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End of summer

Posted on August 31, 2006 | Filed Under Day to day, Home

This week I have noticed its much colder in the mornings than it has been…maybe no more walking to work in shorts and tank tops? Is the summer over?

Most people grumble with the coming of fall but it is really my favorite time of year. There’s so much that I look forward to as the summer comes to a close. In the past that would have included the start of a new school year, the excitement of starting new classes, meeting new people, seeing people you lost track of over the summer.  

I’ll think of some other things i’m looking forward to:

Cool crisp air, the smell of rain (i even like walking in it), wearing snuggly warm clothes (sweaters and coats, scarves and toques), leaves turning colour and falling, Thanksgiving (home cooked family meal, mmm), my birthday, Halloween (a good excuse to eat candy), cooking warm comfort food (stews, soups, etc), drinking hot teas and hot chocolate…

Hmm I sure did mention alot of food. Anyway my point is, I love winter and I love our mild west coast weather where it never really gets too cold. At least, not like other provinces where it could kill you to expose your skin to the freezing air.

 Who wants to go shopping for fall clothes?

 

~L

 

 

Posted on August 31, 2006 | Filed Under The Apartment, Jules

Nothing says “Welcome home, I missed you while you were at work” like a big digusting hairball in the middle of the room and a cat sitting there with a somewhat accusing look that says “If you didnt leave to go to work but stayed home and brushed me this wouldnt have happened.”

 

ewww.

 

~L

New Bed to No Bed

Posted on August 20, 2006 | Filed Under Family, Home

Last weekend, Laura and I went out and bought a new bed. King sized. The potential to be the bed of all beds. We’re very excited.

Laura’s parents wanted our old one, so they came and picked it up with a truck at about 4 today. What a great idea that was…

The bed delivery got get here at around 5, take one look at the staircase, and say that they’d have to break the bed to fit it up the stairs. We bring it back up the alleyway and give it a try anyway (hey, it’s their job). If not for the very top step, it would fit just fine. They can bend it a bit more, but due to a tough wire along the perimiter of the bed it would be irrecoverably busted. Not wanting to lose the warantee on a bed that we might want to send back anyhow — I think it’s too firm, but I was willing to give it a test drive — I sent it back since i didn’t want to sign a waiver.

So, we’re without a bed for at least a week. We’ve got the futon, but after 7 months of use as my bed before Laura moved over, it’s already hard as a rock.

I guess our options are:

1. Get a smaller bed. I suspect that a Queen’s shortest dimension is the same as a King, though.

2. Get a matress without the hard perimiter wire (probably results in a softer matress, i don’t know). Maybe they’ll give us a trade-up? Sucks that they close on 5 on a Sunday and it’s just past 5 that they delivered it.

3. Get 4-5 friends to hoist it up to the deck with a good deal of rope, after having disassembed the planters and covered the wood panelling in cardboard to prevent tearing. That is, if the downstairs neighbours allow us to use their patio for an hour or so.

1 is cheaper, but possibly just as intractible. 2 probably involves going into the store during the daytime to try more beds. 3 begs me to release the inner engineer (Luke’s rope-fu is strong… perhaps he can help).

We could call 3 an Amish Bed Raising ;).

Well… we’ve got at least one sleepless night ahead to ponder the posibilities.

~j

3%

Posted on August 18, 2006 | Filed Under Randomness

Sometimes the medical community underestimates the strength of the human spirit. The woman sitting beside me yesterday, smiling and getting back to work, was given a 3% chance of survival three years ago after having two aneurisms and here she is.

Pretty amazing.

Dealing

Posted on August 10, 2006 | Filed Under Rants

How do you deal with someone who is really nice, but honestly, just is not smart? Right now, I’m using a combination of patience, understanding, but recently a little more frustration and anger is seeping through.

How can I not be impatient? How do you deal with people in your life who just dont get it!?

 

~L