Oh my word. This last week has been kind of nutty. Not that many of the weeks around here aren't, but it felt particularly crazy, work-til-3-am-every-night busy.
So what have I been up to? Here goes:
1. Hubby got his US Visa! :) Until a few weeks ago, he's been unable to travel into the US (because the US government is silly, it seems..) without this Visa because of his Bulgarian passport. After a few paperwork-gatherings & return trips to proooove that he was indeed tied to our lil home here in Canada - approved!
So we've excitedly booked our holiday trip to the East Coast to Philly to see Z's parents for Christmas, and we'll be going up to Washington DC to hang with his brother & then New York, cuz, well it's New York, and I've never been - there are many friends to visit out there! Sooo excited. Must see a ballet while we're there, too. Eeek!
(amazing photo from right here.)
2. Planning our travels. I've, well..we've both been working from home for a while, and jobs are starting to turn up for the Spring, so we've been planning where else to getaway now while (we can) - lol. It's hard to vacation in the middle of a contract - doesn't go over well!
Anyhoo - we'll be jetting off to Vegas soon, here, for a few days. And then to Mexico or Cuba for hopefully 2 weeks in December, too. Dude. I'm psyched. I've been jonesing to travel since way back when and now we can!!
(photo source.)
I love these vintage Vegas postcards I found in my searches, too:
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We're travelling cuz we haven't had a honeymoon yet, for various reasons, and cuz we've only been around our little local islands for the last few years, vacation-wise. And we still don't have either booked - it's so us to not have things booked yet, and to try to mush it all in at once. Hah! As long as it looks somewhat like this (hah!), I'll be happy:

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I'm totally kidding. I'll be happy anywhere. I'm just sooo psyched to be travelling with hubby far away, finally! :) Yay!
3. Halloween! :) It was Halloween! We actually hadn't done Halloween together yet (weird, I know..), so we dressed up - I as a nerd and Z as a caveman, with our day-before, thrift-shop-found costumes, with a bag of necessary tootsie rolls, and headed out to The Orpheum (this gorgeous old theatre in town) to see a screening of "Nasferatu" - this cool silent vampire film. The Symphony Orchestra was playing the score - it was rad.
We joined the throngs of costume-wearers on Granville Street and grabbed a few drinks and had lotsa fun. :) And I'm totally wearing my costume's sweater vest again, I think it rocks.

(We took lotsa blurry silly photos - there are more right here.)
4. Regina Spektor!!! Eeeek!! So, by some fluke, the day before Halloween - as I was searching for Nasferatu tickets - Ticketmaster pops up and there, at the top, is Regina Spektor. Playing the Orheum here in Vancouver in 3 days!! lol...You can bet I was buying those tickets in the blink of an eye - I suspect we got a few of the last ones, too, cuz we were in the nosebleeds at the very very back. But I'm so thankful we got them!!
(I totally didn't take any pictures, but it was as lovely as these pics I found via google search...)
So we went on (last) Monday night to her concert, and it was seriously the most amazing ever! She sounds gorgeous - even more gorgeous - live, and was playing piano and pounding chairs with drumsticks and there was even acapella singing, too. :) Be still my heart.
Annnnd...right after the concert I was up til 4 finishing my bookmaking homework. lol...I made a really fun illustrated book that I'm going to make one-offs of and get them up in the shop, I just need some time to put them together.
Since then, I've been learning how to blog-code, coding many a blog, taking on some freelance animation, getting back into the whole animation thing (I'm feeling mad rusty), trying to find software, thinking about Christmas shopping, enjoying Letterpress class, and wishing I had more time. lol...
The last week in a nutshell. After I get through my to-do-today list, I'm going to draw shop goodies. :) Yay! Thanks for the sweet words, guys!