The view outside my window..

It's not really raining, It's pouring outside. Considering the beautiful weather we've been having these past couple weeks, I can't bring myself to complain as much as I should be. After all, one of my favorite things to do during the fall is take pictures of wet leaves resting beautifully on pavement. Yes, that time of year is officially here! It's about time too, they are calling for rain for the rest of the week. My old self would take a couple days off work and sit by the window reading a good book, sipping on tea and listening to the rain.. But since I've taken 4 sick days in the past 2 weeks, I think I would be pushing my luck a little.

I've finally managed to shake my cold.. It's still kind of here, but not as strong as it was last week. I've managed to get a few of my co-workers sick, but I know I'll end up getting sick in the end.. Again. It never fails.

Ahhh fall... how i've missed you!!

Tea, Hobbes and a box of kleenex..

Sick... sick as a dog. For the past week, I have been nursing a stubborn cold and more than ever it's putting up a huge fight and won't seem to take a hike. On days like this, I stay home pop in a Scene it DVD game and test my useless pop culture trivia knowledge. This time around, I decided to switch things up and play something different.. 

The brain game puts your brain to the test with quick speedy rounds jam packed with sudoku, problem solving and memory games.. at the moment, my mind is kinda fuzzy.. so playing this game for the first time proved to be a bit of a challenge. I gave up pretty quickly and went back to reading Calvin and Hobbes.. (let's just say.. being called a DODO bird because of low test scores really didn't bode well for my ego) 

i {heart} lomo..

was seriously excited to see this on UO this morning..

I've always been intrigued by Lomography.. you browse through flickr and see these wonderful highly saturated, blurry images and can't help to wonder how it's done. I could never really wrap my head around paying a ton of money for a 35mm lomo camera since digital post-processing has pretty much taken over the world at this point. However there is something to be said about photographs that leave a little something more than digital would..

I haven't dabbled with film in a very long time, so this might be a good way to experiment with something different for a change.. who knows.. my photographs might take a turn for the better!

Lomography film via Urban Outfitters

It is 2:50am..

I am currently sitting in my living room eating Rolo ice cream pops, drinking green tea and watching season 2 of Family Guy. It only seems appropriate that I watch Cartoons on Sunday...

As far as I can remember, I've never really had a hard time sleeping.. ever. But so far, tonight has just been one of those nights. It must be a combination of the sniffles, the better half's ridiculous snoring and copious amounts of dog hair in our bed left over from the beasts week long visit. {Not such a wonderful combination if you ask me}

It'll give me time to catch up on a few things.. maybe enjoy my tea on the deck and watch the sunrise..

another reason to love our neighbourhood...

For the past few months, I've been hearing the faint sound of "old Mcdonald had a farm" outside my home office window. Thinking it was our neighbour's kid playing around with a barn animal farm type of toy, I would just ignore it and carry on to what I was doing..

So last night, as we are hanging out in our driveway trying to plan out our evening (mostly going to the airport to pick up a package from FedEx - i love getting packages btw), we spot this ice cream truck slowly driving down the street.. with good ol "MacDonald" blaring through the speakers.. seriously?! When was the last time you saw an ice cream truck driving down your street? We never get this kind of excitement in our neck of the woods.

Our neighbours ordering dessert at the end of our shared driveway

I have never been so mad... well I wasn't mad.. just disappointed in myself. I love ice cream.. it breaks my heart that I only got to find out about this magical truck now. Hopefully he goes by again this weekend.. I would hate to miss it!!

Side note: from now on, I will always look outside my window when I hear unusual sounds coming from the street. Guaranteed!!

Fall is here…

Which means we are a few months away from this…

Scary thought right?

Weekend Surprises…

What a weekend!! Our annual theme park adventure was indeed a success.. but after spending an amazing 3 days in Montreal with friends, it was really nice to be back home and sleep in our own bed. But before heading home to catch up on our ZZzzZZZzz, we swung by the better half's parents to pick up Rufus, who spent the weekend, and some well deserved coffees. It was a long drive back, so coffee was appreciated.

After the coffees, we said our goodbyes, packed the dog and bolted home. We walked in the house and headed towards the kitchen.. And there it was..



The Dream fridge…

Turns out the in-laws had a little fun breaking into our place on Saturday. I almost had a heart attack when I first saw it. We had been saving for weeks/months to replace old betsy and in one day our in-laws swooped in there and replaced her with the MAC daddy of all fridges..

We were floored, overwhelmed and extremely happy to have such an amazing family that wouldn't have a doubt in their minds to do this for us. For that, we are so thankful!!! We couldn't be happier to finally be able to eat at home..

Just think.. We haven't done a grocery run in 8 weeks…

wow.

Turning leaves.. must be fall

What a summer.. August has been quite a hectic month (the lack of August posts should be an indication of that). I am truly very excited for the downtime in the coming weeks. The leaves are starting to change and sweater weather is finally here.. maybe I'll take a couple days off to wander.. {hearts}

p.s. It's finally here... we got her...

more to come tomorrow..