MONDAY BATTLE PLAN:

• Smash biggest and most urgent overhanging debt
• Clean ALL The Things (or at least the bathroom) - although I didn't vacuum, and I'm ignoring the bedroom for now.
• Hunt down sewing room
• SEW!!

( Cut for debt babble - because believe me, I know how much this can induce freak-outs. )

Huh, I haven't update this since *checks* July 28th.  Well okay, that's not quite as bad as I thought.  But I didn't even mention that I got laid off of my job at the mine in July.  Which sucked, but that's the mining industry, there's not much you can do except take it with some grace and try to make a good impression with everyone before you go.

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D and I went on a fantastic hike this weekend.  We went up to Mt. Lorne, just south of Whitehorse.

We hiked up to the ridge and camped next to a snow pack (our water source).  I'm a prairie girl, so topography is a new thing for me.  I've been working on it, and walking up the ramp at the mine has helped a lot.  But oh man, did it ever hurt!  Like ( Read more... )

I am a ginormous klutz ( Read more... )

I just bought a Kobo (ereader thing that's not an Amazon product).  I'm actually pretty excited about this despite my technophobe tendancies and the general pro-book-anti-ereader stance I've generally taken.  I can load all sorts of fic and ebooks that I normally read on my laptop, as well as pdf documents like my knitting patterns!  To be honest, ( Read more... )

Went camping at SNAFU Lake this weekend, and despite the lack of sleep due to freezing cold nights and way too much smoke in our eyes, we had a great time.  I haven't been camping in years!  We went on a hike yesterday and found a winter trapping line and an old camp site, complete with rusted metal fuel tank and cans ( Read more... )

D just turned on the Big American Football Game, and I've wandered off to my sewing room.  But we're both cooking, and from the kitchen I heard the national anthem start.  It was a bunch of kids, and I thought 'oh hey, are they actually going to have a non-celeberty sing?  Wandered into the living room just at a celeberty walks on and takes over ( Read more... )

Just come off of my first night shift, and I really should get to sleep.  Oh goodness, so tired.  I worked 2 pm -2 am, but wound up staying until 4 to get stuff done.  I'm shifting my hours to 4 pm-4 am so that I have more people-free time in the office.

Anyways, TO BED!  Soooooo tired.  :)

Moving all my crap into D's place today.  Just brought the second load over.  How the heck did all this crap fit into my car in the first place?!  (Because remember, other than a couple small tuppleware containers of yarn, all this stuff came with me on my trip from Manitoba to Yukon.)

Cripes.  I hate moving.

It's 11:35 pm here, and D and I are about to hop into his hot tub to ring in 2013.  I may have had a bit too much wine and Kamora, so I suspect I'm going to pass out about 3 minutes after 2012 goes out the door.  :D ( Read more... )