Movie Night

We just got back from seeing a double bill at the Fox Theatre after first going out to dinner with my hubby.
It's been ages since we went to the movies, and was lots of fun.
First up was Star Trek, followed by Drag Me to Hell.

I loved Star Trek, and didn't even recognize Winona Ryder until the credits were rolling. Therefore I will have to see it again. All the actors were well suited to the characters. Bones/McCoy was my favorite.



Drag me to Hell was a very classic Sam Raimi film. Horror films are not my favorite, as I tend to jump out of my skin more times than I'd like to admit, but it was funny as well as being scary.



I highly recommend both if you haven't seen them already.

As for the restaurant we checked out this evening, Balsam,in the Beaches.
The food at the restaurant was mediocre, but the fresh strawberry daiquiri divine.

Our New House

We did it! We bought our first home!

The house hunting saga continues

We didn't get our 1950's dream bungalow last night.
There ended up being 9 offers on the house.
Even with putting in our maximum offer and a lovely letter to the seller, some tosser outbid us by $17,000

Shawls a plenty

Recently my love of rectangular shawls took a kick in the arse, in favour of the ever popular triangular shawl.

I was always a rectangular shawl girl with my End of days Wrap, Otis, and Woodland Shawl all done and dusted and in the bag. However, it was the springtime bandit pattern that changed my knitting ways. I think it has something to do with the fact that I love wearing them backwards around my neck so that the point is pointing to my chest and not my backside.

I have a couple out takes from my "month into springtime bandit", and "princess maksoutoff's textured shawl" that didn't put on my ravelry page to share today. I love the textured shawl pattern so much in the variegated yarn, and it looks so good in a solid colour, looking at other knitters projects on ravelry, that I have started yet another textured shawl. This time using some organic merino/angora blend that I picked up at my LYS last fall. I don't have a wip photo yet but have one shortly.





Back again tomorrow with an update on garnet muse.

Current H-Hunting Update

We ended up seeing three other houses today with our real estate agent.

The last one we liked A-WHOLE-LOT.
So much more than the one we put an offer on a couple days ago.

Offers for the house we saw today are being accepted on monday, so we have put a registered offer on the house, so that the seller and his agent know they will be getting at least one offer come monday night.

The house needs nothing done to it. Not one bloody thing. There is an open house over the weekend and I am planning on going back and checking it out, just because I can.

I love synchronicity sometimes.

Actual knitting content tomorrow, I promise.

Tobermory

Our June 2009 Camping Expedition Started at Cyprus Lake Campgrounds just south of Tobermory.



We awoke our first morning to a shower by mother nature. Which lasted long enough for us to spend most of the day in the town of Tobermory doing a bit of retail therapy. In the late afternoon we did go for a hike from our campsite to the Grotto which we had seen five years earlier. I blame the weather for the lack of photos not taken the first day.

The second day of our vacation included a ride on a zodiac...



... to see a couple of shipwrecks,...



... the flowerpot islands,...



... and a lighthouse.



It also happened to be the day where Frost ate fish again for the first time in at least 15 years.
And of course, I got it all on film.


And by george, he likes it! Yay for having fish in the house again, although nothing too smelly, so only cod so far.

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With regards to the house we put an offer on.

The seller did get back to us with an offer lower than her asking price, which was complete bullshit to begin with.
The ball is now back in our court, so, tomorrow we put our top offer in for the house, and see what happens.
The seller will most likely not go for our second offer, and that is fine because that my friends is when we will walk away from this house entirely.
The seller's agent is a complete cracker (who the fuck can't email an attachment in this day and age) and has lead her client into thinking she'll get a price comparable to the houses that are selling in an up and coming area for a home that is only on the fringes of said up and coming area and is in need of a lot of cosmetic work for it to be priced so high in the first place.

And so, life goes on, and we have four new house viewing to go look at tomorrow so who knows, we might not even put in a second offer in on this house.

And so the waiting game beings

Yesterday afternoon, we put an offer on a house.
It's needs some loving and would work for us, for the right price.
We gave the sellers until 8 o'clock tonight to get back to us.
Oh the agony of having to wait for the next 10 hours and 10 minutes to find out what the seller will say and do.
Having the day off is not helping keeping my mind off the possibility that we could be home owners by this evening.

I keep trying to convince myself that the more effort I put into not caring if we get the house or not, will in turn somehow all work out that we will get the house. How crazy is that?

If nothing else, I'll keep you posted.

Our first night in the woods.

After setting up camp, and cooking Elk burgers, corn and other yummy vegetables on an open fire, what more is there to do other than drink some beer (Frost) or red wine (yours truly), eat some s'mores and take photos.









Of course Frost is keen at first to have his photo taken, but after a few, (since I looked horrid in number 4 and he was pulling a silly face in number 8,) he's not such a willing subject any more.