tour

hey! do you want to see our apartment? i took some pictures when we first moved in so i thought i'd give you a show. they're not great photos because we still hadn't really unpacked so please forgive the untidiness. 

here's a picture of the living room. at this point i'd be standing with my back to the kitchen and on my right would be our door outside.

here's ian doing what he does best (work) at the kitchen table. at this point i would have had my back to our bedroom door. the door with the ugly blanket on it is our door to the outdoors (our porch and stairs). the whole door is a window! we had to put a blanket on it! give me a break!

here's the kitchen. the bathroom would have been to my right at this point. if you're standing with your back to the ugly blanket door, there are four doors on the opposite wall - sealift room, bathroom, closet, bedroom.

more kitchen.

here's the sealift room (off the kitchen). i like it because it houses my wealth of toiletries. if you grew up a warren girl, you know how important it is to stock up (and i mean WAY up) on toiletries. right mom?

i didn't include any photos of the bedroom because we haven't exactly...how you say...unpacked it yet. i also didn't include the closet or the bathroom because those things are pretty self explanatory. what's that you say? you don't know what a bathroom looks like? well okay!

backyard

last weekend we went for a walk in our backyard. it was windy and cold but totally worth it. as i've said before, we live on the road to nowhere. there isn't anything built up behind where we live - it's pure tundraaaa!

i took this from the first hill we climbed. i almost lost my life a few times because it was so slippery.

ian found berries! then he ate one. 

i looked up from taking that picture of the berries and there was ian, winning a race i didn't know was happening. dang! what a scoundrel. 

this crazy rocky tundra just goes on and on and on. that road you see there is the road to nowhere. it ends not too far from there. 

like a true surveyor, ian found a survey monument. hoorayyyyyyy.

windy!

"hey! look at this tall moss! take a picture of how tall this moss is!"

home

well well well, look who came crawwwwwwling back to her own blog. sorry! we just finally got the internerd in our apartment. it takes a very long time to get things going 'round these parts. it's very slow internet and we pay $87/month for 5 gigs but it's totally worth it! saying "it's totally worth it" helps with the pain. "$7 for a small container of spinach?? WORTH IT!"

anyhoo, things are going well here. both ian and i are getting used to our new jobs. ian is teaching grade 7 and his school is about a 15 minute walk from our apartment. i work at city hall which is about 20 minutes downhill in the morning. i haven't walked home yet but it's veerrryy much uphill so we'll see how that goes. whoever said the tundra is flat is truly misinformed. truly misinformed indeed. our possessions finally arrived last thursday so we were able to move into our apartment! here are some photos.

this here be our apartment building. yarrr. it's the red one on the left. there are four buildings like this in a row. red blue red blue. they're very new buildings (not even really finished) and very nice on the inside. 

here's ian eating a coleslaw sandwich before the movers arrived. "coleslaw sandwich??" you say? "why yes, a coleslaw sandwich." i say. 

i've had a glass of wine. 

here i am feeling very overwhelmed by the boxes. eughgh. moving sucks. 

here's our view if you're staring straight ahead from our balcony (why do we have a balcony? i don't know). If you go down that road you'll get to ian's school. actually, if you look extremely closely just to the right of the telephone pole and just to the left of the top of the red house that's behind the greenish beige house (is this annoying? yes.) you'll see a bright green roof. that's the school that ian teaches at. 

here's the view to the left. we live on the road to nowhere so if you go left down that road it literally goes nowhere. 

here's the view to the right. if you go down that road it goes straight downtown. "downtown". the body of water right across the street is a little lakey thing. the body of water a bit farther away is the sea. 

we don't have any friends yet, but i have big plans to go stand on the streets to ask people if they're looking for extra friends. wish me luck!