Showing posts with label car. Show all posts
Showing posts with label car. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

ridin' dirty

last week we got our new car! yahoo! it's not new new, but it's new to us. when we decided to move to iqaluit we figured that we wouldn't need a vehicle up here. boy were we wrong! there was some talk of a snowmobile but every time ian would bring it up, for some reason i was filled with rage. i don't like snowmobiles! i don't want to own one! they're stupid! driving fast outside in the cold just makes you colder! other things! i realize that i was being a bit crazy but i still don't want one. instead we bought a warm car with an inside that you can sit in. the heat only works if it's on full blast. jackpot!


get a load of this guy! driving around on the tundra like it's no biggie.



here's our polar bear. 

it's very nice to have a car again. now that i'm not walking to and from work anymore, ian gets to witness my amazing high kicks and roundhouses for indoor exercise. lucky guy. 

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

dark dark dark

hi friends! sorry i've been such a bad blogger. i really have to blame the internet. we now pay $120/month for 10 gigs of internet. for those of you who don't know how much 10 gigs of internet is, it's really not a lot. 10 gigs is an appropriate amount of internet for someone who doesn't really understand what "the big deal with the internet" is. it's like being given 10 bites of spaghetti per month. for $120.

anyway, it's starting to get dark really early here. yesterday i left work at about 5:10 and it was already dark.

seriously! 5:00pm!


here's a random photo i took last week when we went on that long walk. this is right behind the school ian teaches at. i'm jealous of his view every day. the view from my office is four very lovely beige walls. ian's going to write a post with some pictures he took at school last week. spoiler alert! the photos are awesome.


in other news, we bought a car! huzzah! i think the car will help us not feel so alone. wait, did i say "us"? i meant me. ian is much less dramatic than i am. picture me sitting in our apartment rocking back and forth brushing a small strand of my own hair over and over and over. that's how fun it is to live in nunavut! just kidding, it's funner than that creepy scenario. we keep having to spend money on taxis to get groceries, etc. and we're sick of it! cabs are $6 per person to go anywhere in iqaluit. we got a good deal on a fancy little suzuki. today i'm going to get my nunavut license picture taken. wish me luck!