Apparently I'm Interesting

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