tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79178513991349864192024-03-12T17:22:44.122-07:00My journey...around the world & through skeins of yarn...I love to travel, I love to knit, I'm learning to spin, and I love to write and share my adventures with everyone no matter where I am in the world!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07279451585073923433noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917851399134986419.post-75099736312608477372014-02-19T01:51:00.000-08:002014-02-19T01:51:01.781-08:00And then there was knitting!!<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">How behind am I? I truly thought I would get this post out a couple of days after the last one. Oops. The time does just get away from me!</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So since we've been back we took a little time to decompress, Spyros got feeling like he needed to do some more creative painting in the office. He's beginning to love the geometric look!</span><br>
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We left for New Zealand on January 12th and we returned on the 28th, so much to say!! I am really just far too verbose so I have notes I am working from, and then I have to shorten those down too!!!! It's still VERY LONG - so I don't blame you if you don't feel like reading, I know my family will want to though, so I'm putting it up anyhow!<br>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We did, but not in the way we intended. Our plan was to go to the city to watch the "FAMOUS" Sydney fireworks since last year we were too tired as we were just finishing up building our granny flat. This year as soon as we boarded the train and a group of seven intoxicated teens sat behind us (and proceeded to behave as intoxicated teens will...) I started shaking my head (while madly knitting on my socks) that I was in the wrong place. Too old for this and lacking patience for large groups of rowdy and ridiculous youths! We went, we ate some dinner, it drizzled and cleared up and we found a spot near the bridge. </span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Since the last time I posted there's been a few things -- a lot of working trying to get things finished up before the holidays. We went on a date night to a Tapas place in Darling Harbour...it was fun, but it wasn't enough food for the mister!</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We did go to Melbourne at the beginning of December. I was SUPER excited because I got to hang out with my Melbournian friend...and she did not disappoint! We spent the whole day together and I was really wishing one of us had a FitBit because holy moly did we smash out the steps! We had breakfast in one of Melbourne's funky little <i>alley ways</i>, we <i>walked </i>from one end of the city to the other and back again, we walked around the <i>river</i>, we walked through the Botanical park, we did some <i>geocaching</i>, checked out a <i>market</i>, saw some cool shops, and I learned some new and <i>interesting </i>factoids about Melbourne and about many other things! We had plenty of <i>tea</i>, we had <i>chocolate</i>, we did a bit of <i>knitting</i>, I purchased some amazing yarn and fibre and a couple of things from those great shops, AND we both got <i>sunburns</i>!!! It was <b><i>amazing</i></b>! There's nothing better than spending a day with a friend, a local in a new area, and in this case one who shares many of my interests and is a part of the same online community as I am. Great hostessing & great conversation, we were already planning our next outing in Sydney!</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Well October was a pretty good month! Busy...but good. </span></span></span><br>
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<a href="http://iheartwanderlust.blogspot.com/2013/11/new-friends-and-new-stuff.html#more">Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07279451585073923433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917851399134986419.post-36757996637850860882013-10-20T20:09:00.001-07:002013-10-20T20:09:21.185-07:00Fires are burning...<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Other than knitting not a whole lot has been going on! We did go to that birthday party - had lamb on the spit & many other things! I met a bunch of new people, the birthday boy had some fun I think!</span></span><br>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We've been planning a garden but it hasn't happened just yet. The biggest thing that's been going on is that there have been so many bush fires all around the state. It's pretty terrible just how many and how big they are, also how many homes have been obliterated. It's made for some really strange skies and terrible air to breathe as well.</span></span><br>
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<a href="http://iheartwanderlust.blogspot.com/2013/10/fires-are-burning.html#more">Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07279451585073923433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917851399134986419.post-36585306035776815042013-10-07T00:40:00.002-07:002013-10-07T00:40:18.112-07:00I've always loved October!<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Welcome to my month! October is a great month, back home in Canada it's becoming fall (autumn), everything is changing colours, it is gorgeous. Also, my sister & I have our birthdays, my cousin has a birthday, my good friend has his birthday. Even when we were young there were several kids whose birthday's were in October. (Pretty obvious what everyone was doing 9 months earlier when there was loads of snow on the ground!!!)</span><br>
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<a href="http://iheartwanderlust.blogspot.com/2013/06/let-spinning-begin.html#more">Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07279451585073923433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917851399134986419.post-1606927216979929452013-06-15T20:33:00.000-07:002013-06-15T20:33:37.405-07:00Lots of goodies...<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Happy June! Back home the weather is warming up and it's heading into summer, my niece just graduated High School in the US, and school is nearly done for my brother in Canada. He's in grade 11...he just got his drivers license (which is scary as all get out, but apparently he's a very good driver) and he's looking forward to summer. He's not coming to Australia with my parents, instead he's going to go stay with my sister and work this summer. I dunno, if I was 17 I would want to go to Australia for free rather than work in a mill, but I've always had the itch to travel!</span></span><br>
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<a href="http://iheartwanderlust.blogspot.com/2013/06/lots-of-goodies.html#more">Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07279451585073923433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917851399134986419.post-17410762069758793082013-05-26T02:51:00.001-07:002013-05-27T03:28:14.196-07:00May Madness....it's nearly June!<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hi! So apparently I such at blogging these days. It's been nearly TWO months!!</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The rest of April? Well, the boys are playing soccer now (my guy, his brother and friends) so I attended a few soccer games on Saturday afternoons. This is new to me. My sister played basketball in highschool, and I dated a hockey player (c'mon I <b>am</b> Canadian!) but soccer is not something I have watched a great deal of.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ev (my guy's sister) and I ran a 5km race. Quite a few of the ladies from the running group ran it & it was fun. My second one, but this time I did run the whole 5km without stopping. There were hills, so I was pretty proud of myself!</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">February ended up fairly uneventful, the biggest news was probably the news that mum & dad booked their plane tickets!</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">They are coming to visit for a month at the end of July! I am very excited about this, so Spyros & I are trying to figure out what to do with and for them (I am sure Spyros will get to see a bit more of his country too!)</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">For Australia Day we didn't do anything, we hung out at home and missed out on the fireworks. Since then we haven't done too much. We've done a bit of texturing and painting on the outside of our place, so it's about half-way done. Also some laying of pavers around the house to make a nice pathway. However, it has been storming and raining a lot because of cyclone Oswald. It didn't really come too close to us, it was in the water in the North of Australia, but it definitely affected weather throughout most of Australia. Which has led to quite a bit of flooding in Queensland state and the storms here.</span><br>
<a href="http://iheartwanderlust.blogspot.com/2013/02/its-beginning-to-look-lot-like-progress.html#more">Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07279451585073923433noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917851399134986419.post-6384869992946122942013-01-25T21:08:00.000-08:002013-01-25T21:08:57.577-08:00This sucker is a LONG one (but mostly photos)!<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Seems like I am always waiting for more to happen, and then I get busy and plenty happens and it's overwhelming to write it all out!</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">To summarize: We are 95% done the "inlaw suite/granny flat"! We are living in it now, we still need to finish up the outside, and get a few things to decorate the inside (a rug, some artwork, do something with the stairs)...</span><br>
<a href="http://iheartwanderlust.blogspot.com/2013/01/this-sucker-is-long-one-but-mostly.html#more">Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07279451585073923433noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917851399134986419.post-32483053621620606212012-12-17T04:20:00.001-08:002012-12-17T04:20:51.914-08:00Walls can be beautiful things...<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Since last I wrote a few things have been going on! Mostly it's been working on the Granny Flat, but there have been other milestone's. Things like sending off packages to Canada, there are more to go but I sent off a couple! I have done a great deal of my Christmas shopping, there's not much left. Which is nice since we don't have much time for shopping!! Also, we went to a dance recital - Spyros's neice is 5 and is in jazz and tap. It was three hours of random people dancing, but she was in three dances, it was pretty cute! One of the songs was "Ballroom Blitz", it was excellent, a lot of jumping around. She also won her first trophy so it was a pretty big day!!</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Aside from regular work, a few days that were pretty hot and humid and difficult to want to DO anything in, there was progress on the Granny Flat!! </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">So what happened after my 30th birthday??? Nothing! Life goes on. Halloween happened, which is supremely anti-climactic here in a country where it's not quite so celebrated. A few kiddies will get out & visit those that they know well. There's no trips to the pumpkin patch, carving pumpkins (in fact its rather difficult to find an orange pumpkin here, and they refer to all squash as pumpkin), getting dressed up, trick or treating. However, we had some squash last night, so I toasted the seeds & it was delish!</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Melbourne...my mister & I took a little trip to Melbourne! A little "get away from it all" time, after not having seen one another for 2.5 months I think we deserved it! So we got a hotel room, and we spent the few days we were there, wandering around. Spyros had never been before, and I had been with my girl Jenny <b>ages</b> (2001) ago!! So it was a bit different than I remembered, </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Last year, about this time, my sister & I went to a "Learn to Spin" class put on my <a href="http://www.fabinbc.com/">Fibre Arts Bootcamp</a> (FAB) for our birthday gifts to one another. That day I met a couple of lifelong friends & learned to love fibre in a whole new way!!</span><br>
<a href="http://iheartwanderlust.blogspot.com/2012/10/something-and-couple-of-someones-that-i.html#more">Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07279451585073923433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917851399134986419.post-29103088275294740362012-10-17T01:56:00.000-07:002012-11-14T01:54:12.862-08:00It's beginning to look a lot like....SUMMER!<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Not a lot to say since last I wrote as I have been working a lot, and when not working we have been working our tails off in the yard & garage. Work to make a "granny flat" (in-law suite) in the garage space. There has been some things in the yard getting dug out & sorted into recycling & garbage piles, and sorting through the stuff in the garage for the same reasons. A full week of that got us a bit further ahead,</span><br>
<a href="http://iheartwanderlust.blogspot.com/2012/10/its-beginning-to-look-lot-likesummer.html#more">Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07279451585073923433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917851399134986419.post-24220363558745107552012-09-29T22:10:00.000-07:002012-11-14T01:54:28.223-08:00Aussie, aussie, aussie, oi, oi, oi!<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So - I have arrived. In fact, I arrived on Sept. 13th, right on time. After 3 flights, all of which were fairly pleasant, uneventful & I had great seatmates!</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I arrived at around 7:30am and Spyros & his brother came to meet me. Went went back to the house to drop off my things & the brother and see the family. We headed out to the job site to see how it was going. I was pretty shocked to see it in person!</span><br>
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Time flies. It seemed like forever until I was going to be leaving for Australia, and now it seems it's coming too fast for all of the things I want to get done & all of the people I want to see before I leave! I know 2 years is a blip on the radar of life, and I know it will go quickly, but it also seems a long time when packing up to head off for it!<br>
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I worked a lot again...probably up until Tuesday - that will be my last day. Then a few days for packing & visiting & then I will be headed for White Lake to visit with my family for a couple of weeks before I head to Australia!</div>
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This past week has been gorgeous, more lake weather than painting though!! The paint is drying on the brush & we are just dripping with sweat & red faced. Yep - <i>sexy</i>!<br>
</div><a href="http://iheartwanderlust.blogspot.com/2012/08/august-is-flying-by.html#more">Read more »</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07279451585073923433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7917851399134986419.post-38265355281899141302012-08-06T23:03:00.000-07:002012-11-14T01:56:14.247-08:00Overtired & overjoyed<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">
Sooooooooo...following a wonderful weekend on Vancouver Island where I got very little sleep, I proceeded to have a very busy week with very little sleep because the guy I am working for was away & I was kinda organizing things for him while he was away. With painting this means figuring out who is where & what they will be doing, also going to & fro to his place to get specific tools, ladders, and cleaning dirty gear each night. I was so looking forward to a mellow weekend, maybe a night at the Drive-In, and I was going to paint my friend's bedroom for her while she was away as a bday gift.<br>
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