tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38127462011-07-07T22:28:48.759-07:00Musings from the mind of Bella.Bellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03538518500523023631noreply@blogger.comBlogger2241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812746.post-71572558327678268032009-07-26T20:44:00.000-07:002009-07-26T21:19:40.648-07:00

The permit application sagaPart OneExtensive internet search and perusing of New West Building Permit Application web page. Go in person to city hall and speak to clerk. Ask some questions. Get copy of the "Guide for Residential Construction" from the Building division. Come home and read through guide, do some research to try to understand it. Have a basic idea, then call the "Plan Checker" (

Bellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03538518500523023631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812746.post-87771514875558094072008-11-14T10:18:00.001-08:002008-11-14T10:18:27.737-08:00

Hm...I should probably update my blog..........

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So much for keeping my blog up to date!!As you may know, Boy and I have an unfinished basement we will be renovating. Hopefully I'll be a little better about blogging the progress as far as that is concerned. Currently it's still in the planning stages. We're designing a virtual basement in Design Suite, which has been great for room layout and sizing! You can add walls, flooring, furniture and

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And again we made a snowman.Snowmen, actually. Unfortunately, the snowpeople got into a bit of a bar fight when we turned our backs. Fiery tempers have led to cold-blooded murder! It looks like Bob got iced!Witnesses to this heinous act are frozen in terror.The police are processing the scene, but I don't expect them to have difficulties finding the perpetrator. He has no legs, and has been

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Other things I have done since my last post:-gotten married-moved to the suburbs-vacationed in Jamaica-received a promotion-turned one year older-finished a knitting project-spent my first Christmas as a wife-celebrated a pajama-party New Year's EveMaybe I should endeavor to update a little more frequently this year?Photo by Focused Elegance Photography

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=8O

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!!!

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Eeeeeeeeek!

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Only 10 days left!14-day weather forecast looks somewhat promising...fingers crossed!

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19 days left before The Big Day.19 more days of careless freedom and reckless abandon. Schoolgirl crushes and raving parties.19 more days of wildly running about doing last minute errands, tying bows and gathering organza bundles. 19 more days of panicking.19 more days until I marry the man of my dreams. Boy.

Bellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03538518500523023631noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3812746.post-61954203090663684552007-05-25T14:14:00.000-07:002008-12-10T23:24:03.970-08:00

...and I just chopped off my hair.I didn't actually intend to, I was just getting it trimmed. I showed the stylist a photo of how I wanted my hair for the wedding, and told her to cut off whatever she needed to in order to make that style work. She showed me about 8 inches, and I said "sure" (hair was down to my waist).In the end, after all the evening-up, layering and adjusting, my hair now just

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Wow...my wedding is now only 8 weeks away. Eep!Have managed to avoid most bridezilla moments, except for one brief encounter with a postal employee.Even when our cake baker failed to show up for a meeting, after we had spent weeks meeting, tasting and looking. Weeks of cakes...and finally we had decided. We arrived, checkbook in hand, photos of ideas in hand. We let him pick the meeting time,

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Our travel agent, when telling us of different resorts in Jamaica, mentioned one she suggested we might not like. She noted that Sarah Ferguson and other celebs liked to stay there, but wouldn't elaborate on why we wouldn't like it, just said it was "eccentric".... that she herself loved it, but wouldn't send her clients there unless she knew them really well. Later that afternoon:David: I wonder

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Please excuse the huge delay in this posting as I have been having some technical difficulties with my blog. In fact, this post was only made possible by installing a third browser program on my computer, as apparently both Opera and IE are suddenly both incompatible with BlogSpot. -B. For those of you who watch horror movies, this might sound like a familiar story line: A young couple buys

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You know when you get your nail caught on something and it bends back and hurts like a b**ch? Well, imagine doing that, but bending it back so far that it tears the skin and bleeds. Bleeds a lot.Now *that* hurts like a MoFo!

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Wishing everyone a wonderful 2007.

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Done!Peruvian Cuzco wrap. Not made with Peruvian Cuzco.(Pattern was free, suggested yarn was $100. Instead I used Patons Divine for $15. )Wrap was finished one week after intended event. Ah well...now it's a Christmas wrap!

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The Boy and I are now (or, will in a couple of months be) homeowners! Exciting. All ours to decorate.All ours to furnish.All ours to repair and maintain.All ours to mow (and there's a lot of grass).Some photos of the new digs: Front yard Backyard and garageDoes this mean I have to be an adult now?

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Made the mistake of hitting the arts-and-crafts section of the Central Library yesterday, and I found books on handcrafting for weddings. Yep...now I've decided that my wedding needs the Martha Stewart touch - I want to hand-make everything! Oh, guests needn't worry about trying to smile through burnt scrambled eggs - the food will be catered by someone who knows his way around a kitchen. But

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Frosty and meBoy and I built a snowman yesterday with the first snowfall of the season. Yes, he really is that big (I'm standing in this photo....Frosty is almost as tall as me (Bella can't wear her heels - david) or, was. He kind of tippled over last night. Guess he had a little too much ice wine :)

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Interesting experience, a wedding fair. I had never been to one, and, truth be told, wasn't so keen on going to the Surrey Welcome Wagon Wedding Fair. But, the timing was right and Bel had the tickets, so off we went.Anticipating heavy traffic, we left an hour and half early. My Montreal driving skills combined with an open HOV lane got us to our destination 50 minutes early. Our options were sit

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...finished on the cusp of Winter. Sigh.Specs:Pattern: Sirdar pattern #8399 (fancy title, no?)Yarn: il cotone Super Soft by Mondial in #525 Knit on 3.25mm and 4mm needles.Started early '05, finished Fall '06.

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Between whirlwind trips North (Whitehorse) and East (Windsor) and wedding stuff, I have been once again delinquent in updating my blog. So, first things first, a picture of baby Ella in her new blankie:There was a picture of Boy and baby Ella, but unfortunately he made the mistake of booting Sophie off the couch. And by now he should know, Puppies always trump.After the Whitehorse trip I was home

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It's done! I didn't quite beat Yoda* to the punch, but the blanket did manage to get done before the trip to Whitehorse, so that's all that really matters to me.Now, I've never been one to block a knit before, in fact Dad's sweater was the first time I ever did. But I had heard that with lace patterns, it really helps...plus I wanted the blanket to be just a smidge bigger, so I tried a wet-block.

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I'm told I don't update my blog nearly often enough. This from a Newfie-Saskie-Quebercer who doesn't even have a blog of his own. Although he *did* just teach me to forge his signature...handy. Well, off to find his chequebook...it's gotta be lying around somewhere!

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Me and the boy fiance

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We won it 1-0, but the team looked a little too lazy. If they don't pick it up, things will get ugly fast!

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Portugal's first World Cup game kicks off in 40min (1130 PDT).Woo!

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The blanket is now 1/3 finished. I think Yoda is still outpacing me, but I hold out hope of getting it done in time!

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Being a Friday, I had some time this morning to sit down with my coffee and read more of the paper than just the comics (which are by far the most important bit). Read some intersting things, and thought I'd share.Coffee is actually good for you:http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=85a105f3-085e-4930-8b69-2317efb7a2f2Sun is good for you, too (but you're still not

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I've finally started working on the baby blanket for Boy's Sister's Baby (since "BSB" provokes images of late-teen boys wearing all white and dancing to badly-choreographed 90's pop, I shall instead refer to the little one from here on out simply as "Yoda"). the blanketSo far, I've gotten 3.5" done out of the 32" blanket. In the 16 rows of pattern I've accomplished thus far, I've had to rip back

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I've finally finished Dad's sweater! And in time for his birthday, no less (mind you, mom decided she wanted to celebrate it when Anna was in town, which is 2 weeks ahead of his *actual* birthday. It was not done in time for this celebration. Sigh.)Technically, the sweater was originally a long sleeve crew-neck pullover for Christmas 2003. It has since become a v-neck vest, for a much later

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Your results:You are Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic)65%Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)55%Derrial Book (Shepherd)55%Alliance50%Wash (Ship Pilot)50%Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)45%Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic)45%Jayne Cobb (Mercenary)40%Inara Serra (Companion)30%A Reaver (Cannibal)25%River (Stowaway)20%You are good at fixing things.You are usually cheerful.You appreciate being

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Sorry about the delay. This week has been hectic. This here is the last of my Rio posts...from here on, real-time posting will resume. Interesting events as they happen in my life. Which is infrequent, I'll grant. -B.Our last day in Rio! Nancy and AJ left early morning to catch a bus to Iguassu Falls. Our plane wasn't until early evening, so we decided to leave our bags at the hostel and wander

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We managed to make it to the zoo today...and it was open! Yay! We saw lions ... and tigers ... and bears! Oh my! Oh, and baby monkeys fighting.Grrr.David and a giraffe contemplate each other.In the evening we wanted to try something new for dinner. After getting quite haughty disdainful looks at our choice of attire from the first place we tried, we ended up going for dinner at quite a nice

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Zoo day! Or so we thought. Worried about the possibility of places being closed on Ash Wednesday, we specifically asked 2 or 3 people whether the zoo was open today. Yes! they all said...it opens at 8am! We decide to go a little later, figuring that most places wouldn't open until noon today.Out we bus to the zoo. Get off where the bus man tells us. Walk through highway traffic as we try to

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Since we got home at 7am, most of the day was spent sleeping. I've never slept until 2 in the afternoon before. Both Boy and Nancy snirked at this, both apparently quite practiced at sleeping half the day away. We didn't do much all day. Boy and I went for a walk while Nancy and AJ took a nap (yeah...they got up at 2 then went down for a nap at 4). We figured we'd conserve energy for all the

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During the day, Boy and I went to the Botanical Gardens on the advice of the competent staff lady of our hostel. It was beautiful! All the flowers and plants that I had hoped to see in the urban forest. There were carniverous plants, cacti, there was even an Amazonian section.Pretty little lake at Botanical Gardens Amazonian section of Botanical GardensIn the evening was the Carnivale parade. An

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Not an overly exciting day. Hit some outdoor markets, found a neat little place for lunch. Boy and I went for a nice dinner (Nancy insisted we needed a date night to ourselves...I think she just wanted to be rid of us for an evening!). Upside: we got to have the quintissential fruity tropical vacation drinks: On the way home we hit our second squalid downpour, but this time we were prepared! By

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Headed out to Ipanema beach early this morning for the Brazil vs USA women's 2s beach volleyball. As with everything else in Brazil, the information was incorrect, and the game wasn't going to take place until the following day. Also, we had to be back at the hostel early as the soccer game we bought tickets to attend wasn't at 6pm like they had said, but at 2pm. Brazillians have a very lax sense

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Went for a hike in the Tijuca forest (urban forest). Unfortunately, the closest thing I took to hiking boots were my shiney sneaker-slides. Also unfortunately, I had blisters on the bottom of my feet already. So the hike was less than comfortable. In the end not as hikey as we thought....the choice was either hiking up a small, barely-visible trail, or along a paved road. We chose paved due to a

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Daytime was pretty uneventful, but in the evening we went to a rehearsal for one of the Samba schools for the Carnivale parade, Beja Flor. This school has won the parade 3 years running ("that's like winning the Stanley Cup!" - quote from Nancy). As you can probably guess, we were a bit tipsy. Well, Nancy was wasted. It was a hillarious, drunken night, and I love the fact that my camera does

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Tourist trap day! We went up Corcovado mountain to see Cristo Redentor (the Big Jesus). Awesome view of the city from there, with many panoramics ensueing. Also, that is a REALLY big Jesus statue.David poses by Cristo Redentor In the evening, on our way to dinner, we stopped to watch a Capoeira show at the side of the road. I managed to get singled out for audience participation and one of the

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We are back from Rio. Instead of lambasting you all with one big, long blog with a whole bunch of Rio stories all at once, Boy has suggested I split up my entries and post them day by day. I think this is a wonderful idea...so, over the next 12 days I will post our Rio adventures as they occurred. Happy reading!Our Rio trip started out a bit bumpy, as the cab Nancy had called for to arrive at 4:

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Tomorrow morning, Boy and I take off for the warm climes of Brazil. Rio de Janeiro, in point of fact, for Carnivale! Can't wait! Hope to update the blog once or twice while I'm there, but this may not be possible. Even if there are plentiful internet cafes, there will be a LOT of people there, and getting onto a station might just be too difficult.If I can't blog from down south, I will update

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One final shot of my little geek - a to-scale combo shot of him at the start, at his biggest, and at the end. I know ... geeky beyond measure :)I hope you've all enjoyed this little science experiment. Join me next time, when I'll be documenting my efforts to create an army of slave-clones based on my own genetic make-up.(aw, I'm just joshing...I look terrible in camoflauge).

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I don't think he's getting any smaller. He's not quite *as* little as he started, but he's pretty close.

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After 10 days of shrinking he's gone from about 13.5cm to about 7.5cm, and lost a lot of volume.

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even more pockmark-ey

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He's down to about 8cm tall, which isn't much bigger than he started out. He's really looking pockmarked though.

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Really wrinkley now.

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Shrinking and getting wrinkley.

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He's shrunk a fair bit now.

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He's gotten a lot smaller. His head's still fairly round, but his body's all wrinkley and emaciated. His head has gotten a lot smaller, too, it's just it was SO BIG to start with.

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...shrinking...

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...shrinking...

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...shrinking...

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He's getting smaller. He also feels less pouffy, and I think his head is a lot smaller.

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Looks like he's making some shrinking progress. Closer inspection reveals that the ruler is a little off at the bottom, though, so he's actually only shrunk about 3mm in the past day.

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Before you mock the picture, realize that it was taken at 630 in the morning, by which time I was already running late for work. No idea what size he is, as you can't actually see the ruler.Interesting aside...that little black and white blob on the side is my puppy, pretzel.Interesting aside 2...that book is about Firefly the TV show. Not hookers in Joss Whedon. But now the word 'hookers'

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Just a few more mm.

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A wee bit smaller. He seems to shrink slower than he grew.

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Well, either he grew back 0.5cm over the course of the day...or my last photo was in fact angled. I'm thinking the latter. So...looks like my t=12h photo is not valid (there's always the one data point that doesn't fit). If I ignore that one, then he lost about 0.5cm over 24hours. I will endeavour to keep my phtotos as dead-on as possible. He's got such a big head, that the slightest angle skews

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Hm....it looks rather like he shrank a lot, doesn't it? I think that's mostly due to it being way too early to be doing photos (think 630 am), and perhaps a slightly off angle camera (to avoid catching a reflection of yours truly in the shiny backgroung...a reflection at 630 am?...not a happy thing).

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It's grow-a-dork part two! Time to shrink that dork!So technically, this photo is T=0 shrink time, and T=405h grow time. He really didn't grow much past 100 hours, though. The difference between the last photo and this one is about 2cm, but some of that might be due to the distortion by the water and the curved surface of the jar (so the angle to him and to the ruler were a little different).His

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Another few mm. Now...do I leave him in water a few more days, or start the shrinking process?

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Just over 11cm...he grew another 5mm. So...72 hours isn't the upper limit then. Wonder how big he'll get?

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Hm...is this really 600% of his original size? His eyes have gotten much bigger though. Well, his whole head, really

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6:40 in the morning is *way* too early to be taking photos.

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Not growing overly fast anymore, but still going.

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Wow! 9cm! He started out around 5cm, so he's about double his size in half his expected lifespan. He also looks like he's getting a little big for his current home. Looks like my little is needing to move out...I'll have to go in search of something a little more accomodating to his expected eventual size.

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Now that was a growth spurt. It looks like only just over 1cm overnight, but I think that it was more. The ruler isn't quite flush with him, and I think the angle of the camera is making a big diff is how big he looks. I probably should've been taking him out to measure each time!

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So now he *is* a teen. He's 16! Hasn't grown much, maybe about half a cm or so.

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Ooh...almost 6.5cm...he's growing up so fast! Also, it looks like his arms are beefing up. Maybe my little dork will be a muscular little dork? Looks like his face poofed up, too...his bright black eyes are all beady now, kinda like he maybe is having an anaphylactic reaction. And his smile is getting smarmier. Somehow he looks like a greasy, smarmy teen!

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Taken at two hours. It's a bit hard to tell from this photo, but he's pretty much the same hight he was an hour ago. Well, the package said he would *start* to grow at 2hours, so this is effectively the start of his spurt. Go, little guy, go!

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This photo was taken at 1hour. The astute among you will notice this is a new vessel altogether. I decided neither of the mugs was acceptable, and found this nice clear glass vase to replace them. I was also able to make him stand up by leaning him against the side of the vase, which also conveniently lets me put a ruler up behind him. It's not quite flush with him, so there's a bit of an angle

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I have decided to chronicle the growth pattern of my Grow-a-Dork. Supposedly he will grow to 600% of size in 72hours. The following is his tale.Am a little worried. I decided to take the little dork out of the first mug I put him in and move him to a clear mug.Dork - T=0, mug #1But when I tossed out the water, a whole bunch of the jelly stuff coating him washed down the sink. When I put him in

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Maria, Alex and Rebecca (Alriecca) had their annual Christmas party last night. It was a great chance to see people I haven't seen in years. And for Boy to eat mini-cucakes. Sadly, I didn't get around to taking any photos...there were many people around with uber-snazzy cameras, so I figured I could just link to their sites when/if they put them online (feel free to do so in my comments,

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Pictures from the BobJ Christmas party are now up here. Didn't manage to make it to our other two parties last night. Ah, December.

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As some of you may be aware, yesterday was the 10th annual celebration of my 21st birthday. To celebrate, I wanted to do something I had never done before. So Boy took the day off work, and we went rock climbing! A bit scary at first (picture me clutching a wall, feet barely 8ft off the ground, refusing to go up any further). After a little coaxing, I did make it all the way to the top, and did a

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Zorro & Little Red Riding hood...all grown up...in Iceland

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Some go by the change in weather. Others, the end of daylight savings time. A few (meteorologists and calandar-authors among them) may use the actual hours of sunlight and darkness to harken the change in seasons.Me? I go by my closet.I finally moved all my skimpy summer dresses and skirts to a cardboard box and pulled out the wool turtlenecks, the fuzzy warm sweaters and the penguin pyjamas.

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So, out of curiosity, does anyone still read my blog? If so...then, wow! Considering the large dry spans in between updates, I'm impressed you haven't forgotten me. Or maybe I'm just intriguing: infrequent episodes, but you just can't wait for the next installment? ...Right...so you're just bored then. Got it.Anyhoo...if you're still here, post a comment and let me know I'm not talking to myself.

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Somebody already dinged my door! 6 days, I've owned that car. 6!!!So here I am Saturday morning, needing to park downtown. Iffy about parkades in the first place, I park in the least busy area...next to something that looked expensive enough that they'd be careful. Unfortunately, someone else parked on passanger side.I knew the first ding would hurt. But I hoping to at least have it a week before

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wow...is it ever time for an update!

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Web access limited. Library terminals are Pentium I´s with 32Mb RAM. No WiFi to be found. Am now using a terminal in a shopping centre. Sad.Have logged into messenger, but nobody is ever one. Could be because it tends to be around 6am Vancouver time. Hm. Slackers. Get up and entertain me!!!The 37 degree weather stopped when I got here. In fact, it rained today. More like it poured today. Lots

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Yay!Going on vacation. See you all in 3 weeks!

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So the summer has started. Ultimate 2ce a week (it's going to kill me, I swear. They expect me to run!). Tickets booked for a 3 week trip to Portugal. And if the sun would come out, I could start doing other summer-y stuff. Instead, there have been two torrential downpours in the past week. And I'm not exaggerating...I got soaked just crossing the street Thursday night, and yesterday the splash

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An 8-block each way walk to the grocery store+ nylons with apparently no elastic whatsoever+ rather short skirt- car , public washroom or empty parking lot===============================hide out in a back alley trying to get your tights up so at least they'll stay above your knees most of the way home, since you think it would be rather...odd...to just stand there and whip them off, being EastVan

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Type my name into Google, and I used to be the very first link that came up. I've just discovered, however, that my spot of distinction has been taken over. How creepy is it to click on your name and be taken to an "in memory of" site? Very! Especially with the epitaph "Forever 21" ...to see that on an actual memorial? Kind of morbid, in some way. (For those who don't know, I decided to stop

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