Being Honoured

Tonight was our Area AGM and our Commissioners were given awards. This is A, laughing pretty hard at something someone was saying about her.

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Lazy Sunday

Here's Alex, hanging out with the new toys...couch, cushions, and computer!!

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Who's Excited?!?!

Alex and I had lunch with my cousin and her husband today. When we were kids, I used to get her hand-me-downs and I really looked forward to getting those bags full of fun stuff. Then I grew and was way taller than her and that was the end of the hand-me-downs.

Well...so I thought! After lunch, they came back to our house and unloaded the back of their car. And guess what, it was full of hand-me-downs for our new cub from her babies (well, one baby, one three year old and one six year old). It was very very exciting!

This was Alex's favourite item - as soon as it emerged from the back of the car, Alex got a huge goofy grin on his face! And, as you can see, he didn't even take his coat off before he tried it on!!

Oh, and you'll see there is a PERSON in this picture. I went back and did a quick, unscientific survey and since the beginning of the year, well, about half the pictures are of places, half are of things and FOUR (now five), only FOUR are of people. I think I must have become a hermit lately!

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White Stuff

It's snowing. It's been snowing for a bit. Big, huge, fluffy flakes. It's pretty. I like it. I'm glad I'm cozy and warm and inside and at home.

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HiHoHiHo It's Off To Work I Go

But why the hammer? To smash something? To install something? Just for fun?

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New Food?

I have a cupboard full of cookbooks. Quite literally. And there are a couple I use all the time, but mostly I have one or two recipes from each one that I use and that's about it. I actually get most things I make out of my black spiral book - the one with hand written recipes, taped/glued in recipes from the paper or magazines, cards from friends or relatives - that's where the good stuff is.

Alex and I have been finding it a challenge to get food on the table with our crazy work schedules and lunches have been fun too. I think we both finally ate one too many peanut butter sandwiches, so the last few weeks we've been combing the cookbooks looking for things that we can both make (meaning not too time consuming, complicated or full of things the cub doesn't like. Fish has not seen the inside of our house since before Christmas as the cub seems to have a huge dislike for it right now. Which makes me sad. And Alex too. We both like fish. And miss it.) and that will make decent leftovers for lunches.

Anyway, it's been great to go through the cookbooks together - we got a few great ones as shower and wedding presents and we haven't used them yet, but they have some tasty looking recipes in them.

PS Happy Birthday Mom!

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Deadline Looms

I have less than three hours to get all of the year end stuff finished and submitted. Ack...so why eaxactly am I taking pictures and posting them?!?! Right, that's called procrastination and it's something I'm good at. Okay, five minute break is now OVER!

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Colourful Dinner

Alex and I had a yummy, colourful dinner together tonight - no more turkey - after two turkey dinners in a row, it was nice to have something else.

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The Easter Bunny Found Our New Apartment!

Yummy, sugar rush and sugar crash *before* breakfast, what a way to start the day!

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Mountains

The North Shore mountains were pretty and snowy as we drove across the Lion's Gate Bridge for Easter dinner number one tonight.

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Behind Door Number One

We have two bedrooms in our new apartment...it's supposed to be our spare room until the baby arrives and then it's supposed to be the baby's room, but Alex and I were looking at it this morning and we decided that really, this week, we're living in a one bedroom with a large storage room. And with that, it's time to get off our procrastinating butts and finish the purging and unpacking!

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Pillows

I love the new pillows...almost as much as I love the new couch!

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It's Here

And it's so comfortable. And the living room looks like a room (I just need to get rid of the computer graveyard!)

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Couch Ready

The couch arrives tomorrow. I can't wait! It will be so nice to have living room furniture!

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Glasses

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Look At Us!

Isabella has discovered her tongue and her Uncle Sandy had fun pretending he was the mirror. I actually grabbed this from a video we took. I got a bunch of good pictures today (Fraser's birthday party...Happy Birthday tomorrow!), but this was just too cute to pass up!

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It's Here!

The long wait for the new computer is over. It's here. It's pretty. It's shiny. It's green. Telus sucks. Oh wait, that's a different problem, kind of.

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Home Improvement

All the fun stuff to try to make our apartment feel more like home.

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Backstage

I got to hang out backstage at the Chan tonight and even have a dressing room and I'll be back again tomorrow. There is something so nice about being in a theatre, and being backstage especially. And then there's the unique theatre smell.

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Unhappy

Uh oh...looks like someone isn't happy with the UBC Centenary.

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Substitute Wedding Ring

My fingers have gotten pretty swollen already, so on the weekend Alex and I went and got a temporary replacement ring. This bling cost us a whopping $22!

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Tools

I have been trying to take these to work for a few days, so tonight I left them with my house keys in hope that I'll remember to pick them up when I grab my keys tomorrow morning.

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Sunday Dinner

We had a real Sunday dinner tonight...maybe partly because we went grocery shopping? It's amazing what you can do when you buy groceries. We finished off with raisin pudding that my mom and both my grandmas used to make. YUMMY!

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IKEA Haul

That's it. Two shelves and three brackets. I think this has to be the record smallest IKEA run for me, ever!

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Porcupine

I think I got this in grade three, maybe grade four. It's exactly as it was then, except it no longer has a tail (which was an eraser) and has one spine missing.

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Harry Potter Worked

When I discover I haven't picked up a book in a while and can't seem to read anything, I turn to Harry Potter. And it usually works. I'm rereading Time and Again and I have been pleasantly surprised (or maybe slightly stunned) that I don't remember any of it.

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Computer Graveyard

We're waiting for our new computer...until it arrives, we have a computer graveyard in our living room. They're waiting to have their data transfered and then they'll go to new homes where they will hopefully be cursed less often than they are in our house.

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Better Home

The miracle plant has found itself a new home in the window, it might be an east facing window, but it's better than the dark room. And the miracle plant got a drink of water. Hopefully it will continue to bloom now that it's happy.

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Regrowth

This poor plant has been neglected since we moved. It was used to being watered regularly and spending time in a west-facing window. Lately it's been hanging out on the floor, in the dark, with no water for six weeks. But today I noticed it has started to bloom, all on its neglected own!

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Room With A View

I had an overnight Guide meeting this weekend. Usually I get a room on the other side of the building, but this weekend I had the west view. It's a bit different than the usually east facing view.

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Sushi Train

Sushi, going round and round the restaurant. I wonder if anyone actually ever takes it? The same dishes seemed to go around and around the whole time we were eating.

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