This YouTube video is about to go viral! And why? It's too cool! :-D What happens when one throws a jug of boiling hot water into the -30C air in Yellowknife? THIS is what happens....
Thanks YKOnline for posting this!
Showing posts with label Yellowknife. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yellowknife. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Friday, August 6, 2010
Getting to know you...
I've been chatting with a few people from Yellowknife recently... making a few friends. It's nice to be able to ask a real Yellowknifer questions about YK! Hehe. And fun to get to know new people! I'm really looking forward to meeting them IRL!
I would love to meet some artists up there as well, and be a part of the art scene if possible. IF there is one! I am a member of a YK artist's facebook group, so i should check that out and see what's going on there! There are some fabulous artists in YK! I love their work!
Well, i have a long journey ahead of me, and only 10 months to meet some people and make some connections before i leave! Not to mention getting this house into shape so that Murray can entertain while i'm gone! Those 10 months seem like a short time when i think that way!
I would love to meet some artists up there as well, and be a part of the art scene if possible. IF there is one! I am a member of a YK artist's facebook group, so i should check that out and see what's going on there! There are some fabulous artists in YK! I love their work!
Well, i have a long journey ahead of me, and only 10 months to meet some people and make some connections before i leave! Not to mention getting this house into shape so that Murray can entertain while i'm gone! Those 10 months seem like a short time when i think that way!
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Wow, another epiphany!
Apparently there is much more to this thing than just the dream of living with the 'Lights' for an entire season! I was about to write a short note to a friend of mine as a little reminder, because he hadn't answered my last emails in quite a while (i had questions i had asked him). But i knew it would be silly to do, because he still wouldn't answer. He's just not online much any more. Which is a good thing, in my books actually, and something i aspire to. Actually NONE of my friends answer my emails much any more. I'm not complaining, mind you (*please friends, don't feel bad!*). I'm just commenting on the fact that they have busy social lives in the real world. And my social life is in the VIRTUAL world because i live on a little island (just off the coast of Vancouver) in the real world. So i don't seem to 'mesh' with my friends any more. It seems as if we're drifting apart. It's getting a bit too lonely here for my liking.
And that's where today's epiphany comes in! :-) If i move to Yellowknife, i have a chance to have a REAL life with REAL people in the REAL world! Living downtown in the thick of things... walking to everything... No need to be online hoping day after day to find communication and companionship any more! Of course i'd still write in this blog & on facebook... to keep in touch. But i'd hopefully have real-time friends too. Yet another fantasy could very well come to life! *crosses fingers*
I know i could take the ferry into the city to socialize, but.. it's just not the same as living there. I have to constantly bug people for a place to crash (OR get a motel room) if i want to do anything in the evening (the last ferry being 9:30 pm) and that can get embarrassing and expensive. Not to mention the ferry is really expensive as well!
Come to think of it, why can't i socialize here on my island? Well at this point in time, i actually can't answer that, because i don't know why! Maybe it's because this island is my refuge away from the world. My sanctuary with a moat. I really do love that. We do have a couple of good friends here though... i really should foster that friendship.. they're good people. Maybe it would help. Geez. *shrug* I'll have to do more thinking on this.
OH, i shouldn't say that ALL of my friends have busy social lives. I do have one friend whose social life is as 'virtual' as mine is! And even though he's horrendously busy at work, he still magically finds time to write huge long emails to me pretty well every day... if i actually wrote to him, that is! Emails back and forth, back and forth... i loved it! But lately, i haven't been writing him. Since Murray & i got back from our month-long road trip recently, from Vancouver to Boston and back, i've been reading so much, obsessing about the possibility of this move, and trying to stay offline myself (i rather enjoyed being off that grid while on the road!), that i've been neglecting HIM! MY bad, and i apologize for that... (sorry Mark!) I'll have to write him today.
So, kudos to my friends who have busy lives! :-) Maybe i'll be able to join that world myself some day. Unfortunately, being stuck on this rock is not conducive to that becoming a reality... at least not in the sense that i'm wanting it to be. I would have to sell this house and move to Vancouver (or Victoria), and that can't happen. At least not for a while. Too much time, sweat & tears have been spent building this house. And Murray doesn't want to live in the city any more anyway. He works there all day and loves to ferry over to his calming rock in the Pacific.
So that's why Yellowknife is appealing to me too! Gets me to that real-time social place i'm yearning to be! Maybe i just need to scratch that itch for a year, and then come back to my reclusive life on my island. Hmmm. I guess we'll have to see just how itchy i am...
Sidenote: I had a dream last night that i got an apartment in Old Montreal! Another dream of mine. Just for the summer, mind you! With no 'Lights' to go with the snow, i could NOT handle Montreal in the winter! The apartment had double french doors to a New Orleans style balcony (oooo, New Orleans...) and it looked down into the busy street. I was SO excited to actually be living the dream... living in Vieux-Montréal! I guess i had that dream because in yesterday's blog post i asked about other hidden fantasies that i could make happen! :-)
And that's where today's epiphany comes in! :-) If i move to Yellowknife, i have a chance to have a REAL life with REAL people in the REAL world! Living downtown in the thick of things... walking to everything... No need to be online hoping day after day to find communication and companionship any more! Of course i'd still write in this blog & on facebook... to keep in touch. But i'd hopefully have real-time friends too. Yet another fantasy could very well come to life! *crosses fingers*
I know i could take the ferry into the city to socialize, but.. it's just not the same as living there. I have to constantly bug people for a place to crash (OR get a motel room) if i want to do anything in the evening (the last ferry being 9:30 pm) and that can get embarrassing and expensive. Not to mention the ferry is really expensive as well!
Come to think of it, why can't i socialize here on my island? Well at this point in time, i actually can't answer that, because i don't know why! Maybe it's because this island is my refuge away from the world. My sanctuary with a moat. I really do love that. We do have a couple of good friends here though... i really should foster that friendship.. they're good people. Maybe it would help. Geez. *shrug* I'll have to do more thinking on this.
OH, i shouldn't say that ALL of my friends have busy social lives. I do have one friend whose social life is as 'virtual' as mine is! And even though he's horrendously busy at work, he still magically finds time to write huge long emails to me pretty well every day... if i actually wrote to him, that is! Emails back and forth, back and forth... i loved it! But lately, i haven't been writing him. Since Murray & i got back from our month-long road trip recently, from Vancouver to Boston and back, i've been reading so much, obsessing about the possibility of this move, and trying to stay offline myself (i rather enjoyed being off that grid while on the road!), that i've been neglecting HIM! MY bad, and i apologize for that... (sorry Mark!) I'll have to write him today.
So, kudos to my friends who have busy lives! :-) Maybe i'll be able to join that world myself some day. Unfortunately, being stuck on this rock is not conducive to that becoming a reality... at least not in the sense that i'm wanting it to be. I would have to sell this house and move to Vancouver (or Victoria), and that can't happen. At least not for a while. Too much time, sweat & tears have been spent building this house. And Murray doesn't want to live in the city any more anyway. He works there all day and loves to ferry over to his calming rock in the Pacific.
So that's why Yellowknife is appealing to me too! Gets me to that real-time social place i'm yearning to be! Maybe i just need to scratch that itch for a year, and then come back to my reclusive life on my island. Hmmm. I guess we'll have to see just how itchy i am...
Sidenote: I had a dream last night that i got an apartment in Old Montreal! Another dream of mine. Just for the summer, mind you! With no 'Lights' to go with the snow, i could NOT handle Montreal in the winter! The apartment had double french doors to a New Orleans style balcony (oooo, New Orleans...) and it looked down into the busy street. I was SO excited to actually be living the dream... living in Vieux-Montréal! I guess i had that dream because in yesterday's blog post i asked about other hidden fantasies that i could make happen! :-)
Friday, July 16, 2010
Quiz: "Are you a true Yellowknifer?"
I did a silly little quiz on facebook today, just for the heck of it...
"Are you a true Yellowknifer?"...
My Result: You are the real deal
"You were likely born in Yellowknife or have lived here most of your life, you know everything there is to know about Yellowknife, and could probably work as a tour guide".
LOL... talk about a Yellowknifer wannabe! LMAO! I didn't know that i knew all that was to be known about Yellowknife! So there you go! :-)
"Are you a true Yellowknifer?"...
My Result: You are the real deal
"You were likely born in Yellowknife or have lived here most of your life, you know everything there is to know about Yellowknife, and could probably work as a tour guide".
LOL... talk about a Yellowknifer wannabe! LMAO! I didn't know that i knew all that was to be known about Yellowknife! So there you go! :-)
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Great White North Dreams & Plans...
This is my first post for this blog...
I’ve had this dream, on and off for many, many years now. More like a deep yearning. I feel like the Great White North is calling me. Amber... Aaaaaaamber... Which honestly perplexes me, because i’ve become SUCH a wimp living here in Vancouver, BC, a temperate rain forest. I grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, so i do know about snow. Problem is, i want to forget it. Twenty some-odd years here, and i’ve grown to expect that snow belongs on the top of mountains, and rain (and the occasional sunny day) belongs down here with me. If i want snow (and i don’t), i’ll go up on the mountain!
So, how on earth do i think that i can go live North of 60, by myself, in an igloo (kidding), with frigid cold & snow for a good part of the year, and lots of lonely darkness? I have no idea! I guess all i can do right now is dream (i am an incurable dreamer) and maybe, just maybe i’ll have the guts to follow through on the adventure of a lifetime. Move to Yellowknife, find a room, find a job, find some friends, and actually live that dream alongside the dancing lights!
Why Yellowknife? Well, considering i'm not American and couldn't live my first choice in Skagway, Alaska (i love the ocean), i had originally planned on Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Because it’s a bigger city, has a big art scene, and.... well yeah, it has a Starbucks. There, i said it. But i was warned of standing water and bugs in Whitehorse, and that the bugs weren’t as bad in Yellowknife because of moving water. Don’t know how accurate that is, but once my brain was turned in the direction of Yellowknife, NWT.... well... you guessed it.... i HAD to have that polar bear shaped license plate for my car. Yes, that was the deciding factor. Bite me.
Sooooo, let’s just see what exactly i’m made of. No matter what that is though... Adventurous Animal or Whimpering Wuss... it will still be an adventure!
This is me... May/10... AA or WW? Only time will tell!
I’ve had this dream, on and off for many, many years now. More like a deep yearning. I feel like the Great White North is calling me. Amber... Aaaaaaamber... Which honestly perplexes me, because i’ve become SUCH a wimp living here in Vancouver, BC, a temperate rain forest. I grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, so i do know about snow. Problem is, i want to forget it. Twenty some-odd years here, and i’ve grown to expect that snow belongs on the top of mountains, and rain (and the occasional sunny day) belongs down here with me. If i want snow (and i don’t), i’ll go up on the mountain!
So, how on earth do i think that i can go live North of 60, by myself, in an igloo (kidding), with frigid cold & snow for a good part of the year, and lots of lonely darkness? I have no idea! I guess all i can do right now is dream (i am an incurable dreamer) and maybe, just maybe i’ll have the guts to follow through on the adventure of a lifetime. Move to Yellowknife, find a room, find a job, find some friends, and actually live that dream alongside the dancing lights!
Why Yellowknife? Well, considering i'm not American and couldn't live my first choice in Skagway, Alaska (i love the ocean), i had originally planned on Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Because it’s a bigger city, has a big art scene, and.... well yeah, it has a Starbucks. There, i said it. But i was warned of standing water and bugs in Whitehorse, and that the bugs weren’t as bad in Yellowknife because of moving water. Don’t know how accurate that is, but once my brain was turned in the direction of Yellowknife, NWT.... well... you guessed it.... i HAD to have that polar bear shaped license plate for my car. Yes, that was the deciding factor. Bite me.
Sooooo, let’s just see what exactly i’m made of. No matter what that is though... Adventurous Animal or Whimpering Wuss... it will still be an adventure!
This is me... May/10... AA or WW? Only time will tell!
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