Catch up!

Day 9The next thing I have to tell you is this: I live in the woods! And I love it! I'm far from everything and everyone. I adore being surrounded by leaves and breathing fresh air. I may have to stock up on bread and milk because I cant just run around the corner to a store, but it's worth it.

This is me this morning just after dawn. In my woods. <3

Day 10:

The next thing to reveal about myself is my job. I work at Japan Camera.

Japan Camera used to be a big chain store with lots and lots of locations, but they died out. So a guy bought the Sydney, Cape Breton franchise, kept the name and now we're an independent store with the old company name.

I adore working here, truly and honestly I do. Of course there are negatives, but generally I've never been so happy! I love what I do and I love being surrounded by cameras all day and printing photos and the people I work with are fantastic.

If you're wondering what's going on in this picture, I'm writing up an order envelope for a customer. =)

Day 11:

I paint!

I don't paint well, but I do enjoy it. Mostly I do abstract type stuff. I enjoy working with oils for their texture but hate them for their difficulty in cleaning up. I adore watercolours for their ease in use and cleaning, but get angry at them because they're so difficult to paint with. I like acrylics for their sufficient compromise, but don't like them for their shortcomings because of the compromise.

This is a painting I'm doing for my cousin's new apartment. =)

Day 12:

Soooo I couldn't even make it 2 weeks without resorting to a lazy arms length p&s shot. However, I have a good excuse. I worked all day and I'm really sick. All I wanted was my bed, my cozy pillows, my duvet, Big Bang Theory reruns, and my doggies cuddling up to me.

I just feel crappy. I don't even have a good reason to. Actually, I don't even have a bad reason to. I just do. Crappy.

Day 13:



Hi again.

Today I'd like to tell you how much I love to read. I especially adore really, really old books. This is my favourite book of mine, it's an old copy of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. It has no publish date on it, but I took it into my old university english prof who speculated it might be circa 1850-1860ish. I collect books, and have many (around 800, last count) but I love my oldies. I also have a beautiful old (1930s) copy of Black Beauty that I love. Maybe another day.

Day 8

"... Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."



This year in late May I was in Venice! What an amazing place, it was so unbelievably beautiful and old, I could have stayed forever there, but alas, only had 2 days. I got this mask in Venice, as any of you who have been there will know, masks are more than abundant on any street from most vendors and stores in Venice.

Sometimes when I'm feeling a little worldly I'll pull this mask out just to look in the mirror from behind it. It's so very, very, very pretty.

Days 6 and 7

I've been building so I've been slacking on blogging, but have been picture taking!

Day 6: Smart is the new sexy!



"You have about as much chance of going out with Penny as the Hubble Telescope has of finding that at the center of each black hole there's a little man with a flashlight trying to find the circuit breaker. "

Ok so my next confession is that sometimes (when building a house) it gets a little late and I get a little tired and I don't want to do a SP right now. So I went a little simpler than I had planned.

I ADORE The Big Bang Theory!! Love it love it love it love it love it! Finally a show about smart people! Nerds! Oh I love me a good nerd.

I can't wait for season 2 to come out on DVD, and for season 3 to start on tv! I'm having some serious BBT withdraw symptoms, so I've been watching season 1 over again.



Day 7:



Sooooo I had a long day of building again and didn't get to do my portrait till really late. So this is all you get.

Today you learn that I adore hot chocolate. I don't drink tea or coffee, so hot chocolate is my calm down warm up drink.

Also I love satin-y pjs and Cirque du Soleil. And my room is orange. And my desk is a real, old, wooden desk. No fake pressed crap here.

That's about all I can wring out of this photo.

Day 5

Yesterday my pony got her feet trimmed. Today she bit Johnny. :( Something was going on to make her cranky so I decided to make her feel good. After grain tonight I put her pretty new halter on (because everyone feels better in new clothes), brushed her vigorously head to toes and took her out for some really good thick green grass (unlike the short, sparse stuff in their pasture). In the middle of it all I saw her smile come back. But unfortunately that was after I took my picture for today, in which she is wearing a slightly sour face, but through her eyes I can see that she's softening. That's just Teeka. And I love her so very very much.

Day 4

I didn't get time to post this last night, so here it is this morning.




I have a confession, which is also the next thing I want to tell you.

I have recently become a little obsessed with scrapbooking. I'm an absolute amateur, so please be kind about my layout. This is the first page of the first scrapbook I ever made =) It's of my old horse, Jewel, who passed away at the all-too-early age of 10, just last June. I love her so much, and she was so incredibly beautiful that I love to remember her.

Day 3

Heyyyy I'm really doing good here so far!

So all my photos should tell the story of me, in the end. The next chapter I wish to tell you about is my humble abode.

Johnny (fiance) and I went looking for a house but none suited our needs. So we decided to build. Today's picture introduces the story of building a house. In the future I'm sure you'll see more progress and setbacks, but for now, let's just introduce the story.




My parents gave us land next to them. So I'm leaving the nest but staying in the same tree. It's good. I'm not ready to go far.

Today I had planned to do a wide shot, show you the whole house. Then some things happened and, well, we're stuck at a bit of a stand still which made me a wee bit depressed so I was going to change my mind and do a sad photo. But then I decided to do a house shot anyway, but instead of wide, focus on me. Well, the dogs just couldn't let me do it alone, which annoyed me at first, but then I figured, if they weren't in it, it wouldn't have been an accurate representation of my life. They're always in the frame.

Day two!

Wowwww, look at me! 2 posts in as many days!

This is my day 2 picture!

So I'm engaged, as you can see. The date is October 16, 2010. =)