Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Friday, 13 February 2009
Koala Bear
My Australian friend Joe sent me these pics
Poor little Koala bear was so hot it just jumped right in the tub of water.
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
A New Year
Wow, I haven't written in a while. I would guess becuase I feel like there is nothing to write about. Time is passing and my hope is this is my last year in the UN. I am working on getting my visa, without much help from the law office we hired. Got upset with them today and now the owner is involved. I hate that you have to get upset before some people will do anything. Why is paying or asking them not enough. Hopefully things will proceed with a bit more speed now.
Some funnies.
D thought he would just leave the girls out of their cages between breakfast and lunch today to see how they acted. When he got back at lunch there was snow in his room from the bedspread. HAHA he is so suckered by those dogs. Guess they are back in their cages from now on. Don't feel sorry for them. D takes them for an hour in the morning, for 20 minutes at lunch and another hour at night. So spoiled those two.
Dad was in Yellowknife recently visiting his grandkids, he had just gotten surgery on his leg and so he was telling Little Leo that in his next life he was going to be a doctor. Little Leo promptly told him that no he was going to be a pile of bones. Nothing like a reality check from a 5 year old.
I play UNO every tuesday night in our staff club. Anyone can come and play. Dan, Matthias and I are regulars and others pop in and out of the game. The play gets pretty wicked and Matthias was kicking our asses. He cheats lots so we got him back by ganging up on him. He ended up with lots of points that round and was grumpy. Dan and I were laughing our asses off at him.
The rain never seems to stop here. In two weeks im going to England so I can look forward to more rain. I definately like snow more.
Some funnies.
D thought he would just leave the girls out of their cages between breakfast and lunch today to see how they acted. When he got back at lunch there was snow in his room from the bedspread. HAHA he is so suckered by those dogs. Guess they are back in their cages from now on. Don't feel sorry for them. D takes them for an hour in the morning, for 20 minutes at lunch and another hour at night. So spoiled those two.
Dad was in Yellowknife recently visiting his grandkids, he had just gotten surgery on his leg and so he was telling Little Leo that in his next life he was going to be a doctor. Little Leo promptly told him that no he was going to be a pile of bones. Nothing like a reality check from a 5 year old.
I play UNO every tuesday night in our staff club. Anyone can come and play. Dan, Matthias and I are regulars and others pop in and out of the game. The play gets pretty wicked and Matthias was kicking our asses. He cheats lots so we got him back by ganging up on him. He ended up with lots of points that round and was grumpy. Dan and I were laughing our asses off at him.
The rain never seems to stop here. In two weeks im going to England so I can look forward to more rain. I definately like snow more.
Sunday, 28 December 2008
How to shop together when you are apart.
There is no such thing as boxing day sales, or January sales or after Christmas sales where I work. Of course I want to take advantage of these sales to get some things for our house in England but won't be home until after they end. At half price they are about regular price in Canada. The latest thing we need is a new sink and toilet for our powder room and flooring for that room and our entrance. The powder room is small, so finding a sink and toilet that will fit in there and are nice looking has been a problem. Much time spent online and ta-dah there they were. Sent the link to D so he could have a look, after some discussion we agree on what we want. So I find the nearest store to D and he went down the next morning (first guy in the shop) and bought everything we needed. It will be delievered next week and live in our garage until we are finally together to paint the bathroom and put the flooring in and the new sink and toilet. Next up D is off to look at the flooring I found, environmentally concious yet nice. Hopefully he likes it and can order it. Maybe in February when Im home we will have some time to get working on this project. Next is environmental carpet and underlay, having a hard time finding it.
Tuesday, 23 December 2008
Christmas
So I am not known for my Christmas spirit. I don't mind it but not my favorite holiday. I am however very against this totally over the top Christmas gift giving. I think it's a total waste of money. The gifts tend to be cheap because people have to buy so many and the gifts are mostly useless. I have a hard time being enthusiastic about the tenth bottle of bubble bath. Do you really need to give gifts to everyone and their cow. Do we do this because we feel we have to? Do we do it becuase we don't really want to spend our precious time with people so a gift assuages our guilt? I am so much happier to just get a card or an email or a phone call or some time together when im actually around then something I don't need or want. I have only given gifts this year to my mom, my nonie, my dad and my husband and that is enough.
Birthday's however are another story. I am all about the Birthday. Not just for me but for everyone.
Birthday's however are another story. I am all about the Birthday. Not just for me but for everyone.
Friday, 19 December 2008
My aching neck and fixed TV
I woke up this morning with about ten crinks in my neck. I blame the stupid square pillows in this country. You can never get them to feel right, they aren't thick enough that one feels alright but two is too much and if you try to fold it in half you end up with no pillow halfway through the night. I have looked all over this place and cannot find nice rectangular pillows. I even ordered a rectangle and got sent a square. GGGRRRR. Oh well only 43 more days and i will be sleeping in my own bed with my own 4 rectangular pillows, my own feather duvet (not crappy fake polyester) and my own husband.
I got the cable for my tv fixed today, I think the lady who cleans my room decided she needed an adapter and so she took mine. I managed to scrounge one up and now I am semi-happoly watching the Hallmark channel tonight. The Hallmark channel you say, well yes, when your choices are Russian TV, Russian TV, Russian TV, God TV, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera English, Discovery Science and Hallmark, the Hallmark channel gets alot closer to the top of the list.
I got the cable for my tv fixed today, I think the lady who cleans my room decided she needed an adapter and so she took mine. I managed to scrounge one up and now I am semi-happoly watching the Hallmark channel tonight. The Hallmark channel you say, well yes, when your choices are Russian TV, Russian TV, Russian TV, God TV, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera English, Discovery Science and Hallmark, the Hallmark channel gets alot closer to the top of the list.
Wednesday, 17 December 2008
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