171: MORE ROPE

170: WAVING FLAG

Come on let your red heart show.

169: WEATHER WORN

Ropes and nets on a fishing boat.

168: POOR BOWSER

So many rules for Bowser.

167: MODEL AND MOTION

My model for photography class. I wish I could have that kind of professional lighting set up at home. I wouldn't be able to stop taking pictures!

Here she is in motion (or at the end of a twirling motion, anyway):

166: A PUZZLING SUCCESS

The Coronation of Napoleon has been completed! Putting in the last puzzle piece was very satisfying.

165: THE BIKE RIDE THAT NEVER HAPPENED

I was planning on biking from my house to QE Park since it was such a gorgeous day. Unfortunately I was incapacitated and there was no way I would be ok with biking today. So I had to put my helmet away after taking this picture and do nothing indoors for the rest of the day. I hate days like these when I WANT to do physical exercise outdoors in the sunshine but my body is UNABLE to do it.

PS. How do you make a bike helmet not look dorky? It's like I have a mushroom on my head.

164: DEPARTURES

Departing Departure Bay.

The clientele at the downtown Nanaimo store is so strange.

Scenario 1: A large, heavy-set BEARDED man brings in a prescription for *Sandra

Me: Has Sandra been here before?
Man: I am Sandra.
Me: It says Sandra is female
Man: I am female.
Me: Oh..umm can I see ID?
Man: I am Sandra. You don't believe me? He gives me his badge from work. It says his name is Sandra.
Me: Do you have a government issued piece of ID?
Man: I'm Sandra!! Have you never seen a woman with a beard before? He gives me his drivers license. It says Sandra and has a picture of his clean shaven face. 
Me: No..
Man: Maybe in a few years technology will enable you to do it too. I think you would look good with a beard.
Me: Maybe...

(S)he was very offended that I didnt believe that (s)he was a woman. I have to say (s)he looked like 100% man.

*Name has been changed.

Scenario 2: Customer comes in asking for Vermox, an anti-helminthic (ie. parasitic worm) medication

Me: What did the doctor say to you?
Customer: He said it might help for the worms in my skin. She shows me her hand that is covered with red dots.
Me: Do you know what kind of worm it is???
Customer: Well I can feel something wriggling underneath my skin. And then I see a white worm coming out of a hole in my skin, but when I try to pull it out, I can only get its head. The rest of it goes back under my skin and then it will come out later from another hole. I can't get the whole worm out of my hand!
Me: ........

I had to wash my hands after taking her money.

163: WESTWOOD LAKE

Such a gorgeous lake, with trees rising out of the water.

162: NAUTICALS CANDLE

I had some seafood at a restaurant called Nauticals for dinner, followed by some Wii Fit. Some of the games make you do such ridiculous things, including flapping your arms to pretend you are a bird. I tried really hard and tired myself out from all the flapping. But my favourite one was the Step Class. I miss going to step class!