Dotty doesn't like having her photo taken much, but she does like belly rubs!
25.3.07
Dotty Setting
On Friday we spent the night with out friends dog Dotty, she was alone for the night and needed some company
Dotty doesn't like having her photo taken much, but she does like belly rubs!
Dotty doesn't like having her photo taken much, but she does like belly rubs!
23.3.07
Taxes
Renato and I went to get out taxes done yesterday at the H&R
We were planning on having to pay back probably $2000, because Renato's last job did not pay into taxes... so we had saved up.
However, we also started a small joint buisness last year. What a great idea that was! In the end both Ren and I got a *little* bit of cash back. The saved up $$ can go onto student loans and nasty credit, yay!!!
I tried to hug the tax lady, she did not let me complete the gesture.
We were planning on having to pay back probably $2000, because Renato's last job did not pay into taxes... so we had saved up.
However, we also started a small joint buisness last year. What a great idea that was! In the end both Ren and I got a *little* bit of cash back. The saved up $$ can go onto student loans and nasty credit, yay!!!
I tried to hug the tax lady, she did not let me complete the gesture.
22.3.07
Another Wacky Spot
This comming Wednesday, Ikea's big sale will be on the MARKÖR TV storage unit, Regularly $399, on sale for $199!!
It's beautiful, but even with the $200 markdown, it is out of my price range. I am hoping one of these Wednesdays there will be a nice area rug on sale, because mine's not looking so hot anymore
It's beautiful, but even with the $200 markdown, it is out of my price range. I am hoping one of these Wednesdays there will be a nice area rug on sale, because mine's not looking so hot anymore
19.3.07
I did it
I finally got up enough courage to propose to Renato
I did it this Sunday, in the park, it was snowy and cold but I even did it standing on a nice little footbridge
Here is the ring I gave him (the one on the top)
its made from the wood of a wine barel, made by Craftsman (craftsman.etsy.com)
And... He said YES! So I'm engaged
Yay!!
I did it this Sunday, in the park, it was snowy and cold but I even did it standing on a nice little footbridge
Here is the ring I gave him (the one on the top)
its made from the wood of a wine barel, made by Craftsman (craftsman.etsy.com)
And... He said YES! So I'm engaged
Yay!!
15.3.07
Hollie Buys Stuff
I don't usually buy a lot of stuff most of the time. Yesterday was an exception. It was Wacky Wednesday at IKEA, so one item was at a CRAZY low price. This time it was a TOVIK wadrobe: Normally $269 - Yesterday $69!!!
Renato is going to turn it into a Jewelry bench, it will take some time, and hopefully I can post some progress photos, but it should turn out awesome
Renato put it together yesterday so we could get an idea of what we are working with. Nailing made a lot of noise and guy downstairs got a little miffed. Ne said some not so nice things while banging on the celing. OOPS! He's probably more pissed bacause I asked him not to smoke in the building.
I also bought some pillows so that I could finally use the pillow covers Julie and Natalie gave us for Christmas, they are a beautiful creamsicle colour!
Did you see what they got Sal and Inertia for christmas? Sweet!
I also came home to find 2 books I ordered on Amazon 2 weeks ago had already arrived! I am very excited to look through both of them, it'll take some tim tho... they are both HUGE!
Renato is going to turn it into a Jewelry bench, it will take some time, and hopefully I can post some progress photos, but it should turn out awesome
Renato put it together yesterday so we could get an idea of what we are working with. Nailing made a lot of noise and guy downstairs got a little miffed. Ne said some not so nice things while banging on the celing. OOPS! He's probably more pissed bacause I asked him not to smoke in the building.
I also bought some pillows so that I could finally use the pillow covers Julie and Natalie gave us for Christmas, they are a beautiful creamsicle colour!
Did you see what they got Sal and Inertia for christmas? Sweet!
I also came home to find 2 books I ordered on Amazon 2 weeks ago had already arrived! I am very excited to look through both of them, it'll take some tim tho... they are both HUGE!
14.3.07
Happy Pi Day!!
March 14th is Pi day!
Time to go celibrate the area of a circle, and other great things you can figure out from Pi
Yay Pi
Time to go celibrate the area of a circle, and other great things you can figure out from Pi
Yay Pi
11.3.07
Sunday at the Truck
I finally have some photos of the Truck
Here's the building
Renato loves those doors!
This is the door to the gallery proper, We found out today it is all copper! Ren wants to shine it up, I think it'll look great!
This is the Entry way
This is the gallery proper
The flash makes the gallery look a bit strange, and there is more around the corner.
Here's the building
Renato loves those doors!
This is the door to the gallery proper, We found out today it is all copper! Ren wants to shine it up, I think it'll look great!
This is the Entry way
This is the gallery proper
The flash makes the gallery look a bit strange, and there is more around the corner.
7.3.07
Let me talk about my hair...
I don't normally talk about products on my blog, but why the heck not?
Yesterday I bought Dove Deep Conditioning Treatment because I need a really good conditioner (due to the dry Calgary) and it was on sale. Today I have decided I very much love this product, as I cannot stop running my fingers through my hair. This you might think could be destracting at work, but today I marked midterms and read papers, so it was not very distracting for me or my co-workers (As far as I can tell)
In other news... The crack addict below me has not paid this months utilities, surprise! It was a week overdue Sunday, so I put a nice note on his door. The notes will become increasingly rude as the days progress. The landlord is going to take over the utility bills and just charge us on a month-to-month basis. but changing accounts is a very hard thing for the Calgary electricity and gas companies to do, so it will take them 2 months to process.
The lab is starting to smell like cirtus... but not in a good way... I think I will go home now
Toodles!
Yesterday I bought Dove Deep Conditioning Treatment because I need a really good conditioner (due to the dry Calgary) and it was on sale. Today I have decided I very much love this product, as I cannot stop running my fingers through my hair. This you might think could be destracting at work, but today I marked midterms and read papers, so it was not very distracting for me or my co-workers (As far as I can tell)
In other news... The crack addict below me has not paid this months utilities, surprise! It was a week overdue Sunday, so I put a nice note on his door. The notes will become increasingly rude as the days progress. The landlord is going to take over the utility bills and just charge us on a month-to-month basis. but changing accounts is a very hard thing for the Calgary electricity and gas companies to do, so it will take them 2 months to process.
The lab is starting to smell like cirtus... but not in a good way... I think I will go home now
Toodles!
1.3.07
Announcing...
Renato is now officially the new director of the Truck Contemporary Art Gallery in Calgary!
I could not find any photos of the gallery itself online so I will have to go and take some. Its a really wonderful space
Instead I found these fun logos and animations
25.2.07
My New Hat
I just made one fantastic trade today. It was with knittles (p://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5040064) Who are located here in Calgary! Olga traded this hat for my Crazy O necklace, a piece I really wanted to go to a good home. The hat is made of beautiful wool and matches my red coat perfectly!! Thank you Olga and Mavis for the awesome trade!
22.2.07
One More Reason Why I Want To Be David Attenborough When I Grow Up
http://throwawayyourtv.com/2006/08/lyrebird-unbelievable-jungle-bird.html
When people ask me what I'm going to do with my degree, I often say I want the PhD, but in the end, I want to become the next David Attenboroug. I love how he talks about birds, and then they magically appear beside him. Its true, I'm not an old british dude, so I can't have the accent. I will have to have another gimick... Hopefully it will come clear with my increasing knowledge of birds
Thank you Bob for this link
When people ask me what I'm going to do with my degree, I often say I want the PhD, but in the end, I want to become the next David Attenboroug. I love how he talks about birds, and then they magically appear beside him. Its true, I'm not an old british dude, so I can't have the accent. I will have to have another gimick... Hopefully it will come clear with my increasing knowledge of birds
Thank you Bob for this link
20.2.07
New Toggles
I finished and listed 2 new clasps today. Judging on how fast they sold (within 2 hours!) I better get cracking on making some more. The good thing is that I made a batch of 10 bars, which are usually what take me the longest to make, so I should have 7 more finished and listed soon (one bar is for a copper chainmaille bracelet I almost have finished). I'm also itching to make some more silver findings, and I have a pendant in production that is looking good
Rectangle Copper Toggle
Square Copper Toggle
Rectangle Copper Toggle
Square Copper Toggle
Spring Break! Party!!!
Ok, I didn't actually party (nor do I plan to) Instead we had some friends over for dinner, and I can have a relaxing week with no teaching!
Guy downstairs got his rent to the landloards just in the nick of time, so that he cannot be promptly evicted. The landloards said they will give him an eviction notice at the end of the month, but then he has 3 months to get out. He has not yet paid us the other half of the Utilities yet.
16.2.07
I am what I am
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15.2.07
Love Boat
I've been helping Renato make an auction piece for the TRUCK Valentines Fundraiser. http://www.truck.ca/. Artists were given wooden, heart-shaped boxes and were allowed to do what they wanted with them.
Renato covered the box with gel-transfer of nautical wood-cut prints.
I made the boat... its one of those boats you buy in a 'Boat in a Bottle' kit. The kits instructions were not understandable, so there was a lot of improvisation done on this little guy.
I think it turned out pretty nicely tho. The auction is tonight! Lets hope it makes some big bucks!
Renato covered the box with gel-transfer of nautical wood-cut prints.
I made the boat... its one of those boats you buy in a 'Boat in a Bottle' kit. The kits instructions were not understandable, so there was a lot of improvisation done on this little guy.
I think it turned out pretty nicely tho. The auction is tonight! Lets hope it makes some big bucks!
14.2.07
Little Crack House on the Prarie
I have to Vent...
I like my appartment a lot. The rent is going up at the end of this month, so we have been thinking about and looking for a new place. But the location is ideal, its big, it has hardwood floors and a teeny backyard, so sometimes I think I am overreacting and should just stay. Then Monday happened.
The guy that lives in the appartment below me shares 1/2 the utilities, laundry room, and the enterence to the building. Current guy has been there for 1+1/2 months. He has a little girl (<2 years) smokes a lot of pot, and has not yet paid his rent or the utilities for last month.
On Monday evening I was home on the computer when Renato came home and was talking to someone in the entery way. These 2 people were camping in our entry way! One said he was a friend of the guy downstairs, he asked Renato for money, then for a drive. Renato noticed he was trying to carve into the door jam with a skrewdriver. He kicked them out and we called the landloard. The landloard called the guy, and guy said he didn't know the people and they were not allowed in the house.
About 1/2 hour later I smelled cigarette smoke. We share a common vent with the downstairs appartment and it is a non-smoking building. I hate smoke! So Renato went down and knocked on the door. The fellow who was in the hall (trying to break in) earlier answered and told Renato he had found an open window and let himself in!! This scared the hell out of us. We called the cops. The cops came and said we had to call the tennant. Guy (tennant) told the cops over the phone that these people were his friend and they cound stay. The cops told us that these 2 people were known crack addicts and to be careful.
Great, just Great!
So then we called the landloards and told them what happened. The landloards did come over and we chatted, pretty much with the guys permission these people could stay, but the landloard said that they will do what they can to get rid of this guy. Needless to say, I did not sleep much that night.
Am I over-reacting? Supposedly guy has to be out this Saturday if he does not pay the rent by then. I really hope he does not pay, and that he is gone. I don't feel safe anymore and want to change the locks once he is gone. I also want to call the landloard on saturday, if hes not gone by then, and say its either him or us.
Guy came up last night and apologized. I listened to him, but didn't accept his apology, I can't foregive it, I;m still scared! I think this guy gets by with apologies. I actually felt like pushing him down the stairs... just a little. I can't wait until Saturday
There, I vented!
I like my appartment a lot. The rent is going up at the end of this month, so we have been thinking about and looking for a new place. But the location is ideal, its big, it has hardwood floors and a teeny backyard, so sometimes I think I am overreacting and should just stay. Then Monday happened.
The guy that lives in the appartment below me shares 1/2 the utilities, laundry room, and the enterence to the building. Current guy has been there for 1+1/2 months. He has a little girl (<2 years) smokes a lot of pot, and has not yet paid his rent or the utilities for last month.
On Monday evening I was home on the computer when Renato came home and was talking to someone in the entery way. These 2 people were camping in our entry way! One said he was a friend of the guy downstairs, he asked Renato for money, then for a drive. Renato noticed he was trying to carve into the door jam with a skrewdriver. He kicked them out and we called the landloard. The landloard called the guy, and guy said he didn't know the people and they were not allowed in the house.
About 1/2 hour later I smelled cigarette smoke. We share a common vent with the downstairs appartment and it is a non-smoking building. I hate smoke! So Renato went down and knocked on the door. The fellow who was in the hall (trying to break in) earlier answered and told Renato he had found an open window and let himself in!! This scared the hell out of us. We called the cops. The cops came and said we had to call the tennant. Guy (tennant) told the cops over the phone that these people were his friend and they cound stay. The cops told us that these 2 people were known crack addicts and to be careful.
Great, just Great!
So then we called the landloards and told them what happened. The landloards did come over and we chatted, pretty much with the guys permission these people could stay, but the landloard said that they will do what they can to get rid of this guy. Needless to say, I did not sleep much that night.
Am I over-reacting? Supposedly guy has to be out this Saturday if he does not pay the rent by then. I really hope he does not pay, and that he is gone. I don't feel safe anymore and want to change the locks once he is gone. I also want to call the landloard on saturday, if hes not gone by then, and say its either him or us.
Guy came up last night and apologized. I listened to him, but didn't accept his apology, I can't foregive it, I;m still scared! I think this guy gets by with apologies. I actually felt like pushing him down the stairs... just a little. I can't wait until Saturday
There, I vented!
5.2.07
Sounds right to me!
| You Are Cookie Monster |
 Misunderstood as a primal monster, you're a true hedonist with a huge sweet tooth. You are usually feeling: Hungry. Cookies are preferred, but you'll eat anything if cookies aren't around. You are famous for: Your slightly crazy eyes and usual way of speaking How you life your life: In the moment. "Me want COOKIE!" |
Bathroom Shelf
A few weeks ago Renato made a barthroom shelf, is it not the coolest? I've wanted a nice shelf for the bathroom for a while
3.2.07
Coat of Awesomeness +3
My New Wool Coat Is Here!!
Thank you Mom and Dad for getting it for my birthday, Thank you Kristie for trying it on, returning the too big one, and finally sending it here
In other news, my new Vet is fantastic, and Sals chin is getting better already. More photos to come!
Thank you Mom and Dad for getting it for my birthday, Thank you Kristie for trying it on, returning the too big one, and finally sending it here
In other news, my new Vet is fantastic, and Sals chin is getting better already. More photos to come!
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