birthday!

happy 31st birthday to the guy who lets girls braid his hair whenever they want.

of all of my husbands with birthdays in february, you're my favourite.

tired

those of you who know me know that i'm a no nonsense kind of gal. just kidding, you know that i'm all nonsense except that when it comes to sleeping, i have a very strict weeknight bedtime rule. i always go to bed at 10:00 pm. i love going to sleep early! the only thing that's on tv at that time is law & order svu or some other depressing shit anyway. 

the moral of this story is that last night we went out on the town and we didn't get home until 1:30 am. i was rollin with my homies (name! that! reference!) and having a hoot. ian kept being a good husband and reminding me that i had to get up for work today and that maybe it was time to go. i wasn't having any of it, though.

today i am very tired.

p.s. sorry for being an absentee blogger lately. i'll post again later.

storm's a comin'

hoping to get sent home from work. come on down, blizzard!

p.s. the blizzard came precisely at 5:00 pm just in time to turn a three minute drive home from work into a 25 minute death-defying drive home from work. you're DEAD TO ME, blizzard.

febturday

happy february, everyone! 

brrrr. it was cold today. after work i took this photo and all of my fingers and toes fell off because it's so cold. 

in other news, i don't have a lot of blog content in my life right now. here are some boring things that are happening:

- we bought a humidifier! i keep putting my face on it to give myself a facial. hopefully it will reverse the accelerated aging process that nunavut has inflicted upon my face. currently i get the seniors discount at north mart but i'm willing to give that up.

- i think i'm getting a stye on my left eye. i'm currently warm-compressing as a precautionary measure. what two words do you think they put together to create the word "stye"? i'm thinking 'stink' and 'eye' because of that neat way the eye swells up and shuts a little bit giving the impression that you're giving the stink eye. 

- next week ian has nunavut teachers' association conference here in iqaluit. david suzuki will be here. jealous? i am.

- work is stressful.

- the big bang theory is a terrible show and i'm sick of people telling me that it's funny because it's NOT. 

pretty

yarrrrrrrrrrrr! sometimes iqaluit be pretty.

some boring pictures

honeeeeyyyys, i'm hoooome! 

i got home yesterday from my trip to yellowknife. it was very very busy but i was able to have a bit of fun, thankfully. i was there for work so during the days i was busy and not able to go outside while it was light. that was a real bummer. here are some photos:

this was the view from my hotel room. trees!!

here i am outside with the northern lights! just kidding, that's just another photo of what i think may or may not be something pretty in the northwest territories. 

TREES!

one thing that was really great was the weather. it was so nice and warm! on wednesday it was only -9! i was surprised by how hot i was, though. i was sweating like crazy walking around outside. 

now i'm back in my very chilly home. wahoo!

yk is ok

i'm in yellowknife! i'm sure it's really beautiful but i've been swamped with work since i got here on monday night. i can only assume that it looks a little bit like this photo in my hotel room:

oooohhhhhh! aaaaaaahhhhhhh! 

life in a tropical paradise

you guys - an EXTREMELY exciting thing happened today. ian found a coconut at the grocery store!! sometimes it's difficult just to find a banana or an apple to purchase, so a coconut is a pretty huge deal. he brought it home and i immediately was ready to put on my bathing suit and sunglasses. i was so excited that i couldn't decide whether to eat it right away or to save it for a few days or just to stare at it with great expectations. 

about a half hour ago we decided it was time. 

yahoo! where am i? mexico?!

first we tried the coconut water. it tasted like salt. 

then this series of events happened:

unfortunately the coconut was disgusting. 

the end.

relaxing all cool

hey! i hope you all had a good weekend. i sure did. on friday morning ian and i got up and did our hair and put our makeup on as usual, when suddenly the phone rang. it was work telling me that this: http://bit.ly/xlYLrY had happened and that all city and GN offices were closed. after doing some celebratory air punches and kicks, i called everyone else in my department and put my feet up like a professional relaxer. ian, like the good teacher he is, got into the car and drove to school only to return a half hour later. his phone tree failed him. schools were closed too! 

now, i don't want to pretend that this was all fun and games. it's really terrible how much water we lost and a lot of people worked all night and all day to fix the problem. we had to boil our water all day friday and saturday because of a risk of contaminants. it was really nice to have friday off, though (with the exception of one meeting that i snuck out to in the afternoon). 

yesterday was a blizzardy day and blizzard-like conditions were due to carry over until this evening. ian found out this morning that he had the morning off again! what a lucky guy. i had to go to work like a chump. the blizzard never really happened today, so ian has to go back after lunch this afternoon. what a treat, though. 

on saturday night i went out with some of my lady friends to the legion and i found out very quickly that i indeed have got the moves like jagger.

work

are you in the mood to be really unenthused? and i mean really unenthused. i'd like to introduce you to the building i work in. 

this is city hall! it's also the fire hall. 

this is the front of the building. as you can see, if there's a fire or if you need an ambulance there's no use calling 911. there's no such thing as 911 up here. you call 979-4422 for fire or ambulance and 979-1111 for rcmp (get it? 9-1111?)

this is my entrance (the left side of the building if you're looking at the pictures above). it's also the entrance to the arena. 

city hall was obviously built during the days when windows were out of style. i imagine it went like this:

"please build us a city hall with windows."

 "you want to be warm and to be able to see outside? oh no no, we can't do that." 

"ah yes, good point. then please go ahead and build an off-white igloo-style box with two or three ship/airplane windows"

"can do!"

unfortunately my office is not one of the lucky ones with a window in it but it's always dark outside anyway so it's really not an issue.