Category: Weekend!!!

Saturday was a special day: It was TB’s Birthday! My eldest son is now 6Years old!

I will post the pictures of the 3 parties we made for him later on and tell you all about the cinema torture of Friday on a later post. Right now I am talking about the 1st part of the celebration: Our Visit to the Innocent Smoothies Office in London. (They are his favourite smoothies in the world apparently and when offered the chance to go and learn how to make the, he jumped at it!

Well enough talking (If you wanna see talking AND the Smoothie making itself, visit my Vlog post: Inocent Adventures).

We had a great time there and it was great see the faces of some of the people we only see nicknames and avatars on twitter! LOADS of MAD bloggers there! :)

Once we got home me and TB were starving and so we decided to share a VegPot that came with the goodie back the chaps at Innocent sent us and I committed the worse error of the day: I’ve twittered it without paying attention on my spellings like I should and the result was that:

Can you notice the typo??? Well… half of my twitter followers did… and they didn’t let it escape…

I tried to fix things by posting the 12 bellow


proof that I am eating VEG por and not VAG pot!!! on 12seconds.tv

As you can imagine… it actually made things worse…

Nuff Said????

Well… At least I have learned 2 important lessons…

  1. double, triple check my spellings… if not in the blog at least on twitter
  2. NEVER try to fix it if the typo is too bad to be fixed.

What brings me to today’s question… Have you ever gotten in trouble for misspelling something????

zya!

And where are the horses indeed?!?!? :)

I am doing a Vlog Post on it this time because I am too lazy to write a proper post… ahem… I mean I can convey better what I want to say in videos… but I took a hell of a lot of photos… so decided to share them .

Enjoy while they are free… I’m considering selling my photos via Sleep Monsters from the next race on.

And THAT’s how I spend my “me” times… :)

Vlog post coming up soon (uploading it as we speak… )

sounds like fun???? Join me next time!!!

Just drop me an e on yuri [at] urbanvox [dot] net and we go on from there! ;)

zya!!!

Vic’s been out today with AB (I like it more as AB than Mr.A… cooler codename as Mr.A reminds too much of Mr.T’s ” I pitty the fool!”… and you just can’t take someone seriously after that… heehhee). She went to the long waited Reebok event that she’s been on about for the past month or so. and because she didn’t want me ogling loads of hot mama’s in gym wear I haven’t spent much time on TB since AB was born she gave the idea that maybe we should do something together, just the 2 of us.

I loved the idea, and asked him what he wanted to do. He wanted to go to the cinema to watch “how to train a dragon” (or something like that) in 3d.  The first thing that came to my mind was ”this boy spends so much time in front of a screen already (be it watching TV, playing on computer or xbox or even watching films in his portable DVD), no… I wanna do something outdoorsy “. Since camping is out of the question at this precise moment I came up with the second best: We would go for a walk in the park. And to make things a bit more interesting we will each of us be equipped with a camera to take pretty pictures of the “adventure”.

Now, there is another thing about TB that he must have taken from me: He loves taking pretty pictures!

Since Vic took with her the camera I usually let him use, I’ve let him take my FujiFilm S9500 while I took the “robust” D100 I only use at the studio because let’s face it the thing is VERY temperamental!! Or it might just be that the Fuji is so much fun to use that it has to be my favourite. It is an entry level DSLR that if I’m not mistaken has now been discontinued but according to one of the teachers at London School of Arts is the best one can get to get started.

OK OK… enough talking about Camera Porn… :)

Before we left I had to clean up the memory card because he insisted on “practising” and took 58 of those:

I could post more off them but I suppose you got the drill… :)

After we finally finished practise I managed to pry him off the xbox and out of the door on our way to the park where he took those (click in the thumbnail to see the whole picture):

Now if you know me you will know that I am not very keen on being photographed… and I repeat what I always say: “I rather take my place in the picture behind the camera!”. But WOW!!!!! I LOVE THOSE PHOTOS!!!! The Boy is a natural!!!

And as you can see in the ones I took (the main subject obviously being TB) he even looks the part!!! Check it out:

Then of course we got to the adventure playground and he gave me his camera to go and play in these:

Boys will always be boys… :)

In any case I simply ADORED the day out (rainy and all)… and it definitely asks for a repeat much more often than not!

I think I needed that… :)

And I can die with the hope that maybe someone will take UrbanVox Photography to the next level when he grows up… what???? you never know… The boy has got the skills might as well dream with him maybe working with me… ;)

wow!!! 1:30am already… it is officially My birthday!!!! yayayyyy!!! :)

The big 3.0…

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I’ve done it!!!

the glass cell (MAgneto?!?!?!) :)

the glass cell (MAgneto?!?!?!) :)

I have bested my arch enemy: Speedy Gonzales.

He is now trapped inside the humane trap we got specially for him (her???) trying to eat it’s way out of it.

But I still feel triumphant!! It actually made my day to capture the damn rodent! heheheheh

My Arch Enemy has beem taunting me for a week now, running around the traps I have laid down for him/her am laughing at me as I ran after it with broom in hand. But no more!!

Today I have decided to change my tactics from passive to active.

My first measure as to set up sentries at the kitchen door.

I figured that TB's bionicles would be scarry enough for a lil mouse.

I figured that TB's bionicles would be scarry enough for a lil mouse.

I soon found out that I couldn;t be mor wrong as Speedy attacked one of them on it's way out of the kitchen!

I soon found out that I couldn;t be mor wrong as Speedy attacked one of them on it's way out of the kitchen!

Speedy Gonzales had a plan: It was going to zoom past the living room, into the fireplace and escape through the chiminea, probably to return later with reinforcements (I still haven’t had the chance to interrogate it…)

Unfortunatelly (for Speedy) our chiminea is blocked so the rodent fell back on it’s ass. By then I was alert and had already sieged the chiminea.

I'd set up the trap and come up with a strategy.

I'd set up the trap and come up with a strategy.

The idea was to leave only one way out (where the humane mouse trap would be already in place and then using a broom I would scare it straight to where I wanted…

To my surprise IT WORKED perfectly!!!

The culprit has now been captured and it is awaiting it's sentence in the morning when the boy will be awake.

The culprit has now been captured and it is awaiting it's sentence inside it's glass prison to be pronounced in the morning when the boy will be awake. The sentece will probably be death if the lil bugger doesn;t know how to swim... TB wants to throw it in the Wandle River

THAT was a week full of ups and downs.

RunDown: We made an offer for the Earlsfield building to move the Metanoia Cafe into… and someone upped and toppled our offer… Then I get a parking tkt for parking in front of our house, well 2 parking tickets, one in the evening and other in the morning (if I see the “£$£%^^ traffic warden that did the deed I’ll run over him/her…) Well pissed about the situation I go to Merton Council where something impossible happened… they not only admitted they where in the wrong (1 for not sending my permit and 1 for the parking tickets), but also cancelled all my Parking tkts (I had 4), printed a brand new permit for me on spot AND apologised for their mistake!!

I was like… WOOT?!?!?!?! :)

Then a new photography job presents itself from a place I would never imagine… well not without me offering anyway… :)

Then there is a possibility of taking over the website production of a website that will be seling Brazilian Exports in the UK (Specialized in clothing, bikinis, etc)… Still some negotiations to go ahead… but lets see how it goes… I’ll keep you posted.

Then I get to work today… and it all went down hill! Well… let’s put it like that… WORST Sunday… EVER!

The evening got a bit better… TB and Vic arrived from her grandad’s party and I played wit the boy a bit before he went to bed… I missed the chickey monkey today… :)

I even got some quality time with the missus before she dropped asleep.

This small victory against Speedy Gonzales REALLY came to lift my spirits a lot!

Only problem is that it spoiled my plans to go and buy a bbgun!

Oh well.. never mind!!! :)

zya!

Or should I really say that the real DIY Kings took over and did most of the job (My FIL is a civil engineer and my step-father takes carpentry as his hobby)?? lol

Ok... if they're gonna to all by themselves I might as well take pictures... :)

OK... if they're not gonna let me do anything I might as well take pictures... ;)

No… seriouslly… I think I was there mostly to make decisions today…

Of course they would go with whatever THEY decided afterwards but that’s beside the point. :)

The fact is that we’re getting things done and I am SO happy about that!

I am terribly tired… exhausted to tell the truth (after Tom – The FIL – went home I actually got to do some stuff!!!), but I haven’t fell so good in ages!

We’re hoping to be able to finish all the lil details tomorrow to be able to get the rest of the furniture moved in and the MetaNoia Cafe on the road, working, making money and fulfilling all it was designed to be!

Dude… I ming… and it is like 1am… so… off to have a shower and bed to me!

Here… these photos should tell a bit more about my day :

DIYing is kinda cool!!! ;)

DIYing is kinda cool!!! ;) (Click on the montage to see it better)

Expect more tomorrow!!!! ;)

zya!

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