Now things have started moving.

Move in day set for end of Sept!!!!!!!!!

All agreed.

Ugly fireplace - SO gone.  Nicer one, hopefully coming.  Fingers crossed.

Walls getting painted, the man and I off tomorrow to pick light fixtures, front doors chosen, windows should go in next Mon or Tue and the plumber is doing toilets and gas tomorrow.

HEheheheheheheheheheHE!

I won the big fat battle about window seats for youngest, assisted by youngest herself.  You see, the contractor has two daughters, both young.   The architect has no kids.  Youngest came in, when bidden, to talk about window seats.  The architect looked like thunder, HEFTY disapproval.  Eventually the contractor asked Youngest why she wants window seats, she simply told him, 'cause they're cool.'  He got it, and was totally onside from there.  Architect never got it.  No kids.

Whew.

We are going to need 35 light fixtures!  Can you believe that?  Is that not crazy????  35.


Man, I wanna move.


Then we went up to a friend's finca, bit of land, sort of like a cottage, but no lake.  To watch the sunset.  Was that ever perfect.  My o my.  Beautiful weather, a lovely group of people, snacks for dinner.  Gotta love it when dinner is chips, some olives, a little chorixo and cheese, topped off with champagne or lemonade.  


Oh, and fresh air, stars and sunsets.  

photo by Nuri




Good dessert, that.


Now, where is that Ikea catalogue?

Excitement

Too tired last night to write, just went and crashed.  Slept all night too, nine whole lovely hours.  What a wonder.

Now I'm waiting waiting waiting for my tea.

We may be able to move into the house in a couple of weeks.  They guys won't be completely done, but we could MOVE!!!!!

Can you say excited!?!?!?

I am finding it hard to take photos cause there isn't a whole lot of photograph.  The whole place is white inside with lines and angles and the really cool floors.

Now I am eyeing everything we have and debating whether it stays, or goes.  A lot goes.

Ikea here we come!

Just sayin'

Jet lag topped off with double doses of anti-histamine make for a very doppy gal.

The house looks great, and there are a million decisions to make, yesterday.

Chuck survived the trip, but has been panting heavily all day, what's with that?

SHOPPED.  Nothing like NO food in the house for man nor beast to get you going.

School starts tomorrow here, so we had to shop for that too, in a big fat way.

Still haven't had a good local coffee...tomorrow may be the moment I think, it just may have to be.

Hope I sleep better tonight.

Lovely, tiring, hot, exciting, fun day.

Hope yours was a good one too.

Cheers,

O

The house

Photos from the architect:

There's not a TON of changes cause it's Aug and everyone's on holidays.  They've painted a whole bunch, and they've got the floor in for Eldest's loft:

It has made the hallway darker, this is the usual view down towards Youngest's window....door closed.

More later.

Sailing 2010

Our extraordinary and diligent navigator!  See, we made it to land, just like I said we would.

Water snake, we saw several of these....he just wanted some sunshine.

Canadian shield.

Turkey vultures.

Proof positive that Chuck has overcome his terror of water and will swim voluntarily, to shore, or for thrown sticks/pine cones.

Post swim

Eldest picked up a leach...nothing a little salt couldn't cope with.

Fun in the sun!

We're back

Photos coming when I get a chance....the architect sent photos of the house too.....

We didn't sail very far but we had a wonderful time.  The girls must have swum 6 or 7 times a day and me 3 or 4.  Chuck discovered the joys of swimming, sort of....and it was all lovely.

I have a massive allergic reaction on my face to a sunscreen I used.  Nasty looking and it feels worse.

Life is good.  Busy, but good.

Lots of blogs to read, and naps to take.  Back at it soon.

More later!

Gone Sailing!

See ya in a bit folks, have a good one.

O

Notes from a conference?

Nope, tooooooo much, though I didn't have the radio on in the car on the way home, thinking way way way too hard.

One thing they talked about was memory fragmentation, and how rapid it is after a learning experience. Have to say it has me worried, I am so excited by so many topics, and I have no idea when I will be able to get around to making some headway with any of them, I just finished that block of teaching and I don't know when I will have time to process it into all the different areas I work with, adult learners, children's learning, language learners.....

So many different angles.

5 superb presenters, and I am struggling to hold it all in my head.

What a wonder, and more tomorrow.

It was interesting too, the interplay of the different presentations.  Everyone got the same keynote speakers, but then the experiences from the others were all subtly differnt, well, some were enormously different.  It all doesn't quite tie in tightly, so it is a bit of a juggling act, but it does tie in.  Then there is my teaching philosophy angle that also requires another sideways look at it all.

I am rambling cause my brain is basically gone.  Sleep so I can process and learn more tomorrow.

Next order of activity.

Then SAILING!

Stream of consciousness

Counting the days till we go sailing.  No.  Counting the hours.

Glad and sad to leave work here.

Conference for the next two days, looks super fascinating.

Think I may be getting a sinus thing going on, sore teeth lately.

Love the book I'm reading right now, The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. T'would be brutal for language learners, too many changes of character with too little notice.  No single central character emerging.

Dog ate two dinners tonight, no wonder he was glad to see me.

Must sleep.

Wonder what the house looks like now.

If you don't know Toronto, you won't get this:

Overheard:

Youngest and an equally young friend were chatting about our lives in Spain.  Young friend asked Youngest if she had ever been to BCN.

'Yes indeed' she responded.

Young friend paused.  'Is it like Mississauga?' she asked?

I tried not to snort.