Newfies and Nature

On Thursday I began my weekend with a wonderful night out with an old friend of mine- Jake was home from Alberta and he and I went out for karoke. No, he didn't convince me to get up on stage and sing. I let him do all the singing. And I must admit...he was my favorite singer of the evening all biases aside.

Well then I made my first ever trek to Newfoundland and I must say....they have a beautiful province! The drive from Deer Lake to Corner Brook, I'd have to say, is to date my favorite drive. The highway that runs through the Humber Valley is so beautiful. I'd love to see it in the autumn. I guess I'll just have to save my pennies so that next fall that may be an option. As much as I was relieved, I was also slightly disappointed I didn't see any moose.

Martha and I had a wonderful weekend living a completely opposite life that the normal newfies must lead. This fact was only reiterated when we were at the checkout at the grocery store talking about what we would be drinking if we did go out and the lady working the cash commented on our groceries: "Cooked roast chicken, ready made salad and ice cream for dessert. My kind of ladies - not wasting any time before you get to drinking tonight." I busted a gut thinking, who goes to Newfoundland and doesn't go out drinking??? Me and only me! Okay, so we did have drinks over dinner on Friday night, but other than that it was totally relaxed and a weekend of complete rejuvenation. Exactly what I needed.

Quiet night in....

I've come to realize how much I love doing nothing. I am having a quiet night in, all by my lonesome, and I'm honestly loving it. Not that I dislike the company of my friends. But occasionally we all need a "me night". Sure I have things I could be doing, but instead, I'm laying on the couch, cuddled with a blanket, doing nada.

Speaking of blankets. My family has just decided to do something really special. As my few readers may know, we lost my gram this summer. Well, my uncle found someone who makes quilts and he and my mom put together a bunch of my gram's clothes and every family member who wants one can have one of my "gram's" quilts made for them. I think this is so touching and such a great idea. I always wanted a quilt made out of fun tshirts, but this is a much nicer idea.

So, I started watercolour class this week and obviously enjoy it enough to go out and buy some supplies. It's actually refuelled my dwindling artistic ambition. Now, I got big game plans for Christmas art projects. And I even seriously thought today that maybe I should start selling some of my art. Turn some of my photography into cards or something snazzy like that. Who knows.

I got a big honour this week. My friend's blog is always about the latest and greatest in technology but he decided that the "smile-its-halloween" gift I did for him was worthy of a non-techie blog. I decided to carve for him an Alice Cooper pumpkin. Why Alice Cooper? Well, because my friend is a fan and also because Cooper is creepy and what could scream halloween more than creepy? I am special (not in the short bus kinda way either).

Well, I guess that's it. I know....holy boring.