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In a totally-non-rare but possibly life-threatening-when-exhibited-around-silly-US-guards moment of patriotic love and so on, I shall confess that there is currently a big, red and white flag hanging in my brother's studio. It is attached to an IKEA lamp pole so that, if you discount the lamp top, it looks like it's actually supposed to be like ( Read more... )

* Am in Fairfax, Virginia. How I got here is a long story, too long for LJ. Short short version is "there be conference for international school teachers regarding IT, and I'm taking part ( Read more... )

So I'm finishing trying to finish packing and have only three drawers left, right. One of which is the desk drawer. Of course, there's a whole bunch of pennies there. And they're all pretty and maple leafy. So I get them all out, and realise one is different. American ( Read more... )

So, back in 1994 - or rather, in 1994 at the latest, but over a period of a few years - we went on a few roadtrips from Guelph up North-West, among others to Camp Cumontome, and Bruce Peninsula. 'We' being, obviously, my family and I.

Now, on the way there, we'd found an ice cream place near Durham. We'd all agreed that it had the best ice cream ( Read more... )

...And, really, as usual, I'll laugh at myself in a few days for having written this, but- I'm going home tomorrow ( Read more... )

I really, really shouldn't be so happy about this, and I wish we still had a proper Canadian autumn around, but-

It's snowing!

It's wet and dissolves on contact with the ground, so it's really only half-pretty when you look into the sky, but-

It's snowing!

Yay!

Even though I know it'll be hell in many ways, I can't wait till a proper snowy

This is the Canada I remembered ( Read more... )

...hopefully, from here on in, these shall be much, much more frequent, because of this (she's so pretty!)... I won't go into how exactly I came about getting it (Monday), but suffice to say, there was an amazing favour involved - technically I'm paying for it out of my own pocket, only, not yet. Tomorrow. And... yeah. I'm still stunned by the ( Read more... )

And apparently, my brother lost my loonie.

"Temporarily misplaced it," he says. As if.

"It's somewhere on the floor," he says. Yeah, well, everything here is on the floor. Remember? No furniture?

I want my loonie back :(

Yes, I'm avoiding packing by looking for a coin.