mynorthvanlife

Well for the most part that is! There are still a few boxes to be unpacked and a few things to be arranged, and maybe a few more things to be purchased (when the Money Fairies come and leave cash under our pillows…). After all the anticipation it feels pretty awesome to be in our new home!
Ah, North Van, I have been waiting to wake up every morning to your busier streets, train sounds, your markets, your seabus and especially your frequent buses. Coming for West Van where if you miss your bus you are screwed, it is nice to live right on a route which arrives every 10 minutes. It’s pretty awesome to have that RIGHT outside your door.
I don’t drive, nor do I want to, nor do I want most people to have to, so I am all for having a major bus route right on my street, I can deal with a bit of noise in exchange for the convenience.
I love living by some great thrift stores. The Salvation Army on Lonsdale and 3rd is in my opinion one of the best thrift stores on the north shore and in Vancouver for finding second hand furniture. They are always getting new stuff in and they always seem to have a good selection too.
Well I better end this post now, I burnt the tip of my middle finger tonight and it’s hurting like hell at the moment.
Ciao for now, I promise to update sooner than later this time, and learn how to post pictures!

-M

I really need some motivation with this blog, and thus maybe life in general.
I am finding that not enough things are happening in my life to write meaningful blogs. I’m kind of in a standstill and until something happens I feel like I should just hide under a big rock.

So we put an offer on another place, this is the third place. HGTV has lied to me, the whole buying real estate process is not an episode of House Hunters, now I can never believe my t.v. again, thanks. Who will be my messiah now? Oh, wait that’s my computer, never mind. Hopefully you have caught on to my over the top facetiousness.

Other than today the weather has been dry and sunny over the last week or so. I’ve been trying to spend as much time outside as I can. I have started a job that has been working primarily the weekends so I have been spending said time by myself or with my dog. Working opposite hours is lonely. Everyone in my life here works Monday to Friday, and even though I haven’t been working for that long so far, it’s dragging on me.

Well that’s all for now.

-MO

So as I mentioned before, the hubby and I had put an offer on a condo. Suffice to say, things did not work out so we are back to square one. Now I am stuck contemplating if all my design ideas should be a go for a new place or if I start over. They kind of feel cursed, like if I plan on them for the next one, it will become a victim to the real estate under lords as well.

I am kind of bummed, but kind of happy at the same time, at least this way we can look for a place that doesn’t involve a lot of work to move into it.

It’s a beautiful fall day today, actually for the most part it’s been a super nice autumn so far. But it is true, the weather is different here. Everyday recently has started off rather lovely and warm. So warm in fact that I have had to forgo a jacket in the afternoon. But then evening rolls around and it is effing so cold that I feel like my skeleton is going to jump out of my body catch the next flight to Mexico. It is COLD TO THA BONE here. However, that being said, it is not FREAKIN’ ASS COLD, like the rest of this great nation. I really really really am looking forward to no minus 30 this winter, and getting a few snow days (which never happens in the rest of Canada).

Alright, I gotta get going for now, we are going to an open house this afternoon. I am still planning on vamping this blogaroo up in the near future, so expect some bells and whistles sooner than later.

-MO

Just putting a word out there so that no one assumes I made this blog just so I could quickly disregard it. More later this week in the form of postings, reviews, pics, etc…

But now I must be off, the couch is calling me and I am falling into a food-coma.

MO