June 26, 2008
I must admit I love ‘playing’ as I call it. I see a new template theme on wordpress that is pretty, I download and install it then I start to play with it. I have changed it yet again this morning but I have the sizing all wrong with the background paper, it will need a bit more fiddling with. I have used Dani Mogstad background paper and Emily Powers flowers.
I don’t know if you live in a big city. We do although not that big compare to others around the world. Our city has grown extremely fast because of its beautiful climate and the resources boom that is taking place in our state. The infrastructure has not kept pace, our traffic and roads refect that. There was one accident yesterday on the Gateway bridge and instead of my drive taking an hour it took two. I don’t really mind if I have something to occupy me, like podcasts, a book besides on the passenger seat or my drawing tools. But it was dark so I could not do the last two and the radio was boring; so it was a very long trip home. I would really love to work closer to home.
photo credit: monkeyc.net
May 10, 2008
Our dog nuzzles her lead a few times a day hinting that someone might like to take her for a walk. I would but I can’t control her she is just too strong. Today we got a halter for her, which she hates but it might do the trick. Also when she was getting washed up at the local pet store someone told us about a really good obedience school. I have to find out when their next classes start. She is such a beautiful dog but still very much a puppy which leads to all sorts of trouble.
One day a few weeks ago I was coming home late from school (it was dark) and Graham had just got home. He discovered that Molly was missing. He rang to tell me; so instead of going home I searched the streets around our house for her. She is very hard to see in the dark. Didn’t see any sign of her; went home and Graham had already done a bit of a door knock. I then hoped on the phone and rang the RSPCA and the local council. The lady at the council was so sympathetic and beautiful. She tracked her down, Molly had gone up to the local school just after lunch (what a great place for her - kids and food), they rang the dog catcher who came and got her. I picked her up the next day and paid a large fine. We then came home and searched for where she got out. We fixed that but I feel that it is just a matter of time before she does it again.
March 13, 2008
It early in the morning and I want to tell you a story before I go to school. It is a story of waiting, of anticipation. To get to my nearest coffee shop I have to get in the car and drive, as I really live in the beginning of suburbia. Well just around the corner from our house there is a little group of three shops that over the years had seen many different roles. They are now mainly offices except for one. Last year it was a laundromat, then late November there began a lot of activity around it. Every day there were people working on it and they turned a dull, ugly place in to charming little cafe. But it never opened for business, everyday when I drove pass I looked in anticipation that it would be opened. They had a couple of dumbie runs where they had guests come but still it didn’t open. Then one day I saw a man out the front admiring it, so I stopped and asked him when it was opening. The big day was going to be the 7th of March. So it was with great excitement that I drove home that day as finally it was going to be open. Imagine my disappointment it was not and there was a sign out the front saying ‘Chef Wanted’. That was the chef that I spoken to that day, he was so full of pride and joy to think that he was going to have his own place. Now there is no activity there any more, the building seems to be waiting , just like the neighborhood.
