Apologetically unblogged

I’ve been very absent lately. I complain when others don’t update their blogs regularly, and then I fall off the face of the Earth.

My apologies.

But I have a semi-good excuse for my absence: life in general. All of a sudden it was May and I barely had a moment for myself, so the last thing I wanted to do was find myself sitting in front of the computer with nothing exciting to share. See, late May at my work equals our yearly MAJOR conference and it takes up all of our time in preparation. This year was our 75th anniversary and required extra work than usual from me. I spent days and days at the National Archives poring over ancient files trying to document the history of our organization. Though the project was incredibly interesting – it was very time-consuming. I’m just thrilled that it’s over…and I’d be happy to not step foot in the Archives ever again.

So…here are a few quick updates.

1. My 10 days at York University were so loooong and tiring. I was the unofficial-official photographer of our conference and found myself with a very busy schedule. But as busy as it was, it was awesome! I really enjoyed the opportunity to do something I’ve never done before. Here are two of my faves:

2. Packing, packing, packing. Our moving date is fast approaching and we are knee deep in pack-mode. We’ve reduced our kitchen down to an annoyingly low number of plates and bowls and we’ve started trying to clear out our deep freeze, which includes finally defrosting our massive wedding anniversary pie. It was as delicious as I remembered.

3. Packing leads up to my favourite update…The pre-delivery inspection on our house! We finally got to see it is a finished state (other than the weekly peeks through the windows) and it looks amazing. When you are picking all the interior components at the design centre, you don’t have an idea of how things look together in a room because you have a tiny piece of carpet, hardwood, a mini cupboard door, a small piece of countertop etc. to work with.

I was thrilled! I loved how everything came together. Maybe it was luck, maybe it was stealing ideas from the Nate Berkus episode of Oprah (when he redecorated Kirstie Alley’s home), but either way…It was awesome. The only thing that is making the next two weeks not seem like two years is that we still have soooo much packing to do.  With time running out to get it all done…the next two weeks are gonna fly!