Oh the conversations that I have with people....

Actual conversation I had today... Me: "good morning", Customer: "I need to return these bullets" Me: "Ok, no problem" Customer: "Ya, my brother sold his shot gun for drugs and I am mad. The drugs will run out but the gun won't and so now I'm mad at my brother. It's not fair". Me: "Wow... uh... hmmm, that's um, to, uh bad?"

Hikes and loaves

Long weekend. Of course for the only supremely nice day of this weekend, I was at work, but that didn't stop me from going out for 2 great walks yesterday. In the morning, I had coffee with my friend and we went for a walk around town and had fun taking some pictures and then, in the afternoon she and I and some friends went out to the (still frozen)Kirchoffer Falls. The falls look to be very impressive. Seeing as yesterday was a pretty grey, dreary day, it wasn't the best, but we sure had fun. There were 5 of us plus one dog and we drove out together. As you're approaching the falls, you get to go over the longest bridge in Nunavut. There's even a plaque. The bridge is about the same length as my house. Ok, maybe a LITTLE bit longer. We had a great hike along the east side of the falls and it was my first real excursion out of town. The walk lasted about an hour and on the way back, one of the girls was lagging a bit and the rest of us were all walking ahead together. So, one of the guys had a hilarious idea... he'd look back, count to three, all four of us would then look back and start running. Awesome. To bad it didn't work. She didn't fall for it for a second. But, we did see some polar bear tracks in the snow. After a hard week, it was really nice to get out and get some fresh air and exercise. Something I didn't get today. The wind had really picked up today and brought with it some crazy behavior. I happened to look out my window this afternoon only to see a fairly active arrest going on in front of my house. A few minutes later I received a phone call warning me not to open my door if anyone knocked as one of the local carvers was out and about in a state of anger and yelling threats at a girl and throwing rocks at her near the Co-op store. So I stayed in and baked baguettes.

May, 21st, 2010, 1h30 a.m.

It doesn't get dark anymore

May 19th, 2010 10h25 p.m.

a sad day

Last night my grandmother passed away. If you read my letter to her from a few weeks ago, you probably guessed that she was very ill. She had a very aggressive case of melanoma which became crippling in the last few weeks. Being up here alone, makes this hard, but I am thankful for the family that I have who have called and the friends here and at home who I know I can count on for support. Love you all from the bottom of my heart.

Kind of my theme song at the moment....

17 Hours of Daylight and counting

So we are up to over 17 hours of daylight now and during the rest of the time, it's not totally pitch black, more of a deep Cerulean Blue if you will. I went for a walk last night and it was after 9h00 and was out for an hour. When I left I could have gotten away with wearing sunglasses and by the time I got home the sky was streaked with different colours like the tie-dye I used to wear in my hippie highschool days. Getting out for walks at night has been something I've been trying to do all week. It's been amazing. On Tuesday, it resulted in playing soccer with about 15 kids for an hour and a half. In my rubber boots, on gravel. And it was -13C. I had a blast. Until one of them, who was about 12, asked how old I am and when I said 33, her eyes bugged out of her head and she said "WOOOOOOOWWWWW You're older than my MOM!!!!".....Buuuhhhhh Looking North West at about 9h30 Looking North West at about 9h45 Looking South East at about 10h05 Random Caribou hoof in the street

Huh....so much for my Friday night plans...

So obviously, I have angered the God of Coffee Tables. I opened the packet containing the hardware for my tables, and there is all the screw and washers, and no freakin' Allan Key. Seriously?!?!

FINALLY!!

The hardware for my coffee tables arrived today!!! So, looking forward to a rockin' Friday night tomorrow putting them together...