My Current work Chalkboard!

 
 

Imagine if life was like this?

 
 

Sophie's First Birthday

 


Here she is in her glory. Happy Birthday Darling 

Thanksgiving 2005

 


What better way to give thanks this year, but with my "whole" friends!

Mea, bless her, invited all of us orphans over to her place for a thanksgiving dinner. 

A picture is worth a thousand words 

Knit on

Starting knitting again. It has been atleast 6 months since I picked up my needles. I found a very simple pattern for a poncho and went to Michaels to buy some yarn. Wow, it feels so good and inspiring to be making something. With every row I feel more relaxed and a sense of accomplishment runs thru me. Why did I stop knitting? I know for all you non knitters I sound so lame. Too bad for you! I feel sorry that knitting holds a stigma for you. You will never get that sense of pride and accomplishment that I, and fellow knitters get.

Knit on!

Van Dusen Gardens 

I spent my day off at The Van Dusen Botanical Gardens. It was a perfect fall day. The leaves were just beginning to turn in the gardens. 

Current picture of me in my new specs! 

I love this picture. I'm the one with the shades! 

What's up Truffles? 

Me and Buddy 

Childhood memories

A lot of my memories revolve around food.I will often find myself reminded of something that happened during my childhood. Suddenly, I am pulled back, head first into being five again. I want to say that all of my memories happened when I was five. Five seems like the perfect age to me.I remember being very happy at five. My parents were together, we lived in this huge house in Cabbage Town, and there were tons of kids who lived on my street. My Sister Eden had just been born, so I was still the kid in the family.I remember being very independent; being out by myself in my neighbourhood. Back then parents didn't worry about their kids, neighbourhood watch really did exist.

Yesterday while riding the bus home from work, I was reminded of one of those five year old memories. I was raised in a non-sugar, no junk food household. I can easily justify this, by the fact, that my cakes had raisins on them, instead of chocolate chips.On this one day, I was out riding my little red bike. I remember going around and around the block for what seemed like hours. I had acquired some pocket money and went and bought black licorice. I loved that stuff, more than I do today. I would only eat the black, because, even at the age of five I knew that the red wasn't real licorice. After riding around and eating black licorice, I went home. My nanny opened the door and took one look at me and her face when stone cold. She quickly rushed me up to the washroom and cleaned my face. I had black licorice from cheek to cheek. My lips, mouth and tongue had turned black. She knew that I wasn't supposed to be eating sugar, she saved me from being discovered by my mother. I can still remember the taste of that licorice, the sensation of having it stuck all over my face, the guilt that I felt from indulging in something so sinful.

Who is Aura Hertzog?

HANGING OUT AT THE LAKE  

My Sweet Sister 

What's up with all the photos

They say that pictures are worth a thousand words. Lately I just haven't felt like writing, but am overwhelmed with images. The images represent a lot of what I am feeling these days. Until I can afford a better camera, this is as good as they get.

if you really feel like reading check out my food blog

http://fooddaily.blogspot.com

Summer in BC 

NICE SUMMER JOB eh? 

The View on a Misty day at Maxwell National Park 

Mrs Relaxed 

Mr Relaxed 

Ganges, Salt Spring Island 

The path to the water 

Where we stayed on Salt Spring Island 

Little Miss Sophie Bea 

Hello You 

My MOM 

SOMEONE 

SOMEONE at Work

http://www.jasonturnerproject.com/grind/someone.html

If you enjoyed the strip, check out Jason's other work

NEW FRIEND ZIP

Still hurting from the break up, I turn on the computer. I join us up to Zip. I spend the next hour and a half ordering movies and television shows. To date I have 83 DVD's on my hit list. For those of you, who haven't hear of Zip. It is an on line DVD rental. You pay a monthly few and can order as much as you like. You can have up to 4 movies at a time. They send them to you, and you send them back. So far is has helped my break up with the TV. I am doing other things with my time, and, if I am turning on the TV, it is for a limited amount of time, and a good movie! I know that it will take some time to heal and repair the damage that years and years of television has done to me. Don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with TV. I just can't resist it and it was a serious addiction for me. I know that there are people that are occasional users, or social users. Sadly I am not one of those. I know that there will be times when I will need the hit. Luckily I have some goods friends out here, that will help me out if it gets really bad. Or, I can sneak down to the amenity room, jump on the treadmill and watch away. So far I haven't gotten that desperate yet, but I wouldn't put it past me.

NO CABLE?

Tim and I made a huge decision when we moved into our new place. To break up with our faithful friend the television. We decided that we would not subscribe to cable. The cable company must have sensed our plan, because they hooked us up with cable. We received a cute little note in our mailbox. "Welcome to your new home. Your cable is already set up for you." We thought to ourselves hmmm, okay that's nice, we will get a couple of days with our friend before the break up. We even put the TV in the bedroom (we were painting the living room). This meant that early in the morning at 7am, I was watching Dawson's Creek and Jessica Simpson. I felt like I was living in a hotel. As much as we have adored our friend the TV, it was never allowed to join Tim and I in the bedroom!
The one day it happened, with no warning. I was planning on watching a new episode of House. I was on my way home, called Tim about our dinner plans and he broke the news to me. They shut the cable off. No note, no call, just like that, gone! We were going to do the dumping and then bam we get dumped. We had no plan, no back up video to get us thru the night!