saying she wanted to see the fall foliage. Here’s a picture I took downtown today…

We’re not quite there yet. Is is possible for the leaves to change dramatically by Thursday?

Mostly I just love playing with my new camera.

My new toy

Bought a Kodak C613 digital camera today. It’s pretty.

I had a Sony camera but it finally went kaput on me last night. Plus my mother is coming to visit me this weekend and I need to make sure I can capture our memories!

Speaking of this weekend, we’ll be spending it in exciting Stillwater, Minn. I’ve never been but have heard many great things about it, and it sounds like something my mother would love.

Especially with the fall foliage coming around.

Yeah, I hate to keep blogging about my cat.

But the little devil really likes to wake me up at 3 a.m.

One night it was because I let her in my room, and she jumped up on my bed and started pawing at my face. At three in the morning. The first thing I saw was her cute wet little nose sniffing my face. It was endearing, sure, especially since it was a weekend and I could just brush off the fact that it was so early.

But last night, for fudge’s sake, I shut her out of the room and she MEOWED all. Night. Long. It got especially bad around 3 a.m. So I grabbed the water pistol, opened my bedroom door a slight crack, and sprayed the little bugger. Didn’t stop her. She came back two or three times, each time I cursed under my breath and sprayed her some more.

I guess I’ll just have to live like this for a while until she gets it.

But it really is cute when she jumps up on me and sticks her face in mine. It’s a love-hate thing we have going now.

She also loves paper bags.

So, to keep myself awake today, I’m listening to Maroon 5 and t.A.T.u. and other upbeat stuff. And Mondays usually go by so quickly for me, since I usually have meetings and all kinds of things to make the time go by faster.

But damn, I told myself I’d make a Target run tonight. Probably will also be getting Bevo some new toys, since she ripped the tail off of her little mouse.

At least she’s clean.

That City Cat Clinic was fabulous. The vet was this sweet woman who just handled Bevo very well. Anyway, she said what lots of folks at the Humane Society were saying–that the virus will just have to run its course. She said that it would probably last another week or so.

But today, Bevo’s more active. She ran up to me when I came home from work and followed me around a bit, even tried to jump up on my leg and meowed like crazy for my attention. She’s so adorable, but I bet one day that kind of stuff will start to get on my nerves.

Anyway, the vet said that overall, as long as Bevo is still doing normal things like eating, using her litter box and cleaning herself, she should be fine. So. Here she is doing one of those things.