I have the cutest kitty in the world, and don't care if I spam this blog with pictures of her. Check out the default 'wtf' expression and her little sqooshed, chubby arms!!
I'm 26, and I have never driven a car. My husband also can't drive. I don't think that is particularly odd, but people in work seem to think it is funny - I guess there is a culture of people learning at a young age in Canada? So... after nine years of procrastination I just signed us both up for some driving lessons O_O Its partly a 'grown up' decision in that it will give us greater options when we look at the housing market in the next few months. The goal is to have our licenses by August next year. When I do, I won't be able to afford one of the new VW Beetles in Platinum Grey, but I can oogle! :(
Show us a great pumpkin.
My Neighbour Totoro is one of my favourite films, and Cat Bus is damn spooky so I attempted to carve a Cat Bus pumpkin. It sort of looks like Catbus! Messy fun :)
Show us some shades of blue.
Oh Vox, when will you be compatible with Safari? I keep having to open a new browser to update :x
Anyway I am off work today, so went for a walk into the interior of Stanley Park. We have lived beside it for 9 months, but had only walked around it. Stanley Park is rockin', but it is weird that a main road slices right through it. I can't but help have the horrible thought that a lot of animals meet their doom on that road :( There was plently of cute wildlife to be seen in the park (see Exhibit A 'Little Squirrel'), and a not-so-cute slug the size of my hand.
On another note, my Macbook is awesome, but I am afraid it is afflicted with Macbook Random Shutdown Syndrome. It turns itself off around 3 or 4 times a day at random intervals, and it seems a lot of Macbook owners have experienced this too. I really don't want to send it off and get repaired, but it looks as though I will have to :(
Finally, you should check out Saelee Oh's website - lemondemaid.com. I
just purchased a 2007 calendar (a collaboration with Jill Bliss of Blissen), with some gorgeous artwork. I'm sort of excited for January, so I can hang it up in my kitchen.
What are your weekend plans?
Last night we saw the Trailer Park Boys movie. This afternoon - nothing! I am going to sit and knit 'Clapotis' and watch some TV. Tonight, we are going get food, drink and then go to the Vancouver Giants hockey game. Tomorrow - who knows? Preferably not much. This weekend actually seeps into Monday, as its Thanksgiving here in Canada. I admit, had to look up what Thanksgiving in Canada is about :( Wikipedia tells me:
Thank you, Martin Frobisher, for a much needed day off work :) And that ends your history lesson for today!The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an English explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient. He did not succeed but he did establish a settlement in Canada. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. This is considered the first Canadian Thanksgiving, and the first Thanksgiving to have taken place in North America. Other settlers arrived and continued these ceremonies. He was later knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada named after him - Frobisher Bay.
Show us a drawing of an animal.
I challenged Marcus to draw Ada "schloomping":
