Leftover Snow

You can't see it very well in this sunrise picture, but the snow is still there. And 6:20...very early to be awake on a Saturday...

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Snow In April!

Yeah, it's real. Not a trick or a mirage or imagined. I thought it might be because I am sooooo tired. But there's lots of snow out there and it's cold.

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Snail Mail

I got these cool mailing tubes when I lived in London. One of them eventually got mailed, although I don't know if it ever arrived at its destination. The other have moved with me a few times in the last few years. I came across one tonight as I got our guest room ready for our company this weekend.

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Totem Renovated

Today I wandered over to Totem Park, a residence I lived in for a grand total of three weeks when I first started university, to interview the man who baked UBC cinnamon buns for many many year. The dining room looked very different from when I lived there. Nice fancy wallpaper!

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Delhi2Dublin

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Magnolia

Flowers from the office window...sure helps the day pass faster.

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Waffles

I used our waffle iron for the very first time this morning. The waffles were very yummy...I did forget how long it takes to make them and that they're best straight off the iron...nice and light and crispy!

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Pax Lodge Rock

No really, this candy *is* called rock. It's super sugary sweet and we got some in a wedding package. I don't think I've seen it here...but maybe I have and I just wasn't paying attention!

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Home?

This pretty wedding gift finally found itself a home on the wall. We're trying very hard to make our little apartment feel like home...putting things on the walls has helped a lot, but for some reason it still feels like a place we're staying in temporarily.

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Surprise!

Alex came home tonight and dinner was almost ready. He insisted he needed to go out again right away. About 12 minutes later there was a knock at our apartment door. I was a bit hesitant to open the door since no one had buzzed in...well, standing there was this bouquet of flowers (and Alex too). Seems the errand he had to run before dinner was flowers for me...awwwwww...

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Book Diet Revisited

A while ago I decided I need to go on a book diet. The book diet sometimes works and sometimes doesn't, but right now it's actually working quite well. This is the stack of books I borrowed from the Mulvi-Library, North Vancouver Branch, at Easter. Yes, I do own the last Harry Potter book, but it was borrowed by someone who shall remain nameless who moved just before going to Kenya and then Australia and couldn't find the book anywhere in the boxes of things in storage.

One book left and then I have to return to the Mulvi-Library for more books. The best part about this particular library is there are no fines. They're happy to see their books back in two days or two months!

PS Happy 100th day of 2008

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Fan Pressure

Alex got this very thoughtful gift from a coworker for our cub. His coworker is a transplanted Leafs fan...Alex says the cub can use the bottle and sippy cup in the house only. I figure the cub can make its own decision about hockey teams when it gets here!

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Office Wildlife

We could see this hawk/eagle (can anyone identify it?) from our office window today. It was huge! It seems to be drying its wings out - which made it look even bigger.

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Connect 4 With Tea And Crisp

We spent a perfect Sunday night playing games while drinking tea and eating some totally scrumptious berry crisp...

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End Of The Season

Alex and I went to a local pizza place with large screen hockey action to see the last Canucks game of the season. It was a horrible blow out, but worth seeing for the maybe goodbye.

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Bamboo

Kamiah bought this yarn and asked for a scarf. She wanted a nice, tight pattern. Well, this bamboo didn't want to have anything to do with tight. It's slippy and slide-y and lovely and needed something loose. I have some of the same yarn in another colour so I might have to make one for myself - I like this one so much. It will be perfect for winter (it's nice and wide) and for spring/cool summer evenings. Nice and light and perfect!

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Defenses

One of the many rodent repellers plugged in all over our apartment. I'm not sure if they're working.

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Stormy Affairs Team

Up she goes...one of my coworkers was on a Storm the Wall team made up of people in our building. It looked like they were having fun!

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Saving Space

Our new place is about half the size of our old place, so we've had to get creative to store things.

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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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