I don’t blog nearly enough, I know that. But I have the WordPress app so there really is no excuse (no good excuse anyways). Of course trying to blog more may be a lot of this kind of post:
Thr Avengers may have been on this bus…
These are the kinds of fun random things I like to post on instagram. I also post pretty scenery and projects I am working on. Username: bcshutterbug
Anyone else enjoy instagram?
I can’t believe it, but it has been one year since we moved into our first house. And it has been one of the best years of my life. I cannot recall off hand when we put our offer in on the house, it would have been in April 2012 sometimes, but I do remember May 11, 2012 when I got my first text on my new phone that read “We have a house. :)” Oddly that was also the last day of work I had for three weeks.
After work I took the bus and met R at the old apartment where we packed some things into the car to take to our new home. I can’t say I remember actually arriving on that day, I do remember being very unhappy that they had already taken the ‘Sold’ sign down before I got a picture of it (to this day that bothers me). Of course the first thing I did was go through the whole house and see what it looked like empty and what kinds of treasure had been left behind. One of the best things we found was an old Bay brand tv among some other little things which you can see some photos of in an old post from DATE. Oh yea, and they left behind a nice comfy couch and chair in the basement, which was a great score! It was not the best night ever, there was some grumpiness because of dinner not being well planned, but we had our first house and a very curious cat to watch (since we had no internet/cable/tv).
The move in was not fun, moving never is in my experience. It was not as bad as previous moves, but still not a good time. We got everything out of our apartment and the storage locker and piled it all in the living room and what it now the spareroom. It was a full day of not fun (I think it may have been the whole weekend actually). I think we got Shaw in to hook up all of our cable and such the next day or day after (we planned ahead). It took a while before I would use the oven (it scared me) but once I did I loved it.
Since we have moved in there have been some upgrades or mini renos, though I’m not sure if I remember the order we did them. I painted the office, mostly by myself (R did the window and door frame). That was done before figuring out that painting is not as fun as the commercials made it look. We painted the spareroom because we were going to have company visiting and it needed doing. It looks great (dark blue-grey accent wall) but we have yet to paint the bedroom, but we did buy the paint a couple weeks ago. R put a fan in the bathroom and a pot light in the kitchen. And now we have had our furnace and hot water tank replaced with a whole room reno in the works for that same room. We also bought our first barbeque
Other than that it has been all of the regular house stuff to get use to. Mowing the lawn in the summer, shoveling the walk in the winter (both of which R does). Paying gas and utility bills. It is funny that after a year not quite as much has happened as I thought. But it has been a wonderful year. It all makes me feel so grown up! …and yet I seem to say that about so many different things. Getting a job, moving out of my parents house, having a relationship, going to Europe, moving away from home, buying a house and now renovating. I’m either not really growing up or there are way more stages to it than I thought lol.
It’s been a while since I used my Flickr account frequently. I need to update it soon with more house photos to share with family back home. I also need to actually take more house photos. But in the process I was looking at some old photos that I had almost forgotten about. Thought I would share some of the funnier photos I’ve taken.
Tongue Shot!
Caught the cat while she was licking her face
Mask and a Rose
Demon Cat
Unsteady Ladybug
I Was Too Late
They are not all good, and probably not all funny (but they couldn’t all be cat shots ;)).
Yesterday I had an instagram day. I think it is the most photos I’ve posted in one day ever. We were getting a new furnace and hot water tank installed and I decided I didn’t want hang around for the noise so I went out.
“A good sign of spring”, most of the ice gone from the Saskatchewan River flowing through Edmonton (view from the LRT)
At South Campus station, waiting for the bus to take me to West Edmonton Mall. Could hear something going on on the other side of the bleachers, not sure what exactly.
Will & Kate sighting at WEM
Awesome bedspread set. Wishing I had another spare room to do up in this!
After the mall headed downtown, got off the bus a little early and walked by the museum.
Just down the street from home, ominous clouds in the sky (they brought wind and a tiny sprinkling of rain with one or two grumbles of thunder…but that’s all)
Part of the joy of renovating (this photo will most likely make an appearance in a future post).
Found decorative washi tape at the art store in WEM, was very excited!
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And to top off the day, Canucks vs Oilers!! I am a Canucks fan for those who don’t know. Got invited by a friend.
Unfortunately it ended horribly for the Canucks, but the Oilers fans needed that excitement more then us since the Oils are not in the playoffs yet again this year.
All in all it was a pretty good day! How is everyone’s weekend?
Last weekend we went to Muttart Conservatory. There are four gardens there with different environments: Arid, Tropical, Temperate and Feature. I don’t think I could actually remember which of the photos were taken (I just remember that the daffodils were in the Feature pyramid for the Cancer Society. I took only my macro lens to practice.
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