Just another week

 Not much to report this week. Last weekend Shona attended a convention for anime artists. She was going to go for one night, but it was cheaper to get a weekend pass, so she and her dad went Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. She had a wonderful time and met new friends. She got to listen to panelists who did voices for anime movies and TV shows, and panelists who taught her about perspective drawing. Every one of them she met personally told her that her art work is already beyond her years, but that she needs to get a degree in graphic design if she wants to work in the industry. She thought about it and has decided to drop out of chorus to take an art class in high school. I'm just happy that she has found her "thing" so early in life. I've never seen her so self-motivated as when she is engaged in this e-communications program. It does my mom heart good.

We also did mundane shopping this weekend, at Target among other places. Snapped these cute pictures while we were there.

 I still need to finish shopping for Easter and Shona's birthday, which happen during the same weekend. Yikes. To add a little pressure to the situation, Shona has asked if I would continue the tradition of doing an Easter-egg hunt for her to find her basket. I always did rhyming clues for her, but apparently they were too easy. This year she wants them to be tough clues, and she said they don't have to rhyme. So I guess I will continue this tradition another year.  Oh, who am I kidding? I bet she will still get this when she goes off to college.

It's spring break around here. I know because Shona is staying home and sleeping in until noon. I am jealous, I admit. I am also aware of spring break because my office is like a library. It is painfully quiet. The only excitement going on there is that we are doing a March Madness bean bag tournament. Instead of creating our own teams, we had to draw names. I got paired with a good player, because we have survived two rounds so far. OK, the first game I did score eight of our 21 points, so I was no slacker. Yesterday's game? I scored a whopping 1. Oh, well, there will be another opportunity sometime this week. As quiet as it is in my workplace, and as slow as my work is right now, I could probably get away with going to the hallway with the bean bags and brush up on my game. Maybe that's how I'll spend my afternoon tomorrow.