Happier Thoughts

Since I'm sure you are all sick of my bitching about the friggin snow-in...I thought I'd share some happier thoughts...via photos!

My girl Tiffaney sent me this coolio belated birthday gift. A Lululemon GC for my Lulu addiction!

My Mama sent me a second birthday card with a second Starbucks GC...for another of my crazy corporate addictions!

The snow might suck but it looks nice with my festive Christmas decorations. That new wreath on the garage door is 42" and pre-lit!

In keeping with the festive theme, I set up our lighted Christmas village last night. We got it last year but never got to use it. I love it!

And because no random photo post would be complete without it, here is a pic of Mr. Stoopy looking tough in the hallway today. Moments prior he had been rolling around in the sunny patch on the carpet.

The First %^&$ing Snow of the Season

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Snow. Disgusting, gloppy, wet, sideways snow. If it has to snow, why can't it be the crisp, fluffy, fun kind? I hope this isn't what Halifax snow is usually like. :(

Yesterday it snowed lightly for about 4 hours, but it took 2 hours for it to even start sticking so when I first started taking pictures you couldn't even see it.

By the time I went out to get the mail at the end of the day, there was a pretty dusting of it laying on the lawn.

Then it rained all night and this morning we were back to the madass sideways crazy Halifax rain. At 1:30 today I was making lunch and grimacing at the shitty rain....then I got on a conference call and I guess I didn't look out the window, because at the end of that call 2 hours later there was an inch of snow on the ground and no sign of stopping just yet.

But it's not pretty or fluffy or fun. It's still windy as shit, and the snow is more like thick slush being thrown from the sky at full force. Boooo to the crappiest driving conditions ever. Blech. (I get snow tires on Friday....I'm sure Mother Nature must be smiting me since she dropped this crap two days before I got prepared...bugger!)

Fourth of Fourth

Because Phoenix said she'd be checking....

Here is the fourth photo from the fourth folder of photos on my computer!

This is the view from our room at the hotel we stayed in when we first arrived in Halifax in January. Yup, lucky us...we arrived just in time for a huge snowstorm. Welcome to our new home. haha. Having said that, it was quite mild and I was able to walk the dog by the lake every day while we stayed there. It was actually a nice start to the year. Well, considering all the crap we went through to get here!

Car Ride

And just cuz you haven't seen enough photos of us and our life....hehe...here are the pics from the first road trip last Saturday...(these were on my old camera so I almost forgot!).

Here's Mojo enjoying the car ride:


Here's Mojo happy to be out of the car with Daddy:

Here's me trying to make sure there's a picture of me and my honey:

Here's me figuring out where to hold the camera to get us both in the shot:

Photo Extravaganza

Here are a bunch of photos I've taken over the last week or so with my new little camera....

Our neighbor's weenie dog, Gertie:

Fresh strawberries:

New umbrella plant I picked up for $10 (actually much nicer than the one I had to leave behind when we moved...):

Lillies in my garden:

My front garden coming along nicely:

Our front porch:

And here's Stoopy enjoying some of my tasty yogurt (taken with my old camera and you can totally tell...):

Random Photo of Me

This was on my camera when I uploaded my vacation pics. I can't remember why I took it. haha. I think it was just a good hair night, so I thought I would document it.

Photos are Up!

I finally found the time to get the photos off my camera today. For such a picture-happy girl, I barely took any while I was home. I guess because it didn't technically feel like a vacation.

I am sooooo happy that I got a few pics of me and my Mom, and us with my Grandpa. Our family so bad for not getting photos together, so I was determined this time. There are very few photos of my Grandma with me and my Mom (if any) later in her life, and now that she's gone we regret it...so I wasn't about to let it happen again!

So take a scroll back through my vacation recap posts and see what I've added. :)

Hair-do!

Every year about this time I get the urge to cut all of my hair off. Now, after a few really bad, too-short cuts several years ago, I have learned maybe not to jump right in the deep end on these urges. But it just so happens that I finally found a photo of the hair I've always wanted....so since I had an appointment already booked for a trim and such, I thought I'd see what my hairdresser had to say about it.

She loved the idea of course!

The cut didn't turn out exactly like the sample photo, but it's close. And I'm sure after I get used to it and play around with it a bit, I'll be able to make it work.

So...without further ado...here are a couple of OK pictures taken over the weekend....

Survey Says!

I stole this survey from Eurydice, who stole it from Lex-D, who stole it from someone else.... :)

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Random photos I finally uploaded from my camera...

Honey, the painting machine, painting the living room.




Mojo saying goodbye to the hotel resident doggie, Cocoa.




The beautiful plant DBF's Mom sent on move-in day.



Mojo enjoying the snowy deck for the first time.


Stoopy helping put away the clean linens.