There was a time when I was a real homebody. I was quite content to stick around my own city, and do the same things I always did. Unfortunately, my family didn’t suit this kind of thing, and I found myself moving around a bit as a child.

I suppose it finally caught up with me though, and after Katimavik, which was 9 months of get-up-and-go, it pains me to stay in one place for too long. Thankfully, my parents have been accomodating this somewhat, by planning cool vacations for us to take this summer.

You may recall that I took a camping trip up to Pigeon Lake at the end of June/ beginning of July. I use the word “camping,” in the loosest sense of the word, since my parents prefer the brand that involves trailers and electricty. Whereas, I, in a fashion totally against what would be expected of me (I’m a prissy girly girl.) rather enjoy roughing it in a tent, without a shower, and yes, even with an outhouse!

This time around, we’re headed into the BC interior, more specifically, Penticton. I’ve been camping here before when I was a wee one, but I don’t remember it. I do, however, remember living an hour away in Kelowna at the end of 2006/ beginning of 2007, so I can say with quite certainty that this trip wil be awesome. I love BC! (I was also born there, in Vancouver.).

Bert, my new iPod, is fully charged and ready for the 8-ish hour drive through the rockies. I have yet to charge my camera battery, but I’d better get on that because photo ops await! After I finish writing this, I shall pack up my hot pink suitcase. I have a small craft project this evening, then bedtime. Work starts early, at 7am tomorrow, and my dad and I are picking up my co-worker Lyndsey on the way. At noon, I finish my shift, head home, and clean up, and we’ll be off in no time! Lyndsey has agreed to check up on our cats, and water our plants, so we’re all set for a stress-free weekend.

Best of all, we will be going to the Penticton Katimavik house on Friday night (my baby brother, Matt, who is in fact 18 and a foot taller than me, is in Katimavik there), and cookng dinner for their group, then we are stealing Matt for 72 hours! We haven’t seen him since January, so it will be quite cool, even though he will be returning home August 29th!

I’m expecting Penticton to be boiling, as it is most often sporting 40C temperatures, but my mom says it may rain a bit, which is alright by me. I’m not a huge fan of extreme heat, I love rain, and I would like to wear my red skinny jeans without burning up!

Well, I’d best stop blabbling, and get on with it! See y’all next week!

Aisling-B.net has been switched over to its new host! The gallery has gone ka-put, however, because I was too lazy to back up the database, and let’s face it, my Flickr gets updated 10 times more often, and what are Pro accounts for?!

There didn’t seem to be any major problems, except that I need to go through and re-configure the plug-ins, so some pages may not be fully functional. I will work on that. Scratch that. There seem to be quite a few problems involving permalinks retrieving actual pages and my server being incredibly slow. Stay tuned…

Some of you may have heard the sad news… my iPod, Jean-Francois, was killed in a freak accident involving a can of pop left in my bag. His tiny body lays unmoving on the hutch-buffet-thingy, alongside my phone.

As such, and especially since I am leaving for BC (7 hours driving, each way), I had to go out and buy a new one today, putting me back 250$. He is, as of publication, un-named, although I am sure I will come up with something.

Actually, I’ve just decided to call him Bert. So there.

Thus brings my iPod ownage, in less than a year, to 3. Although, Stanley (my pink 2nd gen nano), did not meet a demise even close to that of J-F– he resides in the care of my mother.

I now must embark on the task of replenishing his musical innerds, and as such must wade through the 14 000 songs on my hard drive, to find the ones I can actually stand. *sigh* I’m not eager to begin.

I’m ditching Dreamhost, and moving over to Holdfire! So, there may be a few hiccups over the next little bit. I need to move over the main aisling-b.net site, plus my q*bee quilt, my fanlisting collective and my photo gallery first, and then move over some other in-progress sites. So, it may take a bit of time as I am 1) working quite a bit, 2) lazy and 3) preparing for my trip to BC, which I leave for a week from today.

So… yes. Just FYI in case something goes awry!

In other news, I just learned on Dr. Phil that sperm allergies exist!

Also, I bought red skinny jeans today.