Greetings from Dartmouth/Halifax.
Hot Dog!
MWAH! Gillian Hearts Starbucks.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Sunday, August 26, 2007
South Shore!
Ahhhh, out of the house at last! Today we went down to the South Shore and spent a few hours on Risser's Beach (lovely sand!) and in Lunenburg! Gosh it's beautiful down there!
Belal and Me on the beach (Fiiiiiiinally out of the car! Haha!)
The mast of The Bluenose II!
Mum touching The Bluenose! Very exciting, she has a thing for ships!
The bell on The Bluenose. Shiny, Shiny!
The anchor on The Bluenose :) I have a thing for anchors ;)Love,
Gillian
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Finally, My Anderson Cooper Shrine is Complete!
Ha Ha! Okay, I really am kidding! Did you ever watch the cartoon "Hey, Arnold!" where Helga had the shrine of "football head" in her closet (I tried to find a video, alas, no such luck!) Well, this isn't like that at all ;) Although, I do have a major celebrity crush on CNN's Anderson Cooper (ahhh, integrity in journalism... smart, gorgeous and a Vanderbilt!)... Eh hem.... moving on...
My parents have been occupied in the garden lately, so I jumped at the chance to paint and decorate my bedroom to make it a bit more tolerable. Once upon a time, this room was painted "Cookie Monster Blue." Then someone painted about 2 coats of "insipid cream" over that (btw, it needed 3 coats.) Then they put up ugly wire shelves and TA DA! One tiny, unattractive conglomerate of half-assed design (much like the rest of the house... but I digress.)
Well, it just so happened that we had a pail of "Silver Fox" paint left over from the main floor bathroom, and it also just so happens that Anderson Cooper's nickname is "The Silver Fox." Could I resist? Absolutely not! So I tore down the metal shelves, painted (and painted, and painted) and this is the result:
Soooo much better than it was! I love the soft grey-brown colour (and not just because it looks like Anderson Cooper's hair, although it does help! heehee!)
I miss you all!
Gillian
My parents have been occupied in the garden lately, so I jumped at the chance to paint and decorate my bedroom to make it a bit more tolerable. Once upon a time, this room was painted "Cookie Monster Blue." Then someone painted about 2 coats of "insipid cream" over that (btw, it needed 3 coats.) Then they put up ugly wire shelves and TA DA! One tiny, unattractive conglomerate of half-assed design (much like the rest of the house... but I digress.)
Well, it just so happened that we had a pail of "Silver Fox" paint left over from the main floor bathroom, and it also just so happens that Anderson Cooper's nickname is "The Silver Fox." Could I resist? Absolutely not! So I tore down the metal shelves, painted (and painted, and painted) and this is the result:
Soooo much better than it was! I love the soft grey-brown colour (and not just because it looks like Anderson Cooper's hair, although it does help! heehee!)I miss you all!
Gillian
Thursday, August 23, 2007
We've Only Been Here A Month?!
Okay, truthfully, right now I'm sitting on the back porch in the shade with the dog, watching my parents dig up weeds, and frankly life is pretty good at this very second. I'm NOT digging up weeds because I'm "watching the dog", which means I can be helpful while still being lazy. This way the dog is well-behaved, and outside. He can see mum and dad, which means that he doesn't need to lick his elbow in his obsessive-compulsive fervour. The dog is happy, so mum is happy, and I am happy until any bugs invade my personal space.
It's now been a month since we arrived in Nova Scotia. It feels like it's been a loooooot longer. A LOT longer!!! It's not that Nova Scotia is really a bad place, it's just that I feel a lonely and trapped and I live in my head an awful lot when I don't get out of the house at all. As the days go by, I learn to cope a little more. We don't get CBC AM out here, but I can stream it quite effectively from their website, so I can learn while I work, which is all good. Nathan and Sheila are coming out for Thanksgiving, which I'm giddy about!!! It's only for a few days, but it gives me something to plan and think about. Should we have a bonfire on the beach? Should we go on a winery tour? Lobster dinner at Hall's Harbour? I really can't wait, although I may have to tie them up and keep them here, because I get teary just thinking about them. I MISS YOU GUYS! Have I mentioned that? Only about 40 times, hey?
We're "now 90% bat-free", with only a few incidents which dad has blogged about here. I've been trying to think a little more about the website for the B&B, wondering if I can find a course out here to teach me Flash so I can incorporate fancy tide charts and such. I've painted/decorated my room, which I will write about later in the promised "Anderson Cooper" post. I dunno, it's really kind of a blur, ya know? Each day is like the last, and it's certainly not what I would call "exciting", but it's different. I have to keep reminding myself to "buck up, it's an adventure," but that's hard on days like today... It's my friend Kim's birthday, and all of the Salsa gang back home are going dancing, so I feel pretty miserable about that. I want to be there so badly to help her celebrate and dance into the wee hours, spinning around precariously, laughing till it hurts.
So that's it, really. A month of mixed emotions and bats and a horrifying lack of Salsa dancing and sushi. But as they say in Elizabethtown (one of my favourite movies!) "We are intrepid. We carry on."
... We just carry on a lot more easily when we can go dancing ;)
Okay, okay, enough of my whining! My love to all!
Gillian
It's now been a month since we arrived in Nova Scotia. It feels like it's been a loooooot longer. A LOT longer!!! It's not that Nova Scotia is really a bad place, it's just that I feel a lonely and trapped and I live in my head an awful lot when I don't get out of the house at all. As the days go by, I learn to cope a little more. We don't get CBC AM out here, but I can stream it quite effectively from their website, so I can learn while I work, which is all good. Nathan and Sheila are coming out for Thanksgiving, which I'm giddy about!!! It's only for a few days, but it gives me something to plan and think about. Should we have a bonfire on the beach? Should we go on a winery tour? Lobster dinner at Hall's Harbour? I really can't wait, although I may have to tie them up and keep them here, because I get teary just thinking about them. I MISS YOU GUYS! Have I mentioned that? Only about 40 times, hey?
We're "now 90% bat-free", with only a few incidents which dad has blogged about here. I've been trying to think a little more about the website for the B&B, wondering if I can find a course out here to teach me Flash so I can incorporate fancy tide charts and such. I've painted/decorated my room, which I will write about later in the promised "Anderson Cooper" post. I dunno, it's really kind of a blur, ya know? Each day is like the last, and it's certainly not what I would call "exciting", but it's different. I have to keep reminding myself to "buck up, it's an adventure," but that's hard on days like today... It's my friend Kim's birthday, and all of the Salsa gang back home are going dancing, so I feel pretty miserable about that. I want to be there so badly to help her celebrate and dance into the wee hours, spinning around precariously, laughing till it hurts.
So that's it, really. A month of mixed emotions and bats and a horrifying lack of Salsa dancing and sushi. But as they say in Elizabethtown (one of my favourite movies!) "We are intrepid. We carry on."
... We just carry on a lot more easily when we can go dancing ;)
Okay, okay, enough of my whining! My love to all!
Gillian
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Waiting: Day 7
This picture is actually from yesterday, but I was too tired to upload it last night!
This is my mum's favourite picture so far.
New posts coming soon! Check back for "We've Only Been Here a Month?!" and "Finally, My Anderson Cooper Shrine is Complete!" Ha ha! Am I kidding? There's only one way to find out ;)Love,
Gillian
Friday, August 17, 2007
Waiting: Day Six
CA-RAZY thunder storm last night! I've never seen anything like it!!! That meant that I was going off five hours of sleep, so I was okay to stay in the car while my parents did the Home Depot and Lee Valley thing in Halifax...
I think Belal resembles a dinosaur sometimes. Today was one of those days!
Meanwhile, I look like Night Of The Living Dead. This is what I'd look like as a zombie. Mmmm, Braiiiiiiinnnnnnnssssss.
Good to know. (gosh, I hope it was just bad lighting and I wasn't walking around Halifax all day looking like that! YIKES!)
Love to all!
Gillian
So here's day six of the art installation:
I think Belal resembles a dinosaur sometimes. Today was one of those days!
Meanwhile, I look like Night Of The Living Dead. This is what I'd look like as a zombie. Mmmm, Braiiiiiiinnnnnnnssssss.Good to know. (gosh, I hope it was just bad lighting and I wasn't walking around Halifax all day looking like that! YIKES!)
Love to all!
Gillian
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Sentimental Schmuck
Oooh, it's been an emotionally volatile week! I have been all over the place! Up, Down, In, Out, Upside Down. You name an emotion, and I've felt it. It's been that crazy.
Tonight I have landed in a sentimental place, probably due to the fact that I just talked to my friend Kim on the phone. I miss my friends. I miss It's Yoga. I miss California and Calgary and my family. I want to hug people. I feel all teary. Do you see what happens when I talk to people on the phone??? *sniffle* No more phone calls!!!
Things have been busy here, painting and making jam. So much fresh, yummy fruit and produce out here! There was a total of eight bees in the fireplace today (no, I don't know what they were doing in there) and we've finished painting the walls in the parlours (weeeee... only four thousand rooms to go!)
That's about it, really.
Love,
Gillian
Tonight I have landed in a sentimental place, probably due to the fact that I just talked to my friend Kim on the phone. I miss my friends. I miss It's Yoga. I miss California and Calgary and my family. I want to hug people. I feel all teary. Do you see what happens when I talk to people on the phone??? *sniffle* No more phone calls!!!
Things have been busy here, painting and making jam. So much fresh, yummy fruit and produce out here! There was a total of eight bees in the fireplace today (no, I don't know what they were doing in there) and we've finished painting the walls in the parlours (weeeee... only four thousand rooms to go!)
That's about it, really.
Love,
Gillian
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