I'm 25!

So, I know I've been home for almost a week now, and still haven't posted about my trip, but it's been pretty busy. We returned monday night at around 8:30 pm and I slept all day tuesday, then spent the rest of the week at school getting ready to teach! But, today is my birthday, so I'm taking a break to have a little games night and blizzard cake...yum. Also, went out for lunch with some friends which was nice, and it's beautiful out right now. It was crappy all day, but as soon as I saw the sun, I headed outside for a few minutes of peace in the garden. There won't be many days to enjoy the sun now! I think I will spend tomorrow outside and cleaning up my office so that I'm totally ready for school come tuesday. I also have to finish a book club book by thursday, yikes!

Well, off to get ready for my party! Pictures of Disneyland will be posted by tomorrow, I swear.

I'm off!

Just a quick post as it is 11 pm and I have to get up in 5 hours to head to Vancouver, and then off to Disneyland and Pasadena to visit friends on Friday. I'm so excited and promise to post lots once I return!

If you're in Vancouver feel free to come and visit me at my Dad's! Just send me a message.

I promise to say hi to Mickey, although I don't know if he will remember me...I haven't seen him since 1989 :)


I don't have time to post about the Dawson Creek fall fair and Rodeo, which was awesome, but here's a pic of my hubby in the fall fair parade!

A little bit of poetry

Ode to Tea drinkers

Sometimes I wonder if you can tell
a person by the tea they drink;

the pomegranate green tea would say,
with its big flavour,
this town is too small
close your eyes
and see the city.

Orange pekoe is for those
who drink tea from bulk boxes,
almost an afterthought,
while Earl Grey says traditional
the striped bowtie of tea,
the old standby, with a hint of desire
to dress up. It wishes
secretly to become a London Fog,
sipped in cafés, earn a spot of its own
on the menu.

Deep Rooibos sucks in the drinker,
fooled by a name inflated and round,
it won’t release you until every syllable
of its flavour is drawn in like pipe smoke,
resonating on the tongue like the beat
of a drum held warm in the hand.

Meanwhile, even-tempered Chamomile whispers
to its drinker, the romance novel reader
on the couch, or the man on the front porch watching
the dandelions march over the yard.

Sometimes I wonder if you can tell a person
by their tea, unseam the bags that hold
their weight, cup life
in a metal spoon.

Time with hubby

Today is the last of Mike's four days off, and fittingly, it is rainy and Novemberish. Actually, it's more septemberish for up here, but November-like in say Victoria. Here's what we did on our four days together.


On tuesday we had a relaxing day and Mike cooked me this lovely meal before settling down to watch a couple of movies.

On wednesday, Mike invited A watch and C watch over for a bbq. (It's not that we don't like B and D watch, but they were the ones working). Plus, we wanted to have a small gathering of our closer friends from the detachment, which ended up being 12 of us in the end, but it was the perfect amount of wives and husbands so that I got to sit at my patio set outside and chat with the ladies while we ate yummy food. Afterwards, we played pictionary in our living room, and the boys unfortunately won, although only because they couldn't hear me shout out the answer :)

Then, yesterday we decided to enjoy the last forecasted day of sunshine for the week and headed to Tumbler Ridge. It was the first time I'd driven all the way there, (it's about 115km away) so I was excited to see the town, as I'd heard it looked more like what I was used to. And, it was true. Full of mountains and hills and trees, it was very small but beautiful, and felt more like home. While there, we went on a short hike to Quality Falls, took lots of pictures and ate lunch at the base of the waterfall. I was a little worried about Grizzly bears, but thankfully we didn't surprise any!







Now, it's his last day off and we are just puttering around the house while it drizzles rain outside. And, tomorrow it's back to working for him and being bored for me!