work is cool, made poster on left, doing 3 others and a few ads by end of week. /corporate
on my lunchbreak i always end up surfing Etsy putting about 50 things in my cart before convincing myself that i don't need any of them. unfortunately that only works about 80% of the time and i've already bought a tank top, jewellry, and a wallet on there. i just really like the idea of buying handmade items and supporting canadian entrepeneurs. i bought some wooden pendants from stockade in guelph and i'm going to attempt decoupaging them and, if all turns out well, trying a mixed media decoupage on a bigger canvas. this is a form of art that i'm crazy about and if i could actually make my own pieces it would be ten times cooler.
on the topic of lunchbreaks - i love working in elora because i can try out all these quaint local cafes and i find myself enjoying them all for different reasons. kringles for its buck coffee; c'est bon for its veg wraps, anne hull's hospitality and rataouille-esque french music; sante for its killer goat cheese salads; the river for michael's dashing good looks and chai tea; and finally my favourite, the refuge for providing me with 5 dollar brown bag lunches and extra karge numi lime teas. i don't think locals appreciate what our own community really has to offer as we're too busy doing drive-thru timmy's and scarfing down subway.
yesterday i did my g1 exit test for the third time. i guess i should have foreseen the result considering i lived on toronto public transit for two years then walked everywhere in china for the past year - i've only actually been driving again since march and even then i wasn't doing it a lot. i made a dumb mistake and again i had to book a test for july 9th. i hate doing the test in guelph so who knows, i may see if walkerton or orangeville have anything sooner than that. the thing about failing at something so many times is that when you finally achieve whatever it is, you'll appreciate it far more than if you got it on the first try. that's what i try to tell myself but the reality is i'm either way too tense or way too lax in the drivers seat. whatever.
my dad's doing pretty well now in terms of walking around without the assistance of a cane. he just gets easily winded and it's hard seeing him so tired and popping pills all the time but i guess that's cancer for you, slowly wearing people down. however i think my dad is pretty tough and strong and everything you need to be to fight a terminal illness. i'm proud of him for battling through it and never looking back. i hope i can be even slightly as great as he is when i'm older.
i've got the china bug back and i'm looking forward to being able to go back to teach. i don't know if i'll end up in hangzhou again - i'd really like to live in a different city for a while, maybe hong kong or shanghai, or something small like yangshuo or dare i say wuzhen. i can't stand the pollution in beijing and how cold it gets in the winter so that part of the country is out. i keep surfing Dave's ESL Cafe and getting loopy over the job postings. arrgghhh!!
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