"Canada Day" means "yard work" in Canadian, right?
My company closed today for the holiday, which has split my week up nicely between the "oh good god I think I'm going to have to kill both you, creator of this document, and whoever at MS was responsible for the pain of trying to write large document sets in Word" part and the "getting do New and Interesting documentation stuff" part. Happily, those are listed in chronological order, so tomorrow will involve no user guides from hell.

The only drawback to doing Canada Day on Canada Day, then, is that there is no long weekend in my immediate future.

So today, I slept in, did laundry, and mowed the lawn. That's right, we Canadians know how to do a holiday right...

I also discovered that my neighbour had indeed taken down the laundry line, I suspect to more easily have access to the back yard when he periodically mows it for me if I've been remiss/busy. I hadn't used it up to the point where he took it down, since a) May was stupid rainy and b) I kept forgetting to get clothes pins until the Paramour picked me up some. Thus, he thought that no-one was using it.

It's back up now, and he was kind enough to help me with the back yard by doing the edging with his much-more-butch-than-mine weed whacker. To thank him, I gave him a jar of the strawberry jam I made on Saturday at the_nita's place.

After that, the Paramour and I went up to Waterloo, to hit the Shoppers and Home Depot gardening centre (former to buy, latter to browse), and then stopped for fries at Sonny's, where we saw a big, loud something at the top of a power pole go pop, make a weird yellowy-green flash of light, and smoke a bit. On the way out, we noticed that, unfortunately, it'd killed one of the birds that were hanging out on the power lines.

So tomorrow it's back to work. I was originally supposed to have an appointment on Friday to see my family doctor, but it got switched to Monday. Thus, I have two days to work on the new Flash demo and proposal for the bright and shiny new way of doing documentation that I want to switch to. (Yeah, we will please leave aside any comments on the lack of sanity involved in proposing a wholesale change in the product documentation three and a half months before my maternity leave starts, 'k?)

As an aside, I realize that, to the casual reader, I probably haven't been posting much. I have been, but mostly on the filter I have set up for the pregnancy/baby, which I've figured is of limited interest to most. If I'm wrong about that, and you've been pining to hear about prenatal visits, ultrasounds, and swollen feet, let me know and I'll add you.