chocolate-covered ginger

(Above photo: My friend Cathy, who has known me longer than anyone except for family. She just moved out to Calgary this past weekend; I'm going to miss her. :-( )

Thanks to Mark Thompson for his mouthwatering housewarming gift of chocolate-covered ginger. A house really isn't home until you've eaten chocolate in it.



We have high-speed access, woohoo! Embarrassing how much of a relief that is, really, like being allowed to finally use a ballpoint pen normally after being forced to write with a broken crayon held between my toes. How spoiled is that? I remember how THRILLED I was with my first 300-baud Hayes Smartmodem. Makes me wonder what my nieces and nephews are going to be using; one of my nieces already jokes about the "caveman days" when Jeff and I were kids. :-D

But I digress.

I mentioned before that I received some new postcards for my Flickr set. You can see the entire collection here or you can also see individual cards from Riley, Casey, Alan, and Helen. Thanks so much! If you have a postcard you'd like to volunteer for my collection, I'd be stupidly happy to receive it; please send it to me at:

Debbie Ridpath Ohi,
34 Eglinton Ave. W.,
P.O. Box 189,
Toronto, ON
Canada M4R 2H6

A few more office pics...

As you've already seen, I painted the outside of my office door with some weird-looking alien grass thingies:



It's not finished, obviously. I'm still deciding what else to add to it. Perhaps a moon floating near the top right. Perhaps the Tree of Gondor. Or perhaps a weird-looking alien creature peering up from behind the grass.

Here's the inside of my office door:



As you might have already guessed, my office is not going to match the rest of the house AT ALL. I want lots of bright colours and different textures and plan to gradually paint more of my walls with interesting plants and creatures. I tend to lean towards the goofy and colourful rather than elegant and pastel, if you haven't already guessed. :-)

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