today was our first day of rehearsals. and we had a great time, actually. the studio that we were working in today is really beautiful, big windows, hardwood floors... it was a long day and we worked hard but i think we were all feeling excited and motivated and we had fun and got a lot accomplished so that was good. will most likely have bruises and sore muscles tomorrow but that's just the life of a dancer, really.
Other than that my day wasn't terribly eventful other than a funny and perhaps inappropriate event involving an anonymous canadian companion of mine finding herself constapated after traveling and another of my companions giving her a pill to help take care of it only to realize that the pill was actually to cure traveller's diarrhea. oops. so then we had to go to the apotheque (drugstore) and to spare the ailing one further embarassment she stayed outside while the other one and i tried to explain our predicament by miming and stumbling through the german-english dictionery. so today's german word of the day is verstopfung - constapation. i feel i am allowed to tell this story because they don't know about my blog, so they won't know... i'm a bad friend...
we also went grocery shopping. brie cheese is way cheaper here than at home.
learning how to count in german. i've got up to 9 pretty good but 10 is hard to pronounce.
I'm worried that the dog here is going to die any second.
apparently austrian guys make horrible screeching rooster noises at girls when they drive past sometimes. this has only happened once so far but it was startling and therefore memorable.
long day tomorrow. time for bed.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
enshuldegung
today is my birthday. i wanted to write happy birthday in german as my title but the only german word i currently know is enshuldegung and i don't even know how to spell it. it means sorry. i'm not sure why whoever invented the german language insisted on making all the words so long. it makes them terribly difficult to remember them. i'm also not sure who invented the german keyboard and mixed up all the letters on me. not impressed.
in any case, i am in austria. so far i'm having a good time. not a whole lot to report yet as most of my time since leaving has been spent traveling and sleeping. the flight was long but safe and i think my no jet lag pills worked. i was rather tired but mostly due to the fact that i'd hardly slept in 30 hours. so after a good 13 hour night i felt pretty good today. pam and i have spent some time wandering the streets here and downtown graz is very beautiful and european looking but nothing is open on sundays so we havent been able to do any shopping or anything - but we've definately made plans to. there are lots of really cute stores and an h&m on every other corner. The house we're staying in is just outside of the city in a beautiful little area. It's not very european looking but the house is huge (it has an elevator in it) and it has a big natural pond with lilly pads that the house goes out over and it has a glass floor in a place so you can look in the pond - apparently you can even swim in it in summer. The couple who owns it is very sweet. They found out it was my birthday today and they sent pam down with a little almond loaf with a candle in it and a gift - a dvd of an austrian ballet. so that was really sweet, especially since nothing is open on sundays so it wouldn't have been easy to find things.
In any case, I should go to bed. Tomorrow's the first day of rehearsals so I need to be fresh as a daisy. Auf Wiedersehen!
in any case, i am in austria. so far i'm having a good time. not a whole lot to report yet as most of my time since leaving has been spent traveling and sleeping. the flight was long but safe and i think my no jet lag pills worked. i was rather tired but mostly due to the fact that i'd hardly slept in 30 hours. so after a good 13 hour night i felt pretty good today. pam and i have spent some time wandering the streets here and downtown graz is very beautiful and european looking but nothing is open on sundays so we havent been able to do any shopping or anything - but we've definately made plans to. there are lots of really cute stores and an h&m on every other corner. The house we're staying in is just outside of the city in a beautiful little area. It's not very european looking but the house is huge (it has an elevator in it) and it has a big natural pond with lilly pads that the house goes out over and it has a glass floor in a place so you can look in the pond - apparently you can even swim in it in summer. The couple who owns it is very sweet. They found out it was my birthday today and they sent pam down with a little almond loaf with a candle in it and a gift - a dvd of an austrian ballet. so that was really sweet, especially since nothing is open on sundays so it wouldn't have been easy to find things.
In any case, I should go to bed. Tomorrow's the first day of rehearsals so I need to be fresh as a daisy. Auf Wiedersehen!
Monday, October 1, 2007
wedding photos
I got an lovely little email from my christie friend the other day. it didn't say a whole lot but it included all of these funny little weddingy photos and i liked them.
i love this picture. i think she's so cute. i've been trying to find a little veil like this one everywhere. unfortunately the days of millinary art are over.
if i knew this girl, she could be my flower girl. i like her free spirited ways.
aaw. who doesn't love a couple on a tandem bike. kyle and i will have to recreate this picture one day. although i'm unwilling to put myself into those knee socks and ugly shoes and i'm pretty sure kyle's unable to grow a beard even remotely like this man's work of art.
we want to have an old type writer for our guestbook table. we'll have to find ramona a dress like this one.
and this last one is of my three bridesmaids. aren't they lovely? obviously the blonde one is lindsey. the one in the middle looks guilty of something... i think she's tami because the other one looks more like christie.
hopefully they'll look happier at my actual wedding...
i love this picture. i think she's so cute. i've been trying to find a little veil like this one everywhere. unfortunately the days of millinary art are over.
if i knew this girl, she could be my flower girl. i like her free spirited ways.
aaw. who doesn't love a couple on a tandem bike. kyle and i will have to recreate this picture one day. although i'm unwilling to put myself into those knee socks and ugly shoes and i'm pretty sure kyle's unable to grow a beard even remotely like this man's work of art.
we want to have an old type writer for our guestbook table. we'll have to find ramona a dress like this one.
and this last one is of my three bridesmaids. aren't they lovely? obviously the blonde one is lindsey. the one in the middle looks guilty of something... i think she's tami because the other one looks more like christie.
hopefully they'll look happier at my actual wedding...
Thursday, September 27, 2007
the outrage
so kyle and i decided to design and make our own invitations... actually that is a total misrepresentation... let me start again:
so kyle and i have decided that kyle will design and make our invitations (with the help of our lovely print studio friend jeanette) i don't really have all that much to do with it except for approving the designs and wording and offering emotional support and addressing envelopes. but one of my jobs was to find envelopes and paper for the invitations so after a careful search i found the right ones online. they were the right colour and paper and a pretty good price. it seemed like a great find - until...
the shipping cost... we got charged $25 for shipping. $25 seemed steep but we sucked it up and didn't complain. i'm sure the paper's really heavy or something. it's probably fair...
but then... when kyle got home today he found a notice in his mailbox saying that we couldn't get our package until we paid the $40 duty fee. 40 dollars!! 250 envelopes and 250 sheets of paper were only $80 and we paid $65 just to get them to us! 60 dollars for a package worth 80!!
that is what my friend lindsey would call
highway robbery
seriously. the nerve.
so kyle and i have decided that kyle will design and make our invitations (with the help of our lovely print studio friend jeanette) i don't really have all that much to do with it except for approving the designs and wording and offering emotional support and addressing envelopes. but one of my jobs was to find envelopes and paper for the invitations so after a careful search i found the right ones online. they were the right colour and paper and a pretty good price. it seemed like a great find - until...
the shipping cost... we got charged $25 for shipping. $25 seemed steep but we sucked it up and didn't complain. i'm sure the paper's really heavy or something. it's probably fair...
but then... when kyle got home today he found a notice in his mailbox saying that we couldn't get our package until we paid the $40 duty fee. 40 dollars!! 250 envelopes and 250 sheets of paper were only $80 and we paid $65 just to get them to us! 60 dollars for a package worth 80!!
that is what my friend lindsey would call
highway robbery
seriously. the nerve.
Friday, September 14, 2007
getting older...
I turn 24 in a month, i'm about to become a wife, i spend my saturday nights knitting and drinking tea and today i found...
my first gray hair.
i've been eased into the whole aging this because last year i thought i had a gray hair too but it turned out to be a blonde hair. i get those every once in a while but i think today's gray hair was the real deal. when i thought i'd found one last year i taped it into my journal to commemorate the event so now i can go back and compare to see if this one is my real first one. it will go into my journal as well. my kids will probably want to see it one day.
well... i'd better get back to my knitting...
my first gray hair.
i've been eased into the whole aging this because last year i thought i had a gray hair too but it turned out to be a blonde hair. i get those every once in a while but i think today's gray hair was the real deal. when i thought i'd found one last year i taped it into my journal to commemorate the event so now i can go back and compare to see if this one is my real first one. it will go into my journal as well. my kids will probably want to see it one day.
well... i'd better get back to my knitting...
Thursday, September 13, 2007
when in doubt - knit!
well. i've been having a combination lazy-productive week. i'm only dancing from 9:30-11 every morning (except when I skip class like yesterday) so i've had some time to get stuff done. except that I can't always figure out what I should be doing when I have the time. It's kind of an annoying thing - especially since I just realized that this week (which is almost over) is my last week off before the wedding but I don't totally know what all I should be doing to prepare. so usually that means i knit. but i do have some knitting to do so it's not entirely irresponsible... plus it makes me feel better because i can actually see my progress. it's almost as satisfying as checking things off a list.
In other wedding news, Kyle and I finally decided on a venue for our wedding which is a huge relief for us and we're pretty excited to move on with plans. We're having the ceremony at Broadway First Baptist Church and the reception at the Fort Garry Hotel. I think it'll be really pretty.
And today Kyle and I met with a friend who is going to help us make our invitations (Kyle's going to design them and then him and Jeanette are going to screen print them. I think they'll be beautiful) and then I wandered the streets looking for pretty envelopes - which I didn't find.
I also was recently offered $1000 to change my wedding date by my uncle who wants very badly to be at the wedding but feels it would be irresponsible to take the time off work to come (he owns a petstore in calgary and apparently christmas time is an important time for retail). As tempting as it was and as much as I felt bad for his situation, I don't think Kyle and I want to dely the process any further. We've been waiting a long time for this.
And now I'm at work and thinking I should do some knitting to keep my mind off of some of the cute new fall things that I can't afford but keep staring at me while I sit here...
In other wedding news, Kyle and I finally decided on a venue for our wedding which is a huge relief for us and we're pretty excited to move on with plans. We're having the ceremony at Broadway First Baptist Church and the reception at the Fort Garry Hotel. I think it'll be really pretty.
And today Kyle and I met with a friend who is going to help us make our invitations (Kyle's going to design them and then him and Jeanette are going to screen print them. I think they'll be beautiful) and then I wandered the streets looking for pretty envelopes - which I didn't find.
I also was recently offered $1000 to change my wedding date by my uncle who wants very badly to be at the wedding but feels it would be irresponsible to take the time off work to come (he owns a petstore in calgary and apparently christmas time is an important time for retail). As tempting as it was and as much as I felt bad for his situation, I don't think Kyle and I want to dely the process any further. We've been waiting a long time for this.
And now I'm at work and thinking I should do some knitting to keep my mind off of some of the cute new fall things that I can't afford but keep staring at me while I sit here...
Friday, September 7, 2007
hello blog
it's been a while since i've found myself here, in blog world. It's been a busy month, what with planning a wedding and being in a show and other exciting things. Here are some of the things I have recently learned:
1. I have very expensive taste. I do not have any desire to have a rediculously expensive wedding. I just want a pretty wedding. As it turns out, the things I think are pretty are usually out of my price range. But sometimes I buy them anyways...
2. Wedding cakes cost a lot more than you might think...
3. My fiance has fallen madly in love with a vacuum cleaner at Home Outfitters
In other news, after my show last weekend (which went very well, thanks to everyone who came to see it!) Kyle and I went to the cottage to relax and for my show bruises to heal. Kyle was trying out a new camera. These pictures are nice:
While I was at the cottage, I also decided that I might like to be a tea maker. My mom has a big herb garden and with it getting colder these days, I would like to dry them all and make tea. But whether or not I actually will is a whole other thing... In my head I'm rather domestic but unfortunately, my life doesn't seem to always agree.
1. I have very expensive taste. I do not have any desire to have a rediculously expensive wedding. I just want a pretty wedding. As it turns out, the things I think are pretty are usually out of my price range. But sometimes I buy them anyways...
2. Wedding cakes cost a lot more than you might think...
3. My fiance has fallen madly in love with a vacuum cleaner at Home Outfitters
In other news, after my show last weekend (which went very well, thanks to everyone who came to see it!) Kyle and I went to the cottage to relax and for my show bruises to heal. Kyle was trying out a new camera. These pictures are nice:
While I was at the cottage, I also decided that I might like to be a tea maker. My mom has a big herb garden and with it getting colder these days, I would like to dry them all and make tea. But whether or not I actually will is a whole other thing... In my head I'm rather domestic but unfortunately, my life doesn't seem to always agree.
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