Thank goodness for long weekends! Finally one has come around :) Ever since the new year started the weekends have felt short, and I can only assume it is because they have all been so busy! With family functions for Chinese New Year, seeing friends, celebrating the hubby's birthday and baby showers, I am just tired and I want to veg out and spend some time on me - and that means catching up on my blog!
So for Valentines day I got roses :) There's a bit of a story with these roses and it does invovle making fun of my hubby. Before I got married I remember having a conversation with my dad on Valentines day. On that particular Valentines day, Jimmy had gotten me a beautiful bouquet of roses from a florist. My dad laughed and told me to wait until we got married - married guys buy their flowers from a grocery story. Apparently that day my dad went out to a local grocery store to buy my mom flowers and was greeted by a line of other married men buying their wives flowers. So flash forward to present day - guess where my flowers were from? :D But you know what? Flowers are flowers, and they were beautiful!
So yesterday my friends and I ventured downtown to check out the Canadian International Auto Show at the Metro Toronto Convention Center. I really wanted to go because I wanted to check out a car that I had worked on back when I worked in the automotive industry. I had worked on some of the parts on the interior dash and was really eager to see how it turned out :) And the Auto Show was a great opportunity to take my Nikon baby out. My friends Ed and Jay recently started a small little photography club and this was our little photography outting. I have to admit, I wasn't quite inspired yesterday to take photos - maybe it was the crowd :s But regardless, I think I got some pretty good shots. I especially enjoyed looking at the vintage cars :) Man I'm on a vintage kick recently! A few days ago I just bought myself a vintage Twin Lens Reflex (TLR) camera - more about that on that another day!! :D
So the other day I was talking with my coworker and she called me an "interesting person" because I appear to have so many hobbies that I am involved with. When she said this it made me reflect on how far I've come in terms of developing interests that I enjoy and is actually good at. A few years ago I really didn't have any hobbies or interests - and this made me extremely sad. I knew I had travelling as a hobby, but it wasn't something I could do all the time (or afford - especially to the places I like to travel to!) I struggled to understand why it didn't appear as if I was good at anything. Fast forward a few years and I can't get enough of my hobbies :) I still travel - we still go on at least one big adventure/trip a year, but now I have photography to compliment the travel, and the knitting to pass the remaining 11 months out of the year I'm not travelling :) The key is to try different things to find out what you enjoy. And I do credit Ed for helping me expand on my interests. It's definitely fun when you have someone to share your interests with!
My Etsy have still been lagging lately :( But now I have time to do what I have been missing most - knitting socks! Boy I'm VERY rusty! Im knitting a pair of socks that have a bit of a lace pattern and I keep screwing it up! And because I'm knitting witht the magic loop method the screw-ups took me forever to fix! I think I've restarted these pair of socks 3 times already :S But I'm getting the hang of it again, and I have to count my stitches after each lace row just to make sure I didn't screw up! So here's my progress so far... :D
