monday.

today we’re moving on to mostly the interior of the house. although things are still a mess, as we continue unpacking and putting things away and organizing, which feels like it’ll never end.

but here are an assorment of photos to give you a sense of how the decorating is going. these are the colour schemes we’re using around the house…

and some miscellaneous photos around the house…

(new hydrangea beside trimmed back lilac bush)

our evening of fine dining – welland style – corn on the cob…

kraft dinner…

and bbq’d weiners, all classed up with a glass of red wine…

(laaaaadies???)

can I have some of that too? pleeeeeeeeease??? I’m sitting all pretty and everything…

things are starting to get into a routine, and we’ve unpacked a lot of boxes in the last week, so we’re almost at a point where we won’t have to feel ashamed if someone comes over.

I’ve started trying to run again. I went for a run last wednesday, hurt thursday and friday, then ran again saturday, and went for a long walk-with-purpose through the countryside yesterday. and now as soon as I’m done this entry I’m going to strap on my shoes and go for another run. I’d love to get into a routine of either running or walking every day, as long as I can stay on the wagoon and not get deterred by the cold and crappy weather that will get here eventually. although this week has been nice and sunny, no complaints.

nice and sunny enough to still spend a lot of our time outside. cleaning up dog poop for example…

or just hanging out…

somehow, I managed to get a family doctor here in ontario with my BC care card. I’m going to head to st. catharines to apply for a health card this friday on my day off.

I also finally had to (begrudgingly) apply for my onterrible driver’s licence, get my 5 month old car safetied, and get my new licence plates. which means I have to say goodbye to “beautiful british columbia”. what a shame…

so we’ll end on a happy note with a pretty flower photo to make me feel better…

and this coming weekend, being thanksgiving, martin and I and the pooches will be taking a road trip to ktown to visit the folks. although is it just me, or are the trees really late in changing colour? I remember being lucky if half the leaves were still on the trees by the time thanksgiving day came around.

saturday.

yeah, so like, it’s only been a little while since my last update, so this is some kinda record I think. it’s the long weekend this weekend, which is awesome because it means I not only get my one whole day off this week, but I don’t have skool on monday, so I can do more bugs and makes me some more cash OH MY GOD I LOVE SCHOOL!!

we’re finished with our illustrator lessons and moved on to photoshop this week, which at first I hated (stupid photoshop!) but then by the end of the week photoshop and I had called a truce and were on speaking terms. still not best friends, but at least we weren’t just trying to ignore each other so we’d go away. I can’t wait to show you some of the stuff I’ve been working on. problem is, right now the files are approximately 550 MEGS in size so uh, yeah, I’m gonna have to scale them down a bit first. but they’re SO COOL.

I went a little crazy over the last few weeks and decided that I was FINALLY going to fulfill a lifelong dream of owning a super cool old antique steamship trunk. don’t ask me why I’ve always been fascinated with these things, maybe it’s that they’re so well travelled, maybe it’s because they’re so old and have neat history, or maybe it’s because I can hide all my worthless junk in them and no one is the wiser … but here’s my first ever antique steamship trunk, complete with “Montreal” stickers, that I will do a little restoration on as soon as I have a nanosecond of time for this type of project (ie, it’s a long time off) …

isn’t it cool?

I think that just with some cleaning and metal scrubbing, maybe some varnish or even some stain if I get fancy, and this baby could look REALLY good. so now of course I have my eye on about 3 or 4 more that I’m restraining myself from buying until I actually have a job that can afford these sorts of non-essentials. sorting bugs doesn’t exactly lend itself to extravagant purchases.

obviously I’ve been outside with my camera again. and that almost ALWAYS means close-up flower photos, which you’re being treated to right now. I thought I’d might as well get out on a sunny day and take some photos of the last of this years flowers before the weather turns to crap.

so my life lately has consisted of sorting bugs, going to school, sorting more bugs, working at london drugs, sorting more bugs, and hanging out with martin. although dave and I started hanging out a bit again in order to finish off halo2, and then schemed up a way to borrow his friends xbox360 so we could play halo3 and OHMYGODILOVEIT! we blasted our way through the first 5 levels in only 3 hours. and there are only 9 levels, so we figure one more evening of saving the planet from evil alien overlords and we’re going to have to find another game to play…

I also went out and bought one of the last copies of halo1 for my mac, and I’ve been blasting through the alien scum when I’m over visiting martin. he just bought a shiny new $3000 macbook pro and his head nearly exploded it’s so fast. his last laptop was ridiculously old, and finally just bit it one day, prompting the purchase of the new over-the-top laptop. and man, it’s sweeeeeeet. someday … someday … if I’m lucky …

I’m finally just finishing up the thank you cards for heather’s wedding. ever since I got back from the wedding in ottawa it’s been a rat race to try to keep up with everything, but I’ve managed to squeeze in enough time to churn through them. they’re pretty cute, although not nearly as nice as the invitations or the cd’s. I’ll try to remember to take some photos of the cd’s and the thank you cards and post them too. nothing like shameless self-promotion!

other than that, not much is going on. my social life has come to a screeching halt now that I’m working 2 jobs and going to school full time. but it’s only until the end of may, so I’ll surface then and see if I still have any friends.

I finally got to hang out with my friend henry this week for a lovely brunch of specially-ordered ham and cheese omlettes, which were very tasty. he just got back from a 3 week trip to africa which sounded pretty cool. It makes me feel very un-vacationed right now.

every friday the girls from environment canada and I still get together for lunch, usually sushi as that was always our favourite, and it’s great to be able to keep in touch with them, I was afraid we might lose contact after I left, so I’m happy that they’re able to take the time to hang out once a week and get away from the office. here we are on our first official friday lunch, where we splurged and went to a sit-down sushi restaurant instead of our usual take-out joint, and ordered some yummy sushi boats …

and that’s it for me for this week. tune in next time when Lee-Ann’s life is pretty much exactly the same as it is right now … woohoo, feel the excitement.