catch up

hey folks,

sorry its been a while. it's been particularly hard to get solid internet times lately. here's the catch up, in no particular order:

dream bike!
been desperate for a bike since i moved away from becca's. walking around the city all day is fun but you can pack way more in when you're traveling at bike-speed. really wanted one of those super light super fast old school 10-speed road bikes with the skinny tires and handlebars that look like ram horns upside down (becca has one. i borrowed it a few times last week. it initially terrified me but i got hooked on the speed). anyways these particular bikes are very popular and very hard to come by - the guy at the used bike store said they rarely get them, and when they do, they go fast. getting to the point now, i went on craigslist yesterday to see if there were any new bikes posted, and there was my baby (see picture). they guy was selling cheap because he is leaving the country tomorrow. the ad said to call or show up at the store downtown where he was working that day. i called right away and told him i was on my way. i got really frustrated with the bus for not moving faster, ran to an atm and ran to the store. just in time! he was getting a flood of phone calls from people equally desperate for such a sweet find. but i won and i took home the prize! today's adventures - finding a helmet and lights. hooray!

dream apartment!
so, i moved on saturday. like the bike, i got really lucky with house hunting. all of my appointments ended up being for tuesday of last week. i saw six places. four of them we're really awesome. two of those emailed me right away and asked if i would live there. so now i live with marg, who is recently empty-nested and renting out her extra room. it's an extra sweet deal because marg is hardly ever around - she goes to her boyfriends on the weekends usually and has 1-2 week trips planned to hawaii and montreal before christmas! and she's really cool and we get along great. monday night we practiced guitar together from dvds that she has. it was a lot of fun. last night was her boyfriends birthday and after they came back from dinner the three of us sat around drinking wine and eating treats and playing guitar and singing songs. sweet.

yoga!
becca goes to the moksha hot yoga studio here in town. they have a $20 unlimited first week special, so i signed up and have been going every day since saturday. taking today off. it's really fun to get all hot and sweaty and i hope to be able to continue going. they have an 'energy share' program where you can exchange a few hours of work a week for unlimited access to the yoga classes, so maybe i'll do that after my week is up!

library!
i discovered the public library here in victoria. they have great cds! i have been pilfering the canadian folk section and taking home bundles of cds at a time. it excellent. perhaps i will start writing up mini-reviews of all my discoveries.

job?
hahah. i worked one day last week. through craigslist i got a job dressed up in a blackberry mascot costume as part of a marketing event called campus chase. it was really silly. the costume was incredibly uncomfortable and impossible to move around in, which was funny because my job description was basically 'move around constantly'. oh well i made some money and met some interesting people. here's a picture of me doing my finest work.

no luck so far with the uvic jobs. enjoying unemployment for the time being and not particularly stressed about getting employed right away.

food!
this one is way out of date but deserves a mention. while living with rebecca pretty much all we did was hang out and make treats. fall bounty included delicious squash butter, pumpkin cranberry loaf, brussel sprouts, soups, lots of things involving fried onion and LOTS of sausage. or as they say in new brunswick, sauseege. oh yeah and bacon. yum yum yum. meant to make a fuller list of our culinary exploits, but too bad for now.

thanksgiving!
spent an incredible tgiving with friends becca, steph and oli. we went to sombrio beach, a surfer's haven. we frolicked, collected firewood, and watched the surfers. as the sun went down, we made a bonfire and cooked a delicious meal of fire roasted sausage and corn. yum. we read stories to each other and had a great campfire singalong, which attracted some neighbours to our fire (or maybe they were just cold - we had the forsight to stop at a different beach on our way to grab fire wood, it was slim pickings at sombrio because of its popularity as a camping spot). great trip with great friends!

that's the scoop.

oh yeah, new address
302-2623 Richmond Road Victoria V8R 4S8
and home number 250 592 7321
cell number is still functional
i like mail!