Monday, December 24, 2007
I'm currently sitting on my balcony, watching the sun rise to the right and a big, full (or at least full-looking; I have a hard time telling sometimes) moon on my left. Awesome.
One of the things I like about Victoria is that I can sit on my balcony at night and see lots of stars; despite the fact that we live downtown, the lights aren't bright enough to block them out. Which is, of course, because Victoria is a small city, yo. I didn't figure we'd be here this long, even, but so far so good. We'll see.
Things I've done since I last posted here in the summer:
- drove from Sudbury to Victoria, partway with Anja and partway with my Mom. The part with Anja involved a lot more stopping and turning around to get hilarious pictures; the part with Mom involved a lot more of me actually being able to see things because I didn't have to drive the entire time. Both parts were pretty awesome, though, and I can highly recommend both as roadtrip partners.
- lived with my sister and family in Vancouver for 2 1/2 months, where I
- passed the bar exam.
- bought a new camera! Soon there will be pictures gracing this blog, which will hopefully be in better focus than with my cheapo point-and-shooter. Unless we discover that I am simply a crappy photographer. Don't worry, though; I have a day job.
- starting working at my articling job. It's been interesting so far - I'm in my second rotation, both solicitor (like, paper stuff, as opposed to barrister, which is court stuff. Yeah, that's the kind of precise language they teach you at law school!), and nothing has yet jumped out at me as what I want to do afterward. Which is probably good, because I don't think either department is hiring. :P
- re-financed our mortgage, and got my mom off title! Not that my mom has been a bad co-homeowner - thanks, Mom! - but hey, it's nice to be real adults again.
- found a contractor to re-do our kitchen! We think. He's supposed to be coming by today to sign the contract and pick up the deposit cheque, so keep your fingers crossed! If he asks why we picked him, I think we'll tell him we liked him, liked his BBB record, liked the price, and liked the start date. I think maybe we won't tell him that, despite my 15+ calls to contractors, 6 appointments with contractors to do estimates, and 3 actually showing up to our place, he was the only one who gave us an estimate. Man, this has *not* been fun. But the new kitchen will be! :)
Hm, I think that's it. Now, I have to go do some dishes, so the contractor doesn't think we're complete slobs.
One of the things I like about Victoria is that I can sit on my balcony at night and see lots of stars; despite the fact that we live downtown, the lights aren't bright enough to block them out. Which is, of course, because Victoria is a small city, yo. I didn't figure we'd be here this long, even, but so far so good. We'll see.
Things I've done since I last posted here in the summer:
- drove from Sudbury to Victoria, partway with Anja and partway with my Mom. The part with Anja involved a lot more stopping and turning around to get hilarious pictures; the part with Mom involved a lot more of me actually being able to see things because I didn't have to drive the entire time. Both parts were pretty awesome, though, and I can highly recommend both as roadtrip partners.
- lived with my sister and family in Vancouver for 2 1/2 months, where I
- passed the bar exam.
- bought a new camera! Soon there will be pictures gracing this blog, which will hopefully be in better focus than with my cheapo point-and-shooter. Unless we discover that I am simply a crappy photographer. Don't worry, though; I have a day job.
- starting working at my articling job. It's been interesting so far - I'm in my second rotation, both solicitor (like, paper stuff, as opposed to barrister, which is court stuff. Yeah, that's the kind of precise language they teach you at law school!), and nothing has yet jumped out at me as what I want to do afterward. Which is probably good, because I don't think either department is hiring. :P
- re-financed our mortgage, and got my mom off title! Not that my mom has been a bad co-homeowner - thanks, Mom! - but hey, it's nice to be real adults again.
- found a contractor to re-do our kitchen! We think. He's supposed to be coming by today to sign the contract and pick up the deposit cheque, so keep your fingers crossed! If he asks why we picked him, I think we'll tell him we liked him, liked his BBB record, liked the price, and liked the start date. I think maybe we won't tell him that, despite my 15+ calls to contractors, 6 appointments with contractors to do estimates, and 3 actually showing up to our place, he was the only one who gave us an estimate. Man, this has *not* been fun. But the new kitchen will be! :)
Hm, I think that's it. Now, I have to go do some dishes, so the contractor doesn't think we're complete slobs.
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