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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

 

 

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

weekend update

Posted on June 20, 2006 | Filed Under Family, Home, Friends

Another busy weekend and I’m back at work already. I was lucky enough to get a ride to Victoria with my friend Adrienne’s sister, Sabrina, and her puppy Molly early Friday morning and we made the 9am ferry. Spent Friday and Saturday with Adrienne, Sabrina and others while we celebrated Adrienne and Russ’ upcoming wedding with a stagette and bridal shower. I documented the whole thing with my camera, but unfortunately I cant share them all. I will post some of them later this week.
Saturday afternoon I made it out to my parent’s place for a yummy home-cooked mom dinner and spent some time with my dad (mostly watching hockey!). Sunday morning my dad and I got up early before everyone else and went to Thetis Lake for a hike/walk…We saw a deer, but it was so far away the picture is really just of a brown blob. Then we went back home, woke up my mom and great aunt Pat and then we went out to Sidney for brunch and to the 1pm ferry home. I arrived home shortly after 4pm, had a short rest, then Jeremy and I cleaned up our place and cooked dinner. We had a fun dinner party with Mel, Chris, Jo and Scott and played a crazy game of Killer Bunnies. Note: The Ebola virus is BAAAD. Overall it was a great weekend!

Work is back to mostly normal, our manager is back at work after the big wigs realized they had no actual evidence…Im enjoying my new position so far, its more challenging and more fun! I have now fully staked my claim on this desk and moved everyone else’s stuff (sales guys used to use this one once in a while) to another one….muahahha.

Im looking forward to a quiet week of spending time playing with our new playstation2…i love megaman!

~L

Cut off

Posted on March 29, 2006 | Filed Under Day to day, Home, Drama

You realize how much you need a phone to survive when you leave your cell phone at work and had plans to meet your friend for dinner and you have no land line at your house.

Im so cut off and unreachable. Good thing my friend Ali lives one block away that I can just go to her house and talk to her.

Where are you cell phone? i need you.

~L