Fredericton & New Car

Here's our new car!!! Ivo took this pic just before dropping the camera on the cement - The camera was stunned for a few minutes but seems ok now.

Here's a better pic Doug took:)














Yay!!! Yayayayayayay!!!

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Ryan and I spent the day in Fredericton checking out STU, neighborhoods and housing options... Let's just say this - if ANYONE KNOWS ANYONE IN FREDERICTON who can give us a decent place/price PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let us know:)

It's brutal. But we hold out hope - we do believe strongly in luck and magic and guanxi, baby, sweet sweet guanxi!

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Plus both Ryan* and my** horoscopes were very very encouraging today. Mine made me cry a little - all good stuff - somewhat related to finishing one year anniversary of Patty's death eulogy... which will be finished by 13 Aug.

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Tell me this guy doesn't look like Alex Trebek...








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This says "SHE'S OLD HOME WEEK" and it's not a typo:)


Colloquial.

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* In his book The Medusa and the Snail, science writer Lewis Thomas said that the English word "error" developed from a root meaning "to wander about, looking for something." That's why he liked Darwin's idea that error is the driving force in evolution. I think this wandering-about-looking-for-something approach should be the driving force in your personal evolution, Sagittarius. The coming weeks will be a great time to meander and get distracted and stumble upon unexpected opportunities. May all your mutations have a positive spin! (P.S. Lewis also wrote this: "The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.")

** Your life story is about to deepen and sweeten and get more interesting -- if, that is, you follow the trail of clues into the dark forest, and if, as you travel, you hum songs that are both sad and happy, and if you call on the spirit of your favorite dead person to accompany you. Of course, you're perfectly free to refuse the call of your destiny, and never even take a glance into the dark forest. But in my opinion, that would cheat you out of some profound fun that has the potential to teach you and tune you for many years to come.