This photo is of Jeremie and some of his friends playing Rockband, the new (and unreleased in Canada) game for the Xbox(360?). It's like guitar hero, karaoke revolution, plus some drumming. It's amazing.
New career path option: drummer
November and December were crazy, what with the California trip, working in Edmonton for a week, photographing Bryce & Hayley's wedding, our youth group trip to WEM for a night, watching gilmore girls season 7 with friends every Monday, flying to Vernon for Christmas...
All of it was very good, and I'm also glad that it's all done, and I have a chance to relax. Hooray, huzzah!
I was flipping through my domain, and noticed that I hadn't updated any of my sites (except the recipe one) for at least a year. Wow. Horrible me. So I added some more info to my portfolio (screenshots to follow). My personal site had content so old I was embarassed - I think my last update was a year and a half ago. So I replaced the site with a
'takeout' version - links to my flickr, blog, and cafepress. Those are the only sites I update semi-regularly, so at least people will have more recent content. I'll resurrect my personal site at some later date, when I can devote the time to it that I would really like to.
In other news, Cafepress. I had to close 2 of my 6 shops due to 'copyright infringement'. Darn it all, there's nothing new under the sun! So how can anything not be copyright infringement! Grr. I love to design, love to make products, hate how everything I make it labeled 'pending' with a big red box around it. Maybe I'm just a blatant infringer. But I couldn't even make an I (heart) shirt! Is that copywritten too? Silly thing.
The family Christmas in Vernon was great. The flight(s) there were a bit long - we were in the air for 3 hours total, but we left home about 7 hours before arriving. Silly 3-stop flights. But it was cheap(er), and that's what we were worried about.
I've travelled a lot alone lately, or with random people (say hello California). And found that travelling with Jeremie was great! We got along, knew when to not bother each other, and it was just nice to travel with my best friend. It was great to have someone to talk to, someone to share things with.
So. Vernon. We played games like crazy: cranium, 4 or 5 various card games, Things (our Christmas present from Uncle Ed - Thanks!), guitar hero (dad liked this one), karaoke revolution (mom was awesome!), and some SSX snowboarding. I also found time to read one of the Vinyl Cafe books I received - hooray Stuart McLean! We took an afternoon to go tubing at Silverstar, and I was in love with the lift - you slide down, and get a tow back up! I would never have tubed for 2 hours if I had to run up the hill all the time. We opened gifts at 12:01am Christmas day, and stockings on Christmas morning (though we all got up around 10-11). There was a whole mess full of food, from tortiere to home-made pie to Christmas baking, and I'm sure we left a few pounds heavier. The company was lovely, it was great to spend time with the family again.
As an aside excitement, my online friend Ida-Lee, who I haven't heard from in ages, is now on Facebook, and added me! I love meeting old friends again.
Barry finished up with the mudding/taping/sanding of the Robot Room just before Christmas, so Jeremie and I took a trip the other night and purchased primer, paint, and supplies - a bit pricey, but next time we paint we'll just need paint and roller heads, so I guess that's okay. I mudded up a few little holes last night, will sand them tonight, and hope to have the room primed and painted by the end of the month! I'm quite excited, since this is the first room that will actually be 'done' in our new home - from paint and flooring on up. The others will just have to stay as-is for awhile, but sometimes I get so impatient to see them all done!
That's probably enough from this end of the globe for one night. Sleep tight!
