It's 11:35 pm here, and D and I are about to hop into his hot tub to ring in 2013.  I may have had a bit too much wine and Kamora, so I suspect I'm going to pass out about 3 minutes after 2012 goes out the door.  :D ( Read more... )

I'm off on an adventure tomorrow!

A good friend of mine's Mom is up in Faro, visiting her sister, and unfortunately, her sis can't get time off to do the 4+ hour drive (one way) to get her back to Whitehorse to fly back to Ontario on Friday.  My buddy contacted me and asked if I'd be willing to play chauffeur for her Mom and drive up to Faro to pick ( Read more... )

My thumb is burning. MY THUMB IS BURNING OMG. And so are my calves, but for entirely different reasons.

First, the thumb.

So I made this stirfry tonight, one that I've made before. And I was careful after chopping the jalapeno pepper; I washed my hands 3 times right afterward to make sure I got all of the juices.  But obviously that didn't work, ( Read more... )

I MADE IT!  Man, what an incredible journey!  Only announcing right now, but I think I might transcribe my paper journal entries in here (since God know's I'll probably drop the ball on the paper journal soon enough, and this journal is the only one I'm consistantly writing in (for the most part).

I was considering doing a blog along the lines of ( Read more... )

780 km down, 2500 km to go!  I (finally) managed to get away yesterday, but only by about 2 pm (and it was 3 pm before I actually got onto the highway).  Because I really do suck at packing, I didn't get to bed until about 4:30 am the previous night and was up by 8, so I was pretty tired while driving.  I offset this by eating way too much crap.  ( Read more... )