five hours...

till mike gets home! you may be getting sick of me talking about him all the time...but i'm sure once he's back, i'll talk about him even more + i will lose all readers.

{...i really hope not!}

while he's been gone, we've had many skype dates - 7 hours being our record! ha!- and loooong facebook messages... 

i've quite enjoyed snapping screen shots during our long chats:

{he is my favourite!}

{we liked to take sneaky pictures of each other eating. here is him eating a mango. 
i am never showing you the one he took of me eating cornflakes!}

{he is so handsome!}

while he's been gone, i've also been writing up an epic list of:

"janis & mike's list of things to do in april & may"
k

since i'm planning on leaving for turkey early june (sent off the application today!), we have limited time to plow through the 40+ items. might have to carry some over into autumn! some of the items include:

1. take photos in the photobooth at the airport

{expecting to complete that one ce soir}

16. go out for crêpes at the frenchway

18. paint his house
{affectionately named "ruby" since it's on ruby ave...creative, i know!}

20. finish flight of the conchords season I

27. go on a tour of manitoba hydro place!

38. go dancing

41. order indian take out + eat in on the hardwood floors at ruby

expect photo-documentation of all of the above! yayayaya!

sincerely, an extremely excited janis roseanne.

ps. he's promised to do a guest post on his voyages to laos + thailand! it's going to be incredible!

love from laos

one week down, two more to go
until my goofy darling gets home!

as expected, i miss him an awful lot.
but i quite like recieving pictures like this via email:

step. step. step.

so thesoso the boyfriend is leaving for thailand tomorrow. while i'm going to miss him terribly, this is obviously going to be an amazing adventure! there's really nothing quite like traveling - refreshes + energizes, gives you new perspective, broadens your horizons, challenges you, pushes you, and is a crazy amount of fun as an added bonus! i think it's so important to experience what it's like to be in a completely strange city all by yourself...you're forced to learn heaps about yourself - tough but amazing.

my friend kd & i are hoping to have our own crazy traveling adventure this summer. we're applying to work at a summer camp in istanbul! I KNOW - crazy! so fingers crossed!

came across this quote last night as i was thinking about mike leaving....

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

amen!

bon voyage michael!!


*photo compliments of the always lovely dani kreeft