Pass it on, pass it down!

If you could only pass one thing down to the next generation, (daughter/son/niece/nephew) what would it be? When my parents were married, soooooo many moons ago, they were given a beautiful handcrafted Chinese chest. When my brother and I were young, we used to get in trouble for rolling marbles along the intricate carvings on the top, and jumping off of it. On one of my mom's MANY moves back to England, I was given the chest. When my daughter was small, what did I catch her doing?? Oh yes,, rolling marbles,, I didn't even know we had marbles, but she had found some,, and roll baby roll! She upped it a notch and also found matchbox cars did amazing spins along the top as well. Well, the chest is now hers, marble and car scratches intact. Now her daughter,,, wait for it.... HAS ROLLED MARBLES AND JUMPED OFF IT!!! I am thinking there is a marble magnet hiding inside somewhere, we are afraid of lead from China, I am worried about a marble magnet conspiricey. There isn't even anything in it that is meaningful. My mom wanted it to be a 'hope chest'. My only hope was nobody would grow so big they broke the lid standing on it before outgrowing the jump faze. So back to the question, this is the one thing above all else I want to see passed down for generations to come. What would you pick?

Need a back scratch? Get a tattoo!

These are my tattoos. I was reading Emerald's blog (link on side cause I don't know how to link here) and the tattoo subject is in her latest entry. I was asked not long ago about how much mine hurt. Now, I am a wimp at the best of times, but I had mine done almost a year apart, and both times it felt like the best back scratch I have ever had. If I had mine done somewhere else, I am sure I would have curled up in a ball and cried for weeks, but for what ever reason, my back seems to be tattoo friendly. The tattoo with the initials is not finished, at the moment it is the letter 'A' with the letter "T" as a dagger going through it. These are my daughter and granddaughter's initials. It needs a finishing touch,but until I wake up one morning with an apyphany (sp?) as to what I can live with the rest of my life, it will stay as is. In a perfect world, I would have done one on the back of my neck, under my hair but due to a car accident and shoulder/neck issues on my right side, that will have to be put on hold for awhile yet. Mine don't show unless I am in a tank,and even then only part of Tela shows, I don't know if I would get one that stands out somewhere else. I love to see other peoples, no body part should be off limits as it is self expression. I admit I don't really get the face tattoos, but as I said, to each their own. For me, when I am really sad, or having a crappy moment, I shrug my left shoulder back, and it is like giving them a hug, and they are patting me on the back, saying it's going to be ok. Sounds corny eh? But hey, it works for me!

I lost myself and loved it!

I love books, not just to read, but to look at. I do love reading, but there is something about a book that is either very very new, or very very old that just gets my blood going! I would love to work in a library. I have no desire to work in a book store, where it is all about the dollar, but a library is there for people who love to read, not find that last minute gift. Sorry if that sounds mean against book store employees out there, but, that is me. Last week, I went for a walk, I was stressed and needed to clear my head, walking is one of the best ways for me to think, and or calm down. I found myself at the library, which I go to once a week anyways, but this time was different. They have a 'section', it has coffee/tea, snacks, and some tables and couches. Kinda like the little coffee shop on Friends, but with waaaaaaaay more old people,, lol. Anyways, for whatever reason, I bought a coffee, grabbed some books on subjects I NEVER look at, and completely lost myself for an afternoon. I tend to read the same kind of stuff, murder mystery/suspence. I read alot of the same authors, tried and true kinda stuff. In this case though, I just grabbed random stuff, one book for example was on magic tricks, and sipped, and read, and broused, and sipped, and learned, and lost myself. It was wonderful to dissapear into a whole different world, I had forgotten how to do that since I was a kid. I think I am going to make a habit of losing myself, maybe not once a week, but at least once a month. Kinda like sticking a pin in a map and traveling there, I will 'stick a pin' in a book, and travel there instead. As a bonus, the coffee really was good too! Who knows, next time I might really go wild, and drink tea!

If Becky can be lazy, then why can't I??

Becky over at Becky's Babbles (link posted in my blogroll, cause that's just how lazy I can be) posted this, and I stole it from her.
Answer each question with only one word..
1) Where is your cell phone - table
2) Your significant other -gone
3) Your hair - wet
4) Your mother - judgemental
5) Your father - old
6) Your favourite thing - Tela
7) Your dream last night - colourful
8) Your favourite drink - coffee
9) Your dream/goal - healthy
10) The room your in - livingroom
11) Your hobby -walking
12) Your fear -snakes
13) In 6 years -alive
14) What your not -disloyal
15) Muffins -eww
16) Wish list item -health
17) Where you grew up -BC
18) Last thing you did -peed
19) What are you wearing -sweats
20) Favourite gadget -cell
21) Your pets -none
22) Your computor -laptop
23) Your mood -lazy
24) Missing someone -yes
25) Your car -grey
26) Something your not wearing -frown
27) Favourite store -liquor
28) Like someone -yes
29) Favourite colour -black
30) Last time you laughed -today
31) Last time you cried -

Well, I have decided being lazy is hard work! I have a hard time with one word answers, I always feel the need to explain/express myself, and spend more time coming up with one word than it would take me to just babble the whole story out about why/when/who/what! I didnt answer last time I cried, because I really don't know, and that is a good thing I guess. Hopefully I don't update that answer anytime soon either. Does that mean I am happy, or just to lazy to cry,, lol,, definately too lazy to think about for now!
Thanks Becky for helping me having a lazy day too!

Eye still spy, and say WHY???

In the response to the question of 'who' would wear these, I don't really have a polite answer,,lol. It was on the news here, which I guess shouldn't surprise me as last month they were talking about a little place downtown that sells false eyelashes for up to $2,000.00 a pair. I guess after you get bored of them, you need to move on. What ever happened to the simple days of gaudy blue eyeshadow and smudgey mascara? The picture I put here is of someone from the designers website www.ericklarenbeek.com. I realize they are suppose to look like teardrops, but just looking makes my eyes water, so hey,, I guess I get my teardrops for free! Yayyyy for me!

Eye spy......

This is the latest in 'jewelry', and really, what can I say,,, besides WTF??? I heard about it, thought it was a joke, so had to look it up myself, just to see if someone really really really would wear it. Would this not be more irritating than a loose eyelash? If you saw someone wearing it, would you not have to urge to pull on it? Or at the very least, give it a flick?

Triple Treat, or Triple Threat?

I hate shopping at the best of times, but this coming weekend is our Thanksgiving. This seems to be a real problem for our store owners/managers, as this means there are 3 holidays fighting for each other! Luckily for them, the tried and true pumpkin can be carried over from the yummy pumkin pie for dinner, to the end of the month Halloween. We do that backwards though, because if your Thanksgiving is after Halloween, you can actually use the pumkin from your jack-o-lantern for your pie. We, on the other hand, would be screwed if we hoped our hollowed out pumkin isn't all shrivelled and miserable if we try to hold out for that 2 week time span. Of course, then we could pretend it is a shrunkin punkin head! hmmmmm..... So, on top of that dilema of those two holidays, they have been cramming Christmas on us as well. Lucky pumpkin pie, that actually can serve triple duty there. Too many holidays in too short a time, to many displays, too much marketing, really, pick a holiday, deal with it, move on to the next one. Quit shoving Christmas at me in October, it is bad enough that the cashiers have replaced the age old question of 'paper or plastic' with,, 'turkey or ham'. I don't really care what your eating for dinner tonight, or tomorrow night, so don't worry about what I will be eating on the weekend. No, I am not a bitch, I smile, I say I don't know, what ever my brother puts on the table, pay my bill, and head to the liquor store. Need to get rum for the soy eggnog that should hopefully be on the shelves soon. Yes, soy eggnog is gross, that is why it needs rum,, lol.

Do you spoon?

I made spagetti for Tela this evening, and it got me to thinking, how many ways are there to eat spagetti? She makes a great show of slurping, the longer, the bigger, the noisier, the messier the slurp the better, but I know people who methodically spoon and swirl their noodles, while yet others cut theirs with a knife and fork. I don't eat 'noodles' like most people, I eat something called shiritaki noodles, which are from the roots of yams, or something odd like that. No wheat/grain etc. My stomache doesn't like noodles, but my taste buds do. I sat accross the table, and marvelled at the magnificance of the power of the slurp, and was saddened by my loss of noodle slurpage. It made me think of what I was missing, and maybe I am missing more than I know. Is there other ways to enjoy those delectable long stringy white stomache killing delectables? What are you favourite ways to eat spagetti? Do you chop, do you spoon and swirl, do you slurp, is there anything out there I have never seen??????

A sandwich by any other name, is not always a sandwich!

This is Tela doing 'dress up'
Tela watching the blacksmith shop in action.

The Sandwich that inspired this post. So, off we go on an adventure in Fort Langley, which yes, has a fort! The town itself is 'quaint', it has the old old OLD cemetary smack dab in the middle on main street, tons of little 'out of the way shops', that aren't really out of the way because they are also on main street,, lol. A great place to go and just lose yourself for a day. Antique stores, second hand shops, two,, YES TWO chocolate shops, one of which I spend money in every trip. The fort itself is two blocks off the main street, so you pretty much park and walk to everything. Well, at the fort, they have one of the buildings converted into a kind of tea house, with scones/muffins/sandwiches etc, nothing heavy, but enough to re-energise for an afternoon. I saw this sandwich on the menu, and just HAD HAD HAD to order it. Peanut butter and chocolate chip, and it came with a salad! Ok, I live for salad, and no, I didn't eat the sandwich, someone else did, but we took a picture of it. It actually had chocolate chips INSIDE THE SANDWICH!!!!!!! Talk about a suger buzz. Price wise it only cost $4 for the sandwich, a deeeeeeelish salad, and a juice. I have it say it was a first for me to see that on a menu anywhere!

A fooo fooo foool for a futon

This not my livingroom, but it is the same futon that I have. Why oh why did I buy this thing? In my previous post, I took a picture of my 'desk', and it got me thinking about the futon in front of it. How the 'bleep' do you make these things more comfortable? I have big pillows on the ends, and yet still manage to bonk my head on the metal arms daily. I have stubbed my toes on the metal legs, I have felt the metal bars beneith my butt when I haven't flipped the mattress in god knows how long. I bought it out of neccessety, at one time it was my bed/couch, but now I don't need it for duel purposes. I am to cheap to give it away, and can't afford to buy a big, comfy, flop my ass down couch. Even if I sold it, I wouldn't get much for it, soooo, how to make it more livable? I am a couch flopper, I don't sit, I curl up, or stretch out, but never sit. I have thought of buying a sheet of wood to put under the futon mattress, and then a chunk of foam to go inbetween (the wood should stop the foam from dropping through the metal bars), but in order to make it comfortable, I would probably end up buying a 12" deep foam, then it would be so high I would need a step ladder to climb up to, and of course I would inevitably end up stubbing a toe on the ladder! Oh dilema! All you futon owners out there,, HELPPPPP!

My Desk

Ok, this is my desk. I don't really have one, it is a long table behind the futon/couch, but....harvestofdailylive talked about it,, sooooo here it is.In the forefront is a retro black glass table, and in the background is one of a few bookshelves with a gas fireplace we don't use, and an electric fireplace we do use. It seems to look worse in the picture than in "real life", so I may just do some furniture moving in the next day or two. Wow, what a reality check!

I should clarify why I even put this here. Talina, over at Harvest of Daily Life put a post about her desk, and pretty much put it out there to post pictures of our desks,, soooo voila!

This is a test!

Ok, fingers crossed, here goes nothing right? I have blogged elsewhere, but the format/blog thingy I was on didn't like to have people comment. Not very people/blog friendly I say! Ok, I can truly say sometimes I wish people would keep their mouth shut, but when you blog, you kind of have to expect some type of feedback. I was getting a little paranoid when I wasn't getting much though, until some people emailed me and said they couldn't comment, so I didn't feel quite so invisible in cyberspace after all. Anywhooooo, I am going to try and set this up over the next few days, tweek it a bit to suit me. Hopefully this goes better than the previous one!