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so i'm starting to feel settled.

I got troy to hang curtains and put art up today. We haven't found all of our curtain rods, so the only room with curtains is the master bedroom. Not that anyone else in the house cares. Sonnet; could care less, the dog is naturally clothed, and Troy... well he just doesn't care. But i am quite pleased with the curtains. No art up in our room yet, but i need a frame for my phantom painting, and a frame for my phantom poster (its a theme, and i know i'm a sad geekish person). Sonnets art is all up but for her butterfly and one of the geddes images (i can't find it and i think sonnet hid it somewhere). The computer room is going to have all our various awards and certificates, half of which need frames. All our family paintings (thats paintings by family members) are on the walls in the stair way an the top hall. Grandpa's painting is at the top of the stairs, right where it belongs. Beckys painting moved out of the bedroom and is halfway up the stairs, where it is surrounded by Dads paintings. I'm pondering doing an installation peice up the one wall to the top of the stairs, but it'll definitly be waiting till later on in the year.

We used our barbeque for the first time yesterday and had steak, which was awesome. It was so good, in fact that we had to use the barbeque again today, to do burgers. So so yummy. Its nice having an actualy barbeque. Also yesterday we took the dog to the beach for the first time. She loved it, though she was quite confused about the fact that she can't drink salt water. Sonnet ahd a blast as per her norm, and threw quite the hissy fit when it was time to leave.

Sad news all around today. An other canadian death in afganistan, in another 'friendly fire' incident. A death in petawawa, not someone i knew personally, but sad all the same. And then theres Steve Irwin. Oddly shocking, yet not. The weird bit is that it wasn't a crocodile. Still, though he was a complete nutter when it came to animals, he did a lot of good work in promoting animals that need help, even though they might be butt ugly. He is surely in a special heaven, full of mud and crocodiles and other ugly reptiles to wrestle.

troy works his first 24 hour shift tommorrow. Sonnet has been behaving awesomely, so i am sure things will go well. i'll try and get some images scanned from our trip and posted, in between laundry and other chores.