For the first time in years I have both Good Friday and Easter Monday off (union job). I intend to take my camera to Blender tonight. Considering I am normally confined to the photo area when I am at Club 23 West it will be fun to get pictures showing the space, although my heels are currently swiss cheese from new-shoe-itis, so I may not be inclined to be on them much.

Sunday evening we'll be having an Easter dinner with Elaine's family and after that I think I will take cheekydevil up on his suggestion to try out setting up a pay photo-booth at Sanctuary. If it goes well I might do it regulary, particularly if/when I start getting Mondays off all the time.

During the days I will be getting on to making headway on some outstanding projects. I need to finish my corporate taxes. It's an odious chore, but it needs to be done. I have a catalogue application that I started for Elaine's web store that I'd like to finish off. My Red Chair project has stalled, so I'd like to get going on another painting.

I was also planning on working on the illustrations for Dark Canada, but haven't gotten any feedback on the last sample so I don't know if it's what they want or not. I told them when I sent the last one that I needed feedback quickly to make their deadline. I think I may do a few more just for fun and if it turns out they don't like them, then too bad, they can find another illustrator. I can use them myself on Gothic BC. I also wouldn't mind finishing off the first two "not cartoony enough" ones that I sketched in the style I orginally had in mind.

There are also some little things around the house that I want to do, like clean the carpets and perhaps do something different with the "Christmas" lights in the living room (which stay up all year in one form or another and tend change with each major holiday).

In short, I plan to come out the weekend both relaxed and feeling like I've done something. I neither want to spend the whole weekend on social outings (the two club nights and family dinner are enough) nor do I want to spend the whole weekend doing odious things (like taxes). What I have planned is a nice balance between social time, obligations, creativity, and simple "puttering".

And now my rather pointless "lunch hour" is over so it's back to work.