Last installment of people I'm looking forward to...

and this time I'll be taking digital photos!! I discovered I don't have any pictures on file of anybody else: my other cousins, my half-brother. Ridiculous! But here's where it all started.

This is my great-grandparents, their children & another relative (the shortest girl). The man in the back with the moustache is my dad's father (Harald) and the reunion is for all the cousins who are descended from him. He and his wife Marie had 10 children and there were 23 grandchildren. Apparently about 30 people will be at the reunion, including a few spouses. I'm the 2nd youngest of the generation. My one remaining uncle will be there as well - he's 86!

Well this isn't getting any packing done though is it? Never mind that, it's dinnertime...

People I'm Looking Forward to Seeing part IV

dinner in meat packing district
Originally uploaded by fteleglow

And of course my buddy Mark in NYC! We've known each other since undergrad days at UBC, were in many of the same Linguistics and Spanish classes in 1979 & 1980. Holy cow do you realize how many years that's been???

The people you find in the library

I just have to tell you about this guy who was in the library earlier this week. Picture Matthew McConnaghy(sp?) with just a slightly different face. This gorgeous young man walks up the stairs, wearing a little tank top & long shorts, very Matthew-ish from People magazine photos, I nearly get whiplash watching him go by.

Quite awhile later he (and his shorter much less interesting friend) comes up to the desk to ask if he can have some Scotch tape. I am once again mesmerized by all those muscles and his blonde curly hair. Then I kind of come to and pay attention to his request. He wants some tape to hold together 2 origami flowers he has made. His Michael's bag is on the counter and I can see he's got their papercrafts encyclopedia inside and he's holding these 2 cute little paper flowers. So I tell him about Andrea's paper petals class and we have a little talk about paper flowers and then off he goes.

Not your typical Greek god...

Making Friends

 
Well for at least one evening Zoe and Timmy got up close and personal - and nobody was injured! The truce didn't last long though.

Looks like we'll have Zoe here till Sunday when I will drop her off at the kennel where she'll be for a week while her mom is away on vacation. If I weren't going away as well we could probably keep her longer. It's funny 'cause we're finding her to be really quite a good dog (although she doesn't really like Greg) and she walks well on the leash etc. which stuns her mom because, as is the case with some children, the dog behaves better with other people than she does at home!

So incredibly busy at work this week - I'm just exhausted and looking forward to the weekend where I have nothing to do except laundry, pack, pedicure & lunch with the MIL and family. Hopefully I will get some quality sleeping done too.

blog tag...thanks to Tara!

5 things in my refrigerator:

1. milk

2. Tazo Chai concentrate

3. eggs

4. something green that needs to be thrown out (there's a few of those actually)

5. apples

5 things in my car:

1. Donna Leon book on CD

2. water bottle

3. clothes to go to dry cleaners

4. dog leash

5. gum

5 things in my purse or backpack:

1. wallet

2. cell phone

3. pen

4. flight itinerary

5. passport

5 things in my closet:

1. purses

2. old toys

3. scarves

4. slippers

5. clothes

5 things in the world I want to see before I die:

1. Antarctica

2. New Zealand

3. Cook Islands

4. Queen Charlottes

5. Stonehenge

Thanks Tara - that was a challenge (especially when realizing we really need to go grocery shopping!!! However not my problem, Greg can do that when I'm gone!)

Zoe

 

No she's not my new dog. I'm just dog-sitting while Zoe's mom is in hospital. You can see that Zoe has some border collie in her and I do often call her Ruby by mistake. She's a pretty sweet dog, and is just beside herself that the cats won't play with her. We finally got them to come in the house and it's just hilarious to see Zoe in front of one of them, down in the 'let's play' position and whining because the cat is spitting at her. Apparently her own cat does the same thing sometimes.

So only one more week of work and it's going to be a busy one (see above hospitalization). Which is a good thing as otherwise time would be going by very slowly as it does when you're anxiously awaiting something. I need to get my act in gear, get some laundry & packing organized. Not leave it till the last minute, which is looking like a possibility right now.

People I'm Looking Forward to Seeing part III

Fern & Heidi
Originally uploaded by fteleglow

This is my friend Heidi, whom I met online at the Norwegian Digital Archive website (http://www.digitalarkivet.no if you're interested in Norwegian genealogy at all). She had posted a question about some relatives who came to BC, I did some searching for her, and the rest - as they say - is history!

People I'm Looking Forward to Seeing Part II

Holly with Berit in Lillehammer
Originally uploaded by fteleglow

This is my cousin Berit with Holly when we were there two years ago. She is my "big sister" and a zanier person you could never hope to meet.

People I'm looking forward to seeing Part I

This is my cousin Harald Kristian "Haka" famous in my family for having shown up at my parents' doorstep before I was born and my mother exclaiming to my dad "oh he's not bad is he!" in English whereupon Haka said politely "thank you!". My mom was soooo embarrassed.

The most surprising part of this story is that my mom shared her opinions on good-looking men with my father!!