Zzzz...

I don't really have anything exciting to blog about this week.
It's Friday and I'm super sleepy today.
So I will just wish everyone a weekend full of glorious sleep.

And just for fun, here is a picture that wraps up our week of chilly weather.

Poor thing looks heartbroken...

A Canada goose stands on a frozen section of the Red River in Winnipeg
Thursday, perhaps wondering where the water went. Environment
Canada's forecast of sunny skies and a high of 6 C today should help melt the ice.

(image and caption from winnipegfreepress.com)

ENG Cam. = Reason I'm Not A Media Production Major

This weekend I took home an ENG camera to do shooting for my video montage.  To begin, this was my first time actually using the camera on my own, without anyone's help, which was the first problem....

I tried to do filming on Friday night but for some reason I couldn't get the camera to focus properly.  And to add more irritation, it was brutally cold out and the sun was quickly setting.  So I told my subject to forget about it and we would try it Saturday.  I brought the camera inside and realized that the focus was on automatic when it should be on manual.  Once I switched it, the focusing was fine. 

I spent all day Saturday shooting various scenes with my subjects inside and outside.  If I rememebered to do one thing, then I forgot something else.  Whether it be white balancing, balancing the camera, adjusting the iris, or having the correct setting on for indoors and outdoors, I always seemed to forget to do one of those.  And I usually realized I forgot to do one of those when I was done shooting, which made me angry because I couldn't fix it.  I am very thankful for my patient "actors". 

So needless to say, I am still not done filming.  Filming all day defintiely tired me out and I was quite sore from lugging the camera equipment around all over the place.  Now I have to find time to take the camera out again and finish my last couple scenes this coming week. 

My big fear is going into the edit suite this week, pressing play, and finding out some shots will be unusable, which will create problems with finding time to reshoot.  I have a story to my montage, so I can't just eliminate bad looking scenes.

But this is my first experience using ENG cameras, so I can't expect to be amazing at it the first time.  Hopefully it I get better with time. 

I just hope I can produce a reasonable video montage that won't look like a five-year-old made it....unless you're this girl from the PC commercial...she seems like she can maybe make a better montage than me...haha.

Follow the North Star and You'll Reach the Burger Bar

For the last five years I have been driving past the North Star Drive-In.  These days, I drive past it everyday on my way to and from school.  I've never really thought twice about the place and have never been. 

It's a cute looking establishment though.  It's exterior walls are a dark blue and it has yellow stars painted on the sides, including a large star sticking out of the top of the roof.  You can only order from a window and then either eat at the picnic tables or take it away to eat.  It is only open in the warmer months, obviously, due to weather conditions. 

Recently a couple weeks back, Ace Burpee was talking about how you know it's warming up because the North Star Drive-In is opening.  It opened this week and yesterday when I drove by around 4 pm, there was about ten people getting food.  It always seems busy when I drive by. 

I googled it and there are a few reviews and blog posts that people have made regarding the good food they serve there.  I never knew this little place on McGregor St. was so popular.  They sell the staple fast food, such as burgers and fries, but it must be good. 

So my goal in these next few months is to stop by there one day and taste it for myself.

Hopefully the next few days of cold weather doesn't affect business.  But that's Winnipeg weather and I'm sure people wouldn't even mind eating a burger outside with some mittens; we're used to the crazy weather by now. 

Image credit: winnipegfreepress.com

Best Part of the Oscars?

In my opinion, this part!

This performance (Legion of Extraordinary Dancers along with some So You Think You Can Dance Alumni) is soooo amazing!

They performed on SYTYCD also, and were fantastic there as well.

Makes me wish I still danced...*tear*
The video is not the greatest quality, but it's definitely something that needs to be viewed to understand its true greatness!

It's Back!

RRROLL UP THE RIM TO WIN!

And I thought I had a caffeine addiction before, now there's an added bonus!  I bought two cups today cause it was just that kinda day and.....

I won once!  A free coffee!

It says odds are 1 in 9, so it seemed to work for me!  Though a coffee is a nice win, the $10,000 or Rav4 would be much nicer....so I'll keep my fingers crossed!

 Always a great contest - yet not so great for RRC who is trying to decrease the amount of paper cup consumption.....

(image credit here)