Code for my computer got EFFED. Just randomly two days ago, my hard drive died a sudden and unexpected death. A little under a year old, that was the last thing I expected to happen to my macbook. It’s an Apple product after all…this kind of thing is not supposed to happen! So I lost a bunch of pictures…the ones I miss most are the ones I took, stage by stage, of my latest painting. From wheaty-looking stretched linen canvas, to primed with bright white acrylic, then in it’s pure yellow stage, finally, as the people started appearing…one by one… I took a shot every time I finished painting. Sad.
So a message to all of you - back up frequently. And always look at your computer as though it were about to explode. I will never trust again.
(Also I would like to note how hard it is to go back to my old PC laptop…nothing is in the right spot and I miss all the nifty mac functions I’ve grown used to these past months…)
Seriously?? Do retailers actually expect the general public to be that stupid? Now, for clarification, I am in no way looking to lose weight (already I have difficulty in high wind situations) but can’t help but notice the ads/testimonials on the internet. So I created a few simple (fail-safe) rules to lose, in all likelihood, more than ten pounds guaranteed in nine days:
1. Do not eat
2. Do not drink
3. Take laxatives
4. Donate your eyeballs to science
5. Get appendectomy
6. Get hysterectomy
7. Get bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (remove both ovaries and fallopian tubes…)
8. Donate a kidney
9. Donate a few units of blood
10. Shave head bald
11. Cut nails, toe nails
12. Ear wax removal
13. Drain sinuses
14. Remove belly-button lint
15. Exfoliate (come on crocodile legs, you could shed a few pounds of skin)
16. Clean out under nails
17. Remove make-up
18. Spit directly before weighing
19. Shave body (and pluck extraneous eyebrow hairs)
20. Remove nail polish
There, look at you, you’re skinny. And dehydrated, starving, have a more cavernous viscera, are bald, hormone-deficient (and as a result, osteoporotic), lethargic, blind and can’t pee half as much as you used to. But skinny = happy right?!!!! So at least you have that.
Home is a funny word. It’s not as geographic in nature as emotional. Home is lots of places. But mainly one. Right now I wish home didn’t imply snowing and barely non-freezing temperatures. …grr… I swear last Sunday I was laying on my deck at the cottage in my bikini. How unfair!!
On a more positive note (not frustrated with the Arctic spring time at all) the surprise I had been planning for months was pulled off seamlessly. Weee!! Nothing like keeping some magic in the ol’parental relationship category. I went home for a course last week (which was fabulous…any nurse who hasn’t taken PALS ought to…it was amazing) and took a little extra time off after to spend with family in Ontario. Lee’s family was in on the gig - which made the first half of my trip so darn enjoyable (thanks for the study basket, home cooked meals, pizza pizza and the check-in’s!). I have to say, I married into a fabulous family. I am so darn lucky. Truly.
Then on the Friday morning, my sister, also in on it, picked me up from Lee’s parent’s house and drove me eastward. We surprised mom at home. It is a beautiful thing to be squashed within an inch of your life by a death-grip hug. Happy birthday mum! We spent a lovely afternoon together before surprising my dad too. Another death-grip hug. I felt so loved (and so hypoxic). Then we went to the cottage…I so love being there. Spending time in a garden center with mum and Wendy…helping dad move the laundry room two rooms over (I now have some basic plumbing skills…ass crack not included). I felt rested and ready to face the world after that weekend (too bad two days on a plane awaited to screw that feeling up). What a difference it makes to be in a green, lush, quiet, completely beautiful environment for a few days (What? Me imply that the town of Inuvik is none of those things? NO! Having said that…go outside of town…and that story changes).
Having gone away to ‘home’ for a while, I have to say, it’s good to be back at ‘home’. I think Lee ate more Kraft dinner than usual this past week, so having the cook back in house is a good thing. Now if only the weather would stop being so fickle. It’s MAY…come on…snow is a very outdated look… and so are mittens…scarves…and long johns!!!
Still in Southern Ontario (not sure what you folks are complaining about…I’d take your dandilions in exchange for snow STILL melting) for a few days. Completed my PALS at McMaster earlier on in the trip and surprised the pants off my mum and dad on Friday. Memories to keep for sure :) Was up at the cottage for the weekend (and mum’s birthday) for some amazing weather; I was outside in a bikini for part of yesterday…likely an experience I will not repeat for months…
Any chance Inuvik can warm up a titch for say Wednesday?
I promised something softer…and here she is. My newborn baby second-cousin. Karis Elise Hales.
Congratulations Sarah and Ian…loving first-time parents. She’s so sweet! Can’t wait to hold her.
Love you little girl! xoxo
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