Work has finally begun for our garage!
Mr. Lui has been busy looking for options to build our garage in the summer. Originally we had budgeted $25K for it but thought it would be wonderful if we could find a cheaper alternative.
Given how (not) handy my Mr. is in construction, he came up the idea of building it ourselves...well, it would be nice only if we know how to do it! So we wiki, google, youtube it and figured it wasn't too difficult at all. I mean, building 4 walls, installing a window that can't be opened, a door, an automatic garage door, and then slab the roof on can't be that hard, right? Also, there are lots of DIY packages at Home Depot or others where you can get everything you need. We really thought we can do it, plus we can enjoy a saving of a couple thousand dollars and learn lots in this process.
But, even though the work itself isn't that hard, but we only know a limited number of handy friends and also considered the liability involved, we crossed this idea off. Wouldn't wanna lose any friend here by breaking their legs!
Luckily Mr. Lui and I are so blessed to know an Auntie who's in construction and she agreed to take on the project at a super discount!!! We're still spending a big chunk of $$ for the garage, but at the end of the day, at least we know that the project is taken care of by someone we know.
She also told us a lot of details that other contractors didn't quote us. We're in luck, as always.
Last last weekend when the guys came over to flatten the backyard in preparation for laying the concrete. Notice there was snow!
Should have taken a picture of the "real" before...well, our backyard doesn't have much other than weed, so I was more than happy that they're all gone now:)This Sunday another group of people came by and built a frame for the garage. Yep, this weekend was really warm and all of the snow has melted so there were able to get going. We're totally getting there :)
Do you remember this song?
Samson took a random CD for me to listen to while I cooked today, and it was the Mavis Fan CD.
Listening to the song brought back memories that seemed so far ago but are so dear to me. I remember crying while listening to this song, but couldn't quite figure out when this happened. Was it Grade 12? Couldn't be after I met Samson, 'cuz this song seemed way older than that.
So, I google it and finally remember it was about grade 10 or 11 when I was singing to this song, amongst other like this one. OMG, I remember this karaoke!
Can't believe it's that long ago...I think I was crying about my imaginary bf back then...hahahahahaaaaaa....
Yay it's Friday! The cool thing about today is I get to leave the office early at 3pm, they do that here for long weekends apparently. Actually I'm still in the office as we speak because I'm waiting for Mr. Lui to pick me up.
It is FREEZING out, I mean it. It is negative 8 celsius outside right now, in the middle of the day. And this is only the first week of October!
I wish I have my camera here to show you what it's like in Calgary now. I took a few pictures of the snow outside our place and the frozen bottle of water that we left in the car the other day. I have never freeze water in my car before.
If our fridge ever breaks down, I'll just put the raw chicken and meat in the backyard. Or, even better, I should start doing this in the winter to save a few bucks on our energy bill!!! That's a contribution to a greener environment, right?
I could win an award for being lazy, if you know what I mean...I do have excuses for not posting but really I should just put in a few minutes of my day to do these updates. This is in my calendar now, let's see again when my next posting will be...kee...sorry for those who have been clicking for updates!
Last Friday was my official 3 weeks of work, wohoo! The co-workers at my place are really friendly and I'm lucky that we get along 'cuz it'll be hard having difficult people around you in cubicle-land.
Yep, I'm back in the cubicle-land so I have less privacy. The good thing is I'm not seeing as many students in person as many CGA students are "professionals" and they work during in the day.
I also have another lady who takes care of phone calls and e-mails from our published line/e-mail and shoots them over to me only when she cannot answer specific questions. Sweeeeet!!! Well, I'm actually learning a lot of student service policies and program info from her, and with her sitting right next to me, that helps.
The rest of the job is not worth mentioning really. All the regular stuff you can imagine...I don't get to travel at all in this position, recruitment/marketing/promotion is something that I miss.
Now, on to somethin' more interesting. I was back in Vancouver for the Labour Day long weekend to celebrate Steph & Nindi's wedding. What's so cool about this wedding is that I got to wear a saree, something I loong for forever to wear but never got a chance to. I mean, wearing one at my own wedding would not make much sense.
Not to mention that my gals are also "east indian fans" so we all played a bit of dress-up! The 2-day wedding was a lot of fun! We fit right in with the East Indian crowd and made Steph proud :)
Testing the video function here. This is the East Indian banquet, I think I was lining up for the buffet, kee kee....
