Time is flying by SO FAST!! I need to travel NOW!

Time is relative, and it sure seems to be speeding up the older i get! It seems like yesterday that my little girl was just a blessed 'mistake' (hehe). And look at her now... she's 19!

Was it really 10 years ago that i was in my early 40's thinking... wow... 1/2 a century is coming up fast! And this morning i woke up to the realization that sixty is the next big number! Sixty! Like... how can that happen? I don't feel any older! I still feel like i'm 25! But just a quick look at my saggy bits will tell you i'm not! Hehe.. don't worry.. i won't subject you to that horror! Although i'm much more irresponsible now, than i was when i was 25 (OH, if you can even imagine it)!

I don't really have any regrets in my life so far, other than 'that' one. The one where i didn't go to Art School, and instead got married. Like i couldn't get married AND go to school?? What was i thinking?? *sigh* Water under the bridge, and my one and only true regret.

But MAN, all i've ever wanted to do was travel! When i was younger, with little kids, i would take the kids (or the youngest one who wasn't in school), and take off on long Road Trips! I remember one said trip with said daughter, when she was 2 yrs old, while her three brothers were in school. She & i were gone for six weeks & headed down through Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada & back up to Utah and then home (Vancouver, BC). What an incredible trip! Las Vegas for the one night of the year that it rained! What a blessing! I have never seen anything so gorgeous as Las Vegas neon reflecting off the wet pavement! You should BE so lucky as to be there when it rains!

Anyway, i digress. The point is, i'm getting old fast, and i haven't been off of this continent! Well, other than Hawaii a few years ago, Japan when i was 17, Bahamas for my honeymoon, Barbados & Venezuela for my hubbie's job interview way back when i was pregnant with my first... Oh, OK, i have been off this continent. But i haven't been to Europe & Africa & Asia as a whole, etc. I want to see the world, and time is running out!

So... I need to travel NOW! My move to Yellowknife happens in 4-1/2 months (for a year), which is a lovely start to my New Life Adventure, but really, i need to get this show on the road! Before it's too late!

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Sometimes i think too much! Hehe.

I haven't even left for Yellowknife yet, and i'm already wondering what will happen when i get back! I started writing this in my Yellowknife blog (Dreams of a Life in Yellowknife), but... considering it was about what comes after YK, i thought i'd post it here instead. Anyway, i asked Murray to make a bet. What scenario is going to happen. Assuming that nothing horrible happens, health is good with everyone, etc, and there IS a choice involved.

Yellowknife:
-- I can't find a job, or am too lonely & i bail out the end of December/beginning of January after 1/2 a year and fly home. Which is ok now that i've now given myself permission to consider this a possibility. I would have been up there on the longest day of the year and the longest night. And the Aurora is most active in the fall & spring, so that's covered too. Plus the snow. I could conceivably 'see it all' in 6 months.

-- I meet friends, enjoy my job, feel inspired, whatever, and stay the full year.

Arriving in Vancouver:
-- I get back and am so overwhelmed by having lived full-time in a 'city' (Yellowknife), that i can't wait to be a full-time recluse in my cozy country sanctuary again, and vow to never leave.

-- I get back and loved being in the city so much, that i find i need to rent a room in Vancouver just to keep my sanity. (Now this one is a good bet, i'd say... and it was Murray's bet).

-- I fly back, stay a while, just to see my friends & family. Then i load the car up to the max with all my favourite treasures (can't forget some robots, ray guns, hula girls & books, books, books!) & have Moo drive me and all my stuff back up to Yellowknife, because i loved living North of 60 so much!

-- I get back, and land on my feet running! Let's get this show on the road! I want to travel... start my vagabonding plans! Bye!... See ya! I'm off!

Hehehehe... Do i think too much or what?? :-P

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Six Days Solid Nerd-Work Finally DONE! :-)

I have been having a blast! I have been creating blogs for myself, and the last few days, searching the internet for free templates to make them pretty. It's ALL about the pretty! Seeing i'm not painting, this has been a wonderful creative outlet for me! Found some fabulous ones for my other blogs, but this one... this particular blog (Amber's Filawsuffy), i'm going to change the template for every post i make! I have a good 200 or so that i like & have saved. Plus i found a couple that i think my friend 'Ladybug' will like. Oh, i'm sure she'll like ALL of them, but the ladybug one i found (pictured here) is a good start!

And what did that entail? Well nothing too technical (unless you're computer illiterate) but... Hours & hours & HOURS of searching of course. Hours more of applying them to my blog to see how they'd look. Discarding the ones i didn't like, and keeping the ones i did. If i liked one, i would save a screen shot of it, crop the superfluous screen junk out of it, save it to my computer then save it to a facebook album. Then i would copy the link to the template in the album, so i can look at all of these templates pictured on on my own blog, and have the code on hand to change it at a whim. Hours & hours... days & DAYS i say!! And i would stay up until 3 am too boot! Hehe.

Now that is what i'm like when i'm obsessed with a project! I was like that with cross-stitch OH those many moons ago too. Dinner? Go make it yourself! I'm stitching another Sampler! Laundry? Oh, when the pile gets so high you can't get out of your room... THEN i'll think about doing it!

And this time, it was fun but... i'm glad it's over! I'm tired! :-)

I shudder to think what i'll be like if i get to painting again! Actually it would be wonderful and fun. For me at least... not for anyone else! They'd never see me!


Ah well.... The trials of living with an obsessed artist!

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Yes... ANOTHER new blog...

I like to think that i'm a simple person, but when it comes right down to it, i really am quite complex. Amber... a multifaceted jewel... (or hunk of old resin, however you want to look at it)! I have so many opposite sides to my personalty, that if i didn't have my head screwed on straight (and i think i do, generally speaking of course), then i'd be 'this close' to being called 'Sybil'! Hehe.

Which brings me to the topic of yet another new blog. Why Amber? Why another one??  Well, i didn't want to sully my other blogs with all my personal thoughts & philosophy, or as i like to call it... fillawsuffy... (a word that represents the 'top-notch' quality of my thoughts much better.. hehe)... i thought i'd start this blog. Keep the topics separate, and we'll all be happier! :-)
So...

♥ 'Amberjoon' is for my art (illustration & fun stuff generally)

♥ 'Kitschy Cute' is for my love of kitsch, mid century modern decor & art & the collecting hoarder in me....
♥ 'Halloween Howling' is for my love of Halloween, and the fact that i want to do some exclusively Halloween art as well, and might like to join HHAG...
♥ 'Rusty Old Crow' is dedicated to my love of Primitive Country decor & art
♥ 'Life in the Great White North' is for, well, dreaming of a life in Yellowknife, of course!
♥ 'Gypsy Kat's New Life' is for my dream of vagabonding around the world. A travel blog of sorts. 
♥ 'Amber's Filawsuffy n Stuff' will be just me prattling on about me, my mundane life & things i care about.  

(Update: It's now called, "My Life in a Cupcake")
So there you have it. My newest of my new blogs. I'm sure there will be more...
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